Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-05-14

never mind, we have docketed case
against him. All that is lacking is
development, and that will come just
az certainly as the new road will
reach the canal. Apropos, consid-
cradle iceberg could be coined from
the GOODNESS couched in the second
paragraph of brother Taylor reply to
Mr.. Millholland yesterday morning.
THE courts have given the new
road the right to cross by condemna-
nation. The B. & 0. wants that right
relinquished and offers instead con-
neciion with the @. & P.
If the new road management should
be content with that arrangement as
a permanency, they will have aban-
doned all they have fought for and
gained.
They have bravely vindicated
great principle-one of peril to rail-
road monopoly they have founded
precedent which justice to the future
should compel them to maintain in full
force and virtue.
At any rate, they will be very safe
in avoiding anything and everything
their great adversary desires them to
do.
We read "Omoo's" letters to the
Baltimore Herald with great interest.
There's a fullness about them-s
plethora of fact that charms us. For
instance:
The FRosTBURG MINING JOURNAL,
which initiates the Herald in being an in
dependent paper; which does not belong
either to the Hamilton party or The So
called Canal ring"
The JOURNAL was established in
1871; the Herald in 1879. Now, what
concerns US is the question-was the
JOURNAL initiating the Herald's indie
pendence all along through the eight
years before the Herald was born ?
If so, since what period in the devel-
opment of the sciences has the phil
osophy of imitation been reversed?
There's an implication of too much
subsaquence about "Omoo," but his
correspondence in the Herald "imi-
tates" SO many good things in the
JOURNAL that we forgive him with all
our might.
The Office of Treasurer of the Cor.
poration is one Of paramount impor-
lance and responsibility, and the City
Council appeared to duly appreciate
the fact Monday evening. One after
another declined it until it went
a-begging. 1t is pity any Council
man was at last found willing to take
it. In effect he holds two Offices un-
der the Corporations monopoly not
warranted by principle long estab.
lished in this country.
The Council is under no legal obi
cation to elect one of its number
Clerk; the same is true with regard
to the Treasurer. The intent Of our
system is to distribute the honors and
emoluments of office as widely as
practicable to the end that the larger
number of competent people may be-
come Unidentified with government;
moreover, to afford those safeguards
which multitude of counsellor"
supplies.
The Treasurer should, therefore,
come from capable and responsible
persons outside.
Otherwise, the people could and
should insist that the Council take
the Bailiff, Night Policeman, Street
Supervisor and Attorney from its own
members.
Then there would be fun.
THE Baltimore Gazette puts the case
very lucidly:
Whenever all property in, or owned by
residents of Maryland is equally taxed
then taxation will cease to be burden to
any man. 1t is the exemption Of some
that makes burden to others. y
No just system of exemption from tax
alton has ever been invented, and the only
pei feet system of taxation is that which
bears equally upon all, which knows no
favorites and has no escapes.
1t is just little difficult to con-
ceive, however, of any "just system
of exemption from taxation" which
could or should be invented" be-
cause sit is the exemption Of come
that makes burden to others"
But a just system of assessments
can be devised, certainly far more
equitable mechanism than even our
judiciary, Of which we are SO proud.
The generations to come, improving