Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-26
Boys, Stand Back !


The following handful, minus Lciger
imprint, is extant:
We, the undersigned, think it expedient to
call a citizens meeting in Meats opera house
on Friday March %, 1892, at p m, to take
into consideration the proprety of placing
our most trusted felOw-citizens in position to
manage our municipal affairs for the coming
year.
Signed by eleven panic-struck tax
payers.
'To take into consideration the pro-
priety," etc.
Extraordinary, isn't 1t?
And only "for the coming year.
too.
After "the coming year" doubtless,
the town will be handed back to the
boys.
The spasm of "propriety" can't last
two years.
Why?
Echo answers-Why
With the old water works in hand
costing treble its worth and the Ledger
coming out daily, the conjoined vol
umes of nastiness will introduce the
millennium poor, deluded Frostburg
is apparently seeking.
But, fellow citizens, remember that
while we have spunk enough to pro
pose that it is at last proper to consid-
er that "our most trusted fellOw-clt-
liens" should be trusted. we have not
had enough nerve to assert our right to
a spring which the old water company
never used, does not use and apparent
ly will not uSe-not nerve enough
even to question its title to the spring.
After this exhibition Of our qualities
as your "most trusted fellow citizens"
what are you to expect when the same
lordly old water works company comes
down with an assessment on the town
for all its springs of an amount meas
ured by its mash on itself? If we are
unequal to the strain in the green tree.
what will it be in the dry
People, if you want the old water
works,anybody can buy them; anybody
that can sign his name, count money,
and say-"yes, sir-here's your cash,
and we are glad, O 50 glad you let us
have them .''-can buy them. You
don't need your .'most trusted fellow
citizens' for duty so humiliating to
themselves and the town
No. no-get some that are unworthy
of trust.
Give the middIemen chance.
With Regret.
The JOURNAL regrets that it cannot
continue to measure up to the standard
it has held in the estimation of ''Surd,
A. B.
But "Surd" is little like the Le8ger
he overdoes the presumption act.
Which is natural sequence of
habit of INDUCING characterization
owing its currency to fashion rather
than reason.
In "Surd's'' system the teacher
would precede the roadmaker as a
pioneer of civilization.
He would build schoolhouses with
out approaches, OF even population.
But if "Surd" wants to do something
really good hindend foremost he should
build churches in advance of roads =
indeed, churches 6etore schoolhouses.
AS to Lord Berkeley.
The JOURNAL is proud to say its an
cestors We're anti-Berkeley people.
They were here contesting the mo
schoolhouse" notion when "Surd's,"
doubtless, We're glorying in Berkeley's
spunk.
The JOURNAL thanks God, too, that
after coming here and Drawing almost
uuimaginable perils and winning hb-
erty for generations unborn. its an
cestors never sent a petition to Congress
asking that further immigration might
be restricted.
Their schoolhouse education was far
above such inhuman inhospitality.
In fact, their schoolhouse education
first stunned, Frustrated and destroyed
Know Nothingism and confirmed to
''Surd' his right to come and his
patent to stay.
When "Surd" and those who SYM
pathize with him assume, therefore,
to monopolize all the morale of eco
Monies as educational projectors, they
step on slippery ground.
There are as good people who be-
lieve that roads 90 before school
houses, just as laying the foundation
precedes building the house, as there
are of those who argue the contrary
because the roof should be put on
first.
Hence, those friends who are dis
appointed at the JOURNALS conten-
ton will have to remain sO-with
more real cause for regret on our side.
Many CalIcd-Fcw Chosen
With good schools and no roads we can
learn something, even if we can go nowhere.
-Ledgcr.
That is the argument Of hermit.
But why say ''good schools ?" How
can they be good with from 80 to so