The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1896-10-21

governmental control of the country.
They will not do it. There are
many fools in the United States, but
they are not yet in majority.
When you &C to your coal Office and
order your coal; when you go down
into your pocket and pay two prices
for one of the absolute necessities of
life, console yourself with the thought
that a good share of your hard-earned
money will be added TO Mr. Hobart's
bank account. and that Mr.. Hobart is
candidate for the second highest Of
fee in the gift of the American people.
And then go home and sit down and
think.
The most vicious goldbug paper in
Chicago is the Evening Post. In "A mo-
ment of thoughtlessness it printed the
truth about the coal trust. Here are
some extracts from the Evening Post
of October 5:
Hard coal may be eight or nine dol
lars ton before the winter is over.
And should the anthracite coal trust
really decide that it needs the money,
then will the dear public be obliged to
pay ten dollars a ton for its winter fuel.
Beyond this figure it is hardly DOS
siblc that even the despotic coal trust
will dare to experiment with public pa.
thence, at least not for a year OF so;
that is to say, until the public back
has become sufficiently bent to the bur
den to warrant the risk of a dollar
or two more added without including
the proverbial last straw But for
the present the public must perforce
dance to the tune that the coal trust
wishes to hear and must pay the piper
into the bargain.
Like all other trusts the coal com
bine declares itself not to be a trust,
1t never heard the word trust men,
toned, at least so it would appear from
the men who do its bidding in this CITY.
And as far as Illinois laws are con-
cerncd, the coal trust would have the
dear public believe that its identity is
as visionary as that of the man in the
moon. The mere mention of legal pro-
ceedings will cause the trust to vanish
into thin air like a will-o'-the-wisp.
Should it happen that process of law
threatens to bring about a disruption
of the illegal combine the combine it.
self flies to the law for protection.
Through the jugglery of bankruptcy
court the trust manages to shed its
skin, snake-fashioned, emerging from
the hands of q law-appointed receiver
more vigo Gus and more. vicious.
Despite the trusts facility for Slip
ping through the meshes of the civil
and criminal law, another effort will
shortly be made to cripple its powers
for evil, at least SO far as the state of
Illinois and the city of Chicago are
concerned. The trust is composed of
small body of men in New York
whose>will is law so far as the price of
hard coal is concerned. These men
control every coal producing and coal
carrying concern in the state of Penn
sylvania. At their bidding the output
Of every anthracite coal mine in the
country may be reduced one-half and
every coal miner put on half pay.
Whether the public shall pay five or ten
dollars ton for its coal depends abso-
lutely on the within of these coal kings.
To bring legal proceedings against this
ring would be as futile as trying to stop
the ocean by injunction"
A vote for Mckinley and Hobart is
q vote for coal at ten dollars a ton.