Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-10-05
Some Plain Truths.


mass ,Dsetisg hell IN ba1rsl - tie 80
- September, in tbe-coBrse Of bis speech
safd;
The Republican party IS in favor Of
Protection because it is right: it is right
to adjust II regularly and fairly on all
things alike. It don't mean protection
10 rice IN South Csralina and sugar IN
louisiana. Protection projects our
land The Americans buih our high
ways, railroads, school houses and
churches not England. We pay our
axes ~ home to support iheF public in-
.liiulions and improvements not Eng
land. We build eur own lBFket places,
not England. What right has she to
come here aud trade withow paying for
the privilege? And if she DIES GENE to
trade, she takes the monochrome with
her to build up her own affIrs.
Mr.. Mills wants to qualify some Of
the positions he has taken. He'says let
in the ray materials. WHAT'S raw ma
terials? II is something upn which no
labor is attached. | stood recently at
the mouth Of an iron mine md asked a
miner what that ore dumpd near by
Sas worth ton. lie said 81 40. |
replied, that cannot be pOse. that
mountain is full Of it. lie lOked at me
with disgust and said my fri'a1, if you
will take Of your coat, sPi b. your
hands and go into tt-a1 mountain with 4
pick and shovel and get IN out and
wheel it on the dump here, you don't
come to the conclusion that The ore is
worth 81 40 then Tm-a suckr
It's the labor that goes ipldhe mate
| rial Il at make it valuable; ev'y sep Of
it progresses, from the ore in ne noun
tain to the smclter then to piland then
to commerce, until finally get
screws for watch so small rs 0 be m
visible to the naked eye, and woh more
than their weight in gold. It 1.-THE la
Dor that makes it all
There are 647 saw mills 10 Maine
alone, and Mills Of Texas wants umber
brought in free The mountain'lf New
England are filled with grapin Mills
says let it come in free The tate of
New York is underlaid with sallgiying
employment to tens of thousandsf peo-
pie, and Mills says let i, come . free
The farmers all over the land ae rails
ing sheep, and Mills says let tb wool
in free.
Alexander Hamilton said on hun
bred years ago competition at home
will make goods cheaper" he,hilos-
ophy Of Hamilton has been fnl6lei from
the hat on your head to the shoes ~ your
feet Tie farm products have qaadru-
pied in price since his day, and he far
mer is getting double theprice foFhis
articles. The English ak whehtfe
old men in this audience remember at
81 apiece were not so good as the
American AK now sold sf rs cents
apiece. Hoes used to be $40 and 81.
a dozen, The Americas .sssga q
=, ana 50. Mans USED 10 be s audy cents
: Il pound, and it took two-tO drive 1, Rough
the same hole; the American himself
stem for 8 cents pound ThdEag
fish price for steel rails was
Si67 ton; American ingenuity
and skill have brought them down to
S2S, and before 1890 our steel will
command the markets Of the world. =,
Before 1867 we had no plate glas, here,
we paid the foreign price 81 5O-per
square foot; now in Mississippi, Penn
sylvania and New York we are making
1t at % cents square foot and in
smaller sizes at 10 cents. When Twas
a boy | hauled wheat to Chicago One
load would pay for barrel of salt. Now
a load OF wheat will buy car LOAD of
salt. English prints used to sell fen 40
cents ya,d, until they dwiudlei down
to II cents; We make better for 5 ceats.
Loaf sugar used to be IS cents pound,
we have it now for six cents and better
quality, and if the chief of the Demo
cratic trust, Mr.. Havmyer was Out Of
the way we would have it cheaper.
There is but one escape from poyety
and degradation to the European lerel
and that is in shutting out foreign can
petition. The capitalists and mansse.
turer, if hard times come, can take Ore
Of themselves. The laborer haslno
stock in trade but his skill and bis mus
lie, and for this mere pittance he should
'ote for himself and those who came af- |
er him. Robert p. Porter an emihnt
uthority and great observer recettly
sked the superintendent at Leeds a
reat manufacturing citsi Easls1d--
ow many workingmcn owned their
ONES there. He said he was sorry to |
ay. net one Where in America can /
gu find town of any importance ksr
that comfortable homes are owned w. |
killed workmen? Bismarck said in. lis i!
roat speech to the Reichstag of Geruh /
y that America owed its greatness toE
5 system of home protecto On and he all |
Used Germany TO adopt il and tbkv