The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-09-26
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Bethel Church-Dry Weather-CrOps
Political DISSERTATION.

The Sunday School celebration at Bethel, last
Saturday, was grand success. Rev. Mr.. Todd
and preached ut North Bend in the afternoon
The congregations at both places were large and
attentive.
Dry weather still prevails and if the prophets
prophecy as did Elijah of old we certainly will
have short harvest in 'S5.
Corn is ripening fast and is we'll nigh in shock
Scattered fields seen still standing, which are
ripe and ready for the cutter. The crop is only
a medium one. Sweet corn and tomatoes are
ripening prematurely, and the crops of both will
be short Gamers are likely to have a boom in
prices which will make last years work pay TOO
business under protective system has nearly
come to stand still. The great manufactures of
iron and cotton are stopping, and many of them
have closed down, because as they say it don't
pay. We have high protective tariff, which is
the pivot upon which the Blaine party build
their hopes of success and over which the bia-
tant demagogues shout hosannas into the ears of
the laboring classes, who are the great majority
of the voters. They tell these men that high
wages. high prices for the products of the farm,
&c. Now in the name OF all that is good, is not
the tariff high enough at the present. and the iron
works all stopped or stopping; cotton mills stop
ped or stopping wheat 50 cents q bushel; corn as
10 80 cents potatoes 40 cents per bushel Is 1t
not all true? Now if this protective policy ia 80
good, why is not business in the high tide of pros.
perity-mis of all kinds running at remunera-
tive profits to their owners9 But such is not the
case. remember, when was younger we were
jeered at by the protectionists as the revenue
tariff and hard money party but we did not hear of
the manufacturers CLOSING up the doors of their
factories and sending thousands of hungry chill
dren, and adults too, to bed supperess. Those
were times when such men as James X Polk and
Franklin Pierce were at the helm of the ship of
State, when honest labor was honestly remun-
Grated. But the protectionist says, IF do not
make large profits on my money | will not rum
my works." and the same Republican says "a
stranger coming here, Ito Woodberry) would
judge by the dress of our people that they possess
ed thousands" Now what does that worthy mean?
Does he mean, as once heard judge say in a
public speech, that 1.-THE factory girls Should
not be allowed to dress in silk for cannot tell
them from my daughters on the streets" This
same Judge was Haunting Republican leader in
his time and place. Why shall factory girl
wear cotton jeans or shoddy, as mark that she
may be known as factory girl? In the days when
/ was younger, such were not the sentiments of
the opposition to the Democracy. Clay and
Webster were alike the friends of the laborer,
They honorably debated their positions without
descending to the scurrility OF the fishmonger to
degrade honest labor.
/ would like to see one honest and intelligent
Irish American who can or will vote for James
G. Blaine. who is one of the founders of the pro-
scrptive Know Nothing party. That party lived
when was younger, and well do l remember
how the Irish were belabored by some of those
who are now the pillars of the Blaine party
Such an Irish American should be ribboned and
taken around as a side show at the circuses and
other places of sightseeing. p.