Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-06-13
MININ G. JOU r \ AL.
j. Is. ODER. Editor.
FROSTBURG, MD, JUNE 10, 1874.

independent 1t can get up the loud
est boo hoo on the smallest provo
cation, or the biggest cufaw at no
body's expense ot,any pretentious pa
per we know of. 1t is suj gcncrjs in
nearly every par,icularln which it es
says journalism, in fact there is moth
ing else like it. If it gets into war it
plays the guerilla to perfection if it
can't face the tug in front, it will
emerge from an ambuscade somewhere
else, to shoot blank cartridges, and
then stampede perforce its own te-
merity. If it has no munitions of its
own it will borrow them, but it is care
full to extract the ingredients that hurt
itself, and yet it loses temper and
plunges headlong into strife because
It's imaginary foe does not give as it
receives. 1t contends then that the
war is over without fight in fact
peace was declared aqd the whole diff
fculty settled before the battle began.
Under the circumstances it was lit
tie cruel to accuse us of "ofiaious in
termeddling, dizziness of comprehen-
sion, etc, when the greater part of
the public of Allegany has seen the
"allegation 90 unanswered and the
"olHgotor' indebted, and thus equally
liable with us to the uncomplmentary
designations. Moreover, the intima-
ton that we have ''intermeddled"
where we We're mot concerned is
as little applicable to US as to any 9TH
er disinterested person in this county.
We were assaulted for atfording an in
terested citizen 1--WE have West Va.
authority for saying Satellite for
citizen, but it is not confined to this
term, as it may stand for miner
with equal felicity, and because it is a
favorite term in a locality where eve
rything spins around a round house we
regret to impeach it, an opportunity to
deliver a challenge for explanation of
certain matters. Because we did not
deny him, and d ,fended our action,
it is absurdly sought to implicate us
as harboring interest in the natter
We never wanted an attempt at expla-
nation for us it might have rested I'M
disturbed and rotted in its grave; it
may still do so to our delight if its OBJ
livion is a pleasure in Piedmont. But
We shall always take care of our right
to conduct our paper so that it may
afford intelligent expression to the
views Of every citizen who desires to
speak to the public through its col
umns, notwithstanding the unfavora-
bic verdicts upon one-sided statements,
whether they emanate from the legal
Journalistic acumen of Piedmont, or
from the entire "aristocracy of intel
lect' which invests the editorial asso-
citation Of West Virginia.
Two weeks ago We concluded to
pay no further attention to journalist
ic ethics as held but not practiced in
Piedmont. But the fact that it is pub
lished there that it takes us too long
to write our editorials, seems to re-
quire some attention, for which we
endeavor to make atonement. (How
Rooney" will survive this last and
stunning "refutation" is more than we
can conjecture "a fall Of coal is
almost coveted refuge from this eli
macteric disaster-this ultima ratio aJ-
s"'dun1.) Admitting the complaint
to be either we'll founded or pertinent,
it seems to us better to spend too
much than too little time on editorial
matter. But Piedmont experience is
at variance with this idea there any
subject is treated by the inch, and
small field which should be well titled
is a weekly failure. Disdaining
thought and coherency, the hepdoma-
dial rehash varies only in the arrange
ment of adiectiyes and nouns, tackled
together by no rule except that pref
erence is awarded the larger varieties.
The results froth, foam, suds-a com
pound of wishy-wash and nambv-
PANTY, not milk-warm intellectually,
IN fact nearly too weak to be consid-
cred watery-a perpetual strain to fill
vacuum which does not exist.
We have some ambition, but we had
rather not be the author of a Piedmont
editorial. They cost too little thought
and time to become subjects of either
pride or profit. We are content with
slow steamer while a fast boat car.
ries no freight And when we have
nothing to say we prefer to say it