Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-04-29

Court House Removal.
The time is near at hand for the PEG
pie Of this county to render at the polls
their decision gu the court house remov
al question. AsNehlve lone in the past
we will still continue to urge that
the question be decided by every voter,
after calm and deliberate consideration,
a consideration divested of all petty
spite. personal feeling, or partisan pre-
indice. After such consideration We
are fully convinced that a majority of
the progressive euterprising people Of
this county viii conclude that it is their
duty to vote in faver of removal, be-
cluse they viii not fail to see, that, di
vested of all trick Of figures, perversou
end evasion cf ire ruth. used by the
opponents Of removal, the change will be
highly beneficial to the greatest number
Of people in our county.
It is true that some persons may
have mile or so further to travel after
the removal Of the county seat, or that
one or two Others may have their busi.
hess interests slightly injured in Port
Tobacco by the change, but that should
not hare great weight in deeiiing a
question that will undoubtedly, as adj
mitted bv most everybody, be greatly
TO the benefit Of a large majority of our
citizens. Notwithstanding the weak at
tempts made by some to ridicule the
statement made by us that the removal
of the county seat would be the means
Of buildlag up thriving and prosper
Gus town in our county, the statement
so made is correct, for there is not a
county scat in Maryland to-day on a
railroad in such healthy and desirable
location as is La Plata, that does mol
show thrift, enterprise and energy and
does not have ten times the taxable basi,
and ten times the population of oul
county seat, Port Tobacco. where NJ
man from outsi lie the State, in search o
home, or Of profitable investment, woult
locate, or put a single dollar
As was shown in our last issue til,
taxes to each individual will be 81
slightly increased that no taxpayer cal
be embarrassed in consequence, and til
iscrease in taxable property each year
naturally to be expected by US after W
have made the first progressive step
the removal of our county capital, an
which will III loubted;y be made in ne,
buildings. and new enterprises at ih
new county seat, will pay off, wiihor
any embarrassment to our people, til
cost of new public buildings. The al
gument used by the opponents of tn
p sGsskFsu : asssssgasnt are but rehas
of similar ones made by croakcrs an
psssamists from the be thinning of time
and such arguments will be made b
that class of Individuals until thine
no more But fortunately for til
world and the worlds progress, there
another class of individuals who do nc
see all things through glass darkly.
but believe that even good tdiugs ma
be made better, who take off their coats
roll up their sleeves. and against the pre-
tests and opposition of obs'ruc
tionis;s, go to work to inaugu
rate new movements, aud new enter
prises, aud by SO doing benefit them
selves and the obstructionists, also.
In the interest Of progress. for til
benefit of our whole people, regardless q
the absurd talk that few individual
nsar La PLATA will De benefited and
few near Port Tobacco will be injured
we urge that every vo cr, will, on the 1t
of May next. lutte with those VIII
would benefit the whole people and cas-
his ballot in favor Of removal, and pro
gross.