Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07
MAYOR cORDDRY's LETTER.


town, chief of which are its To-
cation at the head of naviga-
tion on the Pocomoke river.
and with a rich agricultural
country surrounding it on all
sides, Mayor Corddry pays a
fiattering tribute to the thrift
and energy, the enterprise and
intelligence of the Worcester
County farmer, than whom no
body of people of like pursuit.
is more progressive and pros
porous. The assertion that the
agricultural interests of the
county have advanced and been
developed more rapidly in the
last ten years than in any other
part of Maryland, is not a mere
idle boast. born of vain i'm
aginings, but a statement based
upon a careful study and COM
parison of reports from other
counties throughout the State.
Mayor Corddry, first of all, is a
man of affairs, thoroughly
conversant and in touch with
the business interests of the
town and surrounding country.
Impressed with the alliance be-
tween financial and industrial
interests, so often in conflict,
and realizing the dependence
of one upon the other, he strikes
the keynote to our era of pros
peIty, by attributing the
growth and prosperity of our
finan. cial and banking institu-
$780, and the corresponding
cement and development
our industrial pursuits, to
the aid one has given the other,
and the mutual benefits each
has derived from the other.
Mayor Corddry recalls the
fact that Snow Hill is one of
the oldest towns in the state, in
fact older than Baltimore, and
this demonstrates that it is not
the oldest town that makes the
~reatest progress. China is the
est dynasty in the world,
and is the only one that has re-
tanned the traditions and forms,
if not the practises, of its origi-
nal form of government. When
the history of China shall be
written. it will be one long
ANIMAL of crime, duplicity con-
spiracy and deterioration: and
any classification of its people
-mast place them in a low scale
of civilization. The people of
Snow Hill have discarded, as
obsolete, some of the customs
which our ancestors practised,
and are gradually being freed
from the observance of tradi-
tions that were at once an i'm
pediment to her growth, and
prejudicial to her best interests.
Snow Hill has suffered from
the effects of two disastrous
fires-indeed so narrowing
were the ravages of the hungry
flames and so extensive an area
swept, that they may well
oxen of as confiagrations,
phoeniX-like she has
q from her ashes, not full
and mature, but health
'ong, vigorous, land chant
glad strains of resurrec
From the dust of her
a prodigy has arisen,
new spirit is abroad in
"A spirit of progress,
ertive and aggressive. The
.cesses of some, have stimu-
ed the ambitions of others.
e material out of which
tcsmen and judges were
lis native to our soil and
i'll at hand. The timber
as yet be underground and
formative state, but nature
/ not be denied, and the
asight of man has already
ed a premium on it, when
Dned and mature. There
ide in the affairs of towns,
ell as of men, that taken
.e flood leads on to fortune,
ted, all the ventures they
lge in, are bound in shall
and failures. 1t is our
lifest duty to raise our town
this acknowledgements, and,
the flood, to be ready to
er the ship of state safe to
t. There are always those
Arb-are ready to discourage
any enterprise looking to the
public veal, and who withhold
lot only their moral but also
heir financial support, and
hese are the whirlpools of
cvIla and Charybdis on whose
angerous rocks many prom
sing venture has been wrecked.
he present age will lend itself
readily to success, as the
,st. while the future, no man
av read. However, there are
rtain signs and indications
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