Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-18
IT WANTS FREE COAL.
THE NOVA SCOTIA SYNDICATE WOULD
Be BENEFITED.

Canadian Coal Trust - Senator German
Casts Light On the subject-The sugar
Schedule.
Thanks to Senator German Demo
craft, from Maryland, for what might
be considered as a most notable revela-
tion concerning a great party movement
in the interest Of any one article of
and trade ever known in the
history Of our country. Aftor showing
that the proposed duty on coal was a
revenue duty, and as such the Demo-
Gratis had a right to stand by it, Senator
German asked the all important ques-
tion, Who wants free coal? He pointed
N that it would not benefit q man,
woman, child or beast west of the Ohio
and south of the Potomac. II anybody
would feel the benefit, it would be the
New Highlander, and no New Highlander
has asked for it. Even California,
which might receive more good from it,
has not requested 1t. Therefore 1t ia
said that 1t will reduce the cost Of
manufacturing. Practically it would
not reduce a yard of calico or q ton Of
.ron- It might and would perhaps bene-
at the Nova Scotian coal syndicate.
Let Us quote Mr.. Germans words:
Whom would free coal benefit
There is but one concern ON the face Of
the earth to which IL would give n
special benefit. As we have gone on
with tho revolution in commerce, the
methods Of transportation, the modes Of
operating lines and the facility with
which we dig from the bowels of the
earth not only ores, but coal and tn.
precious metals, have changed all the
conditions which existed 90 years ago.
lin Nova Scotia there is a deposit of coal
as great as there is in any other one
spot ON the face of the earth. The Cana
dian government owns every ounce of
lit, and until FIVE years q no man could
dig it without paying a royalty to the
Canadian government. The policy of
the Canadian government until five
years ago was the same as that of West
Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. They
Thought the coal SO valuable that they
would not lease the land except in small
lots of 80 or 40 acres-so small that no
great plant could be put upon it. The
coal could not be dug, although it is
right at the sea and under the sea.
Mined in this way, it could not be
worked successfully to compete with
American coal.
Rive years ago, l think it was, or
four years ago, the Canadian govern
ment was induced to change its policy.
They wiped ont, or permitted to be
wiped out, all the small leases. They
took the officers of that great, mammoth
corporation, the Canadian Pacific rail
road, which was built by the English
government as a great war measure, the
most threatening piece of work that has
ever been constructed against American
institutions, and permitted them, with
certain gentlemen within our own coun-
try associated with them, to lease as a
whole this vast coalfield, with an agree
ment that for 90 years they should pay
to the Canadian government 10 cents q
ton as royalty on all the coal which they
removed. This company, with that priv
ilege, ran for the first tirae a road right
around the border OF the sea, only 81
miles in length, to Lewiston, where
there is . great harbor, open all the year
round, where ships can enter. There
they, for the first time, got American
machinery, SO that they can dig the coal
and carry it only 81 miles to the water.
Now the Canadian government
wants revenue. The men who have
mines want to make profit. Here are
Boston and Providence and New Eng
land, which consume the coal of the two
Virginias and Maryland and Pennsyl-
wanna. We are nearer to it, the
Canadians said. we can deliver coal
there and drive the Americans out of
their wv territory. Give vi free coal,
and we will sweep this American indus
try from New England If you do,
you viii place in the Canadian treasury
money which ought to go into the Amer.
ican treasury. You were thus asked TO
permit the greatest combination of its
kind to enter the United States. God
Laaeprs we VI trusts enough to deal
with nowi shall never agree that a
AoANA6h q oh1ii thtSl o4A bCIlJtOIy
and take the substance from our peo-
pie" Applause in the galleries
Further light is thrown on this sub
ject by the Chicago News, from which
we quote the following:
W POWERFUL TRUSTS UNDER
II PRESIDENTS PROTECTION.
The president has assumed a very
singular attitude toward the hill, and
his friends among the tariff reformers
In congress are wondering what 1t
means. He seems anxious that the sugar
Schedule should not be interfcred with,
and that coal should go ON the free list.
This bears but the theory that has pre-
vailed 50 long that the sugar schedule as
prepared by Mr. Carlisle Was the result
of a bargain made with the trust dur
ing the last campaign, and that the
president will no stand in the way Of
its fuldllment. His anxiety to see coal
on tho free list is not unnatural for