Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-03-08
FROSTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1890.

THIS is bad winter for Allegany
county newspapers.
The Workman went under in Cumber
land and bobbed up at Hyndman, Pa.
The Homecoming Star lost nearly 800
| in lawsuit.
A Baltimore jury, in determining Il
libel suit last week, smiled on the
Cumberland Times for 5000.
And, to climb the capmax, the great
JOURNAL has deem deducibly denounc-
ed as ''an organ"
The Cumberland and Washington
railroad company is informed that the
canal is not to be destroyed.
Instead, it is more likely it will be
enlarged and extended.
Says the Morgantown CIV. Va.) Ne'o
| D6fniniOn.:
| 1t would take many millions of dollars to
build 1t, but many millionaires are interested
in it, and million after million could be
made out oft
To tell the truth, it is no Jules Verne
scheme, but sensible, practicable one.
A KIND friend elsewhere names the
JOURNAL as a candidate for Water
Commissioner.
The latter declines.
There are too many small taxpayers
and non-taxpayers in this town who APP
praise other people by their own short
measure of common sense and honesty,
and we do not crave to enter the ser
vice Of such people.
We could not possibly win their APP
plause, and will not subject ourselves
to criticisms founded in ignorance or
ingrained in meanness.
THE intelligent correspondent of the
Homecoming Rerie,o indicates in the fol-
lowing paragraph both difference and
n distinction:
In the way of public institutions our
town enjoys JOURNAL and a Ledger The
JOURNAL contains record of all things proper
to be written, which accounts for us Frost
burgers being posted on all the main issues Of
the day.
That's the case exactly.
The JOURNAL does not make a
speciality of retailing small talk.
And what it does give out in that
line is not made smaller by poor rhet
oric, and still minimized by phonetic
grammar.
THE passage of the act authorizing the
lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to the
Washington and Cumberland railroad COM
pany will relieve the State of an incubus that
has drawn heavily upon her in the past
Baltimore Ne~s.
That statement is absolutely I'M
true.
Speaking of the people as a estate"
it is to be doubted whether the canal,
outside Of Democratic politics. ever cost
them one cent.
The State has been drawing for
years constantly increasing revenues
from growing property valuations oc-
casioned in great part by canal opera
tons.
We will tell the Meas what is the
matter.
Last fall Hon. George l.. Wellington,
republican nominee for comptroller,
standing within a few blocks of the
Ne,cs Office, publicly charged that
In eleven years nearly fifty thousand dol
ars had been paid to Barnums hotel by the
c. Il o canal company for dining and wining
the president and directors of said company
and their retainers.
This statement was founded upon
figures taken from their own books.
Now, then, shall our courts. legisla
ture and people allow this coterie of
sharpers and sharks, with here and
| there an owlish-looking business man
to give 'tone" to the procession, and
only tone--all avowed temperance men,
including local preacher to say grace
shall these be permitted to bring
their designations into our tribunals
and exploit the results of such per-
formances as arguments showing that
the canal does not pay?
Shall we permit this, remembering,
too, that these are the homes who want
the canal for a railroad bed to carry
MeH West Virginia coal over orr terri
tory into our markets
People, there are some things worse
than an incubus"
One of them is competing product,
conspicuous, distinguished, celebrated
in market for its cheapHSsa at tile mine :
That product is reaching for our
trade now-reaching for it over our
property-and let us tell you some
thing:
1t ec0uM hare hal IL ere Mis-it
,couM get it nor but for tile foresight Of the
Baltimore and Ohio uilroad company!
That is the force that holds Elk
Garden in check and retains for our
coal its long and hard-eapned place IN
market.
The great railroad is one leyeler of
freight rates in our interest the canal,