Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-04-13

arrived at national manhood, we NAV
throw wide our doors to the COMPETE
tive rivalry Of the world We NAV
then safely adopt free trade, but not
till then.
Another serious obstacle to our pro-
ductive growth lies in the enormous
costs of railroad transportation 1t
may be cited here that in Europe, not
withstanding the cheaper production
of iron its elevation to the surface is
attended with more expense than here.
/ TRANSFORMATION however, is materially
cheaper, and what has been plausiblv
attributed to cheaper labor, may, with
more reason, 90 to the credit of the
former. A marked difference occurs
in there and here in that there the
factories control the railways-here
the railroads dictate to the furnace,
rolling mills and Galleries. The re-
suit is not only the establishment of
monopohcs ruinous to II e best inter-
ests of the masses by absorbing the
profits of labor, but it establishes an
autocracy, so to speak, which levies its
own taxes, rcvels in opulence, glories
in expanding dominion over corpora
tons, and even Legislatures. No
matter if individual Solvcncv is i'm
paired, or if the poor-rate touches the
verge of ruin, these giant corporations
abate nothing of their extorted reve-
nue. while fruitful sections still UNI
threaded by iron bars, invite to wider
performance and augmented wealth.
How far this detcrs the Investment
of capital may be reserved for future
elaboration. The retention of the
tariff on foreign coal is Indispensable
to our prosperity. If Congress can
reconcile compliance with the demands
of free traders with faithlessness to us,
having the general good in view, we
must submit, though it hang the mill
stone about our neck. If, on the 9th
er hand, it can discover only partial
detrimcnt to the trade of other sec
tons, while we obtain competitive
ability, by giving us protection, the
Alleghanies Will still send, in acceler-
ating ratio, its rich tributes to the sea-
board from mines more fruitful and
ineXhaustiblc than the tabled pactolus.
Worce,ier'> 0uarto Dictionary.
We have received from the publish
ers, Messrs. BREWER & TILEsToN,
whose advertisement appears in anoth-
or column, a splendid copy Of the
above named work.
We do not wish to enter the field
of controversy between Worcester and
Webster, as to the respective merits
of their books, even if we possessed
the critical ability to do so; but we
feel certain, from an examination of
Worcester, that, in many points, his
book is SUPERIOR The chronological
rules, adopted in its compilation, are
too strict to allow much play of the
authors preference or fancy; at the
same time, its photography is entirely
adapted to our usage,
An immatcriaI difference occurs in
TIE fact that Worcester is not so
profIsely illustrated, and otherwise
not so specifically pretentious as
Webster. The former, however pos
sesses the elementary features of sta
bility and uniformity, while a few
more editions of the latter, Judging
the future by the innovations of the
past, will well nigh obhterate all intel
lectual traces of its distinguished orig
inator. 1t was the fascinating Capt
MARRYATT, we think, who said among
other sarcastic things of the United
States that "a man named WEBSTER,
living in Massachusetts,, has collected
all the provinciaIsms of England,
piled them in big book and calls it a
dictionary The inference to be
drawn is not hattering.
The liberal publishers deserve a
wide circulation of the book.
EDITORIAL RoWs.-The New York
Commercial -1drertlScr advises its read