The Sunday Telegraph.
No; coal consumers should not look
for any new account in which to
charge up any portion of the cost of
coal. What this essential article of
fuel costs over the expense of mining
and reasonable freight rates and profits
to dealers, should rightly be charged
t the same old loss account (tie re
Htrictive tariff. Hon. Win. L. Scott,
who is probably the great st individ
ual coal owner and miner in the world,
declared that to put coal on the free
list would doubtless make a difference
to him of $50,000 a year. Rut to the
credit of Mr. Scott let, il he said, that
he does not maintain that the tariff
tax should he continued; hut on the
C uitrary says: “1 consider il an out
rage to enhance by taxation the cost of
such an essential article of fuel to the
people of any seel ton of the country
for the profit of a limited number of
people living in some other section."
If the beneficiary of the tariff is free
to acknowledge the injustice of the
spoliation system, surely the men
who foot the lulls ought not to be
so blind as to be unable to under
stand where their money goes. The
tariff is the great cause of hard times
and a block in the way of future pros
perity.
