The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-04-27

VI C"i'ooiioha. Dut WlnOut Iurtner le.
gislallon the road must terminate at Cum .
berland the right to 60 beyond that point
having passed away by lapse of time.
Now il is perfectly plain, that as the 3d.
2OO,0OO cannot be expended without
grant OF further time to the company, the
effect of such grant, if made, would be to
add Just 100000 10 the already enor-
nous debt Of the state. What chance has
that company under present circumstances
OF obtaining the desired extension of time2
| answer, none whatever.
That the canal is to be finished-nay
must be finished, is matter no, of specu-
la'lon but of certainty. 1t will be compile
ted the moment the subject is fairly un-
derstood by the people. 1t is high time
now that the people themselves should
take this matter in their own hands, and
at The risk of being thought forward and
presuming and all that, have essayed to
put them IN possessiontoflhe facts. This
Will do II am spared, and have no fears
as to the result
may say now in general way, that
this great work was projected to 60 10 the
coal region-twelve millions have been
expended in the effort to carry it there
1t is so far on the way that its own reven-
ues form security sufficient to raise the
means necessary to the consummalon of
the original plan-nolhing has occurred
to discredit those calculations of great
profit from the work, which originally in
duced the General Government, the State
oil Virginia, and the State of Maryland to
grant the charter, and to subscribe large
sums to its capital stock. 1t cannot be
supposed that these sovereignties should
commence great improvement at an ex-
pected cost Of eight milions-that being
the estimate of General Bernard--and then
should abandon the work at time when
the cos. of completion has been, by pre-
vlous expenditures, reduced to one million
and half, and that 10 be raised on the
credit of the work itself. 1t is impossible
that work in 1914, should not be worth
completing at cost of one million and
hall, the commencement of which in 1924
was deemed wise at an expected cost of
eight millions. The work therefore. must
and will be finished. When? is mere
question of time. van the hostility Of
Baltimore, i'll the existence of which we
lave no belief-ruh the rivalship and
Vaccinations of the rail road company,
the firm belief of which we shall carry
will. us to our dying day-it may be de-
layed Tor season. But truth is mighty
and will prevail, and in the mean time,
deep, embittered and lasting hostility to
Baltimore and Baltimore interests and
views will settle down in the Potomac
counties. And when it will be eradicaled
Heaven only knows The State of Mary
land is geographically divided against
itself. 10 see this at glance it is onlv
sufficient to Il ok at the map. All the ma
lural influences and tendencies of her pub
lie mind are centrifugal, and it is only by
the cultivation of kind feeling among the
different parts, that good for the whole
can be accomplished 1t is importantto
weigh we'll these truths at the present time
and those who disregard the admonitions
they convey, must not complain il the
consequences shall fall upon themselves.
VIM. PRICE.
HAGERsTowN, April SLh, 1914.