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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
TARIFFS GOOD EFFECTS.
Statistical Facts Show Advantage to
This Country Derived from g.
Protection.

The protective tariff is bringing about
the condition of things anticipated by
increasing exports of manufactured ar
ticles instead Of raw materials and farm
products. The figures of the bureau OF
statistics indicate chat the percentage
of manufactures exported during the
calendar year 1904 will be larger than
ever before, while that of agricultural
products will be smaller.
Another pleasing feature, says the
Philadelphia Press, is in the increase
in the imports of materials in a crude
condition for use in domestic inGus-
tries. In the nine months ending with
September over 33 per cent. of the i'm
ports We're of raw materials for use in
manufacturing. In the corresponding
months of 1895 the percentage of such
imports was a little over 26 per cent
There was an increase this year over
last year, demonstrating the growth of
such manufactures.
Agricult Iral products formerly eX
ported are now consumed at home. In
stead Of supplying them to workmen in
Europe, who manufactured articles for
use in this country, those products are
consumed in a much larger degree ip
the United tates, where are produced
the articles formerly imported. That
is immensely TO the advantage of this
country. increasing its wealth and pro-
Gucing power.
The advantage of the protective tariff
!s so clear that it is difficult to see how
intelligent men can support the demo-
cratic party which declares that pro-
lection is robbery" and seeks to put
the nation on a free trade basis. at a
time when even Great Britain with
its narrow territory. is seriously con-
siGeriEg the abandonment of that pol
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
POWERS SHOULD Be ENLARGED
PRESIDENTS VIEW ON INTER-
STATE COMMERCE COMM SSION
HE EXPECTS CONGRESS- TO ACT.
The President Believes that the Com
mission Should be Given Authority
to Decide Whether Rates Are
Reasonable or Unjust.

Washington, Dec. Enlargement
of the powers of the interstate com
merce commission is one of the ques-
tions which will be pressed vigorously
at the present session of congress. 1t
can be said that, in the minG of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, no problem more i'm
portant than this to all the people OF
the country is likely to engage the at
tention of congress this winter
In conferences with members of
both the senate and the house of rep
resentatives the president has en-
phasiZed the arguments he advanced
in his message in favor of an extern
sion of the powers of the commission.
With several members he discussed
the subject yesterday, earnestly advo-
eating the recommendation contained
in his message. To two paragraphs
in the message he has directed par
ticular attention. In talk with Rep
resentative Graft, of Illinois, he indi-
Gated these points of the message:
above all else, we must strive to
keep the highways of commerce open
to all on equal terms; and to do this
it is necessary to put a complete stop
to all rebates.
81 believe that, as fair security to
shippers, the commission should be
vested with the power where a given
rate has been challenged and after full
hearing found to be unreasonable, to
decide, subject to judicial review,
what shall be a reasonable rate TO
take its place; the ruling of the COM
mission to take effect Immediately and
to obtain unless and until it is revers-
ed by the court of review"
Until 1897 the interstate commerce
commission exercised the power to
regulate railroad freight rates, but the
supreme court then decided that under
the law the commission had no such
authority. Western members of con
gress, especially, have urged, on be
half of their constituents, that the
power raised by the president be CON
ferred by law on the commission.
They have told the president that no
question is of greater importance TO
the people than this, and that they
really are more interested in it than
they are in the proposed revision of
the tariff. The president is in entire
agreement with this view.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

EE'The democratic party is anti
democratic by a large majority
Times
g Judge Parker can have the calm
assurance that the gold standard is
still safe nyway.-Chicago Record
Herald.
Ey'"Hill is mackerel statesman" says
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Then
Salt river is exactly the place tor him.
Chicago Tribune.
cit should be remembered. however,
that reorsaniZing the democratic party
is no small matter It took war to 40
it once.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
ETBut why not. Mr.. Bryan, have re-
organization, like charity. begin a.
home? There's beautiful field for such
talents in Nebraska ka.-IGdianapOlis News
QndD.
ES Parker did not carry his own pre-
cinct and therefore should have the
sympathy of Bryan, who knows now
that is himself.-Chicago Daily News
Und.).
u Everybody knows exactly what
the democrats should do next, but the
democrats will probably be sensible
enough not to do it.-Chicago Record
Herald.
EFLittle Rocks republican jOllifica-
ton points the way - the speedy com
ing of republican Arkansas to keep COM
pany with republican Mi5souri.-St.
Louis Republic.
T. Mr.. Bryan appears to have con-
cealed from the general public the fact
that as a candidate for United States
senator in Nebraska lie was beaten more
emphaically than Judge Parker was for
president.-Chicaeo Chronicle.
G%The democratic newspapers at the
east which bolted Bryan and supported
Parker have now reached the conclu-
sion that the party cannot endure half
democratic and half socialist" This
would appear to be an unfortunate eX-
preston. Most of the real democrats
of the country voted for Roosevelt and
the socialists appear to have voted fol
Debs. The democratic party .so-called
is all popuIist.-Chicago Chronicle.
u Now that the election is a thing OF
the past and four more years of repuh-
lican policies are assured, business cir
cles are stimulated to still greater ac-
tivity.
1.-THE democratic platform in Cleve-
lands time asserted the tariff prevent ed
the sale of American goods abroad II
competition with foreign manufactur.
ers. Now democratic orators declare the
tariff enables American goods to be sole
abroad in competition with foreign man.
ufacturers. AS an argument for demo
cratic success. one statement is as eoot
as the other but they cannot both bt
uue.-Brooklyn Standard Union.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
The Furry in Wall Street Did Not At
feet Legitimate Business.

New York, Dec. 10.-R. G. Dun &
Co. S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Wall streets severe reaction was
not due to any setback in the CONNER
cial world, all measures of legitimate
trade showing wholesome progress,
and confidence in the future is un-
shaken. Railway earnings in Novem-
ber averaged 80 per cent. greater than
in the same month of 1903, and the
distribution of merchandise is sufTici-
emily heavy to produce freight block
AIDES at several points.
Manufacturing plants report in
creased output in almost every in
stance, except where inadequate water
supply provides a temporary Interrupt
tion. This difficulty is most severely
felt at coke ovens and paper mills in
Pennsylvania. SeasOnable weather
has stimulated retail trade in wearing
apparel and holiday goods are in great
demand.
Each week there is an increase in
the number of steel mills and iron fur
naces in operation, output steadily in
creasing.
Failures this week numbered 239 in
the United States, against 331 last
year, and 26 in Canada, compared
with 20 a year ago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
AN INVITING PROSPECT.

VIII Canada in the next quarter Of a
century take the place of the United
States as the great wheat exporting
section of the western hemisphers2
Everything points that way. In the
opinion of experts the United States has
reached high water mark as a wheat
exporting country. The increasing
population over there has reached the
point when home consumption is be-
coming annually greater in proportion
than the increase in wheat production.
AS a matter of fact wheat production
Us decreasing over there as the land be-
comes more valuable and by reason of
the demand for other forms Of produce
for home consumption. 1t is said that
the wheat crop this year is not more
than 70 per cent. Of the crop of 1901
and much below the crops of 1902 and
1903. 1t Is estimated that this year
the United States surplus for export will
not be over 100,000000. which is less
than any year since 1878 with two ex-
ceptions, Not only is this the case, but
a considerable quantity Of the best Can
adian wheat is being imported into Min
nesota and also Chicago.
All this tends to keep the price OF
wheat near the dollar mark, and dol
lar wheat" is the loadstone that will at
tract farmers to the Canadian North
west, where land Is cheap and can be
farmed on a wholesale basis, particulars
Of which may be had from any agent
Of the Canadian Government. The re-
duction of American exports will have
the double influence Of increasing Can
adian production and keeping up the
price. 1t constitutes a roseate prospect
for this country, and needs no exercise
of optimistic enthusiasm to foresee the
near expansion of the Dominion into
the actual position Of the "granary Of
the empire"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
A Big Blunder.

The democrats should have waged this
campaign. so far as the tariff is con-
cerned. against the abuses. not against
he policy of protection. 1t was big,
bad blunder to declare that protection
is robbery" 1t cut the party loose from
any bond of sympathy with republican
tariff revisionists. and it declared doe
trine that is foreign to the views and
feelings of majority of democrats. All
the conservative utterances that fol,
lowed the robbery" declaration in the
text of the platform and in Judge Par
ker's frank deliverances cannot antidote
that outburst of Washington
Post
tilt takes the democratic party long
time to find out that crowds hanging on
the lips of Bryan don't do the electing-
Cincinnati Tribune.
n John Morleys declaration in his
speech at Delmonico's that "in your new
president you have got mana man
who has behind him the American peo-
Pile" puts the result OF the election hap
of mana man who has long enjoyed
the respect and honor of England and
America. AS an ambassador of gooC
will. John Morley ranks second to nont
of the eminent Enelishmen who havs
visited our shores.-N. Y. Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
INGENIOUS INVENTIONS.

A clever Swiss inventor has originat-
ed an instrument which tells the exact
condition Of the air In a room-that is,
Its degree Of impurity.
A practical folding umbrella con-
structed on the telescope plan has been
evolved. The 28-inch size folds up to Is
inches, and the other sizes in proportion.
A Norwegian named John Eggen has
invented an electric apparatus for indi-
eating the presence of a school Of fish in
the deep 1t consists Of a metal plate
and microphone In the water, connect
ed by wire with telephone on board
ship
Swiss watchmakers have now added 4
phonograph to some of their wonderful
watches. A small rubber disc is put in
the watch and arranged in such way
that the record is repeated every hour
Anything can be put on the record that
the owner wishes.
A new invention for insurlng dry
seats on electric cars in wet weather has
been displayed in Edinburgh AS ex-
planned by the inventor, the new ar
rangement is simple one, and can be
fitted to any style Of garden, tramway
or ships deck seat. 1t is practically a
wooden covering for the seat, can be
lifted in wet weather, the ordinary
movement of the back rest of the seat
locking 1t in position. When raised, it
forms a shelter for the back of the pas
senger In dry weather, the cover forms
the ordinary seat.
Glass that can be heated white hot
and then plunged into cold water with
out breaking seems an impossibility
but it has been recently made an accom-
plished fact. 1t Is made from Brazilian
quartz pebbles heated red hot and then
thrown into distilled water. Then the
purest pieces are selected and welded
with the oxyhydrogen blowpipe into
long stems like straws, from which glass
vessels of any shape can be made Thus
far the quartz glass has been employed
chiefly for making laboratory appara-
tus. A test tube made in this way will
not break when white-hot coal Is
dropped into it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
NEW CONGRESS OUTLOOK.
Republican Majority a Little Top
Heavy, But Speaker Cannon
Will Balance 1t.

In both the senate aud The house
the republicans will make gains as
result OF the election. Losses instead
of gains were looked for by the re-
puDlcans in the upper branch, be-
cause their majority has been very
large, and because nearly all the re-
firing members are republicans, says
the st. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat Five
Of the March 4 ueXts thirty vacancies
have already been filled by election.
The results in the states sdil TO elect
show that the republicans have more
than held their own. A republican
Will be chosen TO succeed Cockrell
from Missouri. and a republican,
probably ex-senator Garter. will be
chosen in the place OF Gibson, demo-
crat, of Montana. On the face of the
returns at present the republicans will
gain one and the democrats lose one
in the senate, leaving the division 5S
republicans and 80 democrats.
There will be a republican lead of
more than 100 in the house which en-
ters on March next. as compared
Der. This will be the largest majority
since the republicans made their clean
sweep in the congressional elections
of 1894. in the middle of Clevelands s
second term, when the people repudi-
ated the democracy and all its works.
Just how far beyond the 100 mark the
majority will so cannot be told def
ta1, nd ,f To
souri,. the chairman of the democratic
congressional committee, amused his
democratic friends in the recent can
vass with fairy tales about the tre-
mendOus majority which they would
have in the coming house, but that
majority, including Cowherd himself
has gone glimmering.
This is fortunate circumstance for
the republicans. They will have a
free hand in the control of the govern
ment at the outset in Roosevelts new
term. and the chances are that they
will retain IT, in the critical midterm
congressional campaign of 1906. There
has now been an uninterrupted series
of republican victories in elections for
the house of representatives since
1894, including that year. This breaks
all records since 1874, when the re-
publicans were beaten for congress-
and when the democrats gained the
| first victory fo' the house of repre-
| sentatives which they had won since
1856 when they got control of the
house that entered with Buchanan.
The republican majority in the com
ing house looks a little top-heavy. but
Speaker Cannon will see to il tLat the
| party retains lis balance
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
A Sensational Story.

Laporte, Ind, Dec. 10.-Abram Mul-
len. who is in Jail at Knox, charged
with the murder Of Charles Haines
has revealed what he declares was a
plot to kdnap DR.. w. w. Brown, a
wealthy Lafayette physician, confine
the doctor in cave and demand ran
som. The plotters, Mullen declares
were Charles and George Haines. Mul-
len refused to become a party to the
conspiracy and reported it to States
Attorney Courtright. This came to the
knowledge of the Haines brothers
and Mullen's attorneys claim that
when Charles Haines forced an en-.
trance to Mullen's house it was tC
murder him. Mullen seized shotgun
and shot HaineS dead.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE

ppeeu " ien Lieetrlc Locomotive
The most powerful electric locomotive
In the world has Just been completed for
the New York Central g. Hudson River
Railroad in the shops of the General Eleo-
trio Company and the American Locomo-
tive Works at Schenectady, n. Y.
This locomotive is one of between thirty
and fifty which will be used by the Rail-
road Company for hauling the through
passenger trains within it's Electrical Zone
from Grand Central Station through the
Park Avenue tunnel to Croton on the
Main Line, a distance of "a miles, and to
White Plains on the Harlem division, q
distance of "a miles.
This will be the heaviest steam railway
passenger service which has ever been
handled by electric locomotives. With
one of these locomotives trains of ten or
more cars will be hauled at express speed
of 60 to 20 miles per hour, and the de-
sign and method of control are such that
two or more locomotives can be coupled
together and operated by single en-
gineer from the leading cab, so that the
control of one engineer is practically un-
limited SO far as the question of motive
power.
In general design the locomotive is dou-
Bile ended and symmetrical in construc-
ton, so that it can be run in either dlrec>.
tion with equal facility.
Mounted on the main frame of the 10
comotive is the steel cab in three divisions
in which are located the various devices
for operating the locomotive. The locv
motive is equipped for both straight and
bell, whistle, headlights, air-sending de-
vice, electric air compressor, etc, being as
complete in every way with respect to op-
Grating devices as steam locomotive.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15

The application Of electricity to gen.
eral agriculture has been successfully
made in France and has been followed
in Germany on an even greater scale.
Power is provided from a central plant
and motors for threshing grain. grind
ing of -four, pumping of water etc,
are rented to proprietors. who find that
the work can be more quickly and
cheaply done than by horses The ap-
plication of electricity to growing
seeds has been found exceedingly adj
vantageous. such use having been first
made by the experiment station at AM
heTSt Mass
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
OUR "IMpERIALlSM" WINS.
The People of Porto Rico Are Well
Satisfied with Government
of Americans.

Those who regard the annexation and
retention of the Philippines as hideous
national crime must regard our treat
mont of Porto Rico as crime still more
horrible. says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
For most of the Porto RiCans seemed
to be entirely contented under Spanish
rule. They had repeatedly proved their
loyalty by aiding Spain in her wars
They had never asked any other nation
TO deliver them. They had sometimes
resisted Gespotic governors but had
never rebelled against Spain herself.
America tCCk the 100000 Porto Ricans
and began To govern them without 60
ing through any sort of form Of getting
their consent We changed many OF
their laws and institutions out of hand.
We set their children to learning an
alien speech. One Of the things we rev.
olutionized first and most was their
school system with which they had
seemed contented for generations.
We found SS per cent. of the Porto
Ricans wholly illiterate. There were
about 500 public schools, mostly With
teachers SO incompetent, and occupy
ing such wretcned quarters, and with
such poor attendance, as to prove tnat
public interest in education was prac-
tically dead. There was not a single
building in the island erected for public
school purposes.
We took hold of this situation in the
most imperialistic manner. We told the
people that their children had to go to
school. Within three years we had $50
effective schools in operation, with 40
600 children enrolled. In another year
we had 10000 of these singing Amer
| ican national hymns in English and 25,-
600 of them reading and speaking Eng
| lish. We took 27 per cent. of all the pub
/ lie revenue for education. We induced
the people to give so much land fer
/ school sites that not one of the hundreds
of schoolhcuses built and building
/ stands on purchased ground.
/ Strange to say, and directly contrary
/ to all the ideas of anti-imperialists, the
/ Porto Ricans evidently like our high
/ handed imperialism. They are cheer
/ fully paying the bills for everything
even to free books and school materials
/ for every child. They arc sending their
children to school 50 regularly that the
attendance percentage equals that Of
/ Massachusetts. which leads all the
states of the union on his PORT
Not only do the Porto Ricans like our
| Imperialism, but it is giving them at
/ least one advantage not enjoyed by most
American children. 1t teaches both
English and Spanish in the schools, In
two or three generations practically
every Porto Rican will be equally at
home in the two most widely spoken
languages Of men.
"One who knows two tongues, it has
been said has four eyes, four ears, and
four hands" That is. ne has practically
double the access to knowledge and the
power it brings of him who knows but
one tongue. The Porto Ricans are be-
ing put in that fortunate position. That
is what American imperialism is CO.
ing for Porto Rico.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15

The entire diamond output of South
Africa is exported from the Cape Of
Good Hope to London; yet, strange
to say, it finds no place in the British
official publications showing the i'm
ports into the United Kingdom. After
South African diamonds leave the
Cape of Good Hope all official trade
record of them seems to be lost. The
only record of the exports of these
diamonds is the attestation of the
Cape of Good Hope customs officers
that over $2G,O0O,OO0 worth are annu-
ally exported TO London.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
Assaulted a WouId-be Briber.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 10.-Attorney
Doran, who was appointed referee in
bankruptcy by Judge Lochren. of the
United States district court in con-
nection with the affairs of a local firm
of wooden merchants, was approached
yesterday by member of the firm for
information as to what report he
would make to the court Mr.. DOran
informed him that the report must be
unfavorable. Mr.. Doran's visitor re-
turned later and handed him a roll of
money. whereupon the referee knock
ed him down and kicked him out of
the Office.