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I venture first to offer the consolation that even if the strike sanda up, and pers manently, the price of coal, we shall manage to adjust ourselves to the calamity, redeem it, and, finally, profit by it. Now, I subscribe to no auch Escal heresy as that duarnes in in. Itself, a desirable attribute of any commodity-excent, perhaps, sweet alampagne. It was once said. (in the slementary stage of a controvery that survivos merely to show the longevity of beresien) that bread was tjoulously cheap
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and that poor people would appreciate if giant trades have already shown their it more if it were taxed the proof of respect for the reas of coal by adopting which proposition lay in the notorious ciro regenerative furnace, and I do not know, in how many millions of shipping" cumstanco that, at diaper-partion, go stikl who do not quite know what next to manage the Howden fumed draught cons to their neighbours crumble it "between But in the minor Industries and our omises this most priceless gift of nature.
the courses. But it is no more desirable
own daestio hokiths the waste in no that goal should be a shiling an buntesterly Indefensible that even the mics. than that wheat should be a shilling a
orthodox economical doctrine would be quater desrer than it need be. There is listed by any development that not however, this difference between wheat higher value upon the priceless carbon. and cool, between the staff of life and the And one result of the coal strike may life-giver of all our modern civilisation be that our domestic open firew will have to that heat from now onwards till the go, and that architects will begin to provide exhaustion of Mother Earth, may be for a central system of heating for any produced we long as men sow it, bab for house, above a cottage, and that our fire coal there is no seed-time and harvest, but grates will be retained only for the lezhry only the harvest. And we are & Bow of decorative log-fire. Another reelt may ping, in civilisation, the harvest sind be a stimulas, not only to our inventiva was sown for and in myriade of ages ago, capacity, but to the rendines with which at a stage in Mother Eartka svelation ; we shall be propared to listen to the maven- when civilisation could no more have been tois who have already devised wonderful predicted than the human coitmit. Andre, installstime for obal-laying, but who ad when I speak of the consolation et amse in dress dull eat cause, tallacionaly, it the price of cont as the result of a cational secus cheaper to throw much coal on firs strike, and suggest that bane and antidote furnace freely, than to instal some systema will here be found growing together, I am by which loss will have to be thrown.
And, looking ahead to posterity, our coa! supplies may be conserved a century or two
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Her Majeur's Honourable Comission the coal trade is unique in all so in Thousands of unknzenchable tech dustry-oris "the life-blood of the nation." gue if coal is made dear. The scientiat meniska fien all parte of the Work, and it The Times insists on that original thought say that that is a desirable thing to --from the highest Medical Authorities, Nai
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it be only a mineral, like granite, get the only that which we know that there are only difference between the side and the carbon two hydrocarbons that will do what coul is immeasurable. And if the coalstarike forces will do one is coal itself, and in the un to treasure anal, instead of oynadering, aitervalírg, as the layers say, wo plead nil.. it-well, tant mieux. A Bas been remark. Yet oil is not as widely distributed as coul ed, nowadaya we, know the price of every- and even if fresh oilfields be discovered, up thing and the value of nothing. The will go the price of oil lon, if it enters into difference between “price” “azd 15 valné " i competition with mal, and no one, wo a really at the bottom of the consulation I
know, can over, strike oil within our own draw from the
probability that the cost strike will permanently advance the price.
For then we shall value it, and therefore we shall waste it; and therefore I can vindicata even the most rigid orthodoxy o economics by pointing out time, even if this enhanced price of coal be not a direct economic blessing, it will, at any a entail a substantial economie consolatiui, for wale of anything is obviously buil earnomy.
shores. Then there are others who say, Oh, slectricity will do the trick! Mar vallone thing, electricity and accompany their optimiam with a vague gastare. Bat electricity is not an element. It is only feria of energy, purchased at two remarr from coal first, there is the heat energy obtained from coal in the holler,
henee mechanical energy is obtained in the tra bise, and thence electrical energy is obtained in thedynamo, Bat King Conldoes itall. And there is the optimist who hopes that science máy some day harness the tides on enlist
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And, as things are, we do waste col terrifically. Every belching factory chimney the sun in our industrial ranks. Bat attests our prodigal recklessness for sciencs can hold out as hope for the visible smoke is made up of carton in the realisation of that unscientific optimis.before King Edward VII Kamer With Tig atomic state, and smoke is not merely un.Then me new form of energy will be cousuined fuel, bat a noxious atmospheric discovered."—It may be, but that is like alien. Indeed, we may perhaps go so far hoping that some new continent may one as to ky that if the miners obtain their day arise from the azure main: to relieve minimum wage it may almost he accounted overcrowded earth. And you may even for in a winter's urban fogs. And that is approach the optimism which suggests that practical point. Prosts will not allow an huc coal goen we shall simply have to all-mound minimum wage, say the mine use poke" ownery. I do not prejudge the issöz, but
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If that wage be granted than one possible atmosphere of our earth wa putlet for the economic pressure within bath, & its vegetation the industry itself is an increase in prices.zampant growing swiftly out And then wa shult begin to ravers coal or
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la helpless subjecta- diffused in the atmosphere. Chir dinner fascinating thought, if trite, that the services and our dainty, tex-cups are all earth and steamysis of untold produced as the cost of a fightful and perfectly warcientific waste of a precious thing noh, the black cloud that muta even the burgeonings of spring in that neighbourhood is all due to tãe fact that the Statlordshire potters do not aleely between the price and tum i of combie: But if and
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