The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-08-28
IT WANTS FREE COAL.
THE NOVA SCOTIA SYNDICATE WOULD
BE BENEFITED.

So Would the Democratic Members of the
Canadian Coal Trust Senator German
Casts Light on the Subjective Sugar
| Schedule.
Thanks to Senator German Demo
craft, from Maryland, for what might
be considered as a most notable revela-
ton concerning great party movement
in the interest of any one article Of
commerce and trade ever known in the
history Of our country. After showing
that the proposed duty on coal was
revenue duty, and as such the Demo
Gratis had right to stand by it, Senator
German asked the all important ques-
ton, Who wants free coal? He pointed
out that 1t would not benefit man,
woman, child or beast west of the Ohio
and south Of the Potomac. If 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 It, Therefore it ia
said that it will reduce the cost Of
manufacturing. Practically it would
not reduce yard of calico or ton Of
iron. It might and would perhaps bene-
fit 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 it would give any
special benefit AS we have gone ON
with the 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 the
precious metals, have changed all the
conditions which existed 90 years ago.
In Nova Scotia there is 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
it, and until five years ago no man could
dig it without paying 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 nc
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
Five years ago, think it was, OF
four years ago, the Canadian govern
ment was induced to change its policy.
They wiped out, 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 IL cents a
ton as royalty on all the coal which they
removed This company, with that priv
ilege, ran for the first time 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-
vania we are nearer to it, the
Canadians said. we can deliver coal
there and drive the Americans out Of
their own territory Give us free coal,
and we will sweep this American indus
try from New England. If you do,
you will place in the Canadian treasury
money which ought to go into the Amer
lean treasury. You were thus asked to
permit the greatest combination of Its
kind to enter the United States. God
knows we have trusts enough to deal
with nowl I shall never agree that
foreign trust shall enter our territory
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:
TWO POWERFUL TRUSTS WORKING UNDER
THE PRESIDENTS PROTECTION.
I'M L.
singular attitude toward the bill, and
his friends among the tariff reformers
In congress are wondering what it
means He seems anxious that the sugar
schedule should not be interfered with,
and that coal should go on the free list
This bears out the theory that has pre-
vailed so long that the sugar schedule as
prepared by Mr.. Carlisle was the result
of bargain made with the trust dur
ing the last campaign, and that the
president will not stand in the way of
it's fulfllment His anxiety to see coal
on the free list is not unnatural, for
Secretary Lamont, ex-Secretary Whit
ney and his intimate friend, John r..
| Russell, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor Of Massachusetts last fall, are the
principal owners Of the Nova Scotia
mines, which would be able to dump
all of their produce into New England
at profitable prices were it not for the
duty ON coal.
Those mines were purchased by Whit
ney, Lamont & Co. through Mr.. Charles
e. Bell, a banker of Chicago. who, by
the way, is brother of the inventor of
the telephone and, like him, a son-in-
law of Gardiner q. Hubbard. Bell got
them an option on the property until
after the elections in November, 1899,
and when it was found that the house
had 20 or 80 Democratic majority they
regarded it as absolutely certain that
coal would go ON the free list and
bought the mines.
Mr.. Russell is here looking after the
interest of the company before the CON
ference committee and goes over to the
White House to smoke a cigar with the
president nearly every evening. But he
has very little hope of winning his fight,
for MIR. German, Mr.. Gibson and Mr..
Camden own ooalfelds in West Vir
ginia, Mr.. Brice has large mines in Ten
nessee and a number of other senators
are equally we'll interested. They have
votes, and he has not.
TWO SIGNIFICANT FACTS