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Announcement
20 My Friends and Voters

OF Dorchester County:
am Il candidate for the Republ:-
can nomination for State Senator al
The approaching PRIMARIES. Sept. / /,
and am using this means TO let ev-
eryOne know iuy position on some
very serious matters which affect the
interests OF the public in this day of
high prices, when the necessities OF
life are almost pTohibitiye. In some
cases, many OF our people who are
honest, GOd-feariug and laW-abldtnS
citizens, are bEfdened with obnoXl-
Gus laws, one of which affects the
crab industry. | know something
about this, for N.Y. near relatives and
friends are III this business, and some
nave had to leave ii entirely TO make
4 living.
Believing, as | do, that the RepuD-
iican party viii control the next leg
lsIaJiNe body OF Maryland, il | should
secure The nomination and election
at the hands Of my party this COM
ing November, | shall be in u posi-
zion 10 help in securing better law
than that now in force, namely, the
5-inch crab law, as its enforcement
has driven people out Of the county,
ana away from home, TO make Iiv-
ing for their families, and, in some
instances, whole families have left
and moved away; this affects the
merchants and all other business IN
Uerests in that community, and in,
directly affects every portion of the
county. This or any other law tina.
M L n
man to make d living is an obnoxl-
Gus law, especially i'll this day, when
it costs more to live than ever be-
fore, and l stand pledged to do my
atm est toward sacurin 9 the lnlndtiiE4-.
cation and repeal of these laws; also,
if we must have crab anu oyster
laws, | know that the labCrer's In
terest must first be considered.
1t seems TO me mat the CRAB law
passed by the Legislature of 1917
was not consistent We take up first
the inch crab law, affecting the
soft and shredder crabs, or peeIer
crab, as called by the crabber; the
law says you cannot have any in
your possession less than three III
ches The crabber says today he
throws away this crab, and tomor
row catches this same crab, which
has hardened up some, and is then
called by the crabber d buck; he can
sell this crab, then, but has to give
the buyer 4 crabs like this to count
as one; in other words, if soft crabs
were &c. each, he only gets one-half
cent for the buck, the catcher LOSING
1ac. on each crab that he throws
away and catches again. This means
not only the loss on each crab, pu,
1t means four times as much time re-
quired, etc.
Also take the hard crab law, as it
affects the trot line crabber. The
law says you must not have either
crab less than inches. Now this
seems very unreasonable, as 1t is a
known fact that crabbers have tried
their utmost to Gull their catch, ano
in some way in handling the crabs
from the net used in dipping them
from the line, a few small CRABS
crawl into the barrels of culled crabs
and sometimes find their way down
toward the bottom of the barrel Now
Just imag CINE Il crabber out in the hor.
burning sun. his boat tossed to and
fro. trying to find this small crab
v Inch has. without any Intent upon
his part. gotten down into his bar
rel OF crabs. Also imagine what II
means when crabs are biting ana
swapping, to go over barrel after bar
rel, with lines sill baitea. and the
crabs eating up the expensive bait,
while the poor crabber goes search
ing through the barrel after these
one or two small crabs that have got
into 1t.
1t seems an impossibility that any
crabber can escape this law.
l again pledge my people of this
county, both crabberS and oyster
men, to stand for legislation that Will
make he burden lighter 10 make
living instead of harder, as it now
IS on them, i'll trying to obey these
laws. | appeal TO all in general that
we stand sOlidly and use our every
means that legislation may be had
in the near future TO correct some OF
the evils not only in the tide-water
section of our beautiful country,but
evils that exist over cur country III
general.
EDWARD S. PHILLIPS.
ADV. S-29-tf. B&R.