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The Job department of the Pmss Is complete affords facilities for doing the best class of Work PAHTICL'LAK ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW Pkintino. No paper will be discontinued until arrear tfes are paid, except at the option of the pub sher. Pspers sent out of the county must be paid terlnadTance. M||||| | , WOMAN'S CRUELTY TO WOMAN. ft is often said that women are more cruel in their judgments of women than are men. The sophomores of Barnard college. New York, have evi dently undertaken to show that the sex can be as cruel in action a 6 in judgment. Only women will fully ap preciate the terrific cruelty of the edict of those girl sophomores that the girl freshmen must on no account adorn themselves with rats or puffs or braids during the present college term. Hut the man of average obser vation will get at least a hint of the tragedy of the situation. While the sophomores are going about adorned in the glory of mountainous false hair the freshmen will have to be content with those simple coiffures at once so becoming to the faces of young girls and so out of style at present, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Think of the horror of that to girls who are just beginning to-understand the inexor ableness of fashion! And when they walk abroad for air or exercise what sudden, sad reminders of their forlorn condition the windows filled with abundant hair goods of all shapes and arrangements are sure to be! What pangs of hopeles desperation and re volt will wake to mar their pleasure! Omaha dealers are said to be rush ing butter to the cold storage ware houses and predicting that consumers will be pajing 50 cents a pound for the product before Christmas. It does not require a long head, nowadays, to see that butter will be higher in price in winter than in summer; in fact, from time immemorial butter has al ways advanced during the wintet months. Hut when there were no cold storage warehouses the prices of but ler were lower at this time of the year because there were no speculat ors buying the product up, right and left, rushing it to the cooler, and pre dicting tremendous advances during the winter. The cold storage ware house is beneficent in many ways, but the speculative feature of its utiliza tion has raised the summer prices of butter and eggs and poultry, and also boosted the winter rates for these products. None of these products will ever again sell long at low prices, be cause the moment the prices ease a little the speculator jumps in and clears the market of the surplus. Twenty St. Paul (Minn.) municipal officers and council members who have just completed a 3,000-mile trip through the east make interesting comparisons between eastern and western cities regarding different phases of municipal progress. They find that the "City Beautiful" idea is n.ure clearly developed and the move 'ment more widespread in the east than in the west, and that the move ment to advertise cities is receiving more widespread attention in the east, though the point is made that in most instances the movement is "hardly along the same practical lines as in the west." The desertion at .New York of 200 seamen of Admiral Seymour's lieet repeats what occurred at Hamilton Roads on the occasion of the James town exposition. The British "Jack Tar" finds conditions ashore in the United States so alluring that he is tempted to abandon his ship and vio late the obligation incurred by the ac ceptance of the "Queens shilling." The French fleet lost only a few men, probably because of language difficul ties which Britons do not encounter, and because afflictions with are not so readily established. Indisputably the materials of sub sistence cost more than a year ago. A dispatch from Washington notes that last year the average cost to the government of food supplies for the army was on the basis of 10.05 cents lor a soldier's daily ration, whereas now it is 21.5 cents. At this rate the market bill for the whole army for the current year would be $1,540,200 high er thitii in 19<!8. Japan has a big rice crop, and as there are always plenty of old shoes the time seems propitious for the merry pea! of wedding bells. NO "MORAL REVOLT" STATEMENT MADE IN HARPER'S WEEKLY RIDICULOUS. Tariff Issue Plaved Small Part in the State Election; of 1909—Littli for the Democrats to Cloat Over. It is amusing to find Harper's Week ly almost gloating over the recent elec tion in Massachusetts as a moral vic tory for the Democratic party on the issue of tariff revision. We have not been able to see that the tariff is sue played a large part in the state elections of The Democratic party in Maryland expressly excluded "national issues" from the recent cam paign. The state convention probably took that course in order to avoid the embarrassment of drawing up a dec laration which should approve the war ring votes at Washington of the two Maryland senators, one of them, Mr. Raymer, being a free raw materials Democrat and the other, Mr. Smith, ardently advocating the Uailey brand of "protective revenue" duties on raw materials. The Democrats carried Maryland without once mentioning the fact that congress had revised the tariff. They also carried Virginia—by a reduced plurality—after a canvass in which the tariff question was frank ly ignored. In that state, too, the Dem ocratic party had to consider the atti tude assumed by the senior United States senator, who was a candidate for re-election. Advocating an in crease of duty on quebracho or some other product in which the Old Do minion was specially interested, Dr. Daniel declared: "I don't care wheth er you call it for revenue or for pro tection; I'm for it." The Democrats lost Nebraska this year, after electing a Democratic gov ernor and Democratic presidential electors in 1908. Yet we haven't no ticed that either the Republican or the Democratic newspapers in Nebraska attribute that reversal to the tariff is sue. Interest in Nebraska was con fined to local questions, just as inter est in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsyl vania, New York. New Jersey. Massa chusetts and Rhode Island was. If there was a seething desire in the breasts of New England voters to re buke the Republican party for its tariff policy, how is Harper's Weekly going to account for the fact, that in Rhode Island, which was treated with just as friendly consideration as Mass achusetts was, and should therefore have been equally ripe for a "moral protest," a Republican governor was elected by the largest plurality ever given in more than a decade? Why should the moral revolt have manifest ed itself in one state only, while all others were absolutely indifferent to its promptings?— New York Tribune. Tariff Reform in England. Trade circles in England are agitat ing the necessity for "tariff reform," not only to strengthen the bond be tween the various parts of the empire, but also as a means for protecting home industries. In former years, be cause of the absolute preponderance enjoyed by England, both in trade and finance, loans to foreign countries were succeeded by the utilization of a large part of such loans in payment of innumerable articles of British manufacture, and in those days, when bankers were accused of overfinanc ing requirements abroad, they retort ed that they did so'to benelit British trade. Thsu it! former years it be came accepted as a fact that the pros perity in trade at home was affected largely by orders obtained from abroad as the result of loans placed in -the London market. This is not true of the present and so the Stand ard is trying to enlist the attention and co-operation of the over-the-sea dominions, looking to closer aflilia tion. Naturally, America is interested in this possible change of present con ditions, for Canada is now furnishing a large market for American-made goods. If Canadian trade be diverted to the home country, American inter ests would suffer. No Central Bank. The Sun will always oppose a cen tral bank of issue. Such a bank is in tended by the monetary commission. The policy ol' that body, as now for mally disclosed by Senator Aldrich, points to no oth?r consummation. It is our conviction that a central bank of Issue bearing the same rela tion to the money of this country that the banks of France and of England bear to the money of those countries, would prove a national evil. This government is traditionally and temperamentally unsuited to such an institution. If Mr. Aldrich and his as sociates by their united genius can fashion a central bank whose func tions and powers shall be purely auto matic and mechanical, well and good. But such a bank with us is Impossible. We have developed no class in America from which we could create or recruit the administration and con trol of such an institution, while to isolate it from our political life is hope less. —New York Sun (Ind. Rep.). Path through the Air. Mr. Bryan declares that he always feels sure of his ground when he speaks on political questions. He doubtless derives this sense of confi dence from the fact that lie always bits the earth when he comes down. New York Mail. Senator Jeff. Davis of Arkansas says that in the United States senate nre some potatoes that are speckled and some that are rotten. He must have been heeding that old Greek ad monition: "Know thyself." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1909. OFFICIALS ARE NOT INACTIVE Rigid Investigation Into Methods of Giant Corporations Is Going Forward. Government. Investigation of some of the giant corporations which have se cured a controlling grip on resources and utilities did not cease when Theo dorse Roosevelt left the White Mouse. The machinery which he in motion has not been stopped. The Taft ad ministration has continued the inquest into the methods of the sugar trust, and lias reached results. Wholesale frauds in evading the payment of customs dues have been uncovered. Cheating on a large scale in the weighing of imported sugar has been laid bare. The methods by which the trust wrecked rival concerns have been traced. And with discovery has come action. Several officials and employes of the sugar company have been arrested for cheating the gov ernment out of custom house duties. Indictments have been brought against some of the directors under the anti trust laws, and civil action has been commenced by the federal receiver of a sugar relining company that was forced to the wall. The facts which are being brought to light tend to show that the men who built up the sugar trust were as ruthless in ac quiring absolute control of the com modity they manufactured as wolves in a sheepfold. It is not the intention of the gov ernment officials who have been en trusted with the prosecution to rest content with the arrest of some of the little fellows. They are after the men higher up. The people, who are forced to pay whatever prices for sugar this $90,000,000 trust dictates, wish thent speed and success. Strategy in the Pacific. Tiie decision of the joint army and navy board to establish the Pacific naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, instead of in the Philippines, marks the end of the agitation for the expen dituie of millions upon a naval base at Olongapo or Cavite. Dispute be tween the army and navy over the Philippine .site, the army favoring Ca vite. and the navy Olongapo, has thus been compromised 011 neither. Pearl harbor is to be made an American Gibraltar, while the defense of the Philippines is to be left chiefly to the navy. This decision was based upon the belief that the comparatively small army maintained in the Philip pines will be only sufficient to defend Manila and the construction of a na val base there which could not be so well defended was unwise. It has been argued that in case of war instead of being of value to this country our "Phlippine outpost" in the Pacific would really be a weak ness. This view appears to have been accepted at last by the military ex perts who were so anxious to spend millions there on defensive works. On the other hand, a strong naval base at Pearl harbor will be of immense stra tegic value both in the defense of the Pacific coast and the Philippines them selves. The dispute between the two arms of the service over the rival claims of Olongapo and Cavite lias therefore had the unexpected result of a compromise tl-at will prevent expen ditures upon a very doubtful project. Leading up to First Message. The president lias taken the people into his confidence in a way that has not only astonished the politicians and legislators, but confounded them. In these pronouncements there has been an artlesuness that has won a great body of the citizens to the sup port of his views. In these discussions there have been no dramatic sur prises, such as marked the outgivings of his predecessor. His ideas and suggestions have been clothed iu lan guage that is calm, temperate and conservative. You may hunt in vain for epithets, phrases, as new contribu tions to the common speech, or de nunciation of those holding opposing views. Yet it is a large question whether there is in his words less strength, or less purpose, or less de termination to pursue tho end desired —Brooklyn Eagle. Shculd Be Investigated. President Taft is not apparently worrying over the charges made against Secretary of the Interior Bal linger in connection with the Alaska eoal lands and other rich government properties. The public, however, would prefer to see »lie whole matter thoroughly investigated. Mr. Glavis and others who have made direct charges against Ballinger should be compelled to prove them or admit their falsity. There is a suspicious look about some of these rich land deals and the people will not be sat isfied until the whole matter is cleared up. If there has been crooked work those engaged in it should be brought to book and that without long delay. Right Place for Surgeon. President Taft and Secretary .Meyer agree with ex-President Roosevelt that a hospital afloat is just as much a hospital as a hospital ashore, and so should be commanded by a surgeon with a civilian sailing master and crew, instead of by a line officer with enlisted men. Considering that a hos pital ship is non-combatant, there's common sense in this decision. Unlike the Charleston News and Courier, the Post doesn't wish to con ceal the real truth. A long denied Democracy wants the offices and wants them with a yearning that burns with the fervid heat of the noonday sun in August.- Houston Post. There is no sadder instance of im potent and misdirected yearning re« corded in history. Slryl I OF A I i WEEK'S EVENTS I • • • • • Latest News of Interest • • • J Boiled Down for the • • Busy Man. 2 • • PERSONAL. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland and her consort. Prince Henry, went to England to visit the king and queen. Airs. Rose Pastor Stokes, the settle ment worker, has promised to aid the striking shirtwaist makers in New York. She says the girls were paid "miserable wages." John G. A. Leishman, the newly ap pointed American ambassador to Italy, has arrived at Rome. Mrs. John Wright Hunt, wife of the turpentine king, who eloped with Prince Alexander, a cousin of the czar, returned to New York without the prince and was welcomed by her father, Adelbert Babcock of Brook field, N. Y. Dr. Frederick A Cook Is seeking needed rest 111 1 lie vicinity of New York, but the |j._ce where he is stop ping is guarded with great secrecy. Some of his friends express great con cern for his health, fearing a nervous breakdown. James M. Green of Trenton, N. J., was elected president of the Associa tion of Colleges and Preparatory Schools at the twenty-third annual convention at Washington. GENERAL NEWS. A full set of autographs of presi dents of the United States, from Washington to Roosevelt, was sold in New York for $9,300. That Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford shot and tried to kill Edgar S. Cooke o! Chicago at New York several years ago is asserted by Prosecutor Henry Hunt of Cincinnati, after an investiga tion in connection with the Warriner embezzlement case. Secretary Dickinson, in his annual report, recommends to the president many sweeping changes and reforms in the army, including the centraliza tion of troops in forts erected adja cent to the principal cities of the Uni ted States, the abolishment of the Roosevelt physical tests for officers and governmental control of wireless telegraphy. Robert R. Doherty, a prominent Methodist who was one of the found ers of the Kp worth league, is dead ot pneumonia at his home in Jersey City, He was 02 years old. One human being Is killed every hour and one injured every ten min utes of the day on American railroads, according to a statement of W. L. Park, general superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, at the annual meeting of the New York and New England Association of Rail way Surgeons. It Is officially reported at Blueficld9, Nicaragua, that President Zelaya is willing to resign and leave the selec tion of his successor to congress. The proposition Is absurd, for the reason that congress in reality does not exist and his statement is regarded as merely another Instance of Central American diplomacy. The Rock Island and Frisco rail roads have dissolved the merger that involved more than $500,000,000 and will operate separately hereafter. The English house of lords rejected the budget and have referred it to the country for its judgment on the meas ure. It is urged by the post-office depart ment at Washington in an official cir cular that persons fll:o contemplate mailing Christmas packages for deliv ery in rural communities post them as early as possible to avoid conges tion and delay at post offices supply ing carriers on rural routes. Hearing ot testimony offered by the respondent in the ouster suit of the attorney general of Missouri against the International Harvester Company of America was resumed at Jefferson City, Md. About fifty witnesses, all agents cr dealers from the northern half of the state, were present. One miner w«is killed and 100 res cued with difficulty when gas exploded in a mine near Marion, 111. Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm was placed on trial at Newark, N. J., charged with the murder of her husband. Nicholas S. Sica, indicted with her, will be tried separately. John A. Uruce, a lumberman of Stra der. La., says 500,000,000 feet of lum ber was destroyed by recent tornadoes in the south. Fire In the $1,000,000 mansion of Howard Willetts at Gedney larm, near White Plains, N. Y., did SIOO,OOO dam age. Tribute to the memory of the late Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota was paid by President Taft, Gov. Hughes, tormer United States Sen ator Charles A Towne and others at a meeting in New York city under the auspices or the American-Scandina vian society. When an auto struck a street car squarely in the side in Portland, Ore., Mrs. A J. Olds of Welser, Idaho, had her skull fractured. She is not ex pected to live. Coroner Malm has begun an Inquiry into the causes of the St. Paul mine disaster at Cherry, Hi. The third National Corn exposition opened at Omaha, Neb., with exhibits by the federal government and 25 states, and a vast quantity of com petitive entries made by grain raisers. Representatives of many civic and educational organizations met in New York 10 devise a means of co-ordinat ing civic activities and to plan more effective methods of studying political problems. J. Pierpont Morgan has gained con trol of the Equitable Life Assurance Company with its $472,000,000 assets through the purchase of stock held by Thomas I'". Ryan, the latter having bought the interests formerly owned by James li. Hyde. Following the abrupt termination of diplomatic relations with Nicaragua the government has dispatched the cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with 700 marines on board, the cruiser A 1 bany and gunboat Yorktown to Cen tral American waters and it is deter mined that a stable government shall be established and maintained in the war-riven republic. A delegation of Chicago business men visited President Taft and made a plea for the suspension of the pro visions of the corporation tax law. The president gave them but little encouragement, saying lie would take their petition under advisement. Albert T. Patrick, the New York lawyer under sentence of death for slaying Millionaire Rice, has lost his ninth fight for freedom through the dismissal by the appellate court at Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ secured by liini to determine whether he is being illegally retained by the state. Danger of violence in the switch men's strike has caused the chief of police of St. Paul, Minn., to require all members of the day force to_ stay on duty during a portion of the night in order that any outbreaks in the railroad yards may be promptly put down. The fight for the heavyweight cham pionship of the world between Jeffries and Johnson will be held in the vi cinity of San Francisco on July 4, 1910. Rickard and Gleason's bid of SIOI,OOO and two-thirds of the moving picture privileges to the contestants has been formally accepted. Woman suffrage advocates through out New York state are raising a fund of several thousand dollars to be used for promoting the suffrage bill which will be put before the legislature of New York state this winter. Vermont will erect a memorial to Champlain, the explorer, and will not join New York in such an undertak ing. The average temperature for No vember in Kansas City, Mo., was 52 degrees, and the highest was SO on November 3. This breaks all records for the month since the weather bu reau was established there. Contracts are to be placed for two submarines for the Russian navy. They are planned to cruise in com pany with a battleship fleet. In the trial of James F. Bendernagel and five other former employes of the American Sugar Relining Company on the charge of defrauding the govern ment by underweights, testimony was adduced showing that every ton of sugar was 13 pounds short of weight and the government stood to lose the duty on 5,880 pounds every hour. The National Society for the Pro motion of Industrial Education met in annual session in Milwaukee, dele gates from more than twenty states being present. Eminent educators dis cussed every phase of trade and cor poration schools. Every line of industry in the north west dependent on the movement of supplies is seriously affected by the strike of the railroad switchmen. Al ready 12,000 men are idle and others will soon be by the closing down of (lour mills, mines and smelters. A man. believed to be insane, 6hot and seriously wounded Gen. Verand on the steps of the Hotel Continental, Paris, Just after President. Fallieres had lett King Manuel of Portugal upon whom he had been calling The season of heavy gold receipts at the United States assay office in Seattle ended with a total of $11,733,- 489 for the six months beginning June 1. This is a falling off of $5,775,141, compared with the same period in 1908. Twenty-three hundred switchmen on 13 railroads between Lake Superior and the Pacific coast have struck for higher wages and better conditions. Unless the strike is speedily settled a serious interruption in traffic is likely. The lowa Implement Dealers' asso ciation met in its fourteenth annual session in Des Moines. Combined resources of all the banks of the United States reach more than $21,000,000,000, or about one-fifth of the entire wealth of the country, according to special reports compiled for the use of the national monetary commission. In a pamphlet issued by the Ken tucky department of public instruc tion the startling fact is revealed that there are more children of legal school age out of the Kentucky schools than in them. lowa's seventh annual corn exposi tion opened in Des Moines, with big crowds and excellent exhibits. Stricken with heart failure while leading in prayer, Mrs. Louis Tim bers, aged 66, an active church work er, died suddenly at a revival meeting at Oakwood, O. Representatives of the Illinois Manu lacturers' association presented Presi dent Taft that organization's protest against, the proposed federal corpora tion tax law. The National Association of Mve Stock Breeders and Raisers, at its con tention in Chicago, determined to ask congress lor a large appropriation for the prevention and eradication of highly contagious animal diseases. ShCRETARY MEYER REPORTS JO TAR HEAD OF UNITED STATES NAVY OPPOSES CLOSING OF NAVAL STATIONS. YARDS ON SOUTHERN COASTS Says Senior Officers of NaVy Are Too Old for Responsibilities ar.d Ar duous Duty Required in Modern Battleships. Washington, I). Despite the agi tation to close some of the navy yards along the southern coast, Sec retary of the Navy Meyer will op pose any such step for the present. This much was made plain in his an nual report submitted to President. Taft. Secretary Meyer says that he is not entirely convinced that the government can advantageously give up sites, in which large expenditures have been made, until after the open ing of the Panama canal, when it def'nitely can ho demonstrated which are likely to he of the greatest value. Naval Station at Guantanamo. "It is not unknown in the history of the government," says the secre tary, "that national reservations have been given up and later were bought back at increased cost." Again in dis cussing the same subject, he says that the "completion of the Panama canal, the development of trade in the Gulf of Mexico and the whole Caribbian region, and the probable in crease of the naval establishment to meet our national responsibilities in that area, probably will call for sup ply stations, in part for the heavy fleet, but principally for the torpedo craft and submarines and the smaller vessels needed there." He urges the "extreme desirability" of developing the naval station partly established at Guantanamo, Cuba. The secretary reviews in detail his proposed plan for the reorganization of the navy, and in addition makes many recommendations for Ihe con duct of affairs in his department. Two more battleships of the all-big-gun type are recommended to lie con structed. but. on account of the desire to keep down the expenditures, he asks only for a repair ship in addition to these_two proposed giants of sea. Ship construction at the navy yards of the United States is opposed as a principle by the secretary. Senior Officers to Old for Work. "The senior officers of our navy are too old for the responsibilities and arduous duty required in the modern battleship," says the secretary. "They are much older than similar officers in the other principal navies of the world. Not only is this the case, but flag officers arrive at the grade of rear admiral so late that even those of longest possible service do not get adequate training as subordinate flag officers before assuming the chief command." THE WEEKLY TRADE OUTLOOK Reports Show Rather More Irregular ity, Varying with Sections Reporting. New York City.—Bradstreet's says: Trade reports show rather more irregularities, varying with sections reporting. In seasonable retail lines there is a renewal of the com plaint of warm weather affecting sales of wearing apparel, while bad roads in parts of the central west and the switchmen's strike in the northwest causing shut downs in industry and interfering with the movement of crops to market and of goods to the country, are responsible for quieter trade and interruption to normal every day activities. In iron and steel trade there is some slight seasonable slackening of demand for finished lines of steel, following the lessened activity in pig ir»n, but production and shipments are very large- close to record, in fact. THIRTY-TWOPERiSH IN STORM Seamen Suffer in Gale Which Blows Over the British Isles and France. London, Eng.—ln a terrific gale that raged over the British isles and France the steamer Thistlemor went to her doom off Appledere in Harnsta ble bay. It is believed her entire crew of SO men perished. Four bodies from the steamer already have been washed ashore. Small vessels every where were at the mercy of the ele ments and I.loyds reports eight of them having been driven ashore at various points. Their crews escaped. The British steamer Congress, which arrived at Falmouth, reports that dur ing the storm her captain, the mate and one seaman were washed over board by mountainous seas. The sea man was picked up but Ihe captain and mate perished. Minister Has Beer; Fined. Anderson, Ind.- Rather than tell where and how he secured a 10- ceut bottle of beer on Sunday and exhibited the same to liis congrega tion Ao prove his contention that sa loons were not closed. Rev. T. W. firafton of the Central Christian ' hurch in this < ity was held in con tempt of court by Special Judge Sh!i man and was lined $!0. Rev. Mr. Grafton said he would pay iSie tine, but refused to tell where he got the beer. He is a leader of the "dry" forces in Madison county.
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