The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-02-23
Appleton Items.
The mud embargo continues,

meet on Tuesday, February % ii.
Appleton Items.
The mud embargo continues.
Wheat looks green and healthy. All
out door work except what Is necessary
is suspended. Considerable sickness
prevails. II. D. Miller, register of wills
is very unwclI. Holm Creswcll living
east Of Cowantown, is reported to be il
a dying condition. Juvenile humanity
Judging from the full attendance in the
schools in this district. is in good health.
The Appleton debaters having post
poned the tariff question on account OF
bad roads have nearly been postponed
themselves from the same cause.
Would it not he well for the enemies
of protection to get together aud agree
on uniform line of arguement, for III
their present distraction they are like IA
house divided against itself. vt apple
ton it was argued Ly the Free Tariff Re
formers, that the demand for working
men, in and about the mills. increased
wages on the farm out of al! proper p!o-
portion to the price OF farm produce.
in reply it was urged that the increase
of wages on the farm was more than
compensated by the increased demand
and better prices obtained near home IS
pecially for the small articles produced
on a farm which Grd ready sale in our
manufacturing towns.
The cecil UDaotrat. however, denies
that the tariff increase" wages Hear
him: The protertiDniStS cannot make
any pretence that their high tar
i'll benefits any working men, except
those engaged in protected INDUSTRIES
and even that is unfouuGed The car
peuter. the blacksmith. the printer. the
painter. and the mason, are these pro
tected, or any of the aytizanS engaged
in contraction. Those engaged in do
nestle servitudH. III agriculture aud all
unskilled Labor are they protected?
can understand how man of letters,
shut up in his office with no a2qUaiut-
ance with the affairs OF the outside
world. might innocently get off TIE above
stuff; bat how live newspaper man in
| the county seat Of Cecil. who emily walk
ed out to dine could shoot 50 wide Of the
mark, passes my comprehension. y
child Old enough To =" 10 school ought
to know better.
In $50 and for the best part of the
next year, hired as good a carpenter as
ever drove a nail, for dollar per day,
and he worked fyofa sun till sun. now
and for years past such Il man viii com
mand from - 80 to s. GO per day of ten
hours. and constant work at that MAJ
sons. who II ;cd to work al day for one
dollar now get three doilus for ten
hours. | need not 60 over the whole list
of these unprotected workers. but
every body Who wants to know the truth
knows that labor never comm .uded such
high wages, or received constant en-
! ploymeut. and that in no former period
of our country $ history could they buy
with the same amount of work SO much
Of every thing necessary tH their comfort
and convenience, and further, that the
American workmen have. His day, de-
posted in savings banks and building
societies, more money 10y millions of
dollars. than the same class in all the
word beside. is this Free Trade? No.
| | beg pardon. This tariff reform writer
wishes to be informed on this subject.
| let him walk ont to Mr.. Singerlys pulp
works. in Elktou, with his eyes open and
after IA careful inspection Of these works
let him drive up Little Elk creek. stop,
pkg at Chlds'. Marley Mills, aud see
the teams and men. yes. and women too,
earning good wages. Let him look at
the stacks of straw. supplied by the
| farmers for miles around. Now let him
! extend his tour of inspection by lIar-
lin'S board mill and notice the labor
necessary 10 prosecute that business.
| Further on he will see on Il small scale,
what would BE almost universal without
protection. The old {. p. VI. of l. y.
| Carter is silent. having stopped for Il few
days, bat long enuu"h to cast Il gloom
over the whole rcigEborhood. Let him
pass on to SinGerlys, Providence Mills.
Here let him contrast the hum and clat-
| ter and hustle and cheerfniueSS with the
| gloom and sadness which has settled
| down on the last named mill. which has
/ been standing idle only 4 short time.
| Here let him look round and note the I'M
merSe quantities of wood. coal, Time.
chemicals and thousands of other THINGS.
necessary tn conduct this business ct
| him see the teams and estimate the
amount of hay and corn required to keep
them in their present condition, working
as they are III all weather and on the
worst roads imaginlble; look at the
comfortable houses erected for the men;
after feastinC his eyes on the magnitude
of this wonderful place, let him estimate
| if he can the advantage of such AN cs-
! tablishment to the surrounding country
| The thousands of bushels Of Grain and
the tons of hay for the nearly one hun.
dred horses and mules belonging to Mr..
| Singerly, beside many more employed
belonging to the neighboring farmers, let
him take into account the store goods.
flour, feed, freSl, meat, provisions of all
kinds and the amount of money diStrib-
uted among the farmers, merchants. mill
ers and butchers and in fact every body
who has anything to sell or is willing to
| do anything. II he will take this course
he will get more light on the subject
/ than he will ever get in his office, pour
! ing over the pages of Free Trade jour
mails. Let him take the means indicated
if he fails to see that protection is an ad-
vantage, to every man who works with