The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1916-10-27
TO AN UNKNOWN GENTLEMAN


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Mr.. Taxpayer, who Is not a Dyinker,
Havre de Grace. Md.
We apologize at the outset that we
are driven to address YOU by 30 peculiar
though SO honorable name, and we feel
warranted in advising that In future
public communications you will add
greatly to their force II the weight Of
your personality Is thrown into the bal |
ance with the weight Of your argu-
ments.
In the Democratic Ledger Of the 21st.
you take issue with us: First, that the
advantages Of prohibition cannot be
successfully questioned.
Second, that they produce speak
easies."
Third, the ease Of paying bonded In
debtedness by means Of license.
Fourth, the improved character Of
future hotels under high license.
Fifth, ability to regulate liquor traffic
rs easily as any other traffic.
To discuss at this late day the advan.
tages Of licensed 90 against an I'M
licensed commun,,v would he a. useless
~ 10 dI.cns. whetbsr an sirsbini IA prac.
,;..,,,a =. not. ,ha ",h.orvn ,v.. vsrv
open TO argument generation ago.
tie Condition" TODAY n a matter of
uponestionsd record Sneak. All an
would undoubtedly spring up. their
number being in proportion To the en-.
eourapement tbev received but do YOU.
INV dear Sir wisb 10 discradit vour peo-
ME by intimatinU that the residents of
Hayre de Grace are less law. abiding
than the other residents of Hartford
wbere speak .easies now very seldom
existf
Ia the nresent tendencv not To license
saloons because. local optiou has proyed n
failure. or In II mot tho undoubted fact
thai Il has steadily grown In effective
ness and popularity In MARYLAND for the
nast twentv.fiv vsarsf III tbiabe true
then air. Won are doing an injustice to
Your own people by irving to prove
that thew are behind the times M com.
pared with tbose Of Elkton. Centeryille.
Eaatop. Cambridge and other similar
towna
Frankly Mr. Taxnaver. IN not IN.
charm NJ having ofY honaed debta the
ar.wino card An mi, matterf We avn.
pathize with YOU In the weight Of your
tax burden, as we pay 81. S4A az compared
with your 81. 95, but we hear Of no ten
dency to raise our necessary taxes off
Of outsiders by getting their money
through liquor license, and we are all
going to be subjected to that horrid
new assessment Of property.
Aberdeen has a very high tax and
badly needs money for municipal i'm
movement. For many years she has
dropped immense sums into your tax.
tills through your saloons; don't YOU
think she had better adopt your method
of paying off bonded indebtedness on
her own account? Let's play fair. Mr..
TAXPAYER. paving taxes off of other
people does not aound like n sportsman.
like people's act. as the reaidepts of
Hayre do Craee ret the credit NJ beino
By the way. II thu present license law
becomes effective don't Won belieye Il
will make youra a guaranteed licensed
town for an indefinite time to GOMEZ
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M, - -. - Eli,
- 80" ~, 80 o'.e. s ~
"a 80 - 81. go.
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49, .e u ,, u u"u.' youi y
sp "t.'' 1919" -
H.. ,h,s ar.w;,S Gard s,sadilv ,n.rass.
ed your sober, industrious. thrifty set of
nkilled laborersP Have manufactu
industries which 20 so far towards fill-
ing landlord q houses, producing activity
In trade, and rood marke for country
produce been making favorable progress.
drawing new capital to the town under
the promise that the town tax will be
low because the saloons pay the taxesi
Especially DO manufacturers now es-
tablished there favor the license sys-
temY How about your assessment ratef
Beyond question few saloon keepers
have nothing to complain Of; have all
Of your people been progressing equally
welli Where did their money come
from. any howf What win become Of
those undesirable hotels" which you
note will drop out under the new lawf
Win they and their patrons just quietly
become sober. industrious workers orwill
the temptation to start speak-easies--
aud worse--be too strong to resist?