Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-10-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

w ASHIN6IoN, DcpU. ~, lJtO.
The President had scarcely gotten
back to the White House before he
| placed himself at the van of the Taft
campaign, charged up San Juan Hill
and bearded the Democrats in their
entertainments. 1t is probable that by
the time this letter reaches you the
Treasurer of the campaign Committee
Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, will
have resigned from the impetuousness
and effectiveness of the Presidents
charges. Chicago may be the base of
the Republican campaign committee
but the White House has in the last
week become the headquarters in the
field. There is much criticism of the
Presidents strenuousness and activity
in the campaign. His course is said
to be undignified, without preceden t
and in fact, scandal in the eyes of the
unlocking courts and cabinets of
Europe. But this view ofthe situation
no matter now loudly proclaimed and
emphasized will not effect the Presi-
dent who is sui generis, man "with-
out model and without a shadow"
Washington has with the return of
its normal Importance as the seat of
Government, the most important in
this hemisphere and not even the
politica, field over which the embattled
Democratic and Republican armies are
marching and countermarching led by
the respective candidates themselves
will possess the interest of the Capital.
One of the most unexpected develop
ments of the camgaign is the apparent
entents between President Roosevelt
and Mr. Hearst the leader of the Inde-
pendent party as a result of Mr..
Hearst's scoring of the Republican
candidate and his most prominent sup
porters.
The tuberculosis Congress is now in
session in Washington and the habituee
of the streets and hotels notice a
sprinkling ofserious looking men evil
IDENTIFY non-American and talking
strange LIMOGES, or when they attempt
to ask a direction or other question in
English using an accent that betrays
them as French, German, Italian, Rus
sian, Spanish or Scandinavian as the
case may be. These are the physicians
who have come across the sea by scores
by delegates to the Congress now sit
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museum. This great building is the
setting tor numerous exhibits such as
are used in the United States and for
eign countries in an effort to eradicate
tuberculosis or TO cure those affected
with the scourge Statistics show
that until recently one death in every
ten was caused by it; now it is said
that not more than one in fifteen die
i, from consumption and medical special
lists are many of them so sanguine as
to hold out the hope that in fifteen or
=, twenty years the disease will be
eradicated in the United States and
Europe.
Charles Wilson, a patient at the
Tuberculosis hospital here has offered
himself as a subject for the test to be
made early next week by DR.. Detrie o.
is possible to determine the type, de
> gree and stage of the infection. The
= test consists of the incubation of the
: deadly tubercle bicilli and is of course
| 1a1 txyo Il 4 fnn
seem an important or very courag
:. eous act on the part of the man bu
= greater love and greater heroism hatf
no man than that he give his life fol
= another, the thing that Wilson is offer
ing to do with this difference that if HI
should die and the experiment succeed
he would be a sacrifice for the good o
many thousands of sufferers. Only
y those associated with consumptivei
:, and knowing the tenacity with which
they cling to life can fully appreciate
the real heroism of man who after
y having held out to him the hope of re
gained health is still willing to submit
himself for the test for the advance
meut of the war against the deadl,
a. disease.
ID There is now in Washington anothe
d large convention called the Fisherie
,. Congress. This one also largely com
Is posed of delegates from foreign coun
" tries They are met here for the pur
Of pose of considering questions relating
s, to the propagation and preservation o
n, food fishes and it may be mentione'
n en- passant that it is universally conced
i'd ed that theUnited States has done NOR
lie than any other country in this dires
W ton.