Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-04-30

II any tearhcrs read the Homecoming
star of Frosiburg last w-'k only two
conclusions are open ~ them
/. The Star Is hostile o. thrir welfare.
.. 1t didn't expcct To- D. read by
teachers.
For example
We have sewn the 'r1rhrr- transfer th..r
homage and -rr,iuic from our -..Haol .n..
tn another ~ tune o. 90" failing fortune of
those that have gone before wr have ~t
often seen them mask their ~Iuorrr elu.
tempt for school official, with the domino
of selfish loyalty that the picturesque
comedy now being cnacici rau~,. only o.
quiet shipper throughout the community.
SO uflen:"
Make that partially good ly naming
instances of such umnanlincss. Don't
name all; just few.
Again
Another view of Mr. Wilson attitude
and political activity which seem Ia have
been overlooked by some otherwise keen OBJ
servers is that Mr. Wilson's loyalty To the
teachers will cost the taxpayers of the State
an increase of u cents on the tax rate this
year for higher salaries for the educators
Mr.. Wilson does not appear to have DIS
cerned "a divided duty between the teach
ers and the taxpayers while at Annapolis
and while ms present loyal bencliciares are
rejoicing and the newspaper duet is being
sung the taxpayers are dong some figuring
and some thinking
Teachers, isn't this IA rich sample of
the electric jewelry of consistency,
scintillating from concern that it is
believed wrote the II s-cents-a-Iine ad-
vertising schedule for itself ria the coun-
ty commissioners?
When the star deplored that 415-cent
raise of taxes and piticd the poor tax
payers who have it to pay, how its
''bowels of compassion must have rat
tied and rumbled, jumped and tumbled,
shutfied and tiuttercd, roared and sput-
tered?
But, teachers, the difference between
Mr.. Wilson's loyalty and the .Stnr'S
hostility to your interests is exactly the
difference between a friend who wants
you to have fair wage and an enemy
who wants you to continue doing some
work for the taxpayers for nothing.
Meanwhile, the latter collects from Il
comparative few of the same taxpayers,
without their knowledge until next wear
and without their consent for all time, IA
big lot of money in almost every respect
wholly unearned.
The JOURNAL has had no opportunity
to test the sense of the teachers but if
they do not feel by this time that the
star has added insult to injury, it is be-
cause it must be that they feel that the
star is as harmless as it is hoggish.
Lastly
However unpleasant or distasteful the fact
may be, or how persistcntly Mr.. Wilson
and his journalistic duo may refuse to adj
NIT ii, 1t remains that the Ucrdid performed
service for the public school system in
general and for the Frostburg Normal
School in particular when it contributed to-
ward Mr.. Wilson's defeat at the last
election.
Without specifications it is everlast-
1ngly impossible for this claim to be
valid
In the first place what did the STIR say
or do that robbed Mr.. Wilson of a
single vote?
In the second, how could the stars op.
position to Mr.. Wilson be construed by
any process into friendship for the
Normal School?
To test this matter-the star opposed
Mr.. Drum, who stood to labor as Mr..
Wilson did to public education.
If the star defeated Mr. Wilson. did
it elect Mr.. Drum?
If so, what merit had the cause of
labor that the cause of public education
had not?
If it did not elect Mr.. Drum because
opposed to labor, does it not certainly
follow that it was and still is also op-
posed not only to the Normal School but
to the entire enterprise of public edu-
cation?
Here is the stars location, and here
the JOURNAL intends to hold it.