The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-02-24


Why is It that at Marseillcs large manufactur-
ing institutions are In constant operation EN-
ployng many hands, and paying out many thou
sands Of dollars in that town during the year;
while ut Ottawa manufacturing receives no i'm
petus, the water-power being virtually useless,
and lying like AN incubus upon the tax payers
of that city?-La Sale Democrat.
Jack Reddick or the Robinson Crusoe he works
for, is very funny sort of biped. Jack gets so
full Of funny ideas Of Ottawa gulllblly, at times,
that he pockets his little collar box, borrows
dollar Of one Of his biggest advertisers and rush
es up to Ottawa to gather in subscriptions for
his little newspaper with patent visccia. Strange
that some men never will learn by experience.
At leaat Jack never does. lie generally squan-
ders his dollar for about the only fair, square
meal he ever cats, and pawns his collar box and
contents to get home on, while his funny ideas
Of an enlarged subscription list at OTTAWA pain
fully but surely vanish. Ottawa papers are good
enough for Ottawa people, and Jack knows it;
but he'll give them "its" next week by saying it
shows dern bad TASTE" and that sort Of thing.
Jack knows that they do not take kindly to
patent insides" with nsipd outsdes, and in his
lucid intervals, gets mad at Ottawa's lack OF ap.
probation of the "merits" and value" OF his
"liyely" window wiper, and then he gives every
body taste of his spleen. He came to Ottawa
one day not long ago and wanted one OF our
county officers to donate him $780, The official
didn't see the point; and Jack was just ass enough
to get mad. He went home full of wrath aud
lunches, and 10! next week out came the Demo-
crat with two columns on those "beastly cusses
of the court house ring" CHATS right, Jack,
give em 'ellD A few days ago he came up again,
and still no subscriptions. Then he Was mad
So after two or three weeks mental gymnastics
he evolved the above from ten year old La Sale
city directory, and slams it at us-"how, wither
will We, dyes" But, you innocent little ass
we have heard of that sort of thing before. All
the little country papers have been saying the
same thing for years 1t does not amount to any
thing, Jack, because it is not true. We don't
want to accuse you of prevericatina, but you are
ducedly reckless in your imaginings. The fact
| is, there have been ~ less failures in Ottawa
during the hard times than any other city OF its
size in Illinois; (2) never have the factories of
Ottawa been closed during the same time; ()
they are all running now; ~ and paying out
more money in fortnight than all the "fac-
tories" of that vast manufacturing metropolis,
Marseilcs, pay out in year; (5) Ottawa fac
tories are not stationary, but are almost daily in
creasing their wealth and power of pro.
duction; and 90 the useless water power
of the rivers is useless, because 1t is be-
beyond the reach of Ottawa hands, hav-
ing been destroyed by the elements. We are
not pitching into any ncighboring town, but
Jack, you should use your eyes, and above all
not make an ass Of yourself because you can
not get rich on Ottawa money, when you are not
of the slightest possible consequence or value to
Ottawa men. Besides, If Marseilles is such a
glorious place, why don't you go there? They
ought to appreciate you. You never gave your
own town such "puG'-how do your patrons
, apprecilte thats -.