Show THE PRICE OF COAL we are now in the closing days of october our indian summer to bly about over the chilling blasts 47 of november and the deep snows an owe and biting cold of december wi will 11 make all of us ua shaver and huddle closer cleser around the stove more than ball this she be times are hard money I 1 Is scarce and many men who have families dependent upon them have earned but little during the tho summer and fall I 1 kany amany hes heads 1 of families in and near this city y Ws are anxious or even I 1 appalled according to the pressure a e pt of the times utpa upon them in individually ly when hey ey reca recall il tae prie of CORI coal audi and he ne amount of it w which job tabei ill H pe e obliged to have to keep sep abe froat out ot of their homes bomes abe coal quast question lipi it the combined barj tariq bounty and silver liver issues of their db fealk it la 14 an leage upon have hav lono lo no vote in respect to it 14 they are ai all aa they pro are to in respect reaped to the buter bitter winds judo that maae mae go BO kelen keen the nece erity forue for there is IB a tinge of bid erness in their reflections upon it they realize realino OK alaa how bow wail we that wages have I 1 been redu reduced cod that the th e prices cell of most commodities have hav a gone down that rents are lower and margins are narrower narrow ej all wong along the alnes of life but that the figure on akol jo unaltered it at is im the same fiume now bod carriers were paid per day prices come ame and onal prices go poloa of coal goes on fo forever reyer for one thion only can the coal barons claim tile gratitude of the poor man they raised the price palce of their product since the panic I 1 most freight rates have gone down since the hard almes came and passenger rates are a great ties deal lower then why are the same old boom prices charged for hauling coal the minors miners are not paid tile abe wages they used to be then why is there no reduction in the cost of coal to the consumer Is cheaper coal to forever remain like fike purity in lesan gent cent dream no coal Js is being laid down at the homes of consumers in this county cheaper than the railways will do JA 11 large laree numbers of teams 40 are hauling it it is cheaper for a 6 in man mancho who owns a team learn to tomake a trip ot two to haul big own fuel then than to pa pay y cash fur for it to a debeir de Iti salso cheaper for ato ja haul an floine some for his neighbor ind and take such pay as the latter has baa to give than to lot let his bis team and remain idle the number of dollars and cents benta nominally involved in such a transaction la is of little consequence the transaction results in the procuring pro curine of the necea saries of life which Is the main thing if the railroads rail roada are left out of it the people will net dt bewail the fact very long or loudly |