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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Printing Emergency Currency.

The treasury department is losing
no time in preparing to carry into
effect the provisions Of the emergency
currency law passed by congress just
prior to adjournment. The officials are
arranging for making the plates and
printing the notes, and evidently in
tend to be ready when an actual
emergency arises. The notes will be
practically identical with those now is
sued for national banks, with the sin
gle change of the legend on the top Of
the face from Secured by bonds of the
United States" to Secured by bonds
of the United States and other securi-
ties" Considerable time will be re-
quired to make the necessary altera-
tions in the entire number of plates
used for nearly 1000 national banks,
but good start will be made at once,
and within a month the treasury de-
partment will be in a position to issue
some of the emergency currency, if
necessary. The fact that there is
such preparation. says the Troy On.
" Times, will in itself tend to allay
apprehension and to beget confidence
and business tranquility.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
FAILED TO DO THEIR DUTY.
Grand Jury Indcts Four Policemen.
in Connection With Riots at
Springfield, III.

Springfield, Ill.-The special grand
jury called to probe the recent
race war adjourned Thursday night
after returning II more indict-
ments, thus making a total of III
during the session. Among those re-
turned Thursday were indictments;
against four Springfield policemen,
Oscar Dahlkamp, Joseph Ferendez,.
George H. Gilman and George W..
Dawson. They are indicted for al
legged failure to suppress the riot
when detailed for that duty.
The grand jury has been in active.
session IA days, during which time
hundreds of witnesses were examined.
Abe Raymer Slim" Humphrey and
Mrs. Kate Howard were indicted for
murder in connection with the lynch
ing. Mrs. Howard, when indicted for
the murder of Burton, committed.
suicide
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
SAME OLD FLUBDUB
NOTHING NEW IN BRYAN'S "AC-
CEPTANCE" SPEECH.
ImplacabIe Opposition to the Rcpub-
Iican Party All That Is Shown
GItterine Promises That He
Cannot Fulfill.

Perhaps repeated demonstrations of
Mr.. Bryan's highly militant sort of
patriotism and sense of the propri-
eties should have prepared us for a
speech of acceptance" that confines
itself almost wholly to an assault
upon congress, the Republican plat
form and Mr.. Taft's speech of ac-
ceptance." There is the inevitable
touch of the fiubdub in the preface,
thus:
Shall the people control their own
government and use that government
for the protection of their rights and
for the promotion of their welfare?"
BY all means! If we Americans are
not doing that now and Mr.. Bryan
can secure it, we, Republicans and
Democrats, will be very much obliged
to him. And this:
"Or shall the representatives of
predatory wealth prey upon a defense
less public, while the offenders secure
immunity from subservient officials
whom they raise to power by un-
scrupulous means?"
Whom does he mean? A speech of
acceptance so frankly and courage
ously accusative should at least be
proportionately specific. Mr.. Bryan is
also out of all patience with the Re-
publican party for failure to secure
tariff reform:
THE influence of the manufacturers
who for 25 years contributed to the
Republican campaign fund, . has
been sufficient to prevent tariff re-
form"
Mr.. Bryan will fix all that-fix it in
spite of history which demonstrates
that when the Democratic party, in
the only two years of the last 4S
years in which it was in position to
enact laws attempted revision of the
tariff, such a hopeless mess of it was
made and the party was so disrupted
thereby that President Cleveland re-
fused to sign the bill and bitterly
talked of party perfidy. Yet Mr.. Bryan
is going to do more than Roosevelt
has done, going to do it with Re-
publican senate, probably a Repub-
lican house and a hostile wing of the
disrupted Democracy. Clearly Mr..
Bryan is counting too confidently on
harmony"
Four years ago the Democratic par
ty found the Republican administra-
tion too radical To-day the trouble
with the Republican administration, in
the opinion Of Mr.. Bryan, is that it
isn't half radical and drastic enough.
In short, MIR. Bryens speech of ac-
ceptance" is based upon the same
sound Jeffersonian principles as his
platform-sweeping and implacable
opposition to the Republican party
and that is about all it amounts to,
when you have properly discounted his
generalities and specious promises.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
WILL NOT AID DEMOCRATS.
Farmers Know Too Well the Source
of Their Prosperity.

IN the amateurish play to the gal.
leries that Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Kern
make in the form of the joint appeal
for small contributions, there occurs
this paragraph:
There are hundreds of thousands
of farmers who are abundantly able to
contribute to the campaign fuad.
There are thousands who could give
$100 apiece without feeling it; there
are tens of thousands who could give
$50 apiece without sacrifice, and still
more who could give $25, or $40, or So
AS the national committee has not yet
been organized we will ask the Com
moner to call for subscriptions to this
farmers fund. The farmers fund will
be turned over to the national commit
tee as soon as it's permanent officers
have been selected. Who will be the
first to respond? How many farmers
will join in furnishing the fund neces-
sary to present the issues?"
At a guess We should say very few
farmers indeed. There are admitted
ly hundreds of thousands of farmers
abundantly able to contribute" In
deed, the prosperity of the American
farmer can hardly be overstated. But
that prosperity will not move him to
contribute to help elect Bryan or any
other Democratic candidate. For 1t is
the result not only of Natures bounty
but of IL years of Republican rule,
and is the most complete possible
refutation of the Democratic claim
that the prosperity of the manufacture
ing industries under the Republican
tariff system is gained at the expense
of the agricultural industries. The
farmers fushness, cited by Bryan and
Kern as a reason for his contributing
to their fund, is therefore the very
thing that will most incline him to do
the exact opposite. He will con-
tribute not to the Bryan campaign
fund, but to the Republican campaign
fund, and he will not have to be So
licited by Mr.. Taft TO do it, either
Pittsburg Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
An independent View.

We do not question Mr.. Bryan's sim
cerity or his devotion to the interests
of the people. But we believe that the
material welfare of the nation would
be safer in the hands of a president of
Mr.. Taft's temperament and calm
judgment, and for this reason we
favor his election to the presidency.
These are the conclusions which we
have reached after mature considera-
tion and with the sole desire to pro-
mote the good of the nation and the
welfare of the people. We are aware
that they are not in accord with the
views of many of our readers. We
have entire respect for their sincerity.
We recognize their right to follow
their own convictions and judgment.
Every man is entitled to freedom Of
political action. Americans generally
have the welfare of the nation at heart
and though they differ as to the means
and methods by which the national
welfare can be assured, they differ
honestly. We believe the election of
Mr.. Taft would tend to hasten the
restoration of prosperous business con-
ditions. We believe that this admins
tration will be prudent. Therefore we
support him from a sense of public
duty.-Baltimor Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

The Talleyrand and Sagan mansion,
with its magnificent garden in the rue
antiquary. Nine. Anna Gould, now the
wife of Prince de Sagan, is just too
late to save Prince Helie's property,
but, suggests the Boston Herald, per-
haps such trifle as this famous resi-
dence does not interest her. 1t was
in this garden that the late Princess
husband gave that memorable gar
den party, which the prince of Wales,
who is now King Edward VII, at
tended.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

Among the sincere mourners at the
death of the late secretary of state,
John Hay, there were none who felt
more keenly the loss of friend than
did the Jews. They have not forgot
ten. The other day, at a convention
of the Independent Order B'nai Birth,
resolutions were adopted to erect in
Washington a suitable monument to
Mr.. Hay. The thing for which the
Jews venerate the great secretary's
memory is his action at the time when
the Kishenef massacres stirred the
whole world to horror. The Bnai
Birth requested Mr.. Hay to forward a
petition to the Russian government;
and although Mr.. Hay was definitely,
but unofficially, informed that it could
not be received he went ahead, and
the representations he made are be-
lieved to have done much to check the
massacres.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Hiqh Time to Break Away.

1t is high time for the southern
states to break away from that anti
quated absurdity of solid Democratic
south-a south that Is always expect
ed to go Democratic, just the way that
Maine once went for Gov. Kent, de-
clares the Baltimore American. There
have been in recent years encourag-
ing signs in some of the southern
states of strong tendency to swing
loose from the dead issues and to line
up politically with regard to living is
sues. The progressive new south,
with its millions of cotton spindles
and it's scores of blast furnaces, is, in
it's material interests, just as much
dependent for continuous prosperity
upon those policies for which the Re-
publican party has stood, and will con-
tinue to stand, as is either Pennsyl-
vania or New England. No section of
the country has made a more impress
sive progress during the past ten
years than those states generally
classified as ''the Solid South"
Neither cotton mills nor blast furnaces
would have sprung into existence un-
der free-trade policy.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Mr.. kerr's Hard Job.

Mr.. James Kerr of Pennsylvania
has promised Mr.. Bryan to raise $780,
900 in that state for the Democratic
cause. AS Mr.. Bryan will not accept
a dollar from corporations or from
men interested in them, it looks as if
Mr.. Kerr had taken a pretty heavy
summer job incidentally, he will get
nothing from Col. Guffey.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
MIR. Taft's Task,

The western country is impreg-
mated with the ideas which have been
so much stimulated by Mr.. Roosevelt
in his second administration and
which Mr., Bryan in the Democratic
party has so long represented. This
is not surprising. In Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Iowa and other prairie states, the
populism of the early '90s came main
ly from the Republican party, and, as
a Republican president, Mr.. Roosevelt
has sanctified populism's germinal
idea. The west of to-day is a populis-
tic west, whether it sides with the Re
publican or Democratic candidate; !;
and Mr.. Taft's peculiar task is to hold
it in alliance with the east, which con-
stantly reassures itself by contem-
plating his own conservative char
acter. If any living Republican can
succeed in this enterprise, it is he.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
THEIR HATCHETS ARE BURIED
TAFT AND FORAKER HOLD LOVE
FEAST AT TOLEDO.
Foraker Promises to Take the Stump
for Taft and the Latter Eulo-
gizes the Senator.

Toledo, O.-That Taft and For
aker are politically together is not
only the public admission of both Taft
and Foraker here, but also the politi-
cal sensation of Ohio. Foraker is a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate to succeed himself, and his serv-
ices in the national campaign have
been sought by National Chairman
Hitchcock and the senator has prom
ised to take the stump.
Judge Taft left Middle Bass Island
Wednesday morning on a yacht, and
after tempestous voyage of four
hours, reached Toledo. He was taken
direct to the reviewing stand. Taft
said on his journey that he knew of
no arrangement whereby he was to
meet Foraker. But the people of To-
ledo seemed to know about it, and
when, after the candidate had been
in his place few minutes, a car
riage, which headed the parade,
stopped in front of the stand and dis
charged its passengers, there was a
tremendous shout as the thousands
who were within sight of the stand
caught sight of the senior senator his
colleague, Senator Dick, Gov. Harris
and Mayor Whitlock
Foraker was the last of the party
to reach Taft's side, but when he did
and reached out his right hand, Taft
saying Hello, senator" and Foraker,
Il am glad to see you, Judge" and
then shook hands, long and heartily,
and smiled cordially, there was a
mighty shout from the crowd. The
two sat down together and remained
in conversation for more than an
hour.
Before Judge Taft was allowed to
depart on an automobile ride which
had been arranged for him, he con.
sented to shake hands for 20 minutes
with an enthusiastic throng. The ride
ended at the Lyceum theatre When
Mr.. Taft had been cheered by the au-
dience, Foraker appeared. He was
also enthusiastically greeted as he
took a seat beside the candidate, after
the latter had risen and greeted him
with a handshake.
Then the speech-making began.
President Mulholland of the club in.
troduced Mr.. Taft.
1T is a pleasure for me to be here
with Senator Foraker" said Mr.. Taft,
because when governor of Ohio he
gave me my first chance, and took a
good deal of risk in putting a man of
29 on the bench of the superior court
of Cincinnati.
eve have entered a great oratori-
cal campaign. 1t is a pleasure to
think in this presence that we are
going to stand in the campaign shoul-
der to shoulder"
Foraker was then introduced and
said: when the Chicago convention
nominated Judge Taft to be the Re.
publican candidate for the presidency
this year, that instant he became my
leader. He has been my leader ever
since, and he will be my leader until
the polls close on the night of the
election" He paid glowing tribute
to Taft's fitness for the presidency
and predicted Taft's election. Sena.
tor Dick made few remarks and Gov.
Harris eulogiZed the old soldiers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
IGNORED bv Brvan,

1t pains us to observe. that Mr.
Bryan is not quite fair to the Repub-
lican party. Why has there been no
antitrust legislation? he asks; why
no railroad legislation? The Repub-
lican senate and the Republican house
of representatives, he pretends, have
been unmoved by the appeals of the
president and the entreaties of the in
terstate commerce commission. Yet
the Hepburn act, very important and
far-reaching law, authorizing the fix
ing of rates and the restraint of
abuses, the Elkins act, and the act
denying immunity on the witness
stand to corporations constitute a con-
siderable body of remedial legislation.
Mr.. Bryan knows this very well.
Furthermore, it does not lie in Mr.
Bryan's mouth to reproach the Repub-
lican party for failure to revise the
tariff. He made two unsuccessful cam
paigns upon trumpery issues of his
own, practically ignoring the tariff
N. Y. Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

Many of the colleges and unnversi-
ties are in no-license towns. Leland
Stanford is the largest non-sectarian
institution to enforce prohibition with
in the university domain. Intoxicants
are forbidden in boarding houses and
fraternity buildings. Similar proper
restriction has long obtained at several
colleges which are under the control
or influence of the churches.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
-Four Sailors Suffocated

Boston, Mass,-Succumbing to the
deadly fumes of burning pitch and
oakum down in the forepeak of the
British bark Puritan as she lay at
anchor Tuesday in President Roads,
four seamen were suffocated.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Prouty Wins by 29,376.

White River Junction, Vt.-Com.
plere returns from the state elec.
ton in Vermont on the vote for gov.
erhor show the following result:
George II. Prouty, Republican, 45,2S1 ;
James e. Burke, Democrat, 1898.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
A Somewhat Poor Prophet.

Henry Watterson predicts Bryan's
election by a grand swell" like that
which carried Cleveland to victory.
Henry has the enthusiasm of a new
recruit, but it will be recalled that
his prophecies have had smaller per
centase of veriflcation than those of
the long-dstance weather prognos-
ucators.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Left Millions to Schools,

Owego, n. Y. - More than $4,-
100000 is left to charitable institu-
tions, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art and Yale university by the will
of Frederick Hewitt, who died here
last Sunday. To relatives less than
100000 is left
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

The fact that the end of the world
has been predicted for 1911 will not
discourage the people who like to pick
presidential possibilities, and they are
not expected to forego the pleasure Of
selecting candidates for 1912.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Dynamiters Wrecked a Canal.

Joliet, Ill. - Unknown persons
on Wednesday dynamited the llli-
nois and Michigan canal at Chan.
nahon, ~ miles southwest of Joliet.
The breach made by the explosion is
100 feet long The district is flooded.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

A woman lecturer in Boston sneers
at men for wearing starched collars
She is unreasonable. Lots of collars
are only starched when they come
from the laundry, not after they arc
on awhile.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Separate School Law Is NJ g

Guthrie, Okla. = Judge Hunston
in the district court here Tues
day declared unconstitutional the Ok
lahoma separate school law providing
separate schools for negroes in the
new state.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

So Col Bryan detaches himself
from The Commoner" for a season.
That sprightly sheet will, however,
still be The Commoner-which is
more agreeable than to say it will be
commoner still.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

The order of the shah that ones
enemy's house be demolished every
day shows considerate moderation
that would seem amazing to some Of
his predecessors.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Wilbur Wright Makes an Ascension.

LIE Mans, France.-Wilbur Wright,
the aeroplanist of Dayton, o.. made
ten-minute fight here Thurs,
day at an altitude of rs feet and COW
cred six miles.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
Mr.. BrYan's DeIusion.

Mr.. Bryan seems TO think that the
common people have been saving their
money for the purpose of tossing it
into his campaign fund.--Chicago
News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-10

sat ON the four eggs as contentedly as If they
were all hers, and so / decided not to inter
fere with the natural order of things.
In two weeks or so the eggs were Matched
and the brood consisted of two thrushes ano
two COW birds.
Whether the duped parents succeeded III
rearing the mixed family | cannot say. An
enforced absence of a week prevented my
settling that question. On my return cne
nestlings had become of age and had gone
away from home. :.
The wood thrushes are among our earliest
arrivals from the south in the spring, and re-
main until autumn.
As late as the 25th of September l have
found them in the woods but after that date
they soon migrate southwark, and then we
must wait through another long, dreary win
ter before our hearts are gladdened by their
songs.
There are several birds that do not belong
to the thrush family, and yet go by. the
thrush name This occurs because in form,
manners and markings they are so much like
the thrushes.
Such is the case with the eharmer, to which
we must next pay our respects.
But, first, let me tell you how / got ac-
quainted with him:
through heavily-timbered tract Of lowland
in the northern part of one of our Middle
States. OF course. L was on the lookout for
feathered folk, and was suddenly brought to a
standstill by loud, startling song, seemingly
only short distance away.
/ quickly fastened toward the spot whence
the bird carol came. But when got there the
songster was otherwherc, and when / got
otherwhere he was elsewhere; and SO he led
me chase around and around in the woods.
Sometimes the song seemed to spring up
from the ground. then it came from a sap
ling, and again from one of the tall naples
or buttonwood trees for / don't know how
long l kept up my vain pursuit until l was