Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-23
Arthur Shrivcr.

human sympathy. Yet so Arthur
Shriver passed away. In the darkness
and silence of the night-alone, he fell
into the slumber that will know no
waking this side of the last cycle of
time.
1t was sad, pitiful, distressing-yet
it is comforting to read in the chron-
icles of the event the pathetic fact that
he was found sleeping IN death as in
life-peacefully. There were no cyl
dences of unavailing contention with
the grim angel-nothing, perhaps, but
plaintive memorials of the cheerful
bias, which, it is said, comes to all at
last to gladly surrender life, with its
ties and affections, into the tender
hands of God.
Arthur Shriver was man consider
ably above the intellectual average.
His editorial work and correspondence
evinced prompt and accurate thinking,
and clear, cogent expression. He
wrote and talked with Il directness
equally forcible. He quickly knew
what he had to say and said it-fre-
quently with droll but unmistakable
emphasis. He was courteous, genial,
manly. He enjoyed his social and
business contacts and reyeled in touch
with those who travelled on his intel
lectual and aesthetic attitudes. His
taste as typographer was well nigh
faultless, and when he died an artists
eye went to sleep forever and an
artists hand dropped by his side in
enduring repose.
The faculties and qualities which
united to make him the man we have de
scribed contributed with equal and
mutual force business success prob
ably unexampled in his line in
this county. And so with a faith
not overweight in the future of
his town, he was one of the spirits
who kept first place in the van
of progress. Indeed, he was an eX-
emplar of the individual enterprise
which in the aggregate builds cities,
multiplies industries and attracts pop
ulation.
To the JOURNAL he was friend
from the first-one who necer fail
ed to tender appreciation when he
felt that a good point had been made.
He was busy man, but never too
busy to stop and pen few quaint.
abbreviated combinations of words of
approval when an article struck his
fancy. Many of these we treasure in
affectionate memory. They are all of
his estate to which we have any title,
but they are priceless and inalienable.
1t is the recollection of his many
kindnesses and forbearances that in
duces this expression of regret-that
we cannot repay his stricken family
with tribute to his blameless memory
more fully commensurate with his
worth in all the relations of life.
Right Must Triumph.
The struggle at Homestead develops
the fact that wages are no longer the
issue.
The Carnegie war is a revolt against
the dominion Of labor unionism-a
fight by the employees for control of
their own business.
The Carnegies will win.
Else the history of "Triumphant
Democracy" is an open fiction and
the philosophy of property rights a
confessed lie.
The JOURNAL has watched and
weighed the newspaper nonsense 60
ing about the rights of labor in the
Homestead case, and it predictsa time
soon coming when the inevitable re-
action will change the dangerous tune.
The mastery of ignorance may be
established, but in the very nature of
things it cannot long prevail.
A Comment With Moral
The recognition of Thomas Malloy's
long and unwavering fidelity to his
employing company's interests by the
officials of that corporation, elsewhere
detailed, is an added dignity to all con-
cerned.
1t shows
|, That corporations are not soulless
when real merit is manifested, and