Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1845-07-31
To the Editors of the Port Tobacco Times:

dletoWn and Beantown, saw paper In
the road, which curiosity led me to pick
up and read. Believing it might amuse
some of your readers, enclose it to you.
1t seems to have been intended for the
Marlboro Gazette; but as it must have
slipped through hole in the writer's pock-
ct, 1t may never reach It's first destination.
therefore send it to you, as | think it
ought not to be lost
Respectfully, SC.
AMONG THE "PoNDs," July 26, 1916.
THIRD ELECTION DISTRICT,
Charles county, Md.
To GEORGE w. WILSON, ESQ.
Editor of The Marlboro Gazette:
Mr.. EDITOR This district borders on
Piscataway district of your county for some
ten or fifteen miles. Piscataway is the post
office for many of our citizens, and much
of our tobacco is inspected and sold there;
for it is great city, heap bigger than our
IMiddletown, wherefwe hold our elections.
Some of our boys, too, marry up there
that is, when any of your gals can fancy
one of our chaps. These things make US
proud and sassy, and almost as well &C
quanted with your county affairs as you
yourselves are-how we'll that is, leave
you to Judge. We sometimes see and read
your paper when we visit the city Of Pts
Getaway, and that enlighens us very much.
Not being SO rich as your people-to en-
able us to subscribe for tive also some
- n
neighbors-lor it is only step across Ma
tawoman swamp, which has precious little
water in it now-and, after reading it, we
become tafnation smart, and our smartness,
as in the present instance, ooZes out at our
fingers ends. Therefore we know what
our great, rich neighbors say and do, and
we find you in your paper of the 18Th talk
ing about "RePudiation in new quarter -
and, after noticing meeting in this dis
trict, you publish two of the resolutions,
and say ''Baa Baa !''-to which | reply
Baa! Baa Baa-a to you, Mr.. Editor. And
amt this spunky?
Now, with your permission, Mr.. Editor
for as I am but plain clod-hopper
must show Manners beg leave TO ask
you if it would not be we'll to obey the
Scriptural injunction, and first pluck the
beam out Of your own eye-that is, out Of
the eye Of great, rich Prince Georges, The
South Carolina of the State-bef0re you
jump upon poor, little CHARLES county, and
spy out and publish to all the world the
mote in her eye. You may find Repudia-
ton and Modification, too, nearer home
than in our Sd district-aye, even in great,
fn1
self; and you need not pop upon your De-
mocratic brother Col. Francis Thompson,
the reputed author of those resolutions, as
being Repudiator, till YOU have cleared
your own skirts. Prince Georges seems
to think that she, after the fashion of South
Carolina, has right TO nullify or repudi-
ate either abe law or the constitution at
! pleasure, but that no other counties have
the same right, or, if they have, she won't
let 'em have it, If recollect rightly, Mr..
Editor, read in your paper, towards the
close of the year 1912, the proceedings of
your Levy court, multiplying or repudiatine
the direct-tax law of lS4l in part, and
good large part, too. | also remember read
ing, in March 1914, in the same State paper
of maryland Carolina, that the Legislature
of our good, old State had nulihed the multi
fcation of your Levy Court; but that your
Senator, and three of your Delegates, as
you informed us, had opposed this nulifi-
cation of notification, and you praised
them nightly for it. You also urged the
people to resist the act of the Legislature,
whilst the unfortunate Delegate from your
county who voted to repudiate reputation,
has himself been repudaed ever since, OBJ
tanning from you, Mr.. Editor, and your tax
loving countrymen, neither praise nor pud-
ding.
In addition to all this, your Levy Court
has repudiated the income-tax law. Now,
| if you can repudiate one tax law, have not
we the same right to repudate another
They were both solemnly enacted by the
Legislature for the same purpose-to raise
money to pay the debts of the State, and
prevent reputation! Why is the one more
sacred than the other? And is that one to
be repudiated which falls on those most ab0
TO pay? If either be unconstitutional, as IL
alleged of both, there is tribnnal-lha>Sn-
dcary-to decide the matter; and no other
mode is recognized in Government of law
and order.
Recollect all these things, Mr.. Editor.
and pluck the beam out of your own eve
before you complain of the mote in ours
The difference between Prince GEORGES and
CHARLES is this: In Charles il all ends :,