The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-02-26


BALTIMORE County, Feb. 22d, 1870.
MesSrs Editors Il fear that the people OF
the centre and upper parts of the county VIII
make a great mistake in opposing alike, the
removal of the county seat, and the extension
of the city limits.
Let me state my views. The city is growing
out into the county Canton, the Hartford, the
York, the Falls, Reisterstown, and other roads,
are compactly built on for some distance be-
You'd the city boundary. The people living
along those paved streets, in brick houses, have
no identity Of interest with the county people
proper. They are emphatically city people,
their associations are in the city; they get
their living from the city markets, and wor-
ship in the city churches. Now all this mass
of people, inhabiting this thickly built up re-
gin around from Canton to Spring Gardens,
will, should it come to vote, vote solid against
Towsontown. Lop them off; let them GO
Two miles out, think, is better than one, Tor
then the process will not have to be. repeated
so soon again. majority of the real county
people cannot be procured to vote for a county
seat on the aims house property.
And it is inevitable. The limits WiU be eX-
tended. 1t is natural result. Why then at
tempt to prevent the inevitable? We lose
some tax, but we save our county seat. And
is it right for gentleman living just outside
the city, to pay tax to build bridges over the
Gunpowder in the upper end of the county,
where he has no interests?
Assist the city i'll extending its limits, and
we silence the clamor against Towsontown for
the next fifty years Then, under proper
system, we will have good roads to different
parts of the county, and a steam railroad, and
Towsontown, the centre of community with
identity of interest, can defy all the removal
"rings," and no combination can prevail
against it !. PROPERLY OWNER.
We think our friend makes D mistake when
he says that the extension of the city limits
say two miles--will include all-or even a
majority of those individuals living in the
county and identified almost entirely with city
interests. Most of those whom he designates
under this class, live beyond the point to which
the extentionists wish to bring the city limits.
Many Of thom.live several miles from the city
and own country residences on one of the several
lines of steam railroads that leave the city. His
argument certainly fails with these individuals,
yet they have no more interest personally in
having the Gunpowder bridged than do those
who reside within two miles.
1t is an antiquated notion that no one in a
| county has an interest in bridge or road
within it's limits except he uses it. You could
say with much propriety that no one in the
LIST, I'd, or 18th district has an interest in a
bridge over the Gunpowder, or should be taxed
to build one because he never travelled that
section of the county. 1t would be just as
| logical to say that Baltimore county man
felt any interest in, or cherished any pride for,
Washingtons monument because it was in
Baltimore city, or conferred no pecumia'y benefit
upon him. EUery man in the county has an
interest in the welfare and prosperity of every
portion of the county-that portion he has never
seen as we'll as that that meets his vision with
the rising of every sun.
Those within the limits of proposed extension
can have all the improvements desired, by the
passage of the bill introduced some weeks age
into the Legislature to open streets into the
county to correspond with the Baltimore city
plat Their interest is with us, not with the
city,