Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-02-08
POINTED COrInENT.

Mr.. Cages latest communication to
Congress utterly cuts the ground from
under the feet of his critics.
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So far, Mr.. Bryan's eastern crusade
has not essentially raised the price of
the white metal. The market for silver
bricks is extremely sluggish nowadays.
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General Otis should feel most CRATE
full to the British Generals. Since their
censors have been at work, the critics
of his proceedings in the Philippines
have sunk out of sight.
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In 1899, for the first time in history,
the total foreign commerce of the
United States passed the two million
dollar line,
The practical certainty that Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, will be reelected
to the Senate, shows that Alabama is
pretty safe for expansion, Senator
Morgan made his fight entirely on this
issue and was opposed by Gov. john
son, who objected to it.
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Two hundred thousand tons of steel
rails are to be shipped by a single
Maryland firm to Australia, and as
much more is going to Japan. The
United States seems to be capturing
the iron and steel trade of the world.
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A dispatch from Nebraska tells of the
wonderful increase in windmills in
that state. 1t leaves some doubt how
ever, whether or not the supply has
decreased since Col. Bryan and bis
friends have left home to invade the
enemy's country.
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Philadelphia will produce that $780,
900 in good time. The country must
remember that Philadelphians are
notoriously slow. By and by, when
the city has had time to learn that the
convention Is going to meet there, it
will go down into its pockets and pro-
duce the needful.
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The War Department is preparing,
under directions from Congress, sum-
mary of the receipts and expenditures
under military authority in the islands.
Naturally the work is very difficult and
very great, but Secretary Root expects
to carry it through at an early date
and to account for every cent expended.
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1t is pity to confess it, but the mis-
cradle fact remains that the latest
Democratic attack on Secretary Gage
was entirely due to the desire of Repre-
sentative Richardson, leader of the
minority, to clear his skirts of the
charge that he was not pugnacious
enough. He actually made a wanton
attack on the Secretary to prove his
fighting abilities.
The Republicans of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee have decided that
there shall be no bill for such improve
ments this year. 1t is very rare
thing for this to happen in a presidential
year, as the appropriations in the bill
are generally considered to give
strong advantage to the party in power.
The fact that the Republicans prefer to
forego this advantage, rather than add
to the waste of money for such work,
shows that they are ruled by the high
est motives.
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While no one will condone, in the
least degree, the cowardly attempt to
assassinate Senator Goebel, it is never
theless true that that individual has
only reaped what he sowed. His whole
life has been a direct Indictment to the
use of force instead of law in maintain
ing one's ends. His recent course has
set his state back fifty years on the
dial of civilization. He and his friends
have oyerridden all law and justice in
their determination to seize the reins
of power, and he has been overtaken
by the inevitable fate of those who
take the sword.