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Friday, March 1, 1889.
An Unprofitable Business.
Our neighboring counties of Penn
sylvania, Lancaster and Chester, de
rive $65,525 from liquor license an
nually, and the annual cost of these
counties tracable to liquor is $3,861,-
184. The cost is estimated by a
statician of ability, Dr. Win. Har
graves of Philadelphia. This cost is
assessed on the following sources of
productive industry which are turned
into losses by the liquor traffic; viz.,
on the productive industry of per
sons in the liquor trade; the pro
ductive labor of drunkards; loss of
time, cost of medicies in sickness
and medical attendance caused by
drinking; loss to employers by
drinking employees; cost of support
ing defective persons by drink, as
insane, etc.; cosl of supporting pau
pers, made such by drink; loss of
labor of paupers; cost of police pros
ecutions, court expenses, loss by
jurors, witnesses, etc, due to drink
A yearly loss by drink after deduct
ing the revenue received for “high”
license, of $3,795,659. To this waste
or expense should be added also the
money spent for liquor drank, which
is in truth every cent lost, and the
sum of the loss on account of liquor
to those two counties will foot up
about $5,000,000 annually, if we es
timate the liquors sold at 20 times
the amount paid for license, and we
don’t believe that any person at all
familiar with the trade will place it
less, and most probably at very
much more- Why do men complain
of high taxes and the loss which
would result from the abolition of
the liquor trade, and complacently
sacrifice such immense sums to the
Moloch of drink annually? Simply
because they are prone to stick to
old customs blindly without taking
the trouble to think!
The whiskey party driven in from
every ■ other line of defense are re
treating on “high license,” and the
politicians who follow them for their
votes like a flock of cormorants fol
low a school of herrings, are all
shouting “high license” to the peo
ple as a great temperance movement,
und advocating the measure as a
safe temperance plank for their
party’s next platform. No greater
delusion and snare was ever set to
trap the too gullable public. Where
ever “high license’’ has been tried
long enough to prove its merits, the
result has been a dismal failure.
Senator Stewart’s Speech.
We conclude the admirable speech
of Senator Stewart on money in the
present issue, and trust that it has
received a careful reading by all.
The New York Financier publishes
the speech and devotes a lengthy
editorial comment to it, from which
we make a few extracts.
“The speech of Hon. Wm. M
Stewart, Senator from Nevada, de
livered in the Senate Chamber Jan
uary 2, contains more gems of truth
than anything it has been our pleas
ure to discuss for many months. It
adds a large amount of valuable
thought to the discussion of the
question of monometallism vs. bi
metallism, and presents the problem
in a remarkably clear and logical
manner. But, above all, it carries
the discussion into the broadest field
of political economy and furnishes
new themes for research and
analysis.
******
“On the question of the ability of
the United States to handle this hi
monetary question alone, Senator
Stewart is positive; and he is right.
The benefits that would accrue to us,
as a nation, and as the principal
producers of silver, cannot be over
estimated, while it is more than prob
able that it would help us as a seller
of agricultural products in competi
tion with India. It has heen proved
that the demonetization of silycr
broke the price of the white, as meas
ured in the yellow metal, from 61 to
42 pennies per ounce, a decline of 31
per cent. A return to a bi-metallistic
basis woo'd give an advance to the
old ruling figures, and again make
the Indian rupee worth two shillings.
'This would reduce the oash return
by India merchants to 31 per cent.,
and once more make the raising of
grain in India unprofitable.
"The receipts of silver in Europe
from other sources than the United
States and Mexico would be insuffic-
ient to meet the regular demands
from India, and exchange from India
would be conducted direct with the
United States, else English bankers
would be forced to pay our price for
their silver.
* * * * * *
“We do not want the gold or silver
for domestic exchange. Certificates
based on gold and Silver bullion bars
would be equally accept able, and such
bullion bars would pass in inter
national exchange far better than
the minted coin.”
Church Prohibition Mass Meeting.
The Baptist, Presbyterian and
Methodist ministers of Philadelphia
have made arrangements to hold a
monster convention at Association
Hall next Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock. The pastor ahd one other
representative of every church in
Philadelphia and vicinity are to be
requested to attend.
Tuesday’s Times in reporting the
preliminary proceedings, says,
“Dr. John Peddle, in speaking
last night of the vote on prohibition
to be cast on 18th of next June, pre
dicted that the majority in this city
for prohibition would be fully 20,000.
All the ministers on the commit
ties were enlh s astic about the move
ment and several of them stated that
their action was simply voicing the
sentiment of the masses. Next Sun
day announcement of the church pro
hibition mass meeting of next Mon
day will be made from every pulpit
in Philadelphia and within a radius
of thirty miles.
The best pulpit orators of this city
will address the convention, and the
largest assemblage of local clergy
men ever seen in this city it is pre
dicted will gather at Association
Hall next Monday afternoon.”
Pour New States.
The President signed the hill on Wash
ington’s birthday creating four new states,
North and Souths Dakota, Montana and
Washington. When these new stales send
their Senators and Representatives to occupy
seats in Congress next winter-they are all
almost sure to be Republican;. Eight Re
publican Senators and live Representatives.
The vote of these Territories last Novem
ber for Congressional Delegate was,
Rep. Dem. Maj.
Montana 22,486 17,360 5,126
North Dakota 25,290 13,801 11.489
South Dakota.., 39,326 24,759 14,667
Washington 26,291 18,920 7,371
The outlook for the National Democratic
party, taken in connection with these facts
and recent events, is anything but encour
aging. Thirteen electoral votes by these new
states are added to the sum which will be
required to elect the next President, with
the probable increase of several additional
votes, by the rush of emigration going to
this new land of promise. And from the
best light at present shed on the future,
every one of them against the Democrat
party.
The earnest, zealous members of that
party fell assured if the party could once
more get on its feet and succeed in placing
a President in the White House that they
could satisfy the people that it would be to
the nation’s interest to continue the party
in power. The opportunity came and it is
passed' That hope was not realized. Age,
it would seem, has enfeebled its hands, and
the reins of power fell from its grasp. True
the party claims that its defecat was not by
the popular will hut was accomplished by
the use of money. Unfortunately such
charges appear to have little weight, and
are dismissed with the remark that the lat
ter’s supeiior yirtue consisted in the lack of
opportunity. The prominent fact is alone
taken cognizance of, that haying been plac
ed firmly in power ana failed to retain it
but a brief period, from the popular stand
point is viewed as proof of incompetency
and untrnstworthiness. '
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware show ominous signs of a weaken
ing faith in the old party, and threaten to
fail away from it at any moment. The
hope of Federal office so potent with the
professional politicians has died with this
last defeat, and not a single encouraging ray
arrests the vision as the distant horizon is
scanned. This is the greatest unnerver of
the patriotic arm of the politician of them
all. With the remote possibility of power
and office wholly gone, he not only relaxes
his efforts but seriously meditates changing
his coat.
An old party cannot take up a new ques
tion if it is a leading question. It may
adopt side issues that are sure to be over
looked in the canvass. This fact was clear
ly demonstrated in the last campaign. The
Democrit party had a host almost of living
issues to choose front; questions that had
an earnest following, and that a large per
cent of its members profess to favor, but
they were virtually ignored, and the old
bare bone of contention, the tariff, brought
to the front. The very issue of all others
its wary enemy desired it to form its line of
battle on.
The spark which conyeyed the news to
Europe had scarcely left the telegraph wire
when Blaine commenced writing the order
of battle for his party, with the result which
all know. No, the Democratic party is
hopelessly beaten with not a ray of encour
agement that it can ever again achieve
national success. Are its young men con
tent to turn their faces to the past and listen
to the old men talk of parly greatness in
by-gone-day s and events that can never re
turn, or will they resolutely face about and
take hold of new work that is wating to be
, done? —a harvest ready for the reapers.
: The Republican party can neyer again be
beaten on old Democratic issues. If beaten
it will have to be done with new issues, and
as before stated, we are not familiar with
a single instance in history where an old
' party took up a new issue unless it was an
insignificant side affair,
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1 Farmers Urged to Organize.
, Within the last year there has been a
greater activity among the farming claß9
favoring a closer organization among them
than ever before. The formation of syndi
• cates and trusts by capitalists, for the pur
-1 pose of preying on-the rest cf the world, and
t especially the producing class of which
farmers compose the largest part hy far, has
aroused them to a sense of the danger which
threatens them, and is driving them into
■ organizations in self-protection. A leading
r member of the grange urges their cause in
I the following strong and earnest language :
“Agriculture is the mother of arts, since
all other arts are its legitimate off-spiing,
and cannot long exist without it. It is the
' one great business of our nation, and gives
employment to more than forty per ceut of
? our people. The substantial prosperity of
• any country is always in the ratio of its ag
• ricultural industry and wealth. Commerce
I aud manufactures are of but secondary im
• portance. A country can only continue
prosperous and independent when it is sus
tained hy agricultuial intelligence and
1 thrift duly protected and honored. There
' is no industry that measures the magnitude
of a country so much as its annual crops.
Our experience in the past in securing leg
islation favorable to the agricultural indus
j tries has shown the necessity of a more per
fect union among the farmers. If we as a
, class are suffering from the effects of bad
> legislation it is largely from the want of
. organization; If money is scarce and crops
. unremuneratiye, if capitalists and syndicates
I control legislation, let us seek the remedy
in organization.”
Piking Roads in Tredyffrin.
Tredyffrin township is waking up to
, the advantages of good roads. Eight
I years ago a public meeting of the tax
-1 payers was called and after a stormy
r dispute it was decided to pike a mile or
1 so of the public highway yearly. That
. year two miles were piked and every
year since a mile or so has been simi
. larly improved. The road tax levied
was never over 4J mill 9 and this year
it was only 3 mills. The farmers are
> turning out and improving the roads
[ themselyes at a proper season of the
. year and hence better highways are
. the result, everybody is happy and
t farm land is increasing in value
—Local Nci cs.
Hadn’t we better send a committee
, to Tredyffrin to investigate and com
L menee the new departure right here.
I A more favorable location could not be
found. Twelve or fifteen miles of pike
round Rising Suu would double its pop
ulation and business and enhance the
’ value of every farm the piked roads
reached.
We have received from Hon W.
M. Stewart, U. S- Senator from Ne
vada, a package each of bis speeches
delivered in the United States Sen
ate, Dec. 15th, 1887, on “Coin Cer
tificates” and March Bth, 1888, on
“History of the Demonetization ol
Silver—an alien scheme—the calam
ities it has produced.’’ We will mail
a copy of these able speeches to any
of our readers who will drop us a
postal card. The speeches contain a
vast fund of valuable information on
the money queston, a question too
little understood or investigated by
the public.
We conclude in the present issue
of the Midland Journal the speech
of Seuator Stewart, delivered Jan. 2,
1889, and many of those who have
read this last speech of the distin
guished Senator will doubtless de
sire to pursue the subject further.
The London Times got its head broken
in that Irish row.
President-elect Harrisiou reached
Washington on Tuesday.
Inauguration Special Trains March
3rd and 4th.
The B. & O. R. R. will run .Special Trains
to Washington on Sunday and Monday,
March 3rd and 4th, as follows ;
Sunday. Monday.
LEAVE P. M. A. M. SATE.
Childs 3 30 6 16 2.68
Leslie 3 41 6 25 2.54
Whitaker 3 55 6 36 2.37
Aikin 4 00 6 40 2 30
Havre de Grace 4 07 6 60 2.24
Aberdeen 4 21 7 02 2.10
Stepney 4 27 7 07 2.30
McGaw’s 4 32 7 13 1.93
Harford 4 35 7 17 1.92
Returning, train will leave Wasbinton,
March 4lb, for all local stations on Phila
delphia Division at 6.00 p. M.
Trains for Newark, Wilmington and
' Chester only, will lesve Washington at
4.20 p. m., 6.00 p. m., 7.00 p. m., 8.00 p. sc.,
9.00 p. m., 10.00 p. M., 11.00 p. if , 12.00
Midnight, March sth, at 1.00 A. m., 2.00
A. m., 8.15 A. M., 2,05, 4.20 and 11.30 P. m.
All the above Trains arrive and depart
from Depot, Co. New Jersey Ave. and C.
Street, Washington, one square from the
Capitol.
Tickets sold Feb. 25, to March 4, good to
return until March 7, inclusive, and are
good to stop off at Baltimore in either di
rectiou. CHAS. O. SCULL,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t, B. & O.
The Site of the School Buildings.
When the announcement was
made that it was Mr. Tome’s purpose
to endow an industral school and
put up suitable buildings, part of the
information was that ten acres of
land had been set apart on which to
erect the buildings. One statement
named two acres, which la9t was
correct, we have learned, and the
site of the buildings is the slope ad
jacent to, and on which stands Mr.
Tome’9 present granite residence
The ground is partially improved by
terraced gardens and an extensive
green house, which adjoins his resi
dence. The building which Mr
Tome has occupied as a home and
for the accomodation of the Cecil
National Bank is to comprise one of
the school buildings.
Drawings and specifications con
forming to his first conception of
the enterprise were made a number
of years ago by Alonza Reynolds, a
builder and architect of Port Depos
it, but the designs and intentions of
. the philanthropist having been
, changed and the scope uf the work
- enlarged, those original specifica
tions and drawings will be super
seded by others, but the orignal site
will be adhered to.
Will positively cure sick head
ache and prevent its return. Carter’s Little
Liver Pills. This is not talk, but truth.
One pill a dose. See advertisement. Small
pill. Small dose. Sqpall price.
The Easton Ledger and Cecil
Whig are having a little bout over
the unsavory memory of Govenor
Thoma 9 Swann. We had supposed
that no one would be found in Mary
land innocent enough to speak a word
in favor of Gov. Swann as a public
man. A greater political scoundrel
never darkened Maryland party his
tory than Gov. Tom Swann. Exam
ine the man as a Know Nothing, a
Union man or a Democrat, and his
history emits the same stifling
stench.
From the Nation’s Cap
ital.
Mr. A. N. Hazen, Washington, D.
C. says the famous red flag oil is a
perfect family medicine and has no
equal for rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains, cuts, burns and all bodily
pain, price 25c.
Consumption, are you troubled
with tli s terrible disease, if so take
healthy exercise, liye in open air,
use puritan cough and consumption
cure and be cured, dou’t delay, prioe
25c. at G. G. Sill’s drug store.
The jury tor the March term which
begins Monday, March 18th, has been
drawn. The following are the lucky
ticket holders.
D£t.| BUt.
Samuel Frazer I'George E. Kirk 5
Jemes A. Pearce 1 John F. Roach 5
J. H. Williams lj Isaac T. Rogers 5
W. H. Freeman 1 John W. Simpers 5
Eugeue Manlove 1 John B. Graham 5
R. H. Lodge 2 A. R. Magraw 6
Dennis Muioney 2 Carlton Kimble 6
Janies Spear 2 Samuel D. Pryor 6
Wesley Clayton 2E, H. Hunt 6
Wm. Fears 2 Stephen ReynoldsO
Wm. Cavender 2G. E. McCullough 6
John Burke 3 W. W. Carter 6
Roger Wit worth 3S. A. Vannort 7
Harry A. Hall 3 Reuben Bond 7
John T. Lee 3 Jos. C. Naudain 7
Cadmus Pierce 3Jno. L. Taylor 7
J. H. Mahoney 3J.W. Paxton 7
Nathan Marple 3J. L. Ward 7
Wm. Hughes 3 Philip Craig 7
John W. Quinn 4G.W. Sutton 7
John S. Smith 4W. R. Gillespie 8
David F. Work 4!R. H. Stewart 8
Isaac Strahorn 4 W. B. Porter 8
Chsrles B. Biles 4 Howard Arrison 9
W. R. Gillespie of the Bth will hardly
be in attendance when the clerk calls.
He has been railroading in West Vir
ginia for a while in the employ of W.
E. Porter.
Hamburg Figs are a crystalized frnit
cathartic, composed of fruits and vege
tables, and, being in lozenge form, are
handy to carry with yon. They aot
mildly but surely, and by their regu
lating influence overcome the tendency
to constipation from any cause. This
is especially true in all cases of sea
sickness or car sickness, which is due
to a dangerous condition of the diges
tive organs, over which Hamburg Figs
exercise a peculiar influence. It is
well known that even if the system is
in good condition at the beginning,
change in food and habits daring a
journey often produce constipation.
Hamburg Figs are therefore recom
mended to all travelers as being the
only medicine that is certain in action,
handy to have with you, most pleasant
and agreeable to the taste, and always
harmless. Hamburg Figs are sold at
250- a box at L. R. Kirk’s drug store.
>
When you hear a man asking,
“Does Prohibition prohibit?” ask
him if the amoon is made of green
cheese. One question is about as
relevant and sensible as the other.
Consumption Surely Cored.
To The Editor —Please inform your
leaders that I bay* a positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be glad to send
two bottlea of my remedy I’BEE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and poet office
address. Respectfully,
T. A. BLOCUM, M. C, 181 Pearlst, N. Y
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