Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-04-04
FROSTBURG, MD.
4 Poser.

uC Lt'ttc' "uS PNtbiiSh
ed yesterday morning.
So also the Baltimore Sun.
The ReUieao said:
The fact that the miners of Georges Creek
have continued work and accepted the 40
cent rate is not an indication that with this
wage they are fully compensated Fifty
cents per ton is what they ought to receive
and what they still expect, and very soon too.
A notice to the effect that fifty cents per ton
will be paid for mining coal will be the only
means of restoring satisfaction and content
ment among our miners for the present.
The SIN publishes this dispatch from
Albany, n. Y:
The ant-coal trust bill, allowing the attor-
ney general to begin action to prevent mo-
nopolies, passed the Senate by all affirmative
vote of 49, no one voting in the negative. The
bill had previously passed the Assembly.
AS the only possible way to compel
consumers to pay the prices for cal
that good wages at the mines demand
and must have, is through the coal
pool thus interdicted, how are the mi
ners to get from the people of New
York what the State of New York has
determined they shall not have?
The JOURNAL would be delighted to
have any man who is honestly dis
satisfied answer this question.
Or, let the Recie~ come to the scratch
for its unreasonable dissatisfied
clientele.
Or, stop whining.
The Conscience Fund Gets Side
Tracked.
There has been a great revival in
Cumberland, but E. Rafferty, Johnston
''can't see that Rev. Mr.. Flies in.
fuence on his back subscribers has
been anything to brag off, He goes
on to account for what has Icing been
a mystery-the remission of large
amounts of conscience money" to
"of1icials at Washington Johnston
thinks this currency comes from back
subscribers who make the mistake of
sending it to the Treasury instead of
transmitting it to him and Cordry.
The JOURNAL makes note of this
conjecture only as an occasion to an
nounce that it is moral, intellectual
and commercial error to have sub
scribers who enjoy no conscience, or
are liable to have too much of the
kind that expresses substantial con-
Germ only for the national treasury.
The great paper has on its list people
all the way from Madawaska to
Coronado Beach, and from Key West
to Cape Flattery, but not one SC
morally unbalanced that he would
send 81 so to Washington.
And now is the time to subscribe.
n Bad Mixture.
If anybody thinks that railway rates are
too high and that railway investors are max
ing too much money he should look over the
stock quotations. He will find that of all
the active railway stocks quoted on the Ecw
York market only common stocks are now
up to or above par. From these rare and
exceptional properties there lisa rapid descent,
passing or stocks in the nineties, or 3 in
the eighties and seventies, more between
sixty and forty, and many below twenty,
down to the ptiful y, at which Northern
Pacific and Peoria, Decatur & Evansville are
at present quoted, Improbable rates and
unrestrained competition are evils which
have wrecked hundreds of railways, ruined
thousands of investors, and brought calamity
upon all interests. IT is time that people
realized that as long as the railways are i'm
poverished the public cannot prosper-Coal
Trade Jonrnal.
Still, Hon. w. l.. Wilson argued
that "the tariff Oh coal is a subsidy to
the railroads."
Wherein West Virginia "schol-
arship" got intermingled with some
New England craftsmanship"