The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-05
Notes ana Opinions.

Mr.. Bryan Is very much troubled about
''the Republican tariff dilemma" 1t il
not a.thousandth part as serious as the
dilemma which confronted the country Il
few years ago when Mr.. Bryan's party
was in power. The mills were closed,
millions Of men were looking for employ
ment which they failed to find, business
was Frustrated and the government couldn't
get money enough, from the tariff or any
other source, to pay its expenses without
selling bonds. Camden Post Telegram.
Three million men out of work dur.
ing the last Democratic administration, ;
says Mr.. Gompers. Yet some people sigh
for the good old times" of Democracy
Surely the recollection, like Banquo's
ghost, comes back to haunt every Demo
cratic feast. Two hundred millions sur
plus, the gold reserve intact. all approved
bills paid and no bonds to sell is our pc
sition to-day. During 1892-1S96 the
light Cor darkness) of other days." Mr.
Cleveland was securing Wall street fol-
bond buyers to pay current bills Gender
Post Telegram.
Iowa is the greatest state in farm pro
ducts, with an annual total of 1866. 900
600, Illinois standing second, with $345, 900.
900. But Illinois 10 first In the value oi
its farms. which is $2,6O4, 0OO, 600, lows
ranking second. with farms valued O.,
81 1884. 600, 900.
Missouri is the sixth state in the value
of its farms, and sixth also in the value Of
farm products. The farms of this state
are valued at 81. 0SS, 900. 900, and the an
nual farm products at $219, Zoo, 900. These
figures are from the latest United States
census reports.
From the weekly coal strike statistics
1t appears that the general loss for the
period Of suspension is 500, 600, 900. OF
which $27. 600 900 is set down as 'loss to
operators.
The trouble with these strike figures is
that they do not show the principal loss
the publie's-and they make no reckoning
of its resultant gain. This one large and
lone item of gain, that of the operators, IL
it could be accurately reckoned, would
much more than offset the apparent los,
by non production-how much more none
can tell.
But that the mine owners are gamers
hv tho sfr;ka 20 apnoraDf 70 oil ~. a. .
strikers That the public is heavier
loser than all the losers by the strike put
together also is fact which requires no
detailed statistics to support it.
And now we have anthracite, consider
able quantities of which are said to hav,.
been boarded by the operators against thu.
time when consumers would demand it 1t
any price. put up in New York city on
Saturday to SO ton from IS ton on Fri
day, rise which was accompanied by thu.
cheerful warning that some day soon it
would be followed by another rise to $40,
and perhaps higher.
When it is remembered that before the
strike it was 81. 20 a ton, and that since
then many millions Of tons-how much OF
the total annual anthracite output OF
about 80, OOO. 600 tons no one can tell
have been sold at all prices from $3.50 to
50, the added profits of the operators can
be guessed at
At an average profit of $3.50 a ton the
added profits in addition to the norma /
profits on only one-sixth of years out
put, which is 10000, 900 tons, would be
$50, 0O0,0 900. And it is safe to say none of
the increased profits goes to the retailer,
but into the Golfers of the coal trust
--Neao York Press