The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-09-24
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


furnished that local head, he presumes we
are obligated to supply him with brains. While
saying this, we must give the Enterprise the
credit which it we'll deserves. 1t is live demo.
cratic paper, full of news and lively reading
and its editor gets off such pointed squibs as
these:
Neither Grant nor any of his cabinet were
present at the funeral OF Admiral Farragut.
Grant avoids melancholy scenes. He did not
see the French Minister, Paradel buried. He
did not reach the death-bed of his faithful friend
and War Minister, General Rawlins who ex.
pressed the strongest wish to see hin, before he
died. Long Branch festivities and New Eng
land clam-bakes are too fascinating for the great
smoker.
The "girl of the period" differs according to
latitude. In Newport she is eleven years old,
drives President Grant out in her basket-phae-
ton, under blue and salmon canopy, and ham
dies the silken ribbons behing hedashing double
team with all the ease and dexterity of Jehu.
In Arkansas she is thirteen years old, shoeess,
bonnetless, stockngless, and the Sheriff is after
her for stealing horse The girl.of.the-period
ought to come to full stop.
One of the first citizens of ST. Louis has Just
been prosecuted by the police court, for repri-
manding his wife SO she couldn't sit u D for three
weeks. 1t is strange that women will so con.
duct themselves as to make such correction ne.
cessary,
Three COWS IN Troy, N. Y, have recently met
with an untimely death. They objected to be-
ing MIXED, and the dame commissioned for that
service undertook to them with club.
They resisted her destinations to the bitter
end, and persisted before the last argument was
reached
The Enterprise is one of tho best of our ex-
changes.
A San Francisco paper says that Cat got in
to George Francis Trains bedroom and tried to
suck his breath, "not knowing who he was"
It was the last Of that cat. 1t died-blown up
with wind like balloon; and Train didn't miss
it at all.
The Macomb Eage, by all odds the spiciest
and {vcliast of our many exchanges, says, very
seriously, this:
We have q surplus of Two hundred and sixty
nine dogs and seven hundred cats in this city.
Its dog-gcned bad about these cats-dont it.
Horace Greeley prints the New York Tribune,
containing its high protective tariff articles, on
paper imported from Belgium, because it is
cheaper by two cents per pound than that which
Is manufactured in the United States.
Greeley Is protective tariff republican, and
would buy his paper in America if the tariff
were a little higher. A movement will be made
in the next session of congress to make the tariff
few dollars higher to the monopolists. The
extract above is from dying radical paper, in
order to get larger protection for monopolies.
The Iowa democrats are sound. Hear them {:
The Iowa democrats are generally sound,
maintaining themselves uneontaminated from
the corruption that surrounds them. At the
late state convention at the city OF Des Mones,
they passed the following resolutions:
Res0lced, That we are in favor Of such dis.
position Of our public lands as will secure their
occupation by actual settlers, and prevent their
absorption by mammoth monopol,os.
RtDlred, That We assert the right of the peo.
pie, by Legislative enactment, to regulate and
control all monied corporations upon which ex.
traordinary rights are conferred by charter.
And now read this:
The republican party has its head in NeW
England, and its tail beyond the Alleghsniss,
(saysl the Marietta Ohio, Times, and he 10 cor.
rect. Read the following -
1t is well to understand, first as Last, that the
republican party is essentially New England
party; and by that we mean New England
manufacturers monopoly. The head is there,
and only the tail is beyond the AlleghAaies.
The tail but moves in response TO the head. II
we would kill the tariff destructive system. It il
the republican party which must be struck at.
1t must be fought. 1t must be voted out of
power, and with that only the monopoly will
die. Until this is done, the East will continue
to riot in the distress and suffering of the sec.
lions that pay tribute to it. Half Of the money
spent by the Free Trade League OF New York,
in its efforts to enlighten the people ON this sub
ject if used in the last elections for the advance.
ment OF the democratic party, would have accom-.
plished the object Who can imagine, without
smile of derision, the popular folly Of such states
as Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wis.
consin, whose interests are for free trade, sup
porting the New England high tariff republican
party, which they have done for many yearsp
Dan Rice's paper says:
DR.. Mary Walkers new book is called Ill.,
Wed rather be hit with u club than compelled
to read it.
1t is said that Rev. John s. c. Abbott ia near.
iy wild from apprehenslons that the world will
hold him personally responsible for the Ma
poleonic disasters
An exchange, the Wilmington independent
very kindly says:
The fair at Ottawa was a great success There
was an immense attendance, and magnificent
display of horses, cattle, hogs, and farming i'm.
p!emcnts.
Canada is to have new prison, exclusively
for female convicts.
Certainly. Well go there