The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-03-23
CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
MARCH MEETING AT COL. JNO. R.
BONDS NEAR PORT DEPOSIT.
Senator Thomas G. Hayes Presents His
Views on Taxation.

Port Deposit, on Wednesday the Goth inst.
At eleven O'Clock the president directed the
call of the roll of members, when the follow
ing responded TO their names: Henry S.
Coudon, George w. Sutton. Jos. Coudon rof
Jos.), Thomas c. Bond, Col. Enoch Moves,
II. Arthur Stump, Col. John r. Bond, John
P. Wilson, Jos. Coudon (of Hy), George W.
Clifford, Romanotf Waters and Henry Il. Tor
bert. The visitors present by invitation were,
State Senator Thos G.. Hayes, of Baltimore,
Frank s. Everist, President of the Cecil
County School Board, and Mr.. James NJ.
Cashc of Barksdale.
The minutes of the last meeting having
been read and approved, there being no
reports of experiments, and the regular essay
being in order, Col John r. Bond submitted
the following paper on
LABOR SAVING MACHINERY
In order to vary somewhat the proceedings
Of this august club, and to deviate from the
old beaten path, also to test the members
debating powers on a new line, this paper has
been written. Heretofore, the Clubs wisdom
has enlightened and instructed the country
in state-craft. and upon the great bubbling,
troubling, muddling and maddening financial
question, which has agitated, and still con-
tinues to agitate, the community at large.
Par parenthesis. If our long time friend, Mr..
Jacob Tome had had charge for three months
of the Treasury Department, he would have
done more towards disentangling the diff
Guilty than the President, Cabinet and both
Houses of Congress combined have done in
two years; at least he would have had some
policy, now we have none. To continue.
doubtless, in discussing the subject here
presented for your consideration, much that
now seems obscure will be elucidated, and a
bright light thrown upon dark, forbidding
subject to contemplate, to wit:
LABoR-sAvING MACHINERY
The name well expresses its purpose,
whether in carrying out that purpose it
promotes the welfare and well being of those
who are required to live by the sweat of their
face, is the question to be debated. How has
machinery affected the various trades? Has
ii not virtually destroyed them? The few
that have lingering existence, employ from
% to so per cent. less manual labor than
before the use of machinery In late report
OF IL Commissioner of Labor Statistics,
he says: "Recent improvements in labor
saving machinery decrease of from 20 to
6658 per cent. has occurred in the printing
trade, and in the other branches of industry.
from Is to 60 per cent. This question agi-
tntnl CHA 81:
years ago. AS early as 1888, Baron D. Haus-
sey, French Minister OF Marine under Charles
y, at that time residing in England. in speak
ing OF manufactures there, says: English
industry bends to everything adapts itself
to everything, but has unfortunately proved
too eager to substitute machinery for hand
lahor. Thus while the nation is enriched,
whole classes are impoverished and individ-
uas are deprived by thousands of subsistence
In the midst of all this manufacturing pre-
eninence created by machinery. whole fam
lilies die of hunger, and fall to the charge.
not of the manufacturer who turns to his
own profit the greater part of the sum econo-
mized by the extinction OF labor but of the
community at large, which does not, like the
mhnulactur9r reap any advantage from the
suffering entailed by machinery" A painful
picture drawn 62 years ago. With every
passng year since then manual labor has
been more and more displaced by mechanical
invention. Where is the stopping point
What is to be done with the unemployed
surplus man? He is now noun of multi
tude, ever increasing.
What says the Charity Organization
Society? That nearly zoe 600 families in this
country mot persons II million people, reg
istcred during a period Of eight years asking
for help, more than fifty per cent. Of whom
were honestly seeking work and finding none.
Do you realize the meaning Of no work in
families where day wage can but pay for
Il days hard fare and leave IA penny over?
Nature has endowed mankind in all ages,
in wha,ev'r condition born, with the same
PASSIONS feelings and attributes. whether
nude, clothed in the skins of.animals, hidden
under armor or luxuriating in robes of costly
fabric, their various development being in
accordance with their environments. No one
has by divine right exceptional privileges OF
hdNlnp uu luueIilintt over MS ltlloW.
The right to live is inherent in every man,
honestly ii he can, but to live food and raj
ment he must have, come by it how he may.
Land and water are being monopolized by
the use Of machinery under the control of
great syndicates. Have not the immense iron
and steel leviathans of the ocean, swallowed
great fleets of schooners, brigs. barges, and
ships2 One monster of 10000 tons is equal
in capacity to 60 of that Noah's Ark, of the
Pilgrim Fathers, the Mayiiower, that despite
old oceans tempetious seas, landed them on
Plymouth Rock, safely. With the disapL ear
ance of these smaller craft, "A vast host of
sailors have been forced out Of employment
and to live as best they can.
The streets OF many Il long time prosperous
seaport no longer echo to the tread Of the
busy throngs, and the grass unfettered and
undisturbed, is filling all their thoroughfares.
Soon the mir will he invaded, and through
some yet undiscovered invention will be
monopolized by an aerial syndicate, who will
dole out to suffering beings the necessary
element at 80 much per breath.
You may ask how the farmer is effected by
the use of machinery? Thus, anomalous as
1t may appear. whilst its use has increased
immensely his power of production, yet the