Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-01-11
POINTED CO11ENT.

For Sale: Choice lot of islands; Price,
four millions cash. Apply to Denmark.
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Money talks and comfortable bal
ance in the Treasury is more eloquent
than a deficit.
Goebel is still q member of the Ken
lucky legislature. 1t is hard to get
rid of bad habits.
Ofcourse, the outbreak ofthe bubonic
plague at Manila is entirely due to the
imperialism" of the administration.
Senator Teller says that the silver
party hasn't gone to pieces, but no one
else can be found to deny the state
ment.
The country will not welcome an at
tempt to revive the Sampson-Schley
controversy, no matter by whom it is
made.
Efforts made by Chairman Jones to
reconcile Kentucky Democrats have
failed and it is conceded that the state
will be lost to Bryan next year.
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The question is not SO much whether
this is the nineteenth or the twentieth
century as it is to what century fossils
like Hoar and Atchinson belong.
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Anyone who really believes that
there is any alliance between Eng
land and the United States is too far
gone even to be argued with.
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The Democrats who insisted that the
State Department was trucking to
Great Britain in the matter of those
-four seizures should now have the man
illness to confess that they were wrong.
General French seems to be in some
what the same situation as the man
who caught Tartar, and had to sum-
mon aid to enable him to let him go
again.
Representative Grosvenor is sure of
reelection no matter what the Demo-
Gratis may say. He is the only member
who quoted no poetry in his speech on
the currency bill.
The territory of the United States
was increased about 100000 sqnare
roilac upIar Daroooratio oucpioao TT 10
rather late in the day for that party to
fight against the addition of $4,000
more.
The withdrawal of British ships from
trade to act as transports for troops and
stores has resulted in scarcity OF coal
in England which must be supplied by
the United States. Prices are there
fore likely to go up.
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The duty on lumber has protected
the southern lumbermen SO well that
their product is in demand all over the
Union, taking the place that Canadian
timber held under the Wilson bill.
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In three southern states, there are
rival Democratic candidates for the
United States Senate, who divide on the
question OF expansion. That doesn't
look as if the Democrats were united
against it.
Representatives Gaines, of Tennessee
is mad because a New York newspaper
has charged him with voting against
his convictions in the Roberts case. AS
matter of fact about half the members
of the House confessedly did the same.
Lord Salisbury has assured Ambas-
sador Choate that the commercial rights
of the United States shall be equitably
considered in the matter of the flour
seizures. Nothing more can be asked
at present.
Naturally yellow fever has broken
out again in Cuba. The Augean stables
we're not cleaned ic a day. But the
disease is less prevalent and less virul-
ent than ever before at this time of the
year.
Over $50, ,OOO,0 600 in dividends were
distributed IN New York, Boston and
Philadelphia on New Years day and
half as much more viii be distributed
on the 18th, ofthe month. The country
plainly has not gone to the dogs yet.