Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-07-05

WISHES "a koeW ~ - :
xssAal tales II eoesioeTSlSSh his q - 3
mailing His calculations for coutrsetiug
for labor and selling his wares. Really,
If il was not for the fact that no one but
large taxpayer could manifest such
deep concern for the material welfare
Of the county, should readily conclude
that his experience as q land owner and
merchant was extremely limited.
will say to my friend, however, that -
this practice has become 30 universal
that il requires no proof on my part.
But If he can show me one who does
not, will obligate myself to show him
one that makes no calculations at all.
He is willing TO 60 to the bottom of the
well with me. Butlo! he gets no further
than the brink, and like . truant school.
boy, he leaves, his task to chase the first
passing butterfly. Let us 90 to the bot
tom, but will tell him beforehad, that
I am no leveler, but aslcng o. can
speak or WELD pen will defend the
integral rights Of the laboring man, be
ne Democrat or Republican, Catholic or
Protestant. He admits that the work.
ing man is the only source Of wealth,
and that all the temporal happiness
which the world enjoys is obtained by
the sweat Of his brow. Yet the small
pittance which he receives for his days
toll il sufficient for him, ss what he does
is done through necessity, and he thinks
Of nothing but his next years labor.
an forced to say, but without any I'M
kind allusion, to my friend that
Mans inhumsnity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Is 1t not throush necessity that the farm.
er is compelled to employ the laborer !!
If he could speak his crops into exis-
tence, would he expend a dollar for
them: Methinks that the world has
evinced too clearly that ITS chiefest tenn
poral pursuit is gain. Which is the bet
ter prepared to defend himself, the
strong man with nothing but his fist or
the paralytic cripple encountered with
sword which he cannot lifts Such,
consider is the difference between The
laborer, able and willing to work. and
the land owner without energy or phys
ical strength. care nothing about the
organization Of my friends party or its
chances Of success. The real Issue be-
tween US, is whether or not the labor
ing man Of America has any political
rights which the property holder is
bound to respect! This is a subject
upon which the working class Of Dem
ocrats and Republicans ought not to d.
vide. Their respective rights have re-
ceived blow from the right-angle tri-
angle to the hypothenuse OF my friends
argument. In Mr.. Mills essay upon
Government Systems" it is shown
conclusively that minority Of the COM
munity, consisting even Of many thou
sands, would be bad constituent body,
and indeed merely numerous aristoc-
racy. 1.-THE benefits Of the representa-
tive SYSTEM" says he, ''are lost in all
cases in which the interest of the chos-
ing body are not the same with those
of the community. II is very evident
that il the community itself were the
choosing body, the interest Of the COM
munity and that Of the choosing body
would be the same"
Mr.. Mill. therefore, recommends that
all males of mature age, rich and poor,
educated and ignorant, shall have votes"
Indeed. he lays it down as an infallible
rule that true liberty is never enjoyed
where universal suffrage does moi exist.
What is universal suffrage but the over
throw Of violence and brute iorce-the
end Of the material and the beginning
Of the moral facti But now il is pro-
posed by my friend to abolish this sa-
cred right. and why' will tell him.
1t is because the laboring men have
been deemed worthy Of their votes
because they have dared peacabiy 10
instruct him through the ballot box
Therefore it is, that his anger has been
aroused, and that under the pretense
that the material interest Of the county
is imperilled, he seeks to chastise them
and so he defies the spirit Of the age
and sets at naught the wisdom Of our
republican institutions. His theory has
begun, but its end is shrouded in the
mysteries Of the future. As it rolls
down the corridors OF time, it will attach
to itself such condemnation a. il will
merit upon the elevation Of the condi-
ton OF the laborer to that Of true man
hood, or such tame a. it will acquire
upon the establishment Of q nobility and
when laborer and a slave are synon-
ymous terms. And while the rich
and the noble are seveling in their lux
ury and basking IN their pleasure, the
poor and the lowly will cry out and say,
in addition to our poverty. "thou hast
put clogs upon our feet also. thou hast
looked narrowly in all our paths. thou
settest prints on the heels Of our feet"
NY friend has virtually said that The
first article Of our Bill Of rights is all
wrong-that men should not be born
free and equsl-and that - he Was
born Of wealthy parents, At the age Of
maturity he should cast his ballot, but
- wss born Of poor parents. must q
my majority seqsire property before en-
ereisiag the right Of ffsachise. But
that article stands. and win stand for
ever, ~ menace 70 ell who sdvocsie the
theory o. property q.alscaaion. Asd