Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-11-17

poetlcally, and the Nesos hasn't been
heard from since.
The only thing the Neps can stand
up against is poor prose.
Hit with verse of scripture or a
stanza of poetry and it goes to grass.
Answer to an Editorial Information
Wanted"
Has the rescuing party yet reached the re-
mains of our old friend. Maj. Moses Gibson?
He seems to have been caught somewhere
in the andslide.-Cumberland Ners.
The Major is all right.
The Ne,os' inquiry, so full of tender
ness, reminds us, however, that the
Major was the sharpest snag the Necs
ran against during the fall.
Loaded with incontestable facts and
figures, and master of a strong style of
dictlon, he gave the Ne,os more trouble
in single letter than Avirett could
shake stick at.
what They Demand"
A Homecoming correspondent asks
the JOURNAL to ''make the following
illustration clearer =
Somewhere the Cumberland Nems says
The people demand protection and will
have it.
Let us illustrate that
The people of Allegany county demand
that the school term shall be extended, and
they will have it.
That is, they are demanding this of them
selves
Individually, each man is laying down the
law to himself
And each man IS threatening himself with
what he is going to do to himself if he doesn't
toe the scratch.
A portion of the article got misaid,
and we cannot now reproduce it as it
was originally written.
But the point, plainly spoken, Is
this:
The sum of $4,000 is said to be
needed to extend the school term to
the generally desired length.
To get the $4,000 the people haye
got to tax themselves.
Hence, if they demand and will
have the 5000, they are merely levy
ing upon their own pocket books.
So with protection. An imperative
demand for it means a levy by each
citizen upon his own pocket for the
expenses of protection. If it were
otherwise its inequality, thus necessa-
rily implied, would make it unlawful.
But suppose it were the teachers
only who demand the $1,000 would
not their righteousness lay them open
to the suspicion that it was their own
and not the children's welfare they
were seekingg
Assuredly.
And i'll nine of ten cases, it is the
manufacturer who, leading in the howl
for protection, goes searching for
other peoples pockets ostensibly to
make labor the receiver of stolen
goods.
And poor, innocent, gulllble labor,
taking up the cry-"great is the Allah
of protection, and the Mahomet of
manufacture is His prophet "-goes
to the polls, renews and emphasizes
his complete surrender:
Here, Lord, give myself away
IT'S all that | can do.
Protection per Sc is the monumental
delusion of the nineteenth century.
Protection Should Protect
The Cumberland News discredits the
reliability of trade publications.
But politics being trade, and the
Neos political paper, it impeacnes
itself in some measure.
But at this time we will let that pass
so that we can acknowledge that what
the Ne,os says is strictly true-if it
means a fool paper published some
where north west called the Black
Diamond.
The latest complaint of this author
itJ' 10 VIC sCO IL ouuoio ou ny 4uotdtlou
III this county, begins this way:
We wish to protest, and protest most
emphatically, against the purchase on the
part of the government offoregn coal for the
American navy.
The evidence goes to show very
conclusively, however. that. while
British-American coal eastward is far
inferior to ours, westward it is very
far superior.
And that is the issue that has to be
met on the Pacifc-whether govern
ment shall lose money and time by
running slow boats, or save it by buy
ing The better foreign coal.
AS intimated, on the Atlantic there
is no such embarrassment incurred.
At the same time the boosted McKin-
ley Act let i'll lot of foreign coal that
ought to have been made pay duty
that is, if it was really designed to
protect coal by forcing people to buy
here who are compelled to land here.
The Mckinley Act, however, was
not made to apply to foreign coal COM
ing into our harbors to be taken out
again unloaded. The foreigner, there
fore, could buy coal where he pleased,
but the citizen was compelled to buy at