The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-24

| in these United States constructed
on lines of policy Numerically diff
| ferent.
One of the parties has devoted its
energies since its advent into power
| first, to the defence of the Union
/ which the other attempted to break
up and destroy; then when peace
had been declared, to the up build
ing of manufactures and new in
/ dustrial system; to the defence of
/ the public credit and the reduction
/ of the National debt; the adoption
of such financial measures as would
give to the people a sound, safe and
honest monetary system; securing a
stable, reliable basis on which to
transact business.
The other party, after the defe at
/ Of its little enterprise to break mp
/ the Union, devoted its energies to
the nursing and keeping alive of
the hatred and luminosity engender-
ed by the war. 1t sought to make
political capital by arranging class
against class, by the encouragement
Of every disloyal sentiment, by ham
pering the Government in its effort
to pay the debt OF the war, by en-
couraging every financial heresy, by
fomentlng discomfort and dlssatis-
faction among the people and by az
ranging every dissatisfied element
against the general Government.
This party is in power now, and
having sown to the wind the coun-
try is reaping the legitimate har-
vest.
Calhoun is said to have declared
that he would go out of his road at
any time to kick a sheep.
His diciples, many of whom be-
lieve in notification, states rights
and secession, are now to enjoy this
prediction. They are in the kick
ing business.
They are about to avail them
selves of this opportunity to crafty
this traditional propensity.
This administration and Con-
gress are not kicking the sheei,
alone, but the farmers who own the
sheep, and who by their votes
placed them in a position where
they could kick effectuallv.
The South is interested in cotton
and the more wool the less cotton
will be used, hence the kick.
Well, the farmers who voted that
way will have to grin and bear t.,
but if the Democratic newspapers
and disseminators Of misinforma-
ton were compelled to stand the
"heft'' of the kicking it might be
said as of old, "the judgments Of
the Lord are true and righteous al
together"
When the Republican party was
restored to power after Cleveland S
first term and it was assumed that
the duty on wool would be restored
to what it was in the Morrill, tariff
the price of wool went up at once to
~ cents, but when at the following
election the Democrats were sue
cessful which seemed to foreshadow
their return to power, the price of
wool promptly dropped to rs cents,
where it stood until the cyclone of
1892 and although there has been
no change in the tariff yet the pur-
chasers of wool and the manufac-
turers of woolens must anticipate
what is coming. They know the
price of foreign woods, they know
what these woods can be laid down
here for, and as they purchase this
spring for next winters and next
summers consumption they must
buy so as to be able to sell in a free
wool market. Besides, they know
that England and other European
countries are waiting for the Wilson
bill to become a law so that they
can dump the cheap woolens man
ufactured out of cheap wool and by
cheap labor on to our markets ne
cessitating large reduction in the
price of wooden goods, and under
the circumstances it is not strange
that the price of wool should &C
lower than ever before-should, il
fact, approach the free trade basis
The Democrats claim that this
will be advantageous to the people
generally, while the Republicans
contend that the gospel of cheap
ness can be carried too far-tha
cheap commodities imply low wages
and incidentally cheap or degraded
men and women.
With protective tariff prices wi |
be higher, but our own people vii
|, do the manufacturing and get tn
pay for it. Cheap clothing viii
not avail the laboring man anythin!
If he cannot get the work to earl
the money to buy with. Bette
have steady employment at gooc
wages and pay more for his coat
The farmer would be better off will