Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-10-06


fleece and his blood Tie hand the wreckel
another toss, until, half lifeless, he falls an
easier victiml The hand the usurer lends the
distressed debtor-taking deeper and deeper
hold on his substance, until all is snatched
from him Such is the helping hand which
Mr.. Tome has lent to the struggling agrcul.
turists of Cecil county, and for which they are
now asked to reward him with their votes.-
What has caused the unparalleled distress
that now pervades the entire county? There
is hardly farmer or manufacturer who is
not groaning under debts that impair his en-
ergies and threaten to destroy bis business
Real estate is mortgased to the full extent it
will bear. Personal enterprise is burdened
with monthly notice of notes to be cancelled.
On all sides the cry is still the sane-debts
beyond assets-labor and no reward. One
man alone prospers while all around are op-
pressed. The fruits of the soil are sold to fill
his Golfers. The labors of mems hands 60 to
enrich the mouey-lender in his castle on the
rock. Merchants do business on money bor-
rowed at twelve per cent, and the margin of
profits goes to pay the interest. Farmers pay
their laborers by mortgage at fifteen to eigh-
teen per cent, and are foreclosed on failure
to pay interest sem-annually. No one gets
ahead but he who claims to lend the "helping
hand" What helper What benefac.
tor The good Madam Blaize, who
freely gave to all the poor
Who left a pledge behind"
is niggard beside him! Talk about the
burden of taxation! Such is the Radical cry
All things charged to extravaganza in off,
cial circles. Why, the highest taxes yet paid
are but a feather weight. compared with the
usurer's demand. Taxes in Cecil county
never yet have reached one per cent. The
usurer levies from twelve to eighteen per cent
-pever less than the former, seldom more
than the latter on first mortgage. The peo-
ple's necessities compel as many to pay usury
as pay taxes. And yet, those who constrain
us to pay one per cent. for the public good
and our own defense, are branded as robbers,
while he who exacts a dozen times as much
for his own personal gain is public benefac-
tor, ready to lend "helping hand to all who
would help themselvesl" Away with such
trifipg! 1t is an insult to reason. 1t out
RACES common sense.
Again, the usurer is a law breaker. The
laws. for wise purposes, forbid charge of
more than six per cent. The. man who
charges twelve or eighteen not only robs the
necessitous. but he breaks the law. Will the
people of Maryland vote lpake him execu-
tor of the laws whas 1t is daily to
break them !? Fur Radical can a.
didate for Governor of Maryland and whose
money is the avowed capitak on which he
builds his claims, is the owner of at least two
National Banks in the State The National
Banking law forbids the charge of greater in
terest, than the State laws allow. Our State
laws allow six per cent, and the would-be
Governor charges habitually twelve, his 10y
atty to the contrary notwithstanding. And
thus he is a regular loyal law-breaker, break
ing the laws his loyal confreres have so wise
ly enacted. And yet, this loyal double law
breaking benefactor is to be made the execu-
toraf the laws he daily breaksl What says
the law abiding american to that?
But the acute Editor finds, in our statement
that this applicant for the votes of "negroes
whom he did not sell south because he did
not own them" aud our characterization of
him as "hasy vender Of slaves before Radi-
calism could destroy the market" a contra
diction and an inconsistency. How acute!
How cogent Mr.. Tome will hardly ask the
support of the negroes whom he sold to a
Southern market. He sent them SO far to
"the land of the sun" that they never got
back again. The cline of Georgia did not
relieve the pulmonary affection of Henry
Hayden, and Henry never returned to the
wife and little ones from whom he was snatch
ed and sold to swell the Golfers of our would
be Governor. That sale occurred not many
years before the emancipation proclamation
of the "late lamented," and the vendor had
no more to sell. If be had owned all the rest
of the pegroes in Cecil county. it is hardly
probable that his "energy, foresight and
prudence" would have left them here to vote
for him now. There is no better reason that
Henry Hayden should have been taken where
proclamations would be longer
in reaching him, and others left to reap the
earliest fruits Of that loyal tree, than that he
who now solicits the ex-slaves' vote, owned
the one and did not own the others. Does
the american see? And will it give its read-
We trust it will be no fault of ours if the
people DO not properly measure the stature
of the man who, by virtue of bis money. bags,
is now the Radical candidate for Governor of
the State of Maryland. In nothing besides
his purse has he developed greater claims to
the honor (?) than any third man to be picked
up in the ranks of the people. Cunning,
calculating, beartess and grasping, he has
built up splendid fortune in the midst Of
men as energetic and enterprising who have
found no field for vast acquisitions. Beyond
that, be is as innocent of all qualification for
Governor of a State as the man who grooms
his horses: He has neither craftsmanship,
culture nor general information. All that be
knows is how to make money, and all that
be has had experience in is how to rapidly
make it more. IT, the Radicals of Maryland
hope, by elevating such man to the chief
office in their gift, to honor the State or ad-
vance its interest. they may be thankful to
the Democracy for saving them lesson in
the bitter school of experience, which life
time wonld not serve to unlearn. Why, with
man at the head of affairs with such pro.
pensities, it would hardly be extravagant to
expect that be would manage to secure q
mortgage at usurious rates on the State itself,
aud by holding back the interest, foreclose at
the end of six months.
That he, so fondly dubbed ".Our Own
Tome" now owns Cecil county, has been
often grimly suggested. Make him Govern
or auJ how limo will II ho hoforo he will