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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS
L. V. POWdcrIy.


The knights of Labor will do vastly
better listening to Mr.. Powderly Just
now than to either their Bishop or their
Sovereign.
In a very recent interview the fol-
lowing dialogue took place between
Mr.. Poverty and newspaper man:
cone miner told me- exclaimed Mr. Pow
derby, that he had read all of Mr. Bryan's
speeches and they impressed him as the words
of man who had never been in four strikes,
like he had, and seen his wife and children
suffer for bread"
What strength have the Knights OF
Labor" was asked of MIR. Powderly
at is nothing but a skeleton now for cam
paign purposes" replied the ex-leader of the
knights. For some time the expenses OF
keeping up a show of organization and sup.
porting Mr.. Sovereign and his staff have been
paid by the silver mine owners committee
do you mean to say that the silver mine
owners are supporting the present Knights OF
Labor organzation?'
II do"
Said he again:
In Galcna and other places dodgers were
scattered about, quoting my statements in
favor of silver made while master workman
Il am in favor of silver now" said Mr.
Powderly emphatically Il am in favor o
its right place in the currency Like min ETY.
of hundred public men, | did not realize
what the free coinage men proposed to &c
until the campaign opened When realized
and other men who were friendly to sive
realized. that the free coinage men want tt
stamp anybody's and verybodys silver
without limit or control, into dollars not be
longing to the government, to flood the coun
try, we were Mortified ~
Would you be out campaigning for tn,
republican committee if the issue was not OF
the currency"
mo, | would not" replied Mr.. Powderly
My mission is to warn the workmen agains
the efforts of Mr.. Bryan oarray labor agains
capital. He has never seen men and womer
and babes suffer for food on account of sucl
utteranceS. | haven
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Wants to be Bad.

The man who tells us that 1.-The
party of jefferson and Jackson" isn't
as good as the prodigal son knows just
as little about patriotism as he does
about christianity.
If his use of the prodigal son illus
tration were not in apropos he himself
could be likened to the stingy, mean
brother who staid at home, begrudged
the fatted calf and remained mad,
because his father was glad.
Mr.. Bryan wants to be meaner than
the people will permit him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
An Easy One.

The FRosrBURG JOURNAL is requested to eX-
plain what makes the value in a postage
stamp. Tell this yet and We'll let you off
until you return from Salt River head
quarters Times.
The two cents that one pays for the
transportation of an ordinary letter.
for instance, from Frostburg 10 Cum
berland.
The stamp is the governments ac
knowle lgment that it has sold and has
been paid for so much transportation
If on a letter in transitu it certifies
that redemption of the governments
half of the contract is in process.
If not on a letter it is still the gov
ernment's certificate that so much
transportation is due the holder.
To that extent and IN that respect
it evidences an obligation which
the government is ready to redeem in
transportation only, whenever the holder
is equally ready to avail himself of the
privilege he has bought.
In short, the entire machinery of
the governments postal system stands
constantly ready to redeem its pledge.
Not so with the dollar proposed under
free and unlimited coinage laws. The
government can make dollars as it
makes postage stamps, but it @W not
nd of Io,.{, Iof
stamps it makes for itself the dollars
it will make for the people as people.
The dollars made for Tom, Dick and
Harry
These gentry must float for themselves as best
they can
On the weak basis of the old shinplaster plan.
The Times has given the JOURNAL a
chance to impress its readers anew and
with augmented emphasis this truth
that whenever government makes
every owner of silver director of the
mint, and appoints every man the
ultimate redeemer of the cash he hap
pens to have about him, then chaos
will be here, and the DEVILS reign of a
thousand years begin.
We tell you in all earnestness that
silver cannot be eventually redeemed
with silver no more than a postage
stamp can be redeemed with another
postage stamp.
We tell you the silver-mine owners
are after gold, gold!-the very thing
they are teaching you is 1.-The root of
all evil"
We tell you that if they fool you this
time they will have in four years gold
in some measure for every ounce of silver
they take to the mint.
Let us repeat this statement--th
farmer does not and cannot take
wheat for wheat, corn for corn, oats
for oats; the printer does not and can.
not take printing for printing, and
the miner does not and cannot take
coal for mining.
By the same tokens, the silver mine
owner does not and cannot take silver
for silver.
Eventually he must have gold-this
after he has placed gold far beyond
the reach and sight of his struggling
dupes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
BrcyitieS.

Hard to tell which is the more nu-
merous now-the campaign lie or the
object lesson.
Some of the JOURNALS treatment
OF the great issue is couched in homelv
phrase and illustration, but this is
deemed tne better way.
Sat river keeps up It's old reputation
us current upon whose bosom packets
glide up stream. 1t is nip-and-tuck
which shall reach headwaters first, but
Bryan has the lead. In this race he
and Mckinley are doing their level
best, each to sail slower than the other.
Rev. Frank Vrooman, brother of tn e
two eX-preachers lately spouting popu-
lism here, was deposed last week from
Presbyterian pulpit for preaching
the populistic notion that if there is a
hel! there oughtn't to be.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
The Wrong Medicine

Voters should remember that four
years ago Mr.. Bryan howled for lower
prices as the king cure all for our
woes.
If he was wrong then, what assur-
ance have we that he is right now?
But it is practically certain that he
was nearer right then than now.
He was closer then to "the crime of
'73" than now, and knew, or ought to
have known better what he was talk
ing about.
But he is away off the track now
that is certain. AS far off, indeed, as
the physician who administers typhoid
treatment to a man i'll with pneumonia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Irregular "Rcguiarity."

The journal has sound money
democratic friend down in Virginia
who is troubled about gnlarity''
and fears he will have to vote for
Bryan on that account.
Bat if a democratic ticket which
must have two populist electors is
"regular," then Regularity" has taken
on a definition which is in no reputable
lexicon.
1t is safe to declare that when this
gentleman participated in the primary
and conventions he voted for no such
arrangement, and is, therefore, not
bound hy it now.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
TOWN AND VICINITY.
ACknOwledT ment.


Miss Bessie Couiehan presented the
JOURNAL this morning a jar of Bryan
pickle which she hopes will be eaten
next week with relish heightened by
the election of her favorite. Coming
from one so fair, the JOURNAL will
hardly be able to think of presidencies
when that pickle is eaten. Many
thanks.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
"Whcrc Are We AT ."

At Richmond, Va, early III the cam
paign, Mr.. Bryan declared
that the inflow of gold was due to the
mere nomination of a candidate for president
on a free silver ticket
la q speech at Peoria, H., last Fri
day. however, he said
that the gold imports are due to the des-
perate efforts Of the tinanciers to bolster up
the financial system with show of stability
until after the election.
In the language Of Cicero on an oc-
casion when a colossal dilemma was in
sight:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
n I'ancifUl Hone

hope that democratic paper will soon
start here (Baltimore) which will publish the
truth. The trouble is that the few who have
the money are on the other side.-Hon. 4. p.
GOIUdh.
All, Senator, truth is stranger than
fiction, and what you really need is,
If possible, more intimacy with fiction.
The fractional paper that tells 1.-The
truth is foreordained to destruction
Sin the house of its friends
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Not Arrived.

The silver-kings have contributed
an enormous amount of money to the
farmers and laborels this campaign.
They sent it through the hands of
committeeman and spell-binders, how
ever, and the per- capita increase of en-
culation is visible disappointment to
each per- cap.
The average committeeman and
spellblnder is not as safe a medium of
money Transmission as a registered
better unimpeded by
Eugene Wee
And John Pee
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
w hat Ii Has Come To.

Gen. W. S. Rosecranz, a successful
general on the victorious side in the
late war, and a democrat of no uncer-
tain orthodoxy, has declared against
Bryan.
And now, if Bryan be elected, this
soldier of the Union must go to the
"wood boss" and saw timber until Mr..
Bryan is readyto let the "prodigal son"
rGturn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Why =?

Here is sumner from the Louis
vile (Ky.) Commercial::
If the government can make money, why
should it collect taxes?
Answer that, gentlemen.
While you are at it, you might tell
us why, if a postage stamp is worth
two cents because the government
manufactures and issues it-why gov
eminent eXacts two more cents for it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Incidental Education.

The Kansas City (Mp.) STIR has dis.
covered that
The mission of the party organs in this
campaign is to teach the people the value of
independent journalism.
Perhaps their unconscious mission
The Cumberland Times, for instance,
is able to appraise the JOURNALS
value as the leading independent labor
paper Of the universe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
\ New Twist orthc E,ion's Tail

While the gold bugs are shouting for a
dollar that will so in England, the working
men and women are praying for one that
will go at the grocery.-Cnmberland Times.
The danger is that the dollar that
won't"go in England" wont ego at the
grocery"
Our groccrs feel that they are just as
good as the English, and they are too
good Americans to take any old thing
that the English wont have.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
ISn'tThiS Plain Now2

The Oakland Democrat copies the
Cumberland Times question
What makes the value in a postage
stamp?
Just the very same species of con-
tract that ''makes the value" in Il rail
road ticket.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
COUNTY NEWS.
BrcViticS.

After reading that unusually inter
esting letter from Homecoming last
week a correspondent ought not to
compel the JOURNAL to inform him
that the name of the leading colonel
in that place is Bitters.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
That Was All.

1t will be well for gold-standard
democrats to remember that the popu-
lists have not stolen the party.
1t was only the Chicago convention
they ran away with.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31

We are not i'll the third ticket increment to
elect Mckinley, but to defeat Bryan zen.
Charles Traccy.
And to preserve the substance of the
party while the Bryanese are fooling
with It's Shalnm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
AIIinthe Name,

The New York SIN paraplrases and
condenses one Of Bryan's speeches
thus:
y knife made Of tin will cut as well as a
knife made Of steel. A knife is knife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Veterinary Hospital.
GEO. A. SMITH, ID. v. s.,

GEO. A. SMITH, D.V.S.,
Graduate American Veterinary College, and
Registered in city Of Baltimore in compli-
ance with the Laws of Maryland regulating
Veterinary Practice
HAS established HOSPITAL in the
i DIR. Jones building. in the rear of the
Main street Baptist church. where he is pre-
pared to receive animals requiring Surgical or
Medical attention. Veterinary Remedies.
such as Liniments, Condition Powders, Hoof
Olntments etc. on hand. March 90
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
GENERAL NEWS.
Equal to the Occasion.

a West Virginia mountaineer carried
the Bryan argument to its legitimate
conclusion. When told that under
free silver he would only be paid half
as much for rabbits, he replied that if
Bryan was elected there would be
twice as many Baltimore
Ne2rS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Died.

Miss Mary Orr, daughter of ex-com.
missioner William Orr, of Barton,
died at that place last Saturday morn,
mo
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
Able to Take Care ofItsclc

We cannot by legislation make values
There is no way of creating wealth by the
mere breath of Congress.-Ho~. William Ne
Km'ey.
Well said-and the two remarks
apply just as happily to the high pro-
lection of everything else as we'll as
silver
Congress cannot by law, for instance,
make the consumer OF wool rich by
taking money out Of his pocket for the
grower of wool.
Nor can Congress make either or
both rich by taxing them for the bene-
tit of the manufacturer.
Truth is, we ought to treat trade
about as we do the weathe1-leave it
alone.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
The Standard ofCourage Reversed

it VI IlctefScu.
The democracy of Maryland in June
adopted Il platform Of Ma1tero5le OPP
position to free coinage at 16 to |.
This was done with all dellberation
and earneStness.
Where is that platform now?
The Palmer and Buckner democrat
may truly muse
feel like one who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted
Whose life has fled and garlands dead
And all but me departed.
But there he is-standing on the
platform his comrades have deserted
by thousands-comrades, too, who
have gone bodily over to the enemy.
Perhaps parties have done this be-
fore, but there is no record of it.
Certainly there is in no annals, no
matter how old, any memorial show
ing that until this year any man or
men who ran away from their standard,
looked back and charged those who
still stood by it as deserters
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31

Though unable and unwilling to support
the platform and ticket made at Chicago,
am and will be to the end Il democrat
HWia" II. SWgc,iy.
OF course.
1t is the inborn right of every man
to be what he ploases, provided the
exercise Of that right does not destroy
or abridge the rights of anyone else.
Hence, the man or newspaper who
says of another-'he is no democrat"
will find it very hard to prove that he
is one himself.
Especially is this true of people who
stand upon IA platform, the like of
which has Lever before appeared un-
der democratic auspices.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
That Unanswered and Unanswerable
OnpStiOu
Still no response to this request

Still no response to this request:
Please tell as ho,c free coinoge, or any
other lo,c can raise tile prices Of the com
modities zoe hare to sell md cheapen those ne
hare to 6uy.
Surely if there is anything in the
Decalogue or Golden Rule of free
colnage-anything in its Mosaic econ
ony or Gospel philosophy clearing this
matter up it could have been cited to the
JOURNAL.
The JOURNAL takes this occasion to
say. somewhat adversely, that in all
its discussion of free coinage it has
never misquoted an antagonist nor
''juggled a figure"
At the same time, while asking a
question that has never been answer
ed, it has answered every question and
replied to every argument set up
against lt-these with conclusiveness
that enables it to remain in possession
of the field.
1t is with unfeigned regret, there
fore, that it sees the campaign close
without reply to a question which EN-
odles IN 26 words the entire problem
of free coinage, and whose solution
alone comprises the only philosophy
which can make change from gold
y silver mono metalism desirable.
The JOURNAL wanted it answered so
that the farmer could be seen putting
up the prices Of his produce en- the
miner and reducing the price of the
miners coal.
And on the other hand, so it could
see the miner at the same moment
putting up the price of his coal on the
farmer, and reducing the prices Of the
farmers products.
1t would be glorious sight to see
each man sprawling the other with a
stone that always kills two birds.
But nobody could explain, illustrate,
or demonstrate it.
And so the campaign closes with the
JOURNALS darling wish ungratifcd.
Fearing it may be forgotten, here it
is once moro:
Loec can a free coinage, or any ot1er lac
raise tile prices Of tile commodities ace hare to
sell and cdeapen those re hare to 5uy?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
1t Cannot BE Done.

1t did not develop into IL statute
down South during the war, but
necessity which knows no law, which
is so much above and superior to law
that it is ''the mother of inventionn-
necessity enacted u law that rye should
be used as coffee.
But, with the combined forces of
necessity and invention behind it,
more powerful than statutes, rye never
was equal to coffee, and could not be
made 50 in popular esteem.
BY the same token, citizens, silver
never can be made equal to gold.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31

when the Boot is on the Othcr Leg.
The most rabid man in the campaign
at this moment is TIE West Virginia
republican "ko denounces free coin
age as rank Reputation.
But mention to him the probability
that cole Watts" if elected governor,
may want the State to pay the third it
owes of the old States ante 6ellum debt
and he froths at the mouth with in
dignation.
by the life, boys" said wise old
Frostburg constable years ago, "we
amt ALL honest.r
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-31
He Forgot My Maryland"

Mr.. German is a fierce antitrust
and anti corporation man.
y bill of particulars showing the
names of the trusts and corporations
he has taken by the throat, fought and
crushed would be interesting reading.
We all remember, for instance, that
he grappled the Sugar Trust in the
last Congress with such persistent inn
petuosity that many people spoke of
him as ''the Honorable Senator from
the State of Havemyer.n
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-04-29
Church Notes

Until further notice evening services in
the Presbyterian Church will begin at 8
o'clock
Rev. ). W. Cole will preach at Riverside
School House on Sunday afternoon next,
at 8 o'clock
The Epworth League of the NJ. E. Church,
South, will have its literary exercises to-
morrow evening. Public invited.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union of the
Charles Town Baptist Church are collect
ing books for a Church Library, some very
valuable volumes have been donated,
Bishop Peterkin has appointments an
nounced for Charles Town, May 3 !; Ripon,
May Harper's Ferry, May S; Summit
Point, Middleway and Leetown, May 10,
The Valley ConvOcation of the Episcopal
Church will be held in Shepherdstown May
9th to 9th next. The services will begin on
Tuesday evening, May 9Th, at s o'clock with
a preparatory service and sermon by the
dean, Rev. Nelson P. Dame.
Rev 5. w. Cole preached at Summit
Point Thursday night from Luke, 10, 6,
And he made haste and came down and
received him joyfully." Twenty-three per-
sons gave in their names as an evidence Of
their desire to become members of the pro-
posed Baptist Church at that place.
At the last business meeting of EpwOrth
League at Summit Point the following off,
GERS were elected Q. d. Snyder, president;
J. L. Shewbridge. lst vice-president; VIM.
Duncan, 2nd ice-president; Mrs. S. s.
Grantbam, Srd vice psesident; Miss Fannie
Roberts, secretary Miss Sadie Baker as
sistant secretary Miss Lou Good, treasurer;
Miss B. B. Snyder, organist.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-04-29

Highest of all in Leavenng POwe-Latest Us Govt Report
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
Personal.

Miss Rebecca Trapnell is visiting friend
in Baltimore.
Mrs. A. w. Mcdonald is visiting friend
in Baltimore.
Miss Katie Aisquith is visiting friends il
Baltimore City.
Mrs. VIM. Moore is visiting friends il
Washington City.
Hons. @. II. Knott and A. S. Dandridg,
were in town Friday.
Gen. H. Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown
was in Charles Town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Trapnell are spend
ing some days at Atlantic City.
Miss Maud Geyer, of Martinsburg, is Wis
iting her friend, Mrs. VIM. Kahn.
DR.. J. A. Spaight, of the Atlantic Bap'
fist, of Norfolk, Va, has been visiting Rev
S. w. Cole.
Mrs. c. T. Shugert gave delightful tea
in honor of her mother, Mrs. E. E. Tan
quarry.
Col. r. P. Chew and Hon. w. H. Travers
attended the Peace Conference in Washing
ton City last week.
Mr.. Charles Porterfeld, of St. Paul, Min
nesota, is visiting the family of his father,
Col. Porterfeld, in this town.
Rev. w. L. Gravatt returned last Satur-
day, after an absence of several weeks, and
preached in Zion Church Sunday.
Miss Mary Moore, daughter of Maj. S. j..
c. Moore, of Berryyille. is visiting the fam.
lily of her uncle, Mr.. Cleon Moore.
Miss Jennie Key Wharton, of Washing
ton City, came up on Thursday evening
last, and is at Mrs. C. Horace Gallaher's.
Miss frankie Gibson, of Washington City,
who has been visiting the family Of Col. j.
T. Gibson, returned to her home on Satur-
day last.
Mr.. Pentz, wife aud children spent Sun
day with the mother of Mr.. Pentz, who is
i'll at an advanced aged, near Greencastle,
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. G.. w. L. Mayors, of Fairmont, and
his son, William, who has recently returned
from South America, visited Mr. S. G.
Young this week.
Mrs. T, W. Latimer aud daughter Miss
Mary, who have been spending the past
winter in Washington City, have returned
to their home here.