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____ ___ THE CTOTJ^^TAXj : FBI3DAIT, IQ, 1890.
Bk e 9idlHt{d
is published on Friday morn isg of each week at
Rising Sun, Cecil Co., Maryland,
BY
E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all other
subjects.
SI.OO A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Friday, Jau. 10, 1890.
Consolidation.
“Railroad combinations are monopolizing
managers’ attention more than ever before;
the recent consolidation of tbe N. Y. Cen-
Chicago & Western; Chicago & Alton; the
Denver & Fort Worth; the Uoin Pacific and
their branches, is an Instance in point. An
aggregation of 27,000 miles of track, with
$565,000,00 capital, and a total debt of
$621,000,000, is an event in history, and
calculated to exciie universal attention.
“The combination reaches from oceans to
Gulf, taking in nearly every important
point.
“And all this we emphatically consider
to be fot the peoples’ best interests; and we
heartily trust that further, prohibitive leg
islative action in our Western States will be
suspended until the new method of railroad
management is carefully tried. Undoubted
ly if railroad men alone considered their
pockets and had no fear of legislative inter
ferance, many more such combinations
would to day be in existence; but because
of this fear, only partial attempts come to
light.
“The great benefit to the public as the
railways themselves by such considerations
is the many opportunities thus afforded for
cheapening the costs of transportation and
the great costs of supplies ”
[The above quotation is from an article
published by The, Financier on the advantage
of centralizing which is going on in the
business of the world. The Financier is en
thusiastic in its advocacy of trusts and all
manner of consolidation in business enter
prises. The grounds taken by the Finander
are those of economy. In pursuing this line
of argument that paper takes strong grounds
against interferance with these combinations
and trusts by legislation, and says in the
article we quote from; “The people must
learn and make the distinction between con
solidation and imperial aggression, for in
fact there is no likeness.” Unfortunately
the people have learned to their cost that
there is a very great likeness between them:
hence their earnest efforts to place those
colossal institutions under the gnardioship
of the law, like any other trustee which is
given discretionary control over the persons
and property of others. It is not theohject of
the people to harass or injure railroads or
other industrial pursuits, or prevent them
from employing the best economic methods
attainable in transacting their business, but
they do wish to have a protector in their
government against any encroachments on
the rights of the citizen from these combi
nations and aggregations of capital, when
ever those colossal powers may feel dis
posed to impose upon the citizen, and which
they certainly will do, as they have done,
if left to their own sweet will, with the
shield of the law entirely withdrawn from
between them and the rights of the citizen.
The whole people are very willing that
every combination and consolidation of
railroads and business enterprises may be
effected that will promote cheap production,
but they are not willing that a comparative
ly few persons shall divide among them
selves all the profits derived from the cheap
ening process, and insist that the whole pub
lic shall participate in these benefits. And
they do not propose that this shall be left
to the froe will of the few who manage the
combinations, but tnat they shall answer to
the government as strictly as the trustee
answers to the court which appoints him.
Without this provision, the trust and pow
erful combination have the power of the
Czar. And there is where business “con
solidation and imperial aggressioo” ap
proach each other in sameness. It appears
to be the inherent nature of man to oppress
and despoil his weaker fellow, and for the
protection of the weak is the main object for
which government was instituted among
men.
The people are not only not opposed to,
but are in favor of, railroad consolidation,
trusts, and all manner of combinations to
cheapen travel and transportation, and pro
ducts of every kind, but they wish to be
sharers in those benefits, and to insure this
they demand that all such organizations
shall make a statement of their business —
lender an account of their stewartship, so to
speak—to the government which incorpor
ates and grants them these valuable fran
chises, not for the sole benefit of a few indi
viduals who happen to control, large aggre
gations of capital, but for a mutual benefit
with the public.
We are not to be understood by “mutual
benefit,” that the public shall become par
ticipants in the earnings of railroads and
other natural monopolies, as slock holders,
but that service shall be furnished for such
charges as return a fair dividend to capital,
and that extravagant salaries and wastetnl
management shall not be permitted.
The people do not desire to injure or re
tard those corporations, trusts or combina
tions by governmental interference, but on
the contiary wish them every success in the
expansion and extension of business, but
they do not want them for masters. It is
the fight and resistance which these great
aggregations of capital make against this
fair and just demand of the people, that is
causing all the trouble which they professto
suffer from and fear. The public has suflered
immense wrong and extortion from the greai
cerporations which have sprung up, and
have, like Napoleon and the Czar of Rus
sia, endeavored to be a law unto themselves.
Tbe powerful are in no need of law. The
weak always are. Let the Financier, in its
able discussion of tbe economic side of
trusts and other business combinations, also
include the rights of the citizen, and its
usual broad gauge principle in dealing witli
economic subjects, will attain the grand
proportson of perfect theory. Ihe who.e
people are interested in these colossal cor
porations which in no sense occupy the po-
fsition of individual persons, and an honest
corporation has nothing to fear from a clear
statement of its business to the government
quarterly, or semi-annually at least. This
’ is simple justice. It is what the people de
mand, and the sooner the corporations rec
ognize this fact and assist in bringing about
r the reform the better it will he for all stock
holders, who are the real owners but not the
. controllers of these concerns.
If railroads would propose to the Federal
: Government a feasable plan of honest super
vision, they would get rid of what they com
plain is troublesome State interference, the
1 public would be entirely satisfied when they
knew their rights were being guarded, and
, railroad stocks would become the best se
■ curities in the known world. It is a latent
I
dishonest intent and the thirst for untram
, meled power which makes all these great
corporations resist what they must in the
end submit to, government supervision.
r Tne High License Bill.
The Bill which has been prepared by the
High License Committee of the City of Bal
-1 timore, marks the influence of agitation on
the absorbing question of the alcoholic
disease and crime. Under it the license fee
will be sl,oob for selling distilled liquors,
and SOOO for fermented liquors, in Balti
more city; SBOO and SIOO for incorporated
cities, and within two miles of their limitsi
SSCO and $250 for other cities. In the
counties licenses are to be issued to all per
sons who comply with the provisions of the
law. Applications for licenses are to be
recommended by twenty freeholders, and
bond is to be givm to secure the payment of
all fines imposed. Penalties for the viola
tion of the law are very severe, being heavy
fines or confinement in the House of Correc
tion, or both, at the discretion of the court.
It will be seen that any peison who can
pay the license fee and procure the signa
tures of twenty freeholders, can secure a
license. This lends, not to curtail the sale
of intoxicants but to restrict the number of
sellers, and by increasing the quantity of
business done by the less number of saloons,
make a monopoly of the trade, placing it in
(he the hands and under the control of a few
rich men.
It is further noticeable that the law is
provided for the whole State, not for the
city of Baltimore alone. Very severe pen
alties are provided, and numerous hind
rances and restrictions among which are the
following:
No licensee can sell liquors to a minor,
or a drunkard, or persons of known intem
perate habits, or to a person visibly affected
by intoxicating drinks. Nor can he sell or
furnish to any person intoxicating liquors
on any day upon which elections are held,
nor on Sunday. And the business (of sell
ing whiskey) shall not be conducted in any
place to which an entrance shall be allowed
other than directly from a public traveled
way; and no license shall place any screen,
blind, shutter, curtain, partition, stained
glass, etc., in such away as to interfere with
a view of the business conducted upon the
premises.
We ask our readers to take a common
sense, business view of this proposed law,
and then answer if in the whole realm of
trade anything so ridiculous can be found
i outside of the whiskey business. Is it hon
' est for the State to take a man’s money in
payment for a privilege to do business and
then make a contract with him, which if
: carried out, would pretty nearly make the
: business an entire failure? It is not honest
'■ and the man who is so unfairly dealt with
i considers that he is under no moral obliga
' tion to keep such an unfair contract, and
consequently every high license law, brist
' ling with restrictions is violated. All high
' license laws are frauds, intended to impose
* upon a credulous public.
The government has made the liquor
' business a monopoly by levying on it high
' excise taxes. This has placed its manufac
-1 ture and wholesale entirely in the hands of
rich men, and the rich monopoly have
taken so important a part in politics as to
1 be able to intimidate political parties and
political managers. There is scarcely a
man in Congress but is afraid to take any
1 part against the liquor power. The liquor
1 power has been driven into the high license
1 movement for the purpose of placing the
retail trade also in the hands of a monopoly.
; The liquor power through the medium of
high license offers a bribe to the tax payers,
i by a pretense of paying a large share of the
i taxes. This phase of the question has been
1 reached by the agitation of the different
■ temperance organizations, which is steadily
' appealing to the moral sense and the intel
i ligence of the public, to lake grounds against
1 the liquor evil, and the Prohibition party
• which is endeavoring to gather the host of
• enemies to the traffic, into a solid phalanx
• to hurl against it and deprive it of the sup
• port and encouragement of all law. The
• final battle must be fought at the ballot box,
for no business can be stopped while it has
I law to sustain it. The high license move is
a ruse to distrac tthe saloon’s enemies’ at ten
' lion and keep them divided as Tong as pos
• sible, hoping in the meantime to hold its
I ground and tiirhten its grip by subsidizing
, the State with liberal license fees.
' We ask our readers to look at the utter
, foolishness involved in this high license
1 scheme. It sells the saloon keeper a right
and then tries to cheat him out of it by
- placing restrictions in the contract. Free
- whiskey is far preferable to high lioense or
i any license. That would place the busiuess
e on its own merits. If there was any good in
t it the public would discover it. There be
s ing nothing but injury to the public in it,
t the business would be denounced by everv
8 one, and the courts would be appealed to to
s abate it at a common nuisance that was
o everywhere declared to be a public injury,
j Its only excuse for existence is the money it
pays into the public treasuries, and that it
1 virtually filches from those least able to
1 bear the loss and gives them no benefit
. whatever in return for their money. The
I only way to put down the liquor traffic is
to vote it down and outlaw it. Both the
e old parlies are in favor of license, high or
s low, and license will never stop the evil,
f Temperance people will have to come to
, gether and vote together. They mav call
that vote what they please, but it will be a
s vote followed bv law to prohibit the liquor
i trade, and no whiskey vote can be had in a
i party which means law against the saloon.
} When you find liquor men voting for a party
you can set it down[as an established fact that
the party has promised to do no injury to I
- the saloon.
Valuable and Instructive.
“Every member of the legislature
should study the facts and statistics
1 of tbe high license question. He will
find them valuable and instructive
—American
Why don’t you publish them?
Nothing else would so completely,
knock out your claim for high license.
Not the saloon manufactured statis
tics, hut the police court records of
high license cities.
Henry George—all who read the
newspapers have heard of Henry
George, and wondered at Ills singular
doctrines—a tax on land !—why the
farmers are taxed to death already—
how preposterous such a doctrine.
Ah, but Henry George doesn’t ad
vocate any such preposterous theory
as that. Farmers pay already more
tax on the land than they should,
ami in all probability more than they
would be called on to pay under the
single land tax system. The most
valuable land is not farm land, but
city land. The whole world has
litard of Ilenry George and his new
theory of political economy, which is
overturning the old and preconceiv
ed and universally accepted ideas on
social problems and political ques
tions. “Single tax’’ clubs are formed
and being formed in all the large
cities and the new doctrine is receiv
itig numerous converts. Henry
George has established a weekly 16
page paper called The Standard .
published at No. 12 Union Sqr.New
York, at $2.50 a year, in which all
those labor and tax questions are
discussed. If you " want to know
more about these new doctrines send
for the paper.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has affirmed the judgment of
the Circuit Courts of New York and
Pensylyania in favor of the silk im
porters whereby the government
must refund to the silk importers
$7,000,000 for overcharged duties.
The tariff of taxes on imported
silk ribbons were ambiguous, and
50 per cent duty was charged by
the government, whereas the Courts
have decided that the duty should
have been 20 per cent.
This 50 per cent duty on silk rib
bons used for trimmings was paid
under protest and suits instituted
for its repayment to the importers
until the amount of excess paid
reacned nearly or quite $7,000 000,
when judicial decision was reached,
declaring the proper duty to be 20 per
cent instead of 50 per-cent and giv
ing the importers reclamation
against the governmentifor the en
tire amount of excess ol duties paid.
Of the $7,000 000 that the govern
ment must refund to importers, the
lawyers get nearly one-halt under
their contract and the importers the
remainder
This extra duty cost waß charged
up on the “goods and paid to the
merchants by purchasers, who were
the people at large. What do they
get? Nothing. The importers make
a double profit, except what share
the lawyers take.
An Australian ballot law will in
crease tne prohibition vote. Men
who are under the eye of the politic
ian vote as he dictates. Men who
are watched by their conscience vote
as it dictates when the former i 9
absent.
The two prevailing epidemics are
La Grippe and the Australian ballot
law.
Ballot reform is the watch word.
Pass it along the lines.
Mrs. Southworth, who shot Petlus,
died in her cell in the Toombs prison.
N. Y-, of heart disease on Tuesday
evening.
The Dowager Empress of Germany,
relict of the late Emperor William,
died on Tuesday night ofLa Grippe
She was in her 79th year.
Miss Mary Russell, eldest daugh
ter of the Rev. T. Snowden Thomas,
died at the residence of her father, in
Wilmington, on Friday last Miss
Thomas had been in ill health for
some time.
Capt. W. G. Purnell is again Sec
retary of the Senate and John G.
Williams has secured a Committee
Clerkship.
The Captain should enlighten the
members on the ‘ single tax’’ theory,
flow to lay a just tax is the leading
business, —or should be —of the Irgis
lature.
Ccnsumption Surely Cured.
To The Editor —Please inform your
readers that 1 have 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
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your readers who have consumption if they
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Incidents in Alexander Hamilton's Life.
Before Alexander was 13 years of age
he was placed in the office of a West In
dia merchant. Ho was very precocious
and developed a remarkable business ca
pacity. He gained his first lesson in
composition from writing business letters
for the firm, and these letters are said to
be remarkable for one so young. He
also contributed to the press, at one time
giving an account of a hurricane that
visited the island, which was so vividly
■ described as to attract attention. It was
considered that something must be done
for so bright a boy with a view to giv
ing him an education. His friends and
relatives furnished the funds and he was
sent to America, where he arrived in
1772, landing at Boston, whence he pro
ceeded to New York. After a brief
course of study at Elizabethtown, N. J.,
he entered King's college (now Colum
bia).
The mutterings of the American Revo
lution were then being first heard. Ham
ilton was naturally at first on the side of
the mother country, but a study of the
wrongs of the colonists converted him,
and he was eager for a chance to speak
upon their side. He did not have long
to wait for an opportunity. A meeting
of citizens was called to take place in
the fields near the college building on
the fith of July, 1774. While this meet
ing was in progress a youth was seen
struggling towards the platform. When
he arrived there he mounted it, the
crowd shouting, “A collegian! A colle
gian!” Then Alexander Hamilton, a
mere lad of 17, poured forth an eloquent
speech in behalf of the rights of the
colonies.
After this, Hamilton advocated the
cause with his pen as well as with his
tongue. He was soon called upon to add
the sword. In the spring of 1776, when
10 years of age, he took command of an
artillery company of New York, and dis
tinguished himself at Long Island and
White Plains by his gallantry as com
mander of this company. Then Gen.
Greene, whose attention was attracted
to the young soldier, procured for him a
position on Washington's staff.
The most important task which fell to
Hamilton while aid-de-camp to the
commander-in-chief was a mission to
Albany to obtain troops from Gen. Gates
after the Burgoyno campaign; a task
which by his firmness and tact he car
ried through successfully. While on
this mission he met and courted Miss
Elizabeth Schuyler, of a powerful New
‘York family, to whom he was married
in 1780. She became invaluable to him
in assisting him in the arrangement and
care of his papers. These papers, con
taining many valuable historical facts,
she presented to the government of the
United States long after her husband's
death.—Exchange.
Afraid to Lie Down.
"Who knows why birds sleep standing
on one leg? The position seems most un
natural. Reasoning in advance,we should
pronounce it a tiresome, if not impossi
ble, attitude. Yet the canary tucks its
head under its wing, draws up one foot,
and goes to sleep, apparently with quite
as much comfort as wo experience on the
best of mattresses. A ■writer in Horse
and Stable notes a similar, though less
abnormal, habit on the part of horses,
who, it appears, are in many cases very
averse to lying down.
The writer once rode a mare seventy
miles in a single day. The stable in which
she was put for the night was as com
fortable as it could well be made, but she
stood up all night long. She ate her oats
and hay and then went to sleep, leaning
forward with her breast against the
manger.
There are horses that have never been
seen to lie down, nor have any marks of
their having done so ever been found
upon their bodies. I recall one that for
fifteen years occupied a particular stall
in my grandfather's stable. Up to the
hour he died no one ever saw him lying
down, although special watch was some
times kept after he had been driven for
eight or ten hours.
Unless a horse lies down regularly his
rest cannot be complete, and his joints
and sinews stiffen. It is true that some
horses that always sleep in a standing
position continue to work for many
years, but it is equally true that they
would live longer and work better if
they rested naturally.
Young horses from the country are
liable to refuse to lie down when first
put into a stable in town, and the in
jurious habit may become confirmed un
less special pains are taken to induce a
change.
The indisposition to lie down is often
very pronounced in sick horses. They
seem to have an instinctive fear that if
they lie down they may never be able to
rise, and continue on their feet till their
limbs refuse to bear them up.
The Durbaric Splendor.
Nothing on earth equals in magnificence
the barbaric splendor of those old czars.
I visited the museum where they showed
me with great pride the products of the
Russian mines. Here was the largest
nugget of gold in the world; the largest
lump of silver, the largest specimen of
malachite, and the largest lapis lazuli,
with a hundred and one other thing from
the Siberian mines.
I saw the saddles and caparisons of
some of these old warriors. One, I re
member, had a large saddle blanket, as
you might call it, made of cloth of gold.
At a distance it looked perfectly white,
and it was large enough to cover the
greater portion of the body of the war
horse. A closer inspection showed that
it was covered all over with diamonds of
the purest water. The larger ones were
sewn on in the form of stars and other
figures, but the entire surface was cov
ered with these gems.
The blanket was worth thousands and
thousands of dollars.
Then, in one of Catherine’s palaces, I
saw columns of pure amber, with the
walls of entire rooms covered with the
same costly stuff.
And yet, in other countries of Europe,
amber has become so scarce that it is al
most impossible to secure a pure article,
and imitation amber is used for jewelry.
—Dr. Barrett in Atlanta Constitution.
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necessary for all the names in a club to come from
one office, nor is it necessaiy to send all the names
at one time. <
Send on the names as fast as received. Remit
tances should be made by check, postal money
order or registered letter, as it is unsafe to send
money in ordinary letters, aud the publisher can
not be responsible for losses occasioned thereby.
CHAS. C. FULTON a CO.,
FELIX AGXUS Manayer und I’ubliiher.
American Office,
BALTIMORE, MD
THE SALE FOR THE RE
DUCTION OF STOCK
STILL CONTINUES.
E. R Buffington.
Chrismas and Holiday Goods
arriving daily, from which you can select a useful present
for a friend or yourself. Below we make up a par
tial list which will probably aid you in
your selection.
Knives and Forks, Cutter*.
Ten Knives. Sausage Stutters.
Butcher Knives, t Tin Can* for Hau-
Tea .v lable Corn Shelters [sage
Cutting Boxes,
Carvers, Clothes Wringers,
Handled Axes,
Coffee Mills, Hatchets,
Lanterns, a Carpenter Tools,
Agate Iron Ware, Hr w Saws, Saws,
Butter scales, i W ~-w Shelf Brackets,
Lard Pi esses, Pad Looks,;
Sleigh Bells and Chimes, Ladies’ and Gents’ Skates Horee Clippers,
Guns and Pistols, Ammunition, 3 a nlgal._Oil.Cans,
burns, Coal Kiddles, Pumps,
Ready-Mixed Sleigh Paint, Cow Chains, Hay Kniyes.
A fine line of Cook Stoves, Ranges. Single'■ and Double
Heaters, with fixtures and fitting all first class.
Our prices still remain at and below zero .
Resp. Yours,
HAINES <fc KIBK,
Rising Sun, Maryland,