Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-12-19
Too Deep for Them.

the Cumberland Necs does not state
the case more accurately than the cor
respondents whose reports he critcises.
He says:
There is no truth in the published state
ments y = x that the strike
was caused by the company's refusing to pay
for mining by weight, instead of by cars.
This company gives better weight than the
men who struck have ever been accustom-
ed to.
As the JOURNAL understands the
matter the trouble originated in the
suspicion that the miners were not
getting due credit for weight.
The groundcssness of this distrusr,
however, was demonstrated by in
spector Hohing so completely that Il
vote of thanks was rendered him.
When it came to resumption of
work the company authorities, prob
ably angered by the causeless impeach-
ment of their honesty, determined that
about twelve of the men, held to be
most responsible for the trouble, should
not be re-employed.
Which develops another issue en-
tirely-the old one, we may say-the
divine right Of employers to employ
whomsoever they elect, as against the
professional labor right of decreeing
that nolens g0lens. its constituents must
not be dismissed.
a peculiarly provoking feature Of
the trouble is indicated in the latter
seatence of the quotation, that
This company gives better weight than the
men who struck have eyer been accustom-
ed to.
1t is at least certain that some of
those men are West Nirginians- ."ac
customed" to no weight at all =. Yet
when they come on this side of the
liver they are among those who flock
to the standard of revolt when pro-
fessional labor whispers about the last
ovcrworked word in the vocabulary of
distrust-''w eight"'
Under such circumstances there is
little wonder that the average news,
paper correspondent gets mixed. 1t
takes deep thinking to fathom the
sort of human nature that is chronic
ally and constitutionally in arms
against its bread and butter. Hence,
the correspondents, dealing in surfaces
only, know no more of the true in
wardness of the motifof the strike than
Uncle Sam will ever learn Of "the final
perseverance of the saints.n
n i'linlsy Excuse.
The Oakland Democrat announces
that the Maryland platform of "un-
0lte'uJ7e opposition to free coinage at
a ratio of 16 to ~ was ohcred by the
Chicago platform.
That is to say, no matter what d
Maryland democrats convictions may
be, the convictions of other democrats
may come in and supersede them.
Hence, it means the destruction
of individual liberty, the corner stone
of all liberty.
In the recent instance it meant more
than the first step to fiat money. 1t
meant also a complete surrender to
populism, Debslsm and Altgcldism--
in none Of which is there spark of
the spilit of the democracy which
animated the heroic fathers.
The JOURNAL will not say that the
man or the newspaper who, for the
sake of Regularity" abandoned his
own State platform and upheld the
Chicago declaration Of principles, is
not a democrat, but it does believe
that whoever did so prcferring the
notion that wrongs can be righted by
undermining the tribunals of law, has
no more right to call himself demo-
crat than Lucifer has to count himself
an archangol.
Partisans may we'll yield to majority
choices of men, but prancples are
immutable and immortal.
These we cannot change without
tapping the springs to which the
country owes its rise.
In Deep Water.
Uncle intimates a wish ihat the
JOURNAL will
undertake the task of Analysing Mr..
Littles b. & 0, figures.
This because your uncle confcsses
they are too much Cor him.
Concerning which the JOURNAL does
not wonder after reading this piece of
news:
The b. & 0. charges 81 .05 for hauling one