Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-09-08

chase an imaginary grievance out of
the region.
The (Wheeing) hcgjSter prOpounds a ques-
ton quite often i'll the present tariff discussion
that is not noticed or answered by the htel-
Hg~Hrer, when it is the simplest of the whole
of the problems presented ny the tariff re-
formers. The question is:
Why are wages higher in free trade England
than in high tariff Germany?
The question is so complete and easy that
we are surprised that it is ever asked at all
Free trade England has free and full liberty
to organize trade organizations for the pro-
lection of the workingman against the bosses
while Germany denies this privilege and the
military and police of the empire are used to
suppress any effort or attempts at labor or
ganizatjon. If any of our leading trades
unionists or those of England were to utter
their sentiments on German soil, they would
at once be arrested and imprisoned as the
rules seem to hold in that country that the
working people are a part and parcel of the
possessions of the wealthy Barons who em-
ploy them.-Ohio Valley B"dyt.
quite right. Organization is the only
thing that will keepup wages in any country
not protection or free trade. de.-Piedmont
UGmid.
Here's richness. While hating
despotlsm at any point Of the com
pass, the JOURNAL is glad to see
what the B@lgct says. 1t has been
taught by labor educators that baron
rule existed nowhere else but on
Georges Creek, and here in "crimi-
nal shape.
1t is interesting to note also the
terse and hearty endorsement given
the BudgefS lucid showing of wages
differentiation between England and
Germany by the HerWM-interesting
because in that same State of Ohio,
where the Bndgef is published, and
where Organization is most rank, it
took eighteen thousand miners to dig
eight millions tons of coal in 1886.
reorganization thus secured for that
year a wage rate Of not over 70 cents
per man per day.
The same year Reorganization
paid the miners of this region nearly
$400, and in 1887 over $500, or 81 .22
and Sl.92 per diem respectively.
And the good work still goes on.
some time ago our amIable con-
temporary, the Homecoming RerieW,
spoke of the then pending contro-
verSy between the Cumberland Times
and JOURNAL as II chair pulling
match" in which the .JOT2NAL was
represented as forging along in an
attitude sapiently regarded us second
best. 1t grieves the JOURNAL,
therefore, to record its fear that the
entente cOrdiale between the Times
and Re0iew on that subject has been
busted. Last week the ReUiew con-
taiLed the following paragraph,
which it will be seen, is constructed
in style that presumes there is no
hair nor whiskers on the Times
veracity:
The Cumberland Times reccutly took occa-
sion to say that it was the business of the
Workman and the ReUie~ to create, keep up
and foster strikes. When the editor of the
Times wrote that sentence he knew he was
writing bald-headed, bare-faced lie. 1t is
equal to any lie ever written concerning
Harrison or Clevcland-and just as contempt
ible
1t would appear that the RccicW
is ahead-at least at this writing.
The last deal looks ominous for
Mr.. Perdew, at Homecoming. 1t is
prophetic of trouble for him year