Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-09-16


1t is relief. in the season Of heated
POLITICAL campaign. to hear something n
plane higher than that occupied BY the
iricky demagogue Of politics
The worst passions Of men are too Of
ten appt aled to iu order to beget hatred
against existing institutions, however
meritorious they may be. TIE rabblc
and scum Of Europe. which Goats to our
shores, are easily swayed BY the dema-
gogue. and. it behooyes the patriotic
Ancricai to frown upon any attempt to
educate the masses to wrong impressions,
especially at this period Of incipient
anarchy.
The preacher in the pulpit, if be un-
derstands the practical as well as the
theoretical, must know what was meant
in Holy writ when it declared-"Seest
thou man diligent in bis business, he
shall stand before kings"
In accord with this truth is the follow
lag from the Scientific American, jour
nal devoted to the progressive spirit Of
the age, aud strictly Don-partisan-a
thorough going American publication.
II says under the caption below:
THE DIscouRAeEMRSr OF INDUSTRY.
Judging from the inaammatory edito-
rails. personal attacks. and sensational
reports in certain public journals, one Of
the last things that man ought to aim
at in this land is success and eminence in
his business. especially If it be one re-
quiring the Investment Of a large amount
Of ,apital and the employment of large
number Of operatives.
Men of large means 10 such positions
at once become the target for sensational
journals, who offer absurd suggestions,
assail them with personal abuse, or at
tack them as "robber barons," purse
rroud millionaires." "aristocra,s." and
the like. Yet these very men have built
up great industries, increased the wealth
of the community, given employment to
thousands, and been liberal in their char
! tiles and public gifts.
All that they have done. however. in
this direction is forgotten, because while
5 beue6iing others they have enriched
E themselves. They have sinned in being
? successful. while others with less talent
genius, and brains have failed or plodded
e on in hopeless mediocrity.
One oe the worst features Of the dis
turbance at Homestead has been the pan
5 dering 10 a morbid desire to assail CAPT
! tai. because it is capit,l, by the sensa
tional press. Indeed, we may say th
is not the chief reason; it is well know
that the popular side Of a question is will
E The laboring class. There are many EN-
ployed by one employer. Hence thu
D publishers. seeing profit in increased
: daily sales Of piper. throw right ant
) principle to the winds, print the mos
: absurd sta'ements to please the exciteC
: mass, and do not hesitate to attack il
r the vilest and most ou.-sgeous name
: men who have by .heir exertions addet
o to the wealth Of the country and increas
e ed its industrial capital aud facilities.
e Andrew Carnegie. who has created b,
\ his active brain business which EN-
e ploys four or FIVE thousand men, who ha
o given away for che public good gifts t.
c the amount of hundreds Of thousands o
iollars, has difference with some 3nI
out of the 5000 men with regard +
what he considers tue value of their ser
vices. That value is not to be gauges
by the amount of money he is worth. bu
w the market price of labor. Mr.. Car
negie gets no more than the marke
price for his iron, and if he is to pay NOR
0 than proper cost of productions in wages
. he must stop his works, throw thousand
a
a of men out of employment, and live o.
the income of his savings.
If the workman refuses to accept. Q
course Mr.. Carnegie must do the best b
= can to supply his place at the rate he Of
fers. and one has perfest right to do $
throughout the civilized world. Ye
. while this question is in allegiance and b
is striving to protect his property fror
illegal occupation and injury. he is bel
up as tyrant and an oppressor of tn
poor. is depicted in public journals a
stabbing the workman with a blood
knife on ons hand and giving money {
foreign charities on the other.
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