Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-06-09
COMMUNICATIVE.

(Which YOU would like to live long
enough 10 hear him construe. ITO
answer d fool according to his folly,
sucgest/lself, hnt it would be both I'M
courte and unjust. To err is human
and the X scst commit iollies--"eyenthe
good Hdner sometimes sleeps" You
should desl with iacts--not hypercrltical
evasion3. In your issue OF the 18th,
you set up a windmill on the policy OF
publishing the laws and devoted one
column batiering il down. The true
issue al Ipresent with The press IS not
the mode but the incredible prices paid
Tor the Tltblic printing, and the object,
the effect and the evils arising from Il.
II i no secret, but recorded fact, that
each editbr to whom the job is gwen
receiye Tor publishing the laws - wv
land Il is not denied that The Col.
tons at Annapolis perform the work ana
supply De paper TO the Editor Tor iOo'
Thus with no responsibility and at no
cost the Editor receives 81, 100 clear
profit. sL10O paid without . consider
alton ID US pause and mediate
- rSterYs TIE eyldence-llere
| il, thas $40 u the market valae OF the
publication. h is printed and the pa
pers supplied BY the Editorial Boss OF
/ The Ring at Annapolis. II i gwen sole
4 ~ to papers that support the Ring. II has
been Withdrawn from those that tailed
to do so. II IS true, that there IS no
consideration mentioned in the bond,
but the job is given, and the money
paid under an implied and imperious
contract, the object and 0Hee; OF which
Is TO control The influence Of the press.
Il is a subsidy paid las the means OF
sitting lbe public voice, and the public
press, los the most part, which should
be- the eye, the ear aud The mouth Of
the State has been suddenly smiiien
with Blindness, end - too deaf 10 hear
and too dumb TO speak. except as the
dispenser Of public patronage directs"
we haze seca combinations OF whisky
rings. r. X. companies. manufacturers
aud capitalists controlling the Ltglsls-
ton OF The General Government. bat 10
the astuienew OF hlcssrs. German and
Cotton, we are indebted for press
combination. II is strong hrm but
The people can reform a. As the timc
approaches for the selection Of candl.
dates lor Comptroller, the Senate and
members Of the Legislature, 1t IS inn
! porlanl that the people yhouldknow the
true faanclal condition OF the State N
order 70 form a just judgment and die.
crlmipaiion in the selection n their
agents. The light should be made Ia
shiue in dark places and II there Is cor
rupiion It should be- exposed. That the
public confidence has been abused and
that there has been a shameful anc
, reckless waste Of the public money, =
matter Of record, and as The ways o
the press al pfesen, are dark aud Ilgb
liniied. it 3. well to give a few "spert
mems" IF Abe reform bills Of the las
and elere eaid Enrro..isg c,m.....
- 900 pam 70 - uewsfaper CORES.
pondenls
50 25I paid TO y officers al the open.
ing OF the session when only { were
entitled pay for o. days only
- 22B PAID to s doorkrepers for /
door TO the Senate
s22ii paid to g doorkerpcts aud
only 2 doors for the House
Si25 paid 70 / aagnan for raising
and lowering the dag and only
S7Gs 81 paid 10 Z Chaplaios 10 make a
sham ,hnw OF religion.
S5729 IS paid rpu~t-oiIicc stamp +
III membrfs and 100 officers and
employee 10 wait 90 them, whose sal
aries Ia the aggregate exceeded that Of
The members
These are only few items BY way
Of illustration.
II equal. The Carpet-bag Legislatures
Of the South. Our Carpet.baggcrs have
the same grip upon the Treasury, the
same power IN the State. Popular SOW
efeignty is but a farce and political
/ power monopoly. The taxes levied
on the people 10 liqdidaie the State
/ debt have been nis.apphed. and the
/ public funds squandered aud prostituisd
for corrupt partisan purposes. There is
point where torbearance is censura-
Bile, and inae,ion, ignominious. We who
eonnives, aids and ahets, is legally and
morally criminal The party must be
purged OF this plague or II will perish.
! am warned however TO keep cool,
for ] am termed furious fellow" "A
fellow must not be furious" when
the Locusts are IN The land devouring
his substance; when his hard earned
money, accumulated day by day by the
sweat % his brow, ~ taken from the
State 'seaNasury and used against him 70
deprive him Of bis political rights; when
an interruptions and crafty ling Of po-
liiical adventurers are using the public
money TO maintain themselves in pow.
er, corrupting the public morals and
rummaging The State to collect III in.
siruments 10 give a legislative sanction
TO their acts. He must keep cool and
be submissive and obcdient TO these
Bosses 10 iat Offices and fine clothes,
who look upon him as serf, and treat
him as slave. Thirty years service
IN the Democratic party entities mem
beS TO exercise his discretion between
supporting men or measures for plumber
or principle and there are many like
myself who cannot and will not vote for