Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-08-20
Correspondence Of Tie Bsaeon.)

DA1AAmU1EB aug. ~, 1850.
Hot up here for the last two weeks. So
hot nearly everybody thought that, in the
language of the old Georgia colored preach.
er, 1.-THE earth was gwyne 10 melt wild fer
Went heat" Sunstrokes were plenty, but
the town still moves, and one or two dead
here and there are not missed except by
their immediate friends. So goes the world.
A man does not make half as much "fuss''
if fellow being dies as Jack snipe on
a sand beach does IL one of his flock is
killed by sportsman's gun or wall as
much as a killdee in poor field ifhis mate
is shot. Some of Us are left, however, and
the most of US are silver Democrats Heat
can't strike us, let old Sol shine his shiniest.
We are here TO stay and TO vote in Novem-
Der and put Maryland back in the Demo.
cratic column and to put the Democratic
party back into the place where jefferson
left ii. There are a lot Of fools left yet.
The foolkiller has evidently taken long
vacation or given up his job altogether.
For instance, Mark Hanna is still living
Mckinley is still straddling and Tom Reed
has tried to show the people that gold is
their only salvation. tAll silver men, too,
at heart). Then again right here in Balti-
more there are two newspapers $50 called)
which declare that " ages and salaries have
not been reduced and that silver coinage
will ruin the country, while one of them
is paying some of its reporters the big sum
Of four dollars and the other pays down TO
six dollars a week. do not allude to the
Sun or Herald in the above.
Talking about wages, however, the Sun
says, wages have increased SO per cent
since 1860. That may be so, but chal.
lenge any man TO show me briclElayer,
carpenter or any other wage worker who
is getting as much as he did from 1866 to
1873, when silver was demonetiZed.
There's another thing want to say. It
Is poked at US by gold bug papers that the
gold standard countries, including Eng.
land, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy,
pay good wages and are more prosperous
than countries where free coinage of silver
is allowed. II this be true, in the name Of
Heaven why don't the people of those
countries stay at home and get their good
wages instead of coming over here by the
ship load every day.? Mexico and the Ar
gentine Republic, silver countries, don't
dump their paupers on US. The fact is,
there are more paupers in London today
than in the whole United States, and an
English, German. Austrian, Russian or
Italian laborer in his own country can't
make 37i cents a day at the same work
that 81 so day is paid here for. Yet they
are gold standard countries. Good Lord
deliver US from a gold standard here, If
we're got TO cut down labor to 374 cents q
day! And / will challenge any man or
Sc: OF me2 10 prose that Italian marble
cutters in Italy get over 7 cents a day in
United States money and value; silver mi
ners in Germany over 81. cents a day and
coal miners and ordinary laborers in Eng
land over As cents a day. Yet these great
big bankers and monopolists, created by
the Republican party, say we must have
single gold standard until the other na-
tons Of the world say we can change It.
Traitors, down them at the polls. They
don't know what patriotism is. They are
worse, infinitely worse, than Esau W no
sold his birthright for plate of pea soup,
or Judas, who betrayed Christ for 80 pieces
of silver, for they have had generations Of
history and examples TO guide them In the
right way. T. J. B.