Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-08-20

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Under the head of ''The Kicker and
the Kick" the Le1ger moralizes as
hereunto appended:
There are in every community more or less
persons who are always willing to object to
anything and everything done by those who
may happen to have control of affairs. And
in Frostburg just now the directors and kick
ers seem to be having field day.
In all candor, if the leading prop
osition be true, why object to Frost
burg having its share of ''feld' sports.
No matter who may be member of the
town council or mayor there is always to be
found quite number who imagine that they
could do the thing so much better and that
the town is going to ruin.
Is that true?
We believe it is-or was-when the
Water Board had charge of the building
of work which the Water Committee
seems unable to add to in fact, able
only to subtract from. At that time
the Ledger was the high-kicker Of the
enllTe klckluP OIlut.
So loud, in fact, do the kickers sometimes
become that it is often necessary to remind
them that the whole universe is not going
backward.
That's it exactly. The Ledger knows
how it iS-or waS-itself. 1t started
in here at Frostburg with II special
mission to reform the town, the county
and the JOURNAL on that same theory
of the rearward tendency of all space,
matter and intellect. After a con
sultation with the grand jury it stopped
reforming the county, and has grad
ually got down at last to the conclusion
that kicking IS immoral, improper and
impolitic. Everything Council does
now, too, seems to make it grin only
the JOURNAL is vile.
Then comes the disjointed observa-
ton:
1t is so easy to fall in the habit of faulttind-
ing and complaining that it is no wonder the
ranks of the kickers are so often recruited
Yes-but it depends very materially
upon the character of the recruiting
officer. The JOURNAL can easily raise
regiment; the Ledger hardly cor
porals guard.
Now then:
Ifyou have valuable or useful suggestions
to offer do so, but do it quietly.
Certainly-all "valuable or useful
suggestions" are best stated on the sly
and best understood sub rosa. Every
body knows that. Which is why
Council must sometimes violate the
organic law it is sworn to observe and
uphold, so that the public may know
nothing of the public business.
No wonder, then, the Ledger enjoins
this:
Don't kick
But readers, do not all of you know
that the injunction, "don't kick is
the highest degree pass word of all
rings
Do you not know that the papers in
this county that do not kick are
not worth a pinch of snuff ?
Do you not know that those papers
that used to kick, but for reasons of
their own have ceased, have no in
fluence whatever on the public mind I?
Do you rot know that if the angel
Gabriel were to employ one of them
as his trumpet to announce that time
shall be no longer" its readers, seeing
the trumpet, would not believe Ga
briel was IN earnest?
Fellow citizens, don't despise the
kicker. He may be sometimes the
hero of "the day of small things" but
in the main he is grain of 1.-The salt
of the EARTH His very existence
pre-supposes a wrong somewhere
which it is his divinely-appointed mis-
sion to publish, relieve, remove. Ifhe
be q good man he is almost certain to be-
come both a missionary and a martyr !;
if a bad man, then God has selected him
as an instrument wherewith He even
tually makes ''the wrath of man to
praise Him."