The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-05-05
WINCHESTER FINDS
CITY DIVIDED ON MATTER
Says That Many OF Cty's Most
Thoughtful Citizens Are Afraid OF
Increased Representation.

/ One Of the things that has done
more than any other to cause mis-
understandings between Baltimore
| City and the Counties, is the fact
/ that very large proportion of the
people forget that the City is part
! OF the State of Maryland-in other
words that Baltimore is in Maryland.
and that Maryland is not in Balti-
more. At least three fourth of the
people you meet here talk and set on
the assumption that the only view
point that is worth considering, is the
City's viewpoint-that the State of
Maryland as whole is really Balti-
more City, and that what the Coun
ties may think about any public mat
ter, is not to be considered where it
may conflict with the views of the
city. That pubic sentiment in the
State at large must give way in all
things before the public sentiment of
| the city of Baltimore, and, in dis
cussing the availability of candidates
for important public offices it is said
with great decision that such and
such man will not do, because hei
may not have announced his position
on some subjects which may be look
upon in the City by many people, in
a way the exact opposite to the way,
| the same subject is viewed by a!
large majority in the county dis
Iricts.
The people OF fine Counties, re
CARELESS of party have decided, byI
their votes this year, the question as
TO great increase in the represen-
tation of the city in the General AS
Sembly. There is no doubt but that
large proportion of the people of
f, the state are opposed to such an in
crease and there is no doubt but that
very large number of people in the
city are also opposed. to such an in
crease. The practical effect of this
proposed increase, would be to give
representation to the vast influx of
Ignorant illiterate, and in most in
stances, anarchlstic and socialistic
foreigners, who have crowded into
the Slums in recent years. and a large
proportion of whom do not read or
speak our languages, and who not
only do not understand or SympathiSe
with our system of government, but
in fact are hostile to it in every i'm !
portant particular In the session OF
INC Htiltidl Assembly WnlCn clOSeu
last month, there were samples of
the sort of representatives these
people will send there in larger num-
bers, if they have a chance. One OF
the city members was an out and out
anarchist. Others were thoroughly :
foreign and anri-American in their
views, and most of them were not
even taxpayers. and it is rather a
startling fact that one OF the county
members paid more taxes than the
whole number OF city members in the
House Of Delegates. When the role
was called, the names sounded like
those on the roll call OF a bolscheyik :
club in RuSSie and gentleman who
appeared before one OF the House
Committees, said the members of the
Committee sitting around the table, =
looked like the pictures of meeting
OF the Russian Soviet in Moscow: and
at another time when the city dele
CATION met and appointed a Com
mittee TO visit the Governor, to mott
fy him that he must secure the saSs-
age of the bill tC increase the city
representation. the Committee was
composed of three Jews, German.
and an Italian-and this Committee
actually WenT over TO the Governors