Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-09-07

and FORCES, we have, after all, only
the nucleus around and upon which
one day, sooner or later, untold en-
gineries will crowd. The Hercules of
industry is yet in his infancy, but the
lineaments Of a great destiny are
clearly written on his face.
With regard to the existing ee-
preston, then, no one will deny that
we own every element Of reeuperative
activity. We have an abundance of
labor and capital the former is ready
and anxious to begin; the la tier, alone
of all the indispensable factors, is
fearful of employment in those direc-
tons which create industry. Like the
dog in the manger it will not eat hay
nor permit others to eat. In imperial
exolusiveness it locks itself up IN
bonds and gives laws to the people
whom it subjugates, but upon whom
it finally rests for protection and per-
petuity. Just now it is beset with
threatenings, every one Of which is
traceable to its own ill-advised poll
cies. Instead of fostering industry
promoting trade, infusing content
among and encouraging the people,
it really looks like the opposite effects
are courted This course promises
that the people, driven into this and
that dangerous political ism, will
crystalline into an organization which
will control the country, and give
capitalists the greatest trouble that
ever beset class. It is hardly well
enough on the one hand to cry Com
munism." A man provoked to self
defence is not necessarily socialist
If so, the people who founded this re-
public were communists of the most
decided type. But now, as then, the
people who are agitating the country
are not seeking the establishment o.
community Of property, nor the sub
version of existing orders of society
| Those Of them who advocate these in
tolerable measures are few and mis-
represent the great body Of working
men. If FIVE understand the latter cor
rectly they desire financial admins
tration which does not make the ricl
richer and the poor poorer-the abo
lition of systems which make genera
prostration profitable to the few ane
ruinous to the many. There is mucl
ground for complaint in this, and, i
may be repeated, the molled peopl'
are to blame for the occasion OF 1t.
How, then, should they meet thu
trouble? Clearly by making prope
use Of their means-by applyingtheu
to the development Of our resources
to the end that the bone and sinew o
the country may be encouraged, slim
ulatea and afforded opportunity tt
obtain due position in the line o
progress. This is duty, and duty her
is patriotism, and patriotism is philan
thropy. Hallam says Of the change
of moral and political character IL
Europe from the twelfth TO the 1T
teenth century:
The first, and perhaps the most import
ant OF these, (changes) was the gradual el
ovation Of those whom unjust and une4u1
systems Of polity had long depressed &c
the people itself as opposed to the sna
! number of the rich and noble, by the abe
htion or dcsuetudc Of domestic and prcdia
scrvltude. Il Those who hav
acquired, or may nope TO acquire, propcrt
OF their own are most likely to respect TIA
OF others; those whom law protects rs
parent are most ready to yield her a fila
obedience; those who have much to gai
by the good Twill of their fellow citizens TT
most interested III the preservation of a
honorable character
These are wise words and no lea
applicable to-day and to this genera
ton than to simila lar conditions OF eocI
ETY. in the latter part OF the Middl
Ages. The circumstances are, {
course, not Identical, for these fro1
one period TO another are never pre-
ciseIy detorminate nor exactly paraI
lei. Philosophy applies in common
however.
Capitalists, welding the potentia
force of money, have the whole issu
in their own hands. 1t is the solem'
Judgment of the wisest of our peopl
that the welfare of the country rests il
the fellowship of money with labor il
joint employment, without prejudice
in the work Of building up the place
wasted by the panic, and opening ne5
industries, 1t will not do for one t