Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-09-08

have not the STEADY, honest hard
workers Of the Lehigh Valley an
equal right to protection? Are loao
wages to be specially enforced-loaoer
wages more so, and the LOWEST wages
most of all2
Really, it looks very much like
this. But such policies must fail; the
corporations which indulge them are
making clubs which must eventually
descend with crushing force upon
their own guilty heads. The people,
who are still the sovereigns in this
country, will not tolerate the high
handed advances of corporate op-
preston and enslavement. Their at
tention is already fixed upon these
alarming innovations, and with the
searching eye of the prophet they
discern that the feet of the growing
monster is made of "base and perish
able clay" Unmarked as it's downfall
will be by the blaze of military splen
dor, their hands are already writing
upon our political walls the sentence
Of its doom. With no foundation in
the moral stability of equal rights,
systemized domination will then find
it too late to divert popular attention
from a disaster of its own making
by the lying cry of Communism"
With their own hands they will have
crucifed themselves, and the blood of
suicide will be upon their heads; for,
be it remembered, labor makes no apor
upon capital that is not lnstlgated by
The first laao Of mature"
WITH all respect for the wisdom of
the School Board and Difference to
womankind, we think it is a mistake
to place public education anywhere
almost exclusively in female hands
In Importance the Frostburg Public
School is hardly exceeded by any in
the county, yet seventy-fye per cent.
of the teachers are ladies. This dis
proportion is too great, and must WORK
results inadequate to the popular
wish. 1t is needless for us 10 assume
that ladies' are not generally fitted for
educational work, for we know they
are, and that soy aral in our school are
worthy the places they occupy. But,
as a rule, men are better f, yed-that
v lille many schoo, 10 not sHit lady,
there are few where men are out Of
place, If there is one thing men We're
born for, it is to command with some
expectation of obedience; and if there
is one place requiring the exercise of
unrelenting authority and rule, that
place is the school-room. Excepting
many less than half, women do not
constitutionally measure up to these
needs, and the fanciful theory Of MGR
al suasion is still added to diminish
their force and influence. This is the
unpopular view of the matter, we
know, but it is forced upon us by
experience not to be gainsaid by the
poetical philosophy Of modern sys-
TEN. 1t is borne out, too, by the fact
that, as far as we have learned, no
lady is anywhere in this section in sole
charge Of a school. Why? Because
the trustees say they cannot manage
it. Hence, they are placed thickly
where there is men to afford lacking
authority. The result is, the isolated
schools, with precarlous attendance,
are more effectively served than the
town institutions. 1t is not for us to
say this can be remedied now, but the
Board cannot make any additions to
our female corps of instructors with
out mourning the dissatisfaction OF
many people who are anxious our
school shall remove as far as practi ca
Bile the necessity for sending elsewhere.
THERE is a vice extaut which does
not reflect well upon those who in
dalge it, We refer to the habit Of
croaking about "hard times and worse
coming" This is all wrong; we have
all lived somehow: nobody has starry
ed; all are able to work, and good,
substantial times are coming, and
coming right early. Consumers find
need for coal; the companies are
straining every nerve Of their i'm
mense strength to supply them, and
the miners are making every blow
tell toward doing their Indispensable
part of the work. Erelong the fruit,
OF this labor will lie dilfused anon
US; debts will be paid, goods boueh,
and the best OF feeling re-established