The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-29

| The coal tariff views OF sucA PFoiIlI-
nent Democrats as the governor OF West
| Virginia and Hon. Henry G. Davis, who
represented West Virginia in tho
United States senate, are especially in
teresting at this time, when the bill oil
tho Democratic ways and means com
milteo proposes to put coal of the free
list. Governor MacCorkle says:
81 am governor of the state which
has the largest coal area in the world.
1t has 10000 square miles of coal area.
| Tho state is now in the beginning OF its
progress, and is on the road to CONNER
cial supremacy. Only fou. years ago
the wolf howlod and the fox screamed
over the Elkhoru valley. There are to-
day in that valley 10000 men, aud 500
| coke ovens which make the whole coun"
try glow in the night time with their
| flame.
"Thsro is progress in such enterprises
alt over tho state. Even with the 70
cents protection to-day, the miners in
the New River section arc trembling as
to whether there shall be strike. In
my own beautiful valley, with n protec.
ton Of 70 cents on this great product oil
the state there was u reduction in prices
last week. | know the state Is doing
! the best il can. The selfish idea OF the
consumer must not alone be taken into
consideration, but the people from the
mines and tho valleys are the ones upon
whose shoulders the burden must fall.
When We have to-day only small
share Of the tariff, why take away the
| growth of tho industry in those beau'i-
full valleys and quiet the mines, make
them shut dowu; make tho coal shalt
stop, and check tho busy energy OF all
that country?
GIVE rs \ SHOW.
"Give West Virginia chance and she
will certainly drive out the coal which
comes from the Australian dominions
of Her Majesty the Queen. am a Dem
ocrat, and am talking from Democrat
tic standpoint. say that the spirit OF
seIiishncss should not reign supreme.
10 lay hands upon the industry will
paralyze my beautiful state, and will
| render sterile her fair yalleys.
~ know nothingof the special refine
ments OF the tariff, but do know that
| if you take away this protection the in
terest must die. 10 take the tariff of
coal will hurt every man, woman and
child engaged in the coal industry.
Therefore, say hands OF the tariff on
coal and leave it as it is. l want the
tariff kept on coal for the perfectly good
81 81 - 0olF off
will be brought in from foreign coun-
tries and it will drive US out, and lessen
the price OF labor. England would take
unfair advantage OF us."-Gov. W. A.
MacCorkle before tho ways and means
committee September 10, 1893, Official
report Of hearings, pages llAl.44.
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| EX-SENATOR HENRY Il. DAVIS.
A Practical Mans Practical Plea for the
ConI EnduStry-NIust Have Protection.
Hon Hen. Henry G. Davis says: at
is believed By the bituminous coal peo-
pie that there should be q move up,
and not a move down, in coal with re.
spect to the tariff For the year ending
June so, 1881 have not the figures
for lS9S-Engand sent to the United
States heracli three hundred thousand
tons, and paid Il duty OF 70 cents per
ton. Take that duty of, which, per-
| haps. is four times rs much as We make
on coal on an average, aud the result
will be that Il very large percentage OF
coal from both the provinces and from
England will come to this country. The
| facts are that We cannot afford in the
present condition Of the industry 10
have any duty whatever taken oil coal.
RAW NONSENSE.
Coal issometimes called raw ma
terial, but 9j per cent of it when it gets
to the scaboard is labor, and whatever
it is worth in the ground is only in con-
sideration OF using labor. Take the
| district OF the chairman OF the WAYS
and means committee, in which there
are six counties that produce several
million tons of coal. There are 5000 or
| 1000 people there who arc depending
almost entirely on the digging of coal
and getting it to market. Make coal
free and you take from them their
| bread.
at is the coal which comes to the
Atlantic coast which We compete with.
II there we're no duty whatever oil
coal, not one ton OF our coal could get
ten miles from tho mines. FIX United
States Senator Henry e. Davis before
the ways and mean committee, Septem-
Der 10, 1893. Official report o! hearings,
pages ll24S2.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.