Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1889-03-08
Energy and Enterprise Needed

Energy anu Ghsei u iSo N0Oueu
While it is cry easy to print instan
ecs to the contrary, yet the growing
wealth and improved condition Of IT,
people throughout the country prov
'lrat farming pays in the long run. Z
hut if We are To judge the condition t.
Che people by stateWruts daily to BE- seer
in the Democratic prpers, We would con
rludc that the Unied States is the poor
est country in the world. and the people
especially the agricultural portion there
of, the most pOverty-strlckcn Suc'
statements have not grain Of truth an
.nany pounls of fal-eha,d They arc 81
ingcniously wordcd Ms to delude thou
sands into the belief that If the special
political doctrines were to prevail, OF
which they are the champions, wealth
would flow into the Golfers Of the shift
LESS, lille and incompetent. as readily as
it,cones to those WHO by brains, pluck
aud energy build up on fertile lands
beautiful homes. where a few years be-
fore al was waste anil desolation. Sta
tistics and our Observation however dis
proves the statements which are ~ per
sistcntly being made. Ii is true that
this particular portion Of the country Is
in depressed condition and our people
Erc suffering from scsrcity Of money
But the ca use is not due to the policy 50
long pursued by the Repaid caus ia ad-
herring to a protective tariff, nor w0ul}
their condition be improved, as many
-conscieRtiously believe if free trade was
established According TO Hon ID q
Harris of St Mary's county. their con
dition 10 due 20 the fact that the flrmers
were deprived Of their negro properly
during the war which left them in debt
and for the lack of capital, which the
land owners seem unable to induce to
come among us, our farms have become
less productive each year. To dispel
the impression which may have been
made by the false teachers who care
more for political supremacy than they
do for truth, we will quote from letter
written in Dcnvar, Colorado. a new
State, that We are led to believe is suf-
fering like the West under a load of
mortals. lin Denver the value of the
city's manufactures alone reached last
year the enormous sum S32, 2lI. 142,
and whose establishments employ 1000
men. And this does not include the
machine shops that are run aud operated
by the sixteen railroad lines that centre
here. Aud yet it is conceded Denver
is only in its infancy This. city in
the mortgaged West, makes thi great
growth when all intelligent persons
know that 20 city can r orper aud grew
great in section W ere all agricu 'tural
industries are depressed Energy, en-
terprise, brains and capital are undispen-
sable every where, aud We contend that
here in Maryland, in Charles county,
with their proper applications. not only
farming, but other Interests, can and
will prosper here as they have been made
to prosper in Colorado and many other
States of the West, whose people do not
fear to put a mortgage on their farms 50
that they will be enabled to enter into
some new enterprise which will pay them
four-fold. In Hartford. a county filled
with enterprising intelligent and thrifty
people, Robert McGraw in 1850 bought
a farm Of 324 acres for which he paid
81, 700. by proper culture the farm was
greatly improved and at his death in
1888 it was sold at 81 800. Ia 1888
the purchaser sold 81 acres for Sl3, 500
and the remaining portion is worth
SO, 500, making the farm worth ST.
900 in 1880, which cost in 1850 only
81, 700. The farm is in high state OF
cultivation, has Oh it a large and COM
Portable dwelling house, barns. stable
and other outbuildings. The former
owners realized that brain was Just as
essential as muscle to success in farming
and that saving is next in importance tC
making. Their example should be imi'
tated by our people who could BY proper
effort make the farms of Charles county
equally as productive and valuable. |
is time to laugh at and ignore th'
eroskers who continually harp on hart
times and never turn q hand TO remove
the cause here at home which does no
exist elsewhere, and which beyond doub
is caused by lack of energy and enter
Prise among our people, and not as stat
ell by the politicians. by tarig on arti
clrs imported into this country by for
eis1 countries
There is good reason TO believe tina