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

Next TO cotton, tobacco has het rank
is farm crop in the South, and outside
# this long defined latitude thsn has
,een but little competition in oihei ates.
Pennsylvania has raised good tq 30 in
he Lancaster region, and Co gut
eaf has made some -
Michigan. 9Qd laatsa
fhas intutlyely hated
which taxes his one crop more sns'
other, aud if all the spread eagle Eatory
Of stump speakers on this interference
on the part of the government with the
tlIler of the soil was compiled, it kould
make library that no tobacco cask
could hold. For a wonder Of wonders a
complete flop over and about face wheel
has been accomplished during the short
three years Of the present administration
As marvel Of maryels, after about a
century Of deuunciation, Southern Mary.
land farmers are being taught by their
political masters that it is right co tax
their tobacco, or, at least, if not iptrin.
sca'ly right, it is better to let the lax
remain than 70 allow foreigners who en-
ploy cheap labor to pay duties al our
ports, for with our surplus, the Govern.
mcnt conscicnliousy cannot take money
from both sources
Jefferson, the father Of Democracy
denounced this internal system of taxa.
ton; Jackson fought it with yind;c,;v,
hatred; Madison, Monroe. and every nc.
knowledged leader of that political faith
hurried anathemas against it, until the
new heresy known as the Mills theory |
came as new political gospel. Il has
therefore been query with the observer
OF pollt'cal events, as to how far Tho nao.
pie can be led with acw doctrine Ian.
nectIcut has been heard from and tbe
farmers repudiate the improylse5 6nons
c'al salvation; Virginia has spoken am;,e
frequently through her Representative.
aud they declare they will reDudi,to ,hs
Democratic ticket unless the t,v ;s..s ~
en- OIL as the war is ended and No ,a '1
arc needed to carry on peace ( Mr.
comes North Carolina, aud t,rouob San
ator Vance, the powers that be a 20 ~ ~
led mat they must take it of, and ,bat
the Mills supporters must SO docla,a vs." !,
o, North Carolina is III jeopardy, Sim. n.
liar ueernnces are heard farther South
but what about southern Maryland GEN.
orally The Democratic organs ,cn tbe
people that it is right to tax tobacco. ,,,o
party has so declared, and undo, 49,
code of fealty which holds tho ,r.
harylander il political bondage. NJ n,,s
muir Is heard. The old cry is The onlv
''frain we stick to tie part, I'LL J
Or wrong" y r'gn'
one representative of Maryland H..
ng tins session when requested = aur
or hia neishbors who manufactur. s s,
lnd other materials, which were a,
med by the Mills bill, declared Dnl. Ia
hat while he knew such to bo II.
nevertheless he would vote with bi..
r. ~ other words, if Texas and. !
blowing formuIates creed which of i
nssaSslnate MaryIauders. then = '
larylnnd representative must desert o
ome support for the glory of Tey,, :
IN the whole if the Marylaudor :, i
as heard nothing from his cradle h. +,
cnunclatlon of the internal reyenns ST
IN with its spies and iuforuers 4 '
OF feel as if be had taken phvsio, :
the recent edicts of so-cab i
'nocracy' then as physician in "
ateria medlca of public opinion Wi 9
a loss to know what to prescribed o.
e hygenical condition of the cornoi !;
tegumeDt, in the event Of sud III
'ipIng on any future occasion sc
ings go against the stomach U
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