Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-09-06

last men who do anything to get out OF
work in the cold of age, the alienation
of treachery, or the barren field where
the proof-tests of lifelong competency
count for nothing. 1t is not this class
or classes that provoke discharge.
By the same token, it is far more
likely that the men who rely upon the
backing afforded by oath-bound asso-
citation, who have little or no respect
for the prestige which goes with length
OF service, fidelity or experience
these men are those who will do double
duty to the Order in becoming trouble
some themselves and fomenting dis
content among their fellow workers.
And it is of such and for such Mr..
Powderly lives, moves and has his
belng-not as ''the public" but as
| grand master workman of the kniG hts
of Labor. 1t is for these that he be
comes gigantic anomaly; it is for
these he demands certain pricote reasons
of a corporation, he being the chief of
| the checklist close-communion, oath
| bound, iron-clad secret organization in
| the world.
But his structure must fall. 1t has
no foundation in the moral stability
of equity, and in the darkness of its
| self-isolated situation and condition it
! pursues its slow and devious course
unblessed by a christian prayer and
unsunned by Il single beam from
a sky illimitably populous with benign
luminaries.
1t is impossible, therefore, that its
methods and pretensions shall make a
permanent Judgment in the hearts and
conclences of a generation of people
whose birthright is doubly theirs
who are the legatees of two-fold be-
quest, transmitted in their blood and
by charter-a generation Graded in
civilization and baptized with the Liberty
of equal children of God.
The distinction between personal
and impersonal journalism is one gen
orally understood and respected in the
profession.
Our esteemed neighbor of the Cum
berland Times, however, is an excep-
ton to the rule. A few days ago it
published the following:
The politics of the editor of the Frostburg
JOURNAL are described by himself as being
embraced on platform whose sole foundation
and superstructure is the following trite
epigram:
| The past is gone the present is with us,
| and the future is before us.
| This is indeed broad enough so broad, in
deed as to suggest the broad road' which
leadeth not to the City of Life
This is not fair The JOURNAL was
speaking of itself rs Il paper, not as
an individual, for as an individual we
have political predictions of the
most decided character.
In order to make this matter per-
fectly clear to the reader, suppose for
the time being we take similar liberty
with a few quotations from the Times,
and note how its distortion will sound
The outrageous overcharge by hackmen in
this city and their connection with the min
isterial-matrimonial combination to which
the attention of the public has been directed
| by J. w. Avirett, has resulted in the passage
of an ordinance that will check the evils re-
ferred to.
The trouble as far as could be CLEANED by
}: w. Aviretts reporter, is that the Balti
more and Ohio railroad company is in the
habit of pulling long trains of loaded cars
| etc.
Hon. w. l.. Wilson Nominated. Special
dispatch to J. w. Avirett, etc
The outspoken and persistent opposition OF
J. w. Avirett to Louis f. McComas, Congress
man, and his unqualified denunciation, etc.
In its item the JOURNAL said nc
more about its editor than the Times in
the above quotations states of j. w.
Avirett.
The end of which is-the JOURNAL
is obliged to add plank to its plat
form:
Honor the old, consult the wise, instruct
the young newspapers and bear with the
foolish organs.