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

| the market where he can get most for his prod.
ucts. Referring to the oft-re repeated assertion
of Mr.. Mckinley that the foreigner pays the
| tariff tax, Mr.. Sans asked how it can be eX-
| planned that corduroy suit that costs S15
here can be bought abroad for $3.50? 1t was
said that the protective tariff would increase
the general prosperity. Do your lands sell for
moref Can you get more for your grain Mr..
Sans read Republican testimony to show that
the falmcr is not bCnetittcd by protective
tariff. He said the two ideas advanced in sup
port of protection are that il protects labor and
chcapens goods The only thing moi protected,
except air and sunshine, is the labor of this
country. Mr.. Baker, the Republican candidate
for Congress, says he gets tin as cheap he
ever did. Why, when Mr.. Talbot was in Con-
gress and the duty was one cent a pound
titon to have it reduced 1t it was too high
then what is il now! You may get your tin
Just as cheap but you make the farmer pay
for it. The tariff on tin used by the Gamers of
Hartford county costs s6 Il head every year for
every man, woman and child III the county: 1t
isn't the tin can, the pocket-knife or the pillow
alone upon which you are paying this tax but
it is 191 articles of prime necessity on which
Mr.. Mckinley has raised the tariff. The Re-
publican party intends to pass the Force Bill,
lieve Republican party managers from resort
ing to the "fat-frying' process of getting a
corruption fund.
MIR. LAIRD's SPEECH.
The next address was by Hon. Philip ID.
Laird, of Montgomery county. His speech was
short but it full of fire and elOquencc.
This fight, he said has in it the elements OF de-
struction To this country and its people. If |
can demonstrate this 10 you | shall have given
you every reason why you should be up and
doing to thw.lrt the efforts of the Republicans.
The Democratic platform declares that the
government has no right to levy taxes beyond
a revenue point. II you will examine the tariff
law you Will discover that the profits of manu-
featuring as compared with agriculture are ten
To one. In 1889. the last figures have i'll
the census, ii was shown that the manufactu-
rcrS Noted 30 per cent. upon the capital in
vested. At that time and since farming has
not paid per cent. on the cal ital invested in
it. The Democratic party concludes that
system of law under which SO great Il per cent
age of profit accrueS to one branch of industry
is wrong. He estimated that the profits to
manufacturers, as due to tariff legislation,
over and above a fair profit on capital invest
ed, is 5000, 100000 IL year. This is tax of
1922 per head for all the people OF the coun-
try. Evory family of five members, therefore,
pays nearly $50 This tax comes out of the
things all men, and especially poor men, buy.
In Hartford county this tax would amount to
1867 ,315, or S2.21 on every 800. The County
Commissioners of Hartford have just rs much
right to levy that amount to aid the manufac-
turers as the United States have to levy that
tax on the people The Mckinley bill is not
only unconstitutional but cowardly. If Con-
gress should undertake to levy direct tax of
S2.22 on every 500 of property in this coun-
try bounty to manufacturers it would not
be going any further than it is going. Con
greSS has no right to levy tax for any other
purpose than the support of the government.
1t was that system of taxation against which
Cleveland great message OF 1887 was an en-
phatic protest. am one of those who did not
think that message n mistake. The result of
the contest of 1883 was that the Republicans
by the of money carried certain pivotal
States and the Democrats were technically de-
feated, but Mr.. Cleveland had large majority
of the popular vote. You are, as Democrats,
carrying out principles for which you fought
i'll 1885, and for that reason / feel the same
confidence felt then and two years ago Vic
tory is in our hands us surely us we go to the
polls. The policy of the Republican party is
calculated to disturb the peace of the country.
The Mckinley bill has created antagonism be-
tween the manufacturers and farmers. If
these two industries will find their way out of
their difficulties it would bring prosperity. The
Democratic party proposes to do away with
this antagOnism and bring into harmonious
force these two branches of productive indus
try. The Force Bill is likely to strike down
social barriers well as the bulwarks of the
constitution. Its operation, probably, would
be no harsher in the South than in New York
Sooner or later it would lead to bloodshed.
You can't get rid of such legislation but by
Marston Moors and Bunker Hills. In order to
get rid of these difficulties and injustices there
is no need now to appeal to arms We have
in the ballot weapon as keen and firmer set
than the bayonet. Mr.. Laird closed with an
eloquent appeal to voters to cast their ballots
for the Democratic ticket.