Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-05-26

Then on this:
The oft repeated appeals for aid to keep up
a strike that has no existence may well ex-
cite the suspicion that somebody outside of
the district is sharing in the spoils. To dis
prove once for all the allegation of strike
we give the number of miners now at work
in the several Collieries. This number is
increasing as rapidly as orders will permit
Meyersdale Commercial.
Then follows Il tabular statement
showing the number of men at work
in each Of seven mines and two others
working full"
The Commercial throws out the
significant suspicion that there is
Doodle III the air, or in the language
Of the Piedmont Herald, it verify be-
lieves somebody is getting paid for
perpetuating the lie that there is a
strike over there.
But it ought not to be forgotten
that the gauzy gentlemen have play
ed that trick too often. The fact
that strike exists because one, two,
three, or Il dozen Knights of Labor
are out Of employment won't float.
And the other fact that the "strik e
is declared off, when such men are
beaten is also good siuker.
Bastard labor may be thus fooled,
but the legitimate article is no longer
bamboozled by chestnuts with 'K. of
L. blown in the hulls.
THE historiographer Of the Pied
mont HerUld concludes his conclud
ing chapter with the following ex
hOrtation:
Let every man in the region utterly and
everlastingly ignore The Big4
But, great guns, old man, you cant
do that. The British tried that
game ON George Washington. John
Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison, but the more they "ntterlv
ignored them the more ever
Iastlngly they became shining lights
in the galaxy starred with immortal
hampS.
The best thing the historian ra:,
do is To get ON the side that shines.
THE school discussion. to which the
JOURNAL of last week was mainly
devoted. attracted universal attention
and elected II vast amount of com
mendation. Not only from people in
FroStburg, but approval of the JOUR
NAILS editorial came from prominent
people in other portions of the county
notably Homecoming.
This was more than the JOURNAL
sought more, in fact, than anticipate
ed. The people had dozed so long
upon the school question that it had
well nigh abandoned all hope of q
popular resurrection from an emu
which promised to be perpetual.
One discordant voice comes, how.
ever. from Cumberland, as follows:
Some maiden fair, some devotee to Rider
Haggard writing to the JOURNAL over the
nom de plume of She taxes this paper with
indifference to the rights of the teachers OF
this city and with ignorance of the existence
of so-caled pet teachers in the city schools
A hurried Investigation fails to discover
any such thing. Examiner Wemer in
dignantly denies both the imputations OF
the JOURNAL and the truth ofthe anonymous
communication from the Cumberland teach.
er, who can find no other way to make
known the wrongs of the fraternity than
! through anonymous communications to 9
paper outside the city in which she claims
the wrongs sexist.-Cumberlaud Times.
From information received it is like
ly She was mistaken so far as GER
tain knowledge of cause and effects
go. "There are so many things done,
SAYS "She" later than last week, "for
which no reasons are given that most
of our conclusions are taken from cir
cumstances. If Frostburg teacher
has a lien on employment and is moved
to Homecoming to give place to some
new teacher with another lien, there
Is generally reason for it which it is
none of our business to know. So we
who have no "influence" can only
guess, and it is a wonder we ever
miss"
This very confession of She" un-
Willingly made, betrays the currency
of the erroneous idea that the school
system is conducted for the benefit
of teachers. not children. We never
hear of partlality shown to schools; il
is always to teachers. She" is nc
better than the rest Of her sisterhood
and brotherhood. "She" is mad be,
cause she fancies others enjoy a fattei
share Of what seems to be generally
esteemed "A bonus for the most accom-
plishcd time killers.
Such ''imputations'' may be denied
over and over again, but the JOURNAL
does ne, make them. They are the di
rect, legitimate, inevitable products OF
the system in vogue-the outcropping,
' of every complaint which surges ur
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