Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-02-12

IOu5 IRnt DeIOTe tlc puDHC Just luluh
of it Ono individual with the military
craze on his brain, frightens region of
eight or ten thousand Knights out of their
senses, and IN order signed by MANY
Miners" and endorsed by all, Is hastily
published in the JOURNAL and the military
organization of "onc individual" tumbles
to pieces. This is too bad. We suppose
the Knights Of Labor have as many brave
men and as many towards as similar or
CARNATIONS of men the world over. HUI
man nature Is pretty much alike. But for
the acknowledged publication Of the or
der in that region to gravely say, in trying
to dodge one of our bricks, that one indi-
vidual, said individual having the military
craze, frightened ten thousand of these
latter-day Knights is almost incredible, it
almost passes all belief and understanding.
We accepted our contemporaries state
ment above and we are therefore bound to
accept this latter statement. We are sor-
ry to do it but we are logically bound to
do so and we never 20 back on logic.
1t has not seemed necessary hi!her-
to enlighten the Commercialupo the
military company matter. We are
almost content now to let it grope
forward with its "logic," hoping that,
having accepted our statement in one
particular, we may be able to provide
better premises. For if it will award
the contract to furnish these to US we
guarantee to supply all demands and
permit it to rsvel undisturbed in its
chosen field of "logic."
The MANY Miners" resolutions, as
has been stated heretofore, were not
leveled 80 much at the establishment
of military organizations in our midst
as at the use TO which they are some
times put in behalf of corporations
against the people. The real occasion
which prompted them rested very
lightly in the proposal to form a COM
pany here but the organization of one
in Cumbs rland then another; one in
Oakland one in Homecoming the sug-
gestion of one in Frostburg, supple
mented by the rose.colcred, epauletted
project of consolidating all into bat
tallion-these were the movements
which stirred up the antagonism Of
"Many Miners" who remembered
how, early last year, their brethren in
Clearfeld were subjugated by the mil
itary arm Of Pennsylvanis-an en-
forced subordination to corporate des-
potism and hopeless poverty.
The unfriendliness of workingmen
toward corporations is not founded in
the fact that they are corporations,
but to them as engines of oppression.
Fenced about in such misuses of char
tered prerogatives by the colossal pro-
tectorate Of the military power, it
would seem that "war, the last resort
of corporations" is the modern trans
lation of ultima ratio reguan, and that
it is about time that somebody who
prizes liberty at its true value should
protest. In earlier days, against ag-
gressions from distant power, the
term, "protest," would have been far
too weak to voice the bold, nervous
sentiment, resistance to tyranny is
obedience to God |"
1t would appear, then, that the
lone individual with the military
craze" was person of real import
ance. he put on the feather which
broke the camel's back. The Conn.,
n,ercial would, of course, ridicule
spinal columns in general, because it
"never goes back on logic" 1t belit-
ties the courage of the miners who
demur to a military company in
Frostburg. Does its system Of "logic"
disparage the courage of five thousand
people here who yield submission day
and night to a single policeman ?
Would it be cowardice in EIGHT or
ten thousand" people to respect a sin
gle soldier, placed here at the de-
mand of dozen execrable blacklegs
to protect them from the resentment
of those whom they most foully in.
jure? If bravery to overcome and
destroy him, would it not be rebel
lion also? Certainly; well, then, will
the logical Commercial tell us if man
who respects authority, civil or mill
tary, is really coward or whether
the one who does not is actually
hero? Then tell us to which class
belongs the very latest development
of American nobility, the sun-bright.
god-like blackleg2
The Commercial editor, the revolu-
tionary gentleman who goes not back
IN alouic" leads ua to concluda that