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CENSUS AND THE WITNESS.
What percentage of the census sta
tistics will be valueless because of the
great American proneness to boast?
We wish someone would figure this
out and give us a formula which, when
applied to the government reports,
will permit the student to arrive it
exact facts, says Toledo Blade. Con
sider some of these questions: How
old are you? It is the custom to joke
sibaut the objection of women to sta
ting their age. If the truth were known
it would probably be found that most
men will subtract a few years, par
ticularly if they themselves are shift
ing into that period known as middle
aged. Are you single or married?
Old maids who have not ceased to
struggle, as the Georgians express it,
may let imagination rule them if the
enumerators are strangers, and there
are men who will "decline to answer
on the advice of attorney." What is
your occupation? The temptation to
let fancy sweep skyward will be great,
indeed, to Americans. Are you em
ployed or employer? That weakness
for boasting will get the better of
thousands at this point. Do you own
or rent your home? Desire may give
the answer. Any mortgage? It is un
pleasant to talk about things of this
sort. How easy to say no, lest the
next question be, how much?
The importance of the farm in the
life and industry of the nation is being
again fully recognized. It is the one
industry that is not struck down by
panic or financial stringency, says New
Orleans Times-Democrat. Mills may
close and factories suspend, mines
may cease to operate when the money
market is demoralized and the de
mand for their output declines; but
through good times and bad the farm
er is at work, for we always need his
products. These facts are perhaps
better recognized to-day than ever be
fore, as we now see that it was
through its farm products through the
surplus of the crops sold in Europe,
and which fed and clothed the people
of that continent, that the United
States was able to recover from the
depression of 1907 in so short a time.
It is, therefore, specially gratifying
on this occasion to see the tribute
paid the south as the agricultural cen
ter and hope of the country, its pro
tection against demoralization and
business depression.
Throughout the country men con
victed of "black hand" crimes are
receiving exemplary punishment.
Which is quite as it should be. The
offense is most cowardly, cruel and
detestable. It is evident that the au
thorities and the courts perceive the
necessity of dealing sternly with the
perpetrators, and in this they are
backed by public opinion. By using
the law effectively the "black hand"
business, which is a very undesirable
importation, can be suppressed and
those who come to this country to bet
ter themselves may learn that It can
not be done by such abhorrent meth
ods.
An Idaho judge s'artled the divorce
colony there by refusing a divorce to
a wealthy applicant on the grounds
that the said applicant was not a bona
fide resident and that there was no
leason for the divorce. It may have
been observed before that there is
nothing so startling and so immediate
ly effective as an injunction of com
mon sense into the law.
One theorist of the situation says
that living is costly because women
are poor cooks, and another blames
the women for high prices because
they are too lazy togo to market, but
order their provisions through the tel
cphone. The sons of Adam are still
finding his excuse good enough for
them.
The British public are wildly enthu
siastic over speculation in rubber
bonds. Securities like these ought to
help along the cause of elastic cur
rency, but perhaps the speculators
will find that the boomers of the
bonds have stretched a point.
FOR SQUARE DEAL
LOYALTY TO THE PRESIDENT IS
THE DEMAND.
Independent Magazine Sums Up the
Situation with a Forceful Pre
sentation of the Political Po
sition as It Exists.
An editorial in The World To-Day
bears the above caption, and says:
"The difficulties which lie in a suc
cession to any popular hero are ob
vious. President Taft followed the
most universally popular man Amer
ica ever knew. Different in tempera
ment, he Inherited issues which his
predecessor had precipitated and a
congrt ss which was only too ready to
taete the sweets of independence after
six years of discipline. The great
financial interests looked to him for
a 'safe' administration; people at
large looked to him for a maintenance
of Rooseveltism. lie had no political
organization other than that of the
Republican party itself, and this or
ganization was already plotting re
bellion against the policies on which
the people had supposed they had de
livered a final verdict. Such difficul
ties required for their solution some
thing more than a Judicial tempera
ment, a sunny smile, and a member
ship in the corporation of Yale. And
we believe that be will yet show him
self to possess such needed abilities.
"To condemn Mr. Taft for falling to
be like Mr. Roosevelt is akin to the
ridiculous. Nobody can be like Mr.
Roosevelt.
"To claim that the present adminis
tration is runuing contrary to the
Roosevelt policies is equally unjust.
It always takes time for a new admin
istration to develop its own individual
ity. . . . The difficulty with Mr.
Taft's administration is that it is ut
terly lacking in a magnetic person
ality on the one side and a political
manager on the other. But the Amer
ican people ought not to pass judg
ment on his administration because of
the lack of two such essentials. It is
unfair to expect him to do in his first
year what his predecessor did not do
until his fourth.
"The president deserves a square
deal."
President's Good Record.
Who would deny President Taft the
conciliation and the caution, the prog
ress and power he has brought into
public life? Who would deny the effi
ciency of the man who has been the
prime mover in every sane and pro
gressive proposal that has been ad
vanced during the past year? He has
Issued no philippic. He has not dealt
in pronunciamentos or I'roadsides.
He lias spoken rarely, but wisely and
simply and to the point. In view of
the year that is past the nation sa
lutes Mr. Taft and congratulates him
upon a first-year record that is open,
clean and satisfactory . Baltimore
American.
Progress Under New Tariff Law.
The railroad car building companies
hare lately been swamped by orders
and the indications are that when
construction figures for 1910 have been
compiled it will be seen that this was
the banner year. Unless the managers
of the big roads are all wrong in their
deductions, the country is fast ap
proaching a period that may be the
high-water mark of business in the
United States. At any rate the rail
roads are seeing a future that should
be disconcerting to those who pre
dicted that the new tariff law would
prevent commerce swelling to the pro
portions now indicated. Brooklyn
Standard-Union.
The Trusts and the Party.
The people get many wrong Ideas
from the newspapers. They are made
to think by the Democratic newspa
pers that the tariff makes the trusts,
and that because the Republican presi
dent and the majority of Republicans
favor the tariff, that must mean that
they also favor trusts and corpora
tions. The truth is the Republican
party is the only party that ever pros
ecuted a trust or corporation, and
every Republican believes in punish
ing every trust and corporation that
does wrong—Hiawatha (Kan.) World.
Outlook Is Splendid.
The United States is at peace with
the world, the new tariff has proved a
successful measure, prosperity reigns
In all the land and the ciouds of oppo
sition and strife within the Republican
party are lifting. President Taft is to
be congratulated upon the record he
has made in the 12 months of his ad
ministration. He has preserved the
best tradition of the Republican faith
and service and the future is bright
with hopeful auguries.—Kansas City
Journal.
.Mr. Vardaman announces that he
will have a third try at the senate.
When this is over, he ought to per
suade Mr. Uryan to accompany him
on a little trip abroad.
What He Really Said.
Elvira.—".lack Gaylord said your
beauty was simply intoxicating."
Olarie (pleased).—"Did he really?"
Elvira. Well, to be exact, he said
it was enough to drive a man to
drink."
His Eyesight at Fault.
Young Lawyer—How did they hap
pen to tianp, Sniteh's client? Wasn't
there any loophole in the law for him?
Second Ditto—Oh. yes, hut Snitch Is
qross-eyed and saw the wrong hole.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1910.
MUST AMEND THE SECTION
Congress Should Get Busy at Once to
Settle Status of the Anti-
Trust Act.
A special dispatch from Washington,
speaking of the waiting attitude of the
legislative branch toward the test of
the anti-trust act pending in the Su
preme court, affirms an unwillingness
on the part of congress to enact new
regulations until present laws "have
been tested and run the gauntlet of
the Supreme court."
That rule of action may or may not
be a commendable one. It depends on
the character of the legislative propo
sitions But there is one possible
amendment which the stated rule of
conduct very evidently calls for. That
Is an amendment to the so-called "com
modities clause," forbidding railroads
engaged in interstate commerce to
own or control directly or indirectly
the 'freight transported over their
lines.
This provision has been tested and
defined up to and by the United States
Supreme court. The only real ques
tion concerning it at the time of its
passage was whether such a provision
did not transgress beyond the boun
dary lines between national and state
jurisdiction. The Supreme court has
decided that congress has that power
as an essential part of the regulation
of interstate commerce. Having thus
sustained the constitutionality of the
provision the court proceeded to take
the starch out of it by construing it to
mean that it does not forbid railroads
to own stock in corporations produ
cing or owning and shipping freight
over their lines.
The power being thus plainly affirm
ed but the provision itself being emas
culated in construction the onus is
upon congress to amend the section
so as to leave no doubt of the prohi
bition of stock ownership as a means
of controlling shipments. Why such
an amendment is not promptly enacted
is something that congressmen may
find difficult to explain.
Corporations Making Returns.
Approximately 300,000 corporations
amenable to the law imposing a tax of
one per cent, of their net incomes
above $5,000 have made returns to the
internal revenue bureau. Additional
returns are expected to swell the num
ber to 325,000. which will be in keep
ing with the estimate made by the
officials before the law becomes op
erative. There are 409,000 corpora
tions listed in the United States, but
a large number have for some time
been generally regarded as "dead"
and existing in name only. It is now
generally believed from the reports of
collectors thus far at hand that the
estimate of $25,000,000 revenue from
the corporation tax this year may be
exceeded slightly.
Good Plan of Campaign,
It Is proposed to conduct the Re
publican campaign next, fall in con
gressional districts on the line of de
fending the course of the majority in
cooperating with the president. It is
a sound policy. If the administration
cannot be defended on that line it can
not be defended at all. It will do the
O. O. P. good to make a campaign on
resolute principles like that. The av
erage man tires of mush-and-milk poli
cies.— Buffalo News.
Needs New Blood.
The country will be the better for a
good crop of Democratic possibilities.
It has suffered from a shrinkage of
late years, and we hope to see a large
assortment of favorite sons before the
convention meets. As for the Hryan
trust, the party is too exclusive, a sad
defect in a democracy, especially a
democracy that eager for votes. —Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
Not everything that is written In
the Democratic platform is Demo
cratic. Free silver is not Democratic,
centralization of power at Washington
is not Democratic, Populism is not
Democracy. Richmond Times-Dis
patch.
Why didn't the last Democratic na
tional convention employ some com
petent authority on Democracy to pre
pare a genuine Democratic platform?
Democratic "Principles."
The way the Democrats remember
the platform is illuminating. One vote
only was cast for the postal savings
bank bill by representation of that
party In the senate. Evidently their
"principles" are not binding—lf they
lose.—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Democratic Back-Down.
In spite of the pledge of the Demo
cratic platform, only one Democrat in
the United States senate voted for
the postal savings bank bill. When
the Democrats in the house goon
record we shall see what we shall see.
—Omaha Bee.
When is comes to a show-down in
congress the Democrats Invariably act
as if they wished there never had been
any Denver convention or 1908 plat
form. —Pittsburg Times-Dispatch.
Careful Barber.
Tourist —You haven't a mirror in
your shop then?
Barber —No. certainly not. I don't
want to be insulted by customers
after having the trouble of shaving
them. —Fliegende Blaetter.
Like Kipling.
"I'd like to be a big poet."
"What do you mean by a big poet""
"Big enough to have a recent poem
printed by the papers as news mat
ter."
BELONGED TO THE UNION.
i.y. ...
Editor —You can't write verse.
Poet—l can; I've got a poetic li
cense.
Carelessness with Firearms.
Georgia has a colored gen'man fa
mous for the wild turkeys he can bag.
lie also can deliver luscious tame
fowls, and Judge II of There
abouts ordered Gustavus to bring him
ati exceptionally tine specimen of the
latter variety for the New Year spread.
At the feast he carved the great bird
with much satisfaction, until his knife
struck a bunch of shot.
The next day Gustavus was halec to
the judge's oflice.
"Gus, you black rascal," said the
Irate judge, "I ordered you to fetch
me a tame turkey; you brought me a
wild one. Don't deny it; here are the
shot from it; now, what have you got
to say?"
The colored gen'man shuffled and
twisted' his cap, then he grinned
sheepishly, and explained:
"The fac' am, suh, confidential. The
fsc' am this—them shot were inten
tioned for muh. Ha! ha! ha! ha!" —
Circle.
Looking Ahead.
Josephine, aged ten, has a decided
lisp. She also is very fond of attend
ing the matinee. The other day she
was giving a spirited story of the play
to Marion, who was aged nine.
"My mamma says it isn't good for
lit tie girls togo to the theater," said
Marion with an air of self-righteous
uess, "I'm not ever going till I'm IS."
"Humph," retorted Josephine with
out any hesitation, "th pose you die
when you're theventeen, then you'll
be thtung!"—Woman's Companion.
An Inward Conviction.
Tommy, having disposed of three
helpings of sausages and doughnuts
sat mournfully regarding his empty
plate.
Observing his pensive expression,
Aunt Sarah kindly asked: "Tommy,
won't you have some more dough
nuts?"
"Xo'111!" the poor lad replied, with
reeling emphasis, "I don't want them
1 got now!"— Harper's Magazine.
Ever Eat Soapy Soup?
My! Isn't it nasty! When they use
cheap old yellow soap to wash the
dishes some of it always sticks there
and seems like you cuu taste it all the
time. There isn't any excuse tor it, it
your folks know about Easy Task soap,
which makes dishes perfectly and anti
teptically clean; and doesn't cost any
more than the yellow soaps that cause
the trouble.
Thoughtful Child.
She was just three years old and it
was her first visit to the zoo. Whr-n
the towering form of the elephant ap
peared in sight, she drew back, clutch
ing at her father's hand.
"I won't go too close, daddy," she
whispered. "I might frighten him."—
Detroit News-Tribune.
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The Innocent Victim.
"I believe," said the blunt individual,
"in speaking my mind and calling a
spade a spade."
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "Many
are that way. The tendency is what
corrupts tlie vocabularies of so many
parrots."
Distemper
In all its forms, among iJI ages of horsei
and dogs, cured and others in the same
stable prevented from having the disease
with Spohn's Distemper Cure. Every bot
tle guaranteed. Over 500,(XX) bottles sold
last year. !j>.5U and SI.OO. Good druggists,
or send to manufacturers. Agents wanted.
Write fur free book. .Spohri Med. Co.,
Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind.
An Exception.
"There is one thing I like about
Rinks. No matter what he does, ho
comes out in the open to do it."
"I know of one action he always is
careful to do under cover."
"I dare you to name it."
"Going home in the rain."
Sometimes.
Miss Blitnely (interested in science)
—Ci>n one get a shock from a tele
phone?
The Professor —That depends, my
dear young lady, on who is talking at
the other end. —M. A. P.
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The idea of philosophy is truth; the
idea of religion is life.—Bayne.
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