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Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
CORRESPONDENTS.
An Impartial Suggestion.
FRosrBURG, Mp, Nov. ,, 1898.

FRosrBURG, Mp. Nov. ., 1898
To the MINING JouRNAL.
Some people seem to think that Mr..
John b. Wright and Mr.. Joseph Bear
are running against each other, and
that they must vote only for one or the
other.
Tins is Il great mistake.
| am a friend OF both gentlemen and
expect to vote for both, because can
do so.
Mr. Wright is Il nominee for County
Commissioner for the two-year term
Nh. Bear for the four. year term. The
democrat who wants to vote for Mr..
Wright need not ''cut' Mr.. Bear. and
the republican who wants to vote for
Mr.. Bear need not "cut' Mr.. Wright.
Frostburg and vicinity ought to
have representative on the Board of
County Commissioners, but the tickets
are so constituted that we cannot "cut'
either gentleman without voting our
selves off the Board.
So. my advice to everybody is-rott
for both CITIZEN.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Grover Cleveland.

There is no longer any doubt that
the career of Grover CleYeland proves
that a statesman can be greater than
his party.
Not greater alone, but Drawer.
When the foreign onslaught on sii-
yer as an American asset threatened
to impair American credit abroad. he
boldly took his stand, formulated his
convictions in single demand, and
held tenacious of his patriotic pur.
pose until success at last crowned his
wishes and works with a shining
triumph.
Throughout the trying ordeal he was
the target at which his natural foes
and alienated friends shot their en-
venOmed shafts of ridicule and resent
ment.
Yet he stood amidst it all lunmoved.
And unhurt.
The poisoned arrows fell at his feet
harmless as straws cast against the
impenetrable scales of Leviathan.
a man obviously sent with a great
mission, known at his birth by some
higher than human prescience, he
lives, unlike Napoleon Bonaparte,
"wrapt in the solitude of his own
originality" but in the very isolation
of super-eminent heroism.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
COUNTY NEWS.
The Coal Trade.

Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Creek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending Oct. Is 1S93...... IS, 435
g year to same date. ate...............3,4 8, 431 ,277
Increase compared with last year,. $50, $40
The latest news from the markets is
CLEANED as follows:
The soft coal trade continues to be held
back by lack of vessels at shipping ports.
However, fleet is due shortly from the dis
charging ports, which will relieve the situa-
ton greatly. Considering the difficulties in
shipping coal which have been experienced
of late, orders have not been as numerous as
they should be and contracts are to some
extent being cleaned up. As has been stated
in this column before, consun ers are taking
the mj"iDs"nt amount of coal specified in their
contracts instead of the moEim,tn,, as has
usually been the case in former seasons.
This may seem at first sight not to amount to
very much, but the difference between
the two amounts will sometimes be as much
as %, 900 tons. 1t will thus be seen that the
aggregate difference is considerable when we
take into account the large number of con-
tracts.
The total shipments of most of the pro-
ducers from January 1st to date equal very
nearly, if not entirely, the total production
for 1892. 1t will be remembered that last
year output was handicapped to a consider
able extent by some serious bIockades
There seems TO be a good all-rai trade doing
on all lines. The great numbers of eastward
bound trains from Chicago are interfering to
some extent with the coal traffic to loading
ports. This, however, will be relieved after
the closing of the Worlds Fair on October%1
Transportation Of late has accordingly been
slow from the railroads. The car supply,
considering the facts stated above, has been
quite fair.
Soft coal prices are quoted weak as follows
$3.50 f. o. b. Philadelphia; S2.45 Baltimore
and GeOrgetown S3,l0 the Amboys, with
commission on. These prices are for the best
grades of coal. Inferior grades range down
from these.
In soft coal at Boston there is not as much
doing as one would expect. The mills to be
sure are taking on a stock preparatory to the
coming winters demands, but they have i'll
past seasons bought more. The yards are
taking very little soft coal, which is due to
their policy above outlined.
An advance in freight rates this week
makes bituminous coal considerably trmer
than it was when last reported from here.
To-day Cumberland on cars is worth SO. 800
:3 so per ton; New River and Pocahontas
S3. 50Qi 1856; Clearfeld, $1,000 d$3 35.-En-
gineering and Mining Jou,7a
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
How ii is Working

The most authentic news from the
REVISED tariff schedules indicates an
almost complete slaughter of specific
duties where those duties are com
plicated with aM oa1orem rates.
Ia the woolen schedule, for instance,
the specific duties are removed and a
very small percentage of the od c0torem
taken off.
For instance, the miner who is now
paying for his clothing more than
double the actual cost, will still have
to pay Is per cent.
In other words, he will still have to
pay $21.75 for his $l5 suit.
In still other words, it will cost the
miner $6.75 per $l5 suit for the priy-
ilege, the honor and the glory Of stand
ing by the manufacturer of his
clothing.
But if the latter has his way, he wont
stand by the miner cents worth.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
An ADOStOlic ItteranCe.

The following paragraphs appear
IN the speech of Hon. John Sherman
last Saturday. in the United States
Senate, replying to the silver Senators
The silver mining interest, although i'm
portant to the people whom these senators
represent in the mining region of the cOun-
try, is not nearly as important as they think
it does not compare with any Of the great in
dustries which underlie the riches and the
wealth and the production of our country
cotton, corn, wheat, and the almost innum-
cradle products might name, which are inn
mcasurably more valuable in their annual
supply than silver can be.
4 :: < :;
beg the Senators who come from the sill
do 1t Is not that we desire to injure them
it is not that edo not admire their courage
we take pride in their efforts, but we think,
on the whole, 1t is not wise to adopt silver as
the standard of value and the only standard
of value in this country.
Should coal be placed on the free
list, or should the duty be materially
reduced, this is almost exactly the sort
of consolation that can be offered the
coal miners.
The JOURNAL quotes the Senator
now so that we may understand in ad-
vance that tariff retolmers can treat
our miners no worse than the high
protectionists have treated the silver
miners.
And that the argument for the
slaughter of an industry will be Just as
valid in the mouths of the one as it is
now IN the mouths of the other.
Moreover, the argument comes from
the very apostle Peter of silver pro-
lection, the highest Of all projections,
save one.
On that rock silver built its church
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Deficits.

1t i'll becomes Mr. Candidate Doub to sneer
at the threatened deficit in the national
treasury when, like the deficit in the county
treasury, it is directly the result of his party S
extravagance.-Cumb Times.
The JOURNAL does not believe Mr..
Doub would thus punctuate his
language-eXcept in a Plckwickian
sense.
And as Mr.. Pickwick never "sneer-
ed, y is impossible that such reference,
if uttered, could have been accom-
panied by any contemptuous tone or
facial distortion.
For the time being, however, Mr..
Doub may be the sort of political
philosopher who associates cause and
effect as condolences, but as a tutor
of high sepute he cannot permanently
hold that notion, nor dare teach it.
Late and undeniable testimony es-
tablshes the fact that the present ad-
ministratiOn found the national
treasury as the next board of commits
sioners will find the county treasury
pretty nearly busted.
1t must be remembered, too, that
Mr.. Doub is running for county treas
urer solely on a national issue.
And, since we come TO thank serious
ly about the matter, it is his right,
If not his duty, judged by his platforms,
not to ''sneer' at any condition of
county affairs.
Above all, in tie immortal words of
Judge Waxem, Mr.. Doub il doubtless
aware that
A stump speaker who can't handle the
truth little end foremost amt what his
bizness calls fer.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Explanation.

a correspondent, writing privately,
''does not understand the following
paragraph in last weeks JOURNAL
concerning the object of the Sherman
law:
1t was a sop to the silver element for tariff
support-neXt to the highest form of protec-
ton in exchange for a lower grade.
The JOURNAL classifies protection as
highest, special, high and lowest.
The highest is that which provides
bounties.
Special is that which makes govern
ment compulsory buyer of the
product thus protected.
High is that which prohibits foreign
competition.
Lowest Is that which permits just
enough foreign competition to extort
from consumers some revenue for the
support of government.
In other words, typical articles come
in this order-sugar, silver, wooden
goods, coal.
Hence, to get the support of the
silver element for the tax on wooden
goods, for instance, silver was awarded
the place ''next to the highest form of
protection"
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
The True Cause ForetOId.

Chauncey NJ. Depew has made a
tour of New York and reports that a
great deal of land is ready to slide
land the Maynard ticket will be
showed under by an overwhelming
majority
1t was not to call attention to this
gross confusion of metaphors, where
by ticket is threatened either with
being "snowed under" by landdrift.
or drifted under by snowslide, but to
remark, in reply to the following
Maynard will carry down the whole
democratic ticket | knew there would be
democratic opposition to Maynard, but
had no idea of its extent TIL | made trip
through the State
that it is well Mr.. Depew tells us
beforehand what will be the cause of it.
Otherwise, the result will be charged
in Cumberland distinctly and solely
to ''the fear of tariff tinkering"
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
4 Roundabout Way.

With this issue we begin our eighth year
The conduct of the paper will continue in the
future as in the past, independent-not
neutral. When we have an opinion to ex.
press we shall maintain the right to express
it.-Lonaconing Star.
Why does the Star expect to have to
maintain its right to express an opinion
before expressing it! Is free speech,
like free trade, to be tabooed under
the coming judicial eia? Rather is
editorial liberty to be supervised here
after by judicial critjQue before that
liberty can be exercised?
The star evidently does somebody
injustice, OF, like the high protectionist
always does-it draws 8 straight line
With crooked edge.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Must be a Mistake,

The ring leader was right who said the best
way for the ring to straighten Senator Pearre
out was to tlatten him out by jumping on
him.-Cumber Times.
The JOURNAL takes "the ring lead
er's" remark with an unusual amount
of salt
The Senator is himself somewhat of
a running-starter, jumper ard fatten-
er out.
Besides, in the JOURNALS own
knowledge-the miners owe him more
gratitude than is due to all the repub-
licans from McComas down to Sim.
Rizer, inclusive, for the eloquent and
effective manner with which he jump
ed on and hattened out the attempted
theft of the canal.
Hence, if he is the manly man he
was then. he is not malleable.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
An Omen,

According to the Cumberland Ne,rS,
the democrats were about equally
divided upon this question:
Shall the welfare of the silver miners be
destroyed?
On the other hand it shows also that
- republicans voted for destruction
and 10 against, making y republican
majority for destruction.
When we think of high projections
deadly consideration for mining labor
out in the silver regions. we cannot
help picturing a posse of great big
Greeks ominOusly coming eastward
bearing to ouf mining labor gift in
the shape Of a platform of protection
for home industries
1t is fancy, but one solidly founded
on fact.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Both Divided on Both Issues.

Colorado people are deeply hurt.
The Denver Republican says:
There are more than one hundred thousand
people in Colorado alone that depend almost
entirely on the silver mining industry for
support. If the price Of silver continues to
fal! until the production of it is stopped, the
hardship that it will cause will simply be
incaIculabe There does not seem to be any
ray Of hope in sight either.
Yet, almost without notice, the
livelihood Of this large body of people
was stricken down.
Both the old parties did it.
And when the time comes, if come
it must, when coal mining in this
region sustains a similar stroke of
Legislative paralysis, both the old
parties will have a hand in it in more
or less degree.
1t is, therefore, contemptibly unfair
for one party to charge the other with
designing injury to the tariff on coal,
when it is well-kuown that both parti ies
are divided upon that issue, as upon
silver.
The high protection PLATFORM build
ers of Allegany county, therefore, paid
a poor compliment lately to the in
tellieence of their adherents, and the
latter seem to acknowledge that their
gumption was not overrated.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Or is There Another in the Field

The campaign and election will soonbe over
In the next issue of this paper we expect to
be able to announce the election Of the re-
publican county ticket and Hon. B. A. Rich
mond to be chief judge of this judicial cir
cult. Every indication justiies this prophecy.
Homecoming StW.
With no desire whateyer to be
hlppant or cap1ious, the JOURNAL
would like TO know whether, when the
liberty of the press was on trial in the
person of }. j. Robinson, this is the
same Mr.. Richmond who declared, in
effect, that he would draw an indict-
ment of the palladium that no four
horse team could get through
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Conclusion.

There is considerable felicitation
over the fact in certain quarters that
the eampa;gp has bsen quiet aud I'M
personal.
1t could have been. howeY er, a very
ugly contest.
Whatever the result, those who are
congratulating themselves upon the
advantages which the pleasant char
aqfer o tha discussion of men and
measures has afforded them, t,3ey owe
most Of those advantages to the libel-
aHtY Of Judge Boyd.
That is the fact, although the jour
NAL fears that his consideration for
the proprieties of the situation and his
unobtruslveness have not been as fully
rcciprocated as they could have been.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Stands by Neither.

L""'d Cooking up from the newspaper)-I
see that the P. d. and Q, has gone into the
hands of receiver Perhaps we poor bond
holders may get something now that r. r.
Recker is no longer running the road.
tS".ih,-l m afraid il isn't likely. Eve al
ways heard the receiver is as bad as the
thief.-LUe.
That is the doctrine the JOURNAL
holds, barring Smiths play on the
proverb.
For instance, if the democrats steal
the tariff off coal aud give it to the
New England republicans, the latter
will be just as bad as the thieves.
Consequently, the JOURNAL, which
is an independent labor paper, stands
by neither variety Of thief.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Coal Has a Big Friend at Court.

Senator A P. Gorman's long and
accurate memory enabled HIM to give
Senator Sherman last Saturday some
cold facts offsetting the latter's bump
tious challenges a few days before
about what the special protectionists
Of silver could and would do in the
way of withdrawing that protection if
they were in the saddle.
He did the job so nicely that we will
have to look to him for more of the
same sort when Mr.. Sherman assists
in bossiug the coming high protection
demand for free coal.
There will be no West Virginia
breeziness in Gorman's discussion of
that question.
He knows that the rate on coal is
now down to the revenue level and
can pr0oe, therefore, that it is already
concurrent with the demands of the
Chicago platform.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04

\ Baltimore dispatch saws:
u. B. ODER. EditOI'

a Baltimore dispatch says:
Business men are alarmed at the loss of coal
trade this city has suffered of late. Particular
ly is this alarm felt at the inyasions of New
Port News, and plan is being devised to get
back the lost trade.
Three-thousand- pound tons are a
large factor in the making of the
trouble.
If Baltimore business men can devise
some arrangement that will meet and
beat tons of that size the game is won.
For such tons seem to be the only
abomination connected with the coal
trade which high protection cannot
touch.
High protection is the cure-all of
other sores on the body economic, but
it cant be applied, even with a feather,
to the inequality of tons.
But this ought not to be because it
is IN other spheres of dispensation the
great producer of inequalities and pro
moter Of injustices.
Nevertheless, it appears that Poca-
hontas, working considerably nearer
than we to free trade basis, is taking
the business from this region-a CIR
cumstance that leads to the suggestion
that protection, to be effective, should
furnish us with acorh as wei, as wages.
High wages with no work is a
mockery.
Now, suppose protection were con
dHi0ned upon the wages paid-rathcr,
suppose the same methods prevailed
in Pocahontas By laao that obtains here
through the honesty of our employers,
Pocahontas coal would not have Il
solitary advantage in market over our
product.
Protection would then furnish work
as well as wages.
But, gentlemen, the proposal con-
ditionlng protection Of labor upon the
wages paid to labor was voted down
by the protectionists of labor, and
now we have the spectacle of Allegany
county standing by New England; :;
New England standing by Pocahontas,
and red-hot to drop Pocahontas and
stand by Nova Scotia.
In effect, Allegany, standing by
New England, is opening wide the
doors Of an effusive hospitality to the
free admission of foreign coal.
But to return.
If the Baltimore business people
want to regain lost coal trade, they
must make the protection of mining
labor as effective in Pocahontas as it
is on Georges Creek.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Business Locals.


Read What Mr.. Z. II. Smith Has to
Say.-MAYER DRUG Co.-Gc"ttemen-l wish
to express my appreciation of the merits of
your ''Catarrh Cure" | have suffered with
CatarTh for eight years, and can truly say
that it has given me more relief than any
other medicine / have tried anu il will un
dOubtedly effect a permanent cure.
can recommend Mayors Catarrh Cure to
any of my friends. 7. X. SMITH,
Nassau street, New York.
1t has cured Mr.. Smith Of one of the worst
cases of Catarrh on record with heavy dis
charge ofthe throat. One bottle is guaranteed
10 curt. i will cure you, otherwise, no
charge For sale by al druggists, or address
the Mayer Drug Co., Oakland, Md. Price s..
Sold by A. f. Parker and G. E, Pearce & Co.
Have you called at the Frostburg Denial
Parlors to see Teeth extracted without pain
by Electricity? The current can be adjusted
by the operator to suit the most delicate
child.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
GENERAL ITEMS.
Two Opinions.

Last year the country was repub-
lican; we wanted a change, and we
got it, This year the county is lepub-
lican. Do we want a change similar
to the one we got last fall ? In our
ballots be our answer.-Lonaconing
Star.
Some people say; Give us Me-
Kinley times again" Well, of all sad
cries, that's the saddest. Haven't you
had enough of them yet? We are now
right in the midst of them. Look
around, blind idiot, and see what
Mckinley times" have already done
for the country. -Morgantown CIV.
Va) Nec DOmini0n.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Where Arc We At?

The Cumberland Times accounts of
the amount of territory Maryland ought
to get from West Virginia are as
follows:
l, A half million acres, equivalent to about
ISL square miles.
,, A strip of land 81 miles long and three
fourths of a mile wide at the base If it were
the same width the entire length the area
would be only 274 square miles.
If the Times first statement is correct.
we can easily carve out a new county
if the latter, the job viii not be so
easy.
But 'Independent Democrat comes
along next day in the Times and, charg-
ing t.:is region with weeks work in
both Georges Creek and and Elk Car
den, argues that our coal is going ont
at a rate which exhausts about an acre
a day.
If this be correct, it is hardly worth
while for us either to seek e new
county or kick against free coal.
The territorial matter is pending in
the Supreme Court of the United
States the free coal business in the
com mittee on ways and slaans.
Just at this moment, therefore, we
seem to be IL two transitional anG
critical situations, and every next
minute may develop the thrilling fact
that 1--WE aint dead yit.' hut 'still on
praying grounds and pleading terms
with Providence that has followed
us benignly all along the course of our
Suuworthy lives"
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Lesser Evils.

1t seems there are forty-one custom
houses in the United States that do
not take in enough duty to pay their
running expenses.
Hence, they outlive their income.
Still, under the system of high pro-
lection it seems we must have them.
They prevent more or less smuggling,
and that is something.
Which is about as good an excuse
for perpetuating an unsightly expense
as that in the South for keeping razor
back swlne--that it doesn't pay to
raise a hog that cant run faster than
a nipper.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
\ Tariff Lesson.


a New York carpet factory, located
just outside of city limits, is furnish
ing q luminous example of how high
protection protects in the following
reliable statements:
Its proprietOrs have taken lot of their
stock to England where they have been able
to sell them i'll open competition with the
English manufacturers and sOundly beat them
on their own vantage ground.
OF course the price of the carpets sold
abroad was, owing to the Mckinley duty,
Just about half what New Yorker would
have to pay.
The prices below show how much
more the New Yorker has to pay for
carpets made at home than the
Londoner for the same goods:
For $40 carpet the New Yorker pays
$40 the Londoner 50.
For 81 carpet the New Yorker pays 81
the LOndoner 81.
For 75-cent carpet the New Yorker pays
81 .65; the Londoner - cents
1t will be noticed, too, that the rich
mans carpet costs him only 70 per cent,
over the London price the well-to-do
mans 100 per- cent, and the poor mans
l2O per- cent.
This is the sort of ''home mdustry''
we are standing by, sustaining and
wanting to perpetuate.
And it is fair illustration of the
way we are paying the foreigners
taxes.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
snPeuuiteu LOYALTY,

One dollar reward tor de pame of a
county in New England whose hign
protection platform embodies coal as
as home industry, either express or
Implied.
Ailegany COUNTY is evidently stand
ing alone in the business Oh ptauding by.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
A Manifest Duty.

One Of the first things the legislative
ticket-elect should do next winter is to
get that provision OF law repealed
which ''protects" the county Into pay
ing Cumberland's municipal election
expenses.
To neglect this duty viii be to lc-
exemplify the long-carcd legislative
wisdom which permitted the injustice
to become law.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04

The Salisbury PaD .Star thinks the
democratic notion which ascribes
the current depression to the silver
agitation, and not to the tear of tariff
tinkering, is joke.
The democrats have some distin-
guished republican company, one of
whom is +. O. Leech, ex-Drector of
the Mint
En- PaSsa"t, it is proper to remark
that Mr.. Leech, unlike the Star, knows
whereof he talks, and is no. joker.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-04
Not so Fast.

Republicans here on Georges Creek
ought not to brag on the fact that more
republican than democratic Senators
voted for repeal.
10 do so is to boast also that more
republicans than democrats struck
down a vast body of miners who were
really protected.