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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Which Horn :.

The Shepherdstown CIV. Na.) Reyiy-
ter makes point of the propositions
1, That the truth about the tariff on coal
has been unavailable owing to the selfishness
of both the coal people and the tariff re-
formers, and
>, That diSnteyested receiver of certain
coal mines in Kentucky IN a speech at Knox
VILE, Tenn, Feb. 20, to protest against the
passage of the Wilson bill, surprised every
body by favoring free coal.
Then the Register asks
Where, then could we expect to find a
more competent or disinterested witness to
the true needs of the coal mining industry
than this one who appears in such an unex.
pected quarter?
One of two things is certain
|, In spite of the Registers assump.
ton that its witness is competent
or disinterested," it is clear that he is
neither.
Or if he is either. it is equally evil
dent that he is also smart enough
to advocate the Inauguration of a
condition which will inevitably make
his receiyership a permanent Job.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
FROSTBURG, MD.
Mr.. German.

Politics make strange bed-fellows.
Hele is the Cumberland News saying
of Mr.. German
He mixes little business common sense
with his politics, and he sees plainly that the
Wilson bill is not a wholesome measure
that its mere shadow as coming event has
been productive of business trouble and COM
merclal stagnation, and that if it becomes
law without radical amendment it will bring
disaster and ruin to our mining and manu-
featuring industries.
And the Cumberland Times:
Senators who are seeking to preserve Nc
Kinleyism for their own localities or for
special interests which touch their own
pockets are, therefore not democrats
Democracy is at war with intrenched priv
ilege, Democracy stands for equal Justice to
all special favors to none The Wilson bill is
a Just and moderate measure of democratic
reform. The conservatives would convert it
into something only a little less republican
than the republican law.
The JOURNAL, of course, cannot
agree with either the Ne~s or Times,
for Mr.. German does not believe in the
one case that the Wilson bill is the
cause of either the sO-called monetary
stringency nor of the current revival of
religion nor, in the second place,
that true, representative patriotism
demands the martyrdom of those in
terests which lie exactly where charity
should begin.
1t must not be forgotten also that
the Senator who stands by coal should
not be herded with those who are
partisans of collars and cuffs.
Coal is commodity Su generis- not
to be classified with anything else of
general use. 1t is not to be treated as
cotton, WOOL nor even ores, for in
source, use or object, it is no more like
any of these than mining is like
farming.
Hence, the man who stands for
dutiable coal, even for protective pur
poses, is in the language of st. James,
''blessed IN not for "his deed" He
can be as good Wilson bill man, free
coal excepted, as Mr.. Wilson himself,
and he can defend the interior welfal e
of his country aud be better demo-
crat than any man who wants to
fringe the seaboard with its CONSOLE
dated manufacturing interests.
Mr.. Germans platform is-if the
seaboard coal market is worth having,
let it remain open-first and mainly to
to O,tr Orn sources of suDDIH
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
\ Retail Price AnaIyZed.

A number of laborng men living in a
Chicago suburb had reason to suspect that a
local coal dealer was not giving good weight.
They purchased a scale, and three of them
bought ton of coal each. The coal was
carefully weighed and the shortage on the
three tons amounted to one-third of ton.
They confronted him with the facts, and he
claimed that it was due to the practice OF
weighing wagon and driver with the coal
and deducting the tare. He refunded the
shortage and promised to do better. They
then went after every coal dealer in the place
and found that all of them sold short weight
coal. The conclusion reached was that very
many of the Chicago coal dealers were max
ing big profits on short weights.
The foregoing item is going the
rounds Of the city press.
1t is a straw which shows that the
local distributor of coal is the occasion
of the city hallucination that the tariff
on coal is the cause of high-priced fuel,
and of the later theory that it is a
subsidy to the railroads.
For instance, the JOURNAL will dis
tribute the proceeds of a ton of Georges
Creek coal in Baltimore, So 80, among
those who supply it to the consumer:
Miner. ....,..................S sc
Mining labor. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. &c
Railroads, 200 miles Observation-Disclosures. 1 &c
Owner Of the coal. ......... ........... Ii
Retailer. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1.2l
Iotal. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 50 OF
A full ton is delivered by the owner
to the retailer, but if the latter can, by
some hocus pocus, sell eight-ninths of
ton for a ton, he will get $l.39 for
the use of his horse, cart and driver
for drive of a mile or two, or within
one cent of what the railroads carry it
200 miles for.
So that city people, and country
people as well, should train their guns
on the coal men at their doors.
To hold the tariff responsible for
high prices of coal is about as sensible
as holding the wholesaler answerable
for the retailers short weight.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Tie Coal Trade


Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Creek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending March ), 1881. IS, 39S
g year to same date. .4s7 653
Decrease compared with last YEAR,. 81, s6S
The latest news from the markets is
CLEANED as follows:
The slight improvement motel in our last
weeks review of the btuninouy coal market
has continued and most of the producers are
able to maintain small regular output. A
slight scarcity of coal is reported from the
East, but Notwithstanding this consumers are
very backward in giving new orders and
apparently are taking merely enough coal to
keep them going. The far East continues to
take less than its usual tonnage and the
greater proportion of coal is still coming from
the upper loading ports. There are few
contracts now in the market and the different
companies are making bids on them. This
seems premature, for the main line roads
have not yet named their through rates for
the coming season. All these bids are there
fore to certain extent speculative and are
based upon reports, rumors or intimations, as
to what these rates will he.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Mixed Children,

Speaking of the action of those
glittering types of representative
democracy, Senator German and Con
gresham Mckaig, the Cumberland
Neaos inquiries
Which is the real, genuine democracy, any
how?
The probability is--they are pieces
of the same cloth.
German, like McKaig, is doing all
he can to keep at least the republican
rate of 50 cents on coal, the John
Richie rate of IS cents being out of
the question.
But if he can't get it, he will, like
McKaig, take the New England dose.
Which reminds the JOURNAL that it
is in order to ask the Ne~s--
Which is the real, genuine republi-
can party, anyhow-the New England
end, which wants free coal, or the
Allegany end, which Islands by New
England?
Or is there not occasion for the
Irshman's observation that p
Yez thot it wuz me, and Oh thot it wuz yez,
an be jabers, it's nayther of us.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Faith i'm Faith Curc,


| J. X. Sovereign, general master workman
of the Knights of Labor, said in a lecture at
Minneapolis that he does not believe IN strikes
and never saw one which did not do harm.
The JOURNAL has heard of other
professional" sons of toll who hold
the same view.
But the question which causes
anxious thought is-what is the Noble
Order for ]!
Eliminate the "strike' from the
Noble Orders method of reform and
there is nothing offensive nor defensive
left.
Take out the strike" and the charg-
ing line is disarmed, the fortress sacked
and even the magazine is Quilted.
Take out the strike" and the Noble
Order has a law without penalty and
an end without means.
Mr.. Sovereign is evidently neither
soldier, a lawyer, nor a philosopher.
AT the same time it is shown that he
has been using his eyesight to i'm
mense advantage, for he never saw the
Noble Order attempt to enforce itself
without doing harm"
Hence, the JOURNAL not only en-
dorses Mr.. Sovereign's skepticism as
to results, but it goes a step further
and says it "does not believe" in
the causes of ''strikes"
in short, the JOURNAL docs not be-
lieve'' in noble orders of North
America.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Where the Danger Lies

There are not many miners in this region
who do not favor an organization of the craft
and though it was the case that many opposed
such a movement, this would not end the
matter No matter how small the union, no
matter how weak in membership, no matter
how forlorn may be its hopes or how depress-
ed its membership, it is still the nucleus from
which may spring at the most unexpected
moment a sturdy movement to do manly
battle for the elevation fthe workers-Lona-
coming Reeie~.
They probably had the nucleus
out in West Virginia the other day,
from which at a "most unexpected
moment it was designed ''to do man
ly battle" with dynamite ''for the ele
vation' of the civil and military
authorities sent there to keep order.
The trouble is, dear Recietc, the dan
gerous element altrays gets control of
the top-lofty job of "elevating the
workers"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
GENERAL. ITEMS
Properly Stated

When II member Of the House of
Representatives refuses to vote. he is
in contempt of the House, and il the
House cannot make and enforce Il rule
to fine such members and to hold them
in confinement until they purge them
selves OF contempt, it would be
better to adjourn sine die and con
fess that there is no such thing
as IL deliberative body. "Counting
a quorum" is Il cowardIy device for
waving an issue which continually re,
ours Oil the question of the ability of
the House to sustain its dignity against
the contemptuous aggression of midi
vlduals who attempt to usurp the
power Of the majority. -Cumberland
Tves
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
Both Guilty,
The Coal Trade Jouanal saws:

The Coal Trade Journol SAYS:
The cry of the New Highlander is:
Free coal is the feature of the Wilson bill
which would have added more than any other
in augmenting the prosperity of New Eng
land.
1t is even so.
And the JOURNAL does not want 1t
forgotten that while the democratic
party may crafty New England, the
republican party of this county elected
its county ticket last fall on platform
distinctly and solely auxiliary of that
very same New England prosperity -
Gentlemen, as certain AS you are
alive, both parties are tarred with the
same free coal stick.
And, to change the adage, the re-
publican pot cannot cali the demo-
cratic kettle black.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
\ Chunk OfTruth.

The Industries of the United States
do not demand the amount Of coal that
can be produced. Gas, oil and cleo
tricity can compete with coal at the pit
mouth. Right here in Dubois the very
men who dig the coal dry their cloth
ing, cook their food and warm the
water with which they wash themselves
by means of gas. The chief trouble
both operator and emp Joyce have to
face is over-production. Bots Pa
Express.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
\ Small Erroneous Deduction.

In pursuance of its policy of show
ing that no party can claim a monopoly
of friendship for dutiable coal, the
JOURNAL is obliged to contend that the
following quotation from the Cumber-
land Ners is calculated to misguide
the unwary:
Thirty-five cents ton-Iust half what it
was under republican rule.
Not quite half; still only Is cents
under the figure for which the lamented
Garfield contended in 1872.
In other words, it is just 10 cents
under the John Richie figure.
An in still other words, it is just 81
cents more than the Allison bill and
original Mckinley bill figure.
Which figure, lift be a figure, was 0.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
CORRESPONDENTS.
4 Nomination..

FRosrBURG, MD., March ., 1891.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Please allow me little space in
your paper to say Il few words con
corning the coming municipal election.
Every intelligent citizen knows that
the next Mayor must be qualified
business mall-one who has made a
success in his own affairs-in order to
deal prudently with the water works
debt"
A debt of nearly $50 900 is no unim-
port matter to deal with.
Hence, it requires man at the
helm possessed Of business qualiica-
tionS.
In selecting Il man for the Office |
suggest Joseph Bear, who, | think.
will meet the above requirements.
A VOTER,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
The Root of the Trouble.

The man who first called coal "a
raw material did that commodity ten
fold more damage than the widest free
trader ever could have conceived
No matter whether Il democrat or
republican, he is an ignoramus or u
liar.
And his disciples. no matter how
high or low. are no better
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
The Outcome.

The Senate committe reports duty
of 40 cents on soft coal.
This is distinctly a revenue duty.
There is not particle OF incidental
protection in it.
1t means Il roast Of the Georges Creek
region by Il slow fire instead of sudden
death.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
w l,y?

Great revivals Of religion are reported all
over the country. A religious expansion
nearly always accompanies Il financial
stringency. This was noticed rs long ago as
the crash of 81" When men are left with
out much 'show" in this world they seem
more ready to consider the advantage of
another Cumberland Ne"S
"Financial stringencies would seem
to be. then, Indispensable to the com
plete success of the Christian era.
Which, being confessed, wherefore
doth the ungodly and the Ne~s com
plain of the Wilson bill
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
All for the Best,

In Pittsburg the authorities dis
criminate against single workingmen
by giving city work to married men.
The consequence is-a boom in
matrimony.
Whence many moralists argue that
the wind which blows untempered on
shorn lambs is, after all, medium of
good to society.
Moreover, some religionists, notably
the Cumberland Ne~s, observe great
wave of spiritual revival rolling across
the troubled breast of Mckinleyism.
Which, being self-evident, there are
apparently no social evils unmixed
with good, and it is more than likely
that all that christians lose here in
martyrdom shall be more than made
up under the regime of the final and
complete sovereignty of goodness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
\ Bad job.

AS spring gradually advances there are
signs of a revival of business in general, and
a good season for our miners is looked for
Homecoming Recie~'
That is better than calamity howl.
ing.
The party that has to scare people
out OF paying their debts in order to
keep itself before the public is pretty
hard up for political capital,
1t is paying debts that makes the
commercial world go round.
And if everybody would pay their
debts in spite of party panic bowls,
the panic itself would be impossible.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
COUNTY NEWS.
An Old Citizen Dead.

William Findlay, of Mt. Savage,
died at his home, that place, Sunday
last, in the S4th year of his age. He
had been a familiar figure in Mt.
Savage history over 80 wears.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
He is Right.

The amount OF rebellion developing
against Mr.. Germans course in the
Senate is frightful to see.
Newspapers are asking with more
and more impertinence-''is Mr.. Cor
man representing the people,
But it is to be said that Mr.. German
evidently does not belong to the Will
son Rayner school of States right dem
ocracy that contends, first, for the
destruction of the industry that is
nearest home.
Nor does he believe in the republican
fallaey that we must first build up and
"stand by" other peoples industries
before we sympathlze with and en-
courage our own.
More than all, Mr.. German knows
that free coal is bauble to all the in
dustries and firesides of the country
except those Immediately on the edges
of the oceans that coal can never be
cheaper than it is to the people of the
interior, and that the ocean. shore cities
enjoy no right to lug in foreign
product which benefits them alone and
debases the same interests in our com.
mon country.
Mr.. German knows that all steam
coal is Il finished product, no matter
what the doctrinaires, word-trimmers,
sophists and even the courts may af-
feet, and that it is entitled to exactly
the incidental protection which the
Chicago platform so clearly and UNI
mistakably provides for it.
So far as coal is concerned, there
fore, Mr.. German is practically and
courageously right, Mr.. Rayner soph-
omorically and agonizingly wrong.
Only Here.
In some waggish references to the
JOURNALS antipathy 10 the Grand
Master Workman of the United Order
of North American Nobility the Cum
berland Neps evinced some sympathy
for that miracle of modern Apostle
ship.
The JOURNAL does not think it a
demonstration of genuine tenderness,
but if, sin the course of human events"
the JOURNAL should be mistaken, it
commends to the Neus the following
lucid passage from the gospel of
laborious knighthood according to
Sovereign:
Labor is not protected Invested capital
receives bonus in the form of protection,
and it is then optional with the capitalist to
give share of the bonus to labor in the form
of increased wages, but this option is seldom
if ever, exercised.
Mr.. Sovereign is eminently correct,
whether he enjoys the sympathy of
the Netcs or not.
He Is correct in stating that the rule
is for ''invested capital to retain all
that the tariff allows in labor's name
and behalf, and that the exceptions to
the rule are distressingly seldom"
Indeed, probably the only exception
in the United States is shown in the
conduct of our own mining operators
to our own miners right here in our
own region.
Here, without being the express
trustees of an express trust, 81 per- cent.
of the little protection coal enjoys is
given by the operators to the miners.
And this is commanding reason
why there is no call here for revival
of the reign of the Master Workman
nor for the specious ministrations of
that peripatetlc Aristotle, the Walking
! Delegate.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
A SubtcrliI1C.

The Baltimore S"" seems not at all pleased
with the Senate committees action IN placing
a duty of 80 cents a ton on coal and speaks
of that body as "being lukewarm aud in
different to the success of democratic prln-
ciples and the fultillment of democratic
pledges" If the Sun had as much at stake
over this one clause in the Wilson bill as
have the miners and operators of this region
II would not be so fervent in asking that
democratic pledges be strictly carried out
Homecoming Repie~
The trouble with the SIM begins in
its mistaken premises
|, That free coal is Il democratic principle y
2, That free coal is a democratic pledge"
1t is neither.
Free coal mas never been in a demo.
cratic platform.
And never in democratic bill until
this year.
These are facts that can be evaded
only by sneaking coal into the happy
thought list of raw materials"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-10
An Edged Tool When i'm Bad Hands.

The JOURNAL seems very much worried
about the talked of reorganization of the
Knights of Labor in this region. If the
miners of Georges Creek see fit to form an
organization for their own protection, be it
the Knights of Labor or any other body, we
are confident they will ask for nothing more
than justice, which they are certainly en-
titled to.-Lonaconing Reeiew.
Carneades, who was Master Work
man in the time of Cicero, contended
that "there was no such thing rs JUS
tice."
He went so far as to affirm that
the condition of men is such that if
they have II mind to subserve justice,
they must act imprudently."
On the other hand, THAT if they
have mind to act prudently, then
their predisposition is to be unjust"
Lactantius reports that the heathens
could not answer these sophisms, and
Cicero, who had been bulldozed b. a
Walking Delegate, dared not.
Labor Of that day, as now, restricted or
expanded the value of Justice" to the
fanciful assessments of their own sweet
wills.
A sample of which is now hanging
out in West Virginia.
In the Nature of a Prospectus.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign having
given the machinery of the Knights of Labor
Il fresh hold in this county, we hardly ex-
pect the great paper to be in frame of mind
to give any further attention to the tariff on
coal.-Cumberland .Ne"s.
The Neeos should not be Respondent
The JOURNAL does not, it is true,
care so much for Mr.. Sovereign as it
does for the work he may have left tor
otherwise idle hands to do.
Hence, without abandoning its mis-
sion of showing the people that no party
enjoys monopoly of real friendship
for coal "the great paper" will I'M
doubtedly endeavor to continue its
serial attentions to the principles and
practices of the knightly Order of
Handwriting North American Nobil-
ity, as its eXegesis of that organiza-
tons whims and capers may seem to
exact.
For 1.-THE great paper" is the Noble
ORDERS guardian angel-the minister
ing spirit whose tutelary Office it Is to
keep the fingers of the North Amer
lean Nobility of Handwriting Knight
hood out of mischief.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-04-22
Reaping the WhirlMind.

TIE Detroit Free Press utters this
truthful remark:
The riots in the Pennsylvania coke
region are another case OF "sowing
tho wind and reaping the wh,rlwind." )"
The riotous strikers are the chenp
foreign workmen imported by the
coke manufacturers to compete with
Americans and scale down their pay,
at tho snmo time they were beseiging
Congress for duty Of ~ per cent. so
that they could maintain the lofty
standard Of American wages. They
are Huns and Slavs who drove the
American from his job by Offering 10
do his work at a lower rate. And
now that they have become sufficient.
ly familiar with tho custom OF the
country TO know tbut proteutionists
only pay such wages as they nre CON-
pellcd to, thoy nre seeking by resort
ing to tho rule Of tue mob, to force
an increase OF their wages.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-04-22
Blessed the Lodges.

"Yes"she sni1, "as long as life lasta
shell pray for blessings TO fall on
lodges. Had H. not been that the
lodge people persuaded my husband
To- join, then myself and little ones
would be in want. When sicknele
came they watched with him, and
wten our little savings wero gone
they brought his share Of tho sick
benefit fund. When death came his
lodge brothers put Grape ON this door
and said tho last prayer over his grave
They gavo mo sympathy and offered
mo assistance until the benefit OF g.,
0OO was paid me by the chief lodge
Clothed in mourning car gnther my
littlo ones around mo every night unt
thunk God for the good that lodges
dv."-In,licaior.