The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-04-21
For Ans pemoeratlc Adyoeate.

MEssRs EDITORS Our attention has been called
to a late number of the Sentinel in which, while re-
ferring the late Legislature of Maryland the ques
ton is asked what law of general ability has been
put upon the statute books and what great public
interest has been promoted
Now, we believe that If the Sentinel could divest
itself of political prejudice il would be able to dis
cover some good that was accomplished by that
body.
While some measures may have been too hastily
considered and passed with objeetonal features il
is admitted by all who are not blinded by political
prejudice that many important bills were passed,
Without time or space for further comment we will
simply call attention to the bill introduced and
passed by the zeal of Senator Bennett for the benefit
of the public schools Of Carroll county and believe
that the SegtiRa will admit that this bill will pro-
mote public interest within the boundary OF its
II is generally conceded by intelligent people that
future public welfare depends i'll great measure
upon the culture of the rising generations. While
this Is fac: ii is very important that schools
should be kept open and our children educated in
youth for they cannot be educated in after years,
with the cares of life devolying upon them.
With this brief comment upon what has been done
we now make few remarks upon what has not
been done.
mortgages the provisions of which were admitted
by all 70 be just and equitable and yet it was not
passed,
This subject has been agltated for years. and nine
enths of the community favor the measure, and yet
it has not become a law. No objection has been
have the effect 10 drive capital from the state and
thereby affect our agricultural interests.
form low prices of produce no man can afford TO
pay six per cent and taxes on money to be used for
agricultural purposes and that the millions OF dol,
lars so invested are preying upon the vitality OF
husbandry in the state of Maryland. This asser-
ton is proven by the increased and still increasing
number of mortgages sales Of daily occurrence
AZ a majority Of such sales the creditor becomes
the purchaser at the price of his claim and then
sells at an advance TO another victim destined 70
These repeated operations are bankrupting thou
sands of tax payers and piling up millions in the
hands of men who bear no part Of the burdens OF
taxation and yet in trouble will appeal to the au-
thorities for protection.
Now such men and their money can be regarded
in no other light than nuisance, and pest more
TO be dreaded by the farmer than pleuro-pneumonia
and should be banished from the land and quaran-
tined in Hades.
legislation can be obtained that will give equal tax
alton and equal rights But, can we hope for equal
judiciary departments? Can we hope for equal
rights while the almighty dollar sways the sceptre
in church and state ana cons! iules We great am
while the legal lnsso is thrown with vengeance
around the culprit who steals loaf too meagre to
divide and thieves of greater gain pay their penal
ties with their plumber and go at liberty? Can we
hone for equal rights while christians go out into
the highways and hedges and beg of the poor esd
the means SO obtained 20 personal idulgencies OF
% lowering the church steeples higher into heaven
Than the souls of some who profess to worship there
will ever reach? Can we hope for equal rights while
graduated coxcombs will frown with impunity upon
those OF whom their fathers stole the means which
procured their diplomas3 Can we hope for equal
rights while candidates will pay much per capita
for votes to place them in positions where they
make two dollars for one by bartering their own
suffrage? Can we hope for equal rights while a
majority are forced by enormous legislation to live
in want and privation to support the minority in
ease and luxury2
In brief can we hope for equal rights while the
heart of man is deceitfAl above all things and des
perately wicked?
We have seen so much of mans inhumauity ~
man" and have been made TO suffer to such an
extent by the subtle duplicity of those in whom we
placed implicit confidence, that we cannot refrain
from expressing our thoughts in plain terms.
In conclusion, we will say that we may hope and
hope in vain for equal rights and even-handed JUS
tiee until we have return of the days gone by
when the "o1ice sought The man, and criminals were
made to suffer the penalties of their crimes regard
less of their surroundings D.