Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-10-25
MINING JOURNAL.
FROsTBURG. MD, OCTOBER IS. 1890.
rs the Great Paper Unfair"

lie places the atllIuueS OF MtSSfS.
McComas and Mckalg exactly on the
same plane.
Toward the JOURNAL as an in
dividual Mr.. McComas never politi-
cally, or otherwise, attempted any
harm. And though he had enjoyed
opportunity to do so, he would have
been an open enemy in his own ranks.
Not so with McKaig. A protesting
democrat, he was an open, bold an
tagonist of our part of the democratic
ticket in 1881. He whined over his
defeat for the nomination for the
State Senate, "sulked in his tent
and did not even honor the ticket with
the damnation of ''fant praise
More than this, we have good reason
to credit him with the authorship Of
one of the crueleSt calumnies that an
innocent man had ever to endure.
We confess, therefore, that we do
not enjoy that degree of democratic
religion that heals the sores of Il
memory wounded so ruthlessly i'll the
house of its friends. No blatant pro
fession of II am a democrat" wipes
out of the calendar the day when
McKaig was avowedly net a democrat,
and no appeal can soften the stream
of knowledge which has flowed thsough
al, ,,f, Al
rience.
Hence, if it be "unfair' to regard
him as unworthy Of promotion by
democratic votes, then truth is unjust,
experience a falsehood, and all
memory a lunacy.
Looking at the two nominations,
therefore, from our o'rn standpoint, both
are unfortunate. MckaiG is not 4
democrat, and his infdelity to his
political professions affords him no
standing whatever as q republican.
His real friendship for the miners, as
shown in the article of which Mr..
McCardell complains, terminates just
where his political interest ends.
There is no doubt about this.
In this respect McComas is not a
whit better. He has democratic
bugaboo called ''free trade,' which he
holds up before the miners in CHASTITY
style. At the same time he accredits
himself as one of the heroes of an
achievement, latel Y accomplished,
which adds at least Is per- cent. to the
miners cost of living and not a cent
to their wages as producers. If he
had been the friend of the miners he
processes, why did he not have the
tariff on coal fixed at Sc cents Why
was he content to leave it at 70 cents,
and put up 70 cents worth Of nearly
all other products to Sc cents ? If
sincere about protecting the miners,
why did he not have the tariff on coal
arranged so that they could get So
cents per ton, instead of 80, in order
to meet the higher prices of taxed
necessities
But what is the real significance
of his boast of "saving the tariff on
coal' at 70 cents, and what the result
of his accomplishment ?
1t is that he has practically reduced
the price of mining coal to H cents.
That is to say, under the Mckinley
regime the miner is at least cents per
ton less able to live than he was be-
fore Mr.. McComas saved him his tariff
on coal untouched by New England
and unprofaned by Texas.
Now, gentlemen miners, suppose
the 0,oners of this coal had come to You
with pronunciamento lowering your
wages to Al cents per ton-what a
howl of dissatisfaction would have
gone up We shudder to contemplate
such contingency.
But Mr.. McComas, with no material
interest here, can do it-boast of doing
it, and you can march to the polls in
droves, endorse his action and shout
over your own illimitablc gulliblity.
He ''saved the tariff on COAL He
knocked out those awful ''free-traders"
in both parties and made mince-meat
pro tenn out of the whole outfit.
Gentlewen, another such victory and
we are undone
A young doctor set out to locate,
followed by the solicitous interest of
large family and numerous relatives.
1t was arranged that when he assumed
his first serious case he should tele-
graph the results of his treatment as
the case progressed. By-and-by the
friends We're advised that the young
man had an obstetric case in tow.
And then the following message came:
The child is born.
so far, very good.
An hour later:
The child is dead
Not so fiattering.
And during the next hour the follow
ing was received
The woman is dead, but by George, |
believe | will be able to save the old man,
The Lamp Still Holds Out.