2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor Published Every Thursday EMPORIUM. - PENNSYLVANIA The race for wealth ends at the cemetery. A clean flue may save the house from burning down. The earth remains safer than either the s..a or the sky. The consumer hopes the ice crop, too, will be a bumper. Nearly every gift that is made has some sort of a string tied to it Developing the aeroplane in one thing and reckless tomfoolery is an other. Just think! Angels' food cake Is made in New York of "rots" and "f-pots " The aeroplane is becoming a danger ous rival of the automobile in tho toll of deaths. Things go by contraries. When a man is on his "uppers" he Is really down in the depths. When sold merely by weight, dia monds are still a little more valuable than breakfast bacon. An airship that will break down without falling is one of the crying necessities of the age. The Now York milliner who built an aeroplane doubtless utilized some of the models in the shop. The hobble skirt has gone out of fashion even in Paris, and it will soon be marked off the list everywhere. Miladl says a man's clothes always seem to fit him real loose after his wife's relatives have looked him over. An lowa man paid $lO3 the other day for ten ears of corn. Yet there lire people who risk their lives hunt ing for gold. The least that can be said of that Kitten o.'.'s industry declared to exist in New* York is that it will be in bad odor with the public. They are building liners so big tho i'.obe trotters will expect to find on fliem golf courses, porte cocheres and outdoor sleeping porches. A prominent New York college has been invaded by infant paralysis. The doings of the average student make this invasion entirely credible. Fifty-six Indiana counties have lost in population since the 1900 census. As soon as people make a fortune in 'it erature, they move out of Indiana Hereupon the enthusiastic lover of horses climbs into his automobile, or ders the chauffeur to "hit 'er up," and Is whisked away to the horse show. A New York woman Is enraged be cause her son wants to marry an actress. She might as well cheer up. He'll bo back homo again iu a little while. Marriage may be a lottery, but the proposal of a woman in the west to raffle herself off for a dollar a chance is emphasizing the fact a little too 6trongly. A woman in Washington washes all the paper money that she receives In order that it may be clean. All of us are not so particular A little dirty money looks good to a hungry man. Statistics show that April and Sep tember are the favorite months in which togo crazy. That may account for the hunches that Induce some men to become candidates for public office. Ten orphan baby seals have been brought down from Bering tea to pass tho winter In this country as an ex periment. If they do well we may yet rai e our own sealskin coats iu Inland waters. American brides entering Germany ire to be compelled to pay duty on their wedding outfits. The founts and burons they take over should not cost much if the duty on them is levied ad valorem. Also it Is reported that the size of women's hats Is b' Ing reduced. But the masculine payers of the bills have not yet made the happy discovery thut the price haj been reduced In proportion. "We i*r« a: ured that nn-n are drinking U i i "wndays," observes the Philadelphia Inquirer, "but how I, It thai tie Internal rev. urn Increases so fust?" The cm-is Ilium of I'jlQ limy hilp you. brother. That reluming tourist who disobey *d latbt-r and *as Biud 112" «, tor rail ing |a iii, int. wttctM now reuilj! i iliai Iter I'm-le S.uuut ) In U ne relative that will not stand any nou sei'ke "Hangar," the Kn neti *urd which Is us< d lit coiiiieet ion with flung ma rbines. until* Rtt-reiy shed- a ila «t In which an aeroplane may be lit pi «tle u It u mil in Ml d 1,, Shut but It wlil not l»* us batd to Ire rs it •*y hung tr as It aas to g> t t t« 101 l en, h* •ly fr >.« lbs |o| DRUNK WITH VICTORY DEMOCRATIC HILARITY DOES NOT CARRY SINCERITY. Will Never Be Able to Agree on Slashing Reductions In Tariff— Home Market Club Still in Business. Some "tariff reformers" appear In clined to make merry over the fact that the famous Home Market club, which has headquarters in Boston, al though membership Includes represen tatives of all parts of the country, has not gone out of business as a result of the recent elections. These hilari ous gentlone n proceed on the theory that since the tariff is to be revised downward by the Democrats there will bo "nothing doing" for the Home Market club, because. foreign products will have the way into the country made easy. This of course is assum ing entirely too much. Even Demo crats will net be able to agree upon a slashing reduction of rates, and du ties will remain on a great many for eign articles for a long time to come. Hut the fun that is being poked at the Home market club by certain "tar iff reform" extremists illustrates the characteristic attitude of these gen tlemen in discussing the economic in terests of the country. They always magnify the opportunities and belit tle those at home. No one properly appreciative of commercial opportuni ties will deny the importance and de sirability of foreign trade—or fail to regret that we do not have American ships with which to promote such traffic. But, on tho other hand, no thoughtful person will question the enormous advantage of such a home market as the United States po-;sess(s. The truth about the matter is readily ascertainable. The annual value in round numbers of the manufactures of the United State 3 is $15,000,000,000. The total product of the farms is put at $9,000,000,000. Here is an aggre gate production of $24,000,000,000. Where does it go? Our exports, large as they are, have never exceeded $1,880,000,000 in a single year. It needs but a little < xample in arith metic to show where the vast bulk of American products is consumed. Tho United States has the biggest and best home market of any country in the world, and sneers at those en gaged in efforts to preserve it merely discredit tho sneezers. Bevericige. If the people of Indiana had had the chance to vote on United States sena tor there can be no doubt that Senator Beveridgo would have been returned by a substantial majority. He nnde a great light against overwhelming odds and fell another victim to a cumber some electoral system that was fas tened on the country as an experiment by the founders of a nation that .it that time had a smaller population than Missouri has today. For Beveridge was always "right"— naturally and instinctively right. He had worked his way up by his own ef forts, and he knew the feelings and the needs of the people from whom he sprang. His sympathies were on the side of the square deal from the begin ning and he became a powerful sup porter of the Roosevelt policies. In the tariff fight he at once took sides with the progressives and voted consistent ly for keeping the party's pledge for downward revision. The tariff com mission was particularly the object of his support and it was duo largely to his efforts that even the germ of a tariff commission was provided for in the Aldrich tariff law. The nation can ill afford to lose his services in the senate, even temporari ly. It cannot be doubted that it will regain them eventually. More than one defeat would be needed to down so hard a fighter and so progressive a public servant as Beveridge.—Kansas City Journal. Tariff. The Payne tariff has reduced the average rate of all duties eleven per cent By increasing the duties on some luxuries and articles not of ordinary use, making, however, no Increase on any common food prod uct, it turned a national deficit into a surplus. Under its first year of operation the import* free of duty was greatest In our history by $109,- 000,000, and the average rate of duty was It ss than under <he Wilson law. Unlike that Democratic law Its great reductions of duty have not stopped Industry nor deprived labor of any part of Its hire. It gives free trade with the Philip pipe islands and I* establishes a cus toms court. Its maximum and mini ■nuni rates gives us fur the fim time •qulty nf opportunity wi»h other na tloiis In our foreign tradf In pro viding. upon the suggestion of Presl lent Taft, for a tariff board, it af fords the means of still more accu lately determining the difference In post of production at home and *bro. d Advances In the ctmt of living ;tr> only the local reflection of h ten ■lmcy that Ih world wide and cannot he truthfully said to he due to the pr< . nt tariff Obey the Command And Begin Nov*. Tli.t It publican party ha t until March 4 next to respond to the d< maud upon It made by the people It mil >t wn" stand hesitatingly In the middle u Ihe roMd during tlo ... tew reij.alnli * in,,ml,* of Its undivided oil! dof It glnlMlt.il |t it*tint in,iWi ll' I of its brief power and show 1 *, II!. .gin- i u',,l itm c*| ui'lty to atl '"«• "* i"ln it,.. . hi •i. ;t.. on of tie rousti> 'iimi in »«a-h tu< ff ,»ti . ot CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1911. OUTLOOK* FOR THE TARIFF Next General Revision Must Wait on Research Work of Tariff Board. For the remainder of his adminis tration President Taft is altogether likely to take an independent and ag gressive line that will make short work of the notion thai the lacks force and initiative. After March 4 nest he will have on his hands a Democratic house of rep resentatives, and it Is altogether prob able that he will select and push for enactment &uch markedly popular and prog] < ssive items In his program as will force on the Democrats the pros pect of blocking them at their peril and going before the country in 1912 with the record r;f having obstructed tiling which the people want done. What the president proposes to do about the tariff is now the main sub ject of surmise. The tall: of calling a special session of the Sixty-second congress for the purpose of another general re-vision may be heavily dis counted. Data will not be hud at that time to make possible the scientific revision according to a general principle of honest protection which the president insists on; and he has repeatedly in timated his opinion that the next gen eral revision must wait on the com pletion of the operation now under way of obtaining the data. Besides, President Taft has taken the sober and moderate position that the Payne tariff as a whole is a great improvement, is working well in prac tice and only needs mending in cer tain obnoxious particulars to become a satisfactory law and a practical com pliance with the platform promise. His tariff commissioners have not let the grass grow under their feet in their preparations for the rectifica tion of those schedules by the labor cost differential. That session car, and should put the capstone on the work of the Sixty-first congress by curing the Payne law of such blemishes as give reasonable cause of discontent and agitation. Taft States Poll.y. One broad statement of policy of great significance and importance is seen in the closing passages of Presi dent Taft's message: "Except as above, I do not recom mend any amendment to the inter state commerce law as it stands. I do not now recommend any amendment to the anti-trust law. In other words, it seems to me that the existing legis lation with reference to the regula tion of corporations and the restraint of their business has reached a point where we can i top fcr awhile and wit ness the effect of the vigorous execu tion of the laws on the statute books in restraining the abuses which cer tainly did exist and which roused the public to demand reform. If this test develops a need for further legisla tion. well and good, but until then let us execute what we have. Due to the reform movements of the present dec ade, there has undoubtedly been a great improvement in business meth ods and standards and in the earnest ness of effort on the part of business men to comply with the law. They are now seeking to know the exact limit, ions upon business inethtds im posed by the law, and these will doubt less be made clearer by the decisions of the supreme court in cases pehding before it. "I believe it to be in the interest of all the people of the country that for the time being the activities of gov ernment, in addition to enforcing the existing law. be directed toward the economy of administration and the en largement of opportunities for foreign trade, the building up of home Indus tries, and the strengthening of confi dence of capital in domestic invest ment." Keep This In Your Hat. A comparison of the record of the Payne law, during the entire period of its operation for which figures are available, with tht»t of the McKiuley, Dingley and Wilson laws. respectively, shows the per cent, of the total Im ports free of duty, as follows: Under the Payne law, 19.15; under the Ding ley law. 44.31; the Wilson law, 15.82; and under the McKintey law, 53.04. The monthly average of cus toms receipt* under the respective tariffs were: Payne law. $27,322,806; Dingley law. $21,*176,0S j; Wilson law, s!>::*>. and M< Klnley law, 111, .'.71.210, The average ad valorem rate of duty on total Imports was, under the Payne law. 20.98 per cent.; Ding ley law, 20.4 a per cent.; Wilsou law, St.tS per cent., and McKlnh-y law, 22 12 per cent Average ad valorem rate on dutiable Imports, under the Payne law, 41 26 per cent,; Diiifticy law, 10.7»» per tent ; Wilson law. i 2 >2 per cent., and under the* McKiuley law. 47,10 per cent Democrats Uneasy. The extent an<l ••arm *t liens of ih* a<lvlei' which l>emoeratlc newspaper* ire pouring out. now that their party ha* such a "vielory" on its hand*, lu dlcata a very uneasy state of mind From on* <l.l of the land to the olhtr J and from representative "tariff re form" .id incite*. including the greater I and l» iMff light*. th»r« eome admo nitions to "p» »U>«" on tariff ri vision. Itut «h> " If the ({' publican Ist Iff l» such a Miun»irou* thin* *hy should not the l"«-tii«>cfaU lake an a* to tha \,%W Hi* *h*H HH fMtta*tb<« * • tIMJPM tht* In «u v Th%» tin iff Hi « fttftHjfrnt♦ than tfe*y mill «t*iittit Iti II «Vv * U t if I thi WANTS STATE TO AID WIDOWS «' A §? - [ Is proffered "bim, and in many cases is only too ready to apply to the state for it if he has not been recognized. "Now, a woman risks her life for her country, her children grow up to serve their nation, and why, when this woman gives so much to the world, should rho not, when left in destitute or straitened circumstances, receive as much as tho man who goes to war? "By no means do I believe that every mother in need should be given a pension or money when the husband is alive and able to work. The person who deserves and should be given such a pension is the woman who is a widow and has little children. This woman has probably never worked, save in her home. She has always been provided for, and knows absolutely nothing of the battle of the world, and she is thrown onto the world with two or three little children. What shall she do? Where shall she turn to got bread and butter for them? "Now, if this woman were supplied with a certain amount of money by the state lor the caro of these children until they attained a working age, think what a difference it would make in the home, in the community, in every possible way. "This pension for tho widow would give both the child and the mother a chance for life—a thing which neither can have now." ["CAPTURED FAMOUS PEG LEG Sffl I&j| \€ x /r 14 &'% rC-i- jj M was the captor of the cork leg, Mr. Eilioi. relates the Incident connected therewith, the story being of interest to the student of history. Mr. Elliot states that he enlisted In Company r l of the Fourh Illinois infantry when war was declared with Mexico. He left the printer's case to take up arms. The first engagement of consequence for the regiment of which Mr. Elliot was a member was known as the battle of Cerro Gordo. April 18, 1847. The Mexi cans retreated when their batteries were attacked and the Fourth regiment coming up found the coach of General Santa Ana standing In the road where it had been abandoned, due to the killing of one of the mules hitched to it. General Santa Ana was mounted upon the other mulo and fled. His departure was so hurried that he was forced to leave behind in the coach his cork leg, a bag of gold doubloons and a basket of lunch. Elliot reached the coach first and with a soldier's curiosity Jumped inside, handing out the cork leg, the chest of gold and basket of food to his companions. The-re was SIO,OOO in the chest and this money was placed In the pas session of General Twigg and eventually turned into the United States treas ury as a prize of war. The Fourth regiment kept the cork leg in their posses sion until after the close of the war and it was later sent to the Illinois state house. "NOTED IRISHMAN REACHES 80 1 Aw £ * the it-sal pn.fe. ,-tlon through the university, and unable to afford the costly training outside the university, young McCarthy turned his attention to Jour nalism and became a reporter en the Cork Examiner. lie was a youthful sympathiser with the Nationalist movement, and was deeply Impressed by the trial of Smith O'Brien and the elder Dillon and Thomas Francis Meagher, who were sentenced to death, hut reprieved by Queen Victoria ami trans ported to Van Dlemen's Land. Young McCarthy was sent te» report the trial. He was a patriotic youth of nineteen and received his baptism of tire as ho filled his notebook In the courthouse at Balllngarry. During the succeeding \ears Mr. McCarthy followed journalism lu Liverpool and In and published several novels. Mr. McCarthy's parliamentary career extended over 17 ytars ami ha was chairman of the Irish parliamentary party from 18' JO to 1890. His sp ech- i in parliament wire In fine literary form and were full of historical allusions and poetical quotations. | FROM POORHOUSE TO SENATE x ft '-*) \l Vi & ? V i A i rai-ii i.l ai fl.tO a ii»> a* hired man on a 112 irm has dug wetin and rlstarnt alth a »pa.|e, and perfoneed ui..n> oihtr Ittuda uf hard aorli for small pay twtu a U-.itell diff ieul 1 1 ■i. t "Every widow who has been left with little chlldreu and In straitened circumstances should receive a pension from the state." Such Is the declaration of Mrs. Clarence O. Burns, president of the Little Mothers' Aid Soci ety of New York, who is firm in her belief as to the advisability of this plan. The important ques tion is being brought forward In women's clubs all over the United States, and any discussion of it is timely. The opinion of Mrs. Burns, espe cially, is one to carry weight, for she Is well qual ified to speak forcibly on the subject. She says In part: "A man carries a gun for his nation. If he is Injured in war he receives a pension in recogni tion of the service he has rendered to his coun try. lie feels no humiliation when the money Of all the innumerable relics on exhibition in tli« Illinois Memorial hall in the state house, none attracts more attention from tourists than tho cork leg of General Santa Ana, the Mexican commander, which was captured by a company of central Illinois soldiers. Tho finding of the cork leg was one of the most interesting inci dents of the Mexican war. An extraordinary fact, recently brought to light by investigations con ducted by the McLean county historical society, is that tho soldier who first caught sight of the leg took possession of it and sent it to the rear for safe keeping while a battle was In progress, is yet living, in the person of Edward Elvin Elliot, formerly •of Bloomlngton, 111., and now of San Rafael. Cal. In a letter confirming tho statement that, he One of Great Britain's grand old men. Justin McCarthy, recently celebrated in London his eightieth birthday anniversary and was the recip ient of congratulations from every part of tho English-speaking world. His career has been an active and a useful one. part of it passed in the turmoil of political strife and part of it in the quietness of his library, from which have Issued many we«rks of exceptional merit. Mr. McCarthy, former leader of the Irish Na tionalists, comes of a family devoted for many generations to the cause of Ireland. He was born In "rebel" Cork. November 22, 1830. He had literary tastes as a youth, but his chief deslro was to be a barrister. Academic degrees wero then denied to Roman Catholics and to Protes tant dissenters. Thus debarred from entering The rim- of a man from the lowliest station to one of the higher! In his state Is not among the events that belong inclusively to the past, nor ts It eon Filed soleh to tin- realm of Action John J Punucgan of Hhi unudoah. lowa, who has lie-en elected to the lowa statu senate, passed three years of his t-arly childhood as an Inmate uf a North Carolina pt>. rhouse, being left at the uk* of three without either father or mother When ail jeers of age he was IsMind out to a family who treated Mit alth the utmost e-ru eltjf. Misery and hardship Krlpped him from tho cradle and robin d htwi of all the joys of ehlld hood From tliu |MM>rhotist», without edieatlou, or aid from others. John Duuni*nan has ris« a by his owu efforts to attlneue'e and blah official taieltiuft He ha* worked as a section hand on a THE CENSUS OF CANADA ITS GROWTH IN TEN YEAP.3 PAST. A census of the Dominion of Canada will be made during 1911. it will show that during the past decade a remarkable development has taken place, and, when, compared with the population, a greater percentage of in crease in industries of all kinds than lias ever been shown by any country. Commerce, mining, agriculture and railways have made a steady march onward. The population will In con siderably over 8,000,000. Thousands of miles of railway lines have been construction since the last census was taken ten years ago. This const ruc li • was made necessary by the open ing up of the new agricultural dis tricts in Western Canada, in which, there have been pouring year a.ter year am increasing number of settlers, until the present year will witness settlement of over 300,000, or a triila less than one-third of the immigration to the United States during the same period with its 92,000,000 of popula tion. Even with these hundreds of thousands of newcomers, the great majority of whom go upon the land, there Is still available room for hun dreds of thousands additional. Tho census figures will therefore show a great—a vast —increase in the num ber of farms under occupation, as weil as in tho output of the farms. When, the figures of the splendid immigra tion are added to tho natural increase, the total will surprise even the most optimistic. To the excellent growth, that the western portion of Canada will show may largely bo attributed the commercial and industrial growth, of the eastern portion of Canada. All Canada is being upbuilded, and in this transformation there is taking part the people from many countries, but only from those countries that pro duce the strong and vigorous. As some evidence of the growth of tho western portion of Canada, in agricul tural industry, it is instructive to yaint out that over 100,000 home steads of IGO acres each have been transferred to actual settlers in the past two years. This means 23,000 square miles of territory, and then, when is added the 40,000 1 GO-acre pre emption blocks, there is an additional 10,000 square miles, or a total of 35,- 000 square miles —a territory as large as the State of Indiana, and settled within two years. Reduced to the producing capacity imperative on the cultivation restriction of 50 acres of cultivation on each 160-acre home stead within three years, there will be within a year and a half from now upwards of 5,000,000 additional acres from this one source added to the en tire producing area of the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al» berta. in 1901, at the time of the last census of Canada, successful agricul ture in tho Provinces of Monitobii, Saskatchewan and Alberta was an experiment to many. There were skeptics who could not believe that it was possible to grow thirty, forty and even fifty bushels of wheat to tho acre, or that as high as one hundred and thirty bushels of oats to the acre could be grown. The skeptics are not to bo found today. The evidence of the hundreds of thousands of farmers is too overwhelming. Not only have tho lands of western Canada proven their worth in the matter of raising all the smaller field grains, but for mixed farming, and for cattle raising there is no better country anywhere. The climate is perfectly adapted to al) these pursuits as well as admirable for health. The Dominion government literature, descriptive of the country, Is what all that are Interested should read. Send for a copy to the nearest Canadian govcrnnu nt repi es illative. ACCURACY FFTTyFII M jyf l Bp' w # IljL "Ytrß, Henry, I've trai led iuto ev' ery corner of the globe." "The Klobe is a spherical body, uiiclh. Therefore It hu.i no lorntral" —Chips Tho Happy Man. "Ib« tr i-lu 1 i.-> to b«- married Who U ihu happy iimu?" "Iler father."—l.ippln< oitV Worth Its Welyht in Gold. I'll run KYK NVI.VK nr«,,i iL-iii. M •w<, ii'iiit* |. i-).- in, v. M ,| 11cry m\m. I)i>iu»i« . i- ll..w*rd Hr... . K. V. Bunt* linn iti« alWii)M U »iug lot a iliuuru tu • .<iit iiuiin y. 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