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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.
H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor
Published Every Thursday
EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA
If dreamers were doers all would be
millionaires.
Still, people speak of football fatal
ities as "accidents!"
Underwear advertisements are pe
culiarly thrilling Just now.
Twas better to have tried and lost
lhan never to have tried at all.
A suggestion: Why not a hobble
skirt for tho bride's wedding gown?
The death of eight aviators In the
past month proves aviation a costly
sport.
A deaf chauffeur must be In the
same class as a color-blind locomotive
Engineer.
One Chicago woman hid a diamond
In an umbrella. Quite so. However,
ehe got it back.
Every time football kills a boy one
cannot help wondering if football Is
really a sport.
Aviators make rings around the god
dess of liberty, but no one else Is per
mitted to do so.
Our idea of a well-trained balloon Is
one that will goto Mexico instead of
to Canada at this season.
When the America became a wreck
nt sea It went up instead of down.
This is a new record at any rate.
At the prevailing prices modest per
eons might think it a privilege to be
an egg. especially a strictly fresh egg.
The gowns worn at aviation meets
already begin to draw attention away
from the horridly unconventional man
birds.
Both Manuel and Alfonso have the
pearl-gray spat habit. No wonder
they are constantly getting Into hot
water.
Is the dirigible Just coming Into Its
o"-n. or is this last splurge of cross
ing the English channel but a dying
gasp?
A scorching automobilist in Kansas
City knocked down four blind glrl9
nt once. That appears to be the rec
ord for the season.
As a new SIOO counterfeit bill Is In
circulation the waiters in the more
luxurious beaneries should be careful
when accepting tips.
■mat New York girl who was mar
ried amid a fringe of puppy dogs prob
ably will like her husband, too, when
she gets used to him.
Announcement Is made of a rise in
the price of ostrich plumes. One of
the crying needs of the time Is an in
crease In the number of ostrich farms.
To own an automobile may be an
Indication of prosperity, but to pos
sess an automobile and be able to
have bacon for breakfast is a sign of
opulence.
In St. Louis an aviator advertises
"Lessons in flying $25 each." He neg
lects to mention the number of lessons
It would lie necessary to take to be
come a good flyer.
Sixteen new stars have been found
In tbe Inst 25 years and 13 of them
have been found by women. Which
again goes to prove that women were
always partial to atars
A man In Oermnny who traded hla
wife for a pig was declared by thn
Judge before whom he appeared to
have made a suitable exchange, as he
himself was but a hog
Satrura is bri-aklnir Int . the limelight
with bookworm. As s.i per cent, of
the natives are suffering with It. Ha
moun tl n k the fact entitles them to
•oniH part of the w. r!.l * notice
It has be*n announced In Now York
that hereafter siiiuunlers. whether of
hl(?h «-r low decree. will b<- s«*nt to jail
InM' id r;f h-dng lined This ought to
stimulate the conscience of the return
ing traveler.
A stir" test to prove a sober condi
tion or t,\ contrary has often been
•Ug ;«• ted. hilt liot altogether decided
upon \ gu> t !r» a flotl im hotel twta
apparently established a sure one lie
ordered two ta\l< al> suit to els Ma
When aeroplanes are driven, as
enr In their developments as this, at
the rate 'if incni than a ti;lle a minute,
for ' » tulle at a stretch. It Is evident
that the automobile has Its work cut
out If It Is to keep ahead of the flylug
machines In speed
flying from frame to Kn«land has
*ma«*4 <" be im tidared marvelous
Progresa In aviation 1. rapid eio ogh
to sailsfy all but very
»»•
Fifteen hundred aehnoiboy* turned '
out th* other dav and cleaned the
■traeta la Ike Wl*H|
City *lthixii a kilt* any pay 1- r Ihelr ]
leftlces II *•« 112 ui. l wl , thu
».>rk was .->iupl«t>d that nit a ie>
bad sunt;ilsed a bn ken collar bona u*» I
gwflb red bruises that u ade It nerve !
oui; fur Mill 111 be tak«u la • bu*|>|tm
AS TO THE TARIFF
NO NEED FOR BUSINESS INTER
ESTS TO BE ALARMED.
Radical Changes Cannot Be Made,
Even Though the Democrats Con
trol the Lower Branch of the
Congress.
It is of vital importance to the coun
try that business men of every section
and in all industries understand the
utter impossibility of radical changes
in the tariff for a long time to come.
No changes, in fact, can be made ex
cept by defenders of the principle of
protection to American industries.
Here is the truth about the tariff
situation:
Until March 4 there will be no
change whatever in the membership
of either the senate or the house of
representatives. Until then the situ
ation will bo exactly as it is nosv, ex
cept that there will be a different and
wiser outlook on the part of some of
the Republican leaders and their party
associates.
After March 4 the newly-elected
congress will be in existence but not
in action before December. It can do
nothing until then except by the aid
of President Taft, and it is entirely
out of the question that he should
call the Democratic house together be
fore the appointed time.
After the first Monday in December
the Democratic house will be at work
but with absolutely no chance of doing
anything which could alter the duty
on any one of the thousands of items
in the tariff laws, unless the change
proposed met the approval of the Re
publican majority in the senate and
President Taft. The extreme limit
of possible tariff changes will be the
extent of the president's willingness
to approve alterations in the existing
schedules.
That will be the situation until after
March 4, 1913. Two years and near
ly four months must elapse before
anything can happen to the tariff
which President Taft and the Repub
lican majority in the senate do not
want to happen. All talk of hostile
tariff action which would reach the
actual duties and alter the laws of the
United States, within the next two
years, is absolute folly and complete
ignorance.
I-rOng before that period expires the
president and the Republican congress
still in power can and no doubt will
put the tariff commission at work
upon the only scientific attempt to re
form the tariff which has ever been
made. There is ample time before
March to give the commission all the
authority and money it needs, and
then its position will be secure, what
ever the incoming house may desire
to do.
With such progress assured in the
direction of fair, enlightened, scien
tific revision of the tariff, not all at
once and as the football of conflicting
political influences, but gradually and
on a business basis, Is it to be lmag
lnged that any party will dare togo
before the country with a plan of at
tack upon the protective tariff sys- j
tem? Is it believable that the leaders i
of the Democratic organization will be
suicidal enough to fight the campaign
of 1912 with a program of free trade
or a tariff for revenue only, when sci
entific revision, the most reasonable
and just in the history of the country,
will be actually, under way or plainly |
In preparation?
There Is no ground for fear of near
or violent tariff changes. There is no
such cloud in the business sky.
Republican Opportunity.
The third session of the Sixty-flrst
congress will begin In a comparatively
few days. At the first, an extra ses
slon, it enacted the Payne tariff law,
and at the second, a r< gular session,
which extended Into the summer, an
earnest attempt was made under the
direction of President Taft to fulfil !
some of the other pledges of the lie- |
publican national platform. Tin* rec
ord of performance was creditable,
but It went for nothing In the recent
cnmpulgn because of the baneful ac- ,
tlvtty of Mr. Roosevelt.
In the final or short s- ision of tht 1
Sixty firs' congress, which will end '
on Ularch 3. not much practical legis- j
Union can be expected. 111 the ortli- |
miry course of things, of a majority j
that is soon to turn over the control I
■if the house to tlii* Democrat*. The 1
short session Is usually devoted to ;
making appropriations for the sup- j
port ot government, but Mr Taft will ;
no doubt take occasion in his annual
message to urge emigres* to do some- ,
thing besides voting money for the
departments It will be his Inst op- j
portunlty to obtain tows from a lie
publican house before the pr<-allien
tlal election
As to appropriations retrenchment
and econumy should be the order of 1
the day. The Hun second congress j
will be Democratic In one branch '
only, and the Republican party will i
lose a fine opportunity if u falls to
place Itself la a strategic position be j
lore the country at the comma short ;
MMtioil
over a year mini pass before the
arw |ietu«>< ratlc house will meet, and
Ibe »li> rt e--*loii of the pre»< nt com
|'« t lltvrtott*! I'y Iteietnler, Itfll,
the Hepubltcun Ustui that a»ni Dew
—Wills may regret that tilt Ision
ittS'Sl tbettiaelsa opiii..| |||, d'<or to
lh» ancient enemy
I nil! Man h I nest Hepitbltcans i
will iontro| all branches of Ibe *..» ,
eminent The | cei< th. >
an opportunity to ad<f extensively t«
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1910.
PARTY'S FUTURE IS ASSURED
Recent Landslide No Proof That Peo
ple Have Lost Confidence In Re
publican Policies.
Short memories belong to many
men of positive beliefs, in politics,
especially. Some of them are asking
whether the Republican party can
"coine back," and 1894 is only 16 years
gone!
There was a Republican revision of
the tariff just before the campaign
of 1890. The McKinley bill was the
great issue of that year. The Repub
lican party was judged and con
demned on tariff-making rounds. The
house of representatives elected then
contained 233 Damocrats, 88 Republi
cans and nine Populists. Only one Re
publican was elected in Wisconsin,
only four in Michigan, one in Minne
sota and two in Kansas.
Compared with that landslide the re
cent upheaval was not much of a con
vulsion in politics.
In 1592 there was only a slight
change. Then the Democrats won an
other general election on the tariff
issue. They elected 220 members, I
against 126 Republicans and eight
Populists. That victory gave them
the president and the United States
senate, as well as the house of repre
sentatives. Then they took their
turn at tariff-making.
Two years after the sweeping vie- '
tory in 1892, the country threw the
Democratic party out of power, in the \
house of representatives, to stay out
until now. The Bryan fear of 1896
brought the opportunity to finish the
job by ousting the Democratic presi
dent. There has never been another. |
Can the Republican party "come
back?"
Our Satisfactory Revenues.
A year ago the Democrats were pre
dicting the failure of the new Repub
lican tariff bill as a revenue pro
ducer. They are not making any
such predictions now. The actual
figures as to the operation of the i
tariff law during its first year are
indeed interesting. The total ordi- j
nary receipts, including customs, or- |
dinary internal revenue, corporation
tax and miscellaneous, aggregating
$678,850,816, exceeded disbursements
by $20,214,020. These ordinary re- j
celpts were greater by $15,000,000, ap- J
proximately, than during 1907, and
1907 receipts "exceeded those of any
other year of record by almost SOO,-
| 000,000. While there was a deficit of
$5v,734,955 in the ordinary operations
of the governf.on", tr> the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1909, there was a sur
plus of more than $20,000,000 in the
year ended Aug. 6, 1910. These fig
ures indicate that the new tariff
deserves the praise bestowed upon it
by Republicans. Not only are cus- ;
toms receipts under the new tariff j
higher than under any previous law, j
but the total value of free imports j
is greater than under any other j
tariff law. It happens further that
the total value of dutiable imports !
is greater than ever before, thus re- j
futing the assertion that new pro j
hibitive barriers were set up. Final- !
ly it is shown that the average ad j
J valorc m collection on all imports j
I is lower than under any tariff since
the Civil war —4[js per cent, lower
than under the Dingley law and one
per cent, lower than under the Wll- \
son law, which was fathered by a
party that shouted for a tariff for
I revenue only.
Japan Is for Protection.
Japan will put Into effect n pro
tection tariff In 1911. It has decided
that neither free trade nor tariff for
revenue only will satisfy the demands
of the most aggressive tint ion In the
j far east, that has entered upon a
movement of world power competi
tion In commerce as well as In poli
tics. It has determined to build up
lis manufacturing Industries, to do
which it considers a protective tariff
to lie essential.
in this, as in other spheres of nc
tlon, Japan undoubtedly Is Influenced
much by the < xitmple anil experience
of the I tilted States, with which It
i has coine into the closest relations It
| m not mistaking the signs of the
I times. It is riot misreading the rec
I ord Our protective tariff has, in
I deed. nourished the vitalising force* :
i that have made the American nation
I strong; that huvt* built up its Indus
| tries and equuliz* d the compensation
! of labor, making the latter the brst
paid and lite Item served of any work- j
i men on the face of the earth.
History Repeats.
History has a way of repeating It '
| self, and the loss nf.the house of rep
re»entatlv*s by tin* Republicans ihl*
j year vindicate* a lent >-t in iht
••lections of IfcM, |*;<o „.,d ih»»i
'hough suspended under exceptional
This rule Is that the party*a' is.l.r
undertaking a general tariff r« vision |
Is punished at the polls both for what '
it does and what it isiis to do It is
h< Id accountable both by those who j
think It s»ent t"o far and by those i
alio think it did not no far ••iiough. j
and those two elements n*n< rally j
make up a majority in the country.
For Ike rtrst t!m« savins* In this
MMMltty have pa« d Ike II •MMI.OM,
itipi in,. lrfi»i year's iacreag* waa
|3&7 uoo,«mm It Is eotii* »tu remark |
that tke shoe lag al ih • end of the lasl
ISMoeralP administration was situs |
tshlugly different
Tke IteHMerais la their talk are al |
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PIK)MI!^NTPp)PLr-
| SEEMS SLATED FOR SPEAKER
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I lion of one term.
< huk, like many other men who have made good, gives full credit to
his wife. Before she married Clark she was Miss Genevieve Bennett, a school
teacher, with a local reputation as an elocutionist. Clark was a young lawyer
without any marked promise of future greatness and mighty little chance
ever to shine as a self-composed, fluent speaker. His wife took him in hand,
diilled him in elocution, drilled him in Delsarte until his gestures became
j easy, and after each speech made by her husband while candidate for Prose
cuting Attorney oi Pike County, she made little suggestions as to how hlB
speech might have been made more effective and pleasing.
1 he home life of the Clarks, it is said, is delightful—just one little domes
tic cloud being known to the neighbors. This is the untidy condition of the
library. Reserving to himself this room, Mr. Clark issued General Domestic
Order No. 1: 'Nobody is allowed to touch the books and papers In the library
,or attempt to clean up the room." Distinguished visitors come to the Clark
home often and are delightfully entertained, the hostess making but one
request of her husband's friends: "Please don't go into Mr. Clark's library!"
Around the walls are bookshelves filled with volumes that show their
owner to be a student and a careful buyer of books. In the center of the room
is a long table where things lie where they fall until the czar of the library
sees fit to move them. The room is heated by an old Hagey stove, red with
rust, and its pipe is fantastically draped with cobwebs.
His name isn't "Champ" at all —it's James Beauchamp, the latter being
his mother's maiden name. Clark early made up his mind that this was too
: much of a name to carry into politics, so he shortened it to Champ, by which
! he has become known to fame.
OUR AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO
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more and that the agitators would be punished.
Senor Creel in an interview later said that the relations between Mexico and
America were as cordial as ever. He denied reports of friction between the
governments and gave assurance that all would be sttled diplomatically.
Mounted police patrolled the streets to prevent any further anti-American
demonstrations. The principal high school and the national university were
guarded, as was the American embassy.
Henry L. Wilson practised law and was a banker in Spokane, Wash., from
1885 to 1896 and considers that city his home. In 1889 he was appointed minis
ter to Venezuela by President Harrison, but declined; from 1897 to 1905 he was
minister tot bile, and from 1905 until the present year he served as minister
to Belgium. Mr. Wilson was born at Crawfordsvlfie. Ind., in 1857, and was
graduated from Wabash college In 1879. From 1882 to 1885 he was editor of
the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal.
"LAFE' r YOUNG FOR SENATOR
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thoroughly modern dally with a bul'ding of Its own.
Mr Young served twelve je.irs in the s'atu senate while living In west
ern lowa ami bad an opportunity to g> t.t congress, which he declined. He
was with General Sliaftcr , Fifth army corps as a newspaper man in the
Santiago campaign, and ha.- made a reputation us u lecturer on that cam
paign
"i.afe" Young ih a national figure In Republican politics and Is noted as
an orat »r. In l&On at the Philadelphia Republican contention he nominated
Theodore Itui cvclt for vice-president. He lias been twice delegate at large
to the Republican national conv»nti< n fro- |..wa He accompanied president
Tuft on bts trip to tin I'hllippltii me ,ir ug>> and Is a personal friend of
the president.
H< nator Young will serve until the next legislature meets, January N. It
will be the duty of that legislature t»> elect a senator to nil the unexpired
t>rm of the late S. nator Isdllver. which ends In lUU.
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Although Speaker Cannon's term does not ex
pire until March 4, 1911, the campaign as to who
will be the next to occupy the speaker's chair
is already being warmly contested. Many well
informed Democrats declare that Champ Clark of
Missouri, leader of the late Democratic minority,
seems slated for the speakership, although James
Hay of Virginia and Robert L. Henry of Texas
are active rivals for the place.
Born in Kentucky in 1850, Clark emigrated as
a comparatively young man to Missouri and also
had an early but brief experience in Kansas. In
1875 he located at Bowling Green, Mo., and be
gan the practise of law and in 1893 he was first
elected lo congress. Since then he has repre
sented his district continuously, with the excep-
The llfo of Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador
of tlje United States to Mexico, was reported to
have been attempted by rioters at Mexico City
during the recent embrogllo. Many Americans
went to the American embassy declaring to the
ambassador, Mr. Wilson, that they intended to
arm themselves, as they considered the conduct
of the chief of police, Felix Diaz, during the dis
orders unsatisfactory. Mr. Wilson declared he
was satisfied with the attitude of the Mexican
government, but that he deeply regretted that
the chief of police had made no great effort to
prevent disorder.
Mr. Wilson then had a long conference with
Senor Creel, minister of foreign affairs, who as
sured him that Americans would not suffer any
Lafayette Young, who has been appointed
United States senator from lowa to succeed the
late Senator Dolliver, Is a native lowan. Most
of his life has been devoted to the newspaper pro
fession, and last spring he celebrated his twen
tieth year as owner and editor of tho lies Moines
Dally Capital.
Mr. Young was born In Monroe county in 1848.
He learned to set type In the office of the Albla
Union, finishing his trade with Mills & Co. of
lies Moines. In 1870 he was city editor of the
lies Moines Register. In 1871 he established s
paper at Atlantic. lowa, called the Telegraph,
which he successfully published nineteen years,
lu IHl'rt he bought a well nigh defunct dally news
rapfr at lies Moines and the pnper Is now a
The woman alio U prim it .Uly re <|a>tislble fur
the forma'ion of the Ihtcmatl. nal Children's
s ' ' ' • di He it . |' trsmia u f
V w York cltv Shu ha* u.ade 4 practical Issttn
of the l' 1 k to the nl.|i Idea, i.lld has bccll |
and* Of children during the
psst leu y*ars. she managed to secure from the
city ihe privllsgi of using an old dumping ground
a* a said •!! fsrui Ho mail) children sppllwd for
adml-hii thai hundreds bad to be turm<d a»s> j
The s) ile.n sbc (allowed aas tu award to • ach ,
•h1 Id a plot t 'Ur b> cisbt for thr«» mouths '
tteteM *.*eli«blc» Sure pleated «ad twice g y««/
,r«o s«ru harvested I his was tlotiw ugdrv the
4!r< c 1 luii uf assistant trackers and the crops <
were given to the children
It Is ssM thai woieit rfui results are being se I
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