The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-09-28
Letter From DR.. Mackall.

Il. +. EWING d Sons, Gentlemen;-Per-
nit me to say that the Somewhat forid
caption" put TO my article you copy from
the weekly Sun, was put on in The Sun Office
and never saw it until / received your
paper on Friday, as do not take the weekly
Sun and it is not sent gratis even to contrib
utors by request.
And as TO my ''free trade weakness let
me say thatI did not expect paper de-
voted 10 the interests of agriculture 10 rid
icule one who writes in that interest unless
it carfbe shown that he writes, nonsense.
Now you are too intelligent and well in
formed in the MIDLAND JOURNAL office
not to know that all this talk about free
trade is arraut nonsense, intended TO scare
voters from the support of tariff reform.
You know that any average tariff of forty
per cent is not free trade or approaching
free trade. You know that free trade is inn
possible and that no sane man in America,
except Henry George, if he is sane, advocates
such measure. AS an American citizen ]
desire the prosperity of the American citi-
zen without Partially or favor. am OPP
posed to any legislation which favors one
class at the expense of another, and this is
precisely what our present tariff laws do;
they tax the consumer for the benefit of the
producer. To tax the people for the sup
port of the government is necessary and
right. To tax the people for the benefit OF
d class is wrong. The tendency ofsuch tax
ton is TO separate the people into classes,
and this is the result of such policy. To-
day, in free America, class is arrayed
against class aud the battle is wased to an
alarming extent. You cannot read your ex-
changes without knowing this. If our laws
bore equally upon all citizens this state Of
things would rot exist. The boasted forty
four billions of wealth in the United States
of America, where is it? Certainly it is not
in the pockets of the farmers or the meehan
les or the laboring people. The great bulk
of it is in the bank accounts of the favored
classes the classes protected by our laws so
that their gains are assured to them. Dat
side of these "wards of the Nation" every
man struggles for himself. He is taxed to
support the government under which he
lives and at the same time he is taxed to
Zurich others. Such laws are unjust and
I'M American. There should be no discrim
ination in the laws of free county. Under
the old fen dial system Of Europe, laws were
made for the feudal Lords and the people
were partially the slaves of those Lords,
and when in any country, the wealth is in
the hands of the few, the many are reduced
to the condition of serfs. The struggle now
going on between capital and labor Illus
trates this fact. The laboring man demands
consideration as man; capital looks at him
as commodity to be purchased at the mar
ket price. Capital is protected, labor is
not. and cannot be unless tariff is put upon
foreign labor. None but blind man credits
the theory that employers pay more for
labor that it can be bought for. At this
very time mechanics ere demanding and re-
ceiving, in Elkton, higher wages than usual,
because the demand is greater than the
supply. Next year he will probably be
seeking employment at lower wages, and
the American mechanic is the best. paid
working man in America, and that without
an item in tariff or other laws for his pro-
lection. But 'srevenous nos montous." Ag-
ricultural products have uniformity COM
manded better prices under low than under
high tariffs and agricultural interests are the
prime factors in the prosperity of this coun-
try and there can be no genuine prosperity
not what the aggregate wealth of the country
may be, if the land yields no profit to the
hnsbandman, the country is in sad con-
dition. That point had been nearly reached
last year. The advance in the grain market
gives lis hope. And it is not the "home
London market. Close that and the wheat
I,:n 80, Oh III baf
market will make it pay to bring 1t out.
trade but by just laws, bearing equally upon
all classes and repeal all laws the tendency
ofwhich is to make ten millions at the eX-
pense ola thousand tax payers. Ii the sem
Tor editor Of the MIDLAND JOURNAL will
forget that he once edited party paper and
will take broad view of a great, question,
/ feel quite sure he will take a more liberal
view Of an old opponents "political relig-
ion." /, to-day, rejoice with him. that we
can both think and write for an undivided
country, and not as Southerner and
Northerner. An ''old time Southern gen.
tlemen's political religion" is the religion
Of free thought in the interest of a com non
country and of the common people. The
country is big enough for all industries, SO
that one need not prey upon another. The
enemy OF a fostered industry is the fat il
draws from the muscles oflabor. Some of
this is now demanded in order to secure the
balance on hand. 1t will be given, for even
the miser will give, little to he assured
that the titles to his houses and lands are
good. Yours Respectfully.
r. G. MAcKALL.
We were merely joking the doctor
on his free trade" proclivities of the
old school, in connection with the
Mills bill which is high protective
measure as any one may readily
learn by reading it. Our old friend
is revenue only" man while the
above named bill is "protective"
measure mainly. This whole cam.
paign is huge joke, and we laugh at
it. 1t is deplorable and others weep
over it.