Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-28
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baltimore annexation bill pass
"a hath Houses of the Legislature,
raas +9 the Governor for approval
s.sarroyaL The people through
,ta state arc undoubtedly familiar
.a rfs Baltimore extension propo-
.+@r ID has been a matter Of bit
..- contention and debate for three
rs Bv his measure, if the Cover
.r ..us it. great portions of the
--.n.r.v and populations Of Baltimore
r..rlg and Anne Arundel County will
t. taken from those counties and an
-.,a8 to Baltimore City. This, un-
...s Tie courts set the law aside as
.,..n4ruu.ioual will be done with
.r, the approval OF the people whose
f.rsI residence and property shall be
.eraed aud against the vigorous pro-
-a.r of the representatives of those
..gr-.as u The Legislature and of the
r.hIIn men of those counties in other
conservative positions who most GER
..nv reflect the wishes and judg
usn. of The majority of the people.
D. is 81 fact too thoroughly demon
rra,s4 u many ways to be doubted
6v anyone that the people of Anne
trHuIp. County and of Baltimore
County do not want to be annexed to
BALTIMORE City under the arrangement
provided for i'm the Baltimore extern
sion u# which the Legislature has
mssad Those who. through polit-
cad organization and manipulation,
have forced this proposition through
Me legislature know the people
whose residence and property are af-
lecteI by the law, don't want the law.
H this were not true, the proposition
would have been submitted to a vote
ot the people.
There never was in free country a
clearer case of locally governing peo-
Pie without their consent than is in
Wlycd in this Baltimore extension bill
har the Legislature has put up to the
Governor.
The thing is a mockery upon the
Declaration of independence. 1t is
al this time, particularly, a travesty
upon consistency. We are sending
soldiers from the United States, many
of them sons of Maryland. some of
Them from Baltimore County and Anne
Arundel County, as well as from Bal
amorc City, Allegheny and other
counties three thousand miles across
the sea TO fight against the oppressive
autocratic notion of annexation with
ont q referendum. Our young men
are going forth to bleed and die in a
foreign land TO prevent the HOhen-
aoleru dynasty of Germany from ex-
eryjsiug the military power and force
necessary to annex Belgium and
Otherwise extend its territorial boun-
darios without the consent of the peo-
pie. whose rights and properties are
affected This proposition of annexa-
zion without a referendum is the very
thing over which all the blood of this
terrible war is being sacrificed. The
Kaiser, The Hoheuzollerns, the Prus-
sian miliarists and the unspeakable
Turks are for annexation without a
re.ercudum and the Americans, the
French, The English and the Italians
are agajns, &C.
What a pjtiable farce it is to see a
crowd of legislative representatives in
The land OF the CAROLS wave flags
and shout onward across the sea" to
ae brave soldiers of Democracy and
4ea turn from their patriotic demon
STATIONS and under the crack of a
PARTISAN political whip vote to belle
Ae very principle from which we ex-
Peel. The armies of civilization to take
INSPIRATION. The political whip is the
-.aE that passed the Baltimore an
-,AaHan HliL Men who sat in the leg
stature and voted for il have admit
s. many of its provisions are unfair
'-" "rons apart from the absence of
'seTentrm. Such men excuse their
supper, OF i, through party expedi-
'.'. ~ is tr3yesty upon the whole
N.'F'caN Idea and upon the simplest
.-.'> tl justice TO have laws forced
-f'4 The people of a State in this way.
'.'sFaor Harrington will have
s,.'a> responsibility before him when
comes 10 ,his annexation bill. He
say hesitate Go veto the act of a pro-
--Ntf majority in both branches of
legislature. but he will have no
-..,a..y in finding the soundest rea-
>4.as To prompt his doing so.
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