Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-07-13
Tobacco in Pllitios.


Next to cotton, tobac b has held rank
as farm crop in the Sc btu and outside
Of this long defined attudo there has
been but little compel H. other States
Pcnnsy lvauia has bod tobacco in
the Lancaster re- Connecticut
leaf has made Ition. So in
Michigan, and States
Wherever 1t " be farmer
na 4-L~ $685.
which taxes his ono than au-
other. aud if all the eagle oratory
Of stump speakers $ interference
on the part of the govS inent with the
tiler of the soil was col lied, it would
make a library that tobacco cask
could hold For wond h of wonders,
complete flop over and aIout face wheel
has been accomplished dhring the short
three years Of the present. administration.
As marvel of marvei4 after about
century Of deuunciatiou, Southern Mary
land farmers are being tught by their
political masters that i'll right TO tax
their tobacco, or, at Leash if not irtrin-
s,caly right, it is BETTER to let the tax
remain than to allow foreigners who en-
ploy cheap labor to pay duties at our
ports, for with our surpl,E, the govern
mout conscientiously canaot take money
from both sources
Jefferson, the father Il Democracy,
denounced dis internal ]stem of taxa
ton, Jackson fought it With yindictive
hatred, Madison, Monroe. land every ac-
knowledged leader of thatpolitical faith
hurled anathemas agains it, until the
new heresy known as thd Mills theory
came as a new political 9spel. 1t has
therefore been a query with the observer
Of political events, as to hf far the peo-
pie cln be led with new ddtrine. Con
nccticut has been heard tom, and the
farmers repudlaie the imp ovised 6nan-
cial salvation; Virginia has spoken quite
frequently through her representatives,
and they declare they winfepudiate the
Democratic ticket unless le tax is tax
en- off, as the war is ended hnd no taxes
are needed to carry on peace Now
comes North Carolina, aud through Sen
ator Vance, the powers thd be are mott
fed that they must take it bh, and that
the Mills supporters must 20 declare it.
or North Carolina is in jeoiardy. Sim
liar ut erances are heard Arther South
but what about southern Maryland gen
crally2 The Democratic oEaus tell the
people that it is right to a3tobacco; the
party has so declared, aal under the
code of fealty which holds the average
Narylander in political bond &c, no muir
muir is heard The old erj is the only
rafrain- We stick to the party, right
OF wrong
One representative Of Maryland dur
lng this session when requested TO stand
far bis neighbors who manufacture. glass
aud other materials. which bere threat
eued by the Mills bill, declai led publicly
that While he knew such to ie the fact
nevertheless he would vote With his par,
IT, In other words, if I'd Gs aHd it's
following formulates a creed fh9cb offers
to assasslnate Marylanders. shea the
Maryland representative mus desert his
home support for the glory d Texas. n
Ga the whole, If the Mary4 nder who
has beard nothing from his q ldle but a
dcnunciation of theiuterual rdenuo sys-
TEN, with its spies aud iuforb ers. does
not feel as if he bad taken Iphysic 10
swallowing the recent edicts d so-called
democracy, then as physic IAN in the
materia medica of public opiuRn we are
at a loss to know what to pr4cribe for
the hygeuical condition of the corporea
integument, in the event d sudden
gripping on any future occasion when
things 90 against the stomach Free
Chill