Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-31

| proving them we will reduce our railways
to subordinate position, and restore 10 the
people their prestige and prImscy. Our
neglect of natures pportunities-our water
ways-our natural avenues of trade has
made the transportation nabobs our masters
has placed it in the power of a clique to
ruin millions of people. To do our duty
now will shear these people of their power
and make them our fellow hborers.
With highly developed railway transpor-
tation facilities and undeveloped water
transportation routes, the waterways feed
the railroads. The resources of nature and
the labors of the people all 60 to enrich the
railroads. They command, and all other
things and people are subordinate to them.
To develop our water routes, make them
navigable to the fullest possible extent, and
connect them by great arterial canals, will
make the rail roads the feeders of the water
ways, restore to the people sovereign power
and prosperity, and reduce the inequalities
of wealth.
Then the resources Of nature and the in
dustry of the people will enrich the people
and not few.
This will follow when the development of
our waterways enables man with S., 900 to
become common carrier, where to-day a
thousand times that sum is not sufficient
W
portation, bringing widely separated regions
into cheap exchange. and establishing trade
and competition between regions now en-
tirely cut off from intercourse.
Let us see how this would work in par
ticular instances. New England and the
East are to-day in the clutches of the
Anthracite Coal Comblnation-cut off from
the boundless coal measures of the Ohio
Valley, as though on another planet. Her
manufacturers and families pay SIS ton or
more for COAL Given 20 feet OF water be-
tween Pttsourg and the Hudson river, and
ships will load coal at the mines mouth, and
lay it down on the wharves of Bangor
Boston, Fall River, Providence, Bridgeport
Hartford, New York, Syracuse, Rochester
ct al, Tor less than halt what these places
now pay.
Thus the Anthracite Coal Combination
would be broken, the people east of the
mountains rescued from a vilIainous e1tor-
tion amounting to $50, 600, 900 year. and
the demand for Monongahela coal increase
2OO, ,OOO. 600 bushels per year.
Such Items as the following would cease
to appear;
REGULATING COAL PRODUCTION.
sales agents Hold Meeting at New York
and Take Action.
NEW YORK, Jan. l4-The sales agents of the
coal-producing companies met to-day and were
In session about two hours. No official infor-
nation could be obtained in regard TO the re-
suits arrived at, but il is stated that after a
1uli discussion of the condition of the trade, it
was decided 10 arrange monthly productions
on the basis of production of 1900, 900 tons
1or the year, and TO continue the percentages
tnat were In force during the past year.
The saving to the people east OF the ALLIE
gheny Mountains, in coal bills alone, will
In SIX months pay for the canal from Pitts
burg to Lake Erie. In four years it will
pay for an open waterway 20 feet deep from
PIttsburg to New York; and in six wears
Will pay for the route from New York City
to the head waters or the Missouri.
1t was the perception of this grand oppor-
tunity,. and the desire TO divert the profits
therefrom arising, away from the people
and into their own pockets, that led the
Standard Oil monopoly to dispatch their
ablest engineer and most trusted agent, W.
Z. ShInn, to buy the Monongahela coal
field, Immediately after the Pittsburg and
Erie Ship Canal was broached and the
American Society of Civil Engineers had
taken under consideration the creation of
navigable waterway 20 feet deep from Buff
faIo to New York CITY.
The effect on the iron and steel business
would be almost equally marked. The
competition of the mills at Steelton, Spar
rows Point. aud other Eastern points, when
aided by railroad tariffs ON our products,
will prevent us from sending rail or bar