The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
Easy Way to Get Good Water.
Baltimore San.


Residents of the Canton and Highlandtown
sections are complaining of the water supply,
asserting that it is neither pure nor plentiful.
Physicians attribute the prevalence of typhoid
fever in that part of the suburbs to impure
water They declare that this water borne dis
ease exits there the year around, and year by
year takes its toll of sickness and death.
Or. Marshall l.. Price, secretary of the State
Board of Health, suggests that the city use part
of the $500 900 water loan in extending its
mains to Highlandtown and Canton and fur
nishing them better water than is furnished by
the company that now supplies those COM
munities.
These two sections are built up right to the
city, and only the surveyors line of the bonn
~ ssS sns,r as Separate
towns is not in the line of progress. They
should become parts of the greater city in law
as they are in fact.
If they want to come in and share the bene-
fits of the city, Baltimore will welcome them
with open arms. 1t will give them its water
supply, its police protection and the advantage
of all the departments of an efficiently organ
lied community. The very next session ofthe
Legislature could publish the banns by passing
an annexation act that would be fair to all con-
cerned. and the marriage could be ratified by
popular vote few months later.
THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY, of which William
R. Hearst is the head, held its National Con-
vention in Chicago this week. One of the
planks of its platform is as follows: "Our &C.
ton is based upon determination to wrest the
conduct of public affairs from the hands of
selfish interests political tricksters and corrupt
bosses. Year by year, fostered by wasteful and
reckless governmental extravaganza by the
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ting tariff, the cost of living mounts higher and
higher. Day by day the control ofthe Govern
ment drifts farther away from the people and
more firmly into the grip of machine politi-
clans party. bosses. The Republican and
Democratic parties are not only responsible for
these conditions but are committed to their
indefinite continuance. Prodgal of promises
they are so barren ofperformance that to new
party of independent voters the country must
look for the establishment of new policy and
q return to genuine popular government"
The convention on Thursday nominated
Thomas l.. Hisgen, of Massachusetts, for Pres
ident of the United States, and John Temple
Graves, of Georgia. for Vice President. Hisgen
received S31 of the 948 ballots while Graves
was nominated by reclamation. John I.
Sheppard, of Kansas who attempted to put
William j. Bryan's name in nomination, had
to be given the protection of the entire force
of the party officials to save him from the in.
furiated delegates. Sheppard was escorted
from the hall by detail of sergeantsat arms,
while the crowd of delegates surged behind
him denouncing him as traitor.
A DISPATCH from Chicago dated July 2sth
says: prior to the adjournment of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Peoples Party today
the secretary, J. A. Parker, was instructed to
issue challenge to William ]. Bryan, Demo
cratic Presidential nominee, to meet Thomas
E. Watson, the Peoples Party nominee, in
series of joint debates upon the issues of the
two parties. The challenge will be mailed to
the Democratic national chairman, Norman
E. Mack"
THERE IS method in Mr. Bryan's political
optimism, for he makes valuable use of his
time between campaigns, but the enthusiasts
who predicted his election in 1896 and 1900,
and are still at it, are the most devoted of man
kind, with the smallest return.
A MAN in Chicago claims to have been dead
sixty-nine hours and describes what he says
he saw in Hades. This is the first instance in
which the individual concerned in an incident
of this kind failed to gain admission to any
place but heaven.
SEATTLE DECLARES that its Alaska Y ukon-
Pacific Exposition will be ready on the open
ing day, June LIST. 1909, and in full running
order until October 10Th. Among the outing
points of 1909 Seattle will hold one OF the fore
most places.
THE DUCK farm of Rev. D. B. Mentzer, near
Hagerstown, from December LIST, 1907, to July
18th. 1908, produced 5000 eggs. During the
same period 1900 ducklings were Matched.
The farm is located at the foot of South
Mountain.
ONE OF the Tammany callers on Mr.. Bryan
said :: "If we don't carry New York for you
this time I'll never shake hands with you |
again." If this fails as jolly it will serve as
a touching valedictory.
SINCE THE furry of last October the export |
of farm products from this country has kept |
up at almost the highest known mark. The |
American farmer is unsurpassed as tower of |
financial strength.