Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-11-02
Palpablc Instantaneous.

IaipaDlc vi ISSt ate1nentS.
James A. Wright, dubbed last week
blythe JOURNAL as J. Always Wrong,
made speech in Baltimore Monday
evening, fully sustaining his alias, ac-
cording to the 1n,erican
The meanest serf in Russia is superior
being to the miners of AlIegany county.
What does he mean by "meanest ?"
But no materials he the right TO use
that supcrlative with reference to the
miners in any sense Not Il bit of it,
ard the JOURNAL resents it with IN
dignation. More anon.
Forty cents a ton for mining is what these
men get, and So 10 a ton is what the mine
owner gets.
The highest price at Boston is So. 10.
But suppose tits $50 mining labor
gets. say 50 cents. That leaves 50. 10
for the mine-owner-tha is, if the rail
roads haul it 600 miles for nothing!
But take 50 cents from 50. 10; divide
the remainder by 600 and we will find
that when the railroad has gotten two
tifths of | cent a ton per mile for
hauling, there is nothing whatever left
for the mlne-owner!
lie gets something, of course, but
Whatever it is, the fact is seIf-evident
that his Is the lowest of all profits and
that coal frelghts are the lowest of
all transportation figures
These miners are compelled to wear the
Lowndes badge and they said to me
If YOU show us how we can vote against
tins man and not get discharged, we will
do it.
Mr.. Wright must have told these
maltreated iunoceuts how to do it, for
he says:
We had meeting of miners, and spies
were at that meeting Many miners were
afraid to attend the meeting, but they are
holding secret meetings, and by the end of
this week there will be solid phalanx of
miners who will use that Australian ballot to
its fullest extent.
Democrats-you whose party name
is synonym of individual and pop
ular liberty, imagine one of your open
and aboye-board love feasts, to which
everybody was invited, yet locked
and barred, metaphorically speaking,
against "Spies." Then conceive, if
you can, of democrats as "spies" in a
democratic camp
Yet this man said IN Baltimore that
he is "a JeffersonIan democrat ~
Now, think of the author of the Decla-
laration of independence resorting to
the darkness of secret meetings to
punish Lloyd Lowndes with the very
same ballot that German told the
newspapers would inevitably make
Maryland a republican State
But the JOURNAL cannot follow this
reckless agent of Gormansm to the
ultima Hute of all his exaggerations.
1t INST say, however. that no matter
now much 1.-THE meaneSt serf in Russia
Is superior" to our miners, there is
nowhere in the world as many under
ground workers who are the owners of
their own homes Nor so many any
where who 90 to their work on horse
back
OF the other class-the class from
whom Mr.. Wright evidently got his
lnformatiOn-in nine of every ten
cases 1t viii be found that the inferior
| of "the meanest serf in Russia is at
bottom and at top somehow the sole
author of his own misfortunes.
The Journal will also tell Mr..
Wright that if our coal companies en-
! joyed and exercised the autocratic
| power with which he credits them they
could meet all men of his kidney on
the Threshold of this region and say
thus far shalt thou come and no
farther!' They could repel all inva-
sion of this Gods acre." stife every
wicked whisper of sedition and throttle
in the very infancy of its iniquity
every attempt to undermine the stabil-
lily and integrity Of their business.
And such power, so exerted, would
make of the foremost coal region in
the world floral vale, perpetualiy
gladdened and sweetened by the
Blue flowers like those which Bramins say
Bloom nowhere else put under the spray
OF Edcn's fountain in Paradise