Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-01-24

you're beaten shut up!' There is no
tyranny more merciless anywhere than
that of the majority.
"Citizcn' concludes:
regret that | do not share the JouRNtL :
optimism aS to the outcome of the work of
the Strike Commission. There have been So
many failures of such efforts in the past that
| have small hopes of success in this one.
Conclusion is good, but not the reason.
If at first you don't succeed" etc.
In this connection th5re are at least
two remarks to make
|, The Commission erred III permitting
either side to employ lawyers, and
,, But for the charge of violence"
the operators would be utterly without
pretext for their course.
The latter fact, no doubt, brought out
Mr.. Mitchell's farewell disclaimer OF
lawlessness as feature incident to
unionism-a disclaimer which seemed to
be earnest but not thorough.
tits not sufficient that unionism should
dlscountenance and then deny violence.
1t must, like "organiZed' society, pro-
hibH it i'll precept and practice. Its un-
relenting opposition to lawlessneSS must
become part of the warp and wool of
organized labor, "seen, read, and EHOWH
Of all men 1t must not wait for the
law to find travcrScrS i'll its membership,
but it must itself take constabulary
part, arrest and hand its offenders over
TO the law, and "let no guilty man
escape.
ever from arrest, and defend them after
ward is to sefinculpate unionism and
"compel' it to plead to indictments like
those found by lord Baer n a.
And when all is over unionism must
go even further and stop voting for Il
candidate for public office because in
court he defended uniOnism crime, and
against another because he didn't.
who Il nOWS?
The worst feature of the coal situation is
that those who are coallcsS are inclined also
to be lawlcss, and with the justification of
dire necessity for being >o.-Cumbcrland
Wars.
In other words, those who are coal
less" are ION strike for what they think
they have right to secure and enjoy
this regardless of the probability that
their violence makes others ''coalless.
But, to "tcll the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the TRUTH there
is no classification for lawlessness.
1t is better to die than become claw
less''-a discovery which will be verified
in the next world if not in this.
Possibly som. of us, while voting for
prosperity. also voted for the con
diIionS which make some ''coallesS.
\ Mistake All Round.
ON Friday Prof. j. G.. JamiSon. principal
of the Coppcrshac schools at IohnStuwn
was given Il jury trial on Il charge of assault
and battery preferred by J. :. Barr ON be
half of the prosecutors son, Claire, who was
punished at school for an Infracion of the
rules The jurors brought in verdict of
guilty. and Prof. .IamiSon was fined : and
costs the total bill, it Is said, amounting to
over S3O.-tumhcrland Vars.
Bad for the professor and not good
for the boy.
The professor is taught by the jury
that he cannot set up inviolable rules for
good order in his school.
And the boy is taught that nothing i'll
school stands in his way to be as wicked
as he likes.
Thus disappears discipline, without
which educational training is impossible.
If the teacher be financially able he
should resign and seek employment i'll
some State where parents, w-makers
and jurieS have some common sense.
He who would some day command
must first learn to obey" is dict"m
trler and more imperative in school
than anywhere else on earth.