Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-22

OF coming to Now York 10 get their
fuelP Aud " the mine owners of Nova
Scotia are gcing To successfully com
pete with our coal, why don't they do
10 nowf III Nova Scotia coal were In
TACT competitive coal with ours IL,
computation could possibly be no where
else except I'm seaport towns and cities.
Tor II could not bs unloadad from the
ocean vessels, placed on cars and car.
ried to inland towns aud cities for com.
petitive purposes.
81 have made no calculation OF thu
population. but think that from Port
land Maine, TO the Gulf OF Mexico the
population OF the seaport towns and
cities will not exceed eight million, so
that this whole bugaboo, from any
view you may take OF IL, amounts Ia
nothing more than the question whether
We are TO have competition in the coal
trade with eight million people while
tho remainder OF tho seventy millions
OF the population OF the country arc
consumers OF the products OF the coal
mines.
English composition is almost too abb
surd To talk about. | have here tho
CottcrD Guardian, OF London, for Mo-
vember last which contains London
prices OF coal aud coke, aud here they
are reduced To dollars and cents: Welch
coal, S41O To $3.50 per ton; coke, S4.75
TO 5000 per ton. Carnegie Is sdvertis-
Ing coke at dollar ton, and 81. "a for
coal In New York or PHILADELPHIA.
which cost not more than So. so a ton to
put II there. ought 10 leaye profit
enough for tho coal agency for the coal
furnished from this region. III they
| VIII glue the operators sthls profit wa
can rest In the assurance OF prosper.
Gus and contented people here with bet
| Ter prohts Tor the operators and better
pay for the miners
"A great many people seem TO lose
sight OF the fact that heretofore we
have had substantially free coal. I
have seen IL stated that tho Walker
tarif OF 1876 had tariff OF Ste5 on
| coal. The fact IL there was no tariff on
| coal In tho Walker tariff, excepting
that upon slack or culm. Prior To the
passage OF the Mckinley bill IL was
provided that there should be tariff OF
7o cents per ton on coal, but this was
virtually destroyed by the further pro.
vision that coal imported into tho
United States and afterward used on
steam vessels engaged I'm coast or for
eign trade, should, under the rules pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, be subject TO n rebate OF 10 cents "A
ton. As the great bulk OF our coal was
used on board OF steam vessels, IL re-
suited In putting tariff Oh coal with
one hand and taking IL off with the
other This rule OF rebating actually
put coal on the free list.
$50 IL must bs readily seen that when
the Wilson bill puts coal on the free lisr
so far as we are concerned IL leaves il
whore IL has been for years.
"For these reasons / consider thai
West Virginia has nothing TO fear frou
the effects OF the passage OF the Wil.os
bill with coal on tho free list"
Governor Wilson was sorry that tn
REGISTER representative bad not give
him notice beforehand that he woul,
be interviewed on this subject so tha
he could have prepared a statement o
his views more satisfactory TO himself,
but the reporter is satisfied with what
he got and presumes that the readers OF
the REGISTER will be also.