516 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

formed the dualized access highways on each side of the Bay into
vast parking lots.

Twelve successful years had brought the bridge to the point of di-
minishing capability and the State Roads Commission was challenged
to revitalize Governor Lane's vision. Governor Tawes and the 1966
General Assembly acted immediately and decisively, providing au-
thorization to construct a parallel span. Their efforts merit recognition
and tribute.

Fortunately, the newly apportioned General Assembly, the new ad-
ministration, the State Roads Commission, and every member of Mary-
land's Congressional delegation — save one — were also heirs to Gov-
ernor Lane's vision of the future and courageous commitment to prog-
ress. There was to be no retreat to the past of the Sandy Point-
Matapeake Ferry, nor even any temporizing in the present — pre-
tending like ostriches that if we ignored the problem it would dissolve
or disappear.

In the enactment of legislation authorizing the construction of three
additional Bay bridges and a second Baltimore Harbor tunnel, the
1967 General Assembly echoed and exemplified the heroic vision and
courage of Governor Lane, the perception of Governor Ritchie, and
the perseverance of Governor Nice, whose administration started de-
veloping our present comprehensive network of toll facilities.

The legislation reviving the State's bridge and tunnel plans this
year — after a careful second look — was, in my opinion, in the finest
tradition of representative democracy, a tradition brilliantly ex-
pressed by the eighteenth century jurist, Edmund Burke, when he
wrote: "Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his
judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to
your opinion. "

Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., always acted in this tradition.
He never betrayed his constituents and constantly justified their con-
fidence by refusing to compromise his conscience. But to preserve
his conscience, he forfeited his political future and paid the heaviest
penalty an electorate can exact — political defeat. He sacrificed his
political life to strengthen his State, to do what was right and neces-
sary. Historians will never record that William Preston Lane, Jr.,
governed his state the longest, but they may very well judge that he
governed Maryland the best.

A passage in the Book of Mark reads: "A prophet is not without
honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin.... " and per-