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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Both Sides Should he Heard

Chairman Wilson, of the Committee
of Ways and Means, is already re-
ceiving notices from the great pro-
tected industries that they wish to be
heard.
Which incllnes the JOURNAL to won
der whether the unprotected industry,
seven times greater than all the others
massed together-agricuIture, will also
be heard.
1t has out-voted the high projections
lists several times at the polls, which are
comparatively easy to reach, but has
always been too poor to go to Wash
ington to attend committee meetings.
Chairman Wilson should invite it
just once, anyhow.
A comparison of unprotected woes
with protection fears might result in a
compromise.
Each heart, we know, understands
its own bitterness in general grab
for governmental favors.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02

The great paper is winning recognition as a
democratic organ. 1t goes as delegate to the
judicial convention, and it is pity that it is
not given the opportunity to make the
nominating speech. Ne~S
The democratic convention kindly
recognized the JOURNAL as an indi-
yldual, not as Il paper.
And as the individual is not given
to public loquacity the pleasant per-
Torrance of making 1.-The nominating
speech" will be delegated to some one
of Mr.. Boyd's far more profound as
we'll as fluent contemporaries.
The speech ought to be so good and
true and Just that even the Ne,cS will
have to publish 1t, or incur the i'm
parchment of not knowing a good
thing by sight.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
1t Wont Work.

The JOURNAL never fails, when the oppor-
tunity offers to indulge in the inuendo that
protection is intended for the select few. The
republican proposition is that 1t is intended
for the protection of the labor of the entire
working class.-Cumberland News.
We have known for some time what
high protection is INTENDED" to do,
but have never been able to find out
how it accomplished its object. For
instance
l, How it cheapens the price of man
ufactured wool to the consumer by
raising the price of raw wool to the
grower and the rate of wages to the
weaverP
2, And how miner can get his
coarse wooden shirt, accompanied by
certificate that its cheapness (O is
the result of high protection, after
probing CD to the wool-grower that the
low price of wool is not due to high
protection 2
You all know what high protection
'intends," but child may vainly
question philosopher-ho'o it "moves
in a mysterious way its wonders to
perform ?"
For instance, hoao can the product Of
a $2l-day's work in New England be
sold on Georges Creek for $29
Yes, high protection '.is paved with
good Intentions"
So is hell
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Raw Materials.

The JOURNAL mistakes the situation al
together when it alleges that the protectionists
of New England are inconsistent in demand
ing free coal. They take the democratic party
at its word. That party has declared for free
raw materals-the JOURNAL itself has called
coal the ''freest of all raw materials
then, should not New England expect free
coal at the hands of the party which insists
so stoutlv that the manufacturers are entitled
to free raw material? The Inconsistency is
to be found on the other side. No democrat
can honestly demand protection for coal
while he approves the Chicago platform by
his vote.-Cumberland News.
In all candor, how can high pro-
tectlonsts want free trade in anything?
If they can. in spite Of Inconsistency,
does not the expression of that want
amount to a complete, substantial,
cheeky confession that high protection
is a system that distributes its favors
unequally to people of equal merit ?
Does it not admit that the whole
system is juggle wherein the rich
man gets the turkey and the poor man
the crow every timer
But the high protectionists, the Ne'os
says, take the democratic party at
its word
Why do they not take the same word
in the pension business Why are
real veterans assured that the glory
achieved by their valor is still to be
shared with deserters, suffers and
teamsters
In brief, why is the democratic
word good whenit suits the purposes
of high protectionists, and bad when
it does not ?
But what most concerns the JOUR-
NAL is the statement that
the JOURNAL itself has called coal the
freest of all raw materials.
The JOURNAL begs pardon. ltnever
said that. 1t did say this:
In conclusion, mark this prediction-when-
ever, if ever, coal is made free of duty it will
be at the demand of protectionists who are
Tree tTaueTS enough 10 Dellepe III lIee raw
materials, and that of all raw materials coal
is the rawest.
The JOURNAL, it will be seen, did
not make that remark for itself. 1t
cited it as funny article of faith in
the eccentric creed of high protection.
But coal is not raw materlal-not in
the sense that wool is. Coal, con-
sumed, is gone forever; wool is a
perennial product.
Coal is wrought from the depths of
the earth at the expense of great toll
and exposure and at the constant peril
to life and limb of the miner wool
grows in the suns and shades of a
pastoral Utopia.
Coal pays the wages Of development
only while the miner is at work, but,
whether waking or sleeping, the
shepherds tleeces are multiplying in
number and weight.
Yet one of the idiosyncrases of high
protection, that New England god of
Georges Creek worship, taxes foreign
wool at the lowest average Of so per
cent. and threatens to let coal in free
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Would Have to he Inverted,

Amidst this seething, frothing contest of
men struggling for political supremacy, there
sits one sage entirely great, calm, serene and
immovable He is the venerable editor of
the Frostburg JOURNAL. May his shadow
never grow less Inshallah Cumberland
Times.
Why should the "sage" be disturbed
when "the heather rage and the wicked
imagine vain things?'
And why should he be a mendicant
of popular preferment when, by virtue
of the suffrages of the intellectual elite
of the county, he already occupies its
highest Office?
Hence, it has come to pass that a
rod, adjusted on this tripod to attract
a stroke of official lightning, would
have to be erected point down.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
RespectfuIIy Referred.

The Coal Trade Journal propounds
the following question:
If Canadian coal costs 1878 at Boston, duty
paid, and coal from Maryland can be deliver
ed at IS per ton. with the advantage of its
quality, where is the necessity of becoming
alarmed?
The question being vital one just
now, the JOURNAL will jump over the
head of the Neaos and refer it to the
high protection county nominees, who,
it will be remembered, haye exclusive
jurisdiction, as per last Tuesdays
resolutions.
1t must be recalled, also, that they
have jurisdiction of nothing else-not
even by implication.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Double Robbery.

Those long wiDded resolutions of
last Tuesday show that the convention
was tempestuously in favor of tariff
protection Of American labor"
Let us follow a blanket from the
sleeps back into Canada.
AS wool it is highly protected at
about a 80 per cent. ad calorem rate
mixed with little cotton yarn,
similarly protected, it is highly pro
tected at rate not less than &C pc,
cent. ad gal0rem. That is to say an So
cent blanket costs the manufac turel
about 80 cents. or a $l.66 pair about
81.
While the American workingman,
however, is paying s. cents for the
blanket, the Canadian can get the
same blanket for G5 cents.
And while a Georges Creek miner
has to pay 81 &C for pair of blankets,
his competitor in Nova Scotia gets the
same American make for 81.
Why is this ?
Because our enterprising manu-
facturers of all goods do not confine
their sales to the 'home market"
No pent-up Utica contracts their powers
The whole boundless continent is ours
say they, and into Canada they 90 tc
compete with free trade England.
Thus american labor" instead OF
being protected" is twice robbed
l, OF the 66 per cent. on the actual
cost of his wooden goods. and
2, OF equal right to buy in all the
markets where our manufacturers are
at liberty to sell.
These manufacturers are the same
people who, after helping Nova Scotia
miners to dig coal cheaper than we
can, turn upon our home miners, al,
ready over-taxed for their special ben,
eft, with demand for untaxed Nova
Scotia coal-on the plea that they can
get it cheaper.
The climax of impotence would
seem to have been reached.
But yet higher point was scaled
last Tuesday when a convention il
this maltreated county formally anG
unanimously declared the fear thai
''the democratic Congress would mo-
curtail the power of the factory to re
duce our miners to complete subsection
The pibroch winds out the slogan
''the funeral march must not be ar
rested!'
And the SUPERFICIAL refrain goes W
to New England from "ole Allegany,
in the language of job
Though He STAY me, yet will | trust il
Him
The JOURNAL has not seen in al
Israel q faith so great.
Nor in all the territory of moral evi
q slavishness so ill-requited.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Riches Which Impoverish.

The city of Cumberland has purchased a
new engine for its water works in order to
have ample water supply and better protec-
ton from fire. Homecoming needs water
works more than Cumberland needs new
ngine.-Lonaconing Repiew.
Yes-especially more than an engine
to pump more Potomac water into the
outlets of the people.
Which reminds US there are several
things of which people can have too
much-poor land, bad water, mlddy
politics and high protection.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Keep Still.

The public waits with FACILITATING eagerness
to see what Nestor Oder will have to say in
this weeks Frostburg JoUNAAL as to the
methods whereby Doub pulled the Ring"
chestnuts from the anti Hohing fire.-Cum-
berland Times
Patience patience old man that's
puddle nobody should stir--at least
for little while.
This is confidential.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
BreViticS.

The town council of Homecoming has
named Tuesday, October 3, for the
people to vote upon the issue of bonds
in the sum of $4,000 to build water
works. The published proceedings of
the meeting evince sensible talk and
an intelligent forecast of the towns
needs and means of supply. The
movement ought not to fail. A water
supply at Homecoming is a far easier
and less expensive accomplishment
than it eyer was at Frostburg.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
The Worst Yet,

The Cumberland independent calls the
Homecoming Star d 'water-mark.'
Moreover-a "foul water mark
Not only so, but ''little foul water
mark"
And caps the climax with "puny
little foul water mark"
The JOURNAL appeals to that pre-
eminent philologist. E. r. johnson. to
learn-where our English diction is
arriving at9
And to Zadkiel to whether
"watermark' is not Il new technical
term IN newspaper astrology?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Drive Him Out.

A preacher at Lafayette. Ind, is re-
ported to have about broken up his
church the other day by saying in a
sermon that "God made the earth in
six days and then he rested; then he
made man and rested again; then he
made woman and since that time
neither God nor man has had rest
Louisville COurier-J0urnal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Advice Good as Scripture Lesson.

Stop croaking and get down to bust
ness. 1t is the croakers who are lock
ing up money and distressing them
selves and business generally. We
haye big crops and a foreign market
for our surplus. The people were
never more generally solvent. Money
is abundant for all legitimate business !;
but the croakers are on top and coward
ice kills where courage would cure
Coal Trade Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
COUNTY NEWS.
Married..

. At the M. E. Church parsonage.
Eckhart, Wednesday, August Is, 1893,
by Rev. H. r. Savage, Mr.. Alfred S.
Burton. of Frostburg, and Miss Rosa
B. CLANCY, of Borden Shaft, daughter
of the late John C. CLANCY, of the
latter place.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Fact.

The American Coal company has de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of 3
per cent, payable on September 18th.
Much of the credit for the splendid
showing made by this company is due
to Superintendent PARROT, of Iona
northumberland Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Joey Joking Again.

The position the Star has occupied and still
occupies in the confidence of the people is
one never attained by any other paper in this
county, and is one which the Independent can
never hope to notwithstanding Star.
Great judges, Finan, occasional
wrinkles like that are cooler than
wandering patches offrozen sunshine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
EnsIaved Trade Preferred.

A number of newspapers have been at
tempting to scare the public with cholera
news, but their scheme has so far not sue
ceeded.-Lonaconing Reyiew.
To account for which is easy.
Instead of picturlng Old Mortality
with cholera" on his scythe, the papers
should have printed free trade"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
HulnbuS.

The three resolutions adopted by the
republican county convention were
carefully drafted to include only far
off issues and exclude only local ques-
tons.
They elaborate the dangers which
fancifully threaten national finances
under democratic auspices, but make
no reference whatever to the real
reasons why four .ffths of the current
Board of County Commissioners were
RELOCATED to private life.
They announce with great copious-
ness the conventions conviction that
the republican party is the only safe
guard of the country's interests, but
studiously conceal the financial oc-
casion of the determined reform which
proposes radical change of tax
collectors in Frostburg.
They give party sanction to the i'm
pudent declaration that current con-
ditions are due to fear of future leglsla-
ton and manifest the usual sympathy
for high wages, but are silent as the
grave concerning the way the miner
will be highly protected under the
party's big rate of taxation for county
purposes next year.
The three resolutions might have
been grouped in one. The paper as a
whole is a specimen Of gross tautology,
evincing super. serviceable concern for
far-away matters, but not a syllable
about the causes of the late injunction
against the proposed Potomac bridge.
They promise to defend high wages,
but as to taxes, the devil can take all
whose wages are not high enough to
pay the taxes.
They assume, in short, that the
party is still gullible that the con-
spiracy of pretenses which has fooled
it's constituents so long is still robust
and elastic.
All should come TO the Coal Lever.
Does the JOURNAL place them (the working
men) among the select few whom it thinks
ought to be denied protection ?-Cunberland
NeUs.
No, no, no.
But in this land of equality of right
and opportunity, why should we dis
criminate7 Why pretend to protect
some specially, some incidentally,
some not at all ?
Why not all specially, all incidental
ly, or all not at all
Suppose the Christian religion were
based fundamentally on the tariff
policy, what would be thought of it ?
The world would reek with infdelity.
Church practices, in many instances,
are so based, and every instance
furnishes conspicuous part of the
foundation also for all the infdelity
that exists.
Why should the weaver be protected
and not the farmer?
Is the farmer-out under sun OF
cloud, in wind or rain-less working
man than the weaver-under cover and
within walls
Why should the farmer who grows
sheep for wool enjoy seven times more
protection than if he grows sheep for
mutton--as most of them do around
here?
How much less is a farmer a work
ing man as mutton raiser than as
wool-grower?
And how much more as a wool than
as sheepskin grower?
Clearly the JOURNAL is far more
liberal to "the entire working class
than the Neacs.
1t would treat then all alike-not
make flesh of one, fowl Of another and
old red behring's of the rest.
The JOURNAL would protect all as
our miners are-incidentally, not one
specially.
Millions for equality-not cent for
disproportion
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
GENERAL ITEMS.
Half Rate Excursions to the Worlds
Fair.

Half Rate Excursions to the Worlds
Fair.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Co. will run series of special ex-
cursions to the Worlds Fair for which
excursion tickets to Chicago will be
sold at rate of one fare for the round
trip from Baltimore and all stations
west of there as far as the Ohio Riyer.
The dates selected are Aug. 80, Sept. 7,
Band 81. The special trains will con-
sist of first-class day coaches, equipped
with layatories and other toilet conven-
fences, and an experienced Tourist
Agent and Il train porter will accom-
pany each train, to look after the COM
fort of passengers. Stops for meals
will be made at meal stations en- route.
The tickets will be valid for the out
ward journey on the special trains only,
excepting that from way points they
will be honored on local trains to the
nearest station at which the special
trains are scheduled to stop. They
will be valid for return journey in day
coaches on all trains leaving Chicago
within ten days, including date of sale.
Following is schedule of the special
trains and rates from principal stations
in this vicinity;
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
To the Ticket,

Taking the high protection charac-
ter of last Tuesdays resolutions into
careful consideration, it cannot be too
strongly urged on the estimable gen
tlemen who comprise the ticket that
the convention commissioned them to
ignore local questions entirely and
give exclusive attention to protecting
high protection.
But if it should turn out that the
resolutions do not mean what they
say, 1t is earnestly hoped the nominees,
when elected, will be able to assure
all concerned that the county will not
be protected any more than it is by
raising the rate of tax, which is, after
all, tariff adjusted to the supposed
ad vazorem ability of the protected to
pay it.
1t is proper to inform our friends,
however, that owing to some reported
administrative occurrences this year a
lack of confidence will permeate the
body polite until at last each taxpay-
err can place his hand in his pocket
and find anything left after the tax
gatherer has taken his hand out.
The lesson further teaches that it is
a pity all taxpayers can't see the in
visible tax gatherer as plainly as they
can Otto Hohing and the others.
If they could, they would not regard
local, direct taxation, although high,
as onerous at all. They would go
right to knocking and kicking until
the stuffing in the god of high protec
ton would fill toe air and go, like
Shadra cl'S ducks Hvino hellwards
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
A Hint.

In some respects the democratic
party has magnificent opportunity t o
carry the county this fall.
1t has decided advantage on all
the local issues-the only ones which
really concern the people.
But to supplement this the party
must nominate good, capable men for
all the places on the ticket. If it really
wants to win the party must select
men-better men than make up the
other ticket.
If some proposals we hear of, how
ever, are accepted by next Saturdays
convention, the gentlemen on the
republican ticket may "thank God
and take courage"
The game will play right into their
hands.
They need not make canvass or
spend a cent of money.
They are elected already.
Unless a strong Independent ticket
takes the field-strong enough to poll
over third of the popular vote.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-09-02
Should be Literally Supported.


Concerning the short scholastic year
of seven months the JOURNAL is in
formed that the School Board is not
accountable therefor.
The blame, then, rests
1, Upon the County Commissioners
for making en- inadequate appropria-
ton, Or
2, Upon the people who are unwill-
ing to spend the money necessary to
make the schools what their objects
contemplate.
The JOURNAL never hears spread
eagle sermon, taken from the gospel
according to the public school, that it
does not reflect upon the substantial
skepticism with which the people re-
ceive it. They endorse and cheer the
pretty sentiments, but when it comes
to paying the cost of applying them,
they let the schools go on inadequate
support. The result is inefficiency.
Inc system, 10 De eHectlYe, must
be amply sustained. Good tutors and
scholastic years of at least nine months
duration must be provided for.
Otherwise, both money and time
will be inevitably lost in some serious
measure.
Many people should abandon their
jug-handled loyalty to the manufac-
turers and dedicate their high protec-
ton devotion to their children and the
teachers of their children
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-05
A SeIfPropeUine Vessel.

A New York genius has invented
a machine for the self-propuision OF
ships. 1t consists of strong plat
forms, rugged out on either side of
a vessel, that rise and fall with the
roll of the waves and operate a
propeller. The motion Of these
platforms in a strong sea would be
similar to that of the pump-han-
dies of the old-fashioned fire en-
gines when the ''boys" were "shak-
ing her up lively" The inventor
thinks that the tendency of these
outriggers would be to steady the
vessel as well as to force it for
ward. They would operate in a
dead" calm nearly as we'll as in a
storm, for the ocean is never at
rest Elk.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-05
THEY lacked ABILITY.
Why Twelve of the Hawaiian
Band were Dismissed.


Band were Dismissed.
An Advertiser reporter saw Mr..
Henry Berger yesterday regarding
the statement made in Saturdays
Bulletin that twelve of the mem
bers of the Hawaiian band had
been dismissed because they would
not sign the annexation roll.
at is false, every word of it,"
said Mr.. Berger, "ten of the men
were dismissed for disability and
two for bad behavior. They were
all taken on probation and as they
did not fill the bill after a reason
able time their places have been
filled. 1t was their inability to
make necessary improvement that
caused the twelve men to be sent
for from San Francisco"
There were seven natives and
five Portuguese discharged. The
band is now composed of six Port
uguese, three natives and the
twelve musicians from San Fran
cisco.