The Baltimore County union., 1884-01-19
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM ANNAPOLIS.
ANNAPOLIS. January nth. 1854.

ance and local option. Senator Brewer says him
self chat now liquor is brought into this county
by the barrel that he and gentlemen like him
self in order to get what they need have to buy it
by the quantity; that it is with the greatest diff
| Guilty their private dwellings kept from being
the resort Of 'bummers,' who on some pretence
other want drink; that if he should be in hurry
in the morning and wanted cup of hot coffee
which he needed, he could not get drop of alco
| hol spirits of wine with which to boil it without
violating the law, which he won't do that he
knows of twenty clubs now existing in Annapolis
| of young men, who formerly would occasionally
take a drink, but they now buy it in quantities,
always have it on hand, and the result is they
| spend their time at the club rooms and are fast
becoming demoralized and going downward
| MY own experience and observation is just this
| 1 never in all my history of many years coming
| down here saw more drinking than see now
| As a sample, one night last week, coming out of
| the State House with couple of gentlemen, the
rain pouring down and the wind bowling, one of
these gentlemen said, "What a miserable night
and what miserable place am sick and can
| not get drop of liquor anywhere" Right upon
the portico of the State House lad of apparently
IA years of age, stepped up and asked, "Do you
want to get some whisky?" eyes" "You see
that light down there? Go right in and ask for
soda ,oater." He went in. The bar-room was filled
with some kind of crowd. He asked for soda
water and he got whisky. Another day several
gentlemen went into another place and asked for
| ginger ale. To their great surprise a bottle of
| WHISKY was put out with the usual glasses and
water. They did not want that and in order to
| get ginger ale they had to order sarsaparilla.
Now Senator Brewer says such a law as this is
| not practical temperance, and believe him. 1t
| don't affect the purpose. The true way is not to
strike at the distlers and sellers but to 60 higher
| You cannot by any sumptuOus laws or processes
govern any mans appetite, because the attempt
to do so places him continually in state of rebel
| lion and secret evasion But practical temperance
| would be in the direction of the passage of such
license law as would break up the slums and re-
| spectableize the sale of liquor. We throw the
sanctity of the law now around the opium seller,
| yet that is q that president Daniel and his
| Temperance Alliance cohorts never attack. Why
not then, acknowledging the evil of this liquor
curse and its presence, seek to govern it by proper
| and legitimate restraints. There is mawkish
sentimentality among the professed humanitarians
of the day that leads them to believe that facts do
not exist because they persisteny shut their eyes
and wont see these facts.
Before dismissing this subject / would mention
what is really a curiosity. | have met nothing
more nor less than whisky music box. It only
plays for the who takes drink, and if you
want tune you must accept its invitation and
take drink. No drink. music take drink
and it will give you "Anne Laurie" or some other
familiar tune Col. Legg, of Queen Anne's, says
he is afraid of it. It beats the devil every time.
ed by good action upon a needed law, which is
designed to abolish tol-gates within eight miles
of Baltimore city. Whether the law will author
ize the issuance of bonds to purchase out the fran
chises of the pixies or just how it will be managed
cannot now be stated but true it is that nearly
every body says the time has come and there will
never be better time, ''the gates must CO." They
are relics of a past and gone age, and having
served their purpose, which as far as my expo
rence goes was to get money out of the pockets of
travellers upon the pretence of spending it upon
roads. l would suggest that committee of in
spection be sent out to look at the avre de- Grace
turnpike if any argument should bo needed to
convince any "doubting Thomas" When I say
that even the Belar road is so far above it that
there can be comparison between them, have
said sufficient for the consideration of any citizen
of the 1lth and 18th districts.
On Wednesday Gov McLane sent in his first
message to the Assembly, and it shows his earnest
regard for his pledges made during the political
campaign. With it he sends six bills drawn by
himself and all upon the labor subject. First,
bill to regulate the hours of workingmen and pro-
hibitng the empoy yment of children under 10 years
of age in ans mandatory. Next, regulating the
hours of working for women and children and pro-
viding for their rest and recreation. Next, a bill
protecting those employed in factories and work.
snops. Next, a bill to provide for and protect the
formation of trades unions and defining the powers
of corporations. Next, bill providing for the
addition of a section to crimes and punishments,
under the sub title Of conspiracy. Next bill to
provide for the collection of statistics and infor
nation covering various branches ofindustry prac
tced within the State. with their needs and abuses
Most of the session this week OF the two Houses
of Assembly has been taken up in the effort to elect
United States Senator in place of Hon. James
Black Groome. Yet ought not to say effort to
elect because the most strenuous efforts have been
put forth not to elect 1t is plainly manifest that
the wires being assiduously pulled to scatter
the votes of the members of the Legislature among
all possible candidates for the purpose of weary
| ing out some of them and making confusion in
| their ranks. Meantime the pressure is steadily
maintained by the adroit pullsrs behind the
to push forward Thos. j. Heating, if possible, as
success. 1t will be seen that our own county Of
Baltimore is split up and distributed among all
the candidates, resembling very much weak mess
of oatmeal cruel for q cold winter morning break
fast. This is considered policy and the right way
to kill city extension Perhaps it is and they may
be all right, but whilst this is the idea with which
they are tckled up, it is not the true inwardness
| by long shot. Yet are they all honest and sim
in the effort to do the very best possible for
| our dear old county. JUDGED they simply in
| defatigable in pushing forward and watching over
| the interests of the county.
| There is growing uneasiness among the East
ern Shore members lest they may be deprived of
| Senator from that section. This is founded on
good grounds, and it may be yet that whilst they
are divided among themselves the fox will step in
| and seize the prize and walk off with it. For fox
| you can read Western Shore. They will either
name the Eastern Shoreman or else repeal the law
and put up Western Shoreman. No doubt all
| efforts are used to beat Judge Robinson. He is
| charged with being the Hamilton candidate, the
| independent candidate, the candidate willing to
| be elected by Republican votes. Is it any harm
| to receive Republican votes when a candidate for
office? am sure of one thing, that if either
Judge Robinson, Judge Wilson Governor
| Thomas should receive the nomination, it would
be putting into the position gentleman fully able
to sustain the dignity of the place and reflect
credit upon the State All things considered, it
| will be blessing if Thomas j. Keating fails to
get it and is remanded back to the sylvan groves
and shady retreats of Corsica creek. Yet Free
man Raisin, of Baltimore city, seems to be throw.
| ing all his influence and weight, amounting to
six votes from Baltimore city, for the states
man of Queen Anne's, even when said statesman
cannot and does not get single vote from his own
| county. Heating is without doubt thoroughly
disliked in Queen Anpe's county, because he is
per sc the machine man of the State.
The delegation made the recipients of
| very complimentary terrapin and champagne sup
per, at the Brighton House, on Tuesday night, by
| prominent Baltimore county gentleman, who dis
tinctiy stated that he had no to grind. Chief
| Clerk Moore presided. The members enjoyed
themselves and your correspondent maintained the
good credit ana reputation sf the press.
There is much time lost and wasted discussing
little picayune items involving the expenditure Of
| money. For instance, hours have bsen spent talk
ing about half dozen chairs belonging to the
mittee rooms, which it seems have been lost or
have disappeared since the last Assembly two years
! ago. Nobody knows where they are and they
doubtless were well worn out with the rough usage
received during the session. believe one-half
| dozen chairs cost probably five dollars.
| This is certainly Legislature from which much
will come for the benefit of and elevation of the
working classes. From the Executive to the least
member of the Assembly, all are Joined in promo
ting such enactments will rebound to their in
terests and welfare 1t is to be hoped that much
| practical good may result and Maryland be made
sttractiye to the working classes that industrial
pursuits of all kinds may thrive.
Leaves to introduce bills, on Tuesday, interest
ing to Baltimore county, as follows: One to abo-
ish all convict labor; one to amend laws of part
nership; one to make homestead exemption one
to prevent false weight in coal one to protect
chidrenJ ons requiring dealers in adulterated
sugars, syrups and moiassss to brand and stamp
| the packages as such one to enact q law for COM