Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-25

NSu4o~s 49, SonssssscnNs Va snso SouaSs
in the coming contest for Legislative
and local Offices. In addition 10 what
we then stated, we would remind our
friends that q Governor, Comptroller
and Attorney General, with all that
these involve" areto be elected this year
and that we cannot escape if we would,
and should not if we could, the respon-
sibility which is upon US to maintain
to the best Of our ability our party su-
premacy in the State. But this SUBJ
ject can safely, perhaps, be left to take
care Of itself for thepresent. At leastit
is rather to democrats a. tax-payersthan
as party men that we now address our.
selves. The frequent recurrence Of bad
crop years of late, with the consequent in
volved and crippled character of our in
dustrial interest; the impoverished con-
dition of our lands; the heavy cost Of
fertilizers and all farm machinery; the
high prices we are forced to pay for ev-
rything we buy and the low prices we
get for everything we have to sell, ex-
cept tobacco, and ever this in the aver
age of a decade scarcely pays the costs
of production; the high rate of taxa
ton, unavoidable no doubt, with other
backslaps too numerous to mention, 60
to make up picture which is rather
to contemplate. Bad as it
is, however, it could be . great deal
worse, and a great deal worse it will
be, unless we are all watchful to guard
our county from all future monetary en-
with railroads. Our last
lesson on this subject ought to be enough
for the present generation. But let the
dead past bury its dead. 1t is against
future entanglements of this kind,
against endeavors to loan the little cred
it we have left to build or rather to start
railroads for other people that we pro-
test, and we predict, now and here, that
the old proposition to obtain authority
for issuing our county bonds to serve
certain railroad ends will be resumed
in some shape or form during the cur
rent year, if it is not made an element
in the coming campaignitself. Wheth-
er this fancy of ours be well or ill-ground-
ed, it can do no hurt to the taxpayers,
democratic or otherwise, to guard with
the two avenues through which
alone it is possible for proposition of
this kind to enter, and these are, the
representations in the legisla-
ture and in the Commissioner Court.
And with this, we leave everybody to
their own meditations.
A vigorous war has broken out be-
tween the railroad giants, the Penn
sylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio
Companies. The former, having COM
menced system of underwriting the
latter in shipments of freight from
Baltimore to the West, the Balti-
more and Ohio retaliated by reducing
their rates below those of its rival from
Philadelphia to the West. TIE next
step upon the part of the PENNSYLVANIA
was to refuse to sell through tickets BY
the Baltimore and Ohio road from New
York and other points to Baltimore and
Washington. The B. & o. Company,
as a retaliatory measure, has made an
immense reduction of the passenger
rates between Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia and the leading West
ern cities, SO that ticket from Balti.
more to Chicago can now be had for
$40, the former charge being s19. To
other points a proportionately large
deduction on the old rates has been
make. And the war still rages-''at
him, Husband go it, Bear!''
Whatever may be contemplated to
be done by the majority in Congress
within the few days which remain Of
the present session, nothing of note that
We can find out is being accomplished,
though great deal is threatened
Poland has introduced a
resolution in the House declaring.
that no interference with the internal
affairs of Arkansas is needed This
antagonises the late message of republic
can Grant. The Louisiana Committee
have not yet reported and, indeed, it
now matters little what they report
The Judgment is already made up.
The Force, the Civil Rights Bill, are
both in statu qao and Pinchback is still
postponed. Butler contemplates an
early visit to Europe. Gentlemen for
eigners, hands on your pocket-books.
1t is now generally supposed that the
extraordinary occasion which requires
the Senate of the United States to be
convened for the transaction of bust
ness at the Capitol in the city of Wash
ington on the Sth day of March, 1875"
tsee late proclamation of the President)
is the consideration of the proposed
reciprocity treaty between the United