The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-12-08

The Wnion.
TOWSON, Md.
Saturday, December 8, 1900.
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RUSSIA HAS semitic the United States an agen
to study our homestead legislation. In it
earliest years the Republican party devised
the homestead law that has attracted the atten
ton of the world.
~ McKrNLEYs POPULAR plurality is unofiicially
estimated at S5O.OOO the largest ever received
by Presidential candidate. There is larg'
falling off in the aggregate OF Southern Demo
cratic pluralities.
SECRETARY WILSON is preparing to drive th'
prairie dogs from the grazing lands Of Ne
braska and Colorado. where they are doinl
afs' Armss~ Aalbs8shans Aiif 6Hefftea lhf
fight for their homes.
TnE BALTIMORE As,erioaa Of "a instant said
1T Is settled about as definitely es anything
can be IN politics that Governor John Waite
smith will not call a special session Of th'
last Legislature 10 amend the election Law. e
Is 10 disfrnnchise llliteraie voters. Il is by nc
means certain that sach a bill could be forced
through"
srcnrAnr GAaE has advised big cut 10 wal
taxes. As the Secretary knows the condition
ofthc revenues bis Recommendation Indicate
that the tune has arrived for reduction il
taxation. and In this opinion the people en-
thnsasticnlly unite. In a Just cause we will b.
willing to have the taxes imposed again. Blu
as matters stand full Treasury is often
temptation Of extravaganza.
COMMENTING on the subject of bribery a
elections the Talbot county Times says: 9TH
bribery is not confined to the colored race. no
even TO those and the ignorant whites, Blu
many men in comfortable circumstances ar
annually in the market. How this evil can b.
best remeded is the question, and it calls fo
serious reflection. Many plans are proposed
each having their merits, but action shoulC
not be too long postponed"
A DISPATCH from Washington dated Deem
Der 4th says: Senator Wellington cast hi
first vote of the session with the Democrats
today, voting against taking up the Ship Sub
sidy bill. He was the only Republican to vot,
in the negative" OF course it is a matter o.
very little interest how the Senator voted OF
this measure, but that he should have voted
with the Democrats will be no surprise tC
Maryland Republicans.
Mr.. BRYAN has discovered before this time
that there is good deal of imperialism" in
~ his section Of the country. The states west Of
the Mississippi gave him majority of 00O(
in 1896. Those states cast majority Of 50, 00(
for President Mckinley in 1900. Here is tn,
most striking change which was represented
in the recent canvass. Flagfurling is unpopu
lar in Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, Min
nesota. Iowa and the rest Of the states from
the Mississippi to the Pacific.
The REPORT that England Is on the side o.
the United States in the Chinese difficulty neet
not cause any surprise. The United States
side in that controversy, as in all its othe
oIplonratic aoaiiubs. j. tie ssdc vr fui.iIiso1c'
and enlightenment Il is the side which il
sure to win in the Chinese affair in the end
for all the nations will have to come to i
eventually. The administration at Washing
ton has scored several brilliant diplomats
triumphs in the past two years.
THE KENNEBEc Journal notes that 9TH
Smith vote in the next Congress will remain
ofthe same strength which it musterd in tn
present House. Michigan, which seems to b
thestronghold ofthe Smith party, returns tire
Representatives, and good fellows. Illinoi
and Kentucky each returns Congressman
= Smith. The place of Congressman Smith, o
Maryland, who resigned to become Governo
of his State, is to be taken by new Congress
man Smith, Of Iowa, so that the Smith family
still maintains the quota of six votes in tn,
House, and leads all rivals by good plurality
ON TUESDAY night the Bar Association o.
Baltimore City held its annual meeting in til,
parlors of the Lyceum Theatre, when the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected officers for the
ensuing year: President, Mr.. Daniel NJ
Thomas vice-presidents, Messrs John N
Steele and Randolph Barton; treasurer, Mr.
G. A. E. Spamer secretary, Mr.. James w
Bowers, Jr. member of executive committee
Mr.. Alfred s. Niles committee on admissions
messrs. Robert Biggs Francis T. Homer anG
Jos. C. Mullin. A banquet followed after the
usual business of the meeting was disposed of
In THE recapitulation of the industries of the
United States we must not forget the noble
and selfsacrifcing American hen. Some in
dividual, with plenty of spare time and genius
for figures, has estimated tina. the hens in the
United States during the year 1900 will con
tribute $4,000, 100000 eggs to the country'l
wealth. The said genius has also figured il
out that if said eggs were piled one on top Of
another, point to point, they would make 8
column 461 GAS miles in altitude. As has otter
before been remarked, the country owes debt
of gratitude to the hen which can never be
repaid.
For man who is without a country at the
present time, Uncle Paul Kruger is creating
considerable of a stir in Europe England
however, is not getting so excited over his ap-
pearance in Continental Europe as France ex.
pected and desired. There is talk, indeed, OF
inviting him to England. Meanwhile the war
|. in the Transvaal hangs on, and is giving Eng
md some uneasiness. In fact, the British