New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-06
CURRENT DISCUSSION.
THE COAL CONDENSATION.
From tn Ktl1stOn III " Fireman.

THE COAL CONVERSATION.
From tn Kfn1shon (S. ~ FIREMAN.
| Notwithstanding their apologize attempts
at explanation 1t is manifest that the great companies
which control the anthracite coal market intend to put
the price of that indispensable article to specula-
point Owing to the failure OF several small com
panies formerly owning and working portions or the
phia and Reading Railroad Goa pany have come into
possession OF nearly all the mines in that productive
scranton Coal Company, with which they have bust
understanding TO put only 50 much coal on the
market, and. OF course. to name their own figures We
not competent TO say that the Pennsylvania and
Delaware and Hudson Companies are In the ring Dut IL
ia certain that they will profit by the increase OF rates
We shall hold the people OF Responsible
this monopoly ~ allowed TO rob US much longer; ny
they have power deprive these gorgng companies
Of their charters. II they don I the popular demand
strong for some incorporated millions Of dollars to
resist and foreign competition may settle with domestic
reference to Francis More's denuncaton of monopoly
in che time of Queen Etzabeth and assert its present
application: lit brngeth the general profit into pri-
bondage"
THE NEGRO AS VIEWED BY HIS FRIENDS.
From The Richmond DtsDaoh.
Irrespective of party politics and sectional
It would be wei nai the people OF tne
Is affected In It's practical interests well its national
the governing power OF the land Assuredly honest
man should bind himself 10 the truth IN matters Affect
question with regard to the negro not OF phan-
thrOpy and 1t Is crime 10 make II Que OF mere par
tsanry. 10 should be looked at with an eye single 10
the welfare and growth of the Union. THE NEw-YoRK
TRIBUNE has set good example In the particular oI
gathering facts and spreading them before its readers
All Of its correspondents are not quite sufficiently freed
from prejudces to do justice to the subject but In the
main the intelligent reader will be altogether able TO
sft out the truth from their stories In that paper re-
Gently appeared two interesting artlces one OF them is
Eight Years OF Emancipation" and the other IS letter
from New Orleans under the caption OF Inc Freedman
OF him The greatest folly OF the age is he attempt
make politician OF the African and 10 make him the
the truth gradually leaking out through Northern
journals The Northern people will understand the ques
tOn better after "A while.
AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY.
from TIE MoJik Register
In tbe luxury we call CARPET boocerv "a
luxury kindly furnished us By of our Northern
frends-we think a case OF this character exists. Rare
though the luxury NAV have beeQ, it has turned
somewna expensive one; but how expensive is, per-
haps generally known. For the figures are in
debted TO a correspondent Of THE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE,
who has made the subject careful study since the DAYS
when carpetbaggerv frat came into existence. The
paper furnished by hun makes three columns of closely
hibt OF the evil effects resulting from the sOcaed Gre
construction of the Southern States under radical
management and Radical rule thinking Southern
need be told OF the which has led to the
results shown in this alarming exhibit Were IL other
wise few words would suffice to sum the matter up in
all its usurpati0n. bad govern
ment knavish rule, negro supremacy Presldents poi
icy OF keeping adventurers in office against the eX-
pressed will OF the people and the persecution and pro-
scrpton instituted by the Federal judiciary at me
South. But there's mo greyng after spilled milk
It's done and it can't be mended by reference to 1t or
brOodng Overt IT, The only chances for mending lie in
the future and IL is TO be hoped that our people will he
found standing Wiling watchtu, and ready " embrace
| every chance.
DANGEROUS MONOPOLY.
from chicago
| While the farmers of the West are COM
| planning, with abundant reason Of the burdensome
which control the lines OF transportation the people
Of the East have been suddenly brought to realization
OF the fact that they entirely at the mercy of mon
aggregation OF capital which already controls the
transportation from the PENNSYLVANIA coaneds ana Is
NJ
Slnce lS7l-we have the word OF THE NEwYoRK TRIBUNE
for the statemeht-the Reading Railroad has stepped
into Schnyiki County with $50 000O00 and bought M
all the coal mines and lands It could lay It's nands on
It time to consider how FAR TINS a S
mitted 10 There must he reserved power 10 put
hook in the of the eviathan whose name Is monop
oily; and when that power IL aroused TO action even
individual property rights, however sacred must ylelu
| TO the higher law" have indicated The monopo-
| lists may indeed buy up the coal lands ana esta0lsh
exorbant prices but to perpetuate their title and ex
tortion can only be possible II the people are suPq re
give their punderers the support Of legal guarantees
RAId 1Rt sI,.s SIGNS N!asS.
| II is to be hoped that the time Is not far
distant when there will be system of signals TO warn
az the rear We are informed that the Alton road has
been in correspondence with certain parties in Austria
| in regard 10 what are known as " block signals which
throw electric light at night, or signal in the day.
one mile in front and mile to the rear and change
mails are shortly to be tested portion Of the
Alton 1t would not be safe to adopt them without
1 "a
If adopted ana trusted and yet should ocea
sionally fail they might work more injury than good
One great trouble in regard TO electric signals in this
country found the climate. The climate OF England
and Of OF the continental countries more favor
bic to the steady working Of electric signals than
| own which furnishes many sudden changes ana
| severe storms.
| IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING TO SWIM.
| ne Washington Star.
| THE NEw-YORK TRIBUNE draws the lesson
from the Wawaset disaster that people should learn TO
swim, and also train themselves TO an ordinary amount
of common sense and selfcOntr0l IL is pltiable 70
think that at the first threat OF peril we should herd to-
gether frightened and senseless scared sheep. aud
rush headong into the Jaws OF death. The victims OF
this catastrophe told had neither the requisite
GOODNESS nor knowledge and this Is the point 70 DO
urged Here fifty people drowned for the lack OF
| knowing how to swim, Accomplishment which they
could learned in two weeks and OF the use of life
preseryer which would have cost them ten minutes We
| are a mi ratory people, living every year more and
more cars, rivers, and the ocean Yet we unlVer
sally neglect to qualify ourselves and our children for
| the protection Of our lives