The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-11-02

want every influence that will broaden us
as a people and diversity our interests and
our trade. The ancient peoples. we are
told, hated the sea, because it brought in
new ideas and unsettled the old traditions.
They coined the expression, He that
speaks two languages is Il rascal mean
ing that he has been across the seas aud
gotten new Ideas.
APPEAL TO A BENIGHTED.
1t is not to this same spirit that you
now appeal Was it not to this same
spirit that Mr. Bryan was appealing
when he expressed his horror at the pros
poet of Il syndicate introducing telephones
and electric lights among the Fillipinos:
Is not tIc tat community OF you and
our Maryland Democratic platform the
Irish town where all the people lived by
taking in one another's washing?
OUR GREAT STATESMEN FAVORED
EXPANSION.
What do we find against you? \ west
ward movement of the peoples that has
never stopped since history began. We
find jefferson disregarding the same cry
you now raise, and acquiring Louisiana,
when it was farther away than the Philip
pines now are. We find Seward planning
for years the acquisition of distant Alas
the Danish West Indies, and expressing
the hope, in IA letter written before his
death, thai the Spanish republics Of South
America might some day be brought I'M
der our flag. Richard Olney believes
that we should have acquired Cuba, even
in violation of our pledge We find that
great democrat, Steph hen a. Douglas, de-
string the acquisition of additional terri
tory lin the North, in the South or in the
islands of the sea- (Freeport speech), and
warning the Senate against action that
might forbid the anueXing or coloniZing
of land in Central America. When Ger
many could have taken much more contig-
uous land from France she refrained only
because she did not want it, and Bismarck
was opposed to the taking of Lorraine
vet her great desire is for colonial posses
sions Certainly some sound reason lay
under the desire for acquisitions away
from home on the part of our great states
men, and firmly believe that that reason
was the belief that the possession of for
eign interests would be necessary to the
education of our people and the steady
ing of our government at home heart
lily agree with Stephen A. Douglass when
he said:
II believe that the interests of cora
merce, of civilization, every interest which
| civilized nations hold dear, would be ben
Gifted by expansion
All of US believe that capital and labor
are dependent upon one another, and pro-
fit best when they agree. In this country
there has been a closer and better under
standing from year to year. TIE man
who pays wages and the man who has to
maintain his family by those wages viii
not agree always on that subject. 1t can
not be expected so long as both are mere
ly human. But the workman has from
year to year made more allowance for the
difficulty of one who has to raise money
for wages, and the employer has had more
consideration for the hard problems of
the employees life. There has been less
and less of quarrel, more and more discus
sion and adjustment, and out Of all two
facts stand forth:
list. That the proportion of earnings
going to wages has been steadily greater.
end That the deposits in the savings
banks have been steadily larger and the
depositorS more numerous.
The connection of employer and en-
ploye is not a romantic love affair or SEN
timental friendship, but is ii trade rela-
tion characterized more and more by mu
tual consideration and mutual respect.
The enlightening influences of trade, the
softening influences of Christianity, have
been and are at work here, as elsewhere,
and it would be shallow philosopher
who would say tn at capital and labor had
not come closer together. 1t is not the
Garden of Eden yet, by any means, but
there can be little doubt that Mr.. Bryan
and You have stolen the % OF the snake.
Yours respectively.
JOHN X. COwEN
Baltimore, OctO er -, 1890
HONEST MONEY DEMOCRATIC
LEAGUE OF MARYLAND
November eth, l900-lt.