Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-08-23
A Political BugabOO.

In recent issue the Calvert GAZETTE
administers the following we'll merited
rebuke to the Mr.. F. CAN'T, whose
erratic attempt to convert the scheme
Of State aid to immigration into par
tisan project We recently referred to.
The Gazette says:
we happen to be numbered among those
who think the enactment OF the Cox In
migration bill into law is matter of
vastly more concern to the people of
Southern MARYLAND than the 1ues ion Of
sending Mr.. +. CAN'T to the legislature
this fall. especially as none OF the latter
gehtfeman's most enthusiastic admirers
have been abe to point with any degree
of pride to the Legislative record he has
already made. We favor the Cox bill be-
cause we believe il fills "long felt want
10 agricultural interests of Southern Mary
land, and it seems that every body else,
except MIR. F, CAN'T. favors it also. The
trouble about Mr.. F. CAN'T is that he
"reads between the lines" of the bill to
find the Interpretation he makes of the in
tent of that measure; but of course it is
understood that he is using this import
ant scheme as political bugahoo upon
which he expects to warm a comfortable
seat in the legislature next winter.
Mr.. Gantt's chronic habit of rushing
into public print and uttering a bowling
diatribe against anybody and everybody
who refuses to coincide with his erra'ic
ideas reminds US of the bellowin. and
cavorting of q very small marsh bull in
the summer. He emi,s mighty volume
Of discordant sound in proclaming to
the world his self-pronounced superiority
over the common herd, hut no o-e has
ever beea known to be deceived by his
noisy demonstrations In forming a correct
estimate Of his greatness"
But the irrepressible Mr.. CAN'T
again comes forward in the last issue
of the Journal, and, by way of prov
ing that he is not alone in his opposi-
tion to the measure, refers to its de-
feat in the Senate-a fact previously
we'll known-and quotes from articles
in the "American" while the bill was
pending, claiming that the State had
previously fully tried the experiment
of an immigration bureau without re-
suit, and that the only effort would be
to bring paupers to our shores.
For the information of this evident
ly not we'll posted gentleman it might
be we'll to state that the influence
which defeated the immigration bill
ia the Senate was the fact that one
measure local to Southern Maryland
had already passed the Legislature,
viz: the Stree inspection bill' as it
was called. This bill, by abolisaing
compulsory inspection without max
ing any further modification of the
law, in the opinion of the economist
of the Legislature. promised to make
a heavy inroad upon the State treasu-
ry for few years. As the immigra-
ton bill was regarded as chiefly
beneficial to Southern Maryland, it
was not deemed fair that the treasury
should be charged with any other
legislation special to this section. AS
we hare heretofore pointed out, it hav-
ing now been demonstrated that the
apprehensions regarding The iuspec-
ton bill were without foundation, the
real objections of the Senate to the
bill do not now exist.
In regard to the "Americsn's" views
it may be said that its statement of
facts were without truth, just as it's
about "paupers' were
without foundation; and the quota
ton of its articles as proof upon this
question displays ignorance of the
facts referred to. The State of Mary
land never had an immigration bureau
and nothing but the merest apology
for an immigration agent; and no
immigration agent of the State of
Maryland ever made tour of Europe.
But We suggest to the friends of
this measure in Calvert, that they put
provision IN the bill they propose to
introduce in the next Legislature that
no immigrant shall be brought to the
State by the fundamentally OF the
bureau, unless he is prepared to pur-
chase given quantity of land. This
will be in entire conformity with the
intent and meaning of the bill a, it
now stands, and such a provision
pre-annoupced, would take the wind
quite out of the sails of the irrepressi-
BILE Mr.. CAN'T,