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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Balance of the Story Told,

The Engineering and Mining journal, pro,
fessedly taking no part in party politics, yet
with a favorable leaning toward a tariff for
revenue only, makes the candid admission
that any change in the tariff laws will prove
injurious to some Observation-Disclosures
NemS
The same paper says, however, that
the Wilson bill has been drawn and
the objects sought
are almost identical with the recon-
mendations of President Arthur and the re-
publican party in 1882 and 1883, when the
republicans urged the reduction of the duties,
then very much lower then than they are
now, and the free admission of raw materials.
The NerS complains further:
1t also admits that the Wilson bill, which
it approves, will inconvenience and cause
losses in certain directions"
Fully quoted, the Journal says this:
1t is inevitable that any change in the tariff,
whether mp or dorm, will prove injurious to
some industries, and some of the changes pro-
posed in the Wilson bill will inconvenience
and cause losses in certain directions. In
such cases, the benefits in one direction have
another, in judging of the net result.
The Journal evidently occupies higher
ground than the NewS. Its vision
sweeps the country; the Ne1cs sees only
that blessed little spot mis-called 1.-THE
Cumberland coal field"
But the JouMal tells more than the
Aers quotes. Speaking of the free
list, it says:
Articles like coal and iron ore cannot be
much in iured by the proposed changes, for
we produce as cheaply and generally at less
cost here than IN foreign countries, and III
most cases the inland freights add sub
stantlal protection to our producers. What
they lose in supplying distant points which
are more accessible to foreign producers will
be abundanty made up by the wider foreign
markets it will enable them to secure.
The JOURNAL hopes sincerely there
is something in this, but it fears that
Providence, in the architecture of the
globe, placed this coal region too near
to places like Cumberland.
The Ne'cs concludes its complaint
with an inquiry:
Where is the necessity for measure GER
tain to be productive of inconvenience and to
cause losses to those engagedin manufacture?
The Colorado papers asked the same
question repeatedly about silver
mining.
But "the greatest good to the great
est number was the implacable an
swer, and we believe the Ne,cs, making
Il virtue of the necessity which forced
portion Of its party to "assist" in the
raid upon silver mining, did not veto
the reply.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

We must claim nothing in the way of spe-
clal protection at Washington. Our charter
is in the Chicago platform-"a tariff for
revenue only" This cmbodies all the pro-
lection we ever had. 1t embodies all we
want and all that we can reasonably calm =
JOURNAL.
Yes; and it embodies a great deal more
than you seem likely to get, unless republican
brain force is able to serve YOU as good a turn
in this tariff matter as it did in the repeal of
the silver purchase law.-Cum berland NewS.
The republican brain force" en-
ployed in that cheerful piece of in
dustrial destruction did not dare do
anything else.
Having devised and built up a
dangerous sample of high protection,
it could do nothing else but assist in
pulling down its own job.
1t was not SO much ''hrain force as
moral force, and when the latter came
to play upon an immoral achievement
of republican legislation, it did not
dare show either the white feather or
the cloven foot.
1t vetoed its own act like little
man, and, to divert attention, attempts
now to crow over It's bitter humilia-
tion
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Soft Coal Should Stand Alone

There is talk of triple combination
between the sugar interest and the hard
and soft coal interests against those
portions of the Wilson bill which affect
them.
The JOURNAL thinks the soft coal
people make mistake in going into
partnership with the hard coal antago-
nists of free coal.
The hard coal interest has done
more than any other to provoke the
very legislation that is now threatened.
1t was its merciless and illegal I'M
concern for the welfare of its con-
sumers that drove Russell Harrison
over year ago to say
If they should, in defiance of law, seek to
perpetuate their monopoly New England at
least may be expected to speedily demand
reciprocity with the Dominion as to coal.
An association, therefore, which
compels this region to abdicate its
claims to a protection which it has
never in any way OF degree abused, is
not desirable one.
An association, moreover, in which
it will have to share the onus and con-
sequences of the indefensible conduct
of the hard coal people will hardly be
a pleasant or profitable one.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Roasting on One Side, Frying on the
Other

The Baltimore Sun reports the
dilemma of the New England free-coal
high protectIonists in this wise:
When the tariff bill comes up for action in
Congress the New England republican Sena-
tors and members will be placed between two
fires. The question which is pulling them
is what are they going to do about it. They
are having additional experience Of the fact
that the tariff is local as well as a national
question.
New England manufactures consume mill
ions of tons of bitumnous coal year. These
manufactures are all protected under the
Mckinley tariff. The men who own these
object to the removal of protection as far as
they are concerned, 6W they are all claD,OrOuS
for 'Jree" coal. They would like their rep
resentatives in Congress to assist in remov-
ing the duty on coal, but. not on the fabrics
IN which they are interested.
Several prominent republican newspapers
in New England have signIied their approval
of that part of the Wilson bill relating to coal.
But the New England republicans cannot
vote with any effect for free coal without
voting for the whole bill, and this, of course,
they will never do.
There ought to be no longer any
doubt about whence the demand for
free coal originally sprung.
But to make sure that no error is
committed or misrepresentation in
dulged, the JOURNAL will locate it
among the New England consumers
of our coal-identically the same
gentleman wnose interests we have Just
backed up oy II majority of over 900.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
What lie May be Waiting For.

Representative McKaig, of Maryland, in
whose district there are large coal industries,
said today that he was not as yet prepared to
discuss the tariff bIll.-Baltimore SIM.
The general Is probably waiting tc
hear how the Cumberland Times is
going to reduce ''the excessively high
rates Of freight on the New England
railroads from the coast to the interior
now said to be largely the cause OF
the impression in New England that
their fuel is costing them too much"
The general may also want to learn
should the Times succeed-how the
lower freights are going to keep Nova
Scotia coal, too, from coming inland
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
The --latest Reciprocity.

Ex-Governor Ames, of Massachusetts is
really the highest kind ola high protectionist,
but he has only just found it out He wants
free coal and free iron to make his shovels
and plows with and Il prohibitory tariff on
all foreign-made shoveIS and plows.-Coal
Trade JoNwdi.
Not only So
he likes the tariff that enables him to sell
shoVels to his yicumlzed fellow -couutrymen
at 1920, $500, 50 50 and SO a dozen, when
he is selling precisely the same shovels in
foreign markets for 1856, SS.2l, 81 and
$3.50. He likes tariff that Will enable
plough manufacturers to charge Americans
SIS for what they sell to South Americans
for S9.-New York IIo,}d.
Our own people are pledged to
sustain such men as AmeS in the sum
of 900 majority, more or less.
They are beginning to feel, however,
what they are getting for their UNI
solicited devotion to New England
not only thanhlessness but a degree of
Yankee Indifference to their welfare
that borders upon contempt:
80, git out" ~ howled Tweedale; II never
ahsked you for your sympathy. Come when
| whistle for you-not before, Ia, tai
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

Our voices must be raised against free coal
i'll one loud and emphatic storm Of objection.
Cumberland Nc~S.
Really, we are not big enough for
that sort of an eXerti0n.
Such storm as that, compressed
within these mountain walls. might
rip something up the back in local
way, but rs an ebulltion designed to
brighten the United States ii Will fail
utterly.
Why, it has not been long since GOV.
Waite, representing 1000 silver
miners, threatened to ride in blood up
to bride height if Congress dared to
repeal the Sherman law.
What is Gov. Waite now ?
Whenever mentioned he is the
occasion and object OF ridicu!c.
Let us avoid his example and his
fate.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
4 Point Elaborated.

The Cumberland Ne,rs thinks the
JOURNAL misunderstands its position
upon the question of a permanent
tariff SYSTEM"
1t stands to the NetcS' credit, how
ever, that it is a paper not easily mis-
understood-eXc when it gets into a
tight place. Then it usually turns
round and seems to misunderstood the
JOURNAL:
The JOURNALS idea of permanence is that a
tariff, once fixed, must remain the law Tor all
time This is proceeding to the extreme.
That Is Incorrect. The JOURNAL,
recognizing thatHe people are primarily
the law-making and elf-governing
power, are the arbiters between muta-
ton and permanence, and among the
people it stated
The drift is steadily toward the constitu-
tional standard of uaJormiy.
Until that is reached there should be no
permanence.
And when it is reached the people will
never give it up!
The discussion Of the permanence Of
the organic law as illustrating in any
wav the tenure of tariff legislation is
not pertinent.
Nevertheless. we will test a Netcs
statement by quoting that paragraph
of the Constitution which contains all
the power" the people have given Con-
gress to levy taxation:
The Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes, duties, imposts and excuses,
to pay the debts and provide for the common
defence and general welfare of the United
States bat all dutieS mpostS aud cEciScS shall
be unitorm throughout tie Injtcd Suites.
1t is seen that revenue is limited to
the amount necessary to carry out but
three purposes
|, To pay TIE debts =
,, Provide for the common defence
and
3. The general welfare of the United
States.
To meet these purposes it is eX-
pressly enJoined that taxation "Sh"H be
u0Jorm" throughout the country.
But high protectionists, twisting the
warrant given in the term, general
welfare" have built up Il prodigious
system of taxation for class benefit and
"uniform' only in the sense that its
unequal and frequently oppressive
rates are imposed alike at all the ports
Of entry.
Now; then, it is backward from this
condition of affairs to 1.-THE cOnstitu
tional standard" of-we will now say
economical uniformity" whence the
country is drifting.
Until it reaches that point the JOUR
NAL contends that no tariff schedule
should be unalterable.
And when the sine qna non of taxation
held down lmplacably and inveteratcly
with Herculean grip to the indispeusa-
BILE needs Of governmental admins
1ration, is e2uoly imposed, then the
people will never give it up.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

The executive board of the Grand
Assembly have appointed Jacobus
Guz Schonfarber, formerly of the Bal
timore critic, editor of the journal of
Labor, grand gan of the Noble
Order of North America.
Schonfarber is an able, honest, but
mistaken man.
He will fill the place assigned him
with more skill than any other writer
in the Knighthood of Laborious No
bility.
He is sincere in cause of question
able virtue in free government-the
most sincere probably of the now
decImated host of the North American
Nobility of Laborious Knighthood.
With these few observations the
JOURNAL welcomes Schonfarber's re-
accession to the tripod.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
COUNTY NEWS.
JOMrnaliStiC.

The Cumberland Independent ac-
knowledges the Times fine compli-
ment paid 1t and the JOURNAL last
week in a way that very nearly makes
the great paper blush. 1t hopes that
the JOURNALS farewell to the stage of
action
is yet many years off, for no one would
regret more than ourself to see the fearless
and valuable Oder pass from the laurels he
has so worthily won and from place in al
Maryland journalism which it will be hard
to till when once vacated. May, then the
gifted Oder continue where he is until many
years after his mine of intellectual wealth Is
known and appreciated from Wicomco to
Garrett.
The JOURNALis fond of life, especial
ly newspaper life, and it hereby and
herein promises to stay with its con-
temporaries long as possible. For
their further encouragement it will
say that as an individual it feels Just
as good for 22years asst did in 1871.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

The following dispatch appeared in
the papers few days ago:
GovernoreIect Greenhalge has decided that
as soon as possible after the assembling Of the
fifty-third Congress he Will call together a
conference of the republican governors Of
New England, including Gov. CleaVcs, of
Maine, Gov. Fuller, of Vermont, Coy Smith,
of New Hampshire, and Gov Brown, of
Rhode Island, to consider with him the
present condition Of the country, and de
termine what steps if any, should be taken
to conserve and advance the interests Of the
New England States.
If an equitable system of taxation
had always prevailed such Il step
would be unheard of.
But with one portion and one inter
est protected and other portions and
other interests unprotected, the country
is vast community of scramblers for
advantages over each other.
An illustration is presented:
While Gov. Grcenhalge and his con
temporary executives are looking for
something in addition to free coal,
word comes that
In order to offset the action Of the Ways
and Means committee to prevent reduction
in the tariff rate on soft coal meeting was
held at Philadelphia Wednesday at which
plans were laid for an onslaught upon Con-
gress to prevent the proposed reduction.
How Congress is to meet the wishes
of both is a question.
By favoring the Wilson bill as it
stands the democrats will be playing
into GreenhaIge'S hands, so far as coal
is concerned.
And in order TO rcpudate the Ale
gany pledge to stand 10y Greenhalges
movement, the republicans, seeming
ly opposed to free coal because OPP
posed to the bill as whole, will have
to go suuarely back on Greenhalge.
SO that the latter may lose three
things.
|, Some protection Of manufactured
goods =
,, Free coal, and
,, The sincerity of his New England
friends in Al legany county.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
TO Avoid Partially.

Senator Camden, of West Virginia,
said Wednesday:
am prepared to accept the tariff bill as a
democratic measure and yet submit that if
Nova Scotia coal is to be dumped free into
New England we should have the same PRIV
ilege of dumping coal into Canada. To state
the case more clearly: Nova Scotia mines are
nearer New England than are ours, as our
mines are nearer the Southern, Middle and
Western Canada than are the Nova Scotia
mines. Therefore why should we not enjoy
the same privilege i'll reference to Canadian
markets as Canadian mines will enjoy in
reference to our own? Canada charges us a
tax of 60 cents per ton for coal. Why not
have an understanding with Canada if tina t
country will admit our coal free-that we,
will do likewise? That, it seems to me,
would be- a fair provision.
The JOURNAL is afraid that arrange
ment will not rebound to the genera
welfare.
While incidentally protecting coal
no scheme will be satisfactory that
does not protect all the coal regions as
nearly alike as possible.
Hence, an I'D ralorem tariff rate will,
We believe, more effectively accom-
plish that end than any other.
Moreover, it is both the tariff for
revenue and the business way to do it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Caution,

OF course all the imported coal now used in
gas manufacture in that country pays the
duty prescribed by the Mckinley bill.--Cum-
berland NcrS.
Nay, verily--it pays the duty pre-
scribed by the protection Congress of
1872. when it was reduced from $1.25
to Is cents.
Every ton of foreign coal brought into the
United States means that much less work for
the American coal miner.-Ibid
Why, then, did you let in over a
million tons last year,
If the Ne,cs' party is so considerate
of work for the American coal
MINER why did it not in the Mckinley
Act save $ll7 in one year-1S92, to
each miner on Georges Greek
Miners, the only way you can be
absolutely protected is to keep foreign
coal out altogether. You will then
have the home market as yours alb
solutely.
But the protectionists passed you by
in lS90-the year in which they pro-
tected every kindred and collateral in
terest, and left you exactly where they
placed you in 1872. They left the
American market open and hospjtaJle
to foreign invasion and over million
tons accepted its hospitality-a tender
which cost each of you Sill last year,
and will cost You more this year
When you 90 to the monster mass
meetings to howl against the Wilson
bill, don't forget the damage to your
uocketS Won are hoWlino for
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
what Fools We MortaIS Hn 1"

81. }. IT, writing to the Coal Trade
Jo"rnai, gives a urid forecast of the
results to follow free coal.
Mining capital, property, royalties,
railroads and labor will be injured
incidentally, and so on.
One would think if all these fore.
bodings We're placed before New Eng
land consumers that the fires of pa
triotiSm which, it is claimed, burn on
New England affairs brighter and
warmer than elsewhere, would inspire
them to stay with their countrymen--
to keep their money at home and spend
ii among their customers continue
to reciprocate both the trade and fra
ternal loyalty of those WHO live under
the same governmental canopy.
But no appeal is made TO New Eng
land. While we indulge such tears as
patriots shed for dying laws" all our
grief and all our reproaches we lay at
another door. We vainly stamp our
puny feet idly tear our windblown
whiskers and uuayallingly howl our
bloodiess heartache, but we do these
foolish things before court that
we abuse with the imputation that
ii is committed against us. We leave
our .triends to follow their own sweet
will and appeal to our enemies to keep
our friends at home.
Ethically considered, if we succeed
in any degree, we will get more than
we deserve.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Organized.

The new board of county commits
sioners of Allegany county met and
organized Wednesday morning. They
elected David 2, Miller, of Cumber-
land, president Of the board, and
William }. Miller, Of Frostburg, clerk.
The proper member was undoubtedly
elected president. The clerk, too, is
an honest, competent, reputable
gentleman. The board did we'll.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
\ Mistake Corrected.
The Cumberland Neaos observe

The Cumberland NeaoS observes
lfanything further was wanting to prove
the savage state Of mind in which the great
paper is in just now, read this spiteful re-
mark:
If the republicans have captured the Ledger,
their inroads upon the democratic party for
editors are increasing at rate of protection
that is high,
Holy fog old man. that is not a
"spiteful remark"
1t is one of the button-b busting
witticisms which the JOURNAL filings
i'll as premiums with the matterit sells
at $50,
Hence, the rapidity with which its
circulation still rises.
And which makes any minute good
time for any good man to subscribe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
The Secret Partly Ont

1t is reported that
AT the New York State Canal convention
in New York Wednesday Col. Philip w.
Avirett, Of Cumberland, was elected an
honorary vice president of the Canal Union
of New York.
In congratulating the gallant colonel
the JOURNAL gets a glimpse of the
Cumberland Times program of reform
ing transportation as well as the tariff
1t first gets into the business and
then, like charity, "begins at home"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
RC-AiiIIIncd.

Somebody in the Cumberland Nens
Office is imposing upon the local editor
of that paper. He is made to say:
Goal will not be ON the free list until Con-
gress puts it there" These cheerful words are
from the Journal, and they sound like as if
its heart was in its boots But it Is wrong
again. Coal is ON the free list, and will re
main there unless Congress takes it oil. That
is the way to put it, old man.
The Mckinley Act is still in force.
Coal is dutiable under that Act and
will remain SO until Congress repeats
it and enacts the Wilson bill
Hence, the JOURNAL repeats with
two-fold emphasis:
Coal will not be on the free list until Con,
gress puts it there.
That is still the way to put it, young
one.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

The end of minority rule in Rhode
Island has come.
Hereafter the nominees who get the
greatest number of votes will be de-
clared elected.
Heretofore the Legislature, for in
stance, has been so constituted that a
majority Of members are elected by a
minority Of the people.
Two more such reforms are badly
needed
|, In Connecticut
,, In the county conventions of
AIlegany county, Maryland.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Of1icIaIChanneS.

Tuesday S. S. Warwick turned oyer
to C. M. King the Office of Sheriff.
"Mr. Warwick has made Il good of
ticer' is the comment of his political
friends and foes alike. He is a gener-
ally tirst-rate good fellow. No less so
his successor. Clarence King will
make "a good sheriff The JOURNAL
expects him to retire with as much
credit as man can earn IN that
position.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

1t would be an excellent thing If the pro
fessional labor agitator could be muzzled. if
not permanently, at least until there is
greater demand for labor.-Morsanto CIV.
Va Dominion.
Over here we can dispense with him
and his office just as well in the green
tree as in the dry
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
SENiI-LOCAL NEWS.
Religious.

~ feature of the opening of the
Christian Endeavor convention in Bal
timore Tuesday was the reading of
poem by Rev. Hugh L. Elderdice, of
Pocomoke. The leading stanza was:
We come from CARROTS mountain crest,
Where bears abound and Billiards blow -
From Allegany's rugged breast,
Where falls the first and latest snow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Died.

At Glen Roy, Ohio, Wednesday,
Dec. 6, 1898, Mrs. Maggie Conner,
wife of John Conner, of that place.
Deceased was Miss Ewing, formerly
Of this vicinity. Besides her husband
three children survive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09
Died.

Alexander B. Smith, of Carlos, aged
81 years, died Saturday, Dec. 2, 1893,
Mamie L. Stevens. of Allegany
mine, died Monday, Dee. 1, 1893, aged
& years
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-12-09

The Cumberland Courier makes this
inquiry;
Does tariff protect the Constitution?
The high protectionist affirms; the
Constitution itself denies.