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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
Twins.

Next Tuesday three commissioners
representing the United States will sail
for Europe to attend an international
monetary conference at Berlin.
In other words, they are going over
there to make some agreement fixing
the st0f"S Of silver, the poor mans cur
rency.
Did it ever occur to "Chinese WALL
people, who think themselves 50 indie
pendent of Europe and European pro-
auctions, that the value of our money
has to be fixed outside the wall
In short, that we are Independent of
Europe IN every respect except that
which concerns the vital breath of
commerce-internal as well as en-
ternal
With such pretensions Of independ-
ence, is it not a little humiliating that
the greatest gold and silver-producing
country in the world should have to
cross the Atlantic to see what are the
best terms on which Europe will CON
sent to ,ceigh our bullion and rate our
coin!
If we can 90 everything inside the
wall, why can't we make our own
money from our own silver and gold?
Why is our own silver, the product
of mi"j"g labor, the only mineral over
whose value we have not absolute
control
We will tell you:
The Chinese wall pretense is a
fraud.
The international conference is a
conspicuous confession of It.
Reciprocity Is another.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
The Seen and the Unseen.

Somebody reports that some of the
company people are opposed to Mr..
Wellington because, being the head
Of the ring, he is responsible for high
county taxation.
1t is even published that it costs one
of the companies t'cctty HouSand dollars
to do business here.
If this be true, it is because the COM
pany sees the taX-gatherer in pyopria
per%0H", which, being interpreted,
means in person.
And if this be a good reason for a
company to kick, what would the
miners doif they could SIC the invisible
taX-gatherers who take from their
houses, clothes and tables $ereu hun3ied
and Hirty,hee Non$a,M dollars per ann'tm
more than is necessary to keep the
government going
And the wolst Of it ali is-thc gov
eminent gets II very small part of it ,
THE -gatberer& keep il!
With such rate of open. broad
daylight taxation levied so the people
could see it. there would be revolu-
ton in this country inside of year
that would awaken the dead.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
This is Plain Now,

Now the JOURNAL has from the COM
mencement Of its brief political career, in
sisted that there was no protective duty on
coal, and that the seventy five cents a ton
tariff was for revenue only and not for pro-
lection. The JOURNAL repeats this assertion
in its issue of Saturday, accompanied with
the amazing contradictory statement that
labor receives serenity cents of this incidental
protection. In plain English the JOURNAL
first declares that there is no duty on coal
that is protective in its character, md then
admits that the labor of this region is
benefited by the existing tariff to the extent
of seventy cents ton.
Therefore the tariff on coal is direct
benefit to this region, and we are glad that
the JOURNAL admits Northumberland NemS.
The JOURNAL has never said that
the duty on coal was for revenue
only and not for protecton.'
The most it has contended for is that
the duty is already down to the rev
enue basis, and to that extent it is pro
tected and no more.
We offered that contention explicit
ly to show that what little comparative
protection the miners ha We Is fully ac-
corded to them 10y their employers.
Which can be said of very few other
industries.
For instance, not of 4 Cumberland
glass factory, where the profits, we
understand, amount to over POO per
celd.
And yet the poor glass workers.
without their big share of the earnings
thus implied, are frantically exhorted
to stand side by side with the more
fortunate miners in whooping it mp
for IA little Reciprocity with capital
r, and for big retaliation with a very
little letter of the same genus.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05

Before miners 90 to the polls they
should consider that Il vote east for Il
high tariff on commodities they con
sumo and low tariff on the single one
they produce is an acknowledgment,
made in their only sovereign capacity,
that they are getting more wages than
they need.
Moreover, that vote for the con
tinuation of the current high tariff ON
what they consume carries with it Il
vote for reciprocity free trade door
ohendy open to welcome coal.
Finally, remember, that while Mr..
Wellington cannot vote Tor Andrew 5
free coal bill, he will be obliged to do
so if IN The next republican Congress
Andrew changes his tactics and sueaks
rec coal through Mr.. WelIington's most
dangerous hobby reciprocity
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
Whnf VIII He Do y

The Cumberland Ne,cs insists that
Mr. Mckaigis committed to the policy
of repeating the Mckinley Act and is
thereby bound to vote also to place
coal on the free list. Then it contends
that
Mr.. Wellington is not so bound His party
on the contrary, is the especial champion of
protection, and stands fully committed to re-
tain the tariff on coal, tin, wool, lumber,
cotton ties, binder Irvine, cement and glass.
Now, then, let us ask the Meas a
plain, simple question
If President Harrison is reelected
with a Senate and House in harmony,
as the Ne,cs expects and wishes, will
Mr.. Wellington for any reason vote
for bill adding coal to the unduti-
able list under the reciprocity pro-
vision?
In asking this question we are apply
ing the same test to Mr.. Wellington
what the Netcs applies to Mr.. Mckaig.
In other words, if McKaig cannot
escape from the so-called free trade
manaclcs of his party platform, by
what modusopefundii is Wellington going
to stand everlastingly by reciprocity
when it does not reclprocate. and kick
it out Of doors when it does?
If he votes for the bill we have
described, coal will go on the free list
If he votes against it, coal will stay
where it is, but his solemn, extra
emphatic promises to sustain at all
hazards the principle of reciprocity
will have gone glimmering into space
on the wings Of the viewless winds.
Let us suppose, in addition, that the
cattlemen and butchers want hides
taken off the free list, will Mr.. Wei
lington vote for or against IT.
If he votes for it. what becomes of
the principle Of reciprocity? Wont
he 90 to the other and worse extreme
retaliation
If he votes against it, what eXplana
ton can he make to the cattlemen who,
wanting hides off may with that
"fellow- feeling which makes us Won
drous kind, help him 10 keep coal off
Gentlemen, if there is anybody in
this campaign who is really between
the Old Boy and the Ocean Blue that
gentleman is Mr.. Wellington.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
AXfIl.

1t is venture, perhaps, to suppose
at these headquarters that the Cum
berland Ne,cs has changed its mind
concerning the alleged rout, but we
take the risk.
Our greatest regret is, that being Il
labor paper and not political organ,
the JOURNAL is not sufficiently foot
loose to show the Ne,cs what a real
stampede is.
The man who held another down
with his nose between the latter's teeth
obtained a faint idea of how it hurts to
whip fellow, but his experience is
nothing compared to the pain of
running horse, foot and Dragons,
pell nell, heels oyer head after Il
crowd that ticks you.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
Things Not What They Seem.

The JOURNAL soemuly assures the Cum Der
land Nc~S that il is ,,ot ucgc, 1co$ and ucyey
~jN be a democratic organ-Frostburg jour
NAL.
The above reminds US of story. A man
whose purple vISUge and intlamed nose bore
all the indications of the owner being a heavy
drinker, was asked by stranger to Join him
i'll glass of something strong. TO the sur
prise of all present the red-nOScd individual
replied that he never drank anything strong
cr than water "Thcn, my friend, - replied
the stranger, you ought by all means take
in your sign. Cumberland Ne~S.
Which should teach tire Ne,rS that
appearances, like the free trade
bug-a boo, "are decci.fuln
The JOURNAL may appear democratic
but in politics it can take nothing
stronger than water" Frostburg new
vintage preferred.
The Ne~s' miSadVentIres in iIlustra-
tive anecdotes, like those disasters it
calls 'routs. reminds the JOURNAL of
the clerical-looking man who. when
asked ''who was the first king of the
Jews" guessed SAUL" and was so
elated at his fortune in striking the
mark that he incautlously added:
Saul, atterward called st. Paul.
He should have taken in his sign =
But as Roy l.. McCardcll has the
IN 0prOp0S business:
And the same old cheStnuts fall
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
And perhaps it is not.
Nous reyY0nS.

1t becomes the JOURNAL now to state
that the esteemed Cumberland Ne"S,
reinforced by our valued friend. B. A.
Richmond, claimed that nobody but
the JOURNAL ''ever discovered the
fart" that soft coal is eligible to the
free list under the reciprocity pro
vision of the Mckinley Act.
Mr.. Richmond went so far even as
to read the provision and to impress
his auditors with the notion that be
cause it was not already there it never
would be there
In entire REPUTATION of the Netrs
Richmond claims we showed last
week
/, That the JOURNAL took its cue
from Frank l4eslie's II'eedly, Il popular
paper, owned by Russell Harrison,
the President son. and
,, That the N'eekly threatened the
Reading coal combination with this
pr0hu}tctaMento'
If they should seek TO perpetuate their
monopoly, Ne" Engiaud at ieoSt may be ex-
pected to SoeedHy dcmond recipyocity ,ciM thu
Dominjon as to cooi'
From this we took our warrant, and
it will be noted
|, That there is another paper that
takes the view that coal is an article
for which we may trade on free terms
with Canada, and that took this view
September S, lS02-a month before the
Journal referred to it.
,, That New England at least may
be expected" not only Ito Demand
but ''speeljly demand reciprocity with
the Dominion as to coal
Now, the JOURNAL will beg no ques-
ton, but it must ask in all fairness
which is right--the H'eei7y, speaking
for a large consuming population,
among whom free foreign coal is a
aeSideI"tum and reciprocity the last
resort, or Mr. Richmond, representing
a comparatively small body of pro-
ducerS, and imagining reciprocity as
TO coal myth merely because he and
they never heard Of it before
In briefer terms, will we accept the
New England view, where the scheme
originated, or the Georges Creek view,
where the danger is explicitly and EN-,
phatically confessed as hitherto I'M
seen!
With due Difference TO Mr.. Rich.
mOnd's reputation as good lawyer
and the highest respect for him as a
gentleman, the JOURNAL Is compelled
by the empowering logic of the
environment 10 decide for itself that
Mr.. Harrison knows more OF that
species Of legal language in the reel.
procity provision which conceals
current thought and ultimate in
tent than Mr.. Richmond has had
time or opportunity TO seek or inter
pref.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
It VIII Come Some Day.


Will the JOURNAL mention the time when
threatened to place coal ON the free list
Cumberland NerS.
Not exactly.
But the JOURNAL can remember very
distinctly a republican House Of Rep
resentativcs that tried to put coal
from 81 % down TO 80 cents. and came
within an ace of doing it.
But for the interested Pennsylvania
republican support John Richie was
able to add to his democratic backing,
New England would have succeeded
in getting the rate to 80 cents.
Again:
Did not the danger always arise under
democratic auspices
Yes-Iooking at it from Mr.. Nc
Comas' standpoint.
But every solitary proposal looking
to placing coal on the free list has
always origiuatd in Ner Englaud, just
where reciprocity was last consecrated
as the only one thing that made the
Mckinley Act redeemable.
And Mr.. McComas was always cute
enough to lay republican New Eng
lands crime at the door of the demo-
cratic majority, simply because it was
water on his wheel to do so.
In the last Congress. however. he
eXerted himself to his utmost to unseat
members enough to pass bill which
raised "protection from 4G to 60 per
cent. on eterythjng the miner consumes
and left the one thing he produces at
% per- cent.
More than that, he opened the doon
in the reciprocity principle for coal to
90 on the free list.
These are plain business us we'll DIS
political facts.
And they make beautiful spectacles
Of the people who are running around
here yelling free trade at the Chicago
platform
But they have so long taken the
populace for fools that they think the
end of the string of gullibiity is not
yet.
And perhaps it is not.
N0MS re110n&.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
An Absurd Alternative.

The Cumberland Aecrs published
W ednesday the bill of Hon. John F.
Andrew. of Massachusetts,, now before
the House, to make coal free.
Mr.. Andrew is Il democrat. but-he
lives in New England. Because he is
a democrat and because the NerS
affects to think the Chicago platform
applies to the p per- cent. 0d rol0ren
articles, when it has reference solely
to the 60, 20, 50. 90, 100, l25 and 80
pen cent. commodities. the funny con-
tention is put forth that McKaig wont
dare to perform the easy task of keep
ing coal al the level toward which
everything the miner consumes should
come.
The crowning iniquity of the whole
business is-that the people of this
region should be continuously gulled
into the belief that it Is paying bust
ness to live at a cost of 60 per- cent. on
% per cent. income.
But to return,
According to Ne~S' logic--if the
Chicago platform required McKaig to
commit suicide. he would have to do
it, or be damned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
CONCERNING RctIrcmrni-

The Frostburg JOURNAL retlres from the
field Of controversy on the tariff question
neither gracefully nor with credit But it
retireS, all the same, in some confusion and
disorder, o.-Cumbcrland Nc"S.
That is only i'll the Ne,ry' mind.
And i'll its mind only apparently.
Now let us see who h0s "retired" in
somewhat the same style The Old
Guard" recoiled from its intrepid break
against the English legions.
Both the Ne,rs and Mr.. Richmond
with great flourish incautiously pro-
claimed that no paper in this country
had ever thought of coal as a com
modify liable to 90 on the free list
under the free trade provision Of the
Mckinney Act-eXcept the JOURNAL.
But the JOURNAL cited Frank Leslie's
IFeetiy last week, owned by President
Harrison's son, us the diScovcrcr Of
something written between the lines
Of the Mckinley Act which Mr.. Rich
mond said could not be there-because
he couldn't see it.
And now both the Nery and Mr.
Richmond have "rctired' to "A seclusi0n
whose quiet is so intense that the foot
fall OF a fly comes to the sensitive
reciprocity ear like Il clang from the
region of doom.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
Only.

This is nothing so ostcnsibly eX-
hlIarating as resolving ones self into
a spasm of home made galumpuous-
ness. For instance:
In the closing days of the great political
battle, the Daily Nccs has several things to
congratulate itself upon. 1t has conducted
the campaign strictly along the line of issues
involved in the canvass and It has demolished
the Times and routed in confusion the rein
forcements sent to its aid in the shape of the
brilliant Frostburg MINING Journal. With
this record and the assurance of victory, the
Ne,rS feels happy.-tumberlan Ne,cS.
IT the Nctcs has explained ''along the
line of issues involved in the canvass
ho1r Il dutiable article is made cheaper
by adding to its price, or how high
wages can be based on low costs, we
have not seen the article.
But little lapse like this is nothing
TO the satisfaction Of having ''dcmol
ished the Time&,' which has treated
the issue Of tariff quite literally,
and ''routed the JOURNAL" which has
endeavored only to destroy free trade
i'll coal as II biennial scarecrow.
But the JOURNAL will not regard the
Ne'rs as really happy until it turns
i'll and wallops Russell Harrison for
suggesting "rec procity with Canada
as to coal'as Il cure for coal combines.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-11-05
Volume and Vchemence

These two words characterize the
frantic wells at Mckaig ard free coal.
They describe with equal felicity
increasing gusts of harmless wind.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-01-14
PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Sue Colston has Como to Balti-
more to spend the winter with friends.
Mr.. j. o. Snyder, Of Hagerstown.
was in our city yesterday on business.
Mr.. Jacob Gardner, on Winchester
Ave-, who has been i'll for some time,
is rapidly recovering.
Messrs. R. L. Snodgrass, M. A.
Snodgrass and Stewart Boyd went to
Baltimore this morning.
Messrs. George and Jacob Gardner,
of this city spent yesterday in Hagers-
town, visiting relatives.
Mrs. N. W. Lynch took advantage
of the low rates to-day, and has gone
on visit to friends in Baltimore.
Mr.. Geo. S. Jennings and Dan'l
Snyder, of the jennings Tea, Coffee
and Spice House, arrived in Baltimore
to-day.
Hon. Holly Armstrong, candidate
for Auditor, on the Democratic State
ticket, from jackson county, w. Va,
is in our city to-day.
Mrs. George Kastle, Of this city, has
been called to Lancaster, Pa, on ac-
count OF the sickness Of her brother-in-
law, Mr.. II. C. Keller.
The Misses Dukehart, who have
been visiting their aunt Mrs. N. D.
Baker, have returned to their home in
Baltimore, much to the regret Of the
young men of our city.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

First Methodist Episcopal Church, corner
Maple avenue and Burke street. Rev. VIM, II
Chapman, Pastor; residence Burke street, ad
joining church.
Sunday school; o a. m. Sabbath services, ii
a. m, and !, 80 p. m. Prayer service Wednesday
$50 D. m.
First Baptist Church, West King street, Rev
r. P. Robertson, Pastor; residence West Burke
street.
Sunday School ESQ a. m. Sabbath service.
II y. m. and 73O p m. Prayer and Praise meet
ing Wednesday 80 o. m
Reformed Church, East Burke street. Sun
day school e.30a. m. Morning seryice II a, m
Evening service 700 p. m. Wednesday eyeninl
service 7a0 p. m.
st. Johns Lutheran Church, corner Queer
and Martin SITS, Rev. Chas s. Trump, pastor
Services sunday II o'clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m
Sunday school e.S0 n. m. Prayer service 7.3l
every Wednesday evening. Seats free. Nisl
tors welcomed.
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church corner
OF Ring and College SITS. Rev. Henry Thomas
Rector.
Sunday School 9a0a m. sunday services a
II a, m. and 1:3O p. m. Children's service frs
Sunday In each month at p. m. Evening
Prayer, Wednesdays at 7aO p. m.
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MrD-wErrER EXCURSION TO WASH.
INGrON VIA n. a q. n. n.

On. Thursday. January isih. the n. 4 O. 4, Il.
VII bern their annual series 81 n,ld-winter on,
curslons 10 Washington from Pnrkerahnrr.
Mheeline. Pittsburgh. and all lntermediats
- Tor similar excursions during preceding win.
tcrs INC .. @ vii oner an exceedingly low
rate an unexcelled train service, and every
convenience o. passengers. : ali 81 which shonid
render the trip very desirable one. With each
succeeding season these excursions 70 the
national capital Are growing IN popular favor.
Washington Is full Of attractions. IL ALWAYS
- congress is N session. The public build.
ines, the white House, the museums and the ART
galleries are always open to visitors free II
elegant private residences, the broad ayenues
the spacious parks and the numberless monu'
Tickets win be valid for return passage ten
days after day Of sale, allowing ample time Tor
visiting NJ Vernon, Old Point Comfort, Rich
m0nd, and other adjacent points.
Tickets from Pittsburgh. Wheeling and inter
mediate points TO hArtinsourg. are valid q
FOR time Of trains and rates of fare consul,
appended table. For sleeping Car accommo
dalton. and detailed Information address near
Cumberland. 7 20 p. M. 0.so .. m. ia.to .. m,
Hancock, lassa, M, lila :. m. aoo p. m. soi
berkeley springs. 80 q M, Us pm. So am
MartinsnurE ~ q M. lis .. M, a.M pm
o.1f am. Rate e225.
Shenandoah Junction, ia.is p. m Rate eiao
Washington Junction, SO =. M, 40 p. m.
as D. m. 1I.b q. n.
For additional trains from Cumberland and
intermediate stations 10 Washington, see pub
lishcd schedule
Correspondence low rates from other stations
Pullman sleepers or Parlor Cars on all Of
above trains.
CHAs. o. sCULL, Gen'tPass. Agent,
o. II. q q. II. X
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bought BY the Barnum show.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA. James A.
Bailey, proprietor Of the Barnum &
Bailey shows, yesterday purchased from
Catharine A. Cooper, widow of the late
James E. Cooper and administrative Of
his estate, the Adam Forepaugh shows,
including all property, right, titles and
good will, attaching to the wen known
concern. Mr.. Bailey Immediately trans
ferred . one-half interest in the purchase
to Joseph T. McCaddon, who has been
the manager of the shows since Mr..
Cooper purchased them from the Adam
Forepaugh estate two years ago.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-01-14
4 PRoM1NENr rIsIrnn

Among the recent visitors Of this
city, was the Rev. L. II. Burns. Of
Iowa, on his return from Philadelphia,
where he was called to attend the
funeral Of his deceased father. He
arrived here Friday night, where he
was met by the family Of his brother.
in-law. Mr.. Patrick Martin, with whom
he spent the night. The following
morning he visited the pastor Of st.
Joseph's Church, Of this city, Rev. H.
y. McKeefry, whom he assisted with
late Mass on Sunday, after which, NOT
having a sermon prepared, owing to
the sad occasion that called him from
his home, he made few appropriate
remarks for the spiritual welfare Of the
congregation.
The afternoon being pleasant, the
Rev. Father accompanied by his niece
and nephew, Mr.. John A. Martin, took
advantage Of the fine sleighing to see
the town. He was very favorably i'm
pressed with the improvements and
progress that had been made since his
last visit. On Monday morning he
said Mass for the repose of the soul of
his deceased sister, Mrs. Patrick Mar.
tin.
He left for his home Tuesday, much
to the regret of the many friends who
saw him off, but Judging from the af-
fectionate manner in which he spoke
of his Parish, his return viii be greeted
with as much JOY as be leaves regret
here.