The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-01-25
LOCAL MATTERS.

ssCARPET BAGGERs Thanks to somebody we
are about 10 have ray of sunshine CLEAN in
upon US The darkness is about to be penetrated.
Through the night that has enshrowded US we
.see the day dawn peeping. The vigorous hand
Of somebody has pushed the gloom aside and
given The sunshine of progress a chance to look
into our ways aud reveal the doings Of energy
and live progression to US. Thanks to the doors.
Thanks TO all concerned. Thanks to all who
will help lie; the invincible power OF the rail-
way come in with influences that shall awaken
our entire population from their letbargic sUm-
0ers. Let the inertia Of the old town unchGrter-
sd-rise to vigor, energy, enterprise and that in
vincible determination that dictates progress and
growth wherever il fourishes amid surrounding
darkness The inhabitants should all be glad
A the people should say amen
The Mary land and Pennsylvania r. r. Compa-
ny is now placing us-TOwsontonans-un
deep and lasliug Obligations to it, The railway
will show US the way to great and glorious de-
veopment. Who can tell the greatness that may
sit msjescally upon Towsoniown twenty years
hence? Who knows but that in two decades Bal
timOre may have dangerous (?) rival,
Ave miles away ?"
Fellow-ciiizens we congratulate ourselves that
steam is about 10 come TO our relief at last. 1t is
surprising aud disreputable that we should have
been so long without work OF this sort COM
menced in our midst. Wesay weare bumiliated.
We feel chagrined that we have been so long
talking, planning, planning, talking, maknga great
fuss about giving us steam and leaving the steam
ont; putting flaming railroads on paper and re-
fusng to put them on the ground; constructing
cars after the fashion of castles airy" but Civ
ing US none that would glide on rails, without
accomplishing anything that is entitled TO the APP
peaiiOn % accomplishment. And il seems
that just as we tcers about to build road, then
we have one stuffed down our throats against our
will and in spite of our opposition by-wel-we
night as well say it-csrpet-baggers. We are
really furnished, or about TO be furnished, with
a railroad from a carpet-bag Ii would have
looked more genieel and respectable il we bad
made own railroad, even it we had TO furnish
the rails in a carpet-bag. But let US not mourn
over this. Ii is no more use to mourn over a
railroad that is spill than milk that is spih. Let
US forget this humiliation and press forward for
better things 10 the future. Let US look sharply
about us 10 see what we can do tomorrow, next
week, next year, the next ten or twenty years to
build up our town and give Us thriving COM
munity, where all shall have work and all work.
men shall have good pay. What will railroad
do tor US? Il will bring US coal, lumber, wood,
hardware merchandise of all sorts in greater
abundance and at lower rates. 1t will place in
our hands the facilities of quick, easy, and, we
doubt not, cheap communication between Tow
soutown and Baltimore, and between Towsontown
and points North OF US. Beyond all question we
shall have depot at Towsontown. This is the
county seat of tie largest, wealthiest and most
fourishng county in the State. And we are its
hub. Around us-we mean Towsontown-re-
volve its desiinies. Aud our destiny depends
much upon the railroad first and much more up
on ourselves afterwards. 1t will make ours
: place of residence Tor wealthy city merchants
This will necessltate the erection of fine residences
aud splendid abodes. 1t will give work to great
numbers of mechanics. 1t will create an influx
of population. 1t will increase the sales of our
resideut merchants and create the necessity for
more Il will make demand for new churches
and high school 1t will give origin to literary
and scientific societies and call libraries into re-
QUESTION Then we will need fine cemetery, and
a creditable seminary. Our post-ofice will have
to be enlarged in order that our ''Nasby" may
be able to accommodate the increased mail mat
ter Then comes the bank-thats what we have
been needing for generation. 1t will come 10
hhe next carpet-bag And--and-and-we trem-
,Dle TO say tive shall be incorporated-we trust
by then, as the AelC Baltimore. And we hope TO
have "Iingless' mayor and town council-with
no fears that the party then
''Nameless here forever more"
shall ever unwind the charter. We expect these
and even better things for the future of Towson-