Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-25

as dlscocery so much as to indicate
that there is something fishy in the
revival of an old discussion in very
unexpected quarter.
When Greeks come bearing dona-
tons, even the very elect should
beware.
Correction.
Taxpayer" writing in the Iona
coming Star opposing the grant of
portion of the county roads to the
Electric railroad people, says:
When bonds are to be issued for any pur-
pose however laudable, (our new school
houses, for instance the consent of the voters
and taxpayers must be obtained through the
ballot box before the commissioners can pro-
coed to pledge our property and public domain.
Taxpayer" is mistaken about the
schoolhouse bonds. These were never
endorsed By the people at "the ballot
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The JOURNAL does not make this
point in behalf of the Electric road
project.
1t makes it in strenuous opposition
to the principle of imposing debt upon
the people without the peoples formal
consent, even for educational purposes.
The very same Legislature which
authorized the schoolhouse issue of
bonds without referring the matter to
the people. required the endorsement
of the people of Frostburg upon bonds
for securing water-a want far pre-
ceding that of education.
This was in pursuance of Cumber-
land idea that the county is safer as a
basis Of credit than a town, the same
view overlooking the fact that the county
is here in this region'
1t was another instance showing
that Cumberland can trust only itself
to attend to both county and outside
municipal business.
The Subject Which is mot Pulled
Up"
The editor and the preacher ex-
changed positions last Monday.
The preacher occupied the pew
seats otherwise SO year, and this is
what he heard:
We are liberal people. The Ledger is led to
this reflection by the fact that one of our
churches during the past twelve months
contributed over $500 to a missionary fund
to preach to and teach the people of India,
Africa and other foreign counties.
1t is with pleasure that we note such
liberality, but there is danger that in striv-
ing to excel each other in providing for the
needs of the heather we forget the needy
nearer our own doors. Yes, nearer our own
doors, for as these lines are printed there are
within our borders people who have not
enough food to eat, people whom these chill
ing blasts of winter find without sufficient
clothing to warm their bodies; yes, and
children, little children, whom Jesus loved,
without shoes to cover their little feet. Think
oft, Christian people, that while you sit in
your warm churches and sing songs of praise
to an all wise Creator there are human beings
without the means to support the body.
Isn't this a sad state Of affairs in town
that has so many churches and ministers?
Where are the Christians ?-Frostbure
Ledger.
The town is pretty we'll stocked with
them, but where is the Ledger at7 We
mean the paper that knoaos whereof it
speaks 7 Where is its list of those who
hunger, and are not clothed, especially
the little children" whose tender feet
are unshod
Make out that list and let an appeal
based upon it be read in every church
tomorrow morning and see how Gods
largess will flow to the suffering ones
in food that will shame the aurifer-
Gus glory of the tabled river of
Pactolus.
Then proclaim the call from the
housetops, and see how your fellowship
of unregenerate salvationists will
evade, and bubble, and lie to get out
of their share of charitable duty-like
capitalists under an inquisitorial sys.
tenn establishing under oath their
poverty.
The moral of this challenge is-it
does not lie within the province, or the
propriety, or within the pretensions of
charity-dodgers to call gospel people
to account.
1t was the father of similar brand
OF critics who on memorable occasion,
also ION high mountain" made him
self SO offensive to the Savior by pre-
tending to give away the earth he did
not own, that he was almost uncere-
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