Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-08-13
r. ". ODER. Editor



discharged"-fo the alleged reason
that sit had done It's duty" Angels
and ministers of grace, if special com
mittees are built that way, give us one
that wont do its duty
Mr.. Lammert mistook the Western
Unions indifference to municipal
action as an evidence of panic. Mr..
Lammert's imagination is fundament-
allv immense. He wanted to "borrow
a lawyer" so the town could find out
what was the legal status of the infer
entail skedaddle. About the first in
cident, however, that occurs in getting
a lawyer to loan himself to a lost cause
is fee of not less than $50, which,
with the expenses of the subsequent
proceedings, would be so much paid
out by the town to obstruct improve.
ment and get beaten in the attempt.
Mr.. Wittig, however, defed the com
pany to come up any street with
their poles without Councils consent,
evidently feeling no lawyer was neces-
sary to carry on little defensive
battle like that. This throwing down
the gage of battle when no enemy was
in sight was, however, an innocuous
display of Conncilmanic recklessness.
The Western Union never intended at
any time to fight for more than it has.
Its only plan was by inaction to let
Mr.. Wittig and his coadjutors whip
the town, including themselves. For
the committee was an automatic self
kicking invention, unpatented, but
bran new in novelties from splinter to
dingus.
"What fall was there, my country
men, when Mr.. Wittig moved to let
the company, so lately defed, come
to its own again! There were several
uncertain provisos embodied, however,
one or more of which, it is feared, will
give rise to further contention and
threaten final rupture. In which event,
the JOURNAL suggests that Mr.. Raley
send to the present committeeman for
their designations as committeeman,
and appoint the Mayor and Messrs.
Gunnett and Wright to conclude the
negotiations in busnesS-like manner
with a business-like company. Mr..
Raley is appealed to because he APP
pears to be the uncertain quantity III
the controversy between mossgrowth
and hustlery.
If Mr.. Lammert understands W. II.
Evans correctly, it would seem that
the latter has joined the crowd of ad
vanced thinkers who believe that ar
bitration does not arbitrate.
According to the Cumberland Necs,
Mr.. Lammert said ''move them (the
poles) off the streets, as in some few
years the Cumberland street railway
company would come up and then
they would have no room for their
poles, and they would have to go up
the alleyways.' Sh-h, Mr.. Lammert.
There's hen on that nest.
Had not the telegraph pole differ
ence come so near adjustment the JOUR-
NAL was going to suggest to the res
idents of Mechanic and Orman streets
to unite in a petition to Council to
send the Western Union up Frosts
avenue. That would have brought a
good-sized spring chicken home to
rooSt.
Mr.. Wittig said last week that "about
80 per cent of the people opposed the
reelection of the present police force"
Mr.. Wittig sided with the 10 per cent,
and in the telegraph pole business he
boldly accounted himselfa as fraction
of the unit of per cent. of the popula
ton. The tendency of minority rule
is always toward the power of the few
and the weakness of the MANY.