Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-08-18
Wiser and Better Tactics Must be
Employed.

William Warner, organizer, told the
Cumberland Times that
all the papers have been against us
editorially.
This is not just to the Homecoming
Rcric~ and Midland Press, and the
JOURNAL has gone with the miners far
as it possibly could approve their claims.
1t believed and maintained from the be-
ginning that they were entitled to the
conference they several times requested,
feeling there We're matters which the
company authorities should hear once in
awhile from other lips than those of
their local representatives.
But suspensions develop some notions
of majority rule and some methods of
enforcing it that are not in accord with
the gcni"S of Il government whose cor
ncr-stone is laid upon the provision, al
most eXprcss-"hc right IF the minorify,
~h"thcr maHy pcrsonS ~ onc, must b" re-
sprctcd n"d prot"ctcd!"
In old times the jungle doctrine
Knight makes right, prevailed, the weak
suffering meanwhile. Very slowly the
injustices inflicted by the strong upon
those less fortunately endowed became
so pathetic that early in the 18th century
the strong actually ''bcreaved them
selves of the power to oppress.'
So that when Jefferson came to write
the immortal phrase, sail men are
created equal" etc, and when Madison
stitution, 1--WE, the propir'-not 1--WE,
the majority" the philosophy wherein
human rights had resolved themselves
out of the physical into the moroI was
nearly 600 years old.
But, old us it was, it was young as IA
graftin the scheme of government which
placed in the power of the Senate check
upon majority rule in the House, and i'll
the hands of the president the veto power
us an arrest of majority rule i'll both.
The JOURNAL feels, therefore, that it
corned to take il step backward off the
pedestal set up by the Barons of King
Johns reign and established for ell
America for all time by the colonies.
The right to work, for instance, now as
then, is one that can neither he abridged
nor denied, no matter what the numeri-
cal majority may be against the man
who wishes to avail himself of it.
And the browning glory of the system
is-thc right not to work is equally i'm
prcgnable against invasion under the
dcspotic auspices of Il majority.
Hence, it would seem that the smaller
the minority the more it's helplesSness
should appeal to the magnanimty of the
majority. If it be twenty men who
want to work, the majority who do not
wish to work should respect their wish;
if only one, his right should have nine
teen more defenders or protectors-by
force for defence, if need be, but for de-
fence only. In this connection Mr..
Bryan can be APPLY quoted:
Force can defend a right, but force has
never yet created right.
And labor, like 1.-The nation
can employ force instead of reason it
can substitute might for right, n but
it cannot repeal the moral law nor escape the
punishment decreed for the violation of
human rights.
So, Astounding i'll sympathy for labor
and its claims, the JOURNAL is compelled
to affirm that labor, to succeed finally in
its mission of securing due share of its
earnings and due recognition AS an en-
hghtened industrial factor, cannot too
soon unlearn the lesson, picked out of
some Goddess system of economy, that
"the minority enjoys no rights which
the majority is bound to respect
In short, if moral suasion cannot ac-
complish universal unity of aspiration,
purpose and action, it is thereby mani
fest that labor has not vet risen to com
mand of the only power that will win
durably against oppression from without
and demagoguery within its pale.
House of Representatives.
The Baltimore NPWS observes that
So far, Colonel Pearre has the whole field
for the running IN the Sixth district, with no
democratic opponent in sight.
Under the circumstances stated and