Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-11
Are the Children '.squatters," Too?

Are the Children "Squatters," Too?
Perhaps the NeWS can now tell us where
the persons get the money to pay the
taxes which they bestow through Cumber-
land media upon Cumberland beneficiaries.
Do they get it out of the ground Sin Balti-
more, New York, Boston," etc?-Frostburg
JOURNAL.
The Baltimore, New York and Boston
capitalists referred to obtain the money to
paw their taxes through their enterprise i'll
developing valuable coal deposit over which
you and few others have the eifrontery to
assume something in the nature of proprietary
rights, simply because you happen to have
Squatted a mile or two nearer the source of
our local wealth than some other people.
Your claim is fraudulent and your pretense
of championship is hypocritical. 1t is said
that you have made pretty good thing out
of your weekly roast of the walking dele
gate but we have grave doubts of your
being able to improve your opportunities by
attempting to enlarge the field of your opera
tions.-Cumberland NewS.
1t was not necessary for the Ne,os to
re affirm its faith in the unrighteous-
ness of "home rule"
Nor for it to assume that the 'squat-
tiers" have right only to "the crumbs
which fall from the tables" of their
Cumberland masters.
But these "squatters'' have been
here so long that very many Of them
have reared children, now grown
young men and women to whom no
other valley and no other mountains
will ever look like those which bound
their natal horizon. No matter
whence their parents came, these
young people were born to the
purple of Georges Creek sovereignty.
They are rulers who cannot admit
that the aliens have more right
to the incidental wealth of their realm
than even the ''squatters." In short,
they cannot acknowledge that they
are exiles in the land of their birth.
1t is more than certain, then, that they
will never agree that the natives of
this blessed valley live only to be
shorr by people who have no more in
common with them than the canoiUe of
Paw Paw.
Concerning ''the pretty good thing"
the JOURNAL has made, it may be said
also that the JOURNAL made Il sple ndid
hit when it succeeded in being born
as an individual as we'll as paper.
1t has been lucky also in the fact that
it has never yet got sick enough to
1Ia hoe -
in body, mind or estate that its wei
fare could not have been vastly i'm
proved. 1t mas had its trials and
troubles, however, so much so that
not being lives who can designate
cent in its eXchequer that has not been
earned-more Man earned by work that
cannot be computed in the gross
measure of dollars and cents.
One question troubles us now-is
the Ne,os at last partisan Of the "walk-
ing delegate ?" If so, why?
Or, if not, why impeach the JOUR
NAL for hostility to the greatest enemy
of current society,"
The JOURNAL will overlook the Neocs
championship of the Cumberland ar
rogance which would trespass upon
our right to a monopoly Of all the
State Flremen's Association gave US,
but it cannot forgive the contention
which, even by implication, places
Cumberland fremen on the walking
delegate's' level in JOURNAL ostraclsm.
Each has reason, it is true, to squirm
and howl calamitously, but the Cum
berland fireman is an angel of light.
compared with the walking delegate. :"
Hence, there was and will be no
"attempt to enlarge the field of roast
ing operations 1t was a contraction
severe, it is true, but still Il contrac-
ton.
Nor was it an "attcmpt." If the
wider field has been "roasted" (the
reader really must pardon the Ne,cs'
amalgamated metaphor,) the narrower
one has gone to join the old court
house.