The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-06-14
FREE TRADE vs.. A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.

| must refer for moment to very low
: aud unmanly argument which many Of the
party journals of the country are adopting.
a This is the case especially with many of the
f republican organs of this vicinity, ard pre-.
sumo the same is true of many journals OF
. both parties. 1t is this: A republican writer
advocating protective tariff, and seeking to
confine the question at issue to q simple raid
. upon railroad monopolists, deplores the sub
ject rs u Democratic party movement and
thus hopes to prejudice republicans against
it, even though they should be convinced OF
the iniqulty of the tariff system! 1t is false
20 the core. The intelligent advocates of
free trade in the republican ranks largely,
prcponderate ever those who are OF the same
mind in the Democratic party But why re-
fer even to this? The republican party Of
to-day has become as corrupt as, if not more
so, than was ever the Democratic party The
cry of honest men throughout the country is
for reform: republicans dcplorc the vices of
their party leaders, and are looking anxious
" for IL turn in national political affairs, when
honest men will once more prcponderate in
the national and state councils. When the
Reform party started up, the nation looked
with anxiety for something better to result,
but alas we were doomed to disappointment
and chagrin. Political bummers and wire
Ipullers, knowing the general disaffection ofthe
people, thought to feather their nests and gain
prominence, by stepping forward at once and
by chicancry and false pretenses, take the
lead OF the new party. Thus it became, not a
true party of reform, but party led in the
main by chronic ofiiccScckcrs and dishonest
men generally, and those who had hoped for
better things, were compelled to choose be
tween two evils and as the least offensive, to
allow the Republican still to guide national
affairs. But the climax is fast approaching
land the chat is being rapidly siited
from the wheat. \ few more Swindling ope-
rations like the recent salary steal and kin
bred frauds upon smaller scale, and the
prospects Of the majority of our leading ma
tional and state representatives will be forever
blasted the farmer, the tradesman and the
mechanic, will unite to elect men who under
stand that they are representatives, not rulers.
When the different party journals attempt
to unite the present movement of the people
with their party, whichever that may be- or
when Republican journals declare that the
advocacy Of unrestricted commercial inter
course between this and other countries, is a
movement of the Democratic party, they sim.
| ply show that they are trying to make politi-
cal stock out of something entirely above and
beyond their reach,
The Republican and Democratic parties of
to-day, are practically dead and in time will
| be as etfectually wiped out ofcxistcnce as has
been the old Wing party, The coming man"
is the "Anti-monopoly and Free Trade" par
ty, and any journal is so iniquititous as to
attempt to ride its favorite with all its schisms
and prejudices attached) into power on the
shoulders of the coming honest mans party,
it will be destined to failure and doomed to
superintendent served 'em right
So much then for the political aspect of the
question. 1t must be readily admitted that
the accumulation Of large amounts Of money
in the hands of few men, can be nothing
else than national curse. In addlton.to es-
Gaping their share of the tax for the support
ofthc government, supposed to be established
for the equal welfare Of all, the manufacturers
by making such enormous profits, are end
bled to control the money markets, locking
up millions Of dollars from general circula-
lation, and causing general distress and dis
aster The object of this may at first seem
obscure but money isthc root of al evil =" and
so we find here that these unscrupulous fl
nancers do not hesitate to adopt this as one
means among Others, of paralyzing the com
peting manufactures throughout the nation,
who have not capital enough to carry them
over and so become bankrupt As one after
another of these small factories become ex.
tinct, the larger one obtains increased trade, |
widens out its business and becomes moro and
more an oppressive monopoly. 1t has been re-
marked time and again in the city newspa-
pers, that the prevailing "hard times" of the
past winter, were owing to the large amounts
of money locked up on Wall street in New
York City. Here we may see the cause Oft. |
| have reckoned all capitalists, spectators,
stock-brokers etc, under the head of manu-.
facturers, because they are the ones owning
the stock and deriving the enormous divi-
dends from the monopoly of protected" bus
mess. The stock or shares of such institu. |
tons, often doobl" in value in single twelve
month, yielding fabulous dividends 10 the for
tnate owner. q |
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