Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-15
Circumstances Alter Cases.

by the heavy tax imposed upon agrlcul-
tural people and consumers generally il
the way of high tariff duties upon the
products of mines and mechanical indus
tries when imported into this country
from abroad. But no man of Mr.. Nc
Comas's intelligence and apparent con-
science would have the hardihood to come
down here in these counties which de-
pend entirely upon agriculture for living
and preach to the co1oreG and other agri
cultural laborers that they are benefited
by an onerous tax which agricultural peo
pie have fought against with one accord
from its first inception.
That a protective tariff upon imports
was burden upon the agricultural peo-
pie of the country was conceded by Mr..
Clay and the founders of the protective
system but they were appealed to to bear
this burden for time, until infantile do
nestic manufacturing industries might be
built up and placed on such footing as
to enable them to compete with the for
eiga manufactures But there is no pre-
tense at this day that the manufacturing
industries of this country are still in such
an infantile state as to need pateraal pro-
lection at the hands of the goverum ument.-
The only ground upon which the advo-
Gates Of protection justify it at this day, is
upon the theory that it enables the own.
ers of factories and mines to pay their la
borers higher wages than are paid to sim
liar laborers in Europe and other foreign
countries.
The effrontery of politicians who preach
to the colored agricultural laborers that it
is to their interest to vote for the continu-
ance of a tax which compels them to pay
from 40 to SO per cent. more tor the clothes
| they wear and almost every article of mer-
chandise they buy. in order to increase the
wages of skilled laberers in the North and
East, is therefore manifest. Yet it is done
by the local republican bosses and the
people they put on the stump. The col
ored voter is told that the tariff improves
and elevates the American laborer" and
that he is an American laborer," and the
conclusion comes to him that be must be
| benefited in some unknown way by this
wonderful tariff; and so he goes on voting
blindly for the party that is really bring
ing the ''hard times" upon him in com
mon with all other agricultural people by
its oppressive legislation.
The same effrontery on the part of the
leaders and blind credulity on the part of
the voters which renders this Aagrant de-
ception practicable and successful, also
renders the other ridiculous fraud, that
the Democratic party is responsible for
the present low price of tobacco and con-
sequent "hard times" practicable. This
fagrant falsehood is actually preached by
the local leaders to the colored voters and
they are heard on all sides to say that
they believe it. Influenced by this, and
similar deceptions. the colored voters are
kept into the ranks and they are going up
to the polls again this fall to vote diane
trically against their own interests, in
common with those Of all other agricui-
tursl people, by casting their ballots for
the republican nominee. But, fortunately
for him, every vote he casts for the repre-
sentative of the burdensome protective
tariff this fall will fail in its injurious effect
upon our material interests, because thai
representative will be showed under by
intelligent Democratic votes and the re-
preventative of revenue tariff and the
rights of farmers will be elected
If our coloied voters would impress his
title to the privileges OF American citizen
ship upon the intelligent observer Of cur
rent political events and strengthen his
cause in the public estimation, be must
prove himself superior to such cheap de-
ceptions as we have herein referred to-
We hope at no distant day, through the
benign influence of the liberal educational
policy SO generously extended to the col
ored race by the Democratic governments
of our own, and other Southern States,
to see the colored voter educated up above
this pitiable and dangerous condition and
the demagogue and the deceiver thus de-
prived of his nefarious occupation.