The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-29
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With this issue THE BALTIMORE COUNTY
UNION ends the fifty first year Of its existence,
the paper having been established at Jockeys
vile, Baltimore county, in 1850, by the late E.
f. Church. Atthat time-and for many years
thereafter-it was called The Baltimore County
ADVOCATE, but when the plant of that paper
was purchased by the father of the present
proprietors-who then owned The Baltimore
County Anseg-ican-the two were consolidated
and the name of tie paper was changed to its
present one. signifying union of the two.
From the start the paper was successful. In
= the last few years its business has grown most
satisfactorily and today it is on firmer basis
than ever before, with a paying subscription
list second to no country newspaper in Mary
land. We have striven to make THE UNION
awelcome visitor to the household, and paper
that can be read with interest, if not with
profit How well we have succeeded it is the
privilege of discriminating public to judge.
II has been our constant aim to keep its
columns pure and free from Objectionable mat
ter of all kinds, especially from the obnoxious
advertisements with which too many newspa-
pers of the present day are disgraced. OF
course this has meant the loss of some busl-
ness, but we are so well pleased with results
that we shall continue the long established
custom.
We have no special promises to make for
the year upon which we are about to enter-a
year that will mark most important epoch
in our history-the beginning ofthe Twentieth
Century. 1t shall be our aim to keep THE
UNION ND to its present standard, and to i'm
prove it and add new features as experience
may suggest or circumstances permit.
We greatly appreciate the liberal patronage
that has been bestowed upon us by generous
public, and we hope to merit continuance OF
these favors by careful attention to business
that it has SO largely assisted in building up.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND delivered the an
nua address at the graduating exercises of the
Peirce School of Business in the Academy of
Music, Philadelphia, on the night of the 2lst
instant. Speaking of the advantages to be
derived from a business education Mr.. Cleve-
land said ut is good to start out in lfework
with the idea firmly in your mind that the
world owes you living Ofcourse, you are not
to give this the highwayman's meaning, nor
act upon it in ahighwaymans fashion. Meth
err should the proposition that the world owes
you living be construed as giving license for
all sorts of sharp practices, involving work
only with the wits, and disregard of the
golden rule and every other precept which
maintains. and rcnltivates human brother
hood. There seems to be an inclination in
these days to adopt the version of the golden
rule proclaimed by the cunning, horse-trading
money-lending character portrayed in late
popular novel: DO unto the other fellow the
way he'd like to do unto you, and do it first.
This Interpretation of the rule if seriously
proposed. would arouse loud and extended pro-
test and yet thousands and thousands of these
who would protest the loudest are daily and
hourly acting in precise accordance with such
interpretation"