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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
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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
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WANTS STATE TO AID WIDOWS
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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