Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-04
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Plea Tor "aocm to Grow" Term
ed So tsrf &c
opp,ronts Claim Suburbs Are Enjoying
Cheap County Form OF { eminent
Which Should Not Be Taken From
Them without Theirsconsent.

tPrepared b. the Baltimore Comfy Nom
what IS city!
Man pesas believe that i is
large collection OF people and houses,
wiih streets. railroad terminals, troll
ley cars, street lighting and other
facilities FOR business and comfort
Others seem 10 think that city cen
sists Of a mayor and city council. a
multitude Of other office holders a
bonded 1ebt. high taxes. minor priv
ileges and similar things which are
characteristic Of municipal govern
laents The opponents of annexation
urge that the actual city Is not neces
sarily the same in extent Is me
rolitscal city. and may grow al liberty
regardless of the boundaries OF the
latter
Baltimore. they urge. in its true
sense, and as It is known 10 business
men elsewhere, consists of the whole
big settlement located about the
navigahle portion of the Pataps co
river Part of il is under the cont oil
OF a mayor and city council and has
the other municipal features mention.
ed above, the remainder is under the
Governments Of Baltimore and Anne
Arundel counties. The residents of
srch section, il is asserted. are salts.
fed with their present form of govern.
ment
Governments For the People.
The settlements came first: the
county and city governments came
afterward to facilitate the business,
safety comfort and pleasure of the set
gers The governments were created
far tte people, not the people for the
governments.
Lack Of proper consideration of this
Tact, il is eli imed, causes some per-
sons unwittlngly TO fall in with the
scheme to extend the political boun-
daries Of Baltimore. These boundaries
we're set TO define the section over
which the people residing therein
wished the city government to have
control of their public affairs. The
eity officials. it is urged, have no in
nerent right TO extend their sway over
people without their consent 1t is
fundamental maxim OF law that all
government should be by and with the
consent of the governed.
The county people allege that the
sly that Baltimore must have room
to- grow" is a subterfuge. They in
sat that the city, in its real sense of a
arge collection of people, with all their
oaraphefnalia of business and pleas
are, is growing all the time-much
aster than If it were all controlled by
rle Mayor and City Council Within
lie past few years. owing to a great
expansion in manufacturing, the rate
81 fnceease in population and property
talues in the suburban sections has
been very rapid
Mo Factories In Annex Of 1888.
The annexationists claim that this
lnlux OF big business would have
come just the same, even if the city
had controlled all the territory in
answer of their opponents is that the
eity now has thousands of acres of
vacant land in the Annex of 1888, and
lot one factory of any consequence has
been located there. On the contrary,
they say, there are many instances
where large plants have been located
Just across the line-in the counties
and purposely, to be beyond the juris.
diction of the city government
County Government Cheaper
The counties have the commission
form of government. which is cheaper
than that of the city. The salary roll
OF Office holders of the city was ST..
219.39211 in 1915, the last year for
which a published City Comptroller's
report Is aveilable. according to state
ments Of the anti-annexationists who
point out that the corresponding pay
roll for Baltimore county was $685.
97374 The tax rate of Baltimore
connsr this year is s106. while that
O. t'e CITY IS $l.9S. But the county
paws al its expenses from its tax levy.
ciair City Wants More Power
To 'ov lighter taxes and other
attractions which the county has to
ofgce 81 tc say of fewer restrictions
and more room and quiet, some of the
former residents of the corporate city
have moved into Baltimore county.
Many more have gone into that sec.
tion from other parts of Maryland and
from other States. The opponents Of
annexation claim that the rulers OF
the political Baltimore. which they in.
sist is not at all identical with the
real city. want to grasp all these PEG
PIE and all the wealth of the suburbs
and therebg acquire the power which
this mass Of people and taxable prop
erty would give them-a power which
It is alleged would enable them to ex.
pand the limits OF the city at viii
thereafter and control the political af
fairs of the State Ii is contended
that If the voters of Maryland will this
fall elect the Democratic candidates
for State Comptroller and the Legis-
lature this plan viii fail, for the
Democratic party has declared in
favor OF annexation, but with refer
endum. The opponents of the pro
posed bin claim that it is so drastic
th2t il trainers know the people OF
Jsusbs viii no vote to enter the
a such terVls