Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-02-25
Repeal the Law.


to make an effort to try to endeavor to
make reply, but the result was a scat
iteration of irrelevaucies and series
of impotent whirlwinds of proohess
contention.
1t stated, for instance, that the JOUR
NAL, "for the first time in nine years
admitted that it did not know what it
was writing about"
Why mine years p
But the JOURNAL made no such ad
mission. 1t merely did not know that
the pulp-mill people were indicted, as
the independent stated, under two Acts
instead of one.
But whether under one, or two, or
hundred what is the difference !
If the independent will come up
and pollute the FrOstburg water sup
ply, we will have it indicted under still
another Act, but which reads almost
exactly like both OF those it has quoted.
Here, however, we will catch it detil-
ing a supply that is the towns pun
chase, while his Acts assume to pro-
tect a supply that does not belong to
Cumberland any more than to the pulp
mill people.
AS to comforting with the pulp-miIl
peoples counsel the JOURNAL is not so
deeply interested in their business as
to do that. The JOURNAL dill k De
Warren H. Reynolds one question.
namel y-"at whose instance was the
trial of the first case or cases moved
to Frederick -
That is absolutely all intercourse,
direct or Indirect, the JOURNAL has
ever had with the counsel, or the pulp
mill people.
so that the independents reference to
the pulp-mlll people as the JoURNAL'S
''clients' Is an insinuation still un-
warranted and ungentlemanly.
The independent thinks the fact that
the JOURNALS editorial did not appear
for two weeks gives color to the sus-
picion that it took that long 20 get
posted.
For its information we will state
that the article was written Feb. /,
was placed in type Feb. S, but failed
in getting into print until the 18th
simply because a pressure of local
matter, notably the Council report,
crowded it out.
1t was 50 good, however, that the
Undergraduates agitation shows it lost
nothing by delay.
Here is richness
Passing from his Acknowledgement Of not
knowing what he was writing about in de
handing the repeal of the law, the JOURNALS
editor seeks to pull some excuse for an argll-
ment together by re-echoing the inquiry
why don't you indict the coal companies
and stop the mines?'
This inquiry, if the JOURNAL and the pulp
mill satellites who have been tcebly making
it for the past eighteen months, desire 1t an
sWered, should be addressed to the grand
Jury or States attorney
If the JOURNAL or any of the other pulp
mill cohorts who imagine they have point
Of any value in their continuous reference to
the mining companies have any evidence
that the mining companies are violating the
law, let them bring their testimony before a
grand jury.
Bless your puny comprehension, this
Is most positively not our funeral
We haven't indicted anybody, are not
going to lndict anybody-not even 60
ing to complain of anybody for pollut-
ing the Potomac.
THE $ituotion suits rs, and will con
tinue to suit us until water begins to
flow uphill.
The independent next makes the re-
markable statement that
There Is positively no evidence here that
the water supply of any city, town, village or
household, is fouled or rendered unfit for
drinking or domestic purposes by any mining
company in Allegany county or anywhere
else. On the contrary, it is plain that the
water supply of the city of Cumberland is not
rendered unit for drinking and domestic
purposes by anything that comes from the
mines, to which the JOURNAL evidently refers
The JOURNAL did not confine the
sources of pollution to the mines, for
1t believes there are many other and
fonler detilements, gathered for nearly
IL miles by Georges Creek from both
sides, and poured into the Potomac.
The mine-water, the washings of rot
ting props and animal Grcret0, accen-
tuated by sulphuric infusion, ale ac
cessory, either before or after the fact
as the Lndependent may elect, but only
accessory as the less is always to the
greater
II, then, there are no evidences of
Georges Creeks conglomerate of con-
crete pollutions at Cumberland the
Tact goes to show that at least in one
instance the selfevident relation that
exists between cause and effect has
been suspended, or that the people of
the city are charged with taste so
depraved that they cannot discrimi-
nate between the pure and the impure.
The allegations, moreover, that "thc
mines were working forty years ago"
and that "the water was fit to drink