Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-11-01

straightont repu <sm. There
are no local or sid mes about it;
it is the democrat et against q
republican ticket 0cratic prin.
ciples against repq II principles.
LApplause.
Eve must get n 70 the bed
rock of the princir the tariff
which underlies in - underlie
any intelligent disc " of it<apd
which marks The n -
the two ogtlzs ll|sS ] ] Lei lled.!
ment of that economic subject. In
order to do that win you bear with
me but a moments
"What are you engaged in doing
from morning until dewy eve? You
are engaged in work. What are you
working for? Not for the fun of
it. There is no fun in work. No
body would work unless compelled
to. "Thou shalt eat bread i'm the
sweat of thy face was not pronounc-
ed as a blessing if / read the Old
Testament Alright. 1t was curse.
The mere labor for labor's sake is
not ennobling. Just to roll stone
up hill and roll it back again is not
ennobling. You labor for some
thing, don't you? You labor in
order to get those things that you
conceive to be the good things Of
life. Clothing, shelter, food, con-
stitute a large part of what you are
after. Books, pictures, something
that administers to the inner man,
to higher welfare, to moral welfare,
to intellectual and spiritual welfare.
Those things you conceive to be
good, and that you desire, and you
labor to supply your wants. How
do you supply your wants? You
need flour. Do you start wheat
field in your back yard to raise it?
No. You want tea. Do you enter
into competitinn with the heather
Chinee by starting tea farm OUT
in Baltimore county? No. You
want sugar; you want all that goes
on the breakfast table. How do
you get it? You work, and you
trade your services for what? 1t
not being a state of barter, you are
paid in what is called money, which
is suspended labor, so to speak.
You are paid in dollars, and you
hold them simply in reserve until
you need something because they
are accepted by everybody else in
exchange for products, and you use
that dollar to exchange, don't You,
for products of trade?
"You hear a good deal about free
trade. Let us get at what it is.
1t is but trade. You exchange your
services through the medium of
money by way of trade for the things
that you want-your sugar, tea, cof-
fee, shelter, books and all things
You desire. You sell your services
or you trade your services for the
products which have been produced
by the services of some one else.
That is trade, is it not?
"Now, let us get at what we mean
by free trade. l remember in my
native county one of the leading
lawyers was defending a case, and
the attorney for the defendant kept
telling the jury that the onms pro-
bandi was on the plaintiff, and kept
constantly repeating the expression
that the onus probaadi was on the
plaintiff. Mr.. McSweeney, the
plaintiffs counsel, got up and said:
why, gentlemen of the jury, this
man is talking about onas pro6andi.
Why said he, tonus pro5andi is a
Pennsylvania animal; we don't have
it in Holmes county at ALL Laugh
ter and applause.
"And SO this idea of free trade
has been brought before you as if
it was some sort Of q wild animal
which has escaped from the jungles
and is ready to spring at the throat
of American labor, ready to suck
the life-blood of American indus
try; it is held before you as some
unclaimed and uncaged tiger that
is to tear you and your happy homes
and industries all to pieces.
"We have started with what trade
is. You have got your idea of
trade. 1t is nothing but a school
boys swap. You swap your labor