Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-10-29
CORRESPONDENTS.
Flowing Close to the Corn,

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To the MINING JOURNAL.
Aud it came to pass. after several
rounds, that the Forum drops Jack
son as 1t would Il rotten egg and for
the same reason That is to saw, that
"Jackson's" position in denouncing
this pretended sympathy of so-called
friends OF the miners of Georges
Creek has been 50 truthful that the
rotten pretense has reached the nos
trlls OF the Forum with sufficient stencil
to let the decayed game of Offering
wind AIMS to the miners Ito promote
the interest of certain individuals
drop. This shows that the Forum,
whatever else it may have, has horse
sense on one point.
1t is possible that there is a more pitiable
figure in public prints than Jackson -" but it
is highly improbable. He wants something
performed to benefit the miner" but de-
cllnes to state what it Is. He positively re-
fuses to aid III any movement to enforce the
mining laws of Maryland or take any public
part in any movement to get lawful weight
and pure air. He is simply an ANONYMOUS
sorehead, who backs into Il corner and
Srumbles and groWls, cavils and finds fault
He is barnacie and a fungus, a deadweIght
in any place-with nothing to offer but com-
plant and nothing to suggest but failure
Forum
If the miners here in jackson mine
dug coal with no more method than
the editor Of the Forum writes the whole
mine would fall upon us in n hours.
1t is useless for the Forum to talk
about ''pitiable figure in public print"
for the effort it is making to call at
tentlon to itself by chasing after the
interest of the miners is "pitiable" in
deed.
AS to "lawful weight" Will the
editor Of the Forum give the miners of
this region the evidence of "unlawful
weight at any of the mines9 If he
will | will take it before the grand
jury and fight the case till the guilty
parties are convicted if am driven
from the country for it. Come on,
Mr.. Editor of the F0rum-I challenge
you to give 1t.
AS to giving pure air-the compan-
les can please themselves about that.
The mines are their own properties
and they can not only refuse to give
pure air, but they can close them up
and never work them if they see fit.
But II there Is any coal company in
the region not doing the best that can
be done for pure air only the Forum
knows 1t. 1t is quite as much to the
interest OF the coal companies to pro-
vide pure air as it is to the miners to
have it. Strange, indeed, is it that
there is so much impure air in this
coal region and no one protesting
against it but the Forum and Senator
Dick. Strange, indeed, is it that the
miners are getting so much "unlawful
weight" and no one but the Forum and
Senator Dick to protest against it.
Brave champions. Grand patriots
Noble Romans
The Forum says | am simply IAN
anonymous sorehead.' This is not
true. | am not a sorehead. |, in
common with a large majority of the
miners of Georges creek, am simply
Disguised with the hypocrites who are
parading faded ghost stories of I'm
pure air, unlawful weight, WINNERS
friends "miners you are being rob-
bed'' and such oldtime ''leads" to gain
selfish ends. | am Disguised with and
enraged at the gang of spell binders
that have for years had us deIuded
miners grinding their axes on the grind
stones of impure air." "unlawful
weight etc.
1t is not that IAN ANONYMOUS that
makes the sore places but the business of
my position which lets in the sunshine
upon the seltishness of the people who
are trying to have us continue to turn
the grindstones for them. This is the
, thorn in the side. What matters 1t
whether | sign my own name or that
OF the mine | work in, so long as | am
telling the truth
a short time ago | was in Frostburg
one evening and met one of the Carlos
miners, an old miner in the region.
During our conversation | asked about
the Forum, and whether it was not
fighting for the men III his mine. This
is what he said:
"1eS, the forum is fighting for the
miners 1t is owned by several people
who have other occupations and sew
eral other ways of making Il living,
and they are trying to make money in
roundabout way out of a paper. Do
you think men who are trying to make
several incomes are much worried
about the miners hard days work
| tell you the Forum is IL corporation
looking ont for its own gain, and that
is all there is to it," And then he
added-''You may think as you please,
the JOURNAL is the most reliable paper
in the county do not always agree
with it, but one thing is certain-it Is
never for one set of miners and against
others; it pretends nothing and talks
straight for the good of the whole re-