Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-02-21

those dubious friends were conclusive
| " untenable. Editor, let US imagine
for instance a promiscuous gathering
of fifty or sixty of those "illiterates
debating and pointing out to our
"Gamaliel Commission the need OF
this and that improvement. If It
would not then have been "the blind
leading the blind" it would certainly
have been the illiterate sons of toll
teaching the Rabbi and doctors of the
Monumental State. Through the
press was the proper channel for
them to receive their education, aid
ed by their own protracted personal
inspections.
The old daddy adage is still fraught
with sound solid sense, viz: "tell me
ths character of your associates and |
will soon tell you what you are your
SELF They have made some very
virtuous remarks regarding "secret
societies which no doubt will tend
much to the elevation of the degrad-
ed illitrates. Think of the midnight
schemings of those secret mammon-
worshipers who in the daytime strive
to crush and rob the hireling of his
hard-earned pittance. Such secret
doings ought to be exposed to the
world and the party who does it
will be marked with the philanthropy
ic Towards for ever.
There is another laudable common
dalton which is contained in sections
IL and Is of said mine laws, where
correct weighing of coal is approvedof
and this double, secret manifesting is
denounced as being destructive and
highly injurious and confidence
slaughtering in the coal business en-
tirely, extending as far as the miner
himself and tending to too much ri
valry and it's kin evils, &c. So much
for this morsel of secret leakage. I
think the other party requires lit
tie elevating too. Messrs. Commits
sioners.
On the prop business they make
a very suspicious comment, inasmuch
as if the delivery of props at the
proper place could be detrimental to
the investment of capital or in the
sale of lands. They farther speak
as wisely when they indicate that it
would be detrimental to the laws of
private contract. Think of this. ye
Swans Of progress.
Mr.. Editor, these conclusions seem
simply shallow and am sorry to say
are opponents of their unftness for
the undertaking which was entrust-
ed to them. What could sending
props up the plane and in the mine
do detrimentally to the selling Of
stock and coal lands? Or where
in the name of common sense could
it interfere with private contract !?
If Mr.. Fool agreed to carry the props
up the plane on his FOOLS back, or
mules back, no man has right to
say stop, sir; moreover if Mr.. Wise
prefers having his sent into the place
prescribed by law, Mr.. Fool must not
come and say you have as good a
right to carry yours as l have. The
case tried at the Circuit Court, Cum
berland Md, was good only in Mr..
FOOLS case, it being his private con-
tract. He could not make contract
for Mr.. Wise nor anybody else.
An adequate supply.of encomiums
wee bestowed on the mine worthless,
such as superintendent, master min
ers, bosses, etc., for their friendly treat
ment whilst performing their ardu-
GUS i'll paid undertaking, for which
we ought to feel proud. You will
find them for yourselves in the third
section of report in last issue, Messrs.
readers.
The commission seemingly accom-
plished more in three or four months
in expelling black damp from the
coal mines than all the united pow
ers of mining interpretations for the
last thirty or forty years. Inthe third
column of the first page of your last
issue they say that all the mines have
made ample provision by natural
drafts of air, auxiliary furnaces, &c.
"All the mines, ample provisions, !"
think of that, ye complaining sons Of
the interior regions. Had our work.
ing commission but asked Dick, Mike
or Sandy, to show them some of those
chambers where the mine Moloch re-
sides, only one of those caverns Of