The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-01-20

| miners or the West Virginia and Petersburg
| IL. *, Will resume in full on Monday on a reduc
ION oil ten cents ton, working at the rate of 800
| which Is that coal loaded at SOC ton in Yves
| Virginia is sold in Port Deposit at S55 ton an
| only at a fair profit to the coal dealers there
The oal barons, the r. X. management, TAX
the balance. some 440 ton, for freight an,
proht. The poor, cold and hungry laborer steal
shoYeliul OF coal from car in Port Deposit anC
| is taken to jail in Elkton. The trust robs tn
public indirectly of ten times the amount an,
goes free. This same railroad management sell
coal through New England at lower rates thai
in Maryland, no discrimination against til,
people Of Maryland who granted the b. & 0. X
II. a perpetual charter:? Oh no.
The voice OF the calamity bowler is heard
throughout the land, tall classes, as Jerry Simp
son says, are howling) it is of the same nature
which sprung up when the formers prosperity
left him a respondent factor Then no sym
pathetic hand was lifted to tighten his weary
footballs over the sloughs of disaster and dis.
enlargement. But now how changed the scene.
The laboring classes were first to see the cause
Of aster, that it was not the Sherman act
taking away of their dollars by repeating the
izng their silver, contracting the currency,
measuring the days work by corpse gold basis
doIlar) which nobody sees, will as l have
explained be the first to ion the farmers to
secure for labor its honest equivalent more steady
employment and consequently more dollars,
qualified by more dollars Tor the farmers wheat
and cotton, which with other products of the farm
are the considerations the basis for all conditions
OF business and prosperity.
Comment on the essay being in order,
MIR. Michiner said he thought the essay
contained more truth than poetry, and if
he was able to discuss it, he thought
there would be but little to join issue on
with Col. Noyes.
Mr.. Wilson said he had no criticism of
an extended character to make, There
are questions the truthfulness of which
we as farmers could not ignore. That it
is matter of history, that farmers as a
class are Disseminated against in the
matter Of taxation. How to cxtricate
ourselves is the difficult problem. Some
tell US that prosperity waits upon our
footsteps. We see it differently. And if
our opinions and views could be more
largely carried out in legislation our
condition might be improved.
Mr.. Gillespie said he was not prepared
to discuss the question of taxation. We
all advocate equitable taxation, but how
to secure it. he was not prepared to sug-
gest. He regarded it truly q knotty
question, and that we as farmers are pay
ing an unjust proportion of the taxes,
while corporations and combinations by
successful schemes were escaping just
taxation. The farmers property is Wis
IDLE, and can be easily reached, and even
on their Indebtedness in the shape of
interest on property that they did not
really own they were burdened by double
taxation.
Mr.. Duyckiuck said the essay en-
braced two great questions, taxation and
tariff. AS to the first it was conceded that
the farmer was paying an unjust proper
tion, and We must it seems be content to
be food for the monopolists. AS to the
question of tariff he might add word
or two later.
Mr.. Magraw, said that if it is the case,
opolists. he wished it to be as unpala-
table and indigestible food as possible,
and he hoped it would disagree with
them.
Mr.. Sutton said he approved Mr.. Will.
sons views, and that he endorsed Col.
Noyes'free trade sentiments, and thought
that equal rights to all and special privi
leges to none, was good doctrine.
Col. Bond said that he did not under
stand upon what basis tho assertion was
made that farmers as class paid rs per
cent of the taxes of Maryland. That the
city of Baltimore-in which there were
no practical farmers-paid more taxes
than all the State besides. He did not
believe this to be the fact, but it did not
follow that farmers as class were not
upjustly taxed, because the bulk of their
property being easily accessible was
readily assessed. Hence the burden of
taxation was the greater upon him be-
cause the largest proportion of the value
Of his property was ascertainable. He
thought the failure to correct this exist.
ing condition was largely the farmers
own fault, because he did not as class
seize the helm that guided the ship.
He suffered also from unjust transporta
ton and freight determinations by trunk
lines of railroads. On this subject he
warmly; endorsed Col. Noyes' views
becauseIths farmers of the Atlantic Sea-
board States, were being despoiled by q
discrimination of more than so per cent
ia favor of western producers.
Mr.. Joseph Coudon said that a con
tract was a thing to be regarded as
morally aud legally building either upon
corporations or individuals. If the Leg.
ls!ature makes unwisely, contracts with
railroad companies that seem unlimited,
it cannot break those contracts except
by the consent of the other party
to them. In this light he
viewed the original contracts made
by the State with the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad. He had no sympathy
with reputation of obligations either
by States or individuals. If the contracts
now existing between the B. & o. Rail
road and tha State, were inimical to th,
general prosperity OF the citizens o
Maryland, it showed the greater neces-
sity of sending to the Legislature men o
intelligence who would not repeat tn
| folly of committing the State to unlimited
contracts.
Mr.. Henry S. Coudon said that b
| endorsed fully the opinion of the proceed
| lag speaker. That Quid pro quo hal
| been given the State by the B. u
| Railroad, and the charter privileges
| granted that company were not gifts O
| favors.
If the essay suggested a remedy Q
remedies for the taxation evils portraye
in it, he could discuss them intelligently
He recognized the justice of impos in
upon every man tax according to hi
| worth. He believed an income tax was c
| all taxes the most equitable if possible {
collection. In imposing taxes. and chang
| ing methods of taxation, the trouble wa
that our Legislators failed us. For whe
men 90 to the Legislature, they are inf
enced by stronger men. He did not charg
that they all we're bought to do WRONG
but influences were brought to bear upo
them, that they could not and did nj
resist. Even those in higher places SUI
cumbed 70 these influences. aud violate
l. So h.