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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19
Tari6 Swindling.

The cunning and igenuity of the London
thieves 10 worlds marvel, but they are chill.
dren in the business compared to the thieves
who rob the people of this country through
the device known as the tariff. Of late the
newspaper apologists of our radical con.
gress, who have devised and legalized this
system of plumber, have been parading a
lst of 81 articles from which the duties were
removed at the last session, and by which
$S2,oOO,O0O of tariff taxation have been cut
OIL "See what a saving this is to the tax
payers J" exclaim these apologlsts.
Now an examination of this list of ninety.
two articles discloses the fact that about all of
them are articles that cannot be used without
being frst subjected to manufacturing pro.
cess, and that the removal of the duties there.
fore accrue wholly to the benefit of the man.
ufscturer. For example, all bitter banks are
now free of duty, yet quinine bears tariff
duty Of A per cent. The effect il to hand
over to manufacturers Of this article lust one.
half its value as marketable comm d,ty. and
as much more as they can yet. This free list
takes $6l3, 900 from duty on gums, and leaves
varnishes with duty from 40 to Sc per cent,
whereby this sum goes to manufacturers.
The prices OF these articles, quiniue and var.
nish. have not tales Had the duty been re.
moved from them, and not from banks and
gums Of which they are made, foreign com.
petition would have brought down the price
and thus the people resped some benefit. AS
it is. they are but examples of system where.
ny taxes are reduced to the government, aud
handed over to the manufacturers who thus
p"nder the people. The people pay less tax
I" the government, but pay more "protectlon"
m""ey to mOnopOsts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19

i 4. 49,. 49,
Tne National Labor onion Congress at 81
Louis adjourned on Friday of last week after
. session Of four days. Previous to adjourn.
ment the Union elected officers for the ensu-
ing year a. follows: .As
Prssident-RF F. Trevellick, of Mich.
Y. Presidents-H. M. Day, of N. York.
Mrs. Willard, of Chicago.
A resolution was adopted in favor of hold
ing national workingmen's convention at
Columbus, Ohio, in October or February next,
to nominate candidates for President and
Vice President of the United States.
The congress then adjourned to meet on the
I'd Tuesday of September next at Nashville.
Tenn.
The platform adopted consists of about a
dozen planks, which may be briefly epito-
missed as follows: That the laboring masses
are suffering from monetary system adopted
during the war, which was designed in the
interest of capitalists that "the rate of inter.
est is the covering power in the distribution
ofthe products of industry" and that the
present rates "are in disproportion to the in
crease OF the national wealth :" that the ma.
tional banking system should be repealed :;
the national bank currency and the present
issue of greenbacks should be withdrawn and
in lieu OF them currency issued by the gov
eminent made legal tender in all cases, and
convertible at the pleasure of the holder into
government bonds bearing 8 per cent interest,
and the bonds in like manner convertible at
all times into legal tender notes that the re-
demption of the $40 bonds in gold, when by
the contract they were to be redeemed in
greenbacks, Is dishonest and extortionate :;
that the exemption ofgovernment bonds from
taxation is violation of all first principles of
revenue laws tina THE tariff should be SO modi.
fed as to admit the necessaries of life free of
tax, encourage the building of manufactures
and give employment to laborers at good
wages, and do away with the present odlous
internal revenue system; this resolution is
rather muddy j that the hour system should
be adopted that the importation of Chinese
labor ID an evil and should be prevented by
legislation that there should be new de-
partment in our government at Washington
called the Department of Labor; that the
public lands should be disposed of for actual
settlement only; that the powers of the gov
eminent should be SO exercised over telegraph
lines and railroad companies "that the actual
capital honestly invested therein shall in no
case realize exceeding 6 per cent per annum
upon the amount so invested"
The platform, as thus epitomized, the
reader Of common intelligence, we imagine,
is prepared to admit, shows that while this
workingmen's movement may have solid
bottom, the superstructure attempted to be
erected thereon is made up of such crude and
fantastic odds and ends, and the architects
are so wild and visionary, that it must take
much time and patient, plodding wisdom to
lick the thing into practical shape.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19

Batavia refuses to issue the bonds IL subscribed
to the Ottawa, Oswego and F. r. Y. r. r. on the
ground that the road 10 net what its contractors
agreed it should be. an independent aud oompe.
ting line, but has been sold to the Burlington
road. The bonds voted we.e 100000, and we're
to be handed over on the completion Of the road.
The banker in Aurora who has the bonds in
custody has been snjoined against delivering
them up
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19

The Grant-W Yarmouth quarrel in Lou;s;au.
mas been attended by some rather notable in.
cldents. \ party convention was calIsd
whlch was to decide whether Yarmouth mr.
Dunn (who stands for Grant, should hence.
forth boss the loyal party" in that state. The
contest was so close throughout the parishes
that it was doubtful which faction had most
OF the delegates. But the Grant faction had
away I" dispose OF this uncertainty that War.
mouth had not dreamed of. When the dele.
Saees met, the leader of the Grant faction
one fackard-was provided with a COMPANY
OF L. ). soldiers whom he placed at the door
OF the hall where the convention was to meet.
ana VINO kept out all who had not admission
uckets from said Packard. Thus there vss
no trouble found in packing the convention
III 'he interest OF Grant, no matter what the
majority the delegates elected to the con.
vention thought about it.
But wasn't this & pretty business for the
T. D army to be employed in Docile door
keepers OF poi,lca! convention, puruiny Il
OF delegates h"sticto Emperor Grant "A, tn.
point OF the hayonc,
Even Gov Yarmouth liG,eI. was r.r,,s.a
admission, and lac and his followers wen, D.,
another hall and held their a,py.n,;,, m.
spit IN the party has Tins ps,,seJ IN. lin;, oy
reconciliation
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, AUGUST -. 1871.
Presidential Prognostications.

x10o100uI21 1IO8uOUCC1t1000s
The New York Herald publishes . column
Of conjectures relating to the next presidential
election. 1t gives, as its premises, the follow
ing tables of democratic, Republican, and
Doubtful States. The States marked to the
Democracy are those which have been carried
by that party at the last elections:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-08-19

For good Phsston for physician, 60 to w.
q. Budd's.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

HOTEL THIEVES ARRESTED three
o'clock Tuesday morning Mr.. John R. Hitch
cock landlord OF the Alpine House at Gorham,
N. H., lodging at the fremont House, Boston,
was somewhat startled by the sudden appear
ance of stranger in his room. The stranger
left very suddenly on being discovered, but
Mr.. Hitchcock raised an alarm, and Sergeant
White and Officer Houghton of the Second
Police, who were near at hand entered the
house and found two very innocent-appearing
men, named. John D. Hill and Charles p,
Young, lying in bed, feigning sleep; but I'M
fortunately for Hill, he had either neglected or
forgotten to take off his pants before getting
into bed. The two were soon reused up and
allowed ample time to properly adjust their
was identified by Mr. Hitchcock as tho indi-
vidual whom he discovered in his room. Hill
and Young were secured, and on investig ation
it was found that they had stolen gold watch
and chain, valued at 1887, belonging to Mr.
Hitchcock, and another watch and chain, val
ued at $175, belonging to Mr.. Ira FOss, of
Ssco, Me. The officers made thorough
search, and in Beacon street, directly under
meath the window of Mr.. Hitchcock's room,
they found stocking containing Mr.. Hitch
cock s watch and pocket-book. with the cry stall
of the watch broken. The stocking referred to
was found to be OF precisely the same quality
and pattern with others found in Hills va.ise
and on his feet Mr.. Foss's watch has not yet
been recovered. Hill registered his name at
the hotel, and without the knowledge of the
clerk took Young to bis room, and effected an
entrance into Mr.. Hitchcock's room by climb
ing through the ventiator over the door,
which Mr. Hitchcock bolted on retiring, but
which was unbolted when he discovered the
thief in his room. The rascals were held for
examination-B0stOn Advertiser
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20
Digging their Own Graves.

Under the above caption the New York
Evening Post" good Democratic authority"
has the following truthful remarks:
What is the use of the Democratic> polite
ians thinking of the next Presidential election
DO they Imagine that the American people
will put into power party which has been
an unmitigated nuisance, a breeder OF disorder,
corrupter OF public virtue, the debaucher OF
politics, the friend of every wrong and CD.
preston, the formenter of violence and REBEL
ion, for more than dozen years-do they be-
lieve that the people will put such party in
power, unless 1t first shows, by unmistakable
evidence. that it has a firmer purpose than
Falsiaf had, TO "purge and live cleanly?'
The democratic party supported slavery
and was beaten. 1t countenanced rebellion
and was beaten. 1t set up a peace-at any
price platorm-and was beaten. 1t advocated
repudation-and was beaten. II opposed
equal laws and general suffrage-and was beat
en-. And BOW it is marching on TO the next
Presidential election at the head of numerous
bands OF Ku-Klux, northern and southern
gangs who set both law and decency at def
ance; who rob where they do not kill; who
cheat where they cannot rob; men whose acts
threaten the whole land with anarchy; and
they have amongst them scarcely single lead
er with brains or conscience enough to re-
buke violence and lawlessness, or condemn
public plumber.
Those democratic leaders who hope to car
ny the next Presidential election, and imag-
inc themselves fit to rule the country, do not
even comprehend the duty of minority
They seem to be mere partisans, not politi-
clans in any higher sense than that in which
sutler might call himself defender of his
country. 1t is the duty OF a minority which
hopes to become the majority, to show an ex-
ample OF obedience to tue laws, and respect
for the rights oil Others; 10 make manifest,
wherever it has the opportunity, that it pos
heads the principles OF tree government; that
it knows how tn rule. and how to keen in sub
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

The U. s. frigade Tennessee went out OF
Commission at the Brooklyn on Tuesday.
Over one hundred Of the crew have deserted
since the vessels arrival, twenty sometimes
leaving in single squad.
The city physician of Lowell says the reports
OF the prevalence OF small pox in that city have
has been but fifty cases and eight deaths, and
only few cases now exist.
An old negro made application at one of the
public buildings in Washington, q short tune
since, for something to eat, and claimed that
he had right to come there for victuals. The
head OF the depar tment was called in, who
asked the darkey upon what right he based
his claims. Why" said the sable representa-
tive OF the fifteenth amendment II under stan
dar's provisions in de Constitution for de color
ed folks, and haunt had de filst crunab."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20
RNliiIcal N0tcA.

Father Purcell of the Catholic church of
Pittsheld, Mass, on recent Sabbath read
the names of certain Democratic candidates
for Office from the altar, and advised the
members of his congregation to give that tick
ct their support The Democrats will proba-
bly, withdraw their objection to the introd nc
ton OF politics into the pulpit.
Governor Fairchd of Wisconsin, in making
up the estate board of charities and reform. ,,
has appointed Mrs. Mary E. Lynde of Mil
waukee one of the members. This is the first
time in the history OF the State that woman
has been made thus conspicuous by an execu-
tive al pointment.
The Democrats of New Hampshire, elaied
by the prospect of tasting the loaves and
fishes after an abstinence of sixteen wears
have marked out a most unwarapted method
for securing further plumber. A consultation
meeting was held at Concord on Monday
evening, of Democrats and Labor Reformers.
at which it was decided that they were not
bound any longer by the constitutional pro-
vision to select from the two highest candi-
"tN'NS DS'oAS ehO PCoPiS tuC ouCCcSSOF Oh DldJe
Senator Thrasher, deceased. They argued
that an election having been effected by the
people and the place made vacant by death
they are at liberty 10 select candidate from
any portion of the district and present his
name to the Senate. They further contend
that il is not necessary that the Senate should
organize before it meets the House in Con-
vention, to all Senatorial vacancies. The
time for filling such vacancies was not pre-
scribed, and no one could deny that the two
Houses bad the right to fill The vacancy in
the first district at the opening OF the session,
and to postpone action in the Claremont dis
trict until near the close of the session. In
that way, said the speaker, they would elect
Hon. Daniel Marcy in the first district, which
would make the Senate stand six Democrats
and five Republicans. Then the Senate could
organize, which it must do before il meets the
House in convention to choase a governor,
There was general counting of noses and it
was lntimated that help could be obtained
from the Republican side to carry out their
policy OF subvertlng the interests of the peo-
pie.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

The conference between the coal opera'oi'
and coal miners at Mauch Chunk rA' on
Tuesday was unsuccessful.
The first fleet of vessels for the season mas
arrived at Quebec.
On "Wednesday the Government p"'onu
So 900 900 of bonds in New \ orK AZ from iio'4o
to IN, TO- The offerings were $6,5OO,OO0.
Tbe snecie shipments from New York on
Wednesday were 81 100000.
The conscience fund of the United States
treasury was increased $500 yesterday by re-
mittance from Greenfield, Mass.
The difficulties between the boot and shoe
manufacturers and the Crispins of Baltimore
have been arranged and the strike is ended
the employers withdrawing their objections to
the female operatives for forming society but
reserving entire control over the fitting depart
ments.
The recent trouble at Rockville Centre, l..
l., between Rev. Mr. Kelsey, of the Methodist
Church, and his con sregation, culmiaated IN
riot on Tuesday The sheriff arrested NIFTY oil
the rioters. The possession of the parsonage
| is the cause of the present trouble.
The fifth annual meeting of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters was held in New
York Wednesday, Henry A. Oakley presiding.
The President, in his address. gave gloomy
view of the condition of fire insurance compa.
MES in general the losses amounting to an ex.
cessive proportion Of the risks to their premi
ums received, owing to the improper risk!
taken, the insufficient rates obtained and thu
hasty adjustments made, thereby encouraging
illegal claims The Presidents and Executiv,
Committees reports were referred to com
mittes of five, With view to reorganization
of the Board.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20
DIR. CURTIS ON "MANHOOD., ,,

Medical Essay on the cause and cure OF Prema-
ture Decline, Nervous and steal Debility Sperma-
torrh9a, Sedentary Life, Excess, Overtaxed Const-
tuition, Abuses of the System, &c, &c 1t gives clear
synopsis OF the impedimenIs to M Iriage, and the
remdeies thereor-the results CT 20 years successu
'Cnrtis on Manhood" should be read by the youhs
for its instruction, and by the ahcted as : g.
relief. 1t will injure no one'-nea'e"' A""''
zetfe. ,o,, This hook
There is no member Of society by whom taS nrs
will NOT be found useful, whether ne DC PARENT P'e
cantor or clersyman-London Times.
Tremont PISee' Boston, Mass. mrssneodly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

WlnanH, the EfctIuemt NAuAeFs
A few days ago John Smith was name
awakening as much interest as that of Orange
S. Winans. But suddenly the owner of the
name last mentioned finds himself an Ameri-
can Warwick, and is held responsible for the
fate of political dynasties. Gen. Monk ie-
stored the Stualts, and Winans, if we are 10
trust the representations OF some po'i''"'
seers, is to restore the Democrats
The way Winans accomplishes the unhappy
niece of work is this. Tweed's bills 10 repea
the registry law $50 that there may be no OBJ
stacle to fraudulent voting) to change the law
relstipeto the State election $50 that no U. S.
law may be OF any avail to prevent fraud) and
to levy tax of two per cent. $50 that there
may be abundant means for corrupting voters
drawn from the pockets of the voters them
selves) are so nicely calculated to hold the
state for Tammany and Erie that there is
SAID to be not one chance in hundred that
the Republicans can redeem 1t from those
Phillstines. New York, then, say these Pc
htcal soothsayers, must be counted as sure
ly against Grant in 1872 on account OF the
miraculous conversion of Wnans; for With
out him, or some other Judas, Tweed could
not put through his bills for insurlng the sue
cess of fraud Furthermore. say our author
tiles, New York beng against Grant, his de-
feat is certain, and the Republicans having
held the reins of government for three terms
must surrender then to another line of Stu
tile" Tylers, Folks, Pierces and Buchanans
So that Winans ought, as it appears to us, be
given place in the historical annals of these
times with the lamented Gen. Prim who
made King of Spain, and with Bismarck,
who has just made a new Emperor of Ger
many out of an old King of Prussia. We look
TO see Wlnans made count at least-per-
haps Duke OF Tammany and Prince of Erie
1t is perhaps worth while to state that
much redulity is expressed in some quar-
tiers as to the sincerity of Senator FentOn's re-
pudiation of Winans and his works and os-
tentatous disclaimer of any agency i'm his in
stantaneovs transmutatOn into a slave of the
Ring. That Senator, as is well known, owes
his election to the position he now holds to
the Erie influence. The very gravest charges
Of corruption have been made against him,
with all the specifications necessary to enable
him to meet and refute them, if untrue, and
to convict their author of a libel, by the New
York Commercial Advertiser, but he has new
er moested that paper. With this unfortu-
nate record it is no wonder that many peo-
pie are disposed to believe that he is suffi-
GENTLY unprincipled to seek to revenge him
self on Grant through such unworthy means
as seducing an Assemblyman of easy virtue
from the path of duty, But, however this
may be, we do not believe that so important
matter as Presidential election is going to
hang on so slender thread as this. At pres
ent, thank heaven, the well being of the coun-
try rests on something more substantial than
anew York Assemblyman's integrity.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

How THEY DO IT IN MIDDLETOwN-The
Hartford Post mentions two cases in Middle
town - one in the South Congre gational
church. the other is the Universalist church
where respectable persons, who had been
shown seats in those churches, were taken out
OF the pews on Sunday by the collar, by the
owners thereof and left standing in the aisle.
La the latter case, the merchant elected, on the
next day sent paddock to the owner of the
pew, with message to the effect that he had
better keep it locked in future
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

a terrible tragedy at the Concord State Prison,
Tuesday afternoon. William L. Flanders, an
overseer, had occaaion 10 reprimand convict
in the cabinet shop, named Stuart, for laziness
when Stuart attacked him with a bed post
striking him on the side of the head and
knocking him senseless. He was prevented
by two of his fellow prisoners from following
up the assault. Fianders's head was badly
crushed and there are Hears that his injuries
will prove fatal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-20

The Democrats in Congress are about to
issue an address repudiating Blair, it is said.
La return he will perhaps issue an address re-
pudiatng them-for he seems to have more
influence with the party at large than all the
rest together