The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-06-06
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We plead guilty to being very severely in
earnest in relation to our suggestion last week
that there should be a mandatory of farm
1t is the business that mandatory brings
that builds up the towns where they are es-
tablished. Start large manufacturing estab-
lishment some place where no dwelling is. At
once there springs up one, two or three stores
Some physician desiring to better his fortunes
takes up his abode there. Then comes school
house, church, post Office, and these sug-
gestions are sufficient to lead ones mind
through all the ordinary stages of advance
ment until the place becomes a thriving viii
lage or town.
We are well aware that some of our towns
folk would not very much relish manufacto
ry in our midst and we believe that some would
manifest decided opposition thereto. But in
the face of all this there could be found those
who would give it their hearty support. We
know that none of those who might be dis
posed to stand in its road would throw away
the advantages it might bring. If they are en-
gagged in the legal profession, we know that
any of them would not object in the slightest
to being retained as standing or occasional
counsel. If they have land to sell or lease,
they would not refuse to do either to those the
mandatory brought here. If they are en-
gagged in mercantile pursuits they would be
eager to obtain tho vustum OF the opvrutiv vs
and owners. And so with all trades and pro-
LESSONS. None of us will allow the benefits
that come with it to pass us by.
Every man who has any interest in the fl-
ture of Towsontown would be benefited by the
kind of an enterprise suggested. We all know
that farmers make a sort of chronic complaint
about coming to Towsontown, either as suitors,
jurors or witnesses. We are frank to confess
that there has been great deal of reason for
it. The facilities for reaching it have not been
such as a county seat should command. 0w-
ing to the peculiar locality of the county around
Baltimore city this dislike for coming to Tow
sontown has been intensified. In consequence
there bas been more than one effort made to
remove the county seat. Now that the aims
house property has been sold, we believe that
the disposition to remove the court house has
taken lull. In addition to this we have a
railroad-on the nay to TowSontogn-no mis-
take about it. And when this railroad comes
along, we desire that Towsontown shall be able
to show the world that she has something else
besides court house.
Farmers have been tending the last two or
three years-in Baltimore county-towards
that condition of existence that reveals dis
position to discover that they have been do
ing many things that it would be better for
them not to do, and that they have left undone
great man things they should have done
They are learning the lesson-sloaSly.
They find that they have been giving more
money to other employments than has been well
for their finances and which, by combination
and judicious action they might well avoid
They discover that they have been paying toe
much for their implements. The only efec.
tual remedy for this is to bring the manufacto
ry to their own doors. Then they can save al
all events freight and agents commissions
And if they enter into the enterprise them.
selves and make it joint stock company they
can save something beyond these.
As Towsontown is the focus at which the
most of the people of the county are obliged tc
meet some time or other it is the most appro
pirate place for the establishment of manu-
factory of this sort. That it will benefit Tow.
sontown none can doubt. That it would bring
great advantages to the farmers there can b.
no kind of question.