Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — Duty on Coal. TARIFF BATES ON COAL IMPOSED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES. [ARTICLE]

Duty on Coal. TARIFF BATES ON COAL IMPOSED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

Free Entry. Dutiable. Per Ton. Great Britain Denmark so cents. Austro -H'ngary France 23 cents. Belgium Portugal 36 oents. Germany Coke 40 cents. Italy Spain 39 cents. Greece Switzerland... 38 cents. Norway 8. Africa. 48 cents. Sweden New F’ndl'd... 30 cents. Bahamas Barbadoes 60 cents. Jamaica Leward Isles.. 60 cents. Windward Tsles'Trinidad 48 cents. Brit. Honduras French W. L.. 29 cents. N. S. Wales Oueensland... 48 cents. N. Zealand Tasmania 24 cents. So. Australia Canada Canada Bituminous. 60 cents. (Anthracite) Coke 60 cents. Dust 20 pr. a ad val

It appears, therefore, that our impost tax of 75 cents per ton on biutminous coal is exceeded only by the little kingdom of Denmark, which assesses 80 cents per ton on tariff tax. Fifteen countries of Europe and the Pacific put us to shame by placing all coals upon the free list; and particularly striking is this fact, when we contemplate it, that in the production of bituminous coal, the United States stands first, having mined during 1892, 110,000,000 tons; of anthracite, 48,000,000; thus making a total production of fuel in this country last year of 158,000,000 tons. New England and the Northwest ask for ftee coal. Accessible to our section of the country are the great deposits of bituminous fuel in Nova Scotia, and to the northwest are the coal fields of British Columbia. —T. Aubrey Byrne, in American Industries.