Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-01

dDouI ClllS pIOjtCI-tlie htttt" uh-
til nearly the last week before cleo
ton, the Ncws until it cackled over
the defeat of the proposition-over
the peoples slaughter of a plan to
keep taxation at the lowest possible
figure.
Newspapers and brethren, the i'm
mortal Lincoln once sand:
You can fool some of the people all the
time, and you can fool all the people some of
the time, but you can't fool all the people all
the time.
THE Frostburg correspondent of
the Cumberland NeWs wrote the fol-
lowing to that paper last Saturday:
The JOURNAL gets in this week its usual
sneer at the teachers by calling them 'time
killers and "taX eaters" For a taX-eater
like the JOURNAL, which gets down its msoph-
agus every year big pile of the peoples
money, through the levy, for which the pub
lie can see no sufficient qtid pro q"o it would
seem that "tax-eating'' and "timc-kiling'
are bad things in teachers, but good things
in editors.
AS paper the JOURNAL never
laughs, and by the same token it
never "sneers."
The minister who tells dying sim
ners "n0W is the accepted time" does
not couch his language nor his lip
in ''sneer." The truth is never ut
tered with Il "sneer." The truth
teller cannot afford to "sneer," and it
must be d poor, mean, pigmy intel
| lect that receives truth in that sense.
History has pilloried Nero for
tiddling while Rome was or fire, but
history quite forgets to impress the
great fact upon its students that
Nero, though great in worldly way,
was endowed with less than fid-
dlers intuition of what is good and
true.
So it may be said of anyone who
speaks as "the public" as though
"the public were able to ''see" as be,
she or it sees think as he, she or it
thinks, and speak as he, she or it
speaks.
Right here the JOURNAL lops off
the original conclusion of this arti-
Gle, for it is credibly informed that
the Neacs' correspondent is ady-
d member of that better half Of poor,
weak humankind, which the JOUR-
NAL never antagonizes either as a
paper or an individual. 1t also re-
tracts all the observations preceding
this paragraph with that grace of
manner and tluency Of diction pecu-
liar to the chivalrous IN heart.
At the same time it knows, if its
information be correct, that the fair
correspondent, 07ias ''the public" is
not a legitimate reader Of the JOUR
NAL in the sense of subscribing and
paying for it. How, then, did 'the
public know as early as last Satur-
day that "the JOURNAL gets n this
week its usual sneer?" Besides as
certaining that last issues leader was
a "sneer," how did "the public"
know it was ''usua7 sneer ?"
Really, "the public" or that por-
tion which assumes the role of censor
of the JOURNAL, should be more
careful. If "the public does not
take the paper, "the public" has no
right to read it. If "the public
reads it surreptitiously, "the public"
ought to store the fact away among
other ''secret SINS" "the public" may
have in pickle for the last day. Ger
tainly, it should not be told IN Gath,
or published in Askelon. "The pub
lie" cannot afford a dead give-away.
If it can, it should, like the figure of
justice ought to do sometimes-tear
the blindfold from its brow and vent
its unavailing spleen with its baIeful
eyes uncovered.