Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-27
Make the First Law of Nature Com
pulsOry.


Hon. Daniel Young wants the mining
law amended to read this way:
No person shall be eligible to the office of
Mine Inspector until he has attained the age
of thirty-fiv years and has been employed at
mining coal in Alegany or Garrett counties
for ten years previous to such appointment,
and who is practical miner who possesses a
competent knowledge of the different systems
of mining and working and properly ven
tilating coal mines, and who has the latest
practical ideas for the further prevention OF
loss of life and accidents in working coal
mines.
"The latest practical IDEAS" ETC.,
consist
|, In every miner protecting HIM
self as he proceeds =
,, In compelling such miners as
neglect the precautions of 'sounding'
and dropping" to protect themselves ;
and
3, In not permitting those to work
who will not protect themselves.
These "ideas" are not only the new
est, but they are the Oldest in this
region.
SO generally ditfused and under
stood are they that every miner in
every mine is eligible to be his own
mine inspector.
Later.-Mr. Young writes to the
Homecoming Recie,o that the bill was
unfavorably reported Wednesday,
and adds:
from a republican county, therefore it must
die the death of all important legislation of
the county of Allegany.
Which is only one of many lessons
teaching the miners that it does not
pay to be republicans in a republican
county"
They should be democrats in a
democratic county.
But the real moral of the whole
business is this:
The miners care more to keep their
politics straig ht, consistent and in
corruptible than about inspection and
ventilation bills.
Mr.. Young finds fault at the wrong
end of the line.
Looks Now Like it Began Where
Charity Does.
The man who started the story is what is
commonly called liar and any man who
republishes it is not any better Ledgcr.
Well, who started it?
Let us see:
Did you tell J. J. Robinson anything about
These questions bear on points of inform
alton gained from one source only.-Lona-
coming Star.
Which would seem to insinuate that
the Ledger itself must have exploited
the story of its celebrated negotiable
achievement, as though it regarded
the ''turn" as a North Pole discovery
in the realm of ''raising the wind"
Perhaps, however, J. J. Robinson is
a liar, and that the Lelger did not tell
him about the fact.
But this will not do, for the Star con-
tinues:
We have others to draw from when these
(questions) have been answered.
And one of the heterogeneous is:
Did you ask certain democratic politicians
in Cumberland to endorse your note?
In spite of all the liars and towards
in this unfortunate dispute, the truth
is slowly but surely re-appearing. 1t
seems to be coming to this-that the
Ledger is placing itself ona pinnacle of
dangerous height when it looks on a
mob of liars multiplying as the weeks
90 by. One man may eventually as
sumo that everybody except himself is
a liar, but he is exposing his own in
tegrity to an awful peril. For the
devil, the reputed father of liars, is
still cunning for his truant children,
and single shot, put where it would
do the most good, might fetch the
Ledger.