The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-04-25
The Annexation of peerIng.

10 the Editor OF the Press:
The number of Portland business and
laboring men who live in Deering constitute,
If not majority in number, certainly re-
spectacle minority, and in point of enter
prise and influence may be regarded as the
dhief citizens of Deering. They are inter
ested in the business and municipal pros
perity of the city and of Deering alike. The
citizens of Portland whether they now be-
lieve 1t or not, are equally involved in the
affairs of Deering. Everything which affects
the prosperity of the one affects the prosperi-
ty of the other. They are not only neighbors
but copartners in business enterprises and
should be in citizenship as lwell. The Deer
ing man doing business and laborlng in Port
land is interesed as directly in the affairs of
Portland as of his own town. The Portland
business man or laborer has also an interest
tuaiy inter Connected, and thsTe IS no m d.
versity of interest. They are substantially
one people. Deering has grown to its
present proud status as suburban village
mainly from that natural overflow which
every city experiences as it prospers. Port
land should follow its citizens as they move
beyond its city boundary, and claim what
really belongs to 1t. They are of one heart
and mind. They have but one pride and
aAbitluA w hdhC ~ DC idk 10 do u City, dS IL Is
in fact. The entire territory should have
but one name. All should be Portland. A
laudable pride, founded not upon sentiment
alone, but upon all the facts Of the case, re-
Quires that these should be in the future but
one name, one history, one policy, one as
piration. 1t will be creditable as we'll as
profitable to all alike. The financial policy
of aifuture enlarged and improved city will
readily adjust itself from time to time to the
common needs. The new ward will have its
TQnrncQnfQ mt o,.1
on the board of assessors. Portland being
responsible for the welfare of its country
ward will advance its Improvement with a
Just pride. All the streets, all the schools.
al the mGniteiipail institutions will be
fare alike. Deering people will be equally
proud of their citizenship in the metropolis
of Maine: Her leading citizens, now dis.
gusted with her municipal affairs because of
to control, the turbulency of her town, meet
ings, will be willing and feel honored to take
part as officers OF the enlarged city of Port
land. Better counsels will prevail. A fire
consuming the property In the Deering ward
visions will be made for its extinguishment,
think of no particular where there can be a
contrariety of interests. Instance the sewers
required in Deering and l reply that their
more than. Deering. The city ordinances
limits the building Of sewers beyond what is
necessary by the tax imposed upon property
benefited.
Deering people will not ask for new sewers
faster than the AUDITORS are willing to pay
their share, and the city's share has been
amply provided for by fund fer that pur-
pose.
If Deering is to be part of Portland in
the future itishould be now. Many opportl
mites to wisely and systematically plan the
laying out of streets in Deering have already
been lost.
:. IL is time tnat territory and people des-
tined sometime in the future to belong to
Portland be welcomed with alacrity. and
they certainly will be treated, when an
nexed, without discrimination.
PoRTLANDER.