The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-16
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM THE BELT.
The Good Work Being Done-Political


WAvERLY, August 13, 1884.
Editors Union Since my last letter. in which
called the attention of the Board of County
Commissioners to the absolute necessity and ur-
gency that existed for renewed energy upon the
part of the police and the sanitary inspector, in
so far as their duties were embraced in that part
of the Belt bounded by the York road on the east,
Madison street extended ON the west, North Boun
Diary on the south, and Huntingdon avenue on the
north, I have embraced every opportunity that
offered to canvass all parts of this section, and
am pleased to be able to say that there has been
a noticeable improvement in every respect. Va
cant lots have been filled up where nuisances have
been allowed, filthy water ways have been cleans
ed and rank weeds and grass growing along the
borders of them have been cut down and removed,
water ways have been opened in many places to
release the accumuations of stagnant and filthy
pools that have been allowed for months to send
off exhaations Of poison to be taken into the
lungs of the people in every portion of this Sec
ton. Not only has this been done, but attention
of builders and their employees has been called
to the reckless manner in which they have been
wont to scatter every variety of building material
along and over the paved streets. Thus driving
has been rendered moro safe. And above all, for
the comfort and decency of many portions of the
more thickly built up sections of the Belt drunk
enness has been compelled to hide itself in more
secluded spots, and is not suffered now a very
little while ago to swagger unmolested along the
most prominent streets and avenues. All this and
more has been accomplished by The UNION, and
you have the thanks of all parties for your valu-
able service, and the Commissioners have the sat-
isfaction to know that they have helpers in we'll
doing. 1t is not my purpose to indicate to the
Board in this letter what other efforts they might
put forth for the better government of the Belt.
If they will take it kindly will in a future one
be glad to do so.
You perhaps do not know how much the peo-
pie of this section of the county appreciate the
timely notice you have taken of the violation of
the Sabbath day by the Prohibition party. The
people look upon the meetings now held by this
party in an entirely different light from what they
regarded them when they were purely and sim
ply efforts for the moral improvement of the
masses and directed solely at the liquor traffic.
But an entirely new face has now been put upon
the whole movement. It's friends have entered
the common political field to fight not only for
what they term their main point-prohibtion-
but for platform of principles upon which they
have placed candidates for the Presidency and
Vice. Presidency. They therefore have hoisted
themselves out of the merely moral question, that
has challenged all their efforts in the past, and
which as such was allowed by common consent
place in the catalogue of what it proper to be
done upon the Lords day, and have clothed it
with such surroundings to render the question
now a secular one. The Pittsburg convention has
given it all the elements of political party con-
tending before the people for platform of prin-
ciples, of which one, and doubtless to them the
principal one, is prohibition. But in the eyes of
all the political parties of the hour it is one of
them in the fight for supremacy, and it is proper
that they should conform to what the other par
ties are compelled to conform. 81 am holier than
thou" will not do to gain the consent of the
people to a wanton dissertation of the Lords day
by party of men who have chosen to now create
a moral principle, with all the secular elements
that characterize the Republican, Democratic and
every other party now appealing to the people of
the United States for support. Under these cir
cumstances and for other reasons that could be
given, you can rely upon it that the masses of the
people are with you in your opposition to the
of the Sabbath day to ventilate the beauties of
woman suffrage, prohibition and all the rest. As
well might all the parties in the field absorb the
same day as the Prohibitionists and should they
claim the right to do so, it should as readily be
granted to them as to the Prohibitionists. Con.
tinue to fight them is the prayer of hundreds as
well as of DENxEAD.