Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-02-20
Cannot Serve Two Masters.

the Electric railway uSuTpatioh III wv
PsrjeT radiant of the Homecoming star
recently is too lengthy for reply 4"
e.rtfDS0.
Indeed, it is stuffed so full of ignor-
ance and imbecility that to make any
answer other than according tn its
folly is quite impracticable.
A few instances will suffice To show
this:
If the Electric railway has 10 right in
Frostburg. why is it permitted to continue
business there?
The JOURNAL answered this question
week before it was asked. i'll effect
this way:
Because the town hasn't the spunk To
make even feeble kick
If thew have taken possession of the
streets as a band of highwaymcn by force,
why the necessity of asking permission to
lay Il switch?
".rhey" did not so take possession
they" had permission, Int that per-
mission has been revoked. They
laid their tracks under i franchise, but
they" are probably in doubt abont
their right to go further in the way of
additions, etc, without some polite
Formally. More than that. their pro-
test against paying their sh'nr of the
paving expense may have something Ia
to do with modifying their first degree
autocracy.
Assuming no "ncceSSity of asking per
MISSION" etc, let us suppose they
should request this-pleaSe let us extend
our road rio Water street Tor any o'h".
cross street, the higher the better,l to
Loo street, thHiipr to our Homecoming
division nearly every question and I'm
barrassment would be removed at once,
As it is, the Council, holding the CEN.
pany Is in here without leave, cannot
well concede that it Is here "'L tar, by
granting any requests that are for the
company's satisfaction ana profit only.
Is it not vile Islander, the intimation that
opposition comes because the company did
not consider the street past certain property
The original franchise provided that
the road should go Hro"yh-not merely
make waystation of the tuwn-this
that it should pass the doors OF at least
two p"blicproperties-Beall High School
and the State Normal School, and very
nearly touch the Hill street school, The
company persuaded Council to revoke
this part of the franchise, and within the
last month member of that Council adj
mittcd to the JOURNAL that it was "a
colossal mistake"
If the RPriP~ radiant of the LonaC on
ing star, however. regards even an in.
dividual desire to make the road and
schools mutual patrons as a islander Of
any degree it is welcome to the dishonor
of its prediction.
Again-if the matter of passing seer
tain property was ever "A factor the
JOURNAL never heard of it, II admits
for itself lit first preferred Broad
way only because it is the most slightly
CIoSS StItcl WtSl VI DDWtIN. Ilil
preference, however, has been long
abandoned.
In this connection the Rrripw radiant
of the Homecoming star happens to speak
of the JOURNAL as the self-appointed
tutor of the Georges Creek region Be
that as it may, whatever office the JOUR
NAL holds, "tutor' or not, it is by "Self-
appointment" 1t cOnfesseS, moreover,
that We're it the select apoloSist and
elect defender of the Electric Railway
company its policy would conform to
that of the R"rir" radiant Of the Iona.
coming star only in its tlunkeyism. Out.
side OF this for bases of argument it
would allese no facts that IRE hostile to
the company, and on general principles
it would be "agin' the towns interests
and welfare, and "agin" the peoples
convenience and comfort.
All this because no radiant of the
Homecoming star can any more shed the
baleful light of its favor upon both peo-
Pile and company than Christian can
serve God and mammon.'