Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-05-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent. }


Editor Press
Between now and November
voters will have ample opportunity
to think about the tariff and come
to q definite conclusion whether it
is better to maintain the present
form of indirect taxation and get
most of the revenue for the govern
ment through the custom house,
or whether the people prefer direct
taxation with an augmented in
ternal revenue. The main issue
between the two opposing political
parties will concern the tariff ques-
ton. President Roosevelt says he
wants the Republican platform to
say exactly what the party intends
to do regarding the tariff. He
thinks it best to have a short plat
form, and naturally it should be
heartily in sympathy with the Ad-
ministrtion. AS Senator Lodge,
Of Mass, is to be chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, and as
he dictated the tariff plank in the
platform of the Massachusetts Re-
publicans, he can be relied upon to
carry out the Presidents wishes.
Senator Aldrich, r. L., is engaged
in assisting Senator Lodge in writ
ing the tariff plank. Those who
have kept abreast with the trend
of affairs at home and abroad are
confident that the leaders of the
Republican party will agree to
modify the tariff, or revise it's
schedules, at the next session of
Congress, ''as circumstances may
require" There is a strong feel
ing in New England in favor of
reciprocity with Canada, and
large number of manufacturers in
Boston and vicinity have petition
ed to that effect. But the trade
between the Dominion and the
States is constantly increasing and
is now in a very healthy condition,
and largely in favor of this
country. New England being a
manufacturing district wants free
raw materials, and possibly some
way may be devised to accomplish
that purpose. 1t is now plain that
the great questions before the Am
erican people for future adjustment
are the tariff, trusts, wages,
domestic and foreign commerce and
the merchant marine. These are
non-political, economic and social
questions; of interest to all the
people who live beneath the stars
and stripes.
The trial of Gen. James N.
Tyner, in connection with the Post
Office frauds, is proceeding slowly
in this city before Mr.. Justice
Pritchard. Your correspondent
looked into the court room yester-
day and saw in a big stuffed arm
chair containing a little old ema-
ciated, white-headed man, shielded
by a screen from the spring time
breeze which came in through the
window. Several we'll dressed
women sat near him, and now and
then a colored man brought him
glass of water. The General says
the strain is too much for him but
he hopes to live long enough to
hear the verdict. Thus far the
evidence has been technical, dry
and uninteresting to the last de-
gree. A fat and we'll fed clerk on
the stand was trying to explain to
the judge and jury the routine
workings of q Division of the Post
Office Department. There has
been no startling evidence and
none is expected. 1t will be
enough if the Government makes
out a presumption of conspiracy,
or neglect of duty. The people
of Washington are either too busy
or too Indifferent to attend the
trial. A few lawyers look in to
listen to the wranglings of the OPP
posing counsel. Gen. Tyner was
once a Congressman and then a
member of Grants Cabinet.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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