Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-05-27

t&sE 8F&0 Oh kUff0 C1z0mNf z00 p4&%s
wherein the writer distinctly states,
and ollen reilrraies wiihout quaIi6ca-
lion, that ''in 1875 The Republsean lick
el bed one majority m The eleciossl
votes"
Hear land o. cakes, and brsther Scots,
Frae Mnidenkfrk 70 Johnny Groas's,
n tbcre's hole ID y your coats,
Esds - tent its
A chiefs amnng Sc taking notes
And. faith, hsll prent Il
This IS 'whistIlng down the winds
our net Observation-Disclosures which
i % draw sweet uses from adversity
Tor the Democratic party IN the APP
preaching canpaign with q vengeance !
Very much like claiming a victory and
| then yielding The enemy the field o.
battle. And 80 diametrscaIly opposed
/ 10 the facts In the case, which hardly .
newspaper printed fails to aIIude to as
established, that Il would seem unwor-
thy Of further notice than the passing
correction which win explain The joke
IN your next issue no doubt. But there
are men IN this county, as IN others.
who don't eonsideF politics worthy ,of
! basy people notice. and just such things
Pas This, occurring IN the orthodox ps-
er, world pass rs gospel with them;
whereas the true facts, properly set
Iurfk, would ssfre the. Sc. Mary's
aheart," aud force upon their notice.
perhaps for the first Tune, that their
right to vote not only means powers and
privileges affecting Indirectly the sub
stance OF their direct industries, but
that at certain crises il means practi-
cal duty. the neglect Of which risks-as
Il certainly does at this epoch in our
history-loss Of the right or power to
exercise their direct industries TO their
own advantage. Do the people Of st.
Mary's county know what 'centraliza-
ton means Dor do they suspect tina;
il means anything beyond eatch-wori
Of politicians This Is what Il means.
The anti-sIavery element oi The late
war-party was monks eowl and gown
worn BY the devil, and not quite long
enough 10 hide his tail and ho0Is, TO wit, 4
determination on the part Of New Eng.
land, smouldering since Jeilerson's SELF
government principles prevailed over
HamiIlon's snonsrchical prospectus for
our form Of Government, TO establish a
Strong Government Of few over the
many-thcse few to be The best schem-
ers, alias, New Englsnders. OF course
the frst step TO which must be aboli-
ton OF State sovereignty and State boun-
daries, and The next, when our riders
should have the curb-bit :seil IN the
mouth Of sthe public beast the people,
to throw of all disguise and abolish pop
ular cotes, and al other votes, except
those Of the oligarchy in council. /
have quietly watched aud realized the
practical operation Of this Revolution
quietly carried on by Congress for 1s
years; but al no time I'LL now has IFS
proclamation by the patriotic portion Of
| The Press been received by the much
bearing public beast as anything be-
You'd chymerieal alarms Of the party Of
outs But now, when the public
beast has actually taken the bit be-
tween its teeth, to the imminent ieop-
ardy OF our essentially abolition re
tsrs' seat, with the bFavadO Of the last
ditch, their captains frankly propose in
their public speeches to their respective
constituents, Conkling in New York
and Don Cameron in Pennsylvania--to
guarantee State volnnteers-Don C. 3d.
900, think--to march under arms to
Washington next December to see the
electoral votes properly counted. And
John Sherman, so-called Secretary, u.
s. Treasury, openly PLAYS into the hands
OF his partners, The protectIonists, II
Philadelphia-a week OF ten days ago
-by telling them In public address.
that the funds are so much accumula-
ling in the u. s. Treasury vaults from
proceeds OF the Internal Revenue duties
that be does not know what else 20 do
with the surplus over the Insignificant
demand now made upon them by Con-
gressional appropriations 90 ! penurl-
Gus Democratic Legislators than to
pay ten million per week Of our public
debt, by buying ten million OF Govern
ment bonds per week. And this child
like inadvertency at time when We
are sweating under "a complete sys-
TEN OF war-taxes as IL the war were
still going onl Couldn't some Of our
81. Mays business men who pride
themselves that they take no stock 10
Politics suggest 20 Long John Sherman
that tightening Of our taxes would be .
very natural and agreeable way oflight-
enlng The plethora that has accrued TO
our Treasury under his boasted success
full financial policy la policy which
resumes specie payment Of irredeema-
bic paper money al the front door
(lVashington) aud reissues it at the
back door New York -instead Of
burningit, which real resumption means.
why, Long Frank Ford tells me that
ne has 10 pay q special license OF &s
per year ior the privilege Of supplying
Mr. Henry Carroll and myself with
smoking tobacco: and We pay, besides
his profit, a tax of 2I)c. per b., as per
stamp affixed "a bag sc. St. Mary's
realizes practical war taxation As il pre-
sents itself in forms like this. But do
Sc. kIary's voters take cognizance Of
such prohibilOry tariff as gives monop-
oly OF profit on wo0d-pulp to two mem
bers Of Congress while il brings into
the Treasury BY foreign import trade 10
The article 81 cents-Ahis vas the sum
Of the proceeds for 1878 land Congress
only agrees 10 ssplit the difference. Of
duty which threatens to ruin every
newspaper ia the country or double the
expense to Us of reading IL. Do S.
MaFy's voters ever reject that the mer-
chant navy Of . country has some little
10 do with the prosperity OF thai coun-