The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-01-19
CECIL FARMERS CLUB,
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course) and instead of making them prom
ises to pay so many coin dollars. make them
promises to receive, then shall there ever be
surplus OF said money, let the government
tax them in and burn them up.
In this 18th century, the cry is money.
money. Ie gods. give us more money-think-
ing the more money we have the better our
condition-hence how strange it seems in
reading ancient history to find a great Gnan-
cier trying to find ways and means of improv-
ing his fellow men by impeding their accumu-
lating wealth. Lycurgus, 800 b. c., was law
glVer to the Greeks at time in its history
when the strength and virtue of the nation
began to be sapped by the accumulation of
wealth in the shape of gold and silver money
from the lations they had conquered. To
restore them to their former simplicity and
prevent the decay of men by the accumula-
ton of wealth, he dcmonetized silver and
gold ana made dollars out of iron, as big as
dinner plates. You can see how difficult it
was to accumulate wealth under such condi-
tions. For this act. this old patriot Greek
won imperishable renown.
Mr.. Henry S. Coudon said that as between
the two essys, he felt like the traditional
donkey between two hay stacks so profuse
was the food for thought and discussion.
But he was not in condition to discuss the
important questions presented.
Mr.. Michincr said he had heard the ESSAY
of Col Noycs with much interest but he
would not undertake to discuss the subjects
presented.
Mr. Duyckinck said that he Joined issue
with Col. Noyes as to his view of the laboring
man. Mr.. Duyckinck claimed that he as
property owner was in as true a sense a
laboring man as he who solely depended
upon his daily wage. Labor means work and
ne as working farmer is Just as much
entitled to an exemption from taxation as
any other man who works, if work or labor
he treated as a source of dependence or pro-
fit Such exemption however does not exist
as based on labor. But it is based on the
accumulations of labor. The absence of
accumulation eXempting man from tax
alton.
Mr. Waters said questions of finance were
those that all of us should approach with
the metal its value. as n circulating medium
and he was in opinion a bmetallist He
said he agreed with most of the opinions
expressed by the essayist.
Mr.. Hodgson said he was glad to meet the
dub and thought the question of taxation for
instance was one that could not be too much
agitated. He endorsed the views expressed
Nv 'nI, al
gratifartion at hearing them. The flnan-
cial condition as described by Colonel
Noyes certainly existed. If this condition
continued he did not think that in ten years.
one fourth of the farmers in Chester county
Pa, could he considered solvent He said
he was a greenbackcr pure and simple that
the greenback was just as reliable and safe IA
currency now as it was during the War. He
did not believe that for its redemption as a
promise to pay that it needed gold behind it
The debtor class under the decentralization
System had been fearfuIy increased, and the
farmer constitutes II large class of those
debtors. He had abiding confidence in the
Government, and the money it stamped as
its own he had fun confidence in as a circul-
ating medium.
At this point recess was taken for dinner.
the President designating Messrs. II. s.
Coudon, Walters and Gillespie the Committee
to examine Mr. Noye's premises.
Upon re-assem5ling after dinner there be-
ing no report on examination of premises on
account of the inclemency of the weather. the
annual election of officers then took place
when the following We're elected: Col Enoch
Noyes. President; Vice-President, John r.
Bond; Secretary, II. r. Torbcrt; Correspond
ing Sec. VIM f. Gillespie; Treasurer, John
p. Wilson.
John p. Wilson, Treasurer, reported 524. O3
in the club treasury.
Mr.. Robert II. Hodgson of Oxford, Pa
having called the attention of the club to the
gambling pract' ed at the Oxford fair, his
attention was called to resolution of the
club disappearing all forms of gambling at
county fairs MS heretofore passed by the club.
The resolution referred to was as follows:
Resolved, That the present method of con-
Quoting fairs or shows is not in accord with
our vlews,lS not calculated TO subserve the true
interests OF the farming community. and that
as interested parties. we enter our protest
against the practice of instituting and en-
couraging the varied species of gaming that
are openly and eonspiculously conducted on
the grounds, that we believe it to be an I'M
deniable fact that gambling is one ofthe chief
sins of the age, and that instead of allowing
ii to be fostered and encouraged in the name
of agriculture. we as representative men
should publicly express our views. and we
further believe that our Legislature made
grave error in giving it the sanction of law.
And we ask our representatives who are to
assemble at Annapolis next winter to have
the act egalizing pool selling repealed, at
least as applicable to this county, and failing
in that to have the support given the Fair
from the State Treasury withdrawn, and if
those fail of accomplishment, we in the name
of the Cecil Farmers Club ask the managers
of the Fair to have the word agricultural"
erased from the catalogues.
After nm interesting meeting the Club ad-
journed at five o'clock, to meet at Mr.. William
w. Moore's, near Colora. on Wednesday.
FEBRUARY Goth.