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New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

up as a system; but there are always new ana
| ingenious schemes Cor defrauding the working
woman out of her scanty wage
The union which the first society In New
York for the protection women in the industrial
world was organized during the Civil War be-
cause this very thing was going on BROADCAST
Contractors for army clothing, themselves doubt
less very patriotic men deeply indignant at the
wrongs of the colored slave, would give out the
clothes to sewing women and then refuse to pay
them.
sEAsoNA1 FEATURE OF WORK.
..rne seasonal feature os al work Ia growing
moro and more" said Mrs. Kemp. who has been
v,th the union more than twenty yearA Ailli-
nary u,ed to be one Of the peasantest and best
Maid trades for women. The mlner's work lasted
from, September / to January and from April 1
IN Julv / and since she had work during the
rest OF the wear she had high wages during the
time employed To-day her season Is scarcely hair
Of that and the trade is so overcrowded that the
wage has dropped very low All the sewing trades
ara seasonal and while the season is on the women
t,ve to work themselves nearly to death The late
hours at which dressmakers' girls have to go home
ia against public morals. The increasing special
,zat,on of the work is lowering the efficiency Of
the worker although il increases the output. There
ia scarcely a woman IN the sewing trades who can
mako q whole dress. Tho waist nttsrs and drapsrs
gps ths Axhsst DAxt tAsR eesae- akirt sfAeAA IA
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
elimination Of
CLASS ISSUES
FROM POLITICAL PLATFORMS iS
SOUGHT BY MANUFACTURE
ERS' ASSOCIATION.
A REVISION OF THE TARIFF
Is Advocated by the National conven.
ton, Which Also Asks that Anti
injunction Legislation be
SdetrackeG

New York City. - Following up
sions, protesting against political agi
tation calculated to set capital and la
Dor at odds, the National Association
of Manufacturers in annual conven-
ton here Tuesday took a decided
stand against the raising of clas. is
sues by the great political parties of
the nation. This action was in the
form Of a resolution introduced by
John Kirby of Dayton, o.. as follows:
Resolved, that the president oe
this association be instructed to Sc
lect such members rs he may deem
4o.er 20 serve with MIN as \ com.
mittee to represent this association
before the national committees Of the
two political parties, and that he in.
vite the cooperation OF committees
from other associations to the end
that class declaration plank1 may be
omitted from the platforms of both
parties"
Close upon the heels of this move
by the manufacturers came the TAX
against the advance In freight rates
which the trunk lines of the country
have announced to be impending
The manufacturers seek an amicable
adjustment of the matter with the
railroads, but failing that, announce
their intention of resisting the pro-
posed advance in the courts by pro
cess of injunction or otherwise.
The association after a spirited de
bate went on record as indorsing the
formation of a permanent tariff com
mission to revise tariff schedules I'D
OH the principle of international
costs"
An appeal to Speaker Cannon to
use his power ard influence against
any anti.injunction legislation was
made. The appeal was made in a
telegram which was sent to Mr.. Can
non after its contents had been ap
proved by the convention 1t read:
THE National Association of Man
ufacturers, regardless of political af
filiations, urges upon you to use your
power and influence against any anti
injunction legislation whatever"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
A FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.
Sixty People Killed and 100 Injured
in a Collision on a Belgian
Railroad.

Antwerp, Belgium. - One of the
worst railroad accidents in Europe in
recent times occurred at Contich
station six miles southeast of this
city, Thursday. The latest estimate
places the number killed at 60 and
100 wounded.
The catastrophe appears to have
been due to a defective switch where
the main line crosses a local line At
this point a train carrying a large
number of pilgrims on their way to
local shrine was standing, Into this
the Antwerp-Brussels express dashed
at a speed of so miles an hour. liter
ally leapiug on top of it. The heavy
coaches of the express crushed the
lighter coaches into splinters. The
sides of the express cars were torn
from their fastenings, the floors prac-
tically collapsing. thus precipitating
the passengers to the side of the track
uniniured. whence they fed. frenZied,
across the fields. But for this fact
the death roll would be much great
er. Few of the occupants of the local
train escaped alive Those that were
not killed were badly injured, many
of them mortally.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
TO GIVE SHIP SUBSIDIES.
An Amendment Will Be Added to the
Postotfice Appropriation Bill.

Washington, d. C.-Congress on
Thursday took an important step
looking to the payment of ship sub
sides, the conferees on the postoffice
appropriation bill having agreed to
accept the amendment by the senate
authorizing the postmaster general to
contract with steamship lines run
ming to ports of South America, the
Philippines, Japan, China and Aus
tralasia for the carrying of mails and
to pay vessels of the second class the
same rate that is now paid on Ameri-
can vessels of the first class to Eu-
rope, and to vessels of the third class
the rate now authorized for vessels
of the second class.
There are no American lines Of the
first class to the countries named,
and the effect of this Legislation will
be to encourage the establishment of
passenger and mail steamship lines
TO those countries.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
PIatt Denies AII tie CHARGES.

New York City, - Physically SO
feeble that practically he had to be
carried in and out of tie court room,
United States Senator Thomas c.
Plat was at times a spirited witness
Wednesday when he appeared to tes-
tiiy in his own behalf in Mae c.
Woods suit for divorce from him.
His denial of all thA charges brought
by Miss Wood in her suit was en-.
phatic and when prrdded too hard by
the plaintiffs counsel the aged sena
;cr proved himself capable Of vigor
us response.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Misht Education.

The educators and parents who are
now renewing the old struggle for
thorough revision of the high school
curriculum have taken as their guild
ing maxim a place for everything,
and everything IN its place. An es-
cellent principle it is, especially de
serving Of application to the task of
high school education in these days,
when impulsiye apostles OF liberal
education" are trying TO find place
for everything in high school cata-
]ogue without concerning themselves
very seriously over the veXatious
problem of putting courses in proper
places. The appeal must be needed,
says the New York Tribune, not sim
ply for the sake of the young people
who are seeking an education, but
also in order to check the wholesale
desertion of city high schools, which
is disquieting teachers and school
boards all over the country. Plainly
written on the face of enrolment sta
tistics is the warning that unless mis-
fit courses are dropped the magnifi-
cent establishments adorning the high
school systems of a hundred large
American municipalities may soon be
tenanted only by the relatively few
pupils who wish to prepare for col
1ege,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
MAE WOOD IS
SENT TO PRISON
FOR ALLEGED PERJURY IN HER
DIVORCE SUIT AGAINST
SENATOR PLATT.
JUDGE DISMISSES THE CASE.
Sensational Climax Comes in a Trial
that Attracted Great Attention
Expert Testimony Led to the
Woman's Undoing.

New York City. - Mae C. Wood,
from United States Senator Thomas
c. Platt has been on trial in the su-
preme court for several days, was
committed to the Tombs prison late
Thursday after Justice O'Gorman had
dismissed the complaint in her action
and ordered her held in $4,000 bail on
charge of perjury.
The decision in Senator Platt's ia
vor and the sudden and sensational
end of the suit came after day
which the defense occupied largely
with the introduction OF expert and
other testimony attacking The au-
thenticity OF the documents by which
the plaintiff was seeking to establish
her alleged marriage to Platt. A
handwriting expert testified that In
his opinion the body of the letter in
which Platt was alleged to have ad-
mitted his relation as husband to the
plaintiff was added after the sena-
tors signature had been affixed.
More telling still for the defense
were the depositions by engravers
and stationers called by counsel for
Platt that the blank form upon which
the alleged Platt-Wood marriage GER
tificate was published was not litho-
graphed until three months after the
date upon which the marriage of Miss
Wood to Senator Platt was alleged to
have taken place Miss Wood was
recalled to the stand in rebuttal. She
was asked if, after hearing the testi-
mony about the marriage certificate,
she still reiterated that the defendant
gave her the certificate as she previ-
ously testified 81 still reiterate it,"
she replied.
At the district attorneys Office last
night it was said that Miss Woods
case would speedily be presented to
the grand jury and pressed for trial
if an Indictment was found.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
"A Grave and Studied Insult"

The presidents positive anti-third.
term declaration made at private
dinner the other night in the presence
of representatives of foreign nations
and other prominent people is becom-
ing known and exciting interest. He
declared with measured deiberation
and great positiveness that he was not
a candidate now for the presidency:
that he would not consider the nomi-
nation if it were offered, nor accept
it if it were given him by the con.
Vention.
BY way of emphasis, in order that
there should be no chance for a mis-
understanding he declared with heat
that the question was not discussable.
and that the mere suggestion that he
is now a candidate or could become
candidate was a grave and studied in
sult.-Washington Dispatch TO the
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
REFUSE TO INDOHSE BRYAN
PENNSYLVANIA STATE cONVEN.
TION TURNS HIM DOWN.
Col. Guffey, National Committeeman,
Wins in Contest for Election
as Delegate at Large.

Harrisburg, Pa. - After one of
the hardest fights within the party
in several years, the Democratic state
convention here Wednesday decided
not to instruct it's delegates at large
to the Denver convention for Bryan.
1t was a clean cut victory for the
Democratic state organization, head
ed by Col. James NJ. Guffey of Pitts
burg, the Pennsylvania member of
the national committee Col. Guffey
maintained all along that he and his
friends would control the convention,
but their claims were always dis
puted by the leaders of the faction
who were in favor of issuing binding
instructions for Bryan.
The Bryanites, under the leader
ship of the executive committee of
the Bryan Democratic league, had a
large following and they fought to
the bitter end. While feeling ran
high in the convention, which was at
times very disorderly, no personali-
ties We're indulged in, and when the
followers of Bryan found that they
were in the minority they acquiesced
and the convention quickly came to
a close.
Col. Gutfey and his supporters be-
lieved that the fight made to instruct
the delegates at large against his adj
sicG was more of contest to depose
him as the state leader than it was
a contest in the interest of Bryan
Guffey was greatly pleased with the
outcome of the convention and he an
ticipates no trouble in being re-elect-
ed national committeeman by the
Pennsylvania delegation at the ma.
tional convention.
Aside from the defeat of the Bry-
antics, probably the most important
happening of the day was the drop
ping by the Democratic organization
of eXState Treasurer William H.
Berry of Delaware county. Mr.. Ber
ry, who was elected state treasurer
on the fusion ticket three years ago,
was the first to call attention to the
alleged state capitol frauds and be.
cause of this was considered popular
among the democrats of the state
For this reason he had been picked to
be one of the delegates at large on
the organization ticket, although he
was a Bryan man. Later the Bryan
ties placed him on their slate as a
delegate at large.
AS he did not object to being on
the tickets of opposing factions, he
was informed by the organization
leaders that they did not intend to
name him on the ground that in
fight like the one that ended We'd
nesday no man could consistently go
along with both factions.
There were seven names presented
to the convention for delegates at
large, among them Mr.. Berry's, and
he received the smallest number of
votes. The delegates at large chosen
by the Guitcy people are Col. Guffey
State Senators j. K. Hall of Elk coun-
ty and A. G. Dewalt of Lehigh coun-
ty, and John G. Harmon of Columbia
county.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
INDICTED FOR GRAND LARCENY
T. A. Mcintyre, New York Broker, Is
Arrested and Held in $685.
600 Ball.

New York City. - Upon the find
ing of an Indictment against him by
the grand jury, Thomas A. Mcintyre
of the failed brokerage firm of T. A.
Mcintyre & Co. was arrested We'd
neSday upon warrant charging grand
larceny in the first degree. He gave
bail in the sum of $4,000 and was re-
leased.
Mclntyre's arrest was made in the
face of vigorous protest by his ply
sicians at the sanitarium where ne
has been a patient since shortly after
the failure of his firm. They de-
clared him too iii to be removed, but
after the officers mad offered to take
him to Bellevue hospital in an am
bulance as a prisoner, he went with
detectives to police headquarters.
After his arraignment before Judge
RosalsEy and the furnishing of his
bond by a surety company he was
taken back to the sanitarium
McIntyre's Indictment was the out
growth of an investigation into the
affairs of his firrl which had been
proceeding in the United States court
for some time.
Assistant District Attorney Train
said last night that there were more
than 100 complaints against the Nc
Intyre firm in his cffice, involving be-
tween 100000 and 100000 worth of
securities turned over to the firm
by investors. These securities can
not be found
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Overe atind.

When pTudently followed, the prac-
tice of fasting is most beneficial
Many people really never feel the SEN
sation of natural hunger. All they
have is a morbid craving for food,
which comes of habit rather than
from any actual need felt by the
stomach. Natural hunger, declares
the New York Weekly. stimulates the
palate, and is felt in the mouth as well
as in the internal organs. 1t makes
the plainest food seem delicious and,
when being satisfied, is source Of
such enjoyment as the average we'll
fed man rarely experiences, Some
suffer, it is true, from insufficient
food but not so many as those whose
ills arise from excessive eating, their
digestion being continually overtaXed.
A habit of judicious fasting would do
wonders fer them. The system would
recover its lost tone, and-in the case
of mental woTke,s-the brain would
work with an ease and lightness that
would surprise them, for the brain is
one of the chief sufferers from the
practice of oVereating.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
TURNING FROM FREE TRADE.
Drift of Sentiment in England Clearly
Toward Protection.

The British Liberals, although elect
ed on a free trade platform. have
taken the first step towards protection
in the new patent law, which requires
the manufacture of the patented
article in Britain, if the reasonable re-
quirements Of the public so demand,
on pain OF the forfeiture of the patent.
This will affect American trade to
considerable extent, as numbers OF
American inventors have patented
their inventions in Britain and been
manufacturing their goods in the
United States Notably is this the
case in shoe manufacturing machinery,
in which America leads the world The
manufacture of the parts has been al
most exclusively done in the United
States, the assembling being the only
process carried on in Britain.
Under the new law any person con-
nected with the shoe trade can de-
mand the establishment within three
years of factory in Britain for the
manufacturing of the machinery. The
board of trade hears both sides and
if it believes a prima facie case has
been established it refers the matter
to a special court, which investigates
thoroughly and decides whether the
needs of the trade demand the grant
ing of licenses on such terms as the
court may deem reasonable to some
person who will manufacture the alt,-
clcs in tho country, or demands INC
revocation of the patent altogether.
strict Interpretation of this law would
shut out from The United Kingdom
every foreign manufactured product
which could be made and which the
British preferred should be made in
their own country. We have no right
to object to our British cousins adopt
ing protective policy, but it would
be more honest to do it openly instead
of by a side wind.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
Sees Dancer in Tariff Revision.

1t is impossible for congress to un-
dertake the revision of the tariff with
out thereby creating a condition of
suspense. No matter how moderate
may be the published program there
can never be any assurance that it will
he strictly followed. that the emenda-
tions to be made will be confined with
in the prescribed limits. AS they can
not tell what to expect, business men
are consequently constrained as much
as possible to circumscribe their op-
eGations. They 1--we as nearly as they
can from hand to mouth, with the re-
suit that trade of every kind is re-
duced to a minimum, to the universal
loss, and what are known as hard
times supervene.
What the American people are more
in need of just now than anything
eise is a rest from unnecessary anxi-
ETY.. After the dstressful crisis
through which they have lately passed
they want a chance to recuperate, to
recruit their energies, to consolidate
their interests, and it is precisely of
this chance that the inception of a
tariff tinkering agitation would de-
prive them.-Philadelph Inquirer.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
ADVISING Murder.

The general assembly has been
asked to pass law making it felony
for any one to advocate publicly by
word of mouth or in writing the MUIR
der of any person in Illinois or else
where, says the Chicago Tribune. II
there were such a law, it would be
possible to send to the penitentiary
anybody who printed in this state
a paper similar to that anarchist pub
lication in Paterson, ~ j., which was
thrown out of the mails for giving
murderous advice. If there were such
a law, any man who got up in pub
lie meeting in this state and sought
to impress upon his hearers the desir-
ability of numbering some policemen
or public officials could be sent to
the penitentiary. At present he could
be charged only with a misdemeanor.
1t is TO be hoped that nobody in
the legislature will see in this meas
ure an invasion of the right to free
speech or a free press, or will as.
sert that the present penalties for
recommending murder as a panacea
for alleged social ills are adequate. 1t
is true that the men who applaud the
murderers of kings, presidents, and
policemen, and urge others to go and
do likewise, are not in the habit Of
risking their own necks. They leave
the assassin's hazard to others. Their
violent speeches and writings stir up
others to commit bloody deeds. If
tie fiery counselor OF murder knew
that the penitentiary awaited him he
would not be so prodigal with his ad-
vice. He would not court tie mar.
tyrdom of hard labor
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
The Invisible EXCHANGES.

Recent statistics of our foreign trade
show an enormous excess of exports
over imports. In raising the scale
Of exports, and in simultaneously low
ering that of imports" writes Charles
F. Speare in the Van Norden Maga-
zine, I'VE have had no difficulty since
October, in creating balance of trade
amounting to $32S, 100000"
The situation is one to renew inter.
est in the ever recurring discussion
of the invisible exchanges. Evident
ly we cannot take all and give moth
ing. If at any one time we could
drain foreign countries of their money
we should then have TO wait for future
sales of our produce abroad until
those countries had regained their
purchasing power.
1t has been shown that without our
big sales we should be very badly
pinched indeed, and there is this hint
at the close: with the United
States the question of future trade
balance depends on her ability to en-
large foreign markets and to travel
along path of stricter economy"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
A Disastrous Oelune.

Carlisle, Pa-A severe c!oudburst
swept the town of Mt. Holly
Springs Friday and with the deluge
of water Laurel dam gave way car
rying bridges from their abutments,
damaging the big viaducts leading
from the dam to the paper mills and
flooding all the houses in the low sec
tion of the town. The mills were so
badly damaged that they will be com.
PEELED to suspend operations fer q
time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

Most Americans get more for their
money than any Other people of any
other age. In a recent lecture, teach
Ell of economies told more than half
the story when she said: The thing
that has increased is not the cost of
living, but the scale of living. The
change is not in the price at which ex-
istence can be maintained, but in peo-
pies ideas as to what are nccessarics
Of life"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28

Gratifying evidence of the extent to
which public interest in the matter Of
protecting the natural resources of the
country is being awakened comes from
many directions. One of the powerful
instrumentalities in this direction is
the work being done by scientific soci-
eties, college professors and organiza-
tions and similar agencies. Thus the
Scientific association which met at
Middletown, Conn, considered the
subject at considerable length and
then adopted resolutions offered by
Prof. William North Rice, professor
of geology at Wesleyan university
Thee resolutions set forth that the
association recognizes the necessity of
"a radical change OF administration
by which, so far as may be practical
bic, our rivers and our forests. our
mineral wealth anG the resources of
our lands and our waters, shall be con
served for the benefit OF the whole
people and of future generations"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-05-28
"Lean" and Swollen "Fortunes."

Borrowing President Roosevelt's
phrase, swollen fortunes" the Demo-
Gratis at Omaha ask for national in
come tax, also national inheritance
tax. They do not say that, if the ma
tional government is to have these
taxes. the state governments shall not
also have them, and thus the swollen
fortunes be doubly taxed. Oddly
enough, the Democrats at Omaha,
while formulating contradictory defini-
lions Of monopoly, did not even at
tempt to decide the figure at which a
fortune becomes swollen" The skill
with which they impaled monopoly
upon the horns of two percentages
halted confused before the contem-
plation Of fortunes. When is a fortune
lean? When is it swollen Mr..
Bryan. happily, has fortune. We re-
joice over his pleasant estate. But is
his fortune "sWollen?" We do not
know Omaha probably paled at the
thought and desisted from any further
attempt at definition. Which was just
as well.