The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-10-05
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, October j. 1883.
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of Divine right. hut in the march of progress
a I'd in the triump h4I and victorious develop
ment OF mankind these rights have Income
inyallditrd and the intelligence Of our age
has destroyed their chiIIs. And AS We went
about our work We met the rauuts and the
threats of the Republicans with calm smile
OF indifference. We knew that the great heart
OF the taxphying American people was beating
In response To our Efforts 10 relieve them from
unnecessary taxation. 81 we got ourselves
together and we learned 10 govern ourselves,
and we passed that bill not 40 much US an act
OF wise and broad statcsmanship Ms An act of
fOrbearing and compromising craftsmanship,
and we sent il to the Senate aud the Senate
has been wrestling with it ever since.
Laughter ] don't know what that body
will do. They have had il since July 90 and
they have been taking testimony on the subject
OF tariff since MAY 30 DO YOU know what
they call doing this? IL 10 a gentleman who
has something under the tariff bill that makes
him richer than his neighbors, that gives him
something that somebody else has not got,
who goes there and does two things. Essays:
I'm the name OF patriotism, for Gods sake,
don't turn my poor wOrkmen oul," and then
he puts his hand in his pocket and says: How
much do you need 10 carry my State?' And
they have been doing this since MAY 90. and
they will do it until Mr.. Harrison is beaten,
md their money has been all wasted. They
say they can't get up tariff bill in fifty days.
OF course they cannot. We can reduce taxes
in the lower House, but they canno, reduce
taxes in the upper House, because, gen men,
those Interested in this combine do no ltend
TO be sacrificed, though each one OF I'm is
perfectly willing, like Artemus Ward give
all his wife's relations 10 the war . re-
ported that Judge Kelley once said z, Mr..
lloar, of Michigan: 81 think we ha1 better
have free lumber" YES" was the atter's
reply; mo doubt that will be good thing.
agree with you Judge Kelly and will see
that the free lumber is bound around with
Pennsylvania iron" Said Judge Kelley:
Probably the day has not yet come for that"
Laughter saw the Republican minority
Of the House fight day after day on the part
of the schedule about lumber, under which
the revenue from 'S6 TO 81 WAS three dollars
and forty cents. They did not care about the
three dollars and forty cents revenue, but they
were very friendly with certain gentlemen in
Maine who had made enormous incomes in
consequence of this duty, which was practl-
caily prohibitory, and besides, they thought
that II that was put on the free list it would
break down the combine, and the strength of
IL combine Is exactly like the strength of a
cable. The strength of ropeis the strength
of all the threads, and you must break every
one OF them before you break the rope; but if
you take a chain, the weakest link is the link
that holds the whole thing together, and if
you break single link you render the whole
thing worthless. Now, this is a chain that
binds the hands and manaces the limbs of
American power and effort and industry, and
you can tell if it is broken in any of the links,
because then the country will demand more
freedom, and will gradually free herself from
the manacles. Hence it was that the Repub-
lcans fought over that three dollars and forty
cents as fiercely as they did over an item un-
der which the income was fifty.six million.
II looks like waste of time to come to
Maryland TO make speech. You are going
TO vote for Cleveland and you are going to
vote for Stump. 1t has long been saying
that Maryland does everything like gentle
man. | remember one occasion when there
was crowd sitting together one beautiful
TALL evening upon the deck of a vessel. There
were some eight or ten of us. We began dis
cus3ing what it was that made each State
peculiar We were just coming in through
the capcs into the Chesapeake bay, and one
gentleman, talking about Maryland, said, "She
had good deal of poor land and she had a
good deal in her history that might have been
left out, but there is one thing about Mary.
iaud-she Ia the perfect gentleman of the
American Union And | have never come
to Maryland, from that time TO this, that
have not felt that II was just criticism, ana
the man that made it was not Marylander
either. He was straightout Western man
from Kentucky, or Missouri, or MAYBE it was
California, and suppose, therefore, he recog-
nized some rare quality that Marylanders had
when he came into contact with them, after
his experience in Kentucky or Missouri or
California. My friends, there is one thing
that you Marylanders can do, and that ia to
help us to stand for the interests of the com.
mon people on this great question of the tariff.
This is the noblest quality of real gentleman.
hood. 1t is that every man is at the bar of
the law and OF God his equal. We do not ap.
peal to classes or conditions, but TO the ulli-
mate substance of this common human nature
of ours. And it is that to which cur friend
had reference, and it is that which he honor.
cd, the manly and earnest and intense human
ivy which all men have in common. Now,
what we are seeking to do in this fight for
Grover Cleveland and for our side of this
great economic question is to stand for the
common people, and for all who liz, by the
sweat of their brows, aud 70 obey at old
maxim which demands equal rights or all
and exclusive privileges for none, far tusc
and that in every line of work and IN " de-
partment of labor every man shall hal 4 free
and equal chance in this great, this I e land
OF ours. ldrraign this protection prOlIDitOry
tariff because it is, day by day, making per-
manent class distinctions among my fellow
cItlzens' denounce 1t more than anything
else, because 1t is making permanent a class
feeling in this country of ours am panied
to see in the papers u class called labor and
a class called capital. Every man that works
Is my brother. Thank God work like him.
want to preserve in Maryland and through.
out the Union that Democratic simplicity
which gave everybody born under the Amer |
lean nag all the advantages of American in
sttutons. This true Democratic principle
knows no sectional lines and no State lines.
No place of birth, no difference of intellect,
can wipe out this great truth. Here is where
American thought begins; here is where Dem
ocratic doctrine finds its cornerstone in the
iatherhood OF God and the brotherhood of
man. This is the true Democratic doctrine;
this is what we mean when we say that men
are free and equal. As cit upon the floor of
that Congress, the picture that comes oftenest
before me is that of some humble home, |
around whose fathers knee or mothers
gathers large family-One of those old |
fashioned families, like one that remember |
with dim eyes, where there were ten children, |
who loved each other-and in that home
there ought to be the light of that hope which |
springs from n free, untrammeled, equal |
chance in life for each and every child And
God giving me strength will ever vote and |
speak for that policy which gives to that home |
all the hope that lies in the preservation of
American freedom and equality.
-Costiveness is the forerunner of many dam
gerous diseases. Constipation and dyspepsia fol-
i i3W IL as the needle Its pole. Laxador will
give 1t a sure quetus in few days. At all drug
gists. rs cents.
Advice OF an old nurse.-The baby would be
always bright and cheerful If an occasional dose
OF Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup were administered.
When the first Napoleon, having aband-
oned Moscow, arrived at the ferry on the
river Nlemen, he asked the ferryman, who
did not know him, if many French dcserters
had crossed over. mo" was the repIy.
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