The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-07

authority on the subject. We do not publish our
report on Saturday for the very obvious reason that
on that day, more than any other, every inch OF
space in the Ledger is claimed by, and even clam
ored for, by advertisers. Our figures and comments
weekly given Of the coal trade are generally
esteemed more satisfactory than those elsewhere
published"
They acknowledge that they steal a por-
ton of our statements, and think it matter
of trlhing import. They also state that their
comments weekly given of the coal trade are
generally esteemed more satisfactory than
those elsewhere published. The thief who
stole goods and sold them afterwardsto others
at cheap rate might consider it a satisfactory
business, because they were trading on other
peoples property, and they realized the
benefit of this stolen property of which the
owner has been robbed. There is not a per-
son engaged in the coal trade in Philadelphia,
who reads the Journal and the Ledger, that
does not know that our structures on the
conduct of the Ledger last week were just
and some of the Philadelphia dealers stated
to us that we served them right, because the
thefts were so glaring.
They also state that their columns are SO
crowded every Saturday that they have not
room to publish the reports. This may be
true to certain extent but that is not the
reason why they are postponed. Their OBJ
iect is 10 obtain the information from the
journal, in which they can have the CON-
ments which they pilfer from us, and then
palm them off on the public in little differ
ent shape as their own. Why not publish
the reports they receive on Saturday? They
will take up but little room, and their COM
ments, based on their knowledge of the trade,
would be extremely short, or suprenlely ridi-
culous, if extended. This is the reason why
they are held over until Monday.
To test the matter whether they took por-
titn of our statements, we altered some
figures which would not be noticed for two
weeks and these altered figures were each
time copied by the Ledger in their weekly
statements. We are aware that they receive
some of the returns. but not all, and the
greater portion that they receive and publish
are not correct, because the tonnage in some
of these reports are doubled up, and they
publish this doubled up tonnage.
The only correct and reliable statements of
the coal trade, compared with last year, are
published in the Miners J0urnaI We have
gone to great expense and given great deal
of time and labor to collect and tabulate
! these statistics to preserve them in an official
form, and they are more correct than all such
statistics that are collected by the Govern
ment. The papers that profess to give cor
rect statements have solicited the use of the
machinery we put in motion to obtain them,
as far as they could, and they generally steal
the balance and palm them off upon the
public as their own. In such conduct
honest: Is it not most disreputable? If
they paid even portion of the expense in
obtaining this information, they might then
have some justification in stealing some;
but the Ledger does not pay one cent for
these statistics, and nearly all the ideas they
put forth they flch from others without one
particle of credit. If they persist in this dis
reputable course, we will show the make
up" of the Public Ledger and, point out how
some people can make gooa deal of money
in publishing papers in our cities with the
expenditure of a small amount of brains.