Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-01-16


souls have to pay more in volume
than thew do today for all they have
to buy ?-and would it not take
more money to move the poor mans
products, and if it took more TO
move it. out of this more (surplus)
he would be able to save something
to pay OF that mortgage, that like
cancer is eating ont his vitals and
psuperizing his wife and little ones.
Ii the poor mans dollar would buy
less, he would have two where he
now has one to buy with.
Ihave somewhat at length, Messrs.
Editors. given some Of the leading
causes, immediate and remote, that
as they have occurred to me have
moved the people in the late cleo
ton. The party in power is al
ways the target for the arrows OF a
suffering people. That other causes
helped to swell the tide of popular
disapproval is manifest, and one Of
these which ! may mention here is
the Income Tax. The wealth of the
country opposed the measure. and in
subsequent elections voted against
our party because of its enactment.
The producing classes. principally South
and West, favored the measure, and be-
cause Of its final defeat before the Supreme
Court, also voted against our party Here
we have one part Of our people voting
against our party because such a measure
seas passed. and the other part voting against
rs because Of its impntency after it wts
passed. That the current of popular dis
approval Is running strongly againss our
party is plain; for The Republicans have
gained all along the line, and IL Is the part
Of wisdom to search out the cause and ap-
ply the remedy.
The people, IN their desperation, have
struck out fiercely f they have struck not
wisely; and alter the 4ih of March 1897,
unle>s all signs fail, the government will
have passed into Republican hands II
can hardly he expected that The party pr-
marily responsible FIR our woes will be- the
one {" give relief On the Intrary, they
will interpret their re entrance into power
as the renewed confidence of the people in
their principles and policy We my con.
fidenily expect a renewal "f leg;sla tion look
ing to more force bills, protective tariffs
and every other measure TO crush the peo-
pie, OF which their party mas been the pro-
life source in the past. A con,inuati.,n Of
our present financial policy will be insisted
upon. The dollar will go on grad ualIy en-.
HANGING in value 10 the further benefit of
the rich and destruction of the poor.
| / confess 81 many misgiving- AS look
into the future can see norhins bur
c"nstan; grind and struggle FIR existence
IN the years 20 come That th.rr j. :. me-
thing wrong. terribly wrong, is patent to
the INST ignorant Where il is and rhat
II Is, Is not - apparen'. Blu, If we are tn
be IA free people i" fac;. "A Temed, must be
applied, or long suffering and patient
people, rxasperated hey, nd endurance. NAV
rebel aga INST laws that have but served t.
Cypress them. Should the search light f
investigation be turned upon The dark
places Of our econ mic and iOlirical sys
tenn. then, in the language Of writer in
the Anaeric az EcoHDnsist, might We under
stand how It is that millions are Leading
lives of hopeless drudgery in land Of mar
We Gus wealth, when under just conditions
every man aud woman who chooses 3, work
might soon become the owner ofa home and
gain position when age would have no
terrors from possible want, and where their
children could be properly educated, and
could enter life with q more pleasing pros
pect before them than hopeless servitude
and perhaps q homeless old age Cruel
wrongs entrenched behind partial and pa
ternalistic laws are the authors of the
gaunt poverty painfully present in this land
Of plenty.
Methinks II would be well for our law.
makers. our nabobs, and those who are
strangers to want, 10 go out and mix with
those less favored than themselves. Enter
into their home life; witness the unceasing
grind and worry OF their daily life, the ever
monotonous Struggle of Drawn and muscle
for existence, and then tell me they ought
10 be satisfied!
The blessings Of government, like the
dews Of heaven, should fall up'n all alike.
but when the poor. down -trodden wretch
OF misgovernment witnesses the luxurious
comforts Of bis mure fortunate brothers. he
fails 90 understand where the blessings
comein. Theever increasing guii between
poverty and wealth Is the fruitful source
OF discomfort, strikes, nihiIism and other
excresenccs that grow out Of The body
polite.
Messrs Editors. know have trespassed
already upon your space and patience, but
the excuse / offer is my love of country.
No hope or expectation OF Office has ever
warped my judgment in the past My
CONVICTIONS, such as they are. give you
freely. if MT clearly. The hand of Time
Is pressing heavily upon me, and while l
know but lew years at least will be allotted
me here, have hoped that the wear and
tear and ceaseless grind of our daily lie
may not be the legacy we shall bequeath