The midland journal., March 11, 1898, Image 2

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Rising Sun, Cecie Co., Maryeani.
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E. E. EWING & SONS.
Independent in politics and all otliei
subjects.
S 1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVAMCE.
Friday, Mar. 11,1898.
$50,000,000 for Defense.
When the vote came up in the
House of Representatives, Tuesday,
appropriating $50,000,000 for war
purposes against Spain, or any
other nation, the whole house rose
to its feet and voted aye! 311
members present. Not a single
vote was recorded in the negative.
The White House presents the finest
contrast, peiliaps that ever was shown in
its halls at any previous period between
the porcine manners of Hanna and the
diplomatic polish and careful expressions
of McKinley.
The Johns Hopkins University is peti
tioning the legislature for an annual do
nation of SIOO,OOO to keep it going. Its
catalogue of students shows four students
to oue Professor. Comment is unnec
essary. Let the legislature bestow its
gifts—if it has any—on our public schools.
The interest on bonds and mortgages
takes the money out of circulation faster
than the people can create produce with
which to buy it back, hence the money
lies congested in bank vaults, and the
goldbugs say, why there is too much
money. The bond and mortgage owners
of this congested interest money want the
industrial class to borrow the congested
interest money and pay more interest on
new debts. They can’t do it and live,
and hard times is the result.
W. G Purnell calls the attention of the
Cecil News to the fact that the Chairman
of the Democratic party has issued a stir
ring address to the party and the public
which it was the duty of party papers to
publish and call attention to, but which
lias not been done by the press of that
party in this county. The editor answers
that the matter has not been overlooked,
but the Spain war news has taken public
attention to the exclusion of all else and
the address has been laid over for a more
convenient season The plain English of
it is Gorman hasn't decided just yet.
“ Prohibition a Failure 1 ”
"With floating bar-rooms upon our
waterways, and traveling bar-rooms upon
our public highways; with ambrosia joints
located in every little hamlet, with speak
easies galore, and with our drug stores
dispensing the vile stuff upon the pre
scriptions of even the ‘boss doctors’" —
Thus sings a liquor swan his dying note
in the liquor organ of the county to the
old bacchanalian tune of “prohibition a
failure.”
“With theft and burglary iu every
hamlet, and highway robbery on the
public roads, with fire, rape and murder
galore,” would make an excellent parody
to the above old bacchanalian chant heard
so often sung by temperance advocates.
The repeal of all criminal law would be
a great benefit to the public because those
crimes continue to be committed, would
be the acme of wisdom according to the
temperance advocates who dress in robes
of white to serve the grog boozers’ cause.
Do these sham temperance advocates
know what law means other than a stat
utory arrangement to punish evil doers by
fixed rules? It is fair to presume they do
not. Criminal law is infinitely more than
a process of punishment for the law
breaker. It is a moral guide and com
mand, a rule of life prescribed by society
for the betterment of the individual and
the improvement of the social order. It
is a finger board at the parting of the
ways telling the traveler which road leads
to evil, involving danger and hardship,
and which to good order, the public wel
fare, promoting the ends of justice.
The law is society’s school master. It is
the voice of society prescribing rules
which are necessary for the maintenance
of social order. Law is a talisman by
which society detects its enemines and
ostracizes them. Whoever violates law
and defies the will of society has a moral
obliquity cast upon him, is adjndged an
outlaw and is placed under ihe ban. The
moral force of law is far greater than its
power to punish. The law of prohibition
says the grog selling business is wrong,
and wrong doers are ever under the ban
of society. It says the wrong doer is not
a good citizen. It aims to set the brand
of Cain on him and cast him out, drive
him to the land of Nod (vagabonds.)
Now a prohibition law has all these
forces behind it and is steadily exerting
its influence on society to educate it
against the alcoholic disease and danger.
There is uot a speakeasy keeper, a boot
leg peddler, a floating rum saloon keeper
or a joint proprietor that is not under the
ban of society, that is not ostracized, that
is not looked upon as a bad citizen in a
more or less degree, the same as violators
of other criminal laws.
Place these secret liquor vendors under
the protecting aegis of a license law and
they come out iu the open day and hold
up their heads among men, claim they
are "law abidiug” citizens, that the con
sensus of opinion declares the liquor traffic
right, moral, just and of good report. If
the law affirms it right and proper to sell
it is also right, proper and of good report
to drink, and all that drinking leads to is
justified and condoned by public opinion
and good society.
These are the sublime and far reaching
differences between a license law and a
prohibition law, and not merely selling
and taking a drink of whiskey on the sly
or publicly over a licensed couuter.
THE -M-T-m-.A-NTTI JOTTH/XT -A-Xj: IFH/HD-A-IZ", MARCH 11, IS9B.
The Trusts. <
It is the popular thing now for politic
ians to cry out against the trusts. Every
kind of manufacturing business is con
glomerating into trusts. People mistake
effect for cause. The trust is the outcome
of certain conditions. No independent
spirited business man would become a
part aud parcel of a trust by turning his
entire business over to a board of trustees
and abdicating all control of it of his own
free will. It is the conditions that environ
the parties composing a trust that com
pel the trust. There is but the one
choice; the trust or bankruptcy and utter
collapse, and no laws that can be framed
against trusts will abolish them, because ;
when they dissolve the several businesses j
which have combined into one compos- j
ing the trust will cease to exist if sepa- t
rated, till only one remains. Competition
will have killed all but the strongest and ;
that will take the place of the trust and
become a powerful monopoly.
The effort to kill the trusts by a statute
• directed against the trust simply, is shal
low and futile statesmanship. The law
j which will abolish the trust must abolish
, the conditions that cause it. The trust is
, the involuntary . struggle of busiuess to
, exist.
s The first and primary cause is the in
sufficiency of money in circulation to
more equally divide the products of labor
among the great laboring, producing
■ masses; the disproportion of money to
' the large amount of products created,
s which meagre quantity of money causes
s the price to be so low that the producer
" has little or nothing for liis share when
s he has exchanged the products of labor
■ for money, while the class who own
money and obligations on others, are
s compelled to part with but comparatively
r a small amount of their money to secure
j all the wealth the producers have created.
Hence the rich steadily grow richer, if
s they are nou-producers, while the pro
i ducers grow poorer, and as the price of
s their products decline, they cut prices
e and compete with each other till ruin
J stares both parties in the face, then sev
i eral pool their plants, appoint a board of
, trustees to manage as one business what
formerly constituted several separate and
distinct businesses of the same class, and
that is the trust. This result is just as
certain as contripelal force tends to form
a solid sphere of what it acts on.
And this being true it is plain that law
C directed at the “trust” simply, must kill
the business if it kills the trust.
( What is the remedy ? The national
remedy is found in three separate and
distinct parts. First the complete national
’ control of the circulating medium or
money, involving its issue or creation and
its future care and control of the same in
j. the interest of people solely without par
tiality or favoritism to any.
Second, the complete ownership and
control of the telegraph and telephone
service, by incorporating them in the
r postal service.
i Third, though last but not least by any
s means, the complete control of the
s sources of transportation, which is almost
. all done at present by railroads At the
- founding of the government, the rivers
; lakes and bays were all declared free to
; transportation, the same as the public
i roads, and had railroads and telegraphs
existed in those days of sturdy manhood,
f independence and a stern sense of justice
they would have been classed among the
r public utilities for the use of all, and a
y necessary part of government machinery
\ for the protection aud welfare of society.
These three necessary functions to the
e well being of the people at large must be
e won back and placed in the hands of the
j government to be managed for the ben
e efit of the whole people, as the first three
s steps in adjusting government to pro
moting the ends of modern civilization.
s There is probably very much more will
. have to be done on similar lines, but
y these three must precede all others, and
j in the uiaan time the people must be
, brought nearer to the law-making power,
v in fact be made a direct part of it.
In a powerful article on trusts by Sen
y ator Marion Butler of North Carolina, in
] the March Arena, the Senator says in
t summing up the subject :
. “In short, those who have a trust on
s money, a trust on transportation, and a
trust on news, have it in their power to
. levy tribute on every man and on every
industry in the nation in order to enrich
s themselves and their allies. . . . They
3 have even taken charge of the govern.
? ment itself. They are the authors of the
y present hard times, and they are directly
] responsible for the organization of every
, trust. Was there a trust in existence be
] fore half of the people’s money was de
, stroyed by burning the greenbacks and
. demonetizing silver, aud the control of
; our finances was placed iu the hands of a
, banking syndicate ? ”
1 Our Only Danger.
War with Spain involves no danger to
the United States from any damage Spain
‘ could inflict. Everybody knows—McKin
ley perhaps excepted—that the United
" States would make but a “breakfast job”
; of Spain. It is Shvlock that threatens
t
danger in case of a Spanish war. Shy
' lock with his present administration in
power would exert every effort to pile a
r thousand millions more debt on this
e country. The excitement of war would
♦
be taken advantage ofby the whole pack
1 of newspapers which are in Shylock’s
5 interest, to lash the country into frenzy in
order to force issues of bonds under the
r necessity of “borrowing” money from
' Shylock to carry on the war.
The quiet indifference with which the
i people witness the threats and antics of
the Spanish, shows plainly they regard
Spain and her warlike threats, her honor
I and her national pride, with cool indif
ference. Spain is a miserable, half civ
t 1
ilized, w’eak, moribund nation, and her
5 brutalities in Cuba should have been
II stopped years ago by the United States,
and they would have been had the gov
“ ernment not been in the hands of the
® agents of Shylock.
y The only danger arising from a war
with Spain is the loading another billion
of debt on the government while it re
mains in the hands it now is in. The j
bond-mongers who trade in flesh and j
blood would proclaim through the public
press, through their servants —the politic
ians, and from every fashionable pulpit
in the land that it was necessary for the
United States to issue gold bonds to ob
tain money to defend the honor of the
nation. And when the gold bonds had
been issued they would come forward
with greenbacks, silver certificates and
national bank notes to pay for them.
Not a dollar of gold would the govern
ment receive and not a dollar would it
need, but a demand for gold would be
1 suspended perpetually 'over the head of
j the nation like the sword of Democlese,
and Shylock would ever demand gold
| interest and gold liquidation for these
bonds, while he had the gold cornered
J which was to pay these obligation. This
is the danger and the only danger that
j threatens the American people while
! McKinley is in the White House nuder
the eye of Mark Hanna, and Reed iu the
Speaker’s chair watching the interest of
Shylock in the lower House.
The Greatest Discovery Yet.
W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111.,
Chief, says: “We won’t keep house with
out Dr King’s New Discovesy for Con
sumption, Coughs aud Cold. Experi
’ mented with many others, but never got
the true remedy until we used Dr. King’s
' New Discovery. No other remedy can
take its place in our home, as in it we
have a certain and sure cure for coughs,
colds, whooping cough, etc.” It is idle
to experiment with other remedies, even
if they are urged on you as just as good
as Dr. King’s New Discovery. They are
not as good, because this remedy has a
record of cures and besides is gurranteed„
j. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles free
at Dr. L- R. Kirk’s drug store
f
5 New Time.
i The March number of New Time is
• loaded to the muzzle with that kind of
I literature present emergencies and
t changing economic and social conditions
1 is loudly demanding. The following
I quotation from one of its leading editor
> ials, by Mr. Adams, addressed to William
1 McKinley, will serve as a hint of the kind
of anmnition used by this new battery in
< the battle of man against money:—
I “I am in receipt of a private letter from
a Washington newspaper man stating
I that you and every member of your cab
I inet are besieged by hundreds of Wall
I street gamblers and representatives of
‘vested interests.’ Stocks are tumbling
I down the scale. Why ? Because of a fear
i that you as an American President will
■ dare ignore the interests of the Jew money
lenders of Europe. ‘Confidence’ is de-
I stroyed. What-kindofconfider.ce? Con
: fidence that the American people will
: longer submit to the rule of the Roths
childs and their chain of American banks
’ and newspapers.
: “Be a man; be an American, President
: McKinley. You cannot save your party,
; but you can wipe out the disgrace which
> has overwhelmed your country. Show to
> the White House door the Morgans,
■ McCooks and other Wall street patriots
s whose rotten securities are in danger, and
, sound oue note of genuine Americanism.
: Repudiate the curs who are slandering
: our manhood Forget who elected you,
i and remember your nativity.
“It is not necessary to go to war. It is
. necessary to assert the dignity 3111} honor
: of the American republic and to declare
t that the Cuban massacre shall cease. If
1 you will take this step, President McKin
ley, yon will find that the money lenders
‘ of Europe will charge the Spanish bonds
■ up to profit aud loss, rather .than en
. danger vaster interests in an international
I conflict.
t “The money power has devastated
! Cuba. The money power blew up the
: Maine and killed 250 American sailors.
The money power demands that this
crime be ignored; that the ravishment of
Cuba be continued until from the anguish
1 of the island there is extracted enough
1 gold to satisfy the shylocks and pay their
bonds, principal and interest.”
> ■ - -
1 Mr. LW. Nichols, East New Market,
Md., states : “We could not say too much
in favor of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
About three years ago one of our children
had an attack of croup and we were afraid
’ that we would loose him. Seeing Cham
' berlain’s Cough Remedy advertised, we
decided to give it a trial. It gave almost
instant relief and we believe it saved the
child's life. Since then we have never
I been without a bottle of this remedy in
j. the house and we recommend it to every
one as being an honest Cough Remedy.”
For sale by E. T. Reynolds, druggist.
Legislative Notes.
Delegate Wirt has introduced a
bill in the House to provide for the
. complete reorganization of the Bal
-1 tiuiore & Ohio railroad.
The bill authorizing the Com
1 missiouers of Cecil county to ap
point a clerk passed its second
1 reading i n the House Monday night.
1
, Senator Crothers introduced a
I bill last week to amend the consti
tution and make members of the
1 General Assembly ineligible to ap
pointment to olliee during the term
1 for which they are elected.
The bill introduced by Delegate
. Jenuess to appropriate $250 an
‘ Dually to create eight free scholar
ships in the Friends’ Normal In
stitute of Rising Sun, has passed to
the second reading iu the Senate.
A petition from residents of Cecil
county asking that the appropria
tion now standing to the credit of
the Elkton Southern Railroad Co.
t be paid to the Cherry Hill, Elkton
& Chesapeake Electric Railroad
rjCo., was presented in the House by
1 ■ Delegate Thompson.
Delegate Jenness presented pe
titions from the Society of Friends,
the W. C. T. TJ., and from 200 cit
izens of Cecil county, all protesting
against the passage of the bill tak
ing away the right of the people to
vote on the present local option
law.
Whooping cough is the most distressing
malady ; but its duration can be cut short
by the use of One Minute Cough Cure,
which is also the best known remedy for
croup and all lung aud bronchial troubles.
Eli T. Reynolds.
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
10 cents.
They banish pain GIVES
No matter what the matter is, one will do you
! k good, and you can get ten for five cents.
1 A new stylo packet containing ten iiipans r abot.es in a paper carton (without glass) is now for sale -
hi at some drag stores—ron five cents. This iow-prieeJ sort is intended for the poor and the economi-
V cal. One dozen of the flve-ccnt cartons (lßi>tabules) can bo had by ui.id by sending forty eight cents w
a to the Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 Sprue j ftreet. New York—or a single carton (ten f
I ■ tabules) will be sent for nvc cents. Best medic no ever made since th _• worl 1 was created.
AT ALL TIMES—
-1 As well as Holidays, you will
find at DR. KIRK’S DRUG STORE a full line of Perfumes,
Fancy Cut Glass Bottles, Toilet Articles, Dressing Cases,
Notions aud Sundries, Violins and Musical Goods, a full line
' of all the reliable Patent and Proprietory Medicines, Trusses,
Supporters, Belts and Instruments used for the sick and in
jured, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes and Smokers’ Goods, Combs,
Brushes, Hair Dressings and Dyes.
All Goods at Lowest Cash Prices!
/QAN DY CATHARTIC I
i ;
j CURE COHSTiPATIQH
: in DRUGGISTS
IDQAT inPUT V PTT R DHUTCUH to care any case of constipation. Ctscarets tre th© Ideal Laxa-i
1 iIDyuLUIuLI UUaiianiuijU tire, never crip or sripe.but cause easy natural results. Sam* .
| pie and booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY 00.. €hicngo. Montreal. Can.. orNew an j
® J. S. Chapman,
PraHical Watchmaker and
Having li;ul Jf vearsexpci icnco in repairing ofever) description ol .
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Spectacles, '
EYE GLASSES, MUSIC BOXES, Ac.
A work guaranteed. Special attention given to Chronograph
Next door to Post Office. RISING SUN, MD.
A 7762
oystersLT
The undersigned are prepared to furnish the finest quality Oys
ters. Raw, Fried, Panned, Stewed, or in any style desired, and pan
supply them in quantities to suit, by the plate, quart, gallon or
barrel, in the shell or out. Fresh shipments in the shell duily. ■
We ulso have a full stock of
Groceries, Meats, Sausage and Scrapple.
ICE CREAM AND FRUITS IN SEASON.
*i-Speehii attention given to orders for catering for balls, parties or festivals.
TOUOHTON & NIELDS,
Restaurant and Grocery,
Town Hall,Building. Rising Sun, dM.
Try our Fancy Santos Coffee, Golden \ ij ne „f j) ry Goods.
Rio and Caracas Laguayra for better cof
fees. We keep them fresh—shipped to us La(l i es ’ Shoes 95c. a specialty, in all
as we need them. Other grades cheaper. sizes children’s and Men’s Shoes.
Buckets, Brooms, Wooden and Willow ,
Ware. Ready-made Dresses, Skirts, Wrappers,
Fresh and Salt Meats. Silk and Shirt Waists, Children’s Wear
Canned Goods, choice Apricots in boxes, a y(j Underwar of all kinds.
loc per lb. Evaporated Peaches at right
prices.
Syrups and Molasses, good and low in Outing Flannel, Wrappers, Plaid and
p r j ce Lancaster Ginghams.
Sausage cut at our factory on Pearl
street, seasoned when brought, at 75c per Men’s Overalls and Working Shirts
too lbs.; if not, and we season, fi.oo per very cheap and of good quality.
100 lbs will be charged.
Apples and Malaga Grapes. Oil Cloth—good article aud low down
We try to please. in price.
BisjSfßuekwheat Flour, loose or in sacks, at right prices. Decorated China Sets
for holiday presents, in fancy designs.
We are yours to obey, Ac.,
Cor. Queen A Cherry S,V IB- IF 3 - NICHOSL.
WANTED— Trustworthy anil active gentle-1 \KT ANTED—Trustworthy and active gentle
men or ladies to travel tor responsible,es-1 7 ? men or ladies to travel for responsible, es
tablished house in Maryland. Monthly SU.IOO and I tablisbed house in Maryland. Monthly *6f>.Uoand
expenses. Position steady. Reference. Enclose expenses. Position steady. Reference. Enclose
sell-addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion I sell addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion
Company, Dept. U. Chicago. I Company, Dept. R. Chicago.
Liver Ills
r
Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consti
pation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
* | cured by Hood's Pills. They do their work
I Hood’s
easily and thoroughly. *6l _
r Best after dinner pills. | | 8
25 cents. All druggists. ■ ■■ ■
Prepared l>y C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell. Mass.
The only Pill to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
\
. One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That Is what it was made for.
Buffington’s^^
DRESS GOODS.
Fifty-five pieces of double-fold Dress Fabrics, strictly
new, now on exhibition. We call especial attention
to the line from 40 to 75 cents per yard.
CLOTHING.
Large stock of Clothing placed in position this week.
Boys’ Short Pants Suits arrived today. Another large
invoice of Men’s Suits expected tomorrow.
WALL PAPER.
Over 8000 pieces now in stock; for artistic beauty and
strength of fibre we claim them to be leaders.
SHIRT WAISTS.
The first invoice of Ladies’ Shirt Waists came today ;
now on sample on eastern cornice line, embracing the
latest designs and colorings on the market.
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
Full and overflowing. Do not fail to see the Carpets.
A line of Rugs in fancy designs, 31c, 50c, 75c and sl.
each. The cheapest Rug we ever offered.
100 Pictures, assorted, with white enamel, white
ond-gold and gilt frames and glass complete, for only
25c —45c per pair. . . . We have space to mention
only a few of the new and attractive things.
Youbs Tbuly,
E. R. BUFFINGTON.
WORTHINGTONS!
MATTINGS.
With improved facilities we are able to show the largest and
best line of Mattings we have ever carried—Joined, Jointless.
China and Japanese Cotton Warps. More to arrive next week.
SHOES
are coming in from the different factories and opening np very
satisfactory. Shape and durability is what we have dwelt on,
and we think we have both.
MEN’S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING
in Black and Blue Worsteds, Sack rnd Cutaway. The proper
thing as to stylish cut and finish.
GROCERIES, the best, as usual.
Very truly,
E. H. WORTHINGTON & SON.
jJn THIS PRUNERis complete for the
Ar 1 orchard or trees of any kind, alwa}'S and needs
■ I no rope. We have two patterns HEDGE
TRIMMERS, both very satisfactory. Our
HAND PRUNERS are the best that have
II come to our notice. We sell them at 50c.
THE COOK STOVES AND RANGES
with their fixtures—Floor Oil Cloth, Woodeu, Agate
and Fibre Ware, Coffee Mills, Knives and Forks,
Spoons, Carvers, Tubs, Washing Machines and Clothes
Wringers—are attracting attention, and we feel that
we are in a position to place the price as low as the
lowest, quality considered. A comparison solicited.
HAINES & KIRK,
Rising Sun, Md.
Look at This /
20 Z Discount!
FOR THIRTY DAYS ON
Watches & Jewelry!
In order to reduce our large stock of Watches and
Jewelry, we have decided to give the public the benefit of
a great reduction in prices for the next .50 days. Gold,
Silver and Nickel Watches, Chains, Fobs and Guards,
Gold and Silver Chain Bracelets, Charms and Lockets,
Plain and Set Rings (a large stock), Studs, Buttons, Waist
Sets, Brooches, Stick Pins, etc., etc. Call early and secure
a bargain while the push is here. Also a tine line of
Stationery and Blank Books, Pocket Books and
Purses, Silverware, etc.
Yours truly,
ELI T. REYNOLDS.