Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-04-12

serve their town as COunclmcn thlnN ttlat
! forever and forever men are to be selected
who hold back, try to he bashful and refrain
from saying what they are in favor of and
what they will oppose? Hardly, we think.
The time is not far away when men will be
voted for, for some reason, and not against
all rcason-Nrr Don,jRjo".
THE Ledger is III a nervous condition
or was.
Several prominent jokels made it
believe the JOURNAL wanted to get in
the Water Board, and, what is worse,
that its wish would be glatificd.
But the JOURNAL has not so aspired,
nor does it.
If it had, it would have gone before
the people. where all elections should
go-not waited to crawl in through a
back door that unfortunately happens
to be ajar.
Let the Ln1ger possess i'll patience
soul that seems to be as little as it is
hysterical.
But who are the innocent whom the law
would protect? They are innocent who,
having lived in the fear of God through the
day, wish to sleep in His peace through the
night, in their own beds. The law is cstab-
lshed that those who live quietly may sleep
| quietly; that those who do no harm may feel
no fear of harm Dmici WcIStr.
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nocent" whom incorporation protects.
1t is for such that the nearest home
rule is established.
so. Mayor and Council, for the sake
OF the innocent, put none on guard
but the brave and conscientious.
And. Mayor and Council Of Frost
burg, stop your foolishness and do the
same thing.
WE overlooked the matter of re-
turning thanks last week to the Mey
ersdale (Pa) Commetriol for its con
elusive and timely contribution to the
editorial columns Of the Frostburg
Ledger.
1t was the only article on the water
question in that paper at the last mo-
mcnt-that supreme point of time III
Il crisis which the people thought
would bring our infant Hercules out
in style that would shame the tra
ditional quality Of all mythology.
| ,,.l,
intimatcd. was the right thing, written
at the right time-a gem. too big,
however. for its Frostburg ca>(et.
The FrOStburg water company, 1t Is
reported. has made surveys which
take in two more springs ON Savage
mountain, and steps are being taken
to condemn the right Of way thence to
the company's pine tank.
If possible, these proceedings should
be arrested until the town gets into
legal position to take care of its rights
in the premises.
1t will be very strange if a little one
horse corporation can etf"ctualIy tie
up and strangle the natural rights Of
four thousand people.
The journal. does not believe that
a court can be found in this land that
VII permit IL monopoly of this char
acter to 90 to the lengths that seem to
be proposed.
If so, then the peoples only remedy
will lie in bringing to to"n the best
possible supply. otherwise attalnable,
and an utter and perpetual boycot OF
the Frostburg water company.
And when the old thing is dead, as
die 1t must, let its mains and remains
rot in the soil which they pollutc.
THERE are some things even the
owners Of springs cannot do.
The Borden mining company, for
instance, may make many uses Of the
fresh water which rises on or runs
through their lands.
But they cannot change its course
when such change would damage
neighboring property or abridge the
convenience of the public. Nor can
they pollute it when the health Of the
people using if may be thereby en-
dangered
The same reasons which occasion
these limitations of their control OF
what otherwise is their property
prevent them also from making any
other disposition of water which woulC
hinder public progress or antagonizt
public cpolicy,
But the Borden mining company is
not so disposed. 1t is fair, liberia
corporation, such as, outside of'lcga
contention over its choice in the
premises. would favor the public
against a monopoly,
Let us add to this assurance thai
prediction in judicial circles for the
comfort and safety Of the many II,
against the luxury of the few, and W,
do not see how the frosthurg wate1
company, in contesting the rcoplc'j
right to all the pure water within
reach, can ever rise above the diGnit,
! of popular annoyance.