The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-05-12
Shall it be Hobson's Choice or
New Dealp


New Deal?
Time is gliding rapidly along. June will
soon be here and July and August will as
quickly follow. The tax eating politicians
in the mean time are, or will have been
busy. They have only to look over the old
machine, scrape off the dirt and rust, put in
a new pin here and there, repair cog or
spring which has been thrown out Of place,
oil up and everything will be ready for
business. There is but one tax harvest ma
chine in working order in the county, nor
has there been any but one for 20 years.
The republican machine has been on the
ground all this time and made ready as
competitor in the harvest6eld. Occasionally
il would come out with small sheaf or two
on the platform but generally without a
straw After SO many trials its most ardent
supporters and friends have about abandoned
ii as total failure and are now scratching
their heads in quandary what to do. The
big national machine of the same party has
been laid aside after trial of many years
with the deliberate, though reluctant, opn
ion of the public that its work is not salts
factory. It's product when threshed out
appears to be pretty much all millionaires
and tramps. Corporations are every where
and the people nowhere. And even the
corporations are smashing up one another,
and bowling for more gold when there is
not enough to go round. But they think
these mint drops would cure ;beir pains il
the Secretary of the Treasury would only
mortgage the peoples property to the
Rothschilds and borrow so or a 100 millions
of gold and make them a present of that
amount. 1t would be mere bagatelle and
would "save The business of the country
from panic and ruin"
But as this requires the public to be COM
posed off common fools to believe such
absurdity, the bonds haven't been issued and
are not likely to be.
And this is the condition of the harvest al
the end of thirty years, as left by the old
republican machine. The old thing which
is called by its managers, "The Republican
Policy" and the protective Policy" is about
played out and won't do the work, so the
people think and it is about to be laid up in
the fence corner.
Another little one oothed machine with a
Kansas mustang hlched to it has been
brought out every year for dozen years.
The machine squeaks and rattles, and the
mustang tears along at great rate, but there
is no sign at the end of the row that the
machine has gone through. The weeds
appear to stand as thick as ever. As a
garden tool this machine does fairly well
but out in the big fields it has proved of 20
account. 1t is called the Prohibition
cultivator.
The other machine is great ponderous
concern made of hickory timber and black
jack ard is drawn by oxen. 1t is called the
Democratic" machine. And on the yoke
is fixed the following motto: "Muzzle not
the OK that treadeth out the corn" When
the 'corn" is trodden out or threshed, it is
found the oxen have about deyoured the
whole crop and there is nothing left for the
people, and they growl like bear With a
sore head.
Figuratively this picture is pretty hop
est presentation of political matters in this
county of Cecil, leaving out national affairs.
The question is put to the plain people,
what are you going 10 do about 1t? Do
you propose to keep right on in the old
Egyptian style, or is there manhood and
independence enough among the six or seven
thousand voters of the county to pull them
selves together, call convention, nominate
a ticket of salwart men, not contingents OF
the machine who bear the mark Of the yoke
on their necks and the seats of the whip on
their backs, men who will, independently
and intelligently, represent the people Of
the county in the next legislature? If an
edition of the same class that has been sent
iy the old machine is put in power to rep
resent the county, the good people may look
for the option clause in the present license
law to be repealed and the saloons given full
swing in future with the people deprived o.
the opportunity 10 vote them down in 1894
This is but one of the many abuses which
the old idolatry and slavery 10 the party
machine insures. The machine legislator
is generally on tap for the best offer, With ar
eye to Doodle. The dead beat who has 8
''claim" on the party is busy man at the
primary and no where else or any other time
in the round year, and the boss shoves him
off his hands to fill, as misft, some Office
at the peoples cost, in incapacily and
INSCRIPTIONS neglect of their interest. The
chronic office hunter and party tool makes
the worst officer that can be chosen, as +
general result. The man who never seeSS
office is the man the people should select
not the chronic Office hunter.
The Government Should Mind Its
nxuV RDSineoo