The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-02-02

has the lost value gone that was formerly in
our farms, the writer infers that it can be
found in the stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages,
and other Indebtedness, lit strikes the farm
ers of Cecil county with its one million of
mortgages, ditto one million of promissory
notes, and not cent of taxes paid by the
holders), as we'll as into the only means of
liquidation money, and to prove this asser-
ton the writer gives the selling price Of
stocks in national banks and insurance COM
panies, largely in New York City. The ac-
cumulaton in forty-fve of the principal
banks shows an average of $433 share for
the stocks OF these banks, their par value
being 500 share. an accumulation of 1888
a share, drawn from the farms or the pro-
ducts OF labor wholly. Then twenty of our
principal insurance companies we find about
the same condition exsts-average price of
stock about three times the par value. Now
here is a vast accumulation of property con-
trolled by class of officials that do not pro-
duce ball Of cotton, bushel of wheat, or
peck of peanuts, drawing salaries as high as
$751; 900 yearly. Enter these palaces OF
banking and insurance, view the extrava-
gance in way OF dress and sumptuous living
of the officials, and we find the true bean
ideal, the masterpieces of sweetened perfec
ton. For
Never pampered horse in stall more sleekly
groomed,
Never sweeter rose in blossom more perfumed,
Never shylock tor spoiis more intent
Than these exquisite officials for the cent per cent.
Continue these researches in the matter of
direct and indirect taxation, and the result
will show that the masses are paying largely
the taxes of these classes; that our transpor-
tation lines of railroad protected interests,
not only tariff distinctions but banking,
telephone, telegraph, express companies,
trusts, and much more have sprung up.
reaping where they do not SOW, drawing the
lions share from the hands of labor, defying
the laws of the country, exacting of the gov.
ernment franchises and exemptions from
taxation, all in the name of good govern
ment as they see it,.
The producing classes should organize and
stand firmly for their rights. Their motto
shoule be: No taxation without represen-
tation, no favored classes, no legalized rob-
berry, no system oftaxation indirect or other
wise which imposes taxation on one class
more than another, no flee wool without free
woolens, no free hides without free leather;
no free importation of $3.50, 100000 worth of
products of the farms unless free labor is
joined with it, protect none unless all are
protected. Let our American laborers arise
in their manhood and assume their true
position and the scum of Europe will leave
our shores, then labor will be rewarded as
the demand increases. Taxation which con.
tinually draws from the tarm to encourage
emigration from abroad and abnormal
wages. more than the farms will sustain,
bodies no good to the proud American labor
er for how can one interest be sustained and
ed to support it. No system of protection or
free trade will ever insure prosperity to this
country or its laborers until the products of
The farm are grown at a profit to the pro-
ducer. Time will not permit more than a
brief allusion TO one form of indirect taxa
lion, as follows:
The Hampshire miners of the Virginia
Central Railroad struck yesterday against a
reduction of ten cents per ton demanded by
the management of the railroad. An effort
will be made 10 start the mines at 40c ton.
The Clements miners on the West Virginia
aud Petersburgh r. R. will resume in full
on Monday on reduction of ten cents a
ton. working at the rate of Soc, which is
that coal loaded at Soc ton 10 West Vir-
ginia is sold in Port Deposit at SIS so ton
and only at fair profit TO the coal dealers
there. The coal barons, the r. r. manage
ment, take the balance, some $440 a ton,
tor freight and profit. The poor, cold and
hungry laborer steals a sbovelful Of coal
from car in Port Deposit and is taken TO
jail in Elkton. The trust robs the public
free. This same railroad management sells
coal thr ,ugh New Eos land at lower rates
than in Mar vland, no discrimination against
the people of Maryland who grant' the B.
q o. r. R. perpe tual charter? Oh no.
The voice ofthe calamity bowler is heard
throughout the land, (all classes, as Jerry
Simpson says, are howling) il is of the same
nature, which sprung up when the formers
prosperity left him a despondent factor.
Then no sympathetic hand was lifted to
tighten his weary footballs over the sloughs
of disaster and dscouragement. But now
how changed the scene. The laboring class
es were first to see the cause Of disaster, that
il was not the Sherman act which took away
their daily bread, but the taking away
their doll lars by repeating the Sherman act,
funding their green uacks, demonltizing their
silver, contracting the currency, measuring
the days work by corpse (gold basis dol
larl which nobody sees, will as have ex-
planned be the first to join the farmers to
secure for labor its honest equivalent. more
steady employment and consequently more
d liars, qualified by more dollars for the
farm er's wheat and cotton, which with other
products OF the farm are the considerations,
the basis for all conditions of business and
prosperity.