Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-08-19
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM N. McKAIG,
oF AII.E0ANY COUNTY
A TING NAME

A C1P1IIA1ING MAJ
"Home industry r'-who is not in favor Of
projecting "home industry" Not one. 1t
is our highest boast that we are in favor OF
protecting "hcme industry" In what does
home industry consisty Look abroad over
our thousand bills and boundlcss plains
See the new settlers cutting down the trees,
building log cabins and turning the prairie
and the new grounds where golden harvests
have slept ever since the flood. Here is
home industry" Look at the farmer i'm
proving his worn out fields, feeding his cat
lie and taking his crops 10 market Here is
home industry" Look at his vile and
daughters cooking his food, making his
clothes, doing every thing 10 save what he
has earned. and giving comfort To his habit
alton. HeIe is "home industry"
This class exceeds all Others in society
both in numbers and in Importance 1t IL
they who give value To country. Without
them our wide spread and fertile lands would
be AS valueless III the deserts Of Arabia. Not
house would be built. did they not feed
the builders. Not a city or village would
spring into existence, or continue To exist,
did they not draw substance and wealth
from the farmers around them Not u ship
floats, whose freight Is not, in the first in
stance, the product of his bil, or of the
labor oi those whom he feeds. The lawyer,
the doctor, the divine, the mechanic, the
In a fAfft In
merchant, the banker, the broker, the poet,
the painter, the idler the knavc, are all fed
from his hands-clothed by his toll. The
wealth OF the Vanderbilts, the Goucs, the
endless number of mllionaires and ponder
Gus corporations, are the accumulation Of
his industry-it is he who fills the treasures
Of the States and nations, builds navies and
supports armies. Without him society can
not exist, and the world would be sur
rendered To wandering savages.
HIS is the "home industry" which, above
all others, merits protection But what pro.
lection does il obtain OF ask, or what Is pos
sible for government Ia giveH Does the
emigrant or the new settler expect 10 ask
the government 10 cut down the trees for
him, or build his cabin, and pillow up the
new ground? Does the farmer ask or ex.
pect the government 10 build fences, cult.
vate his fields or cover them with manure
D'es he go 10 his government and say, my
land Is poor, | can scarcely get along, beg
You for protection, beg you 10 impose IA
tax on the produce oi my neighbor's more
productive lands that my crops may sell
higher, and may get rich Y" II he were 10
approach Congress or the State Legislature
with such petition he would he laughed
To scorn. He would be told that he had
himself chosen his occupation and selected
his home, that he must encounter the hazards
of the one and the Inconvenience OF the
other, that il would be as unjust 10 tax his
neighbor's crops 10 enable him to sell his
GOO at higher price as II would be 10
take his neighbours property without con
sideraton and give IL to him
There are men in the country who advo.
cate an equal distribution of property
through the fundamentally of the law
they are known as the agrarians and
Jewelers. But is not a protective tariff,
So called, founded ON the same principle
When the law steps in and compels me To
pay more for a hat than ] should otherwise
TIE Obliged Ia pay, does il not take part oi
any property and give To the halter. II the
law compels the farmer 10 give i've bushels OF
wheat which he could otherwise purchase
for four, does il not take from him part of
Aud this is called protecting home in
duslry." The industry OF thousands is taxed
10 swell the Income OF one, but the thon.
sands are forgotten, and the one only re.
Observation-Disclosures the one, in being en-
abled by law To appropriate 10 himself, 10
part, the fruits Of the industry of thou.
sands-gets rich.
The great "home industry" of the coun
Try is the farming industry, and ii is this
industry that stands In need OF protection
mot your manufacturers aud overgrown
corporations. The farmer ever realizes that
which he makes 10 sell is designed 10 he
converted into what he wishes Ia buy, and
thus the quantity he produces 10 not more
Interesting than the quantity Tor which he
eau exchange IT, A farmer makes thou
sand bushels Of wheat annually for sale, We
hundred OF which be is ia the habit of laying
out in supplies for his family. A tariff of a
hundred per cent is imposed upon certain
articles that he needs and must have, and
lac is compelled 10 give up his whole crop
or stint his family of one half of their usual
supplies Now II this five hundred bushels
81 wheat went Into the treasury, the farmer
might find some comfort in the reflection,
but when be knows that nine tenths Of II
has gone TO enrich the manufacturer, he can
but leel the most profound Indignation al
the manner in which he has been robbed 10
support the pet "home industry" of the Re
publican party.
Against snch mischievous and ruinous
poiicy-against such = system Of plumber
and outrage let the people, from ths bill.
top aud the vale, cry aloud and spsre not
until our great agricultural pursuits, the
real "bome industry" shall receive that pro.
lection it 80 much requires. ]