Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-11-02
FOR VICE PRESIDENT;
LEVI =. MORTON,
Of New York
FOR CONGREss:
SIDNEY +. MUD,
Of Charles County.
Farmers Should Vote the Republican
Ticket.

Democratic orators aud editors during
the whole Of this campaign have been in
dustriously striving to convince the poo
pie that protection was robbery, aud that
to derive the greatest good to the great
est number a tariff for revenue, or a free
trade policy should be adopted. The
Republican party refutcs this doctrine
and assert that protective tariff. or in
other words license fee should be de-
manded of all foreign manufactures who
wish 70 profit by exposing for sale their
wares in the American market AMI
they claim that that tariff or license fee,
should be sufficiently hugh to bring in
revenue enough to run the government
and at the same time high enough to
check the influx Of foreign manufactures
80 that American laborerS aul American
Industries would not suffer in consequence
~ importation of goods manufactured
by the ill-fed, ill-,lothci, and under
paid laborers who work in the factories
u foreign countries. The Republican
party fayors the erection upon our soil
our own workshops rather than have
them in a foreign land, because they
claim, and Justly that the more commo-
d;ties that are manufactured at home the
more employment would be given to our
countryman, thereby increasing home
consumption Of commodities raised on
American farms. The past history of
the country proves beyond question that
every time we have had protective pol
10y in this country, without one exeep-
ton. the manufactured article has gone
down in price. and the farm product and
the laborers wages have gone up in
price. And every time, if the history
ef the country is written correctly, We
have approached free trade the manu-
featured article has gone up in price aud
the product Of the farm aud the laborers
wages have gone down in price To.
the people of Southern Maryland this
issue which will be settled at the coming
election is of vast Importance. Nine GU
Of ten farmers are ia debt aud their hope
and expectation is that by the products
of their farms they will be enabled to
pay off their indebtness How can they
expect under free trade poli;y to which
the Mills bill is out the entering wedge,
ever be enabled to accomplish the desir
cd end? II foreign manufactured articles
are permitted to enter tue country free,
OF with very light duty, the country
will be flooded with goods, for time We
will grant as cheap or cheaper than those
manufactured at home, the inevitable re-
suit will be the closing Of thousands of
establishments that are now hives
Of industry. What then? Those that
were getting good wages before will be
thrown out of employment and will have
to seek other means of living, Is it not
natural to suppose that a vast number
will seek to gain living by agricultural
pursuits? Should they do so would not
that add greatly 70 the amount of grain
and other farm products now produced,
and would it not lessen the number of con
sumers who would then become prolu-
GERS? And is it not natural to suppose
that farm products would decrease rath
Sr than increase in price? Would Eng
land or any other foreign country buy
any more of our farm products than they
d now? Our opinion is clear upon that
p int. No foreign nation will buy from
another what can be raised at home and
the boosted markets of the world
would be found when too late but a
will o tue wisp. 1t is clearly the duty
Of all farmers in Southern Maryland,
who wish to better their condition to OPP
pose by their ballots the free trade theo-
ries of the Democratic party and vote for