Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-02-15

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lature, and by the Legislature itself,
| that the men who are after the canal
for railway purposes with feet hot and
fleet, are the same men who have been
in league for years with storm and
flood to wreck it. What the malign
forces of Nature have failed to accom-
plish has been supplied by schemers,
intent, not upon the canals good, or
the public's, but upon their own poit-
ical and official aggrandizement. 1t
is not likely they ever designed to de-
stroy the canal, but they did it all the
same. They robbed the poor ditch
constantly and always beyond its pow
injuries.
Yet these men. or those representing
them. get into formal conclave and
complacently resolve
FU$t-That we are fully and firmly con-
vinced that further effort to maintain the
canal as a waterway under any management
is impractcabe and useless.
Really! We almost feel like adopt
ing for these saints-these disciples of
complete and unelastic faith-the fol-
lowing maxim from Josh Billings
philosophy
Ifyou wanttew be good all you hav tew do
is to obey God, luv man, and hate the goose
that has lade your golden egs.
CAT a meeting held yesterday after
noon," says the Cumberland Neacs of
Wednesday, "6y those favorable to the
proposed railroad on the canal" GER
tain resolutions strongly favoring that
project was adopted. Moreover
The following gentlemen were selected to
present these resolutions to the Legislature:
VIM. o. Sprgg Albert Hole, J. N. Will
son, Geo. d. Landwehr, Thomas Connell,
VIM. G. Devecmon, f. X. Millman, J. w.
Carder, E. III. Welsh and j. w. Thomas,
1t is fact singular as it is sgnif-
cant that not man in the list ever
shipped a pound of coal by canal or
enjoys a reasonable expectation of
ever shipping pound by railroad, or
any other means of transit.
What is it to these men whether the
canal lives as waterway or dies in
railway? What Of the present or fu-
ture of theirs is at stake in its fate
We ask these questions that our del
egation may consider who is moving
on each side of the pending issue that
they may compare the above list with
| the names of the miners that have
gone in memorial to the Legislature
to restore and maintain the canal as Il
waterway-menw who are vitality inter-
ested in competitive freight rates, and
especially in saving Maryland coal in
terests from the dangerous rivalry of
West Virginia coal in their markets.
"WHERE Progress rests is the title
of an article in the Frostburg Letlger
of last week.
The expression is loaned to that
newspaper by correspondent who
says:
| Aggressive progress rests with the people of
| Frostburg whether they will put their shoul-
der to the wheel and roll on, or whether they
will climb in and expect the Leclger to haul
them to the heights of success.
Now, if there is one thing that
"progrcss'' does not do, especially
aggressive progress" it is to indulge
in ''rest.'
The people OF Frostburg,' too,
have shoulders, not ''shoulder," and
it is ''the Wheel that rolls" not ''the
people"
Moreover, the LeJger is not in the
business of transportation. The depot
of success is pretty high up-close
to the top, so close that many systems
of locomotion do not get there. 1t is
terminal point Of aerial lines Of navi-
CATION.
The La1lger is u nowspaper-not IL
balloon
lnshallah
w SlIdlStiS ttllt w l'StDui =
this week and succeeded in establish
ing branch of Il foreign financial in
stitution. Their own report up to
Thursday was-they had secured sub
scriptions Of stock aggregating $l3, 900.
The JOURNAL has no disposition
whatever to object to people doing with
their money whatever they please.
We have only this challenge to
throw out:
That no two citizens, no matter how
well known, or how reliable, or how
responsible. could have done the same
thing.
And had they proposed to send sur
plus Frostburg money TO Knoxville.
Tenn, for investment at or from that
point, they would have been laughed
out of town.
Our gullibility is equally type OF
infnity and eternity-all-spacious and
endless.
PEOPLE of Georges Creek, in settling
the West Virginia boundary the line
should be drawn this side of Cumber
land.
We can give that town away anC