Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-04-15
Improve Your County

Elsewhere we publish III full the Court
House bill. We trust It's several provts
IONS will De ssrefelly read and consider
ed By the reading public h.t ne think
ing portion thereof will be 10 position to
vote intel igenily on tie important sub
ject when required ~ do so on the IN
day Of MAY next. There is a class OF
people in every community who oppose
every tliiug ike progress, laIc improve
ment arc always jealous OF Their nslgh-
hors' success, aud oftenI mes IN their mar
row mindedness even drspiSc their own
existence To them aud all such
we Isve nothing 10 say. 1t would be a.
easy to make wafer run up hill, as To con
vince them that nan in great meas
nre should make bis own property -
Bat there are others, aud great MAJOR
ity Of our people, tu0. We are glad to
say. Who are anxious aud willing to treat
every sui jec fairly aud dispassionately,
who are not particularly ANXIOUS to tread
in the non-progres.I,c loot'tsps OF their
ioreiathers. hing since dead, but are
awake to the ncci s,itie' c! the OCCASION
and are willin.. for heir own good and
the good pf the generat;nns to come, to
bend their energies toward the front in The
great march of this progressive country
The question With Us is to bring settlers
Thousands aud thousands If acres of our
ltnds arc waste, growing up IN bushes.
lriars, and other undergrowth, which
should be cultivated We want farmers,
we want asiiculuri>ts, and how to draw
them is the perplexug question. To
the common sense Wv it would seem,
that the same inducements should be of
fer, the stranger 10 visit and abide
IN our county as j. offered The stranger to
visit our homes or 5oalI in our hotels The
place must be made attractive, the same
ronveniences aud comforts offered and
the same character of habits shown NJ
elsewhere. Is our county IN p >lnt o.
thrift aud attrlctlreuess On a par will
other places even the rules' newl
settled sections Of he West? Does th,
dead and dilapidated aud deserted coum
~ seat bespeak thrift and enterprise
does its few remaining and decaylns
houses denote Industry, and are its sur
Toun lings of such nature as to impress
the newcomer in the belief that thi
county is proper place for him to locat
and build up home for himself ani
those whom nature may have entruste'
to his care? Certainly it Is not. .
We must get out of tn
old ruts. we must move, We must i'm
prove. Begin at the seat Of the evi! first
Let us move our county seat to l.
Plata, neat, thrifty and inproyin
town near the center Of the cnuIty o.
the railroad, erect a suitable Court Elous
and other public buildings thereat, an
other improvements will spring up al
ever the county. Our people will fee
that they are in the land of the living
One enterprise will inspire another, an
thrift and industry will awaken as a mat
ter of course, and strangers will 500
discover the attraction OF the county an
the opening here for the investment O
capital We are tqll however, that sue
Improvements ysll ent.il burdeu-on
taxation. That improvements will co:
money. there is no question, but VIII
matters it about tn on lag it the re.uru
are commensurate with the expendi;ur,
Was there a railroad company ever start
ed in this country that dbl not, the FIR,
thing, borrow heavy suns nf moncy an
mortgage its property 10 make improve
ments so that tie enterprise could b
made to pay aud saou gei out # debt. :
Energetic people Le,e r fear a bt
But let Us see what will be the in
crease in taxes The taxable basis {
the county by the list annual stl.emeu
was So, 46U ~; a levy Of 3 cent
or the 500 will produce over 81 00U
the amount necessary To pay tine lntercs
on the whole $25 900 provided f.
in the Court House bill, provide
however, the whole Of hat slm is used 5
that the man WIN now pays 81 take
will have to pay 81 an > 70 cents =
viii this slight advance emharrass an
tax-paver? TIE tax argument is there
for nothing more nor less ;hau a scar
crow. Apart from this while the biI
proyid IS that the amount tn b. expend
I'd shall not exceed S25 900. it does Nc
necessarily follow that that sum will b
expended Davis Of B ,ltimore, tn
architect, who planned the Marlboro
Court House and more recently III
Rockville Court House. states that sucl
Court House as Is needed IN this coun
ty can be built for Sl5 COO. and in yer
iication of his statement has furnishes
ms with the plan which can he seen an'
examined by any doubling Thomas dc
string to DO 20 by call at the Iudepen
dent Office. So that it a less sum thai
S25, 600 is used propoFtionately les
increase in tue tax rate viii be require,
aud the 81 taxpayer will not pay evei
as much A. , 50 cents more And eve1
this increase in the taxes may he pre-
vented: The County mmis>ioners 10y
practical, skiifu and an economics
management Of the county aflirs ca
Top of any unnecessary expense Of whie
there are many re aud there, AMI there
by offset in a measure the small possbl,
increase. The machinery Of rnnnin.
the Circuit Court can be sed 50 -
result in saving to the tax payers; til
bill reducing the number of County Com
missiouers, will slve to the coulty abpu
5000 per year This course adopte,
aud reductions male, the cost o
the much needed improvement
will not be felt by anybody. W.
appeal to the people of the county. the
taxpayers, the non tax payers. the
Shite and the black citizens. not to be
mislead by any uafair or exiragaganl
statements made by the opponents of this
i'm portant measure. There are obstruc-
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