The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-10-31
The Election Next Tuesday.

The election next Tuesday is one Of vital
importance, and no Democrat should allow
the day to pass without recording his vote.
The issues are clearly defined, and the
welfare of the entire country depends upon
the result. There is no doubt of the election
of Hon. Herman Stump, the Democratic
candidate for Congress in this district, and
but little doubt that the Democrats will elect
a majority of the next Congress. 1t is not,
however, merely struggle for the control of
that body.
The Republican majority in Congress, dis
regarding constitutional and well-accepted
parliamentary restraints, have enacted q tariff
bill which increases, arbitrarily, the cost of
living, while affording no relief to the tax
burdened farmer, whose industry alone adds
material wealth to the country. The party
led by Speaker Reed have added this add.
tional burden at the demand of a compare
lively small number of manufacturers, in pay
ment of liberal sums given by them to the
campaign fund in aid of the election of Har
rison.
In other words, every farmer, every labor
ing man and every mechanic is now taxed
topay the campaign debts of the Republican
party.
Both the Democratic and Republican par
ties have declared in their platforms their
determination to revise the tariff 30 that the
luxuries and not the necessaries of life should
bear the burden of the support of the govern
ment. The Democratic party made an hon.
est effort to do this but were thwarted by
their opponents. The Mckinley bill, in
stead of lessening our burdens, as was prom
Used, increases them from 45 to go per cent.
If the tariff burden could be confined ex-
clusively to imported articles, we might, in q
patriotic spirit, endure it calmly. Instead of
doing this, it virtually prohibits the importa.
ton of many kinds of foreign goods aud en-
ables the American manufacturer to add to
the price of his goods nearly as much as the
foreign goods would cost here. 1t is a no.
torious fact that nearly every thing made in
this country can be made as cheaply here as
abroad, owing to our improved machinery,
the superior intelligence and skill of Ameri-
can workmen, and the increased price mere
ly enables the American manufacturer to rob
his fellow-couutrymen.
The issue is this: Shall we continue sys-
tenn which grinds the many for the benefit of
the few, or by our votes condemn this policy?
Every vote cast for Republican candidates
will be construed to be an endorsement Of
the Mckinley bill and an evidence Of acqui-
escence in this bold scheme of robbery. On
the other hand, every vote for the Democrat
ic ticket will be an expression of opposition
TO this wholesale extortion.
Another point should not be overlooked.
The Force Bill, which is intended to take the
control of Presidential and congressional
elections out of the hands of the people Of
the States and place them under the con-
troll of partisan majority in Congress, is
still threatened by Speaker Reed and his fol-
lowers. The Mckinley tariff bill and the
Force Bill 60 hand in hand. Reed intends
by the Force Bill to continue Republican
majority in Congress, by means of which the
high tariff may be perpetusted.
A vote for COL Herman Stump in Hartford
county will be rebuke to this tyrannical fac
ton of the Republican party. 1t will be an
expression of opposition to the unjust tariff
and the Ubiquitous Force Bill.