The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-07-28


present high duty upon sugar. After
permitting MI HsvemeyeT, the head
OF the great sugar trust, to have phi
vate conference with the chairman OF
the ways and means committee, they
agreed To continue the present enor-
nous sugar duties which protect only a
small strip OF sugar cane land in Louis
lana at a cost of $50, 900 900 per an
mum in revenue. The Republicans want
to reduce this duty at least one half.
The Democrats propose to retain the
taxes both import and internal revenue
upon tobacco. The workingman can
not chew piece of navy plug. or smoke
a "twofer" without being reminded that
Cleveland charges him double price for
it, while Harrison says ''Give him twice
as much plug for the same money, and
ten cent cigar for five Cents"
The Democrats reduce The tariff on
steel rails from SIT TO STI per ton, but
does any one suppose the P. w. Y B.
Railroad Company will, on that &C
count, charge any less fare from Elkton
or Port Deposit to Philadelphia or Bal
timorc?
The Democrats retain the enormous
duty upon rice, equal to 100 per cent
on its value Rice is a South Carolina
product, and South Carolina cries out
for home protection, in spite of ohm Z.
Calhoun and notification, Andrew
Jackson is dead and Grover Cleveland
is in his chair. A witty Congressman
thinks the South Carolinians must have
sung this to Mr.. Mills.
Little boy blue, come blow your norm nice,
Knock spots ofmutton, but don't toucn our rice
They protect even peanuts, Virginia
and North Carolina call TOR duty On
these palatable little nuts, and they seem
to get it for the asking. Florida de
mands duty on oranges and it is
granted. The Democrats seem thus
to say to the people OF Cecil county.
"After we have taken away your mills
and factories, and markets, and have
rnined your sheep growing and CHARCOAL
burning, then if circus should come
along, and you can raise quarter for
admission, you must pay to US in Wiz
GINA and Florida tax on the petty
joys of munching peanuts and sucking
oranges"
This is the spirit of the whole mea-
sure. The South IS protected-the
North is devastated. Sugar, tobacco,
rice, pig iron down to peanuts and
oranges, all protected and all Intended
to flourish. On the other hand wool,
lumber, granite, paper, kaolin, sheet
iron all down trodden, and intended to
perish. They will protect the negro in
the South, working in the canebrakes
of L >uisiana, the rice swamps of South
Carolina, the tobacco fields of Virginia,
or the pig iron furnaces of Alabama,
but tn. great industries of the North,
the wool, the coal, the IRON, the lumber
and the glass with the white working
men engaged IN them, are to be Grip
plea or destroyed.
Let every voter in Cecil county
weigh the matter well, and decide what
it will be for his own personal interest
to do-whether to vote for Cleveland
and the Democratic candidate for Con
gress, which means to invite and en-
courage all these evils to himself and to
his home,-or whether to vote for Har
rson and the Protection candidate for
Congress which means steady work,
good wages and increasing prosperity.
DO not be misled by party cries, or
by sense of blind loyalty to old party
names. 1t is no longer Democrat or
Republican. 1t is Free Trade or Pro-
lection. The Democratic banner of ulti-
mate Free Trade has been hung out.
1t Is black flag for Cecil county. Do
not enlist under it. Dare to act and
vote according to your convictions like
free and independent citizens, not
blindly as the politicians may dictate.
Bear in mind that "Protection is profit
sharing Free Trade Is poverty shar
ing"