Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-20

neglect of their water supply and from
the failure of city authorities and the
people to properly equip their heroic
firemen, about whose grand ball''
privileges they are just now so jealous
ly concerned. What the new one has
cost, or whether it is through costing,
we donot know. But the Treasurer re-
ports that 500, 900 is the bonded lndebt-
are now constructed, this regions por-
ton of that debt is 500, 10, and
interest at same ratio.
Some complaint is made of the out
of-town newspapers fomenting and
keeping alive the observance of the
situation, but as a matter of fact, the
newspapers have been singularly ST
lent. Outside the JOURNAL not one
ever called attention to the Cumber-
land Times registration steal, amount
ing this year to $779.52-a fund to
which all the papers are eqmtably en-
titled. They have said nothing of the
fact that of the $4,2l3.42 of work
awarded to papers and printers only
| 1913 05 came to the Creek-a little
over one-ffth. They do not foresee.
either, that it will be still worse for
them in the next levy.
The NeOs itself got nearly $500 more
than all the Creek papers together, and
the Times nearly $400 more Is it any
| wonder that the organs 'holler ouch ''
when Il puncture threatens the tenure
Of their atmospheric capacity?
Save the JOURNAL, too, not a county
paper has printed word of condemna-
ton of provision of the current liquor
license Act which forces all the nee
essary publications to be made in
| Cumberland.
If, therefore, the county press is
guilty of manufacturing public feeling
up here against umberiand, the crime
does not voice its own suffering. 1t
must reflect the agony of other hearts
that bleed through their silent pages.
But we must hurry on.
The NeaoS says:
He Uhe JoURNAL) knows that the people Of
Cumberland have no desire to harm Frost
burg; that the press of this city-especially
the News-- take advantage ofevery opportunity
to say good word for the town.
The Ne1os makes virtue of necessity.
II can't do anything else but speak well
of Frostburg and the region. 1t can
not smite the hand that feeds it. The
only real virtue it can profess for it
self and Cumberland people is a
pensioners gratitude, and it can en-
terrain no vice worse than that which
forces the region to recoil despairingly
and murmur at last
How sharper than aserpent's tooth
1t is to have thankless child
Cumberland cannot get along with
out the Georges Creek coal region.
She cannot express contempt for those
vast contributions of wealth which are
yearly laid at her feet. She must still
cozen our of1ice-holders, who, laying
| their guilelesS heads in the lap Of
| Delilah, arise to find themselves shorn
| of their strength. The current of
treasure, surprising in volume the
auriferous flow of Pactolus, must still
flow from these heights like river Of
| life into the city's reservoir of opulence,
pride and pleasure.
And this region, like the tabled bird
that is said to feed her young with her
| own life blood, must still drain itself
to glut rapacity unfeeling as ada
mant and unbounded by safety.
Returning to the charge that the
county press, particularly the JOUR-
NAL, has stimulated unfriendly feel
ing for Cumberland up here, the
dailies do our people injustice. The
latter already understand the situa-
ton they talk it over and cast
about for means of emancipation.
| oHiy a. ISN "COho oSo 'iO coohNAL
heard the whole matter discussed by
party of the Neeos' political friends,
wherein it was determined that ''the
cart had gotten before the horse" in
the current scheme of minority rule in
both paries-a rule born, reared and
perpetuated in Cumberland for Cum
berlaud political and material ag-
grandizement. A system which en-
dows q district poll of 80 votes with the
same force as that exerted by one poll
ing 700 votes is always minority pole
that knocks the majority persimmons.
1t is one of those forms of despotism
that, clad in minority rights" has
sneaked in and reversed the very
genius of popular government. Under
it, no matter which party has COM
mand of the Juggernaut of taxation,
Cumberland holds the reins.
And it will be ever thus until
political cunning ceases to delude,
hypocrisy to deceive and power to
overawe a people that would love to
become free.
Should that suspicious day ever
come Cumberland will quickly lose
the pre- eminence she has borrowed