The suburban citizen., 1900-04-14

property. Oh Consistency Truly
thou art jewel
We have been furnished the nsmes
Of fifteen Of the leading howlers who
weSe PromineLt at the Meeting recent
ly held in Hyattsville, and the books
show that She total amount Of tax
money paid by them fOots up a triae
less than sl8O.
Just think Of it.
Eleven saloon Keepers pay Sl5, III .s5
Fifteen agitators pay 1870 90
No sensible man can help bat think
that If we had TO depend on the agita-
tors, hOwlers and kickers to build
school houses, roads, bridges, etc., we
would certainly be in q bad way. We
would be compelled TO founder
through muddy and sandy roads,
swim streams and turn o. Aii9ren
loose in the streets for their schooling.
We are not posing as the champion
OF the saloon, for we have never been
asked TO do so. We are not standing
up ana saying that every saloon in the
bladensburg district is u paradise, or
that they are all properly conducted.
On the contrary we know that there
are one or two places in the very heart
of Blhdensburg that are disgrace TO
civilization, aud no we'll regulated
community, We might say no com.
munity laying claims to being carried
on in halfway decent manner would
allow such dens to exist for twenty
four hours. But that is the fault Of
the local authorities and has nothing
whatever to do with this now scheme
that condemns every saloon in the
district.
Now and then man is cRughl and
Imprisoned for stealing, bat it would
be manifestly uniust to accuse sll men
Of being thieves, And yet according
to the logic of the professional howl
ers, II one man stole anything they
would favor tho arrest aud ipcafCers
tion of the entire malo population as
common thieves.
lt Is qnite certain, in our opinion,
that no living honest man believes
that any living sensible man believer
in any such doctrine.
We want TO ask the fanatics O few
questions and we hope they will have
no trouble ia answering them. The
fact OF the matter is most every one OF
them will answer itself, hut where the
answer is not easily found q fye-year-
old child will lend all the assistance
necessary.
In the hrst place we want to ask
why it is that the people Of Hyatts-
vile and Riverdale make an instan-
taneous demand for better roads and
bridges as soon al tho saloonists pay
their license money to the State, and
thus attempt to get in on the ground
floor when many OF them profess to
be bitter enemies OF the saloon and
would openly spurn a ssloonkeeper' y
money?
Why is it the people of BranohvilIe,
Beltsville, BeFwin and other towns do
the same thing2
For years past practically every
dollar Of this license money has been
spent outside of'Bisdenbburg, whom it
frequently happened that their roads
and bridges were IN urgent nesd Of
repair, 80 much 80 thar the saloon
keepers Of Bladensburg wore com.
PEELED to raise money by subscription
TO fix tho roads. Do the fanatics look
upon that 40 just and equitableP
What public e1igency called for She
presence in HyRtthViile of a fanatieAl
agiJatOr from Berwyn2
At the present time the pike from
Bladensburg TO the District line is 10
bad shape. 1t needs repairing. II is
used daily by hundreds Of people Of
the county besides other hundreds
from the District of Columbia. II
would take about four hundred dollars
to make q good road Of it. Why does
not tho Anti-Saloon League start q