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

Another Letter.
The following letter from ptomi 1ent
New York business gentleman, native Of this
county, wss handed US by friend. II Of
course is too late to DO any good toward
changing a vote in favor Of progress, but we
publish il for the purpose Of showing how In
ieIligent business men every where view The
question, and hope, that as the matter will soon
come up again, It's strong arguments may be
carefully weighed:
81 think the people Of Charles county will
make a great mistake If they don, decide in
favor OF removing the court house and county
buildings 10 La Plata. BY doing so they will
give a new start to the I'D county which will
attract capital aud immigration TO that section
of Maryland and make II demsnd and value
again for real estate. Enterprise people will
not settle in country where every thing
looks SO dilapidated as they do in Port Tobac-
co-the appearance Of the place is enough to
disgust stranger Besides people nowadays
want TO settle in town on n railroad, where
they can have the facilities Of quick transit
and a telegraph line. predict Il the county
seat is removed TO La Plata that in few years
there v i'll be population OF several thousand
II is near enough to Washington and Balt-
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
aud pretty county seat, II will rapidly increase
the value of land all over the county. Then
that zig 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 10 amount to as much
81. of dinner fnr each
the county. The increased value Of the prop
crty in and around La Plata will, IN a few
years, more than pay the tax required TO pay
interest and provide a 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, 900, will issue
bonds for as much as 500, 600 to construct
court house aud good county buildings aud
by so doing attract immigration and soon set
lie 10 the county. There Is not an exception
10 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 have been rebuilt on the lines OF rail.
roads In that State alone Ia the last fifteen
years, and 10 many instances new and thrifty
towns Of Ave TO ten thousand people have
grown up by those removals in very lew
years. Let the people oil old Charles wake up
and do something TO help themselves aud show
outsiders that they have some enterprise and
get up about them and soon they will see the
effect upon population and values. Such ehi-
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 ed
tor Quit the county Such want Of practical
knowledge and business foresight might suit
fifty Years ago when a mail once week aud
stage coaches carried the passengers, was
about the order Of things but will not do 10
this enlightened and progressive age 10 "hicn
We live. Cox ought to wake up and shake
Of the old cob-webs and take new start i
would pay the county to make up pension
aud 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 (northern and ives prn part Of The State
and in other States, ei 'ecltlly the Tar west
" here enterprise and i'm nj ration has built up
and populated the country. Why is /; tnat
land is worth more way ont in the Rock
Nountnius and praries OF the far Nest than y
Is n Charles county, one Of the oldest settled
and prettiest sections of old Mtrl lanN u Is
simply for want OF enterprise on The part OF the
rrupie That the lands arc poor aud Largely
mortgaged Is the very best argument III i"vor
Of re.Iiag u county debt O,nake improve
urnts aud thereby do somethlus to induce
people with means 10 come aud buy som Of
the lands and improve teen ana i've among
US md give some new ire 10
the c,,unty. All the money spent 10 construct
ing the ne% buildings VII he paid out CT u
10 the people Of the county and give employ
mrnt to labor ia d,Hcreut ways increase the
business of the tt d~smen and will he lelt b,
the farmer and all classes OF the people A.
La n ia grows 10 population the drmand n-
crcasrs for sll farm prOd1sts around near
home nldkrt is the great aud strong Arsu
ment VI the Republican purity ia hNor OF
hnlding munua turtles all 0vse tlte couairs
,nd creating limit ani enterprise, building o.
tuwus All over shIs great county eRd-klsAIna
Ian Is MrJuud thpse rapidly gt"~Hg towns
vLlu ,hle by creating hUme market tor then
products hOpr thtt The Democrats o;
tIhntes county viii wake up can ut be-
Irve tnat a Republicans, Wilie or 6lWki can
30 otherwise than vote not only TOR Tar
removal IN, do IN his power to secure u
bryuut dGuht Every body knows nat ~,
Rrpu mean part, is the part oi prolress.- -
Nuw h ne that the live Uemncrals like your
SIT VIII Join with tie Republicans aud ave
the old COUNTY good starr IN NE llnr OF adj
vaurrmpht tie well started a,ht lnr penpi,
wld .stun.h themselves with tier p oGiess
mi improvements IA the uetr idiure. Make
no mistake thIs time, II II Is u failure 'he leg
Islatore VII pr"hlhH never give anothes
chtuce At least tor a l'nI Time The securing
| b, S,ntior Pusr,, aud tne Representatives Gia
telegraph line a nE the r1tlr0ai 10 lA Plata,
and tue oustrnctl,n OF station there viii
| greatly improve The place AMI so add an in.
portani iuduremtut TO strangers TO visit and
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