The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-10-14
MY BROTHERS. KEEPER.

Some time since when an attorney
was rebuked for having rented his
clients property to a tenant who had
put it to disreputable use he warm.
ly insisted that he was not going to
be held for the morals of his clients
tenants and it was unreasonable to
ask that he should be.
1t seems to us that the strength or
weakness Of this position rests solely
upon the reasonable evidence at
ones command when the tenant is
contracted with.
lfa man comes into a communt,
with clean hands-So to speak-he is
entitled to receive the business con.
sideratiop due and honest, law-abid.
ing citizen. 1t would be impracti,-
able and unfair to require of every
man coming into our midst clean
bill Of health before we open our
gates.
If on the other hand tenants are
introduced into a community whose
past lines are as plain as leopard's
stripes, it will be more than strange
il the landlords future does not le-
come indissolubly linked with their
devious career.
1t is hard to stand an undesirable
citizen when he belongs in a COM
munity, but it is much harder 10
stand him when he comes there.
KNOCKING.
1t is well.recognized principle OF
good government that public SCI
wants should always be held account
able to the people they serve, for
their public acts an official who de.
clines to recognize this right of the
public is not safe man to cloth,
with power. As a matter of politi
cal expediency the opposition always
goes aguessing in it's efforts to dis
credit an administration and AT
indulgent public will generally winl
at such evidence of moral axity; but
it seems fashionable today for an,
and every man to Join in genera
condemnation of state affairs about
which the critic often stands convict.
ed Of really knowing nothing. For
instance, some city reporters who
were more anxious to furnish sensa.
tional reading than to tell the truth
have spread all sorts of rumors OF
mo accounts" to show the expendi
ture Of money for State roads, yet
the President of the { Commission and
the Governor state that the book
are "up to the minute" and they give
figures to show exact expenditure.
to date.
Again Ex-Governor Brown is a.
founded that each and every mile OF
macadam road does not cost tn,
same! We are wondering ifsuch ha,
been Governor Browns experience in
his own business career. II so the
state contracted with the wrong
Brown to build the two miles of roac
East of kalmia at cost of ST., 900
instead Of giving it to the Honorable
Frank at the average cost ofS9, 900.
Again the average man, not cal
able of constituting acts as being
prompted by other than political
motives, when he cannot read the
political end he seeks to see in tn,
Governors acts, is sure that they
are prompted by double. distilled poll.
teal motives Of which the prophet
alone is cognizant. And so it goes,
from day to day a new interpreter O
passing events sees a new cloud in
the sky, and indicates by his carpinp
criticisms that the state is going to
the bad, unless perchance it turn.
to him for deliverance.
Now isn't it Just about time to
call halt for awhile and take stock?
Isn't it fully acknowledged fact
that much in the way of securing to
the state public service equivalent
to the price paid, a business manage
ment on a par with that OF the best
business houses, a healthy sentiment
in harmony with an intelligent pee.
pie, and faithful striving at all
times to raise salient features of the
present Administrations
Granted, if you desire, that the
handling Of the Baltimore police
question is of doubtful wisdom,
wouldit not be we'll to suspend judg-
ment until the sequel develops even
though we may deprive ourselves
little later on Of the prophetic 81
told you so;" And even il it turns
out wrong has the man heep horn
who mak,s no mistakes To the
average citizen it would seem that
Governor Crothers by his energy in
initiating his success in consummat-
isg, and his cheerful hope of still
better things for the future has fairly
won the right to ask a modest fore
bearance, a reasonable support aud
a fair measure of gratitude from
good citizens.