Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-04
Compulsory Harmony.

laDorS. Inc demand Tor puflncatlOn
and Qualification very nearly overtasks
its time and space.
Hence, unhappy Censor" the hero
incog. of the Disunlted Order of Labori-
Gus North American Nobility, has es-
capped notice fol fortnight, or more.
His last plant was heard under date
of April Is. Therein he affects to
think the JOURNAL "hits far from the
mark
Possibly.
With the chief of the tribe in hiding,
JOURNAL shaft is just as liable to hit
Red Dog as Sour Cayote.
This is an advantage-the only one,
in fact, that Censor enjoys. Take
off his mask and, ten to one, away will
90 all the weight and import which
attach to his utterances. AS "no man
is hero to his galet," so Censor"
"known and read of all men," would
cease to be an oracle.
Only few points, however demand
notice.
He says:
Now as to blackegs, a miner, and especial
ly he of foreign extraction, despises black
leg with an Unborn hatred, which is strength
ened by parental precept and example. This,
intensified against their heroic protector, and
this feeling multiplied against the operator
whose greed for gain and inhuman disregard
for the rights of others, should make it inn
possible for men to lower and stain them
selves with the neffaceable stigma of blackleg.
This does not seem to be compli
mentary to the "sons of American
sires"-those whose "foreign eXt1ac-
ton" is quite remote. 1t is the fresh,
pert, infallible spl Outs-eXotlc per-
force of modern want of monarchic
appreciation IN Europe-it is these
who are the slmon-pure eXemplars of
faith which clubs American freemen
out of the light to work. Later from
the taskmasters of Europe, it would
seem that those who had to 90 to work
under the flourish of the club, would
be the last to drive men from the right
to work under the stimulus of the
bludgeon. 1t would seem that ref
ugees from tyranny would leave be-
hind them the implements Of tyranny;
that they would not smuggle into this
Gland of the free and home of the
brave o solitary arm Of coercion, or
even symbol of towards supreme
authority.
About this stage it is proper to OBJ
serve also that Censor" is endowed
with no right, human or divine, to pro-
nounce any American citizen, native
or foreign-b born, a "blackleg." The
day of prescription is past. There is
not a Sulla in this county, nor any
man so good who can arrogate to him
self the authority to indict and con-
vict one of his peers as moral out
law. This sort or thing could not be
done ad H6itum even in the Dark Ages,
whence the knights of Labor resur-
rected it for missionary work in the
modern propaganda of the gospel of
labor.
But if Censor" had his own sweet
way, what would he do with his peers
we mean his peers in the view of
civil law, not his peers in his "higher
rule" of the juugle9 Let us see:
1t Uhe JoURNAL) makes heroes of blacklegs
and their protectors, while l would retire
them into oblivion. 1t praises blackiegs as
worthy of emulation, while l look upon
them as degenerated sons of Judas, etc.
The devil himself could hardly be
more malignant. The devil could bun n
all of Judas except his name, but
Censor" would make ashes of that,
too. For what? Because
| have the peace, prosperity and progress
of our people at heart, and will do as much
as lays in my power to establish and main
tain harmonious feeling between the miner
and his employer.
Having shown the incongruities of
"Censor's" programme, the JOURNAL
will ask him, in conclusion, when
doing "as much as lays in his power to
establish and maintain a harmonious
feeling between the miner and his en-
ployer," will he use club9