The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-03-13
Plea of the Citizens of Seabrook
The following was read by Mr.. T. H.
Jameson to the County Commissioners
on March 3, 1914.

The following was read by MI. L. II.
Jameson to the County Commissioners
on March 3, 1914.
To The County Commissioners -
GENTLEMEN We are here today on
mission OF vast Importance to the citi.
liens of Seabrook, as well as to the
rest of the tax paying population of our
county. Heresis a question upon which
you are requested to consider well and
weigh in the balaace of justice before
you render decision for or against the
contestants. This much debated ques-
ton of whether our school shall be clos
ed at Seabrook or consolidated with
another, has been agitated for the last
two years, and yet the citizens of Sea-
brook. standing alone against combin-
ed odds and interests, have been able to
prevent any plan to deprive US of our
individual or collective rights to school
We are again placed upon the de.
fensive for our rights, and are now
here before your honorable body for
the specific purpose of asking you to
hear out our deliberations and thoughts
on this matter, and ask you TO join US
in our efforts to try to devise plan for
the interest of all concerned and not
merely those OF local interests. You,
gentlemen. are the guardians of the
public's money and the protectors of
the people from unnecessary burden of
taxation. Therefore, representing the
whole body polite of the county, as
you do. we are laying before you our
grievances, and also those of the hard
working farmers.
We do most strenuously oppose the
II Ip&s of II
1t meets all the requirements of our
town, and to close it against the wishes
of the citizens would not be good gov.
eminent.
The whole attack of these yearly on.
slaughts of Lanham and Hynesborough
against our school at Seabrook is SOLE
ly for the purpose OF larger communi-
ty trying to gain an advantage over a
smaller town.
Gentlemen you can surely realize
that if the plan of consolidation of our
school is allowed, Lanham's property
would advance while Seabrook's would
depreciate. What community is worth
a penny that cannot point with pride to
a public school? The school is what
started men like Lincoln, Garfield,
Grant. and hundreds of others on their
paths of usefulness and helped thelI
name to be recorded upon the pages of
history. Knowing the vast good which
has been derived from the common
school, we are willing to keep ours for
what it has done for Seabrook.
Now, gentlemen, how many towns
are there today in this county which
would welcome in their midst the court.
house in which you are now hearing US?
If it should narrow down to a matter of
petition to the Legislature by number,
how long would this building remain
here What would be the result on
Upper Marlboro's property The court
house is here, and SO let it remain. In
the same spirit we are equally as an
xious to keep our school.
We can not see the material advantage
which would be gained by closing our
school and that of Ardmore to give the
whole cheese to Lanham for real estate
boom, unless it is for placing more tax
es upon the people who are now loaded.
You must take into consideration the
fact that our school, as located, places
all The children in easy distance &C.
cording to population. If you remove
this school at Seabrook to Lanham, it
will he over a mile for our children,
whereas it is only about quarter of a
mile at presens from the fathest child's
home. We object to the idea of locat-
ing our school with Lanham, or any
other place, on the pretense of a CEN