Frostburg mining journal., 1895-01-26
Save the HYpOCrItes.

More than 100000 tons OF coal were
shipped from Cape Breton in the eleven
months ending November 80, OF this
S9l, 900 tons were from the mines operated by
what is known as the whitney Syndicate y
and 220, 600 from those of the General Mining
Association. This was an increase of 1000
tons for the syndicate and 10000 tons for the
association over the output tor 1888 All the
shipments were by sea, and a larger amount
than ever before went to the New England
States-Cumberland Ne'rs.
During the campaign We learned
from placards-
Mr.. Wellington is a protectionist and will
vote for a tariff of 10 cents ton on coal,
which means so cents ton to the miner
In view of the Netos' statement
ought we to be satisfied with Mr..
Wellington's "vote" for IS cents per
ton?
Ought not the gospel of protection
be preached to the buyers as well as
sellers of coal9
In short, ought not Mr.. WelIington's
commission take him beyond Wash
ington to New England, and there, in
the very stronghold of protection, pro-
claim to the protectonists the exceed
ing sinfulness of buying free coal
For the conclusion is inevitable
that if it is wrong to vote for free trade,
it is worse than wicked to buy from
free trade.
And that if New England would buy
as she votes, we would have nothing to
fear.
Beyond doubt, therefore, Mr.. Well
ington owes it to himself and every
pretension upon which lie was elected,
to make missionary tour of the coal
consuming centres of New England
and there preach a gospel whose saving
grace should be felt in the business as
we'll as the political heat of protec-
tion.
Who knows but he might stir the
Puritans up to another 'Boston Tea
Patty" demonstration Let us i'm
agine. if we can, a troop of Beacon
Hill protectionists, disguised as In
dians, rushing aboard barges from
Cape Breton and dumping Nova Scotia
coal in Boston harbor! Is it not
glorious vision? AS a manifestation
emphasizing the fact that protection,
like religion, is the same in Boston as
on Georges Creek, would it not bring -
joy quite passing understanding to all
here who, having tasted the same
great blessing, will fear neither hunger
nor thirst any more
1t is true-too true, however, that
the times, issues, relations, and even
the nomenclature of the great parties,
have changed. In that elder day the
Bostonians were unanimous protest
ants against taxed tea. Now they
favor taxed coal, but they wouldn't un-
load free coal in the harbor. Then the
tax went to England; now they would
indirectly turn tinto their own pockets
1t is the apostasy of the New Eng
iduu toChol HetNt. lueIelOIt, ludl
ought to give the Georges Creek pro-
tectionst pain in his Australian com
munion with his God and his pencil.
Hence, the JOURNAL will close these
observations of urlikeness between the
preaching of protection and its practice
by urging that missionary tour to
New England upon Mr.. Wellington.
1t is no use to stay here and preach the
truth as 1t is in Mckinley. We are
saved already.
But to Boston and the regions round
about our Congressional evangelist
should go with the ringing message
from Georges Creek that there must be
as much religion in the business as in
the politics of protection that the tree
of protection, like all other trees, is
known by its fruit, and that the faith
of protection without the works of pro
lection is dead. In short, brethren of
the New England diocese, We cannot
serve the god of protection and buy
your coal in Nova Scotia