Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-05-06
Address of the Croakers.

Address of the Cr0akers.
In the crouking Laranguc published
In the last weeks issue Of the Port To-
baccc Times, which was intended to in
fuence voters against the rcmoyal Of the
court house, the same absurd siatemen.
heretofore made. that the cost Of removal
would aggregate $50 500, is repeated
in fact the whole address, 50 called, is
brisliug with absurd inaccuracies.
One sentence in that address is wor.
,hy of consideration, however. Il saws
The nan who comes among Us seeking
home and place to invest lis money
looks 70 the quality aud character Of the
isnds, It's srcc>sability to msrkets. the
public roads, the disposition aud eharac-
ser Of the people BY whom he will be
surrounded, and The public dues or taxes
that each year be wiz be required to pay
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in the event Of locating n OR midst
That statement, at least, is correct,
but it is a hard matter TO convince The
opponcots Of progress, who Inspired the
address, that oar county is particularly
fortunate 10 the character and quality of
its lands, that its accessibility to markets.
ranking among the best in the country
makes il far more desirable to settlers
than any portion Of the great West that
has been built up 50 rzpidly in the last
few years 1t is still more iard 10 con
vince that class Of individuals that money
spent in building up neat public build
ings and in otherways to make their own
county look thrifty and attractive is not
money tatowD away but, which will,
like ''bread cast upon the waters come
back an hundred fold" Nevertheless
Il csc are the facts, and energetic, enter
prising men. the only kind needed here,
who want to locate in this section will
not be deferred from so doing by an ad
ditional tax Of two or three cents on the
hundred dollacs if money is expended as
is proposed by the advocates of court
houss removal That part Of the quoted
sentence which reads the disposition
and character Of the people by whom he
will be surrounded" is worthy of seri-
GUS consideration.
How shall we Us a people help the
home seeker, or the would be investor
IN our lands, to decide that we are a peO-
pie among whom, it would be wise
pOlicy for him to loclte? Shall we make
the same efforts that every live commu-
nifty does aud spend money that money
may be made in the increase of Que tax
able basis2 Or shall we follow the beat
en- track in which our grand fathers
trOd. and be satisfied with things as they
are? Tlatnm be. question and decis-
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ion will be - deTed at tha polls on Sat
urday next, that will plhlish us as eth
or an energetic euterpris;ng people de-
string TO improve our condition, or that
~the disposition and character Of the
people by whom the home seekers will
be surrounded" if he locates here are 50
dead to enterprise, energy aud thrift,
that he will not care to make even an IN
pestment in our lands t. say nothing
about settling in community dead to
all thrifty and cnterpri,iug efforts. D.
eide the question calmly aud do not let
the crack of any party bosses whip. de-
Ter you from casting ballet in ia OF
the first progressive movement that we,
as a people, have attempted to make for
years.