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


The following letter from ptomiaent
New York business gentleman, 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
teIigens business men every where view the
question, and hope, that as the matter will soon
come up again, Its strong arguments may be
carefully weighed;
81 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. BY doing so they will
give new start to the cid county which will
attract capital and immigration TO that section
Of Maryland, and make dem4nd and value
again for real estate. Enterprise people will
not settle ia country where every thing
looks so dilapidated as they do 10 Port Tobac-
co-the appearance Of the place is enough TO
disgust a stranger. Besides people nowadays
want TO settle in a town on railroad, where
they eau have the facilities Of quick transit
and telegraph line. ! predict II the county
seat is removed to La Plata that in a few years
there will be a 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 Of 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 1t
amounts TO nothing anyway, il will not in
crease the taxes enough TO amount to as much
as the price Of dinner for each taxpayer IN
the COUNTY. The increased value OF the prop
crty In and around La Plata will, in d few
years. more than pay tue tax required to pay
interest and provide sinking fund for the
bonds Out in Texas new counties just organ
ized with a populotion of less than 500 and
assessed value less than 100000, will issue
bonds for as much as Sl00, 900 to construct
court house and good county buildings and
by so doing attract immigration and soon set
lie up the county. There is not an exception
in that State where a 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 nave 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 FIVE to ten thousand people have
grown up by those removals in very few
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 th,
effect upon population and values Such edi-
torials as have seen lately in the Port Tobac-
co Times would in the new West or South
west constitute good excuse TO make its edi-
tor quit the county Such want OF practical
knowledge and business foresight might suit
fifty years ago when a mail once q week and
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
of the old cob-webs and take a new start, i
would pay the couhty to make upa pension
and start him out, send him around the coun-
try, to observe what is gong on and see how
the people in other coun les even in old Mary
land (uorthern and ives ern part Of the State)
and in other States, es ecially the lar west
here enterprise and imlui4 rat ton has built up
and populated the country. Why Isl; that
land is worth more way ont in the Rock
Mountains and praries OF the far West than il
is n Charles county, one Of the oldest settled
and prettiest sections of old Mary landl 1t is
simply for want OF enterprise TN the part OF the
people That the lands are poor and largely
mortgnged is the very best argument in FAVOR
Of ere alag county debt 10. make improve
ments and thereby do somethiuS to induce
people with means 10 come aud buy som OF
the lands and improve tIem and 1--we among
US and give some new lire 10
the county, All the money spent 10 construct
ing the ne% buildings Will he paid out cniril
TO the people Of the county and give EMPLOY
lnent to labor in difereut ways increase the
business of the tr,drsmen aud will he felt b,
the farmer and all classes Of the people A
La Pl,ut grows 10 population tie demand iu-
creasrs for vii farm products araunl 4 pear
home market is the great aud strong ArEu
ment ot the Republican party in favor Of
bnilding mannh turtles all over- tile couhirt
.nd creating thrift aud enterprise, building OF
LOVES All over this great counry esd .E,akins
lamb around th'se rapidly grTwing to" Us
valuable BY creating IL hume market for their
Products. | hope that the Democrats o;
Charles county will wake up. eau Mt he
| !lrve that II Republican, white or blrk, can
10 Otherwise tnan vote not only tor In
removal bn; do al in his power to secure il
eyUnt dnaht Every body knu~s that Jhr
R-pu 'iIcui part, is the part, OF prog ress -
| Nuw ha,e that tue live Democrats like your
silt Will Join with the Republicans aud give
the old county good starr 10 the liue oil adj
vancrmeht tiei well startr,r alst liir peopl,.
| wal .lstnni>h themselves with thc1r ~ OgttsS
! md improvements III tue netr iaiuFe. M!.kr
no mistake this time, II II Is :, failure The leg
isature VIII pr"bibly never give. ,anothes
chance al least tor Icing time The securing,
by Sen tor posel aud the Representatives, lia
telegraph line al ny the rulr0ad To la Plata,
and tue onstrucurn OF a station there " i'll
greatly improve the place ami also add ain i'm
pOrtani indurement to strangers to visit and
say holmes in the county. Now move the
court house and the entlIe population Of tht
county will soon see the convenience. import
an.e, aud great ,'lue To the whole county, O
the move. wish that | could spare the time
to come down and help to talk a little il
aid of the movement being nauve o
Charles county and having hhd SO many
pleasant associations with its people, feel :
, deep interest in the welfare and prosperity o
the county and sincerely hope that they viii
} make this move, which will, am sure, bring
: yreal results