Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-10-15
The Old Trick.

The Old Trick.
With the Journal it is simply a
matter of justice-in fact, an over
powering sense of the enormity every
two years of making partisan foot
ball of the tariff on coal of biennialy
making a scarecrow of free trade as
an imminent danger.
1t is reflection ON the boosted in
telligence of the miners it is an
absolute challenge to the world that
here we politicians stand-not behind
the miners interest, but behind their
impregnablc ignorance and insur-
mountable gulibility,
And here they are again this year
with the same old cry when they know
that the Mckinley Act, which they are
pledged to perpetnate, has practically
made coal free "a condition which
they cannot change and are sworn not
to try to change
Hence, if the miners reaiiy wish to
place coal where it was prior to the
Mckinley enactment the essential
thing to do is to repeal TINT n,r,' This
is not merely IA democratic fact, but it
is a Business tact
The difference, then, between the
two men before the people is this:
Mr.. Wellington is pledged to keep
coal down where it is and everything
else up where they are.
Mr.. Mckaig is pledged to re-cstab,
lish coal upon its former basis for the
benefit Of the miners as prodHcers, and
to reduce everything else to neces-
sary revenue basis for the benefit of
the miners as cOHSumerS'
This statement may be evaded, but
it cannot be successfully denied.
Is Coal in Danger.
The present tariff on coal is down to
the revenue basis.
Hence, coal is not Unprotected for
projections sake.
Under reciprocity with any country,
ercept Can0da, the exchange of coal
for other commodities would be pure,
simple free trade, resulting in new
markets for our product.
Under reel procity 2cHh Canada, the
great probability is-to say the very
least of it, we would lose our best
market IN 0nr o~n country and gain no.
thing abroad.
Now then--who wants Nova Scotia
coal under reciprocity?
New England, for it was New Eng
land had that provision put in the
Mckinley bill as the sine qua non of its
support of the measure.
Next who is pledged to sustain the
Mckinley Act. including reciprocity
We will tell YOU:
1t is the same people who bamboozle
you with the idea that coal is in danger
Of free trade when they themselves
have already placed it ON free trade
footing?
The issue is:
New England and Nova Scotia-or
Georges Creek
Is coal i'll danger
Must be the New Heaven and Earth.
The poor mans blanket is a very important
| matter. Mr.. Wood, following Mr. Cleveland
| declares that the door man pays a tax of %
cents apiece on every blanket he buys.
x \ Nnety-ve cents apiece The
merchants of Kevser are selling pretty fair
blankets at from Go to 10 cents apiece-Keyser
| E,Ho
That seems to be strange
But what is superlativelv strange
is-how TIE price of wool and the pay
of labor, to say nothing of the profits
Of the manufacturer, the jobber and
the merchant, are increased in a
system which lowers their income.
| In the matter of coal, too, the miner
is informed that the tariff increases ms
wages. but the consumer of coal is told
that the tariff cheapens his fuel.
Moreover, in New England the voter
is urged to perpetuate the Mckinley
! Act. for next year under that measure
we will have free coal ~
On Georges Creek he is told the Act
must be continued, Observation-Disclosures
because-no matter what happens coal
is always in danger Of democratic free
trade
Truly, there are more anomalies,
paradoXes, eccentrcities, contradic,
tons, alterations and oddities in high
tariff rotionnle than "were ever dream
ed Of in our philosophy
The Difference.
There are three thousand miners in Ale
/ gany county who desire to ask Mr. McKaig
| whether or not he is i'm favor of free coal >