The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-26
The Advance In Coal,

| Az Ine kolton OF the 1ntekligoneer.
lam not pleased with your obserya.
tions regarding the advance made In the
price ot coal by dealers. Do you NOT
consider that the prevailing epidemic In
horses and mules has rendS II necessaY
~ to substitute oxen ard manual 'lSboF 4,
greater expense 7 Besides the sick horses
are 70 be supported, and they are con.
slant expense without profit In some
cases oxen have been bought at high
prices, and must be sold again when the
horsea shall have recovered, OF reduced
rates. Three teams Of oxen can only do
the work ot two teams Of horses. From
these causes tho cost Of digging and deliy.
ering coal 70 tho citizens 10 fully two
cents q bushel above what II vast few
months ago; 90 that an advance In price
Is unavoidable. other trades and occu.
pations advance their commodities &C.
coFdtng 70 the exingenciesof the hour, vet
when coal dealers do 30, you TIT your
eyes In holy horror. Not long since
the boot and shoe dealers Of the city
united TO advance the price oil their
goods, making tho Boston fire an excuse,
thoHgh many Of them had stock on
hand % run them for year. Il 10 an III
wind that blows nobody good and 90 the
shoe dealers embraced the golden oppor.
tunity TO enrich themselves. The tBiack
FRIDAY In New York d stiil fresh In
your recollection, when ring ot capita
lists managed 10 raise the premium on
gold about cooper cent In, one day enrich!
ing themselves with colossal fortunes
thereby. Yet you Sdenounce the coal
dealers for doing the same thing on a
smaller scale, Why Gho1ld not coal deal.
erS take every advantage which Provi.
deuce may place In their power, the same
as other men Would1 SIhere is tide 10
10 the atfairs ofsmen, which, taken ct the
flood, leads on to fortune" This is the
day and this is the hour for coal dealers TO
make raise and secure o fortune. II they
neglect this opportunity smother one may
never arise. You utteea complaint that
the poor 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
viii not see them suffer, But why do
you interfere In other mems business.
Don't meddls with your neighboTs I affair.",
don't shed 30 many tearS for, the Door
workingman. Il Is none OF your bust.
ness; Il is not your funeral; mind, your
own Affairs and let other people mind
theirs. y You threaten the coal dealers
with the withdrawal Of the trade of their
customers whenthe horse disease abates.
Don't provoke coal dealers too far, or
they shall make the citizens OF Wheeling
pay 80 cents bushel for coal inslead Of
20. They can do Il, they have only to
say the word and coal will be q dollar Q
bushel before the end Of the week Not
long since coal dealers were acting in
opposition TO each other, each contsnding
for the others trade. Thank goodness
rivalry NO longer exist, we are now Unit.
ed and determined o. one man to. have
our full prices and no Less. 30 you have
just got TO grin and bear it. e. go
IWould Ike TO know what business the
City Council has 10 interfere with our
legitimate trade. It Is only jealousy Ia
lew envious men who cannot bear the
idea that any one but themselves should
acquire wealth. But they can accomplish
nothing; for by our combined powers We
can control tho trade In all the coal re.
gion round about, and any efforts on your
part, or on the part Of the people to inter-
lcre with us, will be Immediately met by
another advance in price Don't tr1he
with Us, for we can In one month, deprive
every citizen ofa fire on his hearth, and
can shut down every manufacturing es.
tabllshment In Wheeling ADEAIER.