Show COALVILLE TO THE FORE the coalville Co alville board of trade is alive to the situation and starts in upon the coal problem early enough in the sea sion eon to enable Is the people to gain some benefit irom from its propositions before winter la in actually upon them the address which appeared in our columns october 14 has the right ring to it the matter dues does not relate tu to a speculation or to ary other transaction by means of which some person or a limited spited li number of 01 persons are to euln g jin at the expense ot of all others but just the reverse of that to enable the maby many to resist the undue t encroachments encroach ments ot of the few the first statement sta of the address to is one that we ORD can all understand UDder stand and subscribe to without reproach we know what it to is to be in the power pow or ot of a combine that gathers in unearned dollars from a patient and long suffering people in truth a coal combine in ID abig community is one of the most moat and abd foundationless con corns cerne of the kind on earth because the article to which it re lates is altogether inexhaustible by the band of man and is separated from the consumers by but one chain of easily traversed mountains yet it is not even an open secret because a well understood and fjola ivi dont dent fact that thai the rates wilch which have been extorted irom from the people for their coal have beai excessive that at forty per cent less lees a handsome margin of profit would have been left the NEWS does not believe in the senseless hostility which so many people lukage in regarding rogar diD g railroads railroad oThey abe both have their rights and their wrongs and every honest effort should be in the direction ol of maintaining the one and breaking ore aking down the obber rhe roads roade are entitles to tasks make mousy they were constructed forthal pu puru rucee cise but they have no right to be the reverse of what they broor load laed they would be when they occupied the peoples people it land with their tracks they come among communities ostensibly as arbitrators ot ol high aud and discriminating tariffs by making importers and buyers more nearly aquai than formerly what a revulsion is produced by taking advantage of we the necessity for themselves and their services which they create in comien and by reason of the he former methods of conveyance being unable to compete with them put iu in lorce force the most moot extreme and objectionable phase or of so no called protection I 1 this they surely do when their rates are just a little lower than wagons and teams ean can du do the work for so as effectually to keep out competition and charging everything in iii sight eight up ul to that point when their necessities their actuation and recognized leg legitimate methods method ft do not sury such chargee Oh argee it Is ie a clear Os of killing the to kee all the golden eggs at once the result bein being 9 that the people or many of them thank an rt now accepting of the little extra acx x pense of teaming and encouraging all ali projected enterprises looking to cutting oft off the be golden eggs altogether A similar to that now maje waa extensively discussed in these columns and elsewhere last laet winter it is to be approved of and practically encouraged it if any kind of satis factory guarantee can be given that when the proposed connection to ie made the now new carriers carriera carr lera will not be avilucea aei lucea by the old and the ainu itself worse off than ravin having 9 no doubt that this will be provita provi td f r the NEWS again adile adas its and congratulates the coalville Co alville people ou on their timely action |