The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-28
MR.. JAMES BONDS SPEECH.

MR.. JAMES BONDS SPEECH.
Mr. James Bond, Clerk of the Superior Court
of Baltimore city, was the first speaker. He
has Il fine presence, deep, solorous voice,
and was able to make himself heard distinctly.
He said the fundamental principles of our
government are in danger. Legislation is fast
tending towards making this a government of
the few for the few instead of a government of
the people, by the people and for the people,
as was intended by its founders. Grover
Cleveland warned the people of their
danger in his tariff reform message and set
them enquiring as to the disturbed condition of
our affairs. That enquiry has been going on
for four years and the people have at last
found out the causes which are making the
rich richer and the poor poorer, and on the 9Th
of November they will rebuke the Republican
party for the legislation that has caused this
state of affairs and place the government
where it belongs. The Mckinl y BILL it hal
been promised would increase the wages of
the workingman, the compensation of the
farmer and of all who earn their bread by the
sweat of their brows. If passed for the benefit
of these classes some Of them ought certainly
be able to show some benefit derived from the
Mckinley bill. Is there one man within reach
worth of benefit from the Mckinley bill? [''He
is not here" some one replied. The farmer is
not benefited in any degree by the protective
tariff. The implements he taxed
about so per cent to enrich some one who like
Carnegie is able to build IL castle in Scotland.
There Is not a blow of the workingnan's ham,
| tariff lords and barons. Mr.. Bond then gave Al
! graphic picture of how the .wOrkngman is
| taxed on every thing he uses in his home, and
estimated that il such Il man earns 5000 Il year
he is compelled to pay $500 of it in tariff. The
| farmer is compelled to sell his products in Il
| home market impoverished by the exactions
of home manufacturers and i'll foreign mar
ket where prices are fixed by what the Repub-
| licans call pauper labor. Mr. Bond argued
| that if the duty on tin were removed farmers
who raise canning produce could get more for
| their corn and tomatoes. In 1891 Maryland
| Gamers paid about Il million dollars as Il
| license to carry on their business If the mes
4 sage of Grover Cleveland had been needed that
! money would have been left in their pockets.
In the past year in the United States $50, 900,
| 600 worth of woollen clothing was imported,
| the duty on which was S32 100000 Mr.
| Bill and said that no man who has a
| spark of patriotism in his breast, who realizes
| that he is a Marylander and owes something to
| that name, will hesitate on the Sth of Noyem~
| Der to cast his ballot for the Democratic candi
! dates.
Mr.. THOMAS II. CLENDENIN
was the next speaker. He said that the doc
| trine OF the Democratic party is that 1t is q
government OF the people, by the people anc
for the people. Referring to the large number
of ladies present he said he knew they were al
| Democrats because ladies are all i'll favor OF
home rule. He spoke of the Force Bill and OF
| the vast army of Federal supervisors and mar
shals who could he appointed under its pro
visions, and said it is the greatest danger which
has ever confronted the American people.
MIR. CONWAY W. SANS
followed in clear sensible speech. He men
toned Il few of the many prominent Republi
cans who have come over to the Democratic
side and gave the names of three Democrat
who have gone over to the Republicans. On'
of them is Mike Colgan, a Chicago gambler
another is O'DonoVan Rosa, dynamiter, AM
another is John Most, the anarchist. The as
sertion that the protective tariff protects Labor
is false, for there is no tax upon foreign labol
coming into this country. Subject to the ne
| cessites of the government every man has
right to buy in the cheapest market and sell il