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Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31

The Cumberland Ne'rs figures out
that Frostburg will lose 100000 this
year as a result of tariff reform.
But suppose our people live as well
and wear just as good clothes as last
In short, suppose ~ cents, as else
where shown, buys as much this year
as 30 cents last, how much worse off
will we really be?
The result will be something like
this-instead of sending to New Eng
land, for instance. say 100000 for
clothes, we will send only $32 900 for
the same goods, most likely better
goods.
But the JOURNAL denies that tariff
reform is anything more than an
auxiliary cause of the reduction.
Domestic competition is the prime
and the main cause. and the 10 cents
per ton taken from the miners is drawn
out of their earnings by their own
competitors in Virginia and West
Virginia.
Tariff reform is not accomplished
yet, but domestic competition is a
solemn fact, permanently established.
Tariff reform is unfinished business 4;
domestic competition is the business
itself
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
\ Narrow E,ScaDc

Such organs miners of this region, are no.
thing more than wolves in sleeps clothing"
kept up and fostered by the coal companies
to attempt to mislead you, but fortunately
they have not succeeded, and we don't believe
they ever will.-Lonaconing Ryiew.
The above is almost too contemplate
for notice.
But let us analyze it.
The JOURNAL, clad as IL sheep, passes
as a sheep.
For what purpose
The Rerier says-to "mislead'
miners.
Miners, do you think
|, That the coal companies would
keep up and foster a counterfeit
sheep to lead you to the cold side of
the hill, where sheep never go unless
the warm side is inaccessible
:, If you are accustomed to follow
ing sheep, would not one with VOLTS
eloquence discourage you?
3, And, generally speaking, what is
your candid opinion of a paper that
likens you to discipleship-not so much
of the sheep itself, as of the sleeps
clothes
4, Do you think that Il wolf could
hide his bad manners under sheepskin
innocence long enough to fool you into
some burrow in the ground, or other
place where sheep never go?
>, And, particularly speaking, what
do you think of paper that regards
you as susceptible to the wiles of a
wolf masquerading as either a bell
wether or an ovine siren
Under the circumstances, it Is no
wonder that you haye not been misled,
but the Reciec seems to think you have
made narrow escape.
1t "believes," too, that you have
gumption enough never to be "com-
pletely compluded" by anything at
tired in swallow-tail sheepskin.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
An Assurance.

The Homecoming Rcciem, referring to
the JOURNAL without naming it, says
that it asserted
that reduction to 10 cents Il ton is no
reduction but an increase, if all the mines
work full time.
The JOURNAL asserted no such
thing.
Nor did it hinge its statement on
''full time
The JOURNAL dill say
Again-a MINER who is not batherskte
told the JOURNAL the other day that he can
buy more goods for 40 cents than he could a
year ago for 80.
II this be trne and we have good reason not
to doubt it, a reduction to 40 cents is not only
practically no reduction, but an actual i'll.
crease,
Which the quotations elsewhere
printed prOce.
The Recier must quote the JOURNAL
correctly and stop impeaching its in
tegrity as an independent labor paper.
Otherwise, the JOURNAL guarantees
it shall get the worst of it every time.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
l'aI.eWclI.

The JOURNAL has received the fol-
lowing letter:
CARLOS, MD, March -, 1898
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Please stop my paper when time expires.
Reasons-i0 cents is no good to pay for 81 so
paper. Have to get something cheaper for
knowledge. BY the way, Mr.. Oder don't
make voluntary cut of 20 per cent. on the
great paper? Yours respectfully
WIN. GRIMES
Mr.. Grimes enjoys the JOURNALS
distinguished consideration, and his
time having just expired, his request
to discontinue has been granted.
Forty cents being II. g. for a 81 80
paper, Mr. Grimes will haye to take
stock in some medium of little or no
knowledge - that is, if less ''knowl-
edge be what he is after. And there
is q glut in the market of these
mediums.
1t is too late for the JOURNAL to
voluntarily" cut its rates of sub
scription 500 per cent" Having re-
ceived Mr.. Grimes letter, the cut can
be made now only under compulsion.
But the JOURNAL is still worth $l.50.
1t sends ont no "bone" nor Slate
indeed, it is not subject to dockage
for any delinquency.
But should the JOURNAL make the
suggested reduction, What guarantee
can Mr.. Grimes make to "the great
paper that its list will increase the 30
or 10 per cent. necessary to rccoup the
loss For we Judge Mr.. Grimes to
belong to that class of economists who
proceed on the assumption that the
companies must ''guarantee' work
whether the consumers can take the
coal or not.
The JOURNAL parts with Mr.. Grimes
with regret.
At the same time it fears that he has
read "the great paper" to less effect
than most Of his brethren, co-laborers
and f. lends.
For no one has deplored the occa-
sion which brings coal down to 10
cents more than the JOURNAL.
1t has deplored it especially because
the reduction is in an immense degree
the consequence of arr oon Uork in
1882.
For then we laid the foundation
not only of fierce interior competition,
but of the probably more dangerous
doctrine that cOl is inethaustiJle as stone
and cheap as dir ;
What part, if any, MIR. Grimes play
ed in that tragedy the Journal does
not know.
But if any, he will make no mistake
in charging the present calamity, if a
calamity, to his countenance and in
tluence at that time.
Meanwhile, he must let the JOURNAL
go on uncomplainingly at a price
which has always been too low, and
permit it to announce henceforth as
of yore:
And now is the time to subscribe
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Political.

The republican primary to NOM
mate a municipal ticket will be held
this evening.
Monday is election day.
Consequently. all the work for the
ticket will have to be done tomorrow
Sunday.
And all the opposition, if any, will
have to be developed, organized and
engineered also tomorrow.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that all
christians will respect the only political
Sunday guaranteed to us under pri-
mary law by refraining from worship,
and that churches will as far as pos
sible dispense with public services.
But if there be some who must go to
church, it is to be hoped they will
sneak in and out quietly as possible
by the side-doors.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
u. II. ODER, Editor.
This is Settled.


''Reader,' in the Homecoming star,
takes exception to the remark of "a
miner who is not IA blatherskite' who
"told the JOURNAL that he can buy
more goods for 40 cents than he could
a year ago for 80 cents" as follows:
The JOURNALS informant may not be a
"blatherskite, but of all the bold, unreliable
and untruthful assertions advanced and en-
dorsed by the JOURNAL, the above carries off
the palm of victory Any miner, by ex.
aminng his store book, can disprove the
foregoing. Any merchant in Frostburg
could have informed the JOURNAL that it was
endorsing unreliable information, and, tax
ing into consideration the great care the
JOURNAL is supposed to exercise in giving
reliable information, it is painful to notice its
present step from the path of rectitude at.
tempting to make the miners believe they
can buy more for 40 cents than they could
year ago for 5O,' when it was within the
JOURNAL reach to knop this to be untrue.
Yet, unlike the Journal and its informant,
| have no desire to ask the people to accept
my assertions, but will state that from the
ledger of one of our leading merchants | find
that coffee, tea soaps, lard, lard oil and coal
oil, fresh and salted meats are the same as
they were a year ago; also that sugar is
cheaper. These are the principal articles
used by miners, and they show no justifca-
ton of the JOURNALS endorsement of its in.
formant's assertion.
Fortunately, the JOURNAL had talked
with leading grocer before 1t com
mitted itself to the statement. Hence,
its qualification
If this be true, o,,d ~s hoDc good ,eoso" not
10 donbt il, etc.
But now. to make assurance doubly
sure, the JOURNAL gives a copy of a
list of articles corresponding nearly as
practicable with those named by
''Reader." They are Of the best quail
ity and the prices are in cents pei
single pound, gallon and bar:
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31

Speaking of Mr.. McComas' vote
against the Mills bill, including the duty
on coal at 10 cents, the Cumberland
Ne''s expresses its disgust at the want of
parity between that performance and
Mckaig's vote for the Wilson bill, in
cluding free coal, and dismisses the
parallel with slight symptoms of
nausea as follows
We do not care to discuss IA question like
that.
The JOURNAL probably errs in not
permitting the NecS to select all the
topics for debate, but, though excess
lively fond of controversy, it does not
think it fair for the NenS to require a
running-start every time so the jour
NAL wont be able to capture it inside
its own breastworks.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
\ Certain Result.

Any intelligent miner can see that the
mission of such a newspaper is not to advo-
cate a fair wage for the work done, but that
it is attempting to induce the miner to believe
that he is being well paid with 10 cents ton
Homecoming Rerje".
The miner who "sees' such a "mis-
sion for the JOUNAL is not only not
''intel!igent, but he is fool
1t is not to the JoURNAL's interest
to have miners work at low wages
not near so much as it is to that of the
Recter, which seems to want to thrive
on folly and discomfort.
But when the JOURNAL knows that
the issue is-40 cents aud some work i,
or 80 cents and no work, it believes it
is its duty, IN the interest of peace and
continued trade, to show that miners
are not hurt so bad as they imagine.
If. on the other hand, it is the
Recje,c's 'mlssion' to misrepresent the
st@t"s, JOURNAL purposes included. it
is. so far as the JOURNAL Is affected,
dead sure to come out at that end of
the horn which is little.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
GENERAL ITEMS.
WaShinStOn-LOW Rates on he B. x

WashinStOn-LowR Rates on the B. 4 O.
Washington What IA host Of rec
objections flood the memory at the
mere mention of the name.
There is no place in the world which
should be so dear to the heart Of every
patriotic American.
Washington, Adams. jefferson.
jackson, Webster. Clay. Calhoun.
Sumner. Seward. Douglas, Stephens.
Scott, Lincoln, Grant. Garfield and
Blalne--all the great statesmen and
soldiers whose names are like the stars
III the flag of our country--this is the
theatre of their great achievements,
the forum of their memorable debates,
the arena Of their struggles and their
trumphs; aside from its historic as
sociahons. Washington is justly called
the most beautiful city in the world
the city of magnificent distances. IA
perfect arsenal of interesting features
public buildings, statuary, art gal
lerleS. monuments. museums, paint
ings, parks and gardens.
All are YOURS: they belong to the
citizens of this glorious country and
can all be visited without paying one
cent for admission or fee. AS an
educator. a trip to the National Capitol
has not an equal on the globe.
BY taking (and only by taking) the
Baltimore and Ohio. YOU will see a
river hallowed in America beyond all
others by historic recollections the
river on whose banks sleeps the Father
of his country-;he riyer for whose
possession more lives have been sacri-
feed than We're lost to guard the
German Rhine.
This river, the memory haunted
Potomac, is closely followed for more
than one hundred miles of its most
delightful scenery by the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad, IA ride in itself a
dream OF scenic lovelnuss and beauty
The last OF the series OF reduced rate
excursions, to Washington via the b.
q O. is announced for Thursday, April
9Th.
We give below list of stations in
this vicinity showing time of trains
and rate of fare:
Piedmont..........9 9:39 G:l5 S:29 S5.4O
Cumberand.......l 7;52 $40 4.55
Correspondingly low rates from
other stations.
Tickets will be good ten days and
will be valid for passage from Wash
lngton to Baltimore at any time with
in the life of the ticket.
For Pullman Car Accommodations and
guide to points of interest in Wash
ington, address nearest B. 4 o Agent
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Come tOthe Book

Some comparative prices are else
where quoted, showing that the cost
of living has declined % per- rent. with
in one year.
Is that decline the result of the fore
shadowed Wilson hi,l
Or Of the accomplished Mckinley
Acte
If of the Wilson bill, is it ucccs-
sarily bad job!
If of the Mckinley Act, is it on that
account Il good job
Should the Wilson bill. therefore. be
defeated i'll order to run the cost of
living up higher!
Aud the Mckinley Act retained so
the cost of living will come down to
nothing!
THE JOURNAL chaiieaye& plojn. A,uiyht-
ont aHSt0crs 10 these questions.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31

The above citations are taken from
the ledger and current price list of a
reputable, standard and popular
grocery firm of Frostburg.
They show that 81 cents buy as much
now as 30 cents last year, which fully
corroborates the statement of "a miner
who is not blatherskite'
The question suggests itself-is
Reader one of that gullible class
who believes that the shadow of the
Wilson bill has ruined him , If so,
did it choose to knock HIM out by re-
ducing the cost of his living? Or if it
had no effect on the cost Of his living,
how has it hurt him And if his woes
are the creatures of his imagination,
could he ever be certain of knowing a
real benefit if he were to see one!
"Reader' may be a reader. but we
doubt it. If he is at all, he is surface
reader, and of such is the kingdom of
blatherskites.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
\ Decided Preference.

II the Journal wanted to be an or.
gan other than of independent labor, -
and had its choice between company
organ and a blatherskitc organ, it
would be company organ,
And it would guarantee to keep the
blatherskite instrument grinding out
some discords beside which the met.
aphor of the companies feeding Il wolf
attired i'll Il Prince Albert ramskin
and Pompadour horns for the purpose
of misleading the disciples of sheep
would be a mere insinuation of II mu-
steal paradox.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
"Eaked" Figures

The Coal Trade Jo"rnol says
The Cumberland CMdD rjmHn is old
enough to know better than to print such
rubbish as it does about the coal business.
Taking up a lot Of faxed figures from the
Dominion coal companys report it says, etc.
The Cicilian, we believe. is the con
densed weekly reproduction of the
Cumberland Ne,rS, and the Ne,rs is prob,
ably just about old enough to know
that "faked' figures play best in the
anti Wilson bill game.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
HnM Can IL RRo

The Keyser (W. Va.) Echo evidently
sees some difference in merit between
the silver and coal miners.
After jumping on the Rtchie (W &.
Na.) Gazette with both understandings
it exclaims:
Why should the price of their (silver
miners) product be forced up by Act of Con
gress any more than that of the coal or the
iron miners? Is the paper daft?
Now in Cumberland the view is held
that protection of silver miners was
too high, but how a conclusion that
protection can be too high is reached,
or can be reached, is entirely too much
for the undersigned.
We have understood. for instance,
that the tariff on coal was reduced in
1872 because wages were too high, but
haye been left in total darkness for
want of an Illuminating explanation
showing how SO good. so comfortable,
so pleasant, so eXhilarating and so in
dispensable thing as wages can be
too high.
In order to bring this point out
clearly and unmistakably will the
Cumberland Netcs, Homecoming Rerien
and the Homecoming .Star's Reader
get together and settle on tariff on
coal AMI a price for mining that will
be Just one cent too high9
The JOURNAL says ''just one cent" :"
because there seems to be a drop which
will overflow the cup of blessing as
well as of malediction.
Meanwhile, the JOURNAL can hardly
take silence, Ignorance or ineXpefience
for an answer.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Wont Suit Here,

There ; a municipal contest on hand
in Kansas city, Mo. and the platform
OF one Of the parties-a democratic-
republican combination is condensed
into just five lines, as follows:
We desire an honest, economical. non
partisan city government, conducted solely
IN the city interest upon sound business
principles for all taxpayers and for all
classes.
That is good enough for Frostburg
IN fact, good enough for all towns ex-
cept Cumberland. where standing by
New England industries that want
free coal is confidently relied upon to
carry the county and, incidentally,
the city
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Whittier We are Drifting.

Is it possible the Cumberland Ae~s
really dislikes the new tariff bill with
coal at 10 cents ton more than when
it was on the free hSt 3?
At this rate, if coal should happen
to get back to 10 cents, the Ne~s will
have to oppose the bill worse than
ever.
And thus get even with Mckaig S
final vote for free coal.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
We are With Them,

says the Taunton IMaSS.) EU.rttt
The coal monopoly is the mcane,t of the
whole brood. 1t has managed to keep up
prices by restricting the output and halt
starving the miners. The people are crying
for free coal to break the monopoly.
This party evidently does not know that
there is no monopoly III soft coal Coal
Trade JourHd.
Moreover, "rhIs party evidently does
not know that" here in Allegany
county we are standing by" New
England people when they are "crying
for free coal for any purpose -
whether 20 break up monopoIles," OF
to carry ont the glorious Mckinley
free trade provision of ''reciprocity."
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
What StrawS Nav he Worth.

The Hagerstown municipal election, which
took place on Monday, is another straw ndi-
eating the change of political sentiment now
at work in every section of the country
Cumberland .Ne,rs
The Hagerstown Null kept horary
diary Of the prices of votes during the
day so circumstantial and significant
that the Baltimore Neacs was moved to
print The following injunction
If the statements III the Nal are true, the
people of HagerStown owe it to their own
eood name to see that the grand Jury does
some investigating that will not end in a
careless coat of whitewash. Justice as it has
been administered to the Gravesend offenders
would not come amiss at Hagerstown lust
now.
If Straws have to be bought to show
which way the wind blows, it is the
duty of those who are sold ont to make
the straws expensive as possible.
y few Hagerstown vote-buyers
would be ornaments to Maryland pen
ltentiary society.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Both Bad.

Representative Wilson, of Washington, is
kicking upa row because the Navy Depart
ment buys good coal in British America,
instead of poor coal in the United States for
use on our war vessels.-Coal Trade Jo,Onal.
That is good policy compared with
our New England effort to buy poor
coal in Nova Scotia instead of good
coal in the United States.
Or just enough of it to debase the
prices of our good coal to inferior coal
levels
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Sidewalks.

The JOURNAL gives place to the fol-
lowing inquiry by "a prominent citizen
and taxpayer:
FRosrBURG, Mp. March 2G. 1891
To the MINING JOURNAL.
wish to call your attention to a recent
decision of Judge Richie, of the Supreme
Court of Baltimore, in which it is held that
it is the duty of that city to keep the side,
walks in repair. He says that the sidewalks
are as much part Of the public highway as
the bed Of the street, and that the abutting
owners have no more right of property in
the sidewalk than in the street bed
If that judgment holds in Baltimore, why
not in Frostburg?
Let us have your opinion on the subject.
A FRIEND.
The JOURNAL has always held the
same opinion-not from a legal so
much as from an economical stand
point.
If the town would take charge of the
sidewalks anil do its d"ty, the people
would not only enjoy smooth and safe
walking, but there would be uniform
ity Of grade, curb, ditch and materials.
And the town, with wholesale job
on hand, can do the work and keep
up the repairs at IA far less cost to each
abutting owner than the latter can for
himself.
But if the town should take no bet
ter care of the pavements than it does
of the street bed, the current. irreg-
ular, unsystematic and dangerous retail
plan is tie better.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Fact.

Cheap advertising, like cheap shoes, cheap
lawyers, or cheap doctors, is generally dear at
any price.-Coal Trade JpUWm.
And so are cheap newspapers, e--
pecially those that brag on their cheap
hess,
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
A Probable Case of selfDcception


There is a dreadful omission in the make
up of the JOURNAL this week. The report of
the conference as authorized by the operators
themselves, was evidently crowded out" or
the statement that the reduction of miners
wages was caused by the proposed reduction
of the tariff OH coal was too wide for its col
umns, VIC don't know which. At any rate
the report amt thar Cumberland Ne~s.
"Too wide" and too loud
The JOURNAL cannot think the coal
company presidents were up here on a
political mission.
1t is not like them. They are business
men of the sort not likely to bend a
submitted newspaper report one way
or the other. The Wilson bill prob
ably played its little part in the
discussion as a reason, but no more.
Had it exploited the function to which
the Ne'rs assigns it on any and all
occasions ''shop would have been shut
right up"
Hence, the corporate attitude used
to be in such matters-"well, if that
suits yon it suits us
The JOURNAL does not think they
have changed.
In this respect they differ very
radically from the blatherskite, whose
organ must reflect his own autocratlc
imputatlOns of motives nearly as
possible in his own bumptious diction.
The Neecs may hug the delusion of
corporate appreciation of the political
part of its report to its soul, but the
JOURNAL believes it will thus get the
immortal portion of its constitution
and bylaws into snare.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
Briefly Stated.

Referring to Senator Stewards
loquacity the Annapolis Capital says:
The man who talks all the time is bound
to say lots of foolish things.
In short, he is blatherskitc.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
just So.

The Homecoming Recie~ takes no
stock in flour at T2.99.
But miners who are not blatherskites
do.
The Recie@'S living must come high
or it wont eat.
Dessert prices or starvation.
Frostburg mining journal., 1894-03-31
New advertisements.
S. j. EWARDS & SONS
Spring and Early Summer
AN NCE"E ENT-
New advertisements.
Mems and Boys Heavy Boot and Shoe
Department


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Mems tap soed quilted buckle Shoes.
sizes ell ................. -
Mems g'lSset tongue, Butcher cut. solid
leather Shoes, sizes >6--ll............. -
These Shoes are easy on the feet and
very serviceablr
Mems split Boots, in heavy, single and
top SoIc>, sizes G-ll reduced to..... 30
Mems whole stock Boots, sizes G-II.... 200
Mems Walker Il Brown kip Boots, all
solid, sizes e. 80
Mems (WalkcrS Brown oil grain Boots,
sizes I'll ........ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10
Mems (Walker& Brown light kip Boots,
nigh and low lnsteps, reduced to.... 275
Mems walker Il Brown) best grade oil
grain Boots, sizes Gil, reduced to-. 800