The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-04-07

accomplished fact, and now after the
expiration Of three days of grace.
during which many have caught up with
the general makeup of its work done
and left undone, judgment Of Their
three months lsbors may be fairly
formed.
Fully realizing that critical time haC
come in the history Of the state, moi
simply because Of it's financial embar
rassmcnt ut because the trend Of recent
Legislation had been to break the con
tnulty of our system Of government,
the Assembly met, thoroughly impressed
with the idea that much reorganization
must be accomplished at II heavy cost
Of places for the capable few as well as
the hungry many. This was not 4
pleasant thought
Starting in the organization of the
two branches with n standard of excel.
lence better known under the slogan OF
ECONOMY and efficiency" from which
they would not depart however anxious
this pace WAS kept up with commend
able success to the end. In fact the
work done came so close to meeting
with unqualified approval from the Bal
tlmore Sun whose highest duty AM
happiest privilege seems to be to damn
the acts Of others with faint praise, W,
can do its record no more unquestlnnet
Justice than to repeat the words Of Thu
exalted critic: After exc0riating tn,
failure to pass an annexation bill, tn,
sun says:
Most Of the other party PROMISE
were lived up to.
Much other good legislation not spe
officially promised in the platform such
as the Inheritance tax, the child labor
the educational survey bill, the mother
tension bills and the measure prohibit
ing the separation Of mother and chile
within six months of the latter's birth -
WAS enacted
Weighing the pros and cons IA stateC
aDoye, most voters. we think, will agre,
that the good overbalances the bad "
The general consensus Of opinion II,
to the merits Of n legislative body,
work could of necessity be but it'll,
higher. because the state is made up Of
million people with widely divergent
views; and what some are anxious t.
accomplish. others are equally anxiou,
to defeat. To US it's sins appear ohav,
been those of omission rather than OF
commission.
(al The failure to let the Baltimor,
annexation bill have fair road to al
early vote. and there meet Onits merit,
with either victory or defeat, was un
pardonable. 1t would be worse thar
useless to discuss now what the merit,
If this question are. but it should moi
be useless to deprccate the method,
which accomplished its defeat.
(b) We do not claim to be sufficiently
lniatited into 1.-THE inner shrine" to b,
able to even guess why home rul,
N'''' '''eh' '''i "hh Hbl phhstu hH
necessary sequel to the constitutions
amendment passed last fall. To advo
Gates of this method of home govern
ment the door of hope WAS opened by tn,
passage of the amendment, but the doo
Of despair WAS substituted for it wher
home rule for at least two more YEAR
became IAN lrrldescent dream.
(c) The failure to either Danish o
regulate betting will disappoint man!
people throughout the state, the rati,
being highest IN Hartford Everyone
knew the difficulties ahead when thu
fight WAS undertaken, and none know
better how to kill such IA measure thai
do those who waged successfully thei
tactful fight.
Until Maryland shall have learned tn,
wisdom of sending to the General As
'embly her best equipped representa-
ives and returns them from term /,
term so IA to get the full benefit o.
their ripper Judgment, she will seldom
nave good reason to be better statistic,
with Its work than she has with that UI
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