The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-03-08
The Anti-Mononlist Commotion.


with our comments last week ON the proceed
ings of the Farmers Convention otthc proceed
inr Saturday. That meeting having resulted IN
substantially nothing, and largely uirough
the mannuvering of a clique of radical poll
ticians for whom the editor of the Rep"1''c"h
acted as catspaw, he betrays quite no'aDic
nervousness lest the quiet slumber into when
he imagines the movement i'll this county has
heen lulled, may be disturbed. His lodges
to avert attention from the urgent practical
questions involved, and to deludc the farmers
with the idea that the business OF lighting
windmills in which he thinks he has got
them beautifully engaged is earnest work,
would be ingenious were they not so fearful
ly thin,
The FREE TRADER, he says, has ridiculed
this movement from the start 1t said every
few wears the West gets into Il fever over the
TRANSFORMATION question. 1t generally lasts
until spring opens and frcights come down to
a reasonable figure" The fever is again at
its height" ave fear the business Will again
prove n mere cfcrvcsccncc.' So quotes The
ReDuJEtcon from the FREE TRADER, ana
it quotes correctly The FREE TRADER, how
ever. did not make these observations in the
way of rdicule but rs the prompiings OF an
apprehension which previous experience had
justified. that the movement would again ter
inmate just as the manTuycrlngs OF the he
puJlicaps clique are tending ~ have them
terminate. in an "efcrycscencc,"
The great and mortal fear Of the radical
politicians is,-(it runs not only through the
editorials Of the Ottawa RepHb'ltah, but
through all their papers and spccchcs)-that
this movement may result in something that
will hurt the republican party. They cry out
against mixing the movement up with poll
tics Thus lately at Joliet farmers conven-
ton, engineered, like this at Ottawa, by radi-
cal politicians, after resolving bravery
against railroad eXtorions and middlcmen,
and manufacturers ofagricultural implements
who sell through agents, and SO on, WINDS
I'D with a final resolve that their society shall
keep out of politics. Politics is sure ruin
to the cause" say the cunning radical
schcmers; and the Ottawa R,pablican, by way
Of conjuring up the gorgoa and chtmeTn are
of politics in It's most hideous shape, invcnts
the cock.and- bull story that the liberal poll
ticians of this state, including such dishonest
knaycs as Gov Palmer, Lyman Trumbull,
Gov. Kprner, Stephen T. Logan, j. T. Stuart,
and that class of anti-Crcdit Mobilicr fellows,
are holding Il sort of "Union League" meet
ings with II view of considering the practica-
biity of recognizing the opposition party on
such "a basis as may enable ii to take advant-
are of the movements of the antl-monopolists.
Now isn't this horrible? Isn't it enough to
make the righteous soul of the virtnous de
Tenders Of the Pennsylvania iron and the
Massachusetts shovel and Credit Mobilicr
rings quake with dismay, to think that the
honest farmers in their struggle 10 free them
selves from the chains of the monopoists
may enlist in their aid, not only the liberal
republicans but-horror of borrors!-the en-
tire democratic party! Can any good come
out of Nazareth? Can any reform be worth
anything that Is not achieved through me
great, virtuous, monopoly fostering radical
parlyY
We tell the farmers of Illinois that if they
propose to confnc their struggle against the
10 q riddling fight against the
unjust and cXtortionatc charg
es Of Il few Of our local railroads, they are
uucilist. heating tbe air. The railroad com
missioner. fell us that t,e railroads of Illinois
in fine ,o,reoote earn from TO y per cent.
ON tbpir conit,I stock Their CHARGES, in the
main therefore. cannot he very cytortionatc
same crthrm-I;I,c tbr Illinois Central and
G.. y & O. rogd,--daub.Icss could reduce
,hoir frcir,,. ,yi,bout 1o,rjmcnt and certain.
"a. aro onil,. Of ou,rorrs in fine way ocrniu.i
.o,l IT. tbo., r..,rcts the,. ,s