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

heading.
Not well constructed. The N"r
should do better.
OF "CitiZen's" opening paragraph the
JOURNAL has little to say. He is easily
tickled; that all,
The second is repetition.
In the third, however, "Citizcn' sur
prises the JOURNAL by disagreclng and
more than disagreeing with the President,
whatever the latter defiance means. He
"amens' the proposal that capital and
labor should get closer together; in
fact
so close that there is no room for such
professional gentlemen as Mr. Warner. with
their personal ambitions and, frequently
questionable motives.
The JOURNAL is i'll no respect or de-
gree defender of Warner, yet it must
ask wherein do his assumed personal
professional gentlemen - And how
many other peoples questionable mo-
tives" are visible to Citizen $" ray
eye:
Suppose Warner had not been here
that leadership had devolved upon some
resident employee, who or what would
have saved his personal ambitions
and "motives" from "Citizens' i'm
parchment? Like crimes, like ac-
cusations," you know.
"Citizen' endorses the President 5
second propOsitiOn-'each should recog-
nize the rights of the other Each
what! "Capital'- Il union, and
"labor''-as an individual, or each as a
union? Which of these ''breathes the
spirit of Citizens former letter
throughout - 1t is very important to
distinguish here, because "Citizen" OBJ
jects to dealing with unionism when the
latter puts forward as its representatives
such professional gentlemen as War
ner." "Capital' as Il union and labor"
as an individual would be ii jug handled
condition wherein labor could be out
talked, Out-numbercd and out generated.
Hence, concludes "Citizcn"-
\ large part Of the J"uENNL's reply is
taken up in charging me with Supcr-ScnSi-
tivcness ON this subj
No wonder.
"Citizen' next comes to the PrtSi-
labor are as necessary and valuable as
federations of capital and decides
that
This is undoubtedly true but whether
means clear. There is a wide difference of
opinion among well Informed men at the
present time on this question.
Which is the very best observation
"Citizen' has penned. The JOURNAL,
which is not "well informed" but mere
ly old fashioned and archaic, believes
that both declarations are un-republican,
un-democratic and I'M American.
But they are here they are the 'JuctS'
and not the rights, to which the jour
NAL referred two weeks ago.
Citizens" two paragraphs concern
ing good and bad trusts are admissible,
except
/, If there is a good trust outside the
church, like those fierce fellows who
didn't want all Warner could get for
them, it hasn't been heard Of, and
2, Big aggregations of money cannot
be ''disciplined. The law may be
against them, but the biggest "pro-
fessional gentlemen with personal am
billions and, frequently, questionable
motives lawyers, are not.
The JOURNAL must maintain its con-
tention that had the men who wanted to
continue work asserted their right to do
so, Warner could not have stopped them.
When "m0rf than hdlt' the men of the
largest company staid at work while the
less than holf marched to Homecoming,
and afterward surrendered both their
convictions and rights to the will of the
minority, their protest" O. was not
only not vigorous but of such the de-
tenders of liberty are not made Had
they been IN dcnd corneSt anywhere in
the region there would have been other
teams lined up i'll "quieting' things by
"breaking heads and ribs''-a game two
can play.
Suggests "Citizen''-
If there was no opposition to Mr.. Warner.
perhaps the JOURNAL can explain why it was
necessary for such continued activity in as
saulting people all over the region that some
twenty odd persons We're convicted and sen
fenced for this form of crime.
The JOURNAL has not said there was
no opposition to Warner but what is
sentimental opposition worth against that
which is violent, not to say deadly: 1t
amounts to less than nofhinJ, if that be
an admissible statement.
Now, then, the conclusion is inevitable
that if all the facts be as Citizen" states
he is defending majority of good
citizens who did nothing but get mauled
by n minority of the bad:
That is the long and short of it,
And now Citizen" complains:
TO that portion of the JOURNALS editorial
where it makes a painful effort to distort
my words in order to furnish it II foundation
for some personal criticism, no reply is
needed.
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