The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-10-27

questionable, literature, boxing DOutss race tfach
reports as well the multiplied diversions. calcu
lated to unfit the mind for the proper observance
of the Sabbath. wherein Satan's agency is plainly
indicated in the compromise column of Bible anal
ysis to soothe the qualms of the perhaps disturbed
conscience of the Christian professor. This ques-
tionable issue on the Lords day. not only carried
but sold in violation of law. containing part OF
| the sacred canon is strange mixture with per-
haps less adhesive properties than oil and water.
and must prove as great failure as Potter's Sub
way tavern.
| You ask how all this came about? We answer.
| by persistent and unremitting effort. The law
making power which was the peoples, has been
transferred to the corporations. The immortal
declaration OF our martyred President should this
day read. ga government of corporations. by cor
porations and for corporations they easily secur-
ing legislation of laws sufficiently flexible to meet
any emergency. Those they do not procure d.
recly in buying votes, they capture by free passes
The official, and more especially those of repre-
sentative capacity who sell themselves far az to
accept free transportation, and shield themselves
behind the subterfuge that others do it, can no
more justify their action than one should steal
because another did-and especially if he pocket
| his mileage fee
| But suppose We must not be too severe on our
officials. county, State and national. who are ac-
corded free use of the trains. As compensation is
the chief incentive to public office, their salary is
not depleted by travelling expenses. But there is
still another class which fear have unwittingly
been rendered sop that is expected to be reflect
ed IL their public capacity. 1t is presumptous to
suppose that the public carriers of our country
have such generation for the clergy that half fare
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their denunciation of Sabbath Dissertation might
! be affected by the privilege accorded them
These corporations make paying investments.
| Three hundred and sixty-fve days they demand
for business The traditional Sabbath of our
fathers must be obliterated.
Is itnot time the Christian conscience was awak-
ened? Whittier are we drifting?
Having written thus far, my eye fell on the adj
dress of financier. delivered before an associa-
ton of bankers, which is in line with my theme.
l inject this extract:
New principles of honesty in these days of un-
precedented prosperity and disgusting extrav-
agance, new and strange principles of morality
seem to have overridden the sturdy views of hon.
esty that governed our fathers, and men who
pose as the salt of the earth and who condemn
without reserve those who steal $50 or forge
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make millions by lying or Misrepresentation, by
fraud and bribery. In private life they stain
less, but in the interests of corporations, of the
trust, of the gas company, of the insurance
company, of the railroad company. they will
have recourse to every villainy damned
in the Decalogue They will go further, they
soil. debauch the legislator to enact laws
crushing their competitors in business, and exact
/ oil do mi 10 he
name of duty. l recognize readily the vast bless
ings which union or consolidation for business
purposes, if proper guarded and honestly con-
Quoted, may bring upon the Nation. We must
not forget, however. that all trusts are monopo-
listc in tendency and that almost every industrial
consolidation that has been formed has had for
its object curtailment of competition, and every
thoughtful man knows that the more you curtail
competition, the nearer you approach monopoly
and when no competition exists monopoly
prevails"
l beg pardon of my fellow-members of the club
for this diversion from the lines that usually form
the theme of our essays. as our avowed purpose
is to advance agricultural interests, but we must
not forget we are citizens as we'll, and that the
profitable tilling of the soil is but adjunct that
our personal responsibility is in no way merged
in the great panorama of iie that our Individual
ity and personality must stand alone.
Mr.. B. Howard Hannah, the
author of the Hannah Oyster and
Good Roads bills, was called upon
and gave most interesting address
on the past and present conditions
of the oyster industry, showing how
it was rapidly diminishing in Mary
land, through the wasteful methods
which have always prevailed on
the natural beds in the Chesapeake,
until at the present time the once
furnishing industry is in a lament
able state. The natural oyster
beds have been ruthlessly scraped
year after year and 20 attention
paid to replanting until now but a
scant supply of this most delicious
article of food is procurable. At the
present rate, unless conditions are
changed, the oystery industry in
Maryland will be a thing of the
past within a very short time.
His proposed legislative meas
ures provide for the leasing of the
barren bottoms of the Chesapeake
for the planting of oysters, and the
enormous revenue which will be de
rived from the low rentals enjoined
by the State are to be devoted to
road building throughout the State,
each county receiving it's proper
tiOnate share on its taxable basis.
With Mr.. Haman's proposed legis-
lation enacted, the perplexing, bur-
densome road question in Cecil
would be greatly simplified and the
present generation could live in
hopesof driving over good macadam
roads all over the county within a
few years. A most conservative
estimate places the yearly revenue
at fully one million dollars for road
building.