Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Coal Is Protected 75 Cents Per Ton. [ARTICLE]

Coal Is Protected 75 Cents Per Ton.

Should coal be discovered opposite Detroit or Buffalo in such vast quantities that it could be furnished to manufacturers for 3 cents per bushel, the owners of coal mines in the

United States would ask, doubtless, for an artificial obstacle (there being no natural one) between these cities, .and this great store of wealth, sufficient to prevent its being used. But how ridiculous such an enactment would appear to common sense and to a business instinct The establishment of such an obstacle would seem to exhibit an intelligence no greater than would the passage of a law prohibiting the introduction of the light of the sun into dwellings, that our electric plants might extend their Held of operations; or. of a law prohibiting the importation of tropical fruits, that the hot-house gardeners might cater to a larger trade.—T. M. Gilmore, in St. Louis Courier.