Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-08-24

iFhf dI' ~ HliHN lllillEN 49, Uit NJ
the Cumberland Times tired that it is
likely to show signs of fatigue to-day
"EVERY prominent democrat in
Cumberland and eminent republican
I in Homecoming is candidate Ton
something" said mcaslymouthcd
/ independent voter to the Journal
. yesterday morning.
All cannot be nominated. gentlemen.
/ but all can try. There are few men
/ in Allrgany county to" humble or too
T proud to run for Office. and many who
/ have not made the race have struck Il
/ pr"tt'' fast walk.
THr record will bear witness that
our first int"rrogatnrics +" the Cum
h"rland Com'irr. not the Times. were
fairly and honorably stated.
1t will show also that the 7Jmcs re
sponded in one of tn" vilcst articles
that ever degraded tn" editorial col
umnS of any paper.
1t will show that the JOURNAL. in
response, indicated how il might have
fairly reciprocatcd.
Whcrcat the Times shouIdcrcd an
air of injured innocence. and wanted
t" make out that it had been badly
treated. and so on.
But the people will not forget all the
same that not a solitary intcrrogatory,
not Il single assumption concerning
the Times Co"rjer registrar combine
against the taxpayers has been an
sw"rcd or denied There they are, the
whole cahoot. in the stocks. roasting
as the JOURNAL Shovcs the fire closer
and closer.
THE lockcd-out miners in northern
Illinois are suffering, starving and
dying. Old and middIc-agcd are
yielding, and famishing infants are
hanging vainly To milklrsS breasts.
A recent dispatch to this effect con
tinurS:
II Is no longer Il secret that the operators
have decided to open their mines with non
union men and have already prepared to call
upon the sheriff and governor for armed of
tir"rS and soldiers to hold the lor,cd-out
miners ia check. II is impossible to predict
what the consequences in such an event will
be.
What is the issue that has brought
so much distress to these people?
The operators could not continue
the rate of wages and keep in market.
The miners. on the other hand, in
siSt that the operators ca" pay the rate
last obtaining. Their insStcncc has
reached the fooliShly heroic stage ; they
will Starve themselves and families in
tn" faith that they understand the op-
orators business better than the latter
do themselves.
l. this all
No. Read the remainder of the dis
patch:
lnturiatcd by hunger the wrctched miners
will be in no temper to permit, except under
the rifles of the .niltia, others to take H,jr
places.
Observe the italiciSed word.
The last issue is
The operators hold that the mines
are their own property, subject only
t" their control, their disposal, even
though these prcrogativeS are guided
by mere caprice.
The miners bold that by some un-
written right Of primogeniture, some
pre- emptive statute, some code Of
ethics higher than even the gospel
itself they, the miners, once employ
ed, own "their places" III the mines i'll
perpctuity. All that sort of thing,
think they, may be applied to agricult-
urists and many other classes of labor,
but never, no never tominerS. These,
as we have had occasion to observe in
bygonc days, these are the salt Of the
earth-theSc are they for whom ''all
things were made"-theSe are the first
born of creation and the baby pets of
the universe.
Will their position stand the test of
scrutiny when the future historian,
exploring the barbarisms of this cen
tury, find in that great and gnilty
compact called the Knights Of Labor,
a notion, principle or practice so
vicious-will not the Noble Order con
Spiracy be consi gncd to the hell that
is perpetually gaping for every creed
that damnS, even in this life ! Will
not the annaliSt see in the assumptions
so deadly to the rights of property the
embryo Of king anarchy-the infant
Hercules of nihilism-t that great figure
which the searching eye of labor
prophecy is already Surveying-that
hero who will inaugurate the system
Of every man getting from everybody
else all he asks, and who will see to it
that "it is more blessed" to take and
hold ethan receive ,"
Illinois miners, with deep sorrow
for You, you are contendimg for Il
privilege to which you have no right,