Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-10-25


men of this region. This was set
forth very fully and elegantly in a
recent private letter addressed to the
JOURNAL by M. V. Bailey, Esq, mail
SUI erintendent, etc, and to which
we have before had pleasant occasion
to refer. But greater favor can
still be extended the public-one
which we sincerely believe the latter
will appreciate very substantially.
We refer to the general desire fol-
lower passenger fares. One dollar for
round tip passage from Frostburg
to Cumberland is relic of war fig
ures that ought to disappear. One
dollar is about an average price for a
days labor, and thus too much from
poor man s earniu gs T the comnany
to claim. As to the matter Q. tonnage,
too, the company charges eight dol
lars for a weight Of human freight
equal to an amount of coal carried
for thirty-four cents. The RESPONSE
bility is greater, it is true. but as the
train never kills anybody by fast run
ming, the disparity is too great, and
the more 80 when everybody thinks
the coal tariff Is exorbitantly high.
Besides all of which, the company is
Jealous reformer in the matter of
its own expenses which in large meas
ure involve the wages Of these who
work for them, and even of those who
work for other companies. These
have come down step by step from
war rates-their employees parallel
from high living to cabbage and
epuds." And whenever the poor tcl-
lows want to reach back toward the
good old prices and plentiful locker,
the company thinks them dreadfully
wicked even to barber ouch aspi,a-
tions. But its table of passenger
fares, mere inexoral lie even than its
schedule of arrivals and departures,
remains unchanged by storm, freshet
the mutations of trade, or the exigen-
cies of poverty. We are severer than
designed when we set out, but really
the fitness of things, viewed from all
standpoints, demands material re-
arction of the cost of travel on our
thoroug hfare, and the graceful thing
o 10 is to coucede it to the public
before compelled to do so by the ri
valry of a competitive line.
We clip the following paragraph
from the Cumberland Times ,erort
of Tuesdays meeting of the Allegany
Medical Society:
Quite an animated and interesting discus
sion occupied the attention of the society
in regard to physicians having their names
published in the papers in connection with
cases they have treated DR.. Ohr advcca-
ted one means Of stopping the edit rs from
publishing such statements, and that was
to stop taking the paper; that the best way
to get an editor was to touch his pocket,
DR. FundeubuIg wanted to hold the ply
clan responsible for such publications
Several of the physicians opposed such ac
ten, although the matter was not made
the subject of resoluio
A reso 'ution was passed that the Society
give notice TO the newspapers, that if they
did MT cease Grub ish their names in
connection with cases, that they woul'
sever their patronage from them, IT,
resolution was not passed unanimously
On motion tho society adjourned until the
third Tuesday of November.
"Dr. Ohr" must have sat down CT
his brains. There is no "means Of
stopping the editor from publishing
such statements as he deems of pub
lie interest. Or, if the mere ,liscon-
tinuance Of the paper touches the ed
ltors pocket so forcibly, he (tho
editor) is the sorriest 9scription Of an
ass yet found in geological biography
The real editor has no pocket, and
about him there is no place to inse,t
a pocket. He IS invulnerable to
pockets or pocket inducements. DR.
Fundenberg is right when he "holdr
the physician responsible for such
publications" that is, SO far as "the
physician" desires gratuitous adver-
Using. The editor is only "responsi-
BILE" for aoing il for nothing.
With regard to The resolution pas
sed, 40 far as the JOURNAL is corcerne3
we will do as we please. 4 profes
sion entertaining such false vicws OF
business ethics is really entitled 10 no
consideration whatever at the hands
Of the press, but for one we will, j.
spite of themselves, pay honor where
honor is due.