Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-07

has challenged the profoundrst study
of coal-bred scholars.
For long time it was thought by
many that the Knights of Labor were
the bcnefciaries in view. and number
still think so. 1t is the old argument
of the infants yearning and the an
swering maternal supply all over
again.
But not few have differed with the
Noble Order of North America on this
subject, naughty and reckless as all
disagreements with that elect guild are
apprehended to be. These. however,
! are aliens. and hence not subject to
the clashes which diverse views of
creative purpose produce in the same
neighborhood.
The doctrine that the region was
| created for Cumberland is, in fact,
older and more firmly established in
! the Cumberland mind than the pos
sessive case on the part of the Knights
of Labor ever implied. On this sub
| ject Cumberland is almost inveterately
pagan, while the K. of l.. have only
indulged spasms of Mohammedan ad-
herence to its proprietary instinct
and habit of claiming all in sight.
Cumberland's faith is steady as the
majestic river and deep as the blue
sea the Noble Orders creed of uni
versal ownership is subject to fits, out
| of which it energies into seasons of
exhaustion and humility which ought
| to last forever.
A careful review of these pretensions
will convince the unbiased student
that Cumberland, without enjoying
any legal title whatever to the region,
and without exertion, holds it with q
grip which extorts more profit from
its industry than the actual, unpre-
tending owners can wiring from it with
careful business labor and economy.
The city is just now threatened with
boom, and the boomers are scheming
. and planning TO make the outside
folks pay all the expenses possible
The factory people coming are coaxed
to invest every possible cent. and then
the county is levied on to furnish in
the name of Cumberland far more
! than is lawful.
| The truth is, the citA's ownership of
this region comes just as near to rob-
berry as any process of that name can
reach under the mask OF law,
A LETTER elsewhere printed sets
| forth in nervous terms the need of an
abundant water supply for our town.
The writer, although evidently
ablaze with his theme, does not state
the case too strongly. AS indicated
| by him, there is absolutely nothing
open here in the way of employment
for young people, and, 50 fal AS we
can see, no future for them The boys
must gOM tie mine, and the girls smother
their aspirations for independent live
lihood by continuing to eat unearned
bread, going into mental service, or
crawling under the whimsical protect
crate of the School Board,
The Journal heartily comedies with
its correspondent, and atfirms withrep-
etltive emphasis that olr foremost want
is plentiful supply of water. On this
provision hangs all the law of actual
growth and all the gospel of continuing
| prosperity.
Without it there is no use talking
of Frostburg ever getting above the
magnitude of mediocre mining town,
or OF outgrowing prestige, too com
chartered libel upon municipal aims.
THERE were 1900 tioggings administered
last year in Massachusetts public schools A
rattan is used in all cases. Truancy, lying
and insuborbinaton are the mann reasons for
| punishment.
In or out Of school tiogging is a
good argument against all intoerable
vices.
! And while their number may be
enumerated accurately, the incarcer-
ations and hangings thereby saved
are incalculable,
The fogging gives the traverser a
/ foretaste of the wages of sin, and de-
ters others from working for the same
salary.
THE Cumberland Times is interview
ing the citizens Of the city on the ex-
pediency of getting everybody to come
to Cumberland, bring all their money,
and provisions enough to last them
until the money Is gone.
The expressions of assent are very
numerous and unanimous, each veil
for more sounding a good deal like
| the howl of coyotes, to hear one of
which not only makes an inexperienced
guest of the prairie suppose there is
immense hunger in the bailiwick, but
that there are millions of them.
|
! THE Cumberland Times oxcepts to
the wisdom of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad management in only one pap
ticular--the retention of its "chief
| oounSal "