The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-10-31
Democratic Ticket.
Ex-GOy. WHITES SPEECH.

Election Tuesday, November 4th, l5o2'
EX-GOV. WHITES SPEECH.
Ex-Gov. Whyte's speechat the Dem
ocratic meeting in Baltimore last
Monday night was very strong.
Among other things he said:
The issues involved in this Congress
ional campaign are few and simple.
There is an irrepressible conflict be-
tween the principles Of the Republican
and the Democratic parties.
The one is the advocate of "protection
for projections sake" of tariff which
fosters favored industies and panders to
the greed OF the few against the interests
and welfare Ut the many. Such a tariff
10 the mother of trusts. The Democratic
party y opposed to high protective tariff.
Antagonism to trusts is the logical posi-
ton of the Democracy and q cardinal
tenet of its creed.
Never was there such an opportunity
for q great political party casting aside all
the issues which have divided 1t In the
past ahd Uniting Upon common purpose
TO resist the "etisting oligarchy of greed"
Trusts and protective tariffs are the twin
sisters of oppression. They cannot be
overcome except by organized effort. As
Edmund Burke has said: "Party Is q
body of men united for promoting by
their joint endeavors the national Interest
upon some particular principle IN which
they are all agreed. = For my part, I
find it impossible to conceive that any
one believes in his own politics Or thinks
them of any weight who refuses to adopt
the means of having them put into prac
tice."
The particular principle upon which all
conservative electors are agreed and
ought to be a unit is hostility to trusts
and the tariff on which they fatten, and
in order to put it into practice let US try,
for a beginning, to elect Democratic
House of Representatives.
The evils of these trusts are ST. manifest
that the half blind can see them-high
prices to the consumer, reduction Of
wages to the employed and overcapitaliza-
ton by watering the stock.
In order to meet demand for high prices
wages must be reduced, so that interest
and dividends may go into the pockets
of the holders of this inflated stock, and
thus the American consumer is taxed be-
yond conception. The rich grow richer,
and this accumulation of wealth, which
they call prosperity, creates love Of lux
ury, and that begets arrant selishness.
The trust magnate in the darkest hour of
the tax ridden consumer deems everything
MS bright as day. He sees no shadows
His world has but one inhabitant-him
self. Such pampered wealth breeds an
aristocracy--a rank weed among the
flowers of a republican government.
1t was Just such condition of thing s
which produced in France. at the close of
the eighteenth century. that dreadful rev.
olution whose history We read with
shivers Before it broke forth in all its
fury the French was the most miserable
of peoples. While that revolution des-
troyed the nobility of France in its pro-
gress, its cause was the same which has
reused many peoples into revolt against
the government of their country-over-
taxation.
Life had become a burden to the French
peasant, he was hunted by the taxgatherer.
who squeezed the last centime out of him.
Amid all these exactions from the hum
BILE farmer and the toiling artisan the
aristocrat was a courtier in the palace and
enjoyed exemption from the burden.
Poverty was ground to powder for the
support of government. and wealth and
luxury squandered the money drawn from
the pockets OF the people.
This was the primary cause Of the revo-
luton in France in 1889, aud the lesson
should never be lost upon a nation where
circumstances and conditions approach
such parallel.
They talk to US of prosperity. Where
is it outside Of these combines? What
has become Of the full dinner pail! 1t is
a thing Of the pasta phantom, and ignis
fatuus; in its stead you have got the
empty coal bucket.
Republican orators think nothing of
$50 ton for coal in this day Of prosperity!
1t will not do to lie decorating with flow
ers such time Of scarcity, when half
clad children are at the coal dumps in
New York begging for five cents worth
of coal
1t is said that "the Democratic party is
looking for calamity" 1t cannot be;
we have had the calamity for "a weeks,
and. like Noah after the deluge, we may
lar on Ararat in the sunshine after this
arbitration, but the calamity has been
here all the same
The Court Of Appeals has decided
that the cross (X) mark on the ballot
must be mai entirely within TIN.
square, and not extend hey ond the
square in any manner whatever. This
decision ia very important one TO