The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-03-21

debt over two hundred thousand uOI-
lars. | have been Informed that
more than a third of the taxpayers
had to borrow the money with when
to pay their taxes; that over fourth
of the balance are unpaid, that the
County Treasurer a long time ago
accepted checks amounting to sew
eral thousands of dollars that the
banks refuse to honor, do not kho"
whose checks they are.
Most of our taxpayers are farm
ers; the balance could not exist II
it were not for the farmer, then, L
ask whose interest should be hrSt
When we are walking on paved
streets and sitting by our warm fires
he is out ankle deep in the mud look
ing after his STOCK, he is going
through many privations for our
comforts and yet is supposed 10
patiently pay whenever called on.
The farmer has just gone through
the worst two years | have ever
known since 1891 or 1892. Father
was at my house last week, he was
complaining that he had not gotten
enough out of his farms to pay taxes
and expenses. l will put his land up
against any farming lands in this
county as to position, quality ana
productiveness. If he cannot find
expenses what is going to become Oh
the others? Mr.. Winterbottom says,
now is as good a time as any, II
surprises me to hear him make sucn
an assertion. If any man were 10
come to his bank to borrow money
and lay before the board his flnanclaI
affairs, showing the same conditions
as exist in the county at this time,
the proposition would not be enter
tanned one minute, no matter what
his needs were, and he would be the
first man to say No" AS TO Col.
Phillips he says he was surprised
and shocked. But l want to say
that any other man in this county,
other than Col. Phillips, that would
claim the right of an expert on ecu
cation and word an advertisement on
the back of church programme, as
he has done to be distributed among
a set of men among whom education
is supposed to be one Of their chle1
assets, l would not only be surprised
but would be amazed. Mr.. Skinner
makes a great to do about paving
our streets and how the taxpayers
howled but now says they are all
pleased. 1 have no doubt OF it II
you had to have an arm amputated
you would dread it but after 1t was
done and you are we'll again who
would not be glad the ordeal was
over. 1t had to be done to create
civic life, and l voted for it, we were
then in prosperous condition we
were not in a reorganization PERIOD
as at this time.
do not blame the mothers OF the
community, they think there is no
thing too good nor any sacrifice too
great for their boys and girls, 1t has
been the same through all time. In
Christ's life on earth there was a
mother who requested Him when He
came into His Kingdom that one OF
her boys should have seat on His
right hand and the other on his left
hand. She did not think she asked
more than was due her
dear boys nor do the mothers now
think anything relating to their dear
children should be questioned as TO
expediency but l want to warn you,
the farmers who pay most OF our
taxes have all they can carry. Ii
any more burdens are placed on
them, there will be financial troubles
of far reaching magnitude, for the
farmer is the foundation of all ousl-
ness.
want to ask you what you would
think of a man who would weaken
the foundation Of his house to build
a chimney I do not believe there
is a taxpayer in this city or county
but believes we need a high school
building and would be glad If we
had it and it was paid for, but the
taxpayers know it VIII be struggle
and a hardship at this time, and to
bring the same line of thought home
to the mothers you would not part
with any of your boys or girls for
anything, you believe the mthe fin
est, but are you anxious to bring
more into the world? l believe in
good schools and l do not always
agree with Mr.. Woolford yet l think
he reflects at this time the ideas and
opinions of majority of the people
interested. I know the present high
school building is not fit for what 1t
is used for, and never was. Inc
writer fought the school board with
all the energy in his power when they
took over this property for a high
school, and told them it was no place
for a school, and never would be- II
they took it and spent their money
for it. l showed them several good
sites then available that would be
lost to them, if they fooled with TINS
property. l advocated then that they
bond the county and build a high
school that would be an honor to the
city and a pride of the coming gen.
Grafton, on ample grounds then
available, and at half the cost then
as now for lands, buildings, materials
and labor.
The old records of the Democrat
and News when Mr.. John G. Mills
was owner and editor will bear me
out in what l am stating. But some
of the people now clamoring for a
new building, then said this OLD
building and grounds could not be
improved upon. On what cnange!
AS l said before l believe in educa-
ton and think it should be compul-
sorry pto certain point; after that
the boy should work for. what he
gets. Beyond a common school edu-
cation leads to professionals, who
make their living by the use of their
brains and not their hands. Edu-
cation does not create the goal o.
this life while it helps, it is not all
The Bible says you shall earn your
bread by the sweat of your brow
that command is Just as true today
as it ever was, who are the success
full men of the world today? l an
swer, men who have commenced at
the bottom, worked with their hands
and learned their business from bot
tom to top. you cannot graduate
from high school to great business
man Coming down to brass tacks