Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-04-05

In the next life the State democratic com
mittec and the Allegany county school
board should take up their abode in the
planet Saturn, where the rings of the country
are never disturbed.
VOTERS, remember that the Frostburg
water company is not an issue in this cam
paign.
1t is not an object of our favor, nor of our
enmity.
Besides, we are nor dealing with that in
stitution at this time
Its turn will come later-to sell out at IA
fair price, or continue Il small and diminish
ing business at the old stand
AMONG the measures which uied with the
Legislature was the mining and ventilation
bill
Which means two years more of peace and
prosperity in this region.
People, had the canal been stolen by the
West Virginia coal interests and the grand
juries of the county become inspectors of
what was left of our mining industry, we
might have hung our harps upon the will
lows and mourned as did the desponding cap
tives who strayed along the rivers of Babylon
and wept over the fall of Zion.
GOVERNOR JACKSON should give Prof New
ell the word, go"
As an educator he is a reminScence-not a
savOry one at that.
From him the Allegany county manage
ment has long drawn much of its antique
and Suj generis conservatism.
And by him it has been nourished into the
faith that it is something and doing some
thing.
NeweI's great forte lies in making a
county examiner feel that he is "a little
goddemity.'
Newell is an eminent success. but his
trend is backward.
OPPONENTS of the water bill, why not state
some arguments showing why plenty of
water will be an evil, and not "A benefit?
Why not show that plenty of dust and
dirt and filth, and an abundance of typhoid
fever are what we demand and must have
not pure air, cleanliness and health
This thing of making mountain out of a
molehill tax that in all probability, will
never be levied, is too little too intangible as
an argument against plenty of water.
Come out like men, and say-if you don't
want plenty of water-that you want plenty
of all the evils that lack of water brings in
its train.
You might show that the little water we
have is curse to the town and that the
people would be better off without it.
So far as heard from Stevenson Archer
made Il low record as a safe custodian of the
peoples funds.
If there was a surplus he reduced it and
developed in its stead a deficiency.
He was not apparently stakeholder III
the canal steal, but the practical collapse of
the great theft and his own prostration We're
dangerously, we will not say suggestively
close together. The two occurrences We're
intimate enough to be blood kin.
Perhaps Mr., Archer would not have de
fauItod had the canal steal succeeded,
Anyway, there will always exist a popular
desire to understand exactly why the ring so
persiStently, brazenly and desperately fought
for the illegal acquisition of the canal.
Those who have given the matter attention
win long wonder, too, why the bill provid-
ing for proceedings competing with Judge
AlvcyS inquiry into the canals condition,
fell through Just after the trcasurer's default
had been made known.
In the one case, they worked as though
something more precious than life itself was
at stake
In the other, they hunked as though that
most precious something was no longer
worth living for.
These things we may never know, THE
powers that be" may succeed as usual, in
covering their tracks.
Meanwhile, great is the mystery of un-
godlineSs.
Is there church in Frostburg that pro-
vidcS accommodations for the press Frost
burg Ledger.
No. The press does not need accOmmoda-
tions of the special sort. If it is convinced
and convicted of sin, let ii go up and bow at
the same altar at which other trangressors
confess. This thing of newspaper men put
ting on airs because they are in some sort
should show no favor to any class gallanting
around and calling attention to the special
distinction of its members as Sitting Bulls
among sinners.
Was such a thing as II reporter chair and
table ever seen in this city on hill ?-ibjd
There is not a mourncrs' bench i'll christen-
dom where a sentence like that would or
could he parloned. Such a thing as a re-
portcrs chair and tabe'-as though these
articles were not two things.
But this brilliant scribe lets the churches
down by answering his own question. He
says;
Most likely not. But the churches are not
to blame for not providing facilities that were
neither asked for nor wanted heretofore.
The churches of this town have not hitherto
had that recognition trum the local press
that they deserve.
Possibly not. But the same was true of
the Salvation army, and is true of our great
football and prize-fghtng interests. In fact,
everybody has had regular harvest-time of
neglect until the Ledger was established.
But this moulder of bad English, just now
so solicitous for the sighted churches, spoils
his eyoneration of those bodies from all
blame In the premises. He concludes
We hope that the churches will not forget
that improvement is the order of the age.
Why this "hopc" when the churches are
blamelcss What is meant by the suggestion
that Improvement is the order of the age?'
Does il mean that III the matter of moral ad-
ranccmcnt football and prize-fighting are
stealing march on revivals, baptisms, pro-