Show THE COAL imposition for some tima time this city has baen an inadequate coat coal supply capa supa ply la in fact should a cold spell como come on suddenly with oar surce of fuel as it ii Is now we should experience what would b ba la in effect a coal famine the cause nobody baa hu been able to male make out the vardoui broadi hare have the sama same fa fr cili ties for tarnishing this necessary commodity that they have always bad had and that they allow the supply to run below the regular demand can be attributed only to indifference to the wanta wants of 0 the community under existing conditions all the people I 1 can do by way of retaliation is a to cry shame upon bach such work and nurse their wrath what seems to be the cause of the want is an extraordinary amount ia ant of freight traffic to accommodate I 1 at 8 W which the comp companies compan artles iea are neglecting the coal trains bach sach an aa action aa as this would ba infamous nine tenths of t the h e freight that burden the roads at this period is of slight in compared with fuel A company would almost deserve to be d that would perpetrate auch such an exhibition of sordid contempt for their patrons bat but there Is no use of swearing about it or lecturing the rail railroad road corn pauls they will do about as they plea please 46 what is 13 most bantel is an in independent source upon which the people could depend we can conceica con ceiva celva of no other way to do this but to offset the independence of the giant railroad crp corporations orations with a it touch of independence on oar own account it is possible for the people of to havo have or control a road to soma coalfields coal fields near by and provide tor for our own wants in this respect there Is n no 0 lav law at present to comial railroad rail companies to furnish us fuel and it is no not t in th the e nature of things for inconvenience or buffering suffering in the abstract to move a thing without a conscience to action it ever a railroad cor potation po ration responded to the appeals of its patrons except for value received we never heard of it the experience exper jence of ogden in the matter of coal coat is not new and one may expect it to be repeated whenever the railroads are BO so disposed until we ourselves make such a thing impossible |