Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — Why he Wants Free Coal. [ARTICLE]

Why he Wants Free Coal.

The American Economist asserts boldly that President Cleveland urges free coal for the one so’e purpose of benefitting his ex-Sec-retary of the Treasury, Mr. Wm. C. Whitney, and the coal combination with which he is associated, to "develope the coal mines - of Novia Scotia. It refers to an official document published less than a year ago, with the sanction of President Cleveland—the last annual report of the United States Geological Survey, dated September 30, 1893—for the following' confirmation: It may be noted as a fact of some interest that the imports of coal (at Boston) from Novia Scotia, never large, have fallen off steadily, until last year there was practically none received at this point. Now, however, that the Cape Breton county coal fields have passed into the hands of Mr. Wm. C. Whitney and his associates, new and improved machinery will be employed, both increasing the output and reducing the cost of mining per ton over the primitive methods hitherto Employed, and it is expected that, as a result more of this coal will eventually find its way into this market in competition with the product from Pennsylvania mines.