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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
An UnwelcOme Issue.

If Mr.. Williams objected to
"a resolution lin the county convenhon)
pledging the candidate to support tariff of
40 cents ON coal. and thanking Senator
German for his effort to retain the duty on
that commodity
as reported by the Cumberland
Neos, it is probable that he is fighting
shy of Mr.. German rather than oppos-
ing duty on coal.
Whether justly or unjustly. Mr..
German is in bad repute just now,
and it is possible that Mr.. Williams
thinks as matter Of policy that plat
form containing a grateful plank to
Mr.. German for 40 cents ton will not
only not gain a vote here, but may
drive some away from HIM in the
bigger area that wants neither Mr..
German nor his 40 cents ton.
Hence, the JOURNAL believes that
the democratic convention was wise
in this:
coal was not mentioned in the resolution
which had been previously submitted to Mr..
Williams for his approval
The News CONSTITUTES the situation,
however, this way:
Thus we have the democratic party squarely
committed to free coal in Allegany as well as
in the other counties of the district for the
first time IN the history of that party, and we
are willing to make the fight on that issue.
1t is not good logic to endow an act
of even designed omission with posi-
tive affirmation.
Hence, the JOURNAL regards the
episode which the Neps gives as indicat-
ing Mr.. Williams judgment that it is
unwise to make coal an issue, and not
at al that he or his party are "squarely
committed to free COAL"
If, then, coal is made the issue, or
an issue, and is beaten in the person
of Mr.. Wellington, the friends of coal
will have those to thank who invited
an unnecessary catastrophe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
sounds the KEYNOTE"

WEsTERNPoRT, Nd, Sept. 10, 1894.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In your editorial on the school cues
ton, last weeks issue, you say truly
that
teachers, and the efficiency of the system,
unite in demanding, etc. etc.
[ think you have put the matter
squarely, for certainly no one interest
involved could call 50 forcibly for the
correction of the mistake that has
been made, as does the union of the
elements you have specified.
And therein is the gist of the whole
matter. The effect of the blunder is
so far-reaching, and the different in
terests involved so closely united, that
the whole fabric, and all in any manner
connected with it, will feel the shock
to such an extent as to sensibly
jeopardize the whole institution. You
cannot bring disaster upon the teach
ing force without involving the pupils
in the fall. You cannot IN any sense
lnJure the pupils without condemning
the system itself. The system was
inaugurated for the benefit of the
pupils-primarily, as, Mr.. O'Rourke
puts it, ''the beginners" Now to say
that any perceptible progress can be
made in elementary school-work in
seven and a-half months is to announce
ones self as totally ignorant of the
elements that go to make up the
routine of work in this particular. 1t
cannot be done, and all who make any
claim to leadershi p IN educational work
will assuredly endorse the proposition
of the common school teacher.
Again the JOURNAL says
The success of the public school system
depends directly and Immediately upon
popular willingness to pay all that success
costs.
No exception will be taken to that
statement. But when has the matter
ever been tested, and the popularity
of the Willingness" found wanting :?
Take last years record in Allegany
county. We were threatened with "a
short term" were we not! Was there
not sufficient interest shown to coun-
teract the intention? Take the pres
ent situation. Who has endorsed "a
short term" for our schools Who
has expressed satisfaction at two
years inroad on the prosperity of our
county schools? On the contrary,
those of us who come into contact
daily with the masses can testify that
there has been a perfect unity of senti-
ment on the part of the people in
opposition to the contemplated action.
| have found it so in this end of the
county, and l am assured by my
fellow teachers that it is the same else
where. Scarcely anything connected
with the administration of public
affairs SO intimately concerns the peo-
pie as this system of public schools,
and the masses are not willing that its
success shall be hampered, or its very
existence jeopardized. And these are
certainly made possible by the pro-
posed abandonment of one-sixth of the
school year.
The JOURNAL sounds the keynote
of the situation in the propositions it
has submitted. o. Fl. BRUCE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
CORRESPONDENTS.
A BrOad-NIinded View.

FRosrBURG, MD, Sept. H. 1891.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
1t seems that those most deeply in
terested in the proposed shortening of
the school term from 8 to u months
have the least to say on the subject,
allowing few well-meaning and ex-
cellent teachers to suggest or modestly
advise us Of the great disadvantage
such change will he to those prac-
tically interested in the public schools.
A protest long and loud should 60 be-
fore the commissioners from all cit
liens regarding this matter. For there
are all sorts of reasons why the pro.
posed change should not even be con-
templated, much less consummated.
If the county is short sc, 900 the idea
of making up the deficiency by curtail.
ing the school session is the most un-
business-ike imaginable. If it were
necessary the people should rise en-
masse and demand ten months annual
ly in which their children may be fitted
for life's duties and kept from mis-
chief, instead of y, leaving A months
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

during which they may industriously
occupy themselves in forgetting what
they imbibed the other u.
The champion forgetting machine
in this broad land is the average
schoolboy, and it does not require ~
months of inactivity and idle wander
ing to assist him in performing great
feats of red-handed and criminal alb
sent-mindedness. 1t is. therefore, un-
reasonable to expect one teacher to
set about brushing away the vast ac-
emulation OF cobwebs and re-iustating
the ante-vacation status quo at the end
Of every interegnum for the small
pecuniary consideration which he is
commanding at present.
In former days when the school
house stood at the most convenient
end of the county, and children were
compelled to go great distances to
school, u months may have been
enough, but in these days of rapid
transit and proximity to everything in
general, the course should gradually,
but surely be heightened to the longest
period possible. There cannot be too
great an effort made toward higher
education. The power and strength
and glory of nation, and especially
of our nation, is vested IN its educa-
tional system, and we can therefore
not afford to overlook anything per-
tanning to its augmentation of strength
and efficiency.
A country governed by the cultivated
intelligence of the people must evident
ly be far IN advance of monarchy
subject to the voice of but one man.
Therefore, without education, a repub
lie can but terminate in failure. This
knowledge must not be ordinary. but
at least Il little beyond. IN order to
make government by the people and
for them a complete success. The
public school is the avenue through
which the youth passes up to the
grandcr heights where his vision is
broadened beyond the narrow boun-
dalies of local to the horizon of
national glory.
1t behooves the guardians of this
glorious institution. then. not to limit
its possibilities, but let each successive
year be marked by additional improve
ments until it will be criminal Of
Tense in all the land for any man to
plead ignorance of letters.
Let it be remembered that govern
ment by the people must make
specially of education-the reasons for
which are obvious to all thinkers. A
general objection to the short term
proposal should be raised by all cit
liens who haye the interest of their
country as well as their children at
heart
Again | urge that it is the height of
folly to compel TIE best of our insti-
buttons to feel the weight of a de-
ticiency in the public treasury.
CITIZEN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
COUNTY NEWS.
BreVitieS.


Things have got to such pass in
the lower end of Georges Creek that a
Barton man says he would rather be
hitching-post in Pekin than live in
Homecoming and be leading member
of the Board of Trade.
There is trouble ahead for Yelling
ton. Gen. McKaig threatens to stand
alongside Ferdinand Williams on
every stump in the district and twirl
that sorrel moustache.
The meanest man, it is now thought,
lives near Barton. His name sounds
like Jones. Anyway he sold Smith a
half-interest in cow and then re-
fused to divide the milk, maintaining
that Jones owned the front half.
"This was bad enough" said Smith to
Titus A. Brick, "but the other day the
cow hooked Jones and now he is suing
me for damages :"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Personal.

Misses Bertha Stoeltzing and Elsa
Denning have returned to their home
in Pittsburg, Pa, after pleasant So
journ of several weeks with the family
of John Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A Greene. of
New York, were guests of DAVIDSON
Armstrong, resident agent of the
Borden mining company, portion of
this week.
Frostburg was rep: esented at the
Epworth League convention, Hagers-
town, this week, by Misses Minnie
Roberts, Belle C. Wilderman, Messrs.
William Rodda, Ellsworth Stevens,
James Short and Rev. T. NJ. West.
Mrs. John Davis, of this place, and
Mrs. A. C. Thomson, of Homecoming,
are visiting Mrs. George Ste, err, in
Somerset, Pa.
Ladies who have seen him think
John Doud is the handsomest young
man on the American stage. He will
appear in this place next Wednesday
evening-White's Opera House.
Messrs. l.. j. McGregor, of Hynd-
man, Pa, and J. W. Galley, of Bed
ford, Pa, are in town in the interest
of the Masonic Mutual Savings and
Loan Association.
Miss Hettie Boyle, of Allegheny
city, Pa, is visiting Miss Aggie T.
Davis.
Miss Harriette Weems. the Star
actress, appearing il Whites Opera
House next Wednesday evening, is a
native of Virginia, now resident of
Baltimore. Her performances arc
said to ''the perfection of dramatic
art" Besides, she is young and very
pretty.
Mrs. o. J. Moat is recovering from
serious illness of typhoid fever at
Hyattstown, Md.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
A STARTER.


The Cumberland Neaos has awakened
into print tariff-reform philosopher
in Homecoming named Moses Gibson.
The JOURNAL is glad of it.
For Mr.. Gibson has actually driven
the Nesos into "speculation," "little
theories" and SIGH.
He has even compelled the Neus to
take this position in one particular:
We prefer to wait and see the outcome of
the Oregon enterprise-if it ever materializes.
If there is anything else in the way
of tariff reform destruction the Neaos
has been willing to watt for we have
not heard of it.
Emerson said
Man is applicable by nothing less than all
his history.
So with measures.
But the Ners has been unable to
"wait and see the outcome" of the cur
rent tariff Act; and so, without wait
ing, it has frequently, in substance,
declared it dismal failure.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Tale OfTWO Planters.

While coal has become an article of prime
necessity in every household, there is no
analogy between its production. and the
production of sugar. Coal is indigenous to
the soil of every State west of the Delaware.
1t needs no cultivation, and the production
is not dependent upon any contingency of
weather or season.-Cumberland News.
That is splendid free-trade argu-
ment for-coal. w. l.. Wilson can
cannot do better.
But there is some analogy between
cane and corn. Why is it that the
corn-grower who loses his crop under
the blight of hot winds is taxed heavier
and heavier to stimulate the cane
grower to raise more and more sugar !?
In other words, why is the poor
Kansas mans fruitless acre taxed to
place clean, clear bonus of $53 an
nually on top of the native value of the
Louisiana acre9
Whoever says that sort of thing is
right in principle or practice should
resume where he left off when he quit
Sunday school.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

The Cumberland Ne,os interprets the
fact that local was not mentioned in
the resolutions" of the democratic
county convention as square" COM
initial OF that party to "free coal"
Woman suffrage was not mentioned
either therefore
Thus we have the democratic party square
ly committed to
woman suffrage.
But if emitting "coal' from resolu-
tons means "free COAL" what else is
meant In convention where the
resolutions themselves were omitted
1t is alarmingly evident that the
Necs' differences demonstrate too
much.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
A Pretty Prize.

A fine silver cup is on exhibition in
d. j. Betz's window, accompanied by
a card stating it will be shot for next
Tuesday afternoon, if fair, at the l life
range, by the Frostburg Rifle Club.
Some very fine craftsmanship may be
expected. The cup is contributed by
an unknown friend of the Club.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Doctors Differing.

The bounty feature of the Mckinley Act
had exactly the effect it was intended to have
it developed new industry, and there
would have been no reasonable excuse for
the existence of any such law had its mis-
sion in that direction been failure.-Cum-
berland News.
The JOURNAL is never better pleased
than when it can hand the job of re-
plying to little observation like that
to an able editor of the other fellows
faith.
Hence, the paragraph below has
particular reference to "the bounty
feature of the Mckinley Act" After
sounding a warning to the Sugar
Trust mot to expect the republican
party to give it any favor whatever"
the authority quoted below confesses
that in 1890
We did not do wisely and have been made
to feel most keenly the consequences of our
error.-New York Tribune.
is developing new industry" an
error7
If not why did almost the entire re-
publican party in the House of Repre-
sentatives vote to destroy the very
thing which the News says developed
a new industry ?"
The great organs should ''get to-
gether."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Not One.

MOI onc.
The JOURNAL may as well try to be ac-
curate in its statements and therefore we
shall correct it at the start by saying that the
bounty paid sugar producers never amounted
to seventeen million dollars per year. In
round numbers it was twelve mllion.-Cum-
berland NewS.
The JOURNAL took its figures from
the Pittsburg (Pa.) Times sometime
ago, and it is probable the News did
not know any better until it read the
following dispatch of the Sth inst. from
Washington
The reported action of the Sugar Planters
convention at New Orleans favoring an
alliance with the republican party on nation
al issues on the ground that they had been
betrayed by the democratic party IN deny
ing them protection for sugar, calls attention
to the subject of sugar bounty.
The records of the Treasury Department
show that during the fiscal year year ended
June 30, 1894, payments as bounty on sugar
aggregated $12,099,S99 OF the bounty on
cane sugar SlO,S6s, S96 was paid to producers
i'll the State of Louisiana.
Two other facts appear
l, That about 567 planters each got
over nineteen thousand dollars for
doing his best to- raise sugar cane,
and
=, That outside the amount gotten
for his sugar his land yielded him $53
per acre, which is good selling price
for land in most parts of the country.
The question naturally arises-why
should one sort of farmer get this
enormous bonus and another be left to
truck for himself
And then-why should any sort of
farmer get it and other industrials left
to hold their noses to the grindstone ?
There is not good reason under or
above the sun that will justify such
determinations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
"SnaShing,"

The JOURNAL has strong article on the
sugar question this week. 1t is perhaps the
best that can be said from the standpoint of
the opponents of protection. 1t is the kind
we like to reply to, and we propose to smash
1t most effectually to-morrow.-Cumberla
Ne~s of Monday.
And now next Tuesday the Ne,cs
will have to ''smash" the United States
Supreme Court.
Meantime, while the miner must
pray-''give us this day our daily
bread''-the sugar planter can say
''look here, give me my daily $50. 80,
or l will smash your id old partyn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Confidential Scrap.

According to the Cumberland Courier
Allen had Mr.. Barber do some work
for him down there lately, when the
following passage took place:
Have little oil, sir? Hair part Oh Vale
Summit er Pompey Smash side, sir?
Damit, part it in the middle; but don't
shave my neck
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Journalistic,

There is some published talk of a
new republican daily.
In the interest of the very able Cum
berland Ne,os the JOURNAL will remark
that real dailies are expensive.
Hence, the JOURNAL fears the Iona
coming venture will fill a short-felt
want or very early grave.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
A Partial Reason.

England and France have driven the
American flag off the ocean by their system
of subsidies Tor bounties, if you please to
their fast mail and passenger lines of steam
ships.-Cumberland Ners.
That accounts for a part of the
trouble, but very small part.
1.-THE Chinese Wall" is what did the
business.
Because the American merchant
marine was not "driyen off the ocean"
till we began Giving within ourselves"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Un.Amerlcan Device.

The Cumberland Neacs now says the
post-office system is the beneficiary of
governmental bounty.
Holy smoke
Who is planting and growing and
sweetening our coffee with letters
And what postal refining trust is
making millions year until it is now
able to dictate legislation
If "there is no analogy between the
production of coal and the production
of sugar." there is certainly none be-
tween subsldizlng a cane-brake and
carrying the mails.
But in the Ne,cs' own words
The paying of bountIes is never defenslble
save where industrial development is im-
possible without it.
Were not those bounties given out !,
for instance, in the shape of land
warrants for military service defensi-
ble9
AS matter of fact, under a re-
publican form of government heroic
public service is the only justification
for bounty.giving.
The bounty is an exotic. 1t is a
flower which blooms indigenously un-
der monarchy. There is no nu-
triton for it in American soil, and
should be none.
It belongs only to those systems under
which the people are openly robbed to
maintain caste. 1t is the father of
arlstocratic idleness and the step
father of pauper labor.
Its true name, is tribute" and its
home is under the rule of the Caesars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

1t is not often the JOURNAL is able
to agree with J. W. Sovereign, grand
master of the u-Knighted North Amer
lean Order of Laborious Nobility, but
he made several remarks in Buffalo,
N. Y, Sunday evening that are very
nearly in line with JOURNAL thought
and teaching. He says:
l can imagine that an emergency might
arise that would justify strike, but
generally speaking, nothing more than
a temporary victory can be achieved in
this way at best. They widen the breach be.
tween capital and labor, and no matter
which side is worsted, it is sore over its de-
feat and will retaliate with vengeance at the
first opportunity. 1t is in study and educa-
ton and the wise use of the power that is
placed in their hands through the ballot that
workingmen must hope for relief from the
conditions of which they justly complain.
Only two things are lacking
l, That Mr. Sovereign shall not for
get his wisdom of to-day, and
2, That Mr.. Sovereign's subjects
may be loyal to Mr.. Sovereign's
expressed convictions rather than
obedlent to his orders tomorrow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Under Arrest.

Ella Burton, daughter of Alex.
Burton, was arrested Thursday, last
week, and held for court by justice
Dennison III the sum of 800 for taking
gold watch from Miss Jeanette
Hansel. The watch was found buried
in the Burton garden.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
There are Two Kinds,

By the way, what does Mr.. Gibson think
of the latest democratic war cry of down
with protection ?"-Cumberland News.
If the Neaos means the sort of pro
lection that doesn't protect, Mr.. Gibson
must think it slogan that is both OPP
perfume and mellifiuous.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
TOWN AND VICINITY.
The Sick.

Mrs. Thomas G. Neff was stricken
with paralysis Wednesday night at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Will
liam PAYNE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
BreVities.

Miss Harriette Weems will appear
as dot" next Wednesday evening at
Whites Opera House.
The JOURNAL opened Fairmont
paper the other day and found what is
known in Morgantown As "a West
Virginia grasshopper." He had on
three coats of war paint and was look
ing for blood.
There is a bay PAGER catered for Il
race at the Easton (Md.) fair next
Thursday named The Belle of Fest
burg" She is owned by r. M. Bed
ford, of Washington, d. c., and is
in the 2:24 class. She deserves to be
winner.
Mrs. P. O'Rourke displays to-day
an entirely new stock of dry goods and
millinery in the HOLE building, lis
Broadway.
Better settle question at oncc-is it
Meats or Whites Opera House
New advertisements on second and
third pages.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

Ferdinand Williams, of Cumber-
land, was nominated for Congress by
reclamation in the democratic con-
ventlon at Hagerstown Wednesday.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15
Coming Events.

Coming Events.
A garden party will be held under
the auspices of the Ladies' Sodality in
front of St. Michael's parochial school
building this evening and continuing
Monday and Tuesday evenings. Much
preparation is making for an enjoy
able series of recreations.
Announcement of the wedding of
d. P. Hartzell, of Winchelldon. Mass,
and Miss Margaret E. Williams,
daughter of Henry Williams, OF this
place, was made this week. The cere
mony will take place Wednesday,
26th inst.
The Independent cornet band in
tends making October 20 big day. A
fair aud street parade of bands and
fire companies will be the main
features.
A select hop auspices of the Athletic
Association-is announced for next
Thursday evening at Meats Opera
House.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

Over Five Hundred.
Public School No. opened Monday
morning.
Thursday afternoon the enrolment
was as follows
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-15

There is no necessity for bounty on the
domestic production of coal.-Cumberland