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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Look tOthe INutura

If "a WorlIingman' will turn from
the past of the two nominees-from
what each has done to what each an
nounces he is going to do and exercise
as much faith i'll one as in the other, he
will see that while Col. Pearre intends
to uphold the hands of the President ~
Maj. Little is going to represent the
peopIc of the Sixth district"
So far as this concerns labor Col.
Pearre's intention is very important to
"a WOrkingman." The president
whom he will uphold instead of the peo-
pie of his district, is an instrument in the
hands of the modern commercialism
whose first consideration everywhere
and at all times is ''cheap Iobor."
On this rock all of the so-called pros
perity of the future is to be built, and
while here it stands "the gates" of DEM
ocracy and labor unions "shall not pre-
vail against it,"
The acquisition of the Philippines,
now going on, whether as States or PROV
inces, is indirectly an attempted adj
ditiOn of millions to our labor supply.
The scheme is Il big one, and with IA
House full of Congressman like Col.
Pearre intends to be, it will go through.
"a Workingman" will then bark back
to the past i'll vain.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
TOWN ANDVICINTTY.
A Distressing Accident.

William Y. Jones, of this place, freight
brakeman on the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania railroad, was killed at the
Georges Creek Coal and Iron company's
mine, No. l, near Homecoming, early
Tuesday morning He attempted to
cross track behind backing train of
steel cars, but, miscalculating the train 5
speed, was knocked down, run over and
cut to pieces by II cars.
Deceased was an unmarried man, about
% years old, and Il son of John T. Jones,
of this place, with whom he lived His
only sister, Miss Harriet V. Jones, the
only other survivor of his immediate
family, is the beneficiary of a certificate
III the sum Of 81 200 isstled by trains
mems brotherhood.
He was young man of good dis
position, generally the life of the social
circle i'll which he moved. Last Sun
day he was one of a dinner party at the
house of his uncle, bailiff Samuel Bowen.
Two cousins from Emporia, Kansas,
We're there-Mrs. Eliza Oliver and Mrs.
Mamie Davis, and others. With no APP
prehension of his dreadful fate he added
much pleasure to the occasion.
The funeral took place Thursday after
noon, Rev. J. R. Wood, of the NJ. E.
Church, officiating.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
The Coming Reaction.

Business prophets in the District of
Columbia-prophets without votes to
promote fultilment of their prophecies,
predict a reaction in business conditions,
no matter ~hich ray the rIrction goes.
Under the stimulus of artificial COM
mercialism the thing has been over-done
during the last several years and as it
takes the tide about rs long to fall as to
rise, the people may look for similarly
protracted decline in both industrial and
business activity, no matter whether
Mckinley or Bryan prcsides over the
situation.
Some Washington philosopher gives
the above pointer to the Baltimore
S"n;-also this for 1904:
They Uhe economists) hold that if McKin.
ley be elected his successor will be a demo-
crat and if Bryan wins his successor will be
republican.
That is to say, the people will continue
to be gullible concerning the RESPONSE
bility of the party i'll power for all bad
industrial and business conditions.
When, as matter of fact, no business
situation ought to be the result of any
meddlesome party agitation or artificial
tmkering by party legislation.
Trade, especially internal trade, is one
OF several things that thrive best outside
of politics, i'll the free domains of de-
mand and supply.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Both Tarred With the Same Stick

MI. Roosevelt S first question is
If elected, Mr.. Bryan, will you pay the OBJ.
legations of the nation in gold or silver?
Mr.. Bryan might answer by reading
the following quotation:
am for the largest use of silver in the cur
rehcy OF the country. would not dishonor
1t. would give it equal credit and honor
with gold. ,could make no discrimination.
would utilize both metals as money and
dscredit neither l want the double stand.
ard,-Ho". William NcHimley in the House
OF Representatives June "a, 1890.
Neither bonds nor gold standard is anv
more sacred now than in 1890, and as
Mr.. Mckinley was a rampant silyerite
before Mr.. Bryan was so known, it
might be asked-if Mr.. Mckinley would
have given silver equal credit and
honor with gold" in 1890, whether using
1t or not i'll paying "the obligations of
the nation, "hy would he not do so now :
What was there in the scheme that
was right then that is wrong now?
The JOURNAL does not believe that
Mr.. Mckinley was right then nor that
Mr.. Bryan is right now.
1t aims only to be perfectly fair in say
ing that Col. Roosevelt cannot safely
place the pupil on the witness-stand,
lest he answer in the exact language of
the most eminent living tutors of the
free coinage propogo"da, Mr.. Mckinley
himself
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

Rev. Henry Thomas loaned the JOUR
NAL this week IA copy of Llais Llafur
translated Labour Voice, published at
Dydd Sadwrn, Wales, Hydref (October)
6, 1900 1t is an interesting paper-one
showing that the British have problems
of their own-problems similar to those
which perplex the people not yet under
monarchy, but which imperialists be-
lieve a monarchy, backed by big army
and navy, would quickly settle in accord
with their own sweet will. Here are a
few gems from LIuiS Llafur:
What is good for Mr.. (CeciD Rhodes to
charge Is good for Mr.. Rhodes to pay.
The British flag may be great CONNER
cal asset" but it is the property, not of Mr..
Rhodes but of the nation.
Mr. Chamberlain idea of "a champion OF
labor is one who believes in Chamberlain,
supports Chamberlain and worships Cham
berlan.
OF about 33 columns reading matter
half is i'll Welsh.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
The Coal Trade.

The New York Engineering and Min
ing Jo"rnm reports that
The demand for coal in the Atlantic Sea
board soft coal trade continues stronger. The
shoal water ports are heard from now. Buy.
ers at these ports are sending in orders thick
ana last they are looking for coal and try
ing to get stocked up for the winter. Ship
pers are not able to keep boats for this trade
from accommodating at the tide-water shipping
ports, thus showing aside shipments to other
points. In some cases this is merely matter
OF giving preference to the most urgent orders.
In many cases, however, the delay in ship
ments is due to the short car supply at the
collerles. This car shortage causes much
complaint from producers, and it is asserted
that the railroads show open favoritism for
three concerns During the past week other
producers have been able to obtain only a
little more than so per cent of the total num-
Der of cars wanted. The main lines for the
past weeks have acted much IN this fashion:
They would allow the producers up to IS or
so per cent. the number of cars wanted and
afterward allow loaded cars to accumulate
along the lines; then car supply would be
cut to 80 per cent. When producers protested
the accumulated cars would be rushed
through to tidewater and the railroads would
point to this improvement IN transportation
as an offset to the car supply at the Mines
When cars on road were reduced to a mini
mum the supply of cars would be increased
to 10 per cent and the former course of action
repeated.
Trade in the far East is very activeland con-
sumers who have been unable to get supply
OF better grades are stocking up on poorer
Goals. Along the Sound the same conditions
prevail. No shipper seems able to supply all
orders from this territory for good coal New
York harbor trade is also good. All-rail
trade is large and producers are obliged to Gu.
down on orders to keep their shipments fair
| ly distributed. Export business shows num-
erous inquiries and steady shipments.
Transportation from mines to tide is irreg-
uar.
Speculative prices on Clearfield coal have
! fallen slightly and are now about 81 451S2. 50
to consumers f. o. b. New York harbor ports
Jobbers get coal a little cheaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Everybody Here Knows This.


Just one year ago the JOURNAL told
how
With admirable courage and commendable
freedom from tne-cut distinctions Col Pearre
read the riot act to the Trust H said, in
substance, that unless operations are resumed
in the Cumberland mill, his sense of duty
will compel him to smash one of the broadcast,
widest longest and strongest principles of his
political life.
In palmer words, he would introduce an
amendment to the Dingley Act repeating the
tariff on tin-something hitherto unheard of
in the long history of legislative protection of
American labor.
The Trust tumbled
Operations We're resumed and have
been continued
What did the business?
The threat to repeal the tariff on tin?
Less than that.
The mere declaration of an ofiplnpt in
that direction was enough.
That a prohibitive tariff is themother-
"-io" OF trusts is no longer question.
And that Mr.. Bryan remedy for the
misbehavior of trusts which owe their
imperialistic life to the tariff is the true
one has be"n prorcn by no IcSxa StafeSnon
than Col. Prdrrc.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Coincidence.

On the train the other day going to
Cumberland a gentleman. talking demo-
cratic politics, deplored the fact that his
party had no newspaper organ i'll the
county; that the one pretending to fill
that office Is mere mouthpiece of a
faction, and it is hated even by many of
that faction
Going heranother gentleman came
i'll and he, too, launched into politics.
He turned out to be an enthusiastic
Pearre man and exhibited about equal
parts of friendship for the Lowndes and
Wellington corners" Che called them
corners probably of a triangle) 1t
didn't take him long to reach the fact
that his party, as n party, has no organ.
In his words, emitting the non essential
expletives-"only one-third of our party
is represented in our newspaper; that is,
represented at the right Time. Call that
party organ" he fairly yelled.
Great -- - But, as before indi-
Gated, this column is hardly long nor
wide enough to hold diction that is
both unnecessarily elaborate and ex-
plosive.
The lesson is plain.
| Each party badly needs real organ.
But neither will get it so long as only
a few-"o"Iy q fdctioN," own it and,
like the trust, run it in their own inter
est at popular expense.
The whole party should own its organ
in the sense that all its constituents
should patronize it-not as bestowal
of favor, or as a grant of charity, but as
debt due to the promotion of good
government to 1.-THE greatest number"
If possible, the editor, or publisher
should o"n the organ and thus become
the architect of his own future i'll the
premises. He should, at the very least
enjoy plenary discretion concerning all
party literature, always looking to the
benefit of the whole, never to the advan-
tage of IA part at the expense of the
whole.
This may appear an ideal portraiture
of the unavailable, but so long as people
recognize the organ as theoretically
needful, yet practically a tax upon then
good will, 50 long they should hold thei1
peace.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
EVer-PreSent Dangers.

To those who call imperialism non
sense the lessons of history are either
unread or unstudied. In Macaulay' s
first chapter of his History of England
he wrote:
We have been taught by long experience
that We cannot, ~jtho"t danger, suffer any
breach of the Constitution to pass unnoticed.
There is, therefore, one price for
liberty which never falls. Itisvigilance
which is eternal-which never ceases i'll
war, which is immutable and immortal.
1t is not ''nonsense' to remember that
your house is always in peril of fire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
CORRESPONDENTS,
Vote For Pearre.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct. 16, 1900.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Knowing that your natural inclination
tends toward the principles of the old
democratic party, | have been reading
your paper very carefully to determine
whether you are going to support Nc
Kinley again, or whether you will take
Mr.. Bryan, with his reiterated Chicago
platform, but have been unable to de-
eide. So-called imperialism" almost
seems to offset "16-to-l."
But however you may decide that
question, it appears to the writer that,
championing the cause of the working
man, as you have been of late, YOU
should have something definite to say in
regard to the candidate for Congress
from the Sixth district. Thisis strictly a
workingmans county, and if the men
who toll for their living will take the
time to look up the records of the two
aSpirants for Congress and then vote ac-
cordingly, Mr.. Little will discover that
the voters of Allegany county keep their
eyes on our public men and do not SUP
port those who will not do as much
for them.
The records of both Mr.. Pearre and
WI. iLllNlN ttlt vi easy ttCCtSS IL anyone
wants them. Mr.. Little was member
of the Maryland State Senate i'll 1884,
and Mr.. Pearre also served term in the
State Senate as well as part Of his pres
ent term i'll Congress.
The present Congressman has always
gone on record in support Of labor bills,
while Mr.. Little's record shows that he
was nearly always the other way. One
of the bills he opposed during that
session was the one affecting the miners
of Allegany and Garrett counties, regu-
lating the hours of labor, etc, he being
one of seven to vote against it. The
vote was 40 to March 81, 1884.
If workingmen will not support the
officials who look after their interests
honestly while III office, it will be hard
er than ever to get men to do it.
If the miners of Georges Creek are
the kind of men | think they are the
Creek will this year give larger major
ity than it has ever given in national
election
Stand by the man who has stood by
you, and no one knows that fact better
than the miners of Georges Creek.
A WORKINGMAN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Killed While Resisting an Officer

Owen Stowell, said to be of this place,
a driver in New York mine, was shot
though the heart in Cumberland shortly
after o'clock last Sunday morning
by Edward O'Neill, city policeman.
The unfortunate affair started i'll Il
drunken quarrel in which Stowell was
the aggressor When the officer came
upon the scene Stowell ran, STOPPING
meanwhile and picking up a stone. AT
any rate, it was with stone the officer
was struck in the mouth. Not knowing
what was coming next, the latter fired
with the result stated The grand jury
released O'Neill after hearing. Stowell
was u years old, married but had not
lived with his wife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Political.

In Il local way nothing will be doing
next week except a big meeting Saturday
eveningnext week when Pearre, Powder
ly and Litchman will speak.
At the democratic club meeting Thurs
day evening an invitation to Hon.
George L. Wellington to speak early in
November, if possible, was adopted.
At same meeting the following dele
gates were elected to represent the club
at the great Madison Square Garden
New York city on the 9th inst:
ID. F. McMullen, John B. Shannon,
George Stern, Henry Mayer,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
He Was Fixed.

Some time ago travelling company
played the tragedy, Driven from
Home" at Paw Paw, West Va, and
came near mourning an unpleasant pro-
test. The cruel father, Farmer Butler, :"
was literally Missed and at times handled
with vigorous adjectives, but the play
proceeded without forcible interruption
until the denOHcmcHt, when virtue was
rewarded and the heavy villain retreat
ed from the stage showing his teeth and
visibly suppressing heavy volume of
depraved profanity.
"It's a ID good thing it turned out
that away" said fellow from Piney
Grove as he stepped out of the house
with clenched fist. Il was fixed to see
that it did and if it hadn't came out all
right-well, you can just bet that I'd a
saw that it would done so.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
OCTOBER 20, 1900
A Misleading Claim.


The Cumberland News cOnfesses that
its party "has not been able to maintain
the popularity of the cycling fad"
Why not?
What is the party of progress and
prosperity here for?
Gentlemen it is the fad mills that
most need party favor and governmental
stimulation.
The factories which turn out the real
thing i'll glass, tin, etc, can travel more or
less prosperOusly ION their merits on
the antiquated philosophy of "demand
and supply" of goods people mHst have.
The JOURNAL heard Of a man last Sun
day who deprecated "holding the repub-
ican party responsible for the industrial
paralyses which follow the refusal of
coal operators to give, for instance, 60
cents ton"
That may be wrong doubtless is, but
is it not natural result of the claim,
constantly made that all the prosperity
that workingmen enjoy comes from the
republican party?
Is it not poor rule that doesn't work
both ways?
Like the fishmonger in New York
who, when asked why he called himself
can ichthyologist," answered-''what' s
the use of being a fellow unless you can
become Il whale Of fellow ?'-why
doesn't the party which processes to dish
out prosperity to the eating millions do
the job i'll IA manner and with a liberal
ity that will everywhere stop every kick
that is coming or can come?
For instance, Mark Hanna i'll Chi
cage speech last Saturday said he ''was
largely responsible for the offer of an
increase of 10 per- cent. i'll the wages of
the Pennsylvania miners"
Was he not a little too late i'll doing the
right thing to make his intercessiOn
meritorious in party sense:
If the 10 per rent. advance is rightly
theirs, why did he not have his party
join in the miners plea III the outset?
Why did he allow work to stop, idle
ness and suffering to enSue, and why
permit the States soldiers to become the
guardian angels of those who We're with
holding prosperity from others who
wished to share i'll the party's bounty?
In general terms, if prosperity be a
speciality i'll the way of party benefac-
tons, why, i'll a vast majority of in
stances does it have to be asked for,
begged for, and struck for?
Why do prosperity papers, like the
-Ne"s, take the other side when Georges
Creek miners want cents more pros
pcrity than the operators are willing tc
part with?
In the JOURNALS Judgment, the pros,
perity claim is the most unqualified, I'M.
reserved and explicit fraud ever set up
to tempt intelligent people to stray from
the straight and narrow path of plain
common sense
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Concerning Arbitration.

The Cumberland News dissents from the
idea of compulsory arbitration. "Arbitration
is not arbitration" it says, ''if it is compul
Baltimore News.
SO with imperialism, which, if it be
not compulsory, is not imperialism. -
But how can an adherent of Mark
Hanna favor voluntary arbitration or
disapprove of compulsory arbitration ~
For the time is coming, moybp, when
arbitration of any brand will be out.
of-date. Under an imperialistic ypgim,
the voluntary kind is unthinkable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest:
At Tuesdays session.
Samuel S. Warwick to Jean Mccormick,
property at Barton, $50.
Andrew J. Wilson to Enoch H Pritchard,
lot in Bealls first addition, Frostburg, 1000.
Thomas Carr to Hiram S. Coleman, prop
erty at Tannery. 81 600. etc.
Joseph Rushton to William II. Gutter, lot
8, Knapp's Meadow, onaconing, $3.50
Samuel w. Shoemaker ct al, admins
traitors; to Charles G. Watson, property
known as Castle Garden" 800.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Something Lacking.

There appears to be something wrong
with ga WOrkingman' statement that
Major Little opposed bill i'll 1884
CIRCULATING the hours Of labor"
There are only 26 votes in the Senate
hot Sc.
Perhaps the Major was member of
the House.
In which event there must have been
some provision which did not comport
with his convictions of what is legally
proper.
Because a bill is a labor bill it is not on
that account always just the thing for a
legislature to enact into law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
A Sad Reminder.

Intelligence of the death of Hon. w.
L. Wilson this week must have brought a
pang of remorse to those Senatorial demo
Gratis who, in the interest of the Sugar
Trust, the Shirt Collar and Cuff Trust,
etc, butchered his tariff bill until its
average came within , per rent. of that
of the Mckinley Act.
1t was that terrific breach of demo
cratic principle and faith that drove the
party pell nell into the adoption of free
coinage and other populistic vagaries.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Circumstantial Evidence.

Mr.. Pink Whiskers of Pocahontas
writes of "a strengthening egg brought
into Fred. Durr's place by Bryan man
living north Of town. 1t was the maiden
effort of Plymouth Rock pullet and
resembled a perfectly formed gourd, i'll
GLIDING handle. 1t is certainly curious
freak of nature, hard to account for, but
one worth any pullet's while to cackle
over Ldter-'.'A near neighbor of the
man above alluded to came i'll just now
with gourd he had cultivated into a
champion which he had intended to
send to the neutrality-suspicious. committee
as a sample Of Mckinley prosperity, but
after pulling it he found that all the
seed had been picked out of it by fowl
to him unknown, but supposed to belong
to some democrat
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

There is talk of restocking the POto-
mac above the intake with bass so thick
that when man reports having caught
two fish at one time on the same hook
he will not be regarded necessarily as a
candidate for increasing Cumberland's
Three Member Society of Ananias.
Faller vat know mae haze say Cresap-
town cow eat sax bushel apples, an, bay
yeminy, shae gev fay pounds of apple
butter max mornen.
A cartoon would do Webster Davis i'll
justice. Itwould paint the lily. He is it
Some Homecoming florist talks of plant
ing several thousand tube-roses next
spring. He wants to distinguish that
place from Barton and Pekin by its
smell. The contrast will be almost
hemisphere.
The Eckhart Philosopher was much
stirred up this week by report from
Cumberland that one of his neighbors
had gone down there on spree, tackled
a restaurant, ate "SaX dozen oysters
washed them down met a gallon of beer,
then went to hotel for dinner an, bay
yeminy, cleared oop every platter on fav
tables and topped off the whole lot bay
drenllen bottle ov catsup."
Cumberland is milk-and-water town
the water predominating. The milk
sold there, according to some analysis, is
so per- rent. water-not all Potomac
water, but water for all that. And it is
recorded i'll the archives Of physical
growth and development that water
with a bad rep. never fattens.
Some paper last week printed his
name and title civilian j. Warner, or
ganizer, which was erroneous. There
are editors who differ with Mr.. Warner
on economic matters, but none will say
he is a j. A; certainly not J. j., nor
even J. b.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

Capt. Richard P. Leary, of the United
States Navy, just returned from some
where and speaking of certain eminent
citizens who disapprove of the war upon
the FilipinoS, says
If had my way would hang every d-n
one okthem!
That is the very essence of imperialism.
Whenever the taX-eater would hang
the tax payer for disloyalty, the people
should recognize i'll his confessed onimu~
the hiss of the serpent whose only kind
ness is that it gives warning of the
worse that is coming.