Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-11-16
The Great Question Not Settled.

Mr.. Editor DOUBTLESS most of our Dem.
ocratic friends are greatly surprised at the
result OF our late campaign, and are busy
in consulting and casting about in their
minds To divine the cause OF disaster to our
ticket, and upon this point it is not likely
any two will fully agree. | may have en-
tirely failed to discover the primary cause,
but this propose to say, that have parti
cipated actively in every campaign since
1860 and have carefully noted the issues in.
volved and the range of discussion upon
them in such campaigns since 1848, and
never before have ever known so many
men OF seemingly good practical sense SO
much confused. embarrassed and misled US
they have been upon the single issue in
volvei in the contest just ended.
True my range oil observation has not
been very large, but when we reflect that
the great body of the Democratic party is
of Anglo Saxon blood, and therefore their
reasoning powers on an average about the
same everywhere, and the interests of the
masses throughout the Union, when viewed
from an intelligent standpoint, are substan
TALLY the same, 1t is reasonable to suppose
that the appliances OF hypocrisy, deception
and Misrepresentation that have been SO in
geni0usy and industriously resorted to by
Republican leaders would have about the
same effect in one locality as In another.
When the House of Representatives passed
the bill 10 cut down war rates Of duties
upon foreign imports, which have for years
imposed an unnecessary burden upon the
people, they only did what the most promi-
nent Republican leaders had acknowledged
the necessity OF and recommended to Con
gress from time " time
The Republican Senate was compelled to
rpSiSt ltQ apk mn ayl aIua Ia,
country that they had kept the people load
ed down with war tax for at least twenty
years after the necessity for it had passed
away. AS all their old hobbies were worn
out they joined battle with the Democracy
upon this single issue. Immediately the
cry was raised and the false alarm was Civ
Ell throughout the land that il this measure,
which carries fairness and Justice to all in
terests upon its face to any careful and can.
did observer, should be endorsed by the
popular vote the working people, whom 1t
was honestly intended to protect, would be
overwhelmed by deluge of free trade.
In face of the fact that the so-caled Mills
bill had left the duties sufficiently high on
almost every article that would come in
competition with home production to two
or three times cover the labor cost 80 that
If the foreign labor cost nothing, domestic
labor could not be effected, Republican pro.
fessional politicians have had the hardihood
to stand for hours before intelligent people
and hold it up before them as hideous
monster OF destruction which, ii adopted
would reduce our labor to level with the
serf, pauper and criminal labor of Europe.
They have contended that the surplus
in the Treasury should be disposed of by
anticipating government bonds when they
know that while the government, as they
affirm, would be saved At per cent, the PEG.
pie To replace the money unnecessarily
drawn from them by a tariff, which they
have the effrontery to argue is no tax, have
to pay 6 per cent, and when they know that
the interest would for several years be alb
sorbed by the premium at which the bonds
are selling.
They have doubtless, to great extent.
succeeded in deceiving wool-growers, by
taking advantage Of their Impotence and
the natural desire that all men have To re-
alize Immediately upon their outlay and
labor. They have had the address and in
genuity to blind them to the fact that the ex.
listing stagnation to domestic manufactures
and trade with the outside world, while we
are sending out millions into foreign coua
tries To supply our people with the wooden
goods they need, and at the same time, as u
consequence, are Withdrawing from circula
ton and locking up other millions 10 IN
OVERLOOKING Treasury more than offsets to
them the advantage they are deriving from
the duty on their product, and the fact that
by letting in foreign wool free to supply the
deficiency in the domestic product both in
quantity and kind, a stimulus would be Civ.
en- to home manufactures by which such an
increased demand would be created for the
product that the industry of wool growing
would prove more remunerative than ever
before, while lnum the very start all other |
interests would be greatly benefited