Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-04-29
Court House Removal

Court House Removal.
The time is near at hand Cor the PEG
pie Of this county to render at the pol,
their decision on the court honsc remov
Al question. AsWehlve lone 10 the past
We will still continue to urge tha
the question be decided 10y every voter
after calm and deliberate consideration
q consideration diyested Of all petty
spite. personal feeling, or partisan pre-.
iuiice. After such a consideration we
are fully convinced that a majority Of
the progressive enterprising people Of
this county will conclude that it is their
duty to vote IN faver Of removal, be-
cause they viii not fail to SEQ that, di
vested Of all trick Of 6gures, perverson
end evasion IF tie ruth. used by the
opponents Of removal. the change will be
highly beneficial to the greatest number
If people in our county.
II is true that some persons may
lave a mile or SO further to travel after
The removal Of the county scat, or that
one or two Others may have their bust
ness interests slightly injured in Port
Tobacco by the change, but that should
not have great weight in deci ling a
question that will undoubtedly, as ad-
mitted bv most everybody, be greatly
TO the benefit Of large majority Of our
citizens Notwithstanding The weak at
tcmpts made by some to ridicule the
statement made by us that the removal
of the county seat would be the means
Of buidlng up thriving and prosper
Gus town in our county, the statement
50 made is correct, for there is not a
county scat in Maryland to-day on a
railroad in such healthy and desirable
location as is La Plata that does not
chow thrift, enterprise and energy and
does not have ten times the taxable basis
and ten times the population Of our
county seat Port Tobacco, where no
man from outsi le the State, in search OF
home, or Of profitable investment, would
locate or put single dollar
As was shown in our last issue the
taxes to each individual will be So
slightly increased that no taxpayer can
be embarrassed in consequence, anI the
iscrease in taxable property each year.
naturally to be expected by Us after We
have made the first progressive step Y
the removal Of our county capital, and
which will M iouhted;y be made IN new
buildings, and new enterprises at The
new county seat, win pay of, without
any embarrassment to our people, the
cost of new public buildings The ar
gument used by tie opponents Of the
progressive movement are but a rehash
Of similar ones made by croakcrs and
pessamists from the be thinning of time.
and such arguments will be made by
that class of Individuals until "tme is
no more But, fortunately for the
world and the worlds progress, tL.re Is
another class Of inlivi1lils who do not
see all things through a glass darkly,'
but believe that even good tdings NAV
bo made better, who take off their coats,
roll up their sleeves. and against the pro-
tests and opposition of obsruc-
tionists, go to worl; to inaugu-
rate new movements, aud new enter
prises. and by so doing benefit them
selves and the obstrrctouists. also.
In the interest OF progress, for the
benefit of our whole people, regardless of
the absurd talk that few individuals
near La PLATA will De benefited aud
few near Port Tobacco will be injured
we urge that every 10 err, will, on the 9Th
of May next. lutte with those who
would benefit the whole people and cast
his ballot in favor of removal, and pro.
gress.