Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1895-03-08

he Fify-tl.rd Congress Of the Uni
.ed States expired at II m. on Monday
last. aud thus ended the labors of a po-
.itical body, possibly more notorious
'ban any other that has ever assembled
Do this country The record Of the good
work done BY way Of the passage Of
benifccut laws and Of its failure TO en-
nc, into laws many other important aud
wise measures which came before it, has
passed into history What the recorder
ofpo.tical events will say Of its labors,
II is not diliicult 10 foretell. General
rejoicing seems to prevail throughout
She nation that IL is no more Nay, in
Iced, ia many sections Of the country
regular jubilee is being celebrated,
lemonstratlyc Of the happy fact that the
md % the life Of Congress incapable
If doing much good but likely to do a
vast amount of harm, has been reached
A leading New York journal in COM
meuting on the adjournment Of Con-
gress puts il as the end If great bunko
game played by the Democratic iarty
with Cleveland at its head, to the ruin
Of the country, and reasons it out in
this way At the time Of the nomina-
ton of Cleveland the last time, the
prosperity of this country had reached
the highest point known since the birth
Of the nation Business was booming;
industries were multiplying; our facto-
rieS were all running, and we're expand
ing III every direction throughout the
country; tile labo7ing classes were at
work at rcmuneratiye wages; the stand
ard of living was keeping pace with our
growth in industrial wealth; the reve-
MUGS Of the government we're ample,
peace and happiness prevailed, general
", under the doctrine Of Republican
protection and other salutary Republi-
can poll ,ies
10 undo this happy state of affairs,
the Democratic party with Cleveland at
is head IN 1892, set to work. From
every stump and by-path, where an
audience, however small, could be gath
cred, the blatherskites and demagogues
ofthat party preached the deceptive doc
trine Of free trade, meaning according to
their logic, cheap living and cheap raj
meuts good market and an abundance of
money
And as a result; restless. credulous
majority, gulped down the false theories
Of that party never competent, even in
the earliest days Of the Republic, to
govern, and advance the combinations
Of industrial interests existing in this
country, and were willing to exchange
existing aud abundant prosperity, and
good government administered under
wise laws, for false theories, bad laws,
financial insanity, industrial depression
aud distress We trust they are
satisfied For twenty-four months the
folly Of such action has been fully and
doubtless satisfactorily demonstrated
The Democratic party has shown its in
capacity to govern this great nation,
and the people having had ocular
demonstration of the plain truth will be
content on the subject of "a change"
for some time to come A lesson has
been learned and at heavy expense
to let well enough alone, and it
should not soon be forgotten With
rue adjournment OF Congress, the first
act in the drama of "a change of par
ties has been enacted, but the sad
plot of the play showing the fruitless at
tempt Of the Democratic party to gov
crn nation, will be remembered, as a
guide in the future, warning IN
thinking people to disbelieve illusions
and seductive sophistry of deceitful
demigogues