The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-18

bers and the galleries as his audi
ence, and he took his medicine like
a little man. He gulped little at
free coal, the papers say, but all the
rest of it was sweeter than honey.
He will support the bill which is all
that Cleveland & Co. care for.
The Democracy seem to realize
that their opportunities will be linn
lteS and they propose to do all the
mrEchief they can before another
election.
The Wilson bill is not satisfactory
to any part or section, or to any
sort of business. 1t seems to have
been gotten up with the object of
paralSzing every branch of business
In this country, but all accounts
agree In saying that John Bull is
delighted with it. He also likes
Cleyeland's Hawaiian policy.
The Wilson bill is cowardly,
traitoror piece of business through
out.
Where large aggregations of or
ganized labor are employed in the
prosecution of any industry there
some Protection has been granted,
but IN those industries wherein
there is little or no organization it
shows no mercy.
When Cleveland wrote his famous
ifee wool message he knew that
there was little organization among
the farmers and he believed that by
the aid of the sersile Democratic
press the ignorant farmers could be
taught that free wool would make
the price higher to the seller and
cheaper to the buyer, so they piled
the farmers with a great lot of i'd
otto twaddle about the need of for
eign wool for mixing" until those
that were fOreordaineG to "believe
lie and be damned" swallowed it
all, bait, hook and sinker, and now
their wool is in the attic waiting for
the influx of q few hundred million
pounds of 12-cent wool from Aus
tralia, South America, New South
Wales, and a dozen other countries
for "mixing." Bythat time things
will be so dreadfully mixed that the
American shall have quit business
in disgust and our wool markets
will be supplied from abroad.
In regard to the manufacture of
lumber, there Is but little organiza-
ton among the laboIers, and that
industry has also been selected as
one that may be sacrificed with i'm
punity.
The labor employed in this indus
try is mainly American labor, and
while Mr.. Wilson, at the bidding OF
his master, accords the well housed
foreign factory hand fair degree OF
Protection, the American toiling in
the mud and rain among the laurel
swamps of Western Maryland and
West Virginia must have his wages
reduced and must have the small
degree of Protection hitherto atfor-
oeu nm stricken down ard his pro-
duct put on the free list absolutely.
1t was not deemed prudent to
risk antagoDizlng the vote of or
ganized labor in the great manu-
featuring centres, but the farmers
and the lumbermen might be made
the victims of cowardly. unjust
discrimination with impunity, as it
was assumed that they could be de-
pended on to vote it straight re-
gardless of consequences.
Our coal, our lumber, our wool,
our iron ore, the only things which
make any business for our people,
or market for what our farmers
have to sell, or that brings any
money into our section of the coun-
try must go on the free list, regard
less of the amount of injury it may
do, and we must become hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the
Eastern manufacturers, because we
are not supposed to have any rights
which Democratic administration
is bound to respect.
The business people know that
their business will be destroyed or
greatly injured, they know that if
foreign importations be largely in
creased home production will be
correspondingly diminished; but we
have set of doctrinaries at the
helm who must try their little ex-
pertinent and the country may 60
to hades.
England has been jealous of our
prosperity and our greatness as a
nation, but when Cleveland and his
free trade henchmen get their dead
ly1work in the United States will be
good country to move away from
and then 1t is presumed that the
pro-British gang with their de-
structiye tendencies will be fully
satisfied. W.
Married.
FRIES-FRIEND.-0n Jan. Is,