The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-28
ROBBERY.
The lIighwRyman Demnud-YOur
Money or Your Life.

| Money or GOur GiIe.
Communication to Intel igencer-Tuesday
To tie Editors Of the IntelEgencsr:;
/ am not pleased with your obser-
vation regarding the advance made in
the price OF coal by dealers. Do you
not consider that the prevailing epi-
demic in horses and mules has redered
il nece, sary to substitute oxen and
manual labor at greater expense? ? Be-
sides the sick horses are to be supported,
and they are constant expense with>
out profit. In some cases oxen have
been bought at high prices, and must
be sold again, when the horses shall
have recovered, at reduced rates. Three
teams Of oxen can only do the work Of
two teams OF horses. From these causes
the cost OF digging and delivering coal
to the citizens is fully two cents bushel
above what it was a few months ago, so
that an advance in price is unavoidable.
Other tradee and occupations advance
their commodities according to
the exigencies OF the hour, yet when
coal dealers do so. you lift your
ewes in holy horror. Not long since
the boot and shoe dealers OF the city
united to advance the price Of their
goods, making the Boston fire an ex-
cuse, though many of them had a
stock on hand to last them for year.
1t ia an Ill wind that blows nobody
good, and 90 the shoe dealers embraced
the golden opportunity to enrich them
selves. The BLACK Friday" in New
York is still fresh in your recollection,
when a ring of capitalists managed to
raise the premium on gold about two
hundred per cent in one day, enriching
themselves with colossal fortunes
thereby. Yet you denounce the coal
dealers for doing the same thing on q
snaller scale Why should not coal
deal lers take every advantage which
Providence may place in their power,
the same as other men would Z? There
ia a tide in the affairs OF men, which,
taken at the food, leads on to fortune" "
This is the day, and this is the hour
for coal dealers TO make raise and se-
cure a fortune. Ii they neglect this
opportunity another one may never
arise. You utter complaint that the
door man and the working man are
not able to pay double the former price
for coal but the wealthy can afford it
and as for the poor the city and county
uill no; see them suffer. But why do
YOU interfere in other mems business.
Don't meddle with your neigh Dor g
affairs, don't shed so many tears tor the
poor workingman. 1t is none OF your
business; it is not your funeral; mind
YOUR own affairs and let other people
mind theirs You threaten the coal
dealers with the Withdrawal OF the trade
OF their customers when the horse dis
ease abates. Don't provoke coai dealers
too tar, or they shall make the citizens
OF Wheeling pay 80 cents bnshel for
coal instead OF 20 cents. They can do
IL, they have only to cay the word and
coal will be dollar bushel before the
end of the week. Not long since coal
dealers were acting in opposition to
each other, each contending for the
others trade. Thank goodness rivalry
no longer exists, we are uow united and
determined as one man to have our full
prices and no less. So you have just
got to grin and bear it.
| would like to know what business
the CITY Council has to Interfere with
our legitimate trade 1t is only Jealousy
in a few envious men who cannot bear
the idea that any one but themselves
should acquire wealth. But they can
accomplish nothing; for by our com
bined powers we can control the trade
in all the coal region round about, and
any efforts on your part, or on the part
of the people to interfere with US, will
be imme ediately met by another advance
in price. Don't trifie with Us, Tor we
can in one month deprive every citizen
of q fire on his hearth, and can shut
down every manufacturing establish
meut in Wheeling.
A DEALER.