Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-26

JUuRNAL Il few questions" as below /:
Fjtvt-Cau you remember the position you
occupied during and previous to the strike of
lsS2 toward the coal companies of this region,
and tell us what prompts you to write now in
directly opposite and extreme manner?
From this query look across to xth
column of third page of same issue of
Rerie'r and at almost precisely the same
distance from the top "a prominent
Frostburg citizen" will find the gist of
what he vcarus for.
Sccoud-lIas not Mr.. Chambers the right to
employ lecturers who tell in plain language
the object of the labor organizations, as much
SO as you have in writing in the interest of
(not the companies) your capital?
The Journal never raised the qucs-
ton of ''rights." Mr.. Chambers has
a perfect right" if he elects. to make
a fool of himself, but his course can
not stop or even forbid anybody from
calling attention to the bad taste and
gross impropriety of such a proceeding.
ThUd-Can you tell us what the condition
of the workingmen would have been now if
the same course had been pursued unchecked
that existed before they organized?
Yes. The true miners, not the pie
nickers, quoit-ptchers, sprinters, and
spraggers of work in general would be
better off in money and morals. There
would have been no unavailing strikes,
no defeats, no humiliationS, no insol-
vents, and no accounts yet open on
mercantile books against those who
avowed that they "would be doggoned
if we are going to pay any strike
debts" That is. they would not pay
the merchants for the flour and cow
feed which gave them strength to
quarrel with their bread and butter.
FoUrth-Did you not observe the notice
posted in front of your office last week by a
Bedford firm, q certain Oppenheimer, who
wants ore miners 10 work for 81 per day, Ga
cheap John Jewish pluck-me store inCluded)
and is such an offer not an insult to our mi
ners? Why did you not scrutinizc or "crvs-
'
a MINING JouRNALn" is il because you are
too busy quarrclug with the Cumberland
Times or Mr.. Ilambrght?
Yes No, it is not an insult TO mi
ners, but burning indignity to every
grocer or general merchant who has
ever been ''pmck-me' proprietor, or
would be if he could. The last part of
the question puzzles the JOURNAL.
How did "a prominent Frostburg citi-
zen" know we had a quarrel on hand ?
He does not take this paper. He is Il
"pluck-me," and the JOURNAL, whom
he assails from ambush, is his victim.
FitH--Did not Mr. Mcclure urge the
miners and laborerS generally to unite, keep
sober, live an exemplary life and strengthen
their cause by good conduct? Can any SEN
sibe man object to such teaching?
Yes. But the devil frequently does
the same thing, and the old fellow is
always at his best when his dialect is
"clothed in the livery Of heaven" No
sensible man." 1t is true. "objects to
such teaching" but very careful rehg-
ious engineers ascertain, first, whether
their people need ''such teaching y
second, whether ''such teaching" is the
same above and helowboard, and,
third, who commissioned the evangel-
list ?
!Slth-What has Mr.. oder to say IN the face
of our "pluck- me" company stores, of which
your town is happily rid? Does he think
him a free man who gets his hard earned
money shoveled out to him in shape of mer-
chandise as instead of money Does that not
remind him of the ante bdi',m days of New
Orleans moasses and Master Bacon. No, to
see such things it takes fair human eyes, not
sparkling with selfish motives.
Did not know we had them here.
Yes, he is a free man. or he would
not have his goods ''shovclcd" to him.
II he were IL slave his merchandise"
would be fed to him with II spoon.
\ strange accompaniment Of these
inquiries is-the ''prominent citizen
is otherwise invested with the prmno-
men and patronymic Of Free Speech y
Had his anonymous sign-mannal been
Prosperous Grocer, or Decaying Dry
Goods Man, there would be reason for
the faith that is in him.
But it is impossible for Il newspaper
bushwhacker to be a reputable admirer,
patron or eXemplar of free speech.
LISTEN at the North Bend lNeb. }
FlaH.
1t is claimed that coal famine is immi-
nent and that western families will have to
burn corn cobs this winter. This is not
overly encouraging to drouth h-strcken Kan
sas, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin, where
there is nothing but cobs three inches long
but for Nebraska, where the cobs are used
for baseball bats, we contemplate the famine
with a remarkable degree of composure. As
long as the festive corn cob maintains its
mammoth proportions coal-disgcrs may
strike, hut the Nebraska hearth will still be
warm and coy. Eastern strikers may put
this IN their cob-ppes and smoke it.
walking delegate and Noble
Order lawmakcr will have IL happy
time cocrcing the Nebraska spirit into
subicction either by striking on by
mining legislation.
And by the time we send Scheer-
messcr, Mullin, Cunningham, and per
hans Cnrroll. to the LnniSlatnre two