| OCR Text |
Show TlltCOAt. ritnilNAllM. irt It u lijpolhcstte for roement. Ij TheroJorlij-of llie QO.OM teslilenls V 0t thti city aro la modoraln elrcuiu- I, stauretatid hare to buy their inert- i ,y ttcl In smaller quantities lhn I the more fortunate few ran. With toe ft .unroach of coU wwthor they hato lo ' purchate morn fuel two or three time 1 over than dutlnil th" aurnmer, nml f , thin Hem thus becomn one of corn! ler. i nblo Importance to them. If they wro able to buy carloaj It woulJ bo 1 ' Rrt,t galu, a thej would it least Kl .j (he betisflt of wlioleetle relea and I aifroxlmatelt: correct meiiuroineut; but they cannot do this and their al- moit universal resort Is to the mlJdle- iiid, whoio tenon and treatment they muit ul up with whethir It suits them or not. People In want of coal I ti Ibis veealher aro not prone toaritu. (j. nientoTerloe.es sustained or Injuries 1 'nrllctt-d, they inutt do tlio test they ! ran and do It at once, or there will be ii other Injuries which will not be so v cully re aired, Inlllcled t homo. Hi Buppoie we lake whatreemta fair, B j average cafe. A. cltlteii ijota to a HH , dialer and or Jen o ton of coal, which ha must hare wlia reasonable Ula- ' , ,(cb, and )nja for tt at the time of HH, , orJerlnit, otherwise no atlontlou It HH . tuidtolilrulsolieliamlsov-er fioUln HH f cut, aa a coiielderelloit for SO X) pounds l ofluel. Most penile at dltauce, H knowing that eucU an amount Ii ei- H acted for an article that eitlslslii .ulil- ; ilent iiuautltle-e to tu ply the UulUd Hi Btalo and almost within KUinbot ol HH" Hie city, would be tempted luaek If HHI1 theroareauyKrandJurlealn thli part H ot the country, and If so, If thej H thsniselves tbould uut be ludloUd for H lion-teasance; but no matter aa to that; H (or the like of the aruuiiiont but for H no other reason we will adult that the H coal It worth the $.U0 1 aid. Aflerlbo H lapse of four ur ilo days, and the H buyer has rtiept been cut of roal for HHi My hill that lime, the fuel Is delivered H notlhe iiouw pounds that he contiocl- H ed and pal I for, but IV)) pounds. This HHj' aids $137 lo'tho price; oil IiiTer-tlRe- Hl tlon the bujer llnds that about twenty B per cent ot lilt purchase Is dutt and HHj: out, utterly until for any urpose B. under the sun uicetto keep up the H dealer's prollti; thla little clrcumataDce H adds $1.10 more to tlio cost, so that B countlntt nothing ai a lost for the two B days that he hoa had nothing to bum, H be has paid IT.OTJ -practically (S-lor HHj cnouijU fuel to last liltu tvo or three H weeks with the Rreatest eooncmj! HH I This klud ol thing dots nut represent 1 mi Isolated catu here by any meant; on HHJ the contrary it It iiulte coininou, an J HHb It It only one li.no of the evil. HHi 'the railroads first, and then tlio HHI dealers, have us torapletily at C In I r B mercy. We cau K't uoihlDKof any HHi t'OLtKiuenieto burn ixcept at their HHJ bands an 1 upon their terms. Huppure HHJ a man has a loal mine of lilt own not HHJ far uway but Uo far to enable Mm HHJ to have Us product tranirted HHJ by waiton aud team at B roflt, Ibe rallrcaJ talltl Is a) irttitl.l- HHj tlve that It It Inn of a loss lo him to HHb latronlte the mtiuopoly outright, and HHJ as the kwer ot two evils bo dom su. HHJ Uerealluathntlieln bolnn robbed u t HHJ onlj by the proUctlo ttrltVof exor H bltant lrelKhtai(e, tut by thusu who HHJl stand near to tbo barnns and virtually HHI control the whole traRIc; but what ean HHb he dot If tie protista he It Informed HHb by the chief and the tecoudury robber HHb In couiert that ho Is Dot compelled lo IbsbbbI tike their coal If b don't llko their terms aud loods, and that Is a hard Net one of those liar J, stern facts HI which sometimes male a people get HHi tJKetuer and devli-o means for their HHffj own dlienthrallmeiit. That It what HHB must I a done he ru. HHfft Cheap trauipoitttlon Is of course the HHh only means of untyluir, the (lordlan HHff Vnot. To have thti we mutt have a HHB line of rails and some Tulllmr stock HHB LonuecllUK with the uean-it coal HHB meature of tulllclent proportions HHB to luturu roiistsnt su; ply. HHB This Hue must be held aud HHB owned by the leople directly or u- HHB dlnttlj; aud It must lo tounani;ed HHB that It ean never be absorbed by a IruuU BSSSSsl linn or ether eionililerLlll rormnrunl. HHB I Illy thousand people lu this city HHB would istronUe II, at a ery low es. HHB tlmatc, ten otntt a iiionlh each, fur HHB tranioitll)e; coal alone, and Us other HHB t minus ought to amount to at mueli HHBj more. Would not $ll),0UU a month HHBJ patronage Insured for a short narrow HHBJ Ksupu road, which need not rush thing HHH very much and uould be lucxt enstvely HHB conducted alter being built and HHH equipped, piy the lutureet on mortgago HHH bundt and a pood dividend lcIJi? HHH Add lo this what the fouudrlca and HHH h0, the mills and timllots cvneume, HHHj and thtu coiMdcrllieconitaiit Increase HHH of populallon, aud the poiular rallroid HHH t.-;, to look llko a little wealth- HHH Iuakerawullasac,rculcn,uallMr. HHH s$ Thorn Is uothlni; vislonarj lu thu HHH forei;oluir. It Is something that will HHH havotobedono souDeror later, aud thu HHH earlier It Is begun the earlier will thu HHH hour of etuatii Ijuillou strike. Aalt Is, HHH there la nothing to prevent tbu barons HHH from doubllm: their rices, ur treblln j HHH them fur that matter bifore the wlutur HHH iauer, and we would bae to submit HHHj to them Jutt the same; the only present HHHl recourtu Is u tbu law at ngolust the HHr dealers, and wheu we pa) the tribute HHHj exacted by the monopolist let us sou to HHH It that every middleman who resorts HHB to shrinkage by ouo means or another HHHJ Is made to autwer thu ssnie as (or any HHHJ otbsr then; and uiuimllej to make hH I iL BHHffHHlaJEHHHBHHJHHHHHHHBsTBi I full restlliillon Irslilet. Anlthi-n let us have the movrineiit Inauiruratcil at onre looking to rrllef Iroui further tribute to either the lord of the manor or his squires. I Ire dollars and a hull for an aliened al-iened ton o( coal, when there would be good profit In It, even when the meature was honest, at bill that fluurt! Just thlukof III |
