Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-17

has been in the workingman's wages.
If personal comfort is not paramount
to duty Congress will remain in session
long enough to pass the shipping bill.
Free Trade Great Britain imports
eggs worth 100000 year. In the
United States the protected American
hen supplies the market.
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Shrewd Republicans in Congress
should seize the present division among
the Democrats on the shipping bill to
put it upon the statute before adjourn
ment.
With a strong nucleus of Democrats
in each branch of Congress eager to
vote for the shipping bill, it is odd that
the Republican leaders are unwilingto
bring the bill up for consideration.
Evaporated apples were only worth
81 cents pound in the New York
market in 1896. Last year, when peo-
pie could afford to buy them, they were
worth s cents.
For the fourth time Hon. j. w. Bah
chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. This is mark of
confidence never before shown to any
Republican.
The free trade newspapers here and
abroad are embarrassed at finding a
formal report opposing free ships and
favoring subsidies emanating from
Democratic members of the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Com
mittee.
With Democrats hopelessly split on
the shipping bill--some favoring and
others opposing it-their party leaders
are stopped from making an issue of
the shipping question in the coming
campaign.
An increase of 1000, 900 tons in the
production of coal last year, over 1898,
is striking proof of that activity at the
furnaces and in the mills which is al
ways part of the Republican policy of
protection.
gThere was 425, ,352, 1877 pounds of bacon
exported in 1896 and 562, ,651, 4S0 pounds
in 1899. This was an increase Of 49,
200 pounds in the exports Of this
one farm product under the Republi-
can policy of protection.
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Soap and starch not having advanced
in price, there has been no increase in
the cost of the farmers laundry bill.
But he has been getting a great deal
more money for his hogs, steers and
corn than he did a few years ago, and
for the materials which enter these very
articles.
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Porto Rico has been importing S2,-
900 worth of cotton goods every
year, but only S2T5, ,OCO worth from the
United States. The new conditions
will now give US this trade and so ben
eft our cotton growers and manufact-
urers, and incidentally our whole pop
ulation.
Idaho Republicans favor expansion
because they believe that the possession
of islands in the Atlantic and in the Pa
cific will help to extend our commerce
and they wish all benefits possible to
accrue to the people of the Pacific
Coast.
The most forceful argument in the
hands of the Democrats this year is
''that the Republican Senate will not
permit US to destroy the monetary
standard and precipitate panic, and
so we ought to be given chance"
The people will not be convinced by an
Of that sort.
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The settlement Of the ''trustn question
is not political one, but it calls for the
concerted action and best judgment of
all Legislators. Whenever "trust"
tends to impair the rights and privil-
eges of citizens, it aims neither at Re-
Democrats nor Populists, but
at all alike. Therefore the representa-
tives of all the people should join hands
for the protection of all.
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Don't forget this fact during the
Senator Jones, chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
offered an amendment to the Porto Ri
can tariff bill to return the duties on
sugar imported from that island ''to
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