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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
Truth.

One man ventures the opinion that the
New England manufacturer was sore over
the defeat of free coal. Perhaps so, but he
would be more sorely vexed if the miners
and producers of American coal did not buy
any of his manufactured goods.-Coal Trade
Journal.
The JOURNALS opinion is-he would
be gread deal more sorely vexed"
if the wholly unprotected farmer
ceased to buy his goods.
For it is beyond all controversy
that protection wouldn't be worth the
paper the word is printed on if there
were no unprotected BUYERS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
The Education of the Beer-Keg.

Mr.. McGnire, a high-cockalorum of
Knights of Labor, declares that
the ballot-box, not force, is the laboring
mans only chance for relief.
That is true, but really, Mr.. Mcclure,
while the beer-keg besets ''the labor
ing mans march to the ballotbox,
his ''chance for relief" is still remote.
And too often it is beer that in
spires dreams of "fOrce."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
An Editors Lament.

Lives of poor men all remind us
Honest men won't stand chance;
The more we work there grows behind us
Bigger patches on our pants.
On our pants, once new and glossy,
Now are stripes of different hue,
All because subscribers linger
And won't pay us what is due.
Then let all be up and doing,
Send your mite, however small
Or when the snow of winter strikes us
We shall have no pants at all.
Rocky Mountain Ceit
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
Only a Little Worse.

There is akick-up in South Carolina
about 1880 men being able in con-
vention to override 81 900.
That is bad.
In fact, little worse than our
representative system in Allegany
county.
There 26 per cent. seems to be a rul-
ing minority.
Here it is possible for 81 per cent. of
a county convention to outvote So
per cent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
Staid Oh Safe Ground.

The Cumberland Neos thinks that
The JOURNAL goes to the extreme in its in,
executive under the reciprocity feature of the
Mckinley Act.
The JOURNAL has not gone any
further than Russell Harrison.
Indeed, to remain on conservative
ground, the JOURNAL has not gone
so far.
Mr.. Harrison was just about curing
all the evils that the coal trade is heir
to by invoking reciprocity with Nova
Scotia, but the straws which were then
breaking the camel's back "blew too
late.n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
Error.

Workingmen should be rich; oilers should
be poor and the single tax will do it.-Balti.
more Standard.
Not while the Noble Orders of North
America are in the saddle.
1t is the peculiar province of the
Nobilities of North American Labor
that elders" shall be taken care of,
for without elders there exists no sort
of occasion for labor organizations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
No Bias,

Johnson-''I have been chosen a,
arbitrator in the matter of those Labor
troubles on the X. Y. and Z. road ~
Ihompson-'Why, you are a stock
holder in the road
Johnson-''That's just it. Every
body wanted II dislnterested party
and the stockholders haven't received
a dividend in fifteen wears. ''-PNck.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
GENERAL ITEMS.
Hear Both Sides,

Never condemn your nelglbor un,
heard, however many may be the ac,
cusations against him. Every story
has two ways of being told, and justice
requires that you should hear the de-
Tense as well as the accusation, and
remember that the malignity of en-,
emies may place you in similar pre-
dicament. New. York Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
\ Secret Defined.

A secret is a thing which you com
municate to one whom you can trust.
He, in turn, tells it to somebody that
he can trust, and that somebody re-
veals it to another somebody whom he
can trust. And so it goes the rounds,
but it is still a secret, although every
body knows it.-Boston transcript.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
SDeck OfIudj%nation.

First Walking Delegate Il sc by the
papers that when the miners on strike
in Ohio drove out the men who wanted
to work, the militia was called out"
Second walking Delegate-"Called out
the militia /? Howly murther an yet
they say that this is a free country ~
Puck.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
A Probability.

1t is probable that the new facilities
for mining and transportation offered
by the Nova Scotia coal beds will
make Nova Scotia coal cheaper than
American coal. Nova Scotia coal,
however, is not SO good as our Georges
Creek Lewiston (Maine) .J0urnai.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
A Strained Conclusion.

The JOURNAL admits that if Hon. John
Richie were alive now he would be man
without party.-Cumberland Neps.
Not exactly.
The JOURNAL constructed head
ing TO suit the Netos' notion of his EN-
barrassment could he come back.
That is all.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
COnSidcrate.

Topsy-'' Mamma, ought | to be kind
to the cat p
Mamma -"Certaln'y, my child.
Why do you ask p
7opsy-"Because I've given it all the
cream, and there's none for tea. TIT
Bits
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
TryinGtO Save 81.

Shinner-I say, doctor, if you had a
cough like mine what would you take
for it
Doctor (promptly)-Some good ply
sician's advice.-Butfalo Courier.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01


To the MINING JOURNAL.
Will you allow lone of the teachers
to thank you for your kind words in
your last issue regarding our "short
term" in the coming scholastic year ?
| want to say, too, that unques-
tionably the ''chiding" of the news
papers by Mr.. Buckley is an evidence
of his appreciation of their power and
influence. | know it would be IN my
case. | cannot conceive where would
be more help for us in having this
fearful mistake remedied than in the
columns of our local press. The editor
is seldom out of the way on public
questions, and in this particular case
the voice of the people could speak
through him most emphatically
So, view Mr.. Buckeyes communica-
ton as a gentle reminder of what we
fellow-teachers are looking for from
the ''knights of the pen"
| desire more particularly, though,
10 refer to your mention of possible
ten months term for all the schools.
Why not in Allegany county? Is it
not the second county in the State in
wealth and Importance? Is there not
as great a necessity tor this provision
for our boys and girls, who, by situa-
ton and the industry of our section,
can remain only in the primary grades
before ceasing to attend school, as in
any other part of the State 1t is the
ultimate object of the free-school
system-this ten months schooling.
We ought to reach out to it. There is
no better time to discuss the question
than now when probable ''cut down"
stares US in the face.
Then, again, it is worthy of remark
that in Maryland we have graded
SCHOOL, system, and the work of the
schools is mapped out by the State
Board of Education. Now, what is
the condition of affairs regarding this
work? This: Teachers ale expected
to advance pupils from grade to grade
yearly. But what is the years work
based on! This is most interesting
question to us teachers The years.
aoork Is Predicated upon a ten months term
How can we accomplish it in seven and
a-half months it was difficult to do
in nine months ESQ called, for, in fact,
we have only had an eight and-three-
quarters term.)
am quite sure you see the import
ance of the heightened term. More
than half of the State has seen it be-
yond where we have been able TO view
1t in Allegany county.
AS teachers we might say more yet
on the subject, especially on the line
of wanting to work." but some one
might charge us with selfishness in this
respect. Still, it's an awkward fact"
to us as it now is.
We petition the gentlemen of the
''pen, pastepot, and scissors to plead
our cause. 0. HI. BRUCE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-09-01
CORRESPONDENTS.
Warming.


FRosTBURG, MD. Sept. l, 1894.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Congressman cKaig's'.evasive an
swer when asked in Baltimore yester-
day whether he would run if NOM
mated should put Mr.. Williams
friends on their guard all along the
Creek this evening.
1t is believed that "our friends, the
enemy" have a hand in the business
of making his evasion u text for dis
senslon in the democratic party. and
when we remember that they were
able last fall to nominate a ticket for
us that they could surely beat, it be-
hooves all democrats to look out for
attempts at the same trick this
evening.
Be sure your delegations are pledged
to Williams. Two DEMOCRATS.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
Cunning For Trusts.

The Democrats are carrying out
their policy of free raw material
and the trusts, combines and bounty
fed are squirming. The other day
it was the sugar trust and the $10,-
100000 sugar-bounty planters Of
Louisiana Tuesday it was the big
coal corporations of West Virginia
and Maryland, and the railroad
companies that levy extortionate
toll on coal shipments. In the
depth of winter these overfed mo-
nopolies fairly howl at the idea of
reducing taxes on the heat and
light of the people. Yesterday the
impoverished iron ore millionaires
of Lake Superior had their innings
1t shows the work the Democratic
party is doing for the people that
these great monopoly interests are
making such desperate resistance to
measures of right and justice.
There is not a question of wages in
volved in iron, coal or iron ore. 1t
is purely and solely a question of
the dividends of a prohibitory tariff
to bolster their trusts and com bina-
tions. 1t is great thing for the
people of this country that the
Democrats of the house are not fall
tering in the work in which they
are engaged of reducing the burdens
imposed on consumers. In all these
things the great Republican princi-
ciple of taxing the many for the
benefit of the few is involved. That
is all there is to it. Half cent a
pound gave the sugar trust from
100000 to $20,000,00O a year.
There were millions for the coal
combinations and railroad compan-
les, but not cent for the miners in
the tax on coal. And there were
other millions for the iron ore trusts
in the tax on it's Importation, but
not a cent of wages for the oppress-
ed and miserable iron ore workers
of the lake regions, and it is about
the hardest-pushed form Of Ameri-
can labor. 1t is high treason to
join a labor organization, and star
walton to refuse the scant wages of
the Notwithstanding Post.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
The Beauties of MKinleyism.

An instructive light is thrown
upon the workings of our tariff laws
by report of the silk manufacture
ers of st. Etienne, lately presented
to the French government. In it
they took up specifically the ques-
ton of their exports to the United
States, Russia and Switzerland, and
the hearing on their business of
tariff laws, foreign and domestic.
A study of the table setting forth
their sales to the United States re-
veals some curious relations of their
exports to our customs legislation.
For time after the passage of
one Of our tariff bills the exports
invariably fall off, only to raise
again as invariably in year or two.
Thus, in 1885 the exports of rib
bons and velvets from Saint Etienne
fell to $480,00O, though they
amounted to as much as 81 100000
before the tariff of 1883 was passed.
However, they slowly mounted
again till in 1890, the figures were
upwards of $2,eOO,OOO. This was
frightful and Mckinley hurried to
double the rates. Down fell the
Saint Etienne exports, of course,
but equally of course they began
to raise again, and in 1892 amount
ed to 81 100000, or more than twice
what they were in 1885, before Nc
Kinley began his holy war against
foreigners.
Now, to what do the manufac-
turers attribute their ability thus
to encounter hostile Legislation ?
Incredible as it may seem, to their
ingenuity in inventing new pro-
cesses and products and to their en-
ergy and enterprise in building up
a foreign trade. Against these arms
precision what can our barbarous
tariff bows and arrows and blunder-
buses hope to do?-Saginaw News.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
Reform Does Them Good.

According to the Textile World
of Boston, 172 mills for the manu-
facture of textile goods were erected
in this country last year.
These mills were projected after
the election of the present tariff re-
form Congress, and most of them
after the Inauguration of President
Cleveland. Twenty-seven of the
SO cotton mills erected are in the
South, North Carolina leading with
IA. The total for New England is
Is, all but two of them being in
Massachusetts,. Nearly all of the
So new knitting mills also use cot
ton. Most of them are in the Mid
die States, the South and West
having, however, Is between them.
There were six cotton batting mills
put up, only one less than in 1925
The profits of the wooden manu-
facturers were cut down some, but
they were sufficiently large to JUS
tify the erection and opening of 33
new wooden mills. They are scat
tered pretty well over the country,
every section being represented.
About half as many silk as WOOL
en- mills were established. New
Jersey and Pennsylvania manufac-
turers putting up 10 of them
st. Louis Republic.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
Sugar Bounties.

The sugar bounty provided by
the Mckinley law is now being
paid to the louisiana sugar produc-
ers at the rate of 100000 a day.
AS the sugar crop this year has
been a very large one, the New
Orleans Picayune estimates that
the bounty to be paid in that state
will amount to about ST., 100000.
AS the number of licensed sugar
producers is only about 700, the
average paid in bounty to each one
aggregates $4,000. When they
have received this bounty they will
still have their sugar to dispose of
at market rates, which range from
2 1-2 to 3 1-2 cents pound. While
$4,000 is the average bounty, some
of the great sugar producers receive
as much as 100000, and the indi-
vidual payments range from this
figure down to 5000 or $500 paid
the small farmers. AS a specimen
of unjust and class legislation we
do not believe this has ever had a
parallel in our own country, and in
few others. Why has not the wool
grower or wheat producer of the
north and west an equal claim on
the bounty Of the government? 1t
is one Of the beauties Of the Nc
Kinley law, and not the least of the
reforms of the Wilson bill is the
abolition of this bounty system. It
illustrates the craftsmanship of the
McKinleys, the Reeds and the Dali
zells, the imposition of this heavy
burden on the people of the whole.
country for the benefit of a class
interest, and a sectional interest at
that. In order to do it they sacri-
feed the revenue derived from the
tax that had been imposed on the
importation of raw sugar, but
which yielded in the aggregate some
sixty millions Of dollars. If this
tax had remained undisturbed, or
even been reduced ons-half, and the
bounty never allowed, there would
be no question of loan at this time
to maintain the public credit
Pittsburg Post.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21

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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
An Honest Opinion.

A speech delivered by Exon
gresham Benjamin Butterworth,
one of Ohio's foremost Republicans,
at the annual dinner of the Roches-
ter chamber of commerce, will at
tract no little attention throughout
the country. Major Butterworth
responded to the toast "Our National
Industries. In the course of his
address he said:
Industry and commerce are in
separately blended. If we dwarf
our commerce we must in greater
or less degree contract the avenues
through which the product of our
industries is distributed.
ut is asserted constantly that the
multiplication of our industries is due
to the direct influence of high
protective tariff. ] cannot conceive
a greater error than is embodied in
that statement. Orators on the
stump exhibit a piece of common
goods that fifty years ago cost for
ty or fifty cents a yard, and then
take another piece that was manu-
featured recently at FIVE cents a
yard, and then thank the Lord for
a high protective tariff. But the
difference in cost has no relation to
q protective tariff than the transit
Of Venus. If you will visit Lowell
and go through the mills you will
find there that the cost of produce
ton Of that second lot Of calico has
been reduced by the devices sup
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
The Times are Mending.

Individuals and firms in all lines
of trade and production are reduc-
ing their Indebtedness rapidly.
Money that comes in is applied on
debts instead of going into plant
and extension, as would be the case
were conditions normal and times
easy. The country has not yet
completed the process of liquida-
alton upon which it has been en-
gagged for the better part of year.
Business convalescence is progress
sing more rapidly, however. than
most people think. Cash is accum-
ulating very fast in the hands Of
the merchant class and there is a
disposition on all sides to take ad-
vantage of discounts on close pay
ments in the purchase of goods.
Forced sales of bankrupt stocks are
being numerously attended by buy
ers with plenty of money and q
keen spirit of competition for bar
gains is springing up. The unex-
pectedly large returns from several
important cash sales of wholesale
stocks recently has opened the eyes
of observing people to the fact that
the country is again filling up with
money. New proof on that point
is hailed with unfeigned delight.
The people have been dosed with
liberal lip and typographical assur-
ance that the times are mending.
Substantial facts in evidence on
that point carry more weight than
mere talk, however we'll founded it
may be. Facts are convincing
Chicago Evening Post.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21

piled by the inventive genius of
men, which at the same time POUNDS
a great number of new industries.
And labor in each case was redis-
tributed."
1t is refreshing to read the utter
ances of candid man on the sub
ject of the tariff, and especially if
that man be Republican, for it
shows that every one is not so
blinded by prejudice as to attribute
all the advantages of invention,
climate and natural resources to the
protective tariff.-Saginaw News.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21
Wednesday, February FL, 1894.
Cost of Alabama Pig Iron.

A carefully prepared article in
the Engineering and Mining Jour
nal on the cost of coal and iron in
Alabama shows that coal is now
put on the cars there at sixty cents
a ton and coke costs S1.16 a ton.
The whole cost of a ton of pig-iron
averages S6.97, some works making
it at a cost of So per ton of 2,240
pounds. AS IS per ton is the low
est price of pig in England, the
is reached by the Jour-
nal that foreign pig cannot compete
with the southern article. Tariff
or no tariff, southern pig is SAFE
Baltimore Sun.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1894-02-21

No. 800 OF the Local Acts OF 1891, or Act
No. 416 OF Local Acts OF 1893. AS Act
No. 410 OF 1893, makes IL my duty TO
give notice OF the time and place OF said
election In the wards OF this city by print
ed or written notices posted up In three
public places In each OF said wards OF
said city, at least ten days prior TO the
holding OF said election, and that shall
at least ten days prior to said annual
election, furnish to the inspectors OF each
ward list duly verified by me Of all the
voters registered In said city, and furnish
said inspectors with a book to register
the qualified electors OF each ward there
In, and by the terms of the Act OF 1898,
Martin Crawford, William Wilson and
James Bowden are named as inspectors
OF election for the Third ward, and Joseph
Cavanaugh, Peter Peterson and Samuel
A. Dawson arc named as inspectors OF
election for the Fourth ward OF this CITY.
now desire to notify your honorable
body that 1t 10 my desire to do what Is right
for the best interests OF the citizens OF
this city. have consulted some OF the
best legal talent In this city, Democrats
and Republicans, and every one OF them
have advised me that II Is my duty, as
one of the officials OF this city, to obey
ACT. NO. 40 or the Local Acts or 1913,
amending the charter Of the city OF Alpena,
until this act has been declared null and
void by the judicial department OF the
state; that 1t is my duty to obey and exc
cute the law as find 1t. Having been so
advised, / now notify your honorable
body that l shall, as an officer OF this
city, obey the charter OF this city accord
ing to the terms Of said Act No. 41o OF
Local Acts of 1898
Yours respectfully,
WV. A. MCDONALD,
Recorder.
Declared out OF order by the chair.
On motion OF Alderman Blakley the
Council adjourned.
ANDREW HARSHAW,
Mayor.
WN. A. MCDONALD,
RAnnrdax
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