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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor
Published Every Thursday
EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA
Just at present that sectarian insur
rection in Spain looks like a fizzer.
It seems that the tussock moth
acorns to put ».s eggs in cold storage.
For an agreeable summer job how
would you like to demonstrate ham
mocks?
The Germans are using heavy artil
lery to shoot at airships. Why not
try air guns?
No matter how the weather 112 jid
temperature change, tho humidity
never fails to come back.
But oven old Rome before it fell
never lad to contend with cold-stor
age eggs all the year round.
Are you giving proper appreciation
to the class of summer weather the
man in charge is handing out?
France wants an inspiring song for
its soldiers to sing as they march.
They are welcome to sing "Kelly."
And still the patient hen goes on
without asking whether she is work
ing for an incubator or a cold storage
plant.
"Apple crop outlook good." Seems
to us that we heat* 1 , something about
its, certain failure just after those
April frosts.
Plymouth has the rock, Provincs
town the tall tower, and the country
generally the rest of the monument
in men and women.
The rubber acreage in India i 9 said
to be increasing, but then It is to b€>
naturally expected that such a prod
uct would stretch out.
At some of the eastern hotels, we
ore told, they serve reed birds that
can scarcely be distinguished from
genuine English sparrows.
Singing songs while fishing will
make the fish bite, a dispatch says,
and, in most instances, small blame
can be attached to the fish.
An instrument which is being used
in London hospitals enables a doctor
to see the interior of a patient's stom
ach. Being a London doctor must be
disagreeable.
It is estimated that Americans have
been swindled out of $9,000,000 in
Mexican rubber schemes. Think of
the automobiles or duck trousers that
money would have bought.
In Newport a fashionable woman
wearing a hobble skirt waa tripped
in alighting from her runabout and
fell upon her face, cutting It. She
should now cut the hobble.
Scientists announce that people can
become energetic by eating raisins.
The trouble is that most of the ener
gy produced by eating raisins has to
be expended in removing the Beeds.
A Missouri convict mathematically
inclined hopes for pardon because he
discovered how to reduce equa
tions of the tenth degree. A study of
English might show him how to short
en his sentence.
Fears for trie leaning tower of Pisa
are shared only by admirers of tho
antique. If the worst should happen,
a modern skyscraper would undertake
to fit I'lsa out with an even more re
markable structure.
A minister in New England has the
audacity to suggest that there will be
baseball In heaven. Probably thinks
that if the streets are gold the fields
may be diamonds. Hut what will they
do for umpires? They have all bee|
told togo to the other olace.
A rich f'allfornia lawyer has hired
a $2,000 private car to transport his
pet dog across the continent. And
probably the dog, gaxing from his
luxurious quarters, envies the freedom
ami privileges of the street cur he
sees exercising his muscles In a free- .
for-all fight or luxuriously lunching 1
on a ragged hone picked out of a I
casual garbage can. For dogs are
much liki human* In the way of non
appreciation of luxuries forced upon
them or procured without a struggle j
The census returns now coming In !
steadily leave no doubt that the coun 1
try 1 growing In population at a
rapid rate The gains In some of the
cities ar« v. ry notable, several of the
little plan s having made r% marknbl*
advancement it the la.-1 ten years i
This growth Is really more stgi>in. ant 1
In varlou-i ways than the Increase* in j
the larger « Me*, for It shows local '
thrift and prosperity Study of the j
latest eeitsus returns must help to
dishipai- any pessimistic Ideas as to
the condition of the country
An Kngli It lad was seuti need to jail
for picking a rtower from a railroad
right of wuy. that h» might decorate
tit- father s grave \nd comparing
condition In Aiimrli a and England
Ithode Island Is "little, but lib my?"
She Is the lirst to c iiue to the front
with a I'omplete ceasu* showing this
year, nnd *he reports th>< v«ry sub
stmtilal gain of sffl ti rc ut In pop.
Illation silli u i'ion Tl at Is s> itiuu •
swift »» n >1 If the r« -it of the „
try d« es 4 well thurs i no douht tnal
the tto.OtiO.ouo mark will be reached
ON PARTY'S RECORD
REPUBLICANS WILL WIN IN COM
ING ELECTIONS.
Universal Prosperity, Largely Due tc
Wise Administration of the Coun
try's Affaire, Is Bound to
Have Its Effect.
There la just now a vast amount
of guessing being done concerning
the final lineup In national politics
and concerning the plans and purposes
of two very influential actors. This
Is the formulative stage of the cam
paign when, lacking facts, an im
mense amount of superfervid politi
cal fiction is being put afloat.
The Democratic organization the
country over is like Bre'r Rabbit —
"Layin' low and sayin' nothin'." But
something must be said finally; the
Democracy must this year make its
usual attempt to explain what it
etands for, and when this explanation
shall be given out it will immediately
become apparent that the word does
not square with the deed —that is to
Bay, the Democratic platform decla
rations will contain the usual per
functory commitments concerning a
tariff for revenue, with a protective
principle entirely eliminated. And
then, by reference to the extra ses
sion records of the Democratic rep
resentatives in the Sixty-first con
gress, it will be possible to show that
there were mighty few Democratic
representatives who did not favor a
protective rate when commodities in
which their own districts were inter
ested under discussion. The
Democratic attitude In practical dem
onstration is: Protect ours, but don't
protect the other fellow's business.
In the framing of every tariff which
has been accomplished under the in
spiration and control of the Republi
can party the principle of protecting
American labor and American indus
tries has been embodied. And the
Payne tariff, in obedience to the com
mands of the last Republican national
platform, has its schedules adjusted
with the view to protecting home in
terests. The last Republican plat
form declares the policy of the Re
publican party to be: "Not only to
preserve without excessive duties that
security against foreign competition
to which American manufacturers,
farmers and producers are entitled,
but also to maintain the high standard
of living of the wage earners of this
country, who are the most direct bene
ficiaries of the protective system."
And the new tariff, thus far in its
practical results, has proved to be not
only admirably adjusted for the rais
ing of a sufficient revenue, but there
has been under it industrial revival
and high-range prosperity the country
over.
And when the arguments that will
Influence voters in the approaching
congressional elections are sifted
down to an Irreducible minimum this
fact of the country's prosperity is go
ing to show up large. Singularly
enough, endeavor is being rnado to
create dissatisfaction with the new
tariff in the south and central west
The south is getting 10 cents a pound
for its cotton —nearly three times the
price prevailing under the last Demo
cratic tariff—and the west Is getting
$1 per bushel for its wheat and G5
cents for its corn, or just about double
the prices obtained under the Wilson-
Gorman tariff. The Republican party
in the campaign that is ahead will
stand upon tin* policies and the record
of tho party and will win. It Is only
i question this year, as it was two
years ago, of how large the Republi
can majority in the next house is go
ing to be.
The Annual Free Trade Lie.
The Kansas City Star has been
claiming that the tariff on broom corn
was the cause of the high prices of
brooius. The Republicans have held
that It was a shortage of brooms The
Star recently contained an article writ
ten by one of its reporters saying that
the shortage of broom corn last year
ruined the price to $250 per ton and
brooms to 45 and 5o cents each. Hut
a big crop of broom corn was uow In
sight, and the dealers of Kansas City
believe that as soon as the crop Is
ready for the market that broom corn
will drop to sr>o ti SIOO per ion and
the price of brooms back to 20 and IB
cents. Another free trade He nailed.
—J'leasatiton (Kan i Observer.
His Record Clear.
For >ears James S. Sherman was
the chairman of the house committee
on Indian affairs. 11 IM record In that
office is clear. The testimony was eon
slant or his official and personal devo
Hon to the Indian charges of the gov
ernment. Today Mr Sherman holds
the high office of vice president of the
t'lilted State- Tin- | • j,l«- could not
easily be |e,| to be||« \e that he has
* latere ted corruptly In ,ui at
tempt to block legislation Intended to
safeguard Indian rights. Chicago
Evening |'i -,t
Republican Result*.
Tie I'• * Moin. tai ital ays that:
"Mttlkiua of dollars Mill be saved to
l'»*a • Itlppvra by .t ■ • ctlon of the new
Interstate commerce law which we»l
Into effect Thursdav, Ailt'lol IS This
section reads It shall be unlawful for
sii> • •minion carrier mii ti i< -«■ t to the
prt'VMimn if this act to 1 1i i ik' - an»
Kr»ai< r < ttmpensallon as a through
late than the aggregate of the Inter
Mo liaie iales, aibject to the provl
■ion <>f this act "
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910.
) LOWER TARIFF; LOWER WAGE
"If the Tariff Bo Reduced We Cannot
Maintain the High Wage Rate
Now in Force."
If the tariff be reduced we cannot
maintain the high wage rate now in
force. A lowering of the tariff would
s invite an influx of foreign goods pro
duced by cheap labor, and wages In
our country would have togo down
with the tariff as a matter of business
existence.—Mr. Frank A. Munsey, in
t New York Herald.
; Mr. Frank A. Munsey In that sen
-3 tence places American labor face to
3 face with the real meaning of the
3 tariff problem. His views as regards
. this question are based on practical
. experience, gained at considerable ex
. pense in the publication of a stagger
ing number of newspapers and maga
; zines. For some time past it has been
. a dull year indeed which has not seen
(■ Mr. Munsey found a magazine or pur
, chase a daily newspaper. Already his
, interests of this kind embrace a good-
ly portion of the United States, and as
, his activity shows no sign of waning
r they may one day extend from the At
, lantic to the Pacific coast and from
, the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr. Munsey as an employer of labor
. is in a position to speak nuthorita
t tively regarding wages, his opinions
, being based on first hand information,
I and he will have rendered labor in the
. United States an immense service if
. he succeeds in opening its eyes to tlje
. fact that tinkering with the tariff is
. In reality tinkering with wages. The
. question to be answered is not, as Mr.
t Munsey points out, whether protection
L is advantageous for this, that or the
. other country, it Is this: Are Ameri
, can labw organizations prepared to
accept the inevitable consequences of
a radical downward revision of the tar
iff? One of these consequences, and
( one that directly concerns labor, must
be a reduction of wages. The aban
donment, wholly or partially, by the
United States of the high protective
tariff principle would so stimulate for
eign competition with home industries
that American manufacturers to meet
I it would be forced to lower the pres
! ent rate of wages. If they did not for
eign competition would sweep them
out of existence, throwing labor out
of employment.
, As Mr. Munsey says, if the tarifT Is
lowered, wages must be lowered. You
cannot have both high wages and a
lower tariff.
Cotton Weaving iri Japan.
i Some Interesting facts relating to
• the development of Oriental competi
tion in the spinning and weaving of
1 cotton textiles are set forth in the
: current issue of the Textile Manufac
turers' Journal. The hostile critics of
« the cotton schedule of the tariff 01
I 1909 might, if their minds are open
to conviction, see in the Orient a con
dition and a prospect that do not tend
1 to support the contention that the tar
iff on cottons is too high. Official sta
tistics show that in Japan there has
1 been since 1900 an increase of 259,007
spindles, while the increase in pounds
of yarn spun has been 94,171,381
, pounds. Of the 74,225 operatives em
ployed in the Japanese spinning in
dustry 58,9(10, or nearly 80 per cent.,
are females. Their average daily
wage Is 14 cents, while the average
daily wage of the male operatives Is
22 cents. At this rate how long will
It be, with a constant increase in ship
ments of English textile machinery to
Japan, before the "Yellow Peril" be
comes industrial rather than political?
Judging from pres«*nt indications, the
time is near at hand when there will
be nobody left In the United States to
contend that the tariff on cotton fab- I
rlcs is too high; that is, nobody but
free traders, who would be only too J
well pleased to find the cotton weav- I
ing industry of the United States com
pletely wiped out by Japanese compe
tition.
How About the Farmers?
How about the west, with which the )
importations of Canadian grain, hay j
butter and other natural products I
would come Into Idrect competition?
If New England is entitled to protec
lion for manufacturers, Is not the west
as fairly entitled to protection for
farm produce? And If Canada will con
sent only to reciprocity which affects
j natural products bow is (he matter
! to be arranged In a manner to suit all
American Interests? Of course tho
j difficulties may not be Insurmountable,
and it Is possible that, coming togeth
er In an amicable spirit, the I'nited
States anil Canada may yet fix upon a
plan that Mill be mu'ualiy satisfactory
und advantuKeous. Hut every time
; tlit question is candidly discussed It
| is found that the United Slates tariff
' Is by no means as serious a male
1 actor as enemies allege And wh-n
it la readied that under our protec
tive system the country has become I
the greatest manufacturing nation in
the world, ami also one of the largest
exporters of utunuaictures, honest stu
• lent* of tli situation must admit that
th« v is a good d> nl to say in favor of
American protection Troy Timet
"Nevsr Again,"
HNj*s • 1 Massachusetts and llttv.na
of N1 >\ York, the two free trade Item
or it who broke into cultures.* last
| st.-t|o|i because of Itepiiblienu ijuar
' " respective districts, say
Never ugslu," to IlenuMratU appeal*
to run for re-election Titty well
know that they I ouldu't cine within
■ ill rows of apple trees of being elect
<i| to emigres* this full,
I hen Is never any iJlMgru in b«*
I in* deie«ted battling for pix.p. u«y,
t*e pKridenl end protection Kai.«m
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| MOISSANT, THE MAN-BIRD
J - John Moissant, the young Cbicagoan who star
ttled the world by his flight across the Dover chan
nel with a passenger on his way from Paris to
London, has been a "soldier of fortune" from his
early youth. Moissant was born of Spanish par
ents and Is an architect. He suddenly came into
prominence when he unexpectedly flew from
Etampes to the Issy military ground, passing
over the Eiffel tower.
Moissant is thirty-five years old and is of
slight build. He is seemingly very jovial in tem
perament. He first visited Paris some months
ago and became interested in the study of avia
tion. He had two machines built after his own
designs and found the subject so fascinating that
he determined to become a practical airman.
The Moissant brothers, George, Alfred and
John, and two sisters, for many years had interests valued at several hun
dred thousand dollars in Salvador. In 1907 George and Alfred Moissant were
arrested and imprisoned on charges of aiding and abetting the revolutionists.
John was actively implicated in the movement against President Figueroa,
and handled a rapid-fire gun for the Nicaraguans. When the revolutionists
were repulsed John Moissant fled to Nicaragua. His brothers later were
released, but their property was attached by the government as a bond
to prevent their escape from the country.
When Moissant was sojourning in Honduras a tramp steamer loaded
with a cargo valued around SIOO,OOO was cast ashore and abandoned. In a
small dugout and in the teeth of a gale Moissant made his way alone to the
vessel and took possession. In the morning, when the wind had abated the
captain with some of the crew and an agent of the line rowed out to the
vessel, which had withstood the fury of the waves, but which was held fast
on a bar in the harbor. A shot from Moissant's revolver halted-them. After
some warm discussion the captain had to row back to shore to inform the
American consul that Moissant had seized the ship and her cargo as salvage.
During the night another storm came up and finished the work of wrecking
the vessel. The American consul found Moissant lashed to the topmost
rigging, only a few feet above the water.
HEADS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
George M. Hanson, recently installed as su
preme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, hails
fr °m Maine. Mr. Hanson suggests physical and
intellectual strength. Erect, broad shouldered,
I strong, capable of enduring vigorous and pro
. 3 longed labor, and equally capable of mental activ-
W ¥ ity am ' Btraln - he combines the essential qualities
™I iC U of a forceful and successful chief executive.
, CJ By profession a lawyer, he has been one of the
"tyy Ff leaders of the bar of his state. He has taken
r part in public affairs and held public office. In
J tho city of Calais, in which he lives, ho has been
twice elected mayor. He was appointed collector
'/i\ ()f cust °ms by President Cleveland, and by Gover
jflflflftfc JjyV " 0r Col)h of M aine a member of the commission
HffWwsßfrw A for the revision and codification of the tax laws
of that state.
In the order of Knights of Pythias he has attained tho highest honor
which that organization can confer. He became a knight in 1883, and though
a member of other organizations and secret societies, has given of his time
and talent chiefly to this organization since that time. He was the second
chancellor commander of his home lodge. As soon as he was eligible he
became a member of the grand lodge of Maine, and Its grand chancellor In
1893. In 1897 he was elected supreme representative and re-elected in 1901
an.i 1905. In tho supreme lodge Mr. Hanson has been a forceful figure, for
ten years a member of and for eight years chairman of the judiciary com
j mittee, that being the ranking committee of the supreme lodge.
In 1883 he married Miss Hattio W. Farrar of Calais, a descendant of Mat
thew Thornton, one of the signers of the declaration of independence, and
of Henry Price, who introduced Masonry into the state of Massachusetts, and
whose name is borne by a Masonic lodge in Cambridge. Mrs. Hanson Is the
companion and associate of Mr. Hanson in their home life.
NEW YORK'S ACTING MAYOR |
Greater far than tho governorship of many
states, perhaps than any of them, is the mayor
jm- sh,p of Ncw York, which has lately been filled
h >" a young man of only thirty—John Purroy Mlt
*hQ became the acting chief executive of
the metropolis upon the disability of Mr. Gavnor.
r- y 1,0 is the youngest chief executive
riV any great American city has ever had and it
J 'C. shows the great American capacity for govern
/ y, ]w ment when so young a man can step into a seat
°' ' ,ower 80 fcreat, of honor so high and responsl
c. y / My. bllities so vast.
//////, Within an hour after Mayor Gaynor had been
/sJHII //////■ Btruck ,iown b >" nn assassin's bullet It is safe to
,'tf/M ||A J'///// suy lhat at I<>ust ha!f tho In New York who
_X—l JSH I«—. J give any attention to public affairs und their man
agement had thought of John Purroy Mitchell,
the young president of the board of aldermen, who. under the charter, would
succeed to the first office of tho city if the mayor's wound should result
fatally.
Mr. Mitchell was twenty-eight years old. and bad been practising law
on his own account for five years, when the making of his public record
began. It wus In the family to study law. and young Mitchell had determined
on.that before he went to college. Consequently when he came to the elec
tlve courses in his Junior year he turned aside from the distinctive studies
of the arts and chose those which he believed would help him in his later
career. He went in for political science, the science of government, political
history, and that sort of thing.
Mr. Mitchell is a graduate of Columbia university and of the New York
I.aw school nnd entered public life as assistant corporation counsel under I
William 1». Ellison He conducted si arching investigations Into several of
the city departments and proved one of the most indefatigable workers con
neeted with the city government and last fall «uh elected president of the
board of aldermen.
r IN THE HOUSE OF GOVERNORS I
William tieorge Jordan has been appointed
JIkJMfX secretary of the house of governors. His selee
Hon by the governors Is a recognition of his serv
£ \ Ices as the founder of this unique Institution,
Jm 1 which Is likely to become ultimately u ti official '
KM £*- 4 feature of the government. Mr. Jordan promised j
Jf ►f\ ,h * , ' l ®* several years ago. It Immediately
1 * y by Hooiuvult uiitl n con for* '
\!» cue.- of governors wus called at Washington to
v y consider the conservation Of national resources !
\ results of the conference wer> so Important '
/ "'at the governors on their own Initiative called 1
J\ » meeting to discuss plans for greater uniformity •
\ '/x If loglslatlon At that conference It \
\ decided to make th. houae 01 goxeruors tt per I
1 ■ ■! 111 mute Mt lustitutlon and u fcsolutli'ii uas pssscU
•dieting u votu of thanks to Mr Jordan for his j
psrt In the foundation and promotion of tn« third houae. William 0.-orge
Jordvn is a vudel> kuoywu editor ami publicist Mum., years ago b. guvs
Up editorial Work to dn»..t«. his Unit to Mt'ltiug lie InUt erilten iarg. I) „o
•I. .Ilea and polltKs! topic., Mr I.,dan U the only 1 u umber 01 ih< !
Miuse wau Is uut a governor.
j The Place U Boj Cbttp S
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