Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-09-10
CORRESPONDENTS.
Skeletons in Our Closet.

many lIOuSllS W HIS IilIilb'
We are fast approaching the crucial
test of liberty, and when the smoke of
reaction has been waited from above
| its cap, | doubt not the pure amalga-
nation will remain. Americans, as Il
rule, have labored underline erroneous
| Suppostion that since we have severed
connection with all European powers
we have the goddess devoid of all i'm
| peachments. Late events must, how
ever, prove to all reasonable minds
| that our Wanted freedom under the
| influence of which ambitions may have
full scope and opinions full vent, is IA
farce and a cheat.
Gradually, stealthily and surely.
| poison has entered the great arteries
of the nation. Soon-even now, the
beginning throes of conyulsion are
| shaking it from the Executive chair
to the peasants abode. The poison
has entered, say, but what shall be
the antidote who will speedily ad-
minister it ? and will il suffice
These are not questions excited by a
| dieto ted idea of the trouble. | am
not pessimist, and would, if it were
| possible, put the mildest construction
and draw he most pleasing picture of
! the scenes which have just occurred.
But to what end, when Il real for
mldable trouble stares us in the face,
1t Is best to grasp it in Its most hidcous
aspect, and form. therefore, the most
| effective plans for eXtrication
1t Is not my object IN writing this
article to offer any suggestion or to
diagram Il mode of attack upon the
| t,,n l,la E,,. f.rs, I f,,1 |,
and. again, were able to give prop
er and tangible solution, | should feel
disposed to alnw older heads and more
experienced minds to propose the
sedative. | desire only to refer to an
affection that has come upon us of the
gravest nature and capable of throw
ing the country into Il most disastrous
plight.
During the past four decades the
| world has indeed made wonderful
strides in the realm of knowledge,
until now one would think the end had
been reached-thatw we now stand upon
the proverbial pinnacle, with all the
yassals of improvement doing homage
at our feet. Our really glorious ma
ton may lay junction to It's soul fot
having contributed the bulk of dis
covery which has perfected some of
| our greatest inventions, and whilst we
seem to have reached the end believe
we are on the threshold of more start
| ling ard substantial DEVELOPMENTS
than are as yet credited to us: honors
| of which we do not dream will be
heaprd upon US; but the speedy con
summation Of this prediction will de-
pend entirely upon the adjustment Of
many Inconsistencies now existing and
which, if allowed to operate, will wrest
| the strength and glory from our hands.
The strikes and lockouts which have
| been chronicled in the past few months
| must introduce us to a broad and deep
| lesson to be cOnned over, and the de-
gree of accuracy with which we mas
ter the details will mark the efficacy
Of the cure.
The contentious Just mentioned be-
tween capital and labor have perhaps
added few new featuresto question
which has become hOary with age.
From time to time they have wrestled
together for the mastery and ever and
anon they seemed to have come to
amicable terms. But we must not
longer hug the delusion or become
reconciled to the thought that two fac
tons SO decidedly at variance may be
conciliated by any other means than
by radical and thoroughly systematic
| Treatment 1t Is Il question that re-
| qulres searching power, such as
mercury is to the human syScm-quick,
sure and universal, permeating to every
assailable point. SO far no one has
presented Il method by which the two
great factions might labor in unison.
A great many so-called reformers are
| sprlngingu up here and there who claim
to under: tand the difficulty. and pro
duce plans without number, but as a
rule these are devoid of the divine
spark, and if followed would usually
lead to greater disaster and bloodshed
| The inspired mind has yet to be usher
ed in: May it be in the near future
He is needed, and if the occasion
makes the man we shall soon have IL
birth that will be of the utmost sig
uficance to mankind. A reformer
who reforms in truth will be IL godsend
| truly. One who seeks the greatest
good for the greatest number and al
lows visions of personal aggrandize-
ment to go by AS SHARES and doluSlOnS,
n man with soul, whose mind is not
enthralled, and not bounded by the
narrow limits Of self and clique-no
walking delegate who generally rides
at the expense Of the contding breth
rem and voluptuously furnishes his
home with the etfete things Of the land
no master workman who ostensibly
rants and tears the clothes of opuleuce
from the shoulders of monopoly and
secretly joins hands and clinks glasses
with them-no fanatic, anarchist,
autonomist, nihilist, communist and
what not, who walks the earth loaded
with bombs and all manner Of destruct
i've machines to rid US Of what We alb.
Solutcly need, viz : the men of money
/ and brains. These are not reformers
but destroycrs. We need man who
has triumphed over all things that tend
to drag principle and integrity to
dust ; a man who has placed hlS actions
in complete harmony with Gods plan
regarding us with reference to eternity.
1t is said that ''every family has its
skeleton in the closet" | believe it,
and the same is true of nations.
We are on the eve of great polt
zeal struggle between two parties, the
| equal of which in brain and manipula-
ton if is impossible to find on the face
Of the earth.
When we consider the issues some.
times set against each other, the deep
feeling of personality evinced in every
voter regalding his particular Sentl-