The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-03-16


he Administration-the reduction OF the
national debt of over two hundred millions
md a reduction of the taxes $50, 900, 00o-
we're found to be less than a feathers
weight.
With this important issue as the leading
one in the contest, the Republicans carried
the State by clear majority over all other
parties of 1900; and the Legislature stands
1877 Republicans 101 Democrats, 3 Labor
Reform. and Temperance. And thus
this first battle of the campaign OF 1872
which will end in the reelection of General
Grant to the Presidency, is Fort Donald
son defeat to his enemies, those jealous ana
enyous men of the Republican party /
who are ready to risk the calamities to the
nation which defeat of the Republican |
party would insure to crafty personal
ambition and envious malice.
One of the provisions OF stephen
Girard's will was that the boys educated
at the great college, in Philadelphia, which
bears his name, should be taught trade.
This provision the trustees find it very dill
cult. if not impossible, to carry out, owing
to the arbitrary rules Or laws existing
among the Trades Unions The prison
records of the Northern States show that
large majority of the prisoners have no
mechanical trade. Boys thrown upon the
world with no means of making liv-
inr by honest labor, and without the train
ing to work which is acquired by the appll-
cation which an apprenticeship in learn
ing a trade requires, become by hundreds
thieves, who, if they had been taught some
useful branch OF the mechanic arts, would
have grown up useful members OF society,
and have added to the wealth OF the com
munity. in place of being q burtlen upon 1t.
Large numbers of boys who are not
tempted into vice through this forced idle
life, crowd into mercantile establishments,
and overruu this branch Of industry with
clerks, bools-keepers. statesmen. ETC., and
constantly tend to swell this middle class
which stands between producer and con-
sumer, till it is at the present time vastly
out of proportion to the other two. These
rules and regulations of the Trades Unions,
unwise as they are arbitrary and oppressive
to the sons of their own members, and all
that class of people who make up the solid
industrial wealth Of the nation, should be
prevented by wholesome restraints in the
shape of legislative enactments. If it is
the duty of government to compel all the
children of the land to be educated, for the
better protection of society, it is equally
the duty of that power to protect the boys
of the land from tyranical rules OF labor
Unions, which tend to deprive them of the
means OF obtaining living, by denying,
except to a small specified number. the
privilege of acquiring useful trades.
The great free and independent interest
which alone has power to regulate and con
troll this, as we'll as other legislative abuses
lies supinely, and submits to he governed
and taxed aud burthened like Il pack ami
NAL, by every other profession, pursuit ant
calling. This interest is agriculture. Thi
of all other pursuits is really the onl,
entirely independent business, and one tina
cannot we'll be oger-crowded; for it is a vel
known law in nature, that where food i
most plentiful there mouths to devour it d.
most increase. If there were that concert
cooperation and union of the agriculture
interest which is found binding together al
other branches of industry, with an educa
ton strictly applicable to that business, tn
aim of which was to establish it on 4 highc
. platform of scientific knowledge than ha
ever yet been attempted, it would speedil
take the lead in shaping the course of gov
eminent, and stand where it ought to stand
highest and most powerful in the council
of the nation The greatest influence til
agricultural interest at present exerts o
political measures and politicians, is tina
the professional politician has of losin
heavily of its vote in some future enc
.ency. In place of supplying statesme
and legislators to the nation. its main bns
ness in politics is to supply voters.
To reach this higher plain. u new depa
rure in education is necessary to be takel
which vii! seek 10 impart instruction TIL;
will be practically useful to the tillers
the soil at every step. TO combine the
efforts and learn to concentrate them
carrying ont and developing one well-m
fured plan of operation or principle
farming, Will he found among the mo
powerful auxilaries to elevating tile - Oh
est and most honorable of all pursuits.
10 attain this important point will necess
tate an improved system of education. ge
s,rally ditfuscd among the agricutur
masses; bnt the first steps to be taken a
The formation of associations or societie
through which measures may be adopt'
Tor cooperating with each other and whe
the interest of every member will be We've
rs the interest of all The isolated al
detached system which has been from tin
immemorial eXtant among farmers,
which every individual has to bear the who
weight and care Of the entire business
his own individual shoulders. is the la
which attiicts him more at present th
=ger before. lie has stood almost still
the midst of old customs, while the rest
the world about him has vastly improv
IN its modes of transacting business, al
by steam and electricity accomplishes fiji
times as much as formerly. The invent
has supplied him with number of labt
saving machines. or machines to lnultiI
the power of labor. but he has not learn
To use them to the same advantage. TIL
yaen in other pursuits have their particul
kinds OF multipliers of power. The n
chine Of the manufacturer Of to-day "
TO the work OF hundred hands. and
manages To extract as great a profit
nearly so, from the work Of his machiI
as his father did from the labor Of 2 hu
bred hands: notwithstanding his proau'
.ire much cheapened ia the markets of 1
world. This is not SO Of the farmer.
has the machinery supplied to him by t
5pgeHious inventor. but his increased {
pense and increased capacity TO perfOl
1abor. i.aae outgrown his productions a
profit; asld tAis terrible and dishearteni
result is maipiy attributable to work viii
out thought. ensesaled by isolation a
loneliness, where nc t-TF3:s.srehange of vie
with men of his own CALLING !set'Fes to sti
ulate and assist him oi. the road al prGsSrt
and we'll appointed effort. While this ST