Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-02

laps over and takes in the adjoining
counties, and in a year or two per
haps, like the "centre Of population, :
will step over and settle down on us.
Then our people will have to move
out to make room for the rats.
AS long as it takes a half ton OF
Georges Creek coal to set ton OF
Clearfeld on FIRE it is believed this
region can at least make living. II
that region has fourteen thousand
millions Of tons tile same calculation
gives us little to furnish its patrons
with enough for kindling purposes.
Now.-Referring to the gigantic
strides Of corporate power toward
domination over every other interest
Secretary Window asked:
Where is the limit 10 such power as
this?
That is the question which no phil
osopher or statesman can answer.
The least that can be stated proxi-
mately as fixing a barrier to corporate
encroachments upon popular rights
may be based upon the united and IN
veterate intolerance Of the pecpleI
But how much will the people
stand?
o, the inconsiderate, forgetful and
forgiving people
"How long, o how long" until
patience ceases to be a virtue?"
On the other hand, how rapidly we
are approaching a condition when
words like these will be accounted as
reasonable With the multiplying
accessions Of strength to the money
power goes corresponding weaken
ing of industrial resources. Capital
can glat itself from, no other source Of
poiUer but that inherent IN haLor !
Without labor it is nerveless, sinew-
less, homeless.
How passing strange the benefci-
airy should tyranize over the benefac'
tor; the creature over the creator
But it is true nevertheless.
True, Notwithstanding the indus
trial elements of the country are ask
ing no more than an equality OF
privilege and beneft-the common
reciprocity Of interchange They
do not demand that capital shall
make unconditional surrender and
deliver up its goods for re-distribu-
ton. No such thing, nor anything
like it. Drink fair, Betsy Prigg,
drink fair" said Sairey Camp in one
Of Dickens novels, and so ought all
to do who drink from the same jug, es-
pecially where labor furnishes both
the jug and the drink.
In our school systems only Il few
teachers are successful, mainly be-
cause they have never been divorced
IN toto from the notion that corporal
punishment ! is the best preventative
and corrective of unruliness. But
in the great school of politics and
law the pupils rule, and gravely cal
culate how much haggelation their
masters can bear. They tolerate cap
ital punishment but not punishment
of capital; they talk glibly of "pun-
ishing their employees" as though
there was no individual liberty in this
land.
Then they enjoy remarkable i'm
munity from the penalties of law.
The poor thief goes to the peniten-
tiary for some petty pillage, but the
plundering railroad corporation may
Systematically rob the community for
years and, not alone 60 free, but the
self-same community will respect it as
legitimate oligarchy.
"Wl,ere is the limit to such power
as this" but somewhere in the dark,
deep slagnation Of an on.coming dee
potism?
All, but Judge Black says
Fifty millions of people, in process of
time, will learn the important fact that
they are fifty millions strong
"In process Of timsi" Too slow,
Judge. The New York Times con-
tends that
We are non at stage in the contest
where til: people may vindicaie their au-
thority and place these corporations under
the regulation of law.
And the Brooklyn Eagle that
The time has arriUed for the industrious
masses TO protect themselves, if they ever
intend 10 do So. 1t will certainly not be
easier, after the adversary has grown
stronger. In this contest every delay is
to the disadvantage of the people.
II ..., 81 II Al, he Jonoo