The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-19


municipal election, achieved brilliant VIC
tory, giving them 10 to 1G in the city council
said council Immediately proceeded under
some such humbug dodgeas "lowest bidder
or dividing the thing up to vent the spite
Of a few dirty ward politicians, whom it had
failed TO puff. upon the Joliet Signal, by tax
lng from it the city printing, which EFFORTS
from the veteran editor Of that vigorous dem
gcrauc sheet this comment:
Search the country over, and an instance
cannot be found where a Legislature of state
city council, board Of supervisors town trus
tees, or any other public body or officer hav
ing the disposal of public printing when con
rolled by republicans, where the benefits OF
the printing or publishing was ever awarded
20 democratic newspaper, or even let to the
lowest bidder. They invariably adopt the
motto that" to the victors belong the spoils, u
in all cases, and thus they maintain an eff
Gent arty press. In republican cities the
corporation newspapers invariably reflect
the political sentiments Of the dominant par
". But IN democratic cities the republicans
are great sticklers for economy in respect to
the printing Item, urging that it should be
put up at auction. And democrats are too
frequently led by these hypocritical pre-
lenses.
The FREE TRADER, if so disposal, could
ada quite pungent chapter TO the above
1t has no more bitter enemies anywhere than
democrats it could name, whom it had the
misfortune MORALLY to offend on some occa
sion or other, when they were candidates for
president, congress- constable or something
Of that sort, by failing TO tickle as they mod
estly (Dthought they deserved But what's
the use OF worrying about gnats? The whirli.
gig OF time seldom fails to bring It's revenges
Haskell, of the Amboy Journal, recently at
tended temperance meeting in that village
and was called out to speak. His response
is subjoined. 1t is said fhe had exploded q
hand grenade in the church the audience
could hardly have been more COMPOUNDED
and the temperance people uproarlously voted
HIM a black sheep. This was his speech:
Ladies and gentleman: Years ago | used
10 belong to temperance society. That was
before knew as much as do now. heard
then Of the great tidal wave of reform tina,
was sweeping over the country. 1have heard
OF 1t pretty regularly ever since; but l IND
that there's about as much whisky drank DOW
AS there ever was. And though whisky
drinking affects the individual pretty strong
". do not see that it is the greatest evil tina,
atiiicts society. think if man must have
q vice, he had better drink whisky than whip
his wife. If he must do something, he had
better gHzzle beer than lie about aud SANDER
Lis neighbors. would rather a man would
lmblbe rum than grin0 the face of the poor,
be an extortionist or anenvious nan, q tale.
bearer and back. bitter. All this worry about
intemperance amounts TO nothing, because ii
can effect nothing A man with an appetite
for liquor must control himself He can't
hand his conscience over to a society and ex.
pect them to keep it, Indeed, so long as the
appetite exists, do not see how we are to do
without saloons. think one we'll regulated
saloon IN town good thing.