The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-01-21
CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
January Meeting at Col. John
X. Bonds Near Port Deposit.

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Barn farm the attractive homeste ad o.
Col. Johu r. Bond near Port Deposit OF
"Wednesday last. Notwitbs, anding the
Intensely cold weather, the attendance
Al interesting one, the proverbial hos
pitality of the hest, being reflected III
the social character of the gathering
At eleven o'clock the President of the
Club Joseph Coudon (of Jos) Esq,
directed the call Of the roll of members,
WHOM tbs following responded to their
names; Enoch Mccullough, A. J. Mich.
liner, George W. Sutto9, Joseph Coudon
(of JOS, A Il, Magraw, Samuel II.
Carson, Jos. Coudon (of Hy), hn P.
Wilson, Thos. G. Bond, VIM. E. Giles
pie, and Henry r. Torbert. Mr.. w. NJ.
Reynolds OF Oxford, Pa, aud Mr. Stewart
Smith were the visitors present.
The minutes Of the last meeting hav-
ing been read aud approved, there being
no reports OF experiments, and the regu
lar essay being IN order Col. Bond SUBJ
mtted the following paper:
To write anything relating to farming
when every little town throughout the
country has one or more newspapers that
| publish column of matter advising and
instructing farmers what to do and how
to do it, even prescribing how to 1--we, e
sell all that is worth eating, and eating
such food as is unsuitable, it seems to
ba useless waste of words for anyone
engaged in the vocation to say Or write
anything up0l the subject. Pleasant
re iding is it not, the advice given by
some editors, who comfortably seated in
their easy chairs, living upon the fat of
the land and enjoying all the good things
| of life, and who know as much about
farming as terrapin knows about fl yiug,
advise: live plainly, dispense with every
thing bus those things which are abso
lutely necessary, for instance, spend no
money for pleasure, pillow, SOW, reap,
reap, pillow, SOW, and be satisfied, or be-
otherwise. Bah? Ons is tempted to say
with Shylock, Hath not farmer eyes,
hath not farmer hands, organs, dimen
sions, senses, affections, passons?"
The present condition OF farmers is
far from desirable one. The causes are
many. The chief, in fact the great cause,
that has brought about their 81 uation
to day is with themselves. Overproduc
ton, TOO many acres under cultivate
for a plumber Of years past, have made
their labor reproductive of heavy
| returns All business men, be their
| pursuit manufacturing, buying or selling
| recognize and have ieit this urchange-
able law, that when the production is
greater, of any article, than the demand,
tho whole is deprecated below cost. The
converse will need no argument. TO
verify this statement as to overproduction
reference is made TO the agricultural
reports OF Secretary RnsB). Supply aud
| demand regulate and govern all the com
modities of lite, even the purchasable
power of silver and gold. Remedy
reduce the acreage under cultivation one
third and much of the present distress
will cease. Naturally the remark will
occur, easier said than done. Neverthe
| less, if it is not done, or consumption
does not become commensurate with
production, the coming future promises
| no change for the better.
| TIE most serious question that now
oonfronts us, is that of immigration,
more threatening to cur welfare, and to
our existence as nation, than low prices
of crops, financial theories, Or any politi-
cal question agitating the country. When
the Romln Empire in its decline, was
invaded by Goth, Nisi- Goth, Hun and
| VaudaI, it had to contend with barbar-
| iaus, tbs true, but these barbarans were
men; men uncontaminated by the vices
of civilization, strong of physique, with
all their natural powers of body and
mind uuimpaiTed; really bringing to the
| Romans fresh blood, Drawn, brain aud
muscle 10 replace that worn out, or
rendered etfete by centuries of dissolute
and vicious living. Ia our case what a
difference. Hur,ies of people. the very
| excrement of the nations of Europe,
| Anarchists, murderers, thieves, ticket of
| leave men, aud porh lps the refuse OF
| their almshOuses pouring in upon US to
the dstrimeut OF every principle, moral
| n,l 20 tho lae frnS of nj =,
autonomy rs a nation; ding nothing to
| our intelligence. wealth or we'll being
| 5000, 900 of foreigners in population OF
| 60, 000, coo is lsiven.enough TO destroy our
homogeneousness, aud by their innovation
of foreign ideas to threaten our existence
as free people. To day, coagregated
as they are in our chief cities they are
enabled and d determine by thGir pur
ohasable suffrage who snail govern us.
| New York City controls that State,
Chicago, Iliirois; Phi!adelphi', Pennsyi
vauia, and Baltimore our own State,
saying nothing about the large cities OF
other States Il is useless TO iescaut on the
characteristics or qualifications of the
majority of these citiZeGS Of year, or Z
day, for many Of them are ignorant OF
and do not speak the English language
and II qu!re an Interpreter when applying
to be recognized as citiZ ,us. Sufficient
to say, they are Slloon constituents, aud
their politics such as the saloon keepers
dictate. If immigration is not torbiddaI
by the United States government for al
least twenty years. we will, in the neal
future, have to look south of Mason X
Dixon's line for the American ito tht
manor bogu," endowed with those attri
butes which we have heretofore claimed
as a nation, c: pride, courage, homo
, and a love OF God and country.
: Foreign steamship companies hav'
driven us off OF the ocean; for instance
our foreign commerce fell from II. 81 pc
7 cent of the total tonnage entered at thu
| ports of the United States in 1886 t
20.G1 per cent as entered in S92. Th
value of merchandise imported into au'
exported from the United States il
, American vessels from 70 per cent o
, the total yalue OF imports and exports ii
1856 to 12.3 per cent during the tisca
year ended June 30sh, 1892. Accordin!
to a statement OF the Post OH 20 Depar
9 ment, the Government paid for the Sc
, conveyance of L S. mails to foreig
countries, for trans Atlantic service du