The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-11-01
THINKING IT OVER.

Come, let us mediate awhile. Has
the Republican party done anything for
us as people? Let rs see. 1t elevated
the Eatiou;;l credit from bankruptcy, ull-
til it is as good as that Of any nation IN
the world. 1t has paid OFF about 81 &C.,
600. 600 Of the debt contracted during the
war which the Democratic party forced
upou the country. 1t has given our PEG
pie the best currency ever devised among
men--the only one We ever had worthy
of the name. and q National banking
system that is the admiration of the
world. AS a consequence of all this our
national progress during Republican su-
premacy has been unequallcd in the an
nails of time. In 1860 the valuation of
orr property was Sill 00O, 090, 900 in
1881 it is 5i4 600, 600. 600, an increase of
miles of railroad today we have no,
900 miles. In 1860 our foreign trade was
800. 600, 600; in 1884 it will be 81, 250,-
600, Geo. In 1860 we had 2,044, or farms,
worth Sc, GiJ, 043, COZ in 1850 we had 4,
COS, 901 farms worth $40, 1877, 09G, 11G. In
1860 we had 40, AS manufactures in
1880 we had 253, S52. In 1860 our popu-
lation was 81, AS, SCI in 1884 it is more
than %. 900, 900, an increase of 60 per
cent. Why pursue the record further?
This world never saw anything to equal
IT.
Let us turn over the page and look at
the record of the Democratic party.
From its origin it was the ardent advo-
cate and defender of slavery. 1t held
1000 900 of men in human bondage, and
tried to prevent their liberation. 1t has
been the persistent enemy of American
industries and American laborers, by its
steady advocacy of free trade, a doctrine
incorporated in the platform of 1913 and
continued until the present time. Such a
doctrine, had it been put in force and
continued until now, would have pre-
vented the growth CT a thousand indus
tries, put OUT the fires in thousand for
ges Ind introduced the pauper wages OF
Europe among our own laborers. 1t pre-.
cipitatcd the war of the rebellion. 1t |
tried to sunder the Union. 1t loaded our
country with debt. 1t denounced Lin
coin as a tyrant and usurper' 1t sent |
300, 600 boys in blue to untimey graves.
1t called them Lincoln's hirelings. 1t
opposed the Homestead act. 1t did |
away with the free school system in the |
Southern States 1t tries to maintain
its supremacy even today by the rope |
and the shotgun. 1t keeps the South |
solid with tissue ballots and intimda. |
ton. Take your choice between the !
two.
\ New York car driver, in 4 letter
published in one of the daily papers,
spea S in this way of Gov. Cleyeland'S |
veto of the bill reducing the days labor
from y hours to Il hours for conduc-
tors and drivers when Gov. Cleve-
land is sleeping in the morning | am
at work While h. is attending to his
duties during the day | am at work
When he goes to aplace Of amusement
in the evening am at work, and when |
he rctircs to rest at night | am still +!
working. | have a little girl five months
old, and duringmy working days | have
never seen her smile, never seen her
dark blue eyes, and never held her in
my arms awake but twice, and yet this
is a Christian land. Gov. Cleveland's |
veto has condemned us to a life in
which there is no hope, no joy, and no
chance of improvement. "
WHY should Irishmen, who lied from
oppression, support the party now ruled |
by ex-slave owners, whose expressions
are driving poor white and colored men |
out of the South. 1t is fact beyond |
dispute that thousands of laboring white |
men are being driven from the South
and are settling in the We t. |