Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-15
Sacrilege.

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The Cumberland Neens double-leads
an explanation of an appearance of
four columns of free trade trashn in
its issues of April 30 and 80, and the
Keyser CIV. Va.) Echo reverberates its
linguistic satisfaction with the term,
trash"
To the JOURNAL all this appears I'M
fortunate, as a conspicuous portion of
the "trash'' was James G. Blaine's let
ter to William Mckinley, April 10,
1890, protesting in wholesale terms
against the protection" of hides.
The well-known result of the letter
was-continued free trade in hides.
Is it not a pity, therefore, that a
posthumous utterance of so much di
rectness, pungency and effectiveness
from one who was once the embodiment
of the very flower and elan of sagacious
and aggressive lepublicanism should
be called any sort of "trash ?
But it has been resel we'd to this de-
generate day for witness of the
times to record this observation-that
the memory of no man Is safe in the
custody of constituencies partisanship.
Maryland's Great Industry Grossly
Ignored.
misunderstanding and coal mining are
"a 10
carried on very extensively, employing 1913
men. The total output of region for 1896 was
1928, 46l tons. (Referrng to Allegany coun-
ty)
The above is quoted from the Fifth Annual
Report of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics
of Maryland, recently issued by Charles H.
Myers Chief of the Bureau, and purporting
to give to the people Of the State and the
world a reliable, comprehensive and complete
statement of all the products and material re.
sources of the State of Maryland -Cumber-
land Times.
The Times then proceeds to show in
detail the magnitude of an industry
whose proportions Mr.. Myers, with
rare crystalline force, condenses into
five descriptive lines, and who could
hardly have accomplished less in the
way of elaboration had he been COM
piling an index.
But possibly the Times charges the
wrong man with verbal discrimina-
ton which on the other hand stretches
out into a ten-page narrative of the
embryonic iron industry.
With this suspicion firmly entrench-
ed in the JOURNALS mind, it makes
bold to ask-where was Hon. David E.
Dick, the erstwhile halloween of all
the affections of minerdom, and the
prospective State Senate bowler for a
law preventing the introduction of Il
bill repeating the emi-monthly pay
Act? Was he away from the office
when Myers and the cat wrote those
meagre five lines? If so, was he dodg-
ing or representing Frostburg in an
address of welcome to the Junior Order
convention
For it is certain that in all that Dick
doesn't know about the great mining
industry there is no such word as "out-
putt" nor "region," nor "tons.n He
has these terms down SO fine that thew
come more copiously without than
with thought.
We ask, therefore, where was Dick,
for it will be remembered that, although
he is not what w. H. Evans calls ga
literarian,' he was placed in the
bureau to conduct the literary exer-
clses? Where was he, then, when the
paragraph whose brevity. for once
lacking the immortal "soul of wit"
was written?
But no matter. One thing is sure
our poor region is alien territory in
the Labor Bureau-w whether Dick
keeps house or not.
An lrishman, accounting for big
boys tight fitting attire, explained
Och, be jabers, it all comes from his not
being at home whn his measure was taken.
TOWN AND VICJNITV