The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-10-25
FREE AND EASY TRANSPORTATION.


4 Washington despatch To the big dal!lcs
states that the somewhat notorious WINDOW
committee, or SENATE commtic on ranspor
Itation'-a committee appointed at the close
of the last session of the United States Senate
to 20 iunketng over the country at the
government expense to "investlsa'e' inc
TRANSPORTATION qucstion,-has agreed on
report and that the report will be III FAVOR
of the government constructing three canal
routes from the western states 10 the sea
board"
That the reader may know something about
the man Window, who is put by the Ohi'ed
States senate at the head of so important a
committee and who makes this gigantic
recommendation, we copy sketch OF him,
written by one who knows some things about
him which The people he istrying to humbug
in the interest of his railroad owners ought
also to know:
zone of the very funny things in this scri-
| Gus railroad question is 10 see Mr.. WINDOW,
| l.. :. senator from Minnesota turn railroad
reformcr An original knownothing IN ONO,
at an early day in Minnesota railroad
attorney and director, and OF late years,
without capital to invest, director and one
of the executive committee in the Northern
Pacific, one of the greatest mistakes or one
of the greatest frauds of the nineteenth cen
tury, he becomes wealthy, |. >. senator,
and procurcs himself the appointment rs
chairman Of II travelling railroad committee
to the senate and turns general sweeper and
Isvmpathizcr with the farmers!
"1hrough his friend, Mr. Bill King, he was
in the famous North Pacific Credit Mobiler,
which made each man his fortune on the first
two hundred and fifty miles of the road, and
now he is prepared TO put the railroads Of
the country in the hands Of the United States
government to be reformed,
THE fable Of the ass dressed in the lions
skin must hereafter take second rank; and
William Of the North Pacific, attrcd IN the
rcgaia of an Illinois granger, warming him
self by fire made of corn, for which there is
no market because of the sins Of these rail
road monopolists, must stand for the old ass
which has for 50 long represented mcdiOCrity |
acting under false prctenses.'
The dispatch which announces the result
Of the summers incubation of this extremely |
appropriate and competent old hen, vouch-
safes the further information that but one
route is thus far agreed on by the committee
the route by the James river and Kanawaha
cost of which will not exceed
$30,0O00O0! Although the other routes have
not been fixed by this august committee, they
are clear that one must be given to the north
and the other to the south The combined
wisdom of congress is needed to settle these
questions definitely, and the com
miucc leave the subject there
As the building Of the other canals will
also involve an expenditure Of from $25 ,OOO-
BOO to $l00OO0000 Of public money each
hey will do the most good" That is, it
would be impossible, for instance, to convince
congress that the central canal is necessity
mess canals are also given 10 the north
stcd in it, as they were in the Credit Mobl.
cr, for it is Il rule that the larger and more
'X,rayagaut thcjoO, the more hold it has upon
congress.
And when we get all these water courses
will be lovely. No matter what
hey may cost the government, that will be
paid in taxes, which are much more agreeable
han frcghts. Tie farmer, Of the west may
hen build RATS, elevate" their own grain up
n them, float easily and ineXpensivcly down
o the sea sell their freights, dispose Of their
aft, for lumber, and return as they may.
Now in the light Of a serious proposal
IL l e.