Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-08-11

brought away from Santiago just
as fast as the ships at hand can get
them away, in order to give the
men chance to recuperate.
President Mckinley gave the
two Cincinnati boys who started
the idea of raising, by contributions,
from school children, the money
to buy the finest battleship in the
world, for presentation to the us.
and to be named the American
Boy, a letter endorsing their pro-
| iect and saying: II am sure the
boys and girls will deem it a privil-
ege to be numbered among the
contributors to this patriotic under
taking" Master w. Rankin
! Good. of Cincinnati, President of
the National American Boy Fund,
and a companion had very pleas
ant interview with the President
two interviews in fact.
The Department of State has
been officially notified that an in
I ternational Congress, for the pur-
pose of discussing tariff legislation
and the regulation of labor, will be
held at Antwerp, Belgium, from
Sept 18th to 18th, inclusive. Pub
lie economists, socialists, manufact-
urers, merchants, employers and
wOrkmen are invited to take part.
The points from which these ques-
tions are viewed by Americans and
Europeans, are so wide apart that
few Americans are likely to attend
this Congress, except from curiOs-
ity. Americans have a tariff sys-
tenn now that is bringing them
great prosperity, and countries
that are prosperous have little diff
Guilty in the regulation of labor.
Not only is the American manu-
facturer holding his own market
under the Dingley tariff law, but
he is pushing his goods into all the
markets of the world at rate that
must be astonishing to those who
claim that Il protective tariff would
cause our manufacturers to loose
all their foreign trade. 1t was
generally known long before the
bureau of statistics could foot up
the figures and announce the grand
total, that our expectation of agri-
cultural products during the last
fiscal year, was largely in excess of
any single year in the history of
the country, and it is now known
that our expectation of manufact-
ured articles during the last fiscal
year, exceeded that of any other
year, by nearly So, 900, 900, and
reached in value the enormous sum
of S2S8, 81, ,449, and, what is still
more gratifying, our imports of
manufactured articles during the
same period were unusually light,
showing that our manufacturers
have recovered control of the
home market, which they partially
lost under the low tariff law, en-
acted by the democrats, as well as
increased their foreign trade.
These are the sort of facts that will
have to be forgotten before the
people OF this country vote the
democratic party back into power;
they are also the sort of facts that
speak for themselves and need no
labored argument to make them
understood.
SurgeOn-Gencral Sternberg has
written q general defense of the
medical corps of the army and him
self from attacks made upon them,
many of which he says were in
stigated by those who became Of
Tended at his opposition to send
ing female nurses to camps of in
struction or with the army in the
field. He says the only trouble
with the medical corps is sthat there
are not enough surgeons in the
army, even in peace; that it is pro-
bable that in taking on about 300
contract surgeons, some incompet-
ence may have slipped in, owing
to hurried examinations. OF the
shortage of medical supplies, at
Santiago he says: The principal
reason was that the supplies were
left behind when the army left
Tampa, owing to lack Of transpor-
tation facilities, and one of the
minor reasons was the delay in
landing supplies of all kinds at
Siboney.