Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-03-14
Tay,payers Reioinder.-u, rdl,or

IaN,payers ke1Oindef.-Ar Editor -
In an article rnlitled Taxpayer Answered, "
the Editor Of the Port Tobacco Tine, has a.
suned TOO much or himself sad for his Fable
fippant cElusion; II tIs ',fS"Sz i0f shntnm az
and grubbing had not been 50 merry. and IL
In his extreme citation at "Tax-payer's" sup
posed Ignorance Of The Bible and other weigh.
N matters he had not lost his head, he wou'd
have realised that fidicule, even II iusil6able,
il not srquaeat and that BEGGING a question
Is not ANSWERING II.
So Taxpayer, tho Of small degree il
may be. remains intact aud imPregnahe in
posit.on which deaes, the best as well as the
wors, weapons Of this doughty editor.
Nevertheless, Taxpayer Of whatever de-
gree he mas be, has no disposition to evade
The Obligation laid upon him Of euiEhtning
ionorance when challenged to do GO, though
II ls to be wished that the seed thus sown
might fail ION the good ground" OF ian hon-
est aud good heart"
n does seem almost a reflection on q Billie
reading community to believe that any Ell
hgbtencd person would seriously question the
authorship Of the passage "0h that mine ada
verssrv had written book and vet, the edi
,ur OF The Port Tobacco Tiw-s, With nh igno-
rance AID naivete which would be amusing if
,hsy aid net impair our confidence 10 his
knowledge Of other and weightier matters,
tells US job is not responsible for T. Let hin
read the 3lst chapter Of Job and have bis
doubts resolved
Having settled this little matter, which he
really should not have moCted, he will please
read carefully, frst section "a Of the Consii-
tutlou and in the light of this, let him read
section 9th Of the Court House bill, and he
a in see. he must see il he is not purhlind, that
every requirement Of the organic law has been
met Ia the drawing up Of that bill, which, in
thus being prepared with great cafe and pre-
cislob, guards the peoples interest, at every
pol,t aud ia every particular. The sinking
iund - albeit the term sinking fund is not
used. Is created aud provided for, actually
and alphabetically in tue closing words OF sec
ton 5th, as follows.
"--and the County Commissioners
shall levy on all property subject to taxation
such sum or sums Of money as shall, in their
direction, be necessary for the prompt pay
ment of the interest Of said bonds, and the
pRrSeipAh thereof when the same may be due,
or they may determine 10 pay the same -
which he who runs may Rad, II, in reading
he can only understand.
Il is the merest quibbling In any one, and
worst of all IN a lawyer, TO maintain that sec
lion "a Of the Constitution, requiring the
General Assembly TO provide for the rollec-
ton of an annual tax or taxes sufficient 10
nav the interest on any debt contracted as it
falls due, aud Also to discharge the Principal
thereof within fifteen years from the lime OF
contracting the same, has not been fully and
spceIgcally met and carried out in the bill,
aud made not only by implication, but ex-
plcitly, the authority for, and the ransom
4 etre Of the bill itself
1t very wisely and properly commits to the
discretion Of the Commissioners Court the
iroclas operaadi Of providing for the payment
of the principal Of the bonds, limiting its ac-
ton 10 not later than ten years from the date
Of their issue No objection 10 this provision
can obtain, and the Court, il It see ut, can dis
charge 1t ut an earlier date.
In SECTION "a of the Constitution, our yali-
ant defender OF It's prerogatorles sees point
whglt this truculent court house bill may
fractBrh not to say mu'ilate this venerable
pal'ali th of our liberties; but let him reflect
n nometnt, aud he will see this section has No
bearing nupon the question Of erecting netes-
saty bu Nding, even by the most sweeping inn
plicaon He might as well claim that the
money borrow Tor public road purposes,
shall COZ ne under the same law His wild
'luIchss lter suck far.ietehed aud Intellectual
'roPi, net utter, aud most lamentablt
rta6 ae', q 0f position
Tie ire cast upon the County Commis-
oneIs his FIRST article, are rather empht-
yea ~" Il rptfgcted, whtn he, after the man
'f ., Z little hoy who cried "woln' the
co. ps,ip ne, tells us these Commissioners,
~ Ell no bond, nor any other security
~, ,u' an,l if,A rendition Of the same, ARE &C
'n:astii usled with $4,000 OF the people:
Wv warn aeh abused public servants may
r,om !. ing words OF your usYior deter
~. lpling III canada NitEl 5.u, goo D