Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
MD......AUGUST 26, 1893


not permit anybody to interpret Scrip
ture for them have no opinions on the
doctrine of high protection for an
elect few except that which their party
holds for them.
Many others who contend that "sal-
walton is free" are red-hot believers in
trade that is enslaYed.
There are religious folks giving
money with one hand to elevate foreign
pauperage and with the other casting
sovereign suffrages to keep heathenish
restitution down where it is.
AS matters of fact, however, the
freedom of salvation is fettered some
what by the collection basket to sup
port the church, and to some extent
the freedom of trade is necessarily
hampered by tariff for revenue to
support the government.
Food, raiment and shelter-all in
yolving exchange, should be as near
free access to all as possible. Indeed,
everything, including luxuries: should
be easy to get.
The best definition of wealth yet
printed is plenty.
The urgency of need is the measure
of real slavery. Look how we fret
when the water supply is short, and
how we take it as matter of course
when it is superintendent.
Hence, trade should De free as poss-
ible, and it ought not to be regarded
as reasonable to say so. When we
build railways, canals and ships we
acork to make exchange easy-aoork to
make the time spaces between bar
gain and delivery, and delivery and
payment brief as possible. So that
the man who invented the phrase,
"short credits make long friends,'
must have derived the maxim from
the gospel of 'quick transit" For 1t
is pretty certain that whatever makes
credit easy promotes the freedom and
stimulates the volume of trade, until
it has come to pass that the man who
asks for no credit at all is esteemed to
be the freest of all freemen. PAY as
you go" is the very quintessence OF
free trade, and the man who exempll-
fies it is walking Declaration of In
dependence.
Moreover, the doctrine Of untaXed
abundance has moral, if not a chris
tian side to it which ought not to be
regarded as heterodox
With "plenty" as a reward for in
dustry there would be comparatively
no loss by thieving, and no double loss
in the cost of Furnishing thieves.
There would be no anarchists, nor in
ducements for men to become anar
chists. There would be fewer in
dividual ruins and family disgraces.
The "four hundreds" would broaden
out to four thousands.
For instance, it is a fearful thing
for an unprotected man to learn that
for the sake of ''home industry" he is
doomed to wear shoddy clothes, and
that for promoting the same cause the
wolf is to be at his family's door all
the time. If he be a thinking man,
such as we are multiplying and stlmu-
lating by our scheme of popular edu-
cation, he is almost certain to blossom
out into "head centre" or a walking
delegate.
All the tendencies of restricted,
hindered, taxed trade are towards
social disorganizations and estrange
ments, even at the very shrines Of
the peoples worship. The bread and
wine-symbols of the supernal hospl-
tality which rules angelic fellowship
and is as wide as the moral universe,
pass from lip to lip Of classes wllfully
unknowing each other out of-doors.
"The brotherhood of man. is practi-
cal myth, and ''the Fatherhood of God'
a substantial fable. Practice bellies
PlolCoSlou ttHSl PiStCHoiou uiSSlSNleo
faith.
when, - therefore, Sin the course of
human events" "protection" establish
es a class, and "high protection"
another class, sit follows, as night fol.
lows the day." that the unprotected
constitute the third of the series, look
ing down. These are 1.-THE hewers of
wood and drawers of water" for both
masters; these are they who are fooled
at every biennial election with the
pretense that the salvation of the
country depends upon the prosperity
of one-seventh of its population and
the legalized restitution of the other
six-sevenths.
How long, 0 Lord, how long,
Something to Welcome.
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