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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor
Published Every Thursday
EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA
The latest divorce case originated in
a game of card 3. Solitaire?
Moreover, the airman avoids the
crush on the elevated loop platforms.
Why should not dogfish be good eat
ing, as the scientists declare? Catfish
are.
We hate to reopen a controversy,
but how do you play poker in Esper
anto?
There Is an opening for a popular
song about the aeroplane with a bro
ken wing.
An appeal is to be made to reason
In dress. Reason in dresa just at
present is hobbled.
More twins were born this year In
Chicago than ever before. Can this
be charged to the comet?
A New Jersey Judge rules that only
•ober men can get marriage licenses.
It's getting harder and harder.
Under the new rules of football we
believe there will Btill be work for the
doctor and the ambulance drivers.
The chill felt In the air is duo partly
to the advanced season, and partly to
the inevitable autumn coal bills.
Football at women's colleges would
be grand preparation for the stern
business of bargain-counter rushing.
A California girl of 7 years speaks
nine languages, says an exchange, and
we presume she corrects her parents
In all of them.
That Paris professor who recom
tnends devilfish as household pets,
does not say whether they will bark
at the family canary.
According to the health department
the fly wants to give the human race
several bites that it will remember be
fore succumbing to the frost
Prince Tsai Hsun wanted a daytime
nap and showed his familiarity with
American customs by taking it in Phil
adelphia.
Paris hats three feet have Just
arrived in the east. Evidently Paris
has overlooked the fact that pay-enter
cars are being used here now.
A German burgomaster complains
of the scandal-mongering of the wom
en who have nothing to do at home
Don't they play bridge whist In his
town ?
Eating sand for the benefit of one's
health should be viewed by the public
with an open mind until Dr. Woods
Hutchinson has expressed his opinion
of the practise.
About the only creature capable of
Indulging in hobble skirts, aviation
and football without danger of frac
turing something Is the Justly famous
boneless codfish.
Skeletons of warriors with horns
have been found in California. What
sport they must have had in the prize
fights of those days when the cham
pions locked them!
That cool wave, predicted by the
weather bureau, seems to have lin
gered overmuch on its way. Still it Is
a pretty good forecast to stick to at
this time of the year.
They are telling of a romance which
began in an aeroplane. Still, that is
as poor a place for tender glances and
gentle pressures of hands as a canoe,
which is 110 place at all.
The astronomers have now formed
a star trust. This is 110 doubt a r«v
milt of the ruinous eomi>etltion at the
time of the visit of the late Mr. Mal
ay's ghostlike luminosity.
They are trying to Induce society
women to refrain from smuggling by
telling them it is wicked. I!ut possl
My the fact of Its wickedness will
only add zest to the game
Th" men who are safely married
should be thankful they have had
travail and are through with It
Fashion decreta that "Weafter a luan
muwt propose on his inees
According to the available statistics
only an |M>rfona have ever died from
snake bite In this country Hut tbeia
figure* will not compel the suake
blte-*-iire industry to languish
If the humble Janitor, whom flat
dwellers would regulate with law and
order. ever asserts hit prerogative
•om* rold winter morning, the flaf
dweller may be beseeching instead of
demanding
Th«*re 1* a preacher In Huston who
•ays that th* hobble tklrt Is an evl
denc.» of wanlty Has he ever had hl»
head examined*
"When U a h«n not a bird?" sound*
like a prUe pu/ile or a funny game,
hut It Is a serious question with which
one of the Washington court* will b*
railed onto >olve Of course the lav
Is alway* a dignified Institution, but
to *e« Its learned espanent < strug
gllng with the aviation Mfiiltallona o
the gi-at American hen Is soniethlni
to tickle 'ha rUlbllltlei of the nation
NOT DUE TO TARIFF
FACTS IN REGARD TO ADVANCE
IN PRICES.
For Political Ends, Democrats Have
Fostered Misconception in This
Regard—The Truth as Shown
by Government Statistics.
The tariff seems to have been nc
material factor in causing the ad
vance in prices during the past dec
ade. The greatest advances have been
made in commodities upon which the
tariff has little or no effect, and the
absolute removal of the tariff on many
of these commodities could not have
afforded relief at the present time,
for the reason that prices of these
commodities, with a few exceptions,
were as high or higher in other coun
tries than in the United States.
The advance in prices during the
past ten years appears to have no re
lation to tariff legislation. Beginning
with January, 1900, wholesale prices
in general declined slightly, and the
decline continued through July, 1901.
Beginning with August, 1901, prices
advanced very slowly through March,
1903, ,<ind then remained steady
through May, 1905. Beginning with
June, 1905, there was a marked in
crease through October, 1907. Begin
ning with November, 1907, prices be
gan to decline and the decline con
tinued through August, 1908. Begin
ning with September, 1908, prices
steadily advanced until the highest
point during the ten years was
reached in March, 1910.
The advance in 1909 as compared
with 1900, by groups of articles, was
as follows:
Per Cent,
Products of the forests 40.T
Products of the farm, crude 86.1
Products of the farm, manufactured. 24.1
Products of mines and wells 13."
Products of manufactures 5.^
Products of the fisheries 6.1
Imported products declined l.<
The group of articles which have
shown the greatest advance —the
products of the farm —are those for
which there has been practically nc
change in tariff In the past ten years.
Neither have there been any changes
during the past twenty years which
could In any way account for the in
crease in price. The tariff acts oi
1894, 1897 and 1909 have made nc
changes which to any appreciable de
gree measure the changes in prices
which have taken place.
The tariff act of 1909 made nc
marked changes In "farm products
and foodstuffs," the articles grouped
by the tariff acts under Schedule O
"agricultural products and provi
sions," and Schedule K, "sugar, mo
lasses and manufactures of."
Simple Statement of Facts.
The principal farm grains—barley
corn, oats, ryo and wheat—made an
average advance in price in 1909, com
pared with 1900, of 69.7 per cent. They
are usually exported in large quantl
ties, yet while the exports were prac
tically reduced in 1909, other coun
tries absorbed our surplus even at the
advanced prices, and the exports dur
Ing 1909 amounted to over $80,000,00(1
with additional exports of over SSO,
000,000 worth of wheat flour and corn
meal.
The price level of the live-stock
group, consisting of cattle, hogs and
sheep In 1909, was 20.1 per cent
above the price level of 1900. This
group also furnishes a surplus for ex
port and at the advanced prices thf
exports amounted to approximately
$20,000,000.
This amount exported Is much less
than for previous years, but the fact
that exports of products of the farm
and of the forests continue in such
large quantities Indicates that the
price movement is due not to the tar
Iff but to a world-wide movement up
ward in the price of such commodi
ties.
Which Is the most Inspiring sight,
the parade of Coxey and Kelly armlet
or the march of factory and mill
hands going to and from work?
Question for Workingman.
The Democrats compare prices now
with prices in 1X96, nnd tell laborers
that we ought to get back to the old
conditions. How does that strike
any laboring man who lived through
the four awful years of Democratic
rule from 1893 to 1897? It didn't mat
ter how low prices were then —mil-
lions of men were working on part
time and low wages or not working at
all, nnd their families were hungry.
Tht»y couldn't get the money to buy
even the necessaries of life.
Wm McKlnley said: "Cheap and
nasty go togethe ."
It didn't matter In the four awful
Democratic years from '#3 to '97 how
cheap food was. Millions of our peo
ple then couldn't g<-t money to buy
even the necessaries of life.
The Democrats whii! the country to
gi't buck to tiie conditions when every
thing whs cheap. Under such condl
Hons labor is the cheapest thing of
all.
Good Object Lesson,
The mono emblazoned on the great
M-al of one of our stains is: "if you
seek a beautiful peuinsula. look
around you." This motto might be
paraphrased as a motto for the whole
country: "If you seek a prosperous
sad happy people, look around you.''
The wan and wasted and hungry men
and women aud chlldreu that wm used
tu see in the last Ituuociatic day
•re not In evidence now Tha work
Ing man's wife and babies are not no*
begging lor bread
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1910
: FACTS ABOUT FREE TRADE
Read and Consider Which Policy Is
Best for the Interests of the
• Country.
Here and there a Democratic can
didate takes courage from the seem
■ ing drift toward his party and an
nounces that he is for free trade—not
for tariff reform, but for no tariff,
except, possibly, for revenue only.
Such tariff doctrine gets far, indeed,
from the faults and shortcomings of
' the Payne-Aldrich law, grievous and
numerous as they are, in spite of its
betterment of the statute it replaced
1 and its promise of further improve
-1 ment under orderly and scientific in
| vestigation and amendment. But when
the issue becomes free trade, it is
time to look certain vital facts square
ly in the face.
Wage-earners migrate from free
trade countries into protective tariff
countries. They never go in the op
posite direction. They know where
they are best off. They migrate from
England to the United States, to Can
ada, to Australia—all under protec
tive tariffs. Belgium has near free
trade. Belgian workmen goto
France, where there Is protection.
Germany Is making strenuous strides
under protection, and Germany, al
ready with ah immense population,
draws wage-earners from many ad
jacent and nearby countries.
These fundamental facts cry out
against the folly of the free traders. —
Cleveland Leader.
Prices Not Governed by Tariff.
An official bulletin issued by the
bureau of statistics at Washington
shows an unmistakable tendency
downward in the price of certain com
modities included among necessaries
of life. What is particularly notice
able in this exhibit is the decrease in
rates for imported articles. The bul
letin says: "A study of prices quoted
by the bureau of satisfies shows for
the latest available date a definitely
marked downward movement in re
cent months." Of the articles affected
there are mentioned wool, wool car
peting, boards, copper pigs and ingots,
rubber, Manila hemp and a whole lot
of other things which come from
abroad. On the other hand, the same
trend is indicated as regards numer
ous domestic products, among which
may* be mentioned various grains,
flour, copper In different shapes, cot
ton cloths, steel billets, rails and
other shapes, and so on. Of course
many causes contribute to the fluctu
ations in prices which are reported in
this country and elsewhere. But the
direct and very pointed significance
of the official report from the bureau
of statistics is that it refutes most
emphatically the contention that
prices are governed by our tariff and
that recent advances were due to the
present law. And, further, the facts
place the lay-it-all-to-the-tariff growl
ers in a dilemma from which there is
no escape except by frank confession
that they have been wrong. If, as
they have asserted, the tariff sent
prices up. must they not, to be con
sistent, admit that the tariff, which is
still the same, has brought prices
down? What Is the logic of their
argument, anyway?
Epigrammatic and Silly.
The college president who has
dropped into politics and Is trying tc
be elected governor of New Jersey
keeps right on saying foolish things
about the tariff. One of his latest ab
surdities is this:
"Trade does not rise and fall with
the tariff, but the bank accounts ol
some producers do."
Herein we may see how easy it is
j to be epigrammatic and silly at one
and the same time. Fourteen years
ago. in the third year of a free-trade
tariff, trade had fallen far below the
normal. Trade had fallen with the
tarifT. Inside of eighteen months, or
| within less than a year after the elec
tion of McKinley as president and the
prompt revision of the tariff in the j
Dingley law, trade had gotten back tc !
the normal and was increasing by i
leaps and bounds. By 1900, bank !
clearings had nearly doubled, imports
had Increased 50 per cent., because !
our people had more to buy with, ex- j
ports had Increased far more than im- '
ports, and the country was on the top
I wave of prosperity. Trade had risen
when the tariff rose. Or Wood
row Wilson simply displays his ig j
norance of practical business affairs
when he asserts that there is no rela
tion between trade and tariff. Every J
civilized nation In the world, save one,
holds a contrary view—that protection
to home labor and industry does stim
ulate trade and make prosperity.
It Is better for the working man
and his wife and babies that there he
sufficient work for all than to have
factories shut down or working on
half time at half wages.
His a Prize Collection.
Mr liryun now says the plan for a
tariff commission is a delusion. As a ,
delusion expert he ought to bo en
titled to a hearing —Omaha I lee.
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Panama. '
The president's final decision about 112
Panama shows his great interest in c
the i-atial And ttin Interest Is justl I 1
di-d The tariff should soon be out *
of the way for awhile, and the trusts
and tlx* railroads may Klve further 11
trouble, but cannot master us. The (
canal we shall have with us for at c
less! flvn years In a completing form u
and then In a completed form for 1
let us hope, as long as w« n main it r
puissant factor In the world's a' *
fair* *
Postoffice Department May Pay Chit
ovvr *
WASHINGTON. —The estimates of
Postmaster General Hitchcock
for next year show that the postoffice
department promises fair to pay its
own way. The mail service comes
nearer to the people than any other
branch of the government, for it
reaches every home as well as shops
and offices. It costs a lot of money.
Mr. Hitchcock asks for $250,733,943,
and the appropriation for the depart
ment always is set forth in the ex
penditures for each year, but the earn
ings from the mails bring back the
outlay to the treasury. This business
is not reported in the current daily
statement of the treasury which set
forth only the deficit paid. This
amounted last year to $17,000,000, and
will be $6,000,000 less for the current
twelve months, while it is predicted
that it will disappear in the next
fiscal year. The department gets no
pay for the vast tons of matter which
it carries for other branches of the
government. If it did the offset
against the deficit would be very
large. The rent of offices in Wash
ington and in public buildings else
where does not cover this traffic.
The work done by the postoffice is
Has Plan to Care for Ex-Presidents
THE great movement for the con
servation of the natural resources
of the country, at the present time
exerting salutary Influences upon
every Important national activity, has
embraced a new field. A safe, sane
and successful method of conserving
and finding a method of caring for our
ex-presidents is the latest Idea in the
conserving line. A provision in the
constitution of the national conserva
tion congress Is responsible for the
proposal, and serious consideration is
being given it, not by the political
dreamer or theorist, but by the great
public figures of the country.
Bernard N. Baker, retiring presi
dent of the congress, by virtue of a
clause in the constitution, becomes a
member for life of the executive com
mittee, and will, so long as the con
gresses are held, continue to give the
benefit of his counsel and experience
to the president.
The suggestion has been made, and
has already crystallized Into an or-
Expert to Head the Economy Bureau
tjiir FIAT Is considered a real step to-
WW ward greater economy and more
efficiency in the management of the
government's business was taken
when President Taft appointed Dr.
Frederick A. Cleveland, director of
the bureau of municipal research In
New York city, as the head of a cen
tral staff that will work on the econ
omy and efficiency problem under the
direction of the president. Announce
ment was also made that each of the
cabinet officers will organize In his
department a committee or couimls
sion to be known as an economy and
efficiency organization.
These steps were taken under the
law passed at the last session of con
gress directing tho president to con
duct an Investigation Into the bus!
ness methods of the several executive
departments, and giving him SIOO,OOO
Opium Invades Army at the Presidio
TIIK war department Is advised thst
opium, the Insidious enemy of tlte
armies of the world, has Invaded the
ranks of the I'lilted States troops eta
tioned at the I'resldlo, near San Fran
cisco, to such an extent that a strong
campaign, In which are Involved more
than 2,500 men. has been launched In
an >'ffort to crush It out.
The officers admit the seriousness
of the situation, and declare It to be
the gravest problem they haw been
called upon to settle. Drastic meas
ures are now being taken to rescue
those of the troops who hate (alb it
victims to the subtle opiate With
all the energies of the department of
war bent to the battle, an appeal has
a marvel of cheapness. In volume
and in extent of territory covered
there is nothing to be compared with
it. The reduction in rates since the
days when 25 cents was charged for
a letter from New York to Columbus,
0., does not cease to be a wonder.
The system which for two cents de
livers a message in writing weighing
an ounce from Maine to San Fran
cisco not only but to the Philippines,
or from the southern point of Florida
to the northern extremity of Alaska,
is a model of efficiency at the mini
mum of cost. When we consider also
the burden of mails oversea to cer
tain countries where the foreign rates
are the same with our domestic
charge, the challenge is bold that the
world presents no parallel to the
economy and to the achievement.
Europe is compact in population
with distances measured by hundreds
of miles only. This is especially true
of Great Britain. There penny post
age is proclaimed as a triumph and
an example. Americans forget that
the British penny is the equal In cur
rent value of two cents of our money.
The cent is often called a penny, but
it is only half a penny, and thus the
term is a misnomer. Our postal rates
on letters are now just those of Great
Britain. Penny postage has long pre
vailed here as well as there. That
with free rural delivery and with
transmission over the continent and
to the islands, the earnings are to
cover the expenses, may well gratify
officials and citizens.
ganized sentiment, to adopt the same
method with the president of the
United States, make him, for life, an
advisory member of the president's
cabinet and give him a competence
sufficient to make him independent.
Speaking of this proposal, Mr. Baker
said that It was really surprising how
many men there were In the west who
thought that this method furnished
the solution of the perpetual perplex
ing question as to what disposition to
make of our ex-presidents.
"On its face ihe proposition Is cer
tainly a plausible one. It stands to
reason that after a man has been
president for four or eight years he
knows the problems and difficulties
which confront the man at the helm
of the ship of state better than does
his successor. If the ex-presidents
could be made advisory members of
the cabinet of the president, the lat
ter would get the benefit of the ad
vice of the former. No matter if
there should be a change In the ad
ministration, this would make no dif
ference to broad-minded men.
"Of course, there would have to be
legislation providing that when a man
is elected to the presidency his suc
cession to the cabinet position neces
sarily follows. All this Is not mere
theory. It Is Indorsed by some of the
political thinkers of the country."
j with which to carry forward the in
quiry. The final plans were not ap
proved by the president until he had
consulted with a large number of
business men and had received writ
ten suggestions from numerous audit
companies.
The central stair, of which Mr.
I Cleveland is to be the chief, will be
composed of four men In addition to
the chief. Its function will be to keep
the president informed as to condi
tions in the several departments. It
might properly be called a bureau of
Inspection. The economy and effi
ciency commissions to be organized
In each department will undertake to
ascertain If greater efficiency can be
obtained without increasing the cost
of the service.
It is explained at the White House
that the general movement does not
contemplate the dismissal of govern
ment clerks, but the gaining of great
er efficiency. The president has come
to believe that the departments work
at cross purposes In some Instances
and that It Is frequently the case that
in a particular department money Is
wasted because the service Is not or
ganized or centered as It should be.
been made to th< civil authorities.
Just how general tho use of the
poppy juice has become is not esti
mated, but It Is admitted to be more
tftlartuing than ever before in the his
I tory of the army Acting Commander
[ Col. C. Deems said that In all his
career he had never encountered such
a general addiction to the drug, and
that at worst his observation had
never disclosed a higher percentage
of opium using than two to three per
cent. It was at first estimated that
forty per cent, of the men at hs
Presidio were using the drug, but this
was declared excessive, a more prob
able figure after company and hos
pital statistics had been compiled, be
ing ten per rent
Alarmed at this high percentage,
appeals were directed by Colonel
l.ttndeen, commandant at the poet, to
the district attorney's office and to
the office of the chief of police, >»tth
the result that raids on opluui den*
by the civil authorities are Wing
'uade
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"I would rather preserve the health of m
nation than be its ruler. " —MUNYON.
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they may be prostrated with pneumonia.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
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yon's Cold Cure at the nearest drug
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carried in the vest pocket. If you ars
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It checks discharges of the nose and eyes,
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If you need Medical Advice, write to
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Address Munyon's Doctors, Munyon's
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Constipation
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Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure
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Wslr- Jra Never Fails to Restore Gray
' : "K« J®* l ' to its Youthful Color.
A conventional man is one whose
action you can predict ahead of time.
Strong Winds and Sand Storms
cause granulation of the evelids. I'ETTIT'B
K SALVE soothes and quickly relieves.
All druggists or Howard Bros.,Buffalo,X.Y.
Hence the Name.
In the service of a Baltimore fam
ily Is an old negro cook known as
Aunt Sally, and not the least of her
achievement Is the preparation of sea
food.
In the kitchen one day Aunt Sally'f
nephew, a nlno-year-old lad lrom a
point where crabs are seldom seen,
was watching In breathless Interest
the old lady's deviling of a dish of
6uch crustaceans.
"Aunty," said he, after much reflec
tion upon this mysterious point, 'does
debbil crabs coine from de debbil?"
"No, chile," promptly responded
Aunt Sally; "but dey is de debbil to
make."
Lover's Wedding Cake.
Four pounds of our of love, half a
pound of buttered youth, half a pound
of good looks, half a pound of sweet
temper, half a pound of self-forgetful
ness, half a pound of powdered wits,
half hii ounce of dry humor, two table
spoonfuls of sweet argument, half a
pint of rippling laughter, half a wine
glassful of common sense.
Then put the flour of love, good
looks and sweet temper into a well
furnished house. Beat the butter of
youth to a cream. Mix together blind
ness of faults, self-forget fulness, pow
dered wits, dry humor Into sweet argu
ment, then add them to the above.
Pour in gently rippling laughter and
common sense. Work it together un
til all Is well mixed, then bake gently
forever.
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