The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-10-17
THE TIN-PLATE TAX.
Mr.. Bayard's Denunciation of Its Injustice to
the Farmer,

Mr.. Bayard's Denunciation of Its Injustice to
the Farmer,
In his speech at Wilmington, Del, on
Monday evening last, ex-Secretary Bayard
spoke as follows of the tin plate tax:
"Tske, for instance, the tax upon tin plates,
an article which has come into an import
ance little dreamed of a few short years ago.
By the discovery of Theoretically sealing pro-
visions and fruits the whole face of warfare
is changed. An army can be moved into the
middle of desert and be supplied with fresh
vegetables and fresh meats, k, eping alive and
in health the whole body Of men. Distant
sea voyages can be prosecuted by the same
means. The truth is that this discovery OF
Theoretically sealing in tin cans meat, vegeta-
bles and all manner of human food, Is most
remarkable and potential discovery. Against
that, one of the few things left for the poor
farmer in Delaware, for the small fruit-grow-
er and truck gardener, whose crops would
perish if he could not in this way preserve
them. this tariff deals wicked and deadly
blow. And for what? Not to sustain OF
protect an existing industry, but to enable
men who have not dollar engaged in the
business, to learn how'they shall still further
tax the great mass of their countrymen.
Why, it is shameful and shocking. APP
plause They have singled out the classes
that least can bear these burdens. They are
striking at the most CONNIE ndable, the most
wholesome, the most Innocent of our pur-
suits. Knowing what do of the farming
classes Of this country, knowing what do
of the farming classes of this my own little
State, knowing the sufferings they are under.
going now by failure of their crops and
their fruit, l say that it makes my very heart
burn with Indignation when | think OF the
IL 80 haiF
fiicted upon them. There may be large can
ners who may tell you it is very little, be-
cause, they may tell you, where they export
their tin cans in large numbers they can get
rebate But that is not the case with the
poor farmer, who cans his growing products,
and who must pay the increased price. 1t
won't do to sneer it down and belittleit. The
increase ofduty by this bill will be more than
$4,000, 900 annually, and that is the burden
To be put upon the most deserving class OF
our countrymen, engaged in business in
which we are all interested, for the sake of
health and comfort, and, forsooth, to enable
some man, already rich, to put some OF his
INSCRIPTIONS wealth into an industry that
has, to this day, no existence in the borders
of the United States"
Look at the Works.
"This is q ainer-looking watch than any
which have shown you," said silversmith
to customer lately. "The case is not hand
some, but the works are fine. 1t will not
vary its rate of running for months at
time.
THE cheaper watches are more snowy out
side, but they are loosely made. You will
find that dust and rust will soon clog their
works and in little while, owing to some
trifiing defect in the machinery, they will not
move at all. There is nothing in which you
should exercise so much caution as in choos-
ing watch"
Now the majority of young men and wo-
men exercise much more caution IN deciding
upon watch than they do in choosing a
wife or husband
The hero of a popular French story ex-
presses this idea with good deal of humor-
Gus force.
take it home on trial for year, and if it
does not please me can send it back But
can't take her on trial to see how she will 60.
If she does not keep time there is no sending
her home for repairs"
A young man is so charmed by the pretty
face or sweet voice of a girl that he is sure she
will make him forever happy if he can win
her as a wife He looks at the case of q
watch. which is snowy and handsome. But
is there no defect in the works?
A habit of malicious sarcasm, of slovenly
idleness, of peevish ill-humor, these are the
things that rust the wheels in married life
Or, a young girl finds lover witty, hand
some, courteous; he is good tennis player
or sings comic song very effectively.
She fancies herself madly in love with him.
The fact that he drinks, or is selfish and in
dolent, or treats his old mother harshly,
counts for nothing with her.
Yet how soon one of these faults stops the
whole machinery of a home.
Few marriages, comparatively, end in alb
solute divorce. But how many, from the jar
ring of petty faults, or of diverse aims and
tastes in husband and wife, result in weari-
ness and utter wretchedness The works are
not fifty adjusted, they wear out with inces-
SAINT friction, and at last, perhaps, stop alto
gether. The end is not a damaged watch
but shattered home and two ruined lives.
| The beauty or costliness of the case matters
but little. Look at the works.
Girls, don't use slang When we hear a
| girl say she was "ratted" instead of embar-
raised, that her new hat is 'just dandy" oil
that her recent acquaintance is new mash,
we decide that she is either ignorant or vul
gar-though it would perhaps be more char
table to consider her needless only. But il
is better to be little bit prim, if there is nc
medium we doubt whether we should use
slang words at all, If we fully knew their or
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