Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-02-14

Mor.
A delirious attempt at headline art.
! But Citizen" is the man the JOUR-
NAL is after, and Citizen" this time at
tempts to define "the difference i'll mo-
tive between LoDd-Gdc employees and men
of the Warner type"
1t must be confessed that motive
lies deep but how much deeper i'll an
employee that is not "bo"o .fdc' than III
one that is, Staggers the JOURNAL. AS
Warner was not an employee ut all the
puzzle darkens when we try to imagine
how much deeper his motive must
have been than that of the ''employcc'
who was not "boDn fdc.
The JOURNAL admits that it ques-
toned very urgently the motive of
Warmers mission here, and it asked the
State Labor Bureau to investigate.
And this recalls an incident hitherto
dividual was one of five citizens named
at a public meeting as business Men 5
Committee'-a body which wrought
hard and long to bring about ii confer
ence between the companies and their
employees, Warner or no Warner. AT
one stage it became necessary for the
committee to meet Il United Mine Work
ers' committee, headed by Mr.. Warner
and backed by his goldheaded cane.
On account of the editorials demanding
of the Labor Bureau an investigation OF
his REPRESENTATIVE Observation-Disclosures of
the miners of this or any other region,
or Of the operators If comp"t'"g rg'o"S
as had been charged, the first thing
Warner did was to objcct 10 the presence
of the JOURNAL! This he did at length
and strenuously.
But there We're men on that com
mittee who can also talk-men who can
stand up against Warner and more than
hold their own, and the result was
Warner was out talked, out-arSued and
over-lapped at every point! He sur
rendered and the JOURNAL remained in
the conference!
For two reasons, now occurring, the
JOURNAL cites this incident
/, Because Warner at that meeng it
held almost the identical attitude toward
the JOURNAL that the companies held
toward Warner, and
2, If four business men of the town of
Frostburg could SO quickly and com
L., I, ,nn11 IL,
dozen from Baltimore and New York do
the same thing:
That the JOURNAL is glad "Citizen'
recalled the State Labor editorials is by
this time obvious to its readers if not to
Citizen"
The next observation is quite import
ant:
The J"rENNL'S remarks on the character
of the opposition to Warner would lead us
to infer that this opposition was not worth
considering because it did not express itself
in violence; that it did not add to the VIC
lence and rioting already existing further
violence and rioting; that it did not antici-
pate the law and cure the trouble by violent
means.
This is nothing more or less than the
foundation principle of lynch law.
If "CitiZen' had lived i'll the revolu-
tionary period he could have written the
same comment ION the character of the
opposition" to George LII. At that time
there was an "assOciation" of loyallsts
extending from north to south who
treated shamefully the Tory lovers of
peace-often the "majOrity' who would
mot anticipate the law and cure the
trouble by violent" resentment. In
short, the founders of lynch law" in
this country We're the gentlemen whose
memory Citizen" and ourselves observe
by making legal holiday Of the Fourth
of July
This sort of thing gave John Adams
many heartaches. Concerning "Ioyal
ist'' discipline of Richard King, peace
loving Tory, he wrote to his wife that
1.-THE story is enough to move Il statue or
melt the heart of stone"
The loyalists had good cause, but the
W tIltill " ttSStl tlIiS
it We're often compelled to "stand aghast
at the success of their work"
In Gen. Robertson's testimony before
Parliament on the conduct of the war it
is stated that "the patriots are only
about Mrd IF tie I,ropIc, but by their
energy, etc, they kept the others in
subsection"
Let us suppose now that the two
thirds had been endowed with the cout'-
age of loyalty-could they have been
silenced, Overawed and reduced to sub
lection by the "one-third ?" Had they
fought the devil with his own fire" it
is to be doubted whether Citizen
would be here and free enough to defend
majority's right to be licked by a
minority.
The conclusion to be drawn from all
miscarriages of human effort to improve
human conditions is-Such miscarriages
seem to be inseparable from the nature
of the effort. They are to be deplored,
deeply deplored, and III our day and in
this country should be quickly and
vigorously punished No good cause in
free country can be promoted by