Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-02-02
Lies

| that Frostburg is without an up-tO date cloth
ing establishment and is rapidly receding.
What the JOURNAL did was this, quot
ing from its issue of Jan. 10
The JOURNAL replied stating that there are
at least tour .frStclaSS Stores such as described,
and that clothing is a side-line in several
other establishments. The imam to look over
the field has not come On-as yet.
So far from depreciating the towns
clothing stores, the JOURNAL spoke of
them as ''frxt"iaSx." And it said not Il
word about anything rapidly receding. y
The JOURNAL dissuaded a firm from
coming here, yet THE Clothier' con-
strucs this consideration for him as IAN
effort to drive the clothiers to advertise
i'll the JOURNAL.' In other words,
"The Clothier" has given notice that the
JOURNAL should have invited the firm to
come on; that he likes competition, d"
revels i'll it, and so on.
As to circulation, THE Clothier's"
1000 dodgers en- joy more circulation than
1000; 1000 than 1000, and SO ON, but
does he ever get more than 900 printed:
If not, why not? The JOURNALS belief
is-he doesn't get any printed at any
time, and that he knows as much about
the elements and qualities of ''circu-
lation' as Blue Jay Williams knows of
the procession of the cquinoxeS
Lie No. ,:
The JnIrRNAJ has a always hppp n bp W
side of local interests.
For "local" read Blue JAY.
Lie No. ,:
He opposed city ownership of the water
works
Not an honest man in town acquainted
with the facts but knows that to be false
Lie No. 4:
1t advocated company stores.
Not a word to that effect can be found
i'll its files. 1t has said that, as carried
on here under the non store order law,
they cannot be suppressed. The Court
of Appeals said the same thing. The
JOURNAL did more. 1t was q subscriber
10 the .t"nd used to pay for the draft of Il
bill dbOiiShjHg store OrIcrS-compelling
the payment of cash for all wages except
doctors dues, rents, etc, giving the
miner absolute control of his money
- bill that would stand the highest test
SO that it has come to pass that if there
is Il company store i'll the region to-day
it is here because the miners choose to
deal with it instead of with their friend,
''The Clothier.' The situation, then, is
this the JOURNAL helped the miners to
get their wages i'll money SO they could do
as they liked with it. If, with that hber-
ty, they patrOnizea company store and
let The Ciothier'' severely alone, 1.-The
Clothicr' should call them to account
not the JOURNAL.
Lie No. >.
1t opposed two weeks pay.
On both moral and economical grounds
for the benefit of class of men who
make way with their earnings and lose
work, the JOURNAL urged that two
weeks pays would multiply by two the
monthly drunk an unpalatable, deplor-
truth, still one that only few weeks
ago the Midland Press, now the organ
Of the United Mine Workers, severely
chided Il number for so abusing their
privileges. Beyond this there never was
ii word Of opposition i'll the JOURNAL to
two-weells pays.
AS to 'The Clothier's' lecture con-
corning company stores" he really
should have both the sense and courage
to go right to headquarters with his
complaint-f" Nh" p0trOnS themselves, Just
as Il Philadelphia Judge said not long
ago concerning department stores-'the
surest way to break them up is to per-
suade the people that it is to their i'll
tereSt to deal with you, not with them. :"
AS the matter stands, "The Clothier' is
'gnawing IA file he is complaining of IL
condition he would not object to for an
instant were his the company store"
He kno"S this and probably i'll private
admits it,
"WhO is '"The Clothier:'
The town has four.
He is not Marx Wineland, because "A
so-called newspaper is the last medium
through which he would ventilate Il COM
plant. He may have his grievances
against people, but he wont go into the
newspaper with them.
Joe l.. Marx is of similar type. He
has his say i'll a quiet way and that
about the end of it with him.
Mr.. Cohen the JOURNAL doesn't know
SO well, but he doesn't look like Il man
who would write an article like the one
i'll the For'tU. Moreover, he is himself
comparativelya new-comer-hardly here
long enough to pre-empt the town against
further competitive immigration and
has not discarded newspaper advertising
He knows nothing, either, of the JOUR
NAILS standing against the Blue Jay
"side of every local question"
1t is not Joseph Bear. He can read.
He would not use such word as evan
ishment." Nor would he indulge such
Latin rs "mdiHm."
1t is possible, then, that The Clothier"
is not in the clothing business at all?
If so, what i'll the mischief has the
JOURNAL wasted al this precious space