The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-09-07
TIME TO SPEAK PLAINLY

OUR plea for some worthy and non
partisan discussion of county affairs has
brought from the Cecil Democrat moth
ing but the making of school girl faces
al the editor of the WIG. And THAT
IL cal ed editing a paper! And THAT,
We presume, is ACCEPTABLE editing 10
a certain element of the Democrats sub
scribers-the kind of folks, for instance,
who buy local paper for dollar in or
der to get a grand PIANO and a tour ing
car for chrome Any hing will d. Tor
d certain order OF intelligence. hut
TIM il not the order of intelligence II
Mkl"h We are speaking on his matter II
county gCvernme We do not expect
y and We do not expect sha c"ci he
ne, RAJ TO be equal to any ints.i!s@nt
G!'rr's''n OF the situation mo viii; ii
this county us come, financially. We
are asking a consideration of this very
distressing problem by the people WHO
ARE ABLE TO CONSIDER IT inteln-
gently and helpfully. Our atiliction, as
a county, arises from the fact that such
people will not take the time and trou
BILE to grapple with the problem. They
will groan, like the rest, at the excess
sive and burdensome tax RAE; Dur they
will do nothing to ward a way out"
AS result, county government is left
entirely in the hands of gentlemen who
have made so much of a business of
politics as that they have made a bust
ness of little else, and are thereby thor
oughly unq lalified to successfully man
age our public affairs. man with
neither business ability nor business
experience, is hardly capable of handl
ing the problems which arise in the ad
ministration of some $l50OO0 TO $500 GOO
of the county funds. And yet men, who
have been successful and are expert:
enced lin the handling of business enter
prises, will NOT become actively inter-
ested in the management of our public
affairs. And right here is one of the
most serious aspects of the situation in
our county. With rare exception, now
and again, the men who are attempting
to handle our public affairs are not big
enough for the job. And who is to be
blamed for that? Certainly not these
men themselves. They are in no wise
censurable for their want of either ca
pacity or experience The censura BILE
ones are the people who insist on com
mfttng our public affairs to inefficient
hands. Would you put your personal
business plant, involving an annual eX-
penditures of one or two hundred thous-
and dollars in the hands or man,
known to be untitled for the job Yet
that is exactly what we DO in public al
fairs, and in consequence suffer the ills
natural to mismanagement.
EXasperated and disguised by this suf
fering we seek relief through purely
phn ,a1S Wn u oil nut 4 he
Democrats and put in Republicans; or
we kick out the Republicans and put in
Democrats. All of which is hardly cal
culated to bring any adequate RELIEF. A
man is not better equipped for admins
trative work by virtue of his political
affiliations And yet it is his EQUIP
MENT for the ioh which the county
most needs
We understand perfectly wtll that
what we are saying is no. popular. We
are not trying to be popular. We are
trying 10 he honest in facing the situa-
ton which confronts us. We are not
taking our place with the tax eating
placeholders and party organs. We are
taking our place with the outraged tax
payers. And we say most emphatically
that those taxpayers will continue to be
outraged, until they get somebody ahold
of their public affairs who HIS sufficient
capacity TO manage them.