Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-03-23

| of our school commissioners and tn,
| glory of our school examiner. Mr..
| POwdcrly AYERS in effect that the grad
uatcs of those schools are so far un-
| taught that Il great Order must br per
/ pctuatcd aS the university of labor
with master workmrn as the faculty
| and walking delegates as peripatetic
| lecturers upon "a social science which,
III this region at least, has never risen
above the question
How best can we irritatc our employers
and make fools of ourselves?
But these remarks were begun rs an
ntrocuctlon to II quotation from Bob
Burdctte, who wittily says of one Spcci-
men of Noble Order nomenclature
Queer ideas we 18th century people have
about names and titles.
Take this great organization of working
men, the hard-working, industrious toiers of
| our land-the Knights OF Labor.
Could inspiration suggest a name more
misleading and inappropriate!
If there was anything in the world the
plumed knight didn't do, it was work.
fthere was any one thing that he con>id
cred degrading, it was honest toll.
If there was creature in all the world for
which he had a profound contempt, it was a
wOrkingman.
He called the honest lahOrcr hind. a
churl, base born, ignoble a clown.
He believed that the nottingham was
made Of coarser clay than the knight of gen
tie blood; think he even doubted if the la
borer had a soul
cowardly, quarrcIsome, hard-drnking,
Dragging, thcving, "high born knave who
barricIdcd himself and his horse ina ton of
armor plating, and with lance ~ feet long
rode into mob of half-naked wrctcheS
armed with bows and arrows, and called
it war.
Why the honest brave, toiling workers of
to-day, tree-born men, should want to call
themselves "knights,' rather than ycomen,
| don't know.
All. brethren, the EngIishman isn't the
only man who dearly loves Il lord" We
seem to love even the faded rcminisccnce
of one.
THE Chicago Ncrs announces that
the earth, which so many people want,
is wearing out. Among the forecasts
is
The time is coming when we will have no
coal to burn in our CRATES and no iron to
make our CRATES ont of, even had we the coal
Then follow prophecies Of eXhauS
ton of coal oil, natural gas, precious
metals, diamonds, mahogany, pine,
buffalo robes, guano, qulnine, chloro-
form, aniline. dodocs, sharks and
Knights of Labor. "Thcre is even IA
human limit to the production Of elec-
tricity."
All this. however. is put off several
hundred years, but the outlook for
even that period would be discourage
ING to us We're it not that the same pa
per assures its readers that aluminium,
for instance, is already preparing to
take the place of steel, and
Food and heat we are to gather from the
sea in proper tish-culture and wise electrical
work
But the brightest prediction of this
brilliant economist is that of "the So
luton of the labor problem, probably
before the middle of the twentieth cen
tury,' and that sit will he solved to
the satisfaction of both parties those
in this region. for instance. who give
80 cents per ton. and those who take
it-that is. if the 'district price" does
not disappear with the people who
have given it that funny name.
THERE is breeze among the doe
tors. The States Attorney gave it
out that all who had not complied
with the Act Of lSSS, would have to
take the chances of indictment. The
Act provides for the certificate Of the
State Board of Health that diplomas
are :}6 inches wide and all-wool, and
the subsequent record of the whole
business in the Clerks Office.
On the other hand. the doctors quote
Attorney General Whyte's opinion to
the effect that the law is inoperative,
because the Legislature failed to pro
vide the means for its enforcement.
This is generally deemed very
strange omissiOn-to enact law and
let it fall into innocuous deSuetude for
want of treasury support.
But it must Ec remembered that the
Allegany delegation had as much as it
could do to turn the Mine Inspector
ship over to Garrett county.
Then there was the ventilation bill,
and ''The Big T."
THE lively and bright Meycrsdale
Commercial, one of our best exchanges,
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