New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-04
These are the prices for the first week

These are the prices for the first week In
September Of each year
The price is now high because of tie ruin pro-
duced ia $50. consequence of British free
trade. There ia much complaint and it is pro-
Iosed to remedy the evil by further Application
of the medicine that has produced the disease
now existing. II is necessary, it is said. to put
down Il monopoly; but so far as we Can see, all
that the coal men have thus far been allowed has
been, if not monopoly, at least a very undue
81 are of loss On this head there are some
very striking facts in the letter to which we be-
fore referred. aud those facts we recommend to
the careful reelection of our readers.
Our correspondent has obviously been suf.
ferer and as such may be excused the strong ex-
preston of his feelings. The stare Of thugs he
depicts is certainly al extraordinary one. Every
one among " feels the advantage tlat has result
ed from tie increased abundance and diminished
cost of fuel and yet the men to whom we are in
debted for these benefits are certainly not paid.
The Delaware and Hudson stock sells now in
market for little more than was paid for it, Its
owner. obtain but small dividend upon their
tual investment. and yet they are steadily parting
with the coal which constitutes their capital The
Lebjgb Company has been in like manner selling
its coal-tae capital upon which it, operations
were based-and yet during many years it has
proved unable to make dividends upon the mere
capiisl required for making the roads by which it
was to 90 10 market. The Schuyi kill aud Reading
Companies, having no coal to sell, have been in
condition that is yet far worse All they have
been able to make in the whole period since the
latter was opened has gone i'll repairs and exten-
siOns, an0 their debts been increased, while the
stockholders have had no dividends. Under the
Sham Democratic system that looks to British
free trade as the perfection of policy. they ave
been, time and again, on the brink of ruio, and
are now but slowly recovering from the effects
of the act of lSi6. There is certainly some
thing wrODg in system that thus prostrates the
men who exert their energies for the develop
ment OF our vast natural advantages for the pro-
duction of fuel and of iron. We have the means
of producing both at lower cost than any other
country in the world. but all effort to do 80 is
depressed by the knowledge that for the grat'f-
cation of the most trivial private or political
interest either or both would be swept
out OF existence without a moments cere-
mony. The Reciprocity Treaty was not permit
ted even to be discussed. The passage of the
bill for carrying it into effect was needed for the
purchase of eastern votes that had been lost by
the Nebraska bill Nowhere else in the world
sssuredly, would trade in which had been in-
vested so vast an amount of cspital-that gave
employment to so numerous body of laborers-
and that lad already produced such great results
have been treated with so little ceremony
This is, We believe, the Only one Of all the civil
Lied countries of the world whose government is
administered entirely in the interest Of foreigners,
money de alers and slave owners