Evening journal., 1906-11-15
DELAWARE WOULD
MOI BE LOSEk
MaTydeI' Contents Tha.
JaT People and Mary .anderS
Are Vely Much Alike

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IS follows.
Permit me to rep'y briefly to Aces
mack" whose soul is DISTURBED because
Of the most excellent p.opcs tiln q an-
mex the Eastern Shore Of Virglnil to tie
State Of Maryand. lie seeks TO conY,y
he impress on that my rccommendatlc n
is so preposterous as not to be taken ser.-
5us5. as he remarks: IL suggest you an.
mex ,he whole states of Mars Land, Vir-
gnil, West Virginia, Penn.yv n a and
New York under the head OF Mary ana
ard set up a uioaarchy.
Now, MIR, Accomack, / wish you 10
understand that I am serious 70 his
matter. 2 am terribly in earnest There
Is no nonsense about IT, do not wish to
get into a quarrel with you ahopt your
ilustrioes men and your coed Cyste s.
What you say of Virgnla's great mon 4
subscribe TO with great pleasure. yet
nope | may be pardoned If / observe that
some Of Maryland's Sons shine in their
own way quite as brightly as those of
whom you speak with such reverence
and pride.
Accomack stands up with comm ndab'e
leyaity for his native state. Ii is just
such men as that we wish to annex along
with the territory When Aeccmacx comes
70 know Maryland better he win nor dove
Virginia less but viii love Maryland
more.
Now about those oysters. Evsryb dy
knows that both Maryland and Virgin "a
have had great deal of trouble along
the boundary Of the states where these
oysters abound This trouble could be
eliminated by annex ad1n. Under the
authority Of ono state The laws could be
enforced with greater facility We know
your oysters are good. we know your
land Is good; we know your people are
good. That is the reason we advocate
annexation. In expanding Maryland we
benefit you. ! am not IN favor Of annex
ing New York and Pennsylvania TO Mary
land; but if it were possible, / would
certainly annex Virginia. In quiet way
we have been for many years engaged IN
the work Of annexation when a Aiary-
land young man wishes TO go outside Of
his own state for a wife, If he is wise lie
viii go TO Virginia; for, leaving Mary
land entirely out OF this question, there
IS, in my opinion, no state in the Union
which can boast girls quite SO lovely,
amiable and good as those which grace
the Old Dominion. In this way the work
Of annexing Virginia to Maryland has
been going on for many years. We are
proud Of the Virginia girls that have
been won by Maryland men and brought
into Maryland to live. They are as loyal
70. hI.nt.-
for the Old Commonwealth is as strong
as it ever was. But, after becoming thor
oughly acquainted with Maryland, they
love their adopted state more. Now, il
Virginia We're annexed 10 Maryland, il
would not be necessary for Virginia girls
to leave their native state when they
marry Maryland men.
At the present time, however, we are
not quite so ambitious as to plan for
the annexation Of the whole state Of Yir-
ginia. For the present we will be satls-
fled with the Eastern Shore and Clarke
county.
Delaware Would Not Lose Much.
"Marydel' replying 10 queen Kent
says:
Your correspondent queen Kent. seems
TO have struck a hot trail in advocating
the annexation Of Delaware II isn't new
this talk about taking Delaware into the
Maryland family, but 1t Is always time
ly. / am afraid that those of your COR
respondents who regard the matter as a
wild-goose chase have the we'ght OF
probabilities behind them-hut you can't
always judge from the outside appear.
ance Of things. Some wise man remarked
the fact long ago that 'gt is generally
the unexpected that happens" That
peninsula between the Bays should never
have been, like Gaul, divided into three
parts. Nature made it for homogeneity,
and it Is shame that politics. ancient
or modern, should attempt 20 keep It
heterogeneous. The Eastern Shore Of
/ Maryland and Delaware are socially and
! industrially exceedingly mixed. Catch a
! Delawarean running loose and no expert
/ in ethnology could tel. to save his soul
that he was not a full blood Eastern
/ shoreman. The same average number
Of freclxles across the more Cf he has
not outgrown the froolle Deriod), the
same speculative cast in tho left eye, and
II you interview him, the same expert
knowledge concerning the HABITS Of the
clam and the oyster. The tides OF p pu.
lation constantly ebb and flow across tho
imaginary line that divides Maryland
from Delaware. When a citizen down m
Worcester steals a ham or rcbs a h-n.
1 roost. ne just as instinctivcly seeks seclu-
sion IN the forests Of Sussex as rabbit
which catches the beagle note. looks FOR
the sheitering darkness Of hollow tree
Yes. by natural. affinity and an the law,
Of natural attraction. Delaware ought n
come TO Maryland for keeps. Rut will
she Gomez We haven't heard from Della.
ware yet, except IN a mild and nan-c-m.
INITIAL way, on this annexation question.
Just wait TN the Blue Hens chickens
get walked up and begin 10 talk for publ.
cation l note that in your last issue
there is Pennsylvaniqn writing from,
Chester, who puts IN a claim fer par,
Of Delaware-oniy ,ittle slice. lust thai
curve that would take in the CITY OF
Wilmington. Wen, hardly, II Deawar.
ever does cast lot with another state. II
will be with Naryllrd, ard when th.
Diamond state makes n transfer she will
DO 1t as unit II upper New Castle wer,
sliced on to Pennsvlvanii. Phrasalphia
would Immediately claim Wilminrt-n a,
suburb WILMINGTON is certainly no
hankerlng 70 become one n the rural out.
posts Of Qualsortcwn. n Delaware cor.
Joined with Marylard. she would exert
potential influence in cur state politics
ne AL.