Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-05-27
Another Letter.

The following letter from prominent
New York business gentleman, a native Of this
county, was handed US by friend. II OF
course is too late to do any good toward
changing vote in favor of progress, but we
publish it for the purpose of showing how in
telligent business men every where view the
question, snd hope, that as the matter will soon
come up again, its strong arguments may be
carefully weighed:
al think the people of Charles county will
make great mistake If they don. decide in
favor Of removing the court house and county
buildings TO La Plata Bv doing so they will
give q new start to the cid county which will
attract capital aud immigration to that section
Of Maryland, and make demand and value
again for real estate. Enterprise people will
not settle In country where every thing
looks SO dlapidated as they do in Port Tobac-
co-the appearance of the place Is enough to
disgust a stranger. Besides people nowadays
want TO settle in town on a railroad, where
they can have the facilities Of quick transit
and telegraph line. predict If the county
seat is removed to La Plata that in few years
there will be population OF several thousand
1t is near enough TO Washington and Balti-
more for residents of those cities to have cOun-
try homes and some industries will also spring
up and by the building up OF a new, thrifty
and pretty county seat it will rapidly increase
the value o. land all over the county. Then
that big tax that Mr. Cox so absurdly speaks
about will not be felt as a matter Of fact II
amounts to nothing anyway, it will not iu-
crease the taxes enough to amount to is much
as the price Of a dinner for each taxpayer IN
the county. The increased value Of the prop
crty in and around La Plata will, in II few
years, more than pay the tax required to pay
interest and provide II sinking fund for the
bonds Out in Texas new counties just organ
lied with a populotion OF less than 500 and
assessed value less than $500, 600, will issue
bonds for as much as 500, 600 TO construct n
court house and good county buildings and
by so doing attract immigration and soon set
tie up the county There 10 not an exception
in that State where railroad passes through
an old settled county and not by the &C unity
seat but what the county seat has been re.
moved to the railroad. Over thirty court
houses have been rebuilt on the lines of rail.
roads in that State alone in the last fifteen
Years, and in many instances new and thrifty
towns of Ave TO ten thousand people have
grown up by those removals In a very lew
years. Let the people oil old Charles wake up
and do something to help themselves and show
outsiders that they have some enterprise and
get up about them and soon they will see the
effect upon population and values. Such edl-
torials as have seen lately in the Port Tooac-
co Times would in the new West or South
vest constitute good excuse TO make its edi
tor quit the county Such want Of practical
knowledge and business foresight might suit
- hon mail a
stage coaches carried the passengers, was
about the order of things but will not do in
this enlightened and progressive age in which
we live. Cox ought to wake up and shake.
ID the old cob-webs and take new start, il
would pay the county to make upa pension
and start him out, send him around the coun-
try, to observe what is going on and see how
the people in other coun les, even in old Mary
land (northern and wes.ern part Of the Stale)
and in other States, c; ieclAliY the hr west
where enterprise and i'm uisration has built up
and populated the country. Why Isl: thhl
land is worth more way out in the Rock
Mountains and praries OF the far W est than il
is N Charles county, one Of the oldest settled
and prettiest sections of old M.rylanll II is
simply for want Of enterprise IN ibe psri Of the
people. That the lands are poor aud largely
mortgaged is the very hest argument in FAVOR
of creating A-eounty debt 10 make Improve
ments and thereby do suineihln9 to induce
prople with mrans 10 come and buy som Of
the lands and improve them aud live among
us hni give some new Ire 10
the county, All the money spent in construct
ing The new buildings Hshl te paid nut eli Il
10 the nenple Of the count, and give employ
ment to Labor 10 different ways increase the
business Of the trad .smeu aud will he lelt b'
the farmer and all classes Of the people A.
LA Pida grows in population the dsIn4nd-in-
crr,ls-s for all ttrm products 6'lInd near
hone Hnket is tie great and strong Tsu
meut OF the Republican party in favor OF
building uI:tnuia torres all over Vie couagrt
md creating thrift aud euierpri'e, HuTiding ~
towns alt over this great equity .tnd ntv king
iauis AROUND these rapldlY erUAing to~uN
valuable BY creating n home market for their
produces. hope that the Democrats o.
Charles qahts vii Wake up Eau mt ue-
.Irve that Il Republican, willie or hlirk rdr
u" o'"N' So H''''i wv NV ""'! I0' ~