The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-27
SOME OPINIONS.

to the postoiiice editors the white people there
spend their time in hunting down and killing
negroes, and the negroes are busy dOdgng
bullets and hemp but somebody raised cotton
and an explanation is in ordcr-State Register.
Mr.. Hayes is forgetful person. A short
time ago he wrote to friend letter. IN which,
IS an argument in favor OF abolishing the
greenbacks, he said; The only constitutional
legal tender is gold and silver. Depart from
them and confidence is gone" When did Mr..
Hays discover that gold and silrer are the con-
stitutional legal tender? II must have been
very recently, for it is only little more than
year ago that he was trying to deprive the
country of one of these constitutional moneys
by vetong a bill for coming silver. If the
government may stop coming silver il may
stop coming gold also-and, then, where
would the constitutional legal tender be? Mr..
Hayes arguments in favor Of demonetizing
greenbacks are no better than his arguments of
year ago in favor Of demonetizlng silver
50. Louis Republican. ..,
The Streator Noait0r and La Sale Press are
already getting anxious about the next con.
gressional canvass, and are throwing out feel
ers in favor Of Hon. Washington Bushnell, of
Ottawa, for the next congressional term. Now,
we all know that the Press man is particular
=
and Bro Taylor of the Streator Tnder, may
also have some axe to grind in providing a
successor for Mr.. Hayes-but it does not seem
to us that they are little fast in opening the
canvass so early. Mr. Bushnell may be the
man the people want, or he may not be-but
when the time comes his claims will be duly
considered all attempts to get up boom
in favor of any man at this early day, will be
labor wasted-probably.- Mendotd Bulletin.
Imposing as are the mountains of cheese
and bastlons Of butter tubs at an international
dairy fair, the statistics Of the dairy orators
are also impressive. Last year Gen. Butler
took his hearers into the ninth place of figures
the hundreds Of millions; but this year Mr..
Oleo Thurber carries them one place further,
and lands them among the billions When we
learn that the number of mich cows in this
country are 100000, and that the number of
pounds of butter and cheese made last year a g
gregated 1,300,000O00, we begin to feel the
Importance of dairymen and dairymalds-cs-
pecally as even Germany, which comes next
to US IN the census Of mich cows, has not even
100000, and France, which ranks third, has
only 4,500,OO0. OF butter alone the United
States produces annually 100000, 000-fgures
which make one sigh over the difficulty of
buying, "A, iii. season, II pound of good butter
". y. Sun.
When Corbus got the La Sale postotfice
the Press began "a gnashin' o. teeth" The
teeth are still going: "Our article last week,
opposing the renewed presentation of a chip
munk as a republican candidate for congress
next fail, seems to have given offence to the
person or persons unknown engaged in issll-
ing the 1uinC CITY Ners. Had we considered
only the capacity and the probable preferences
Df said mr. Onk u-aS hpn1l
not for a moment have thought of questioning
the eminent fitness of the chlpmunk to adc. |
quately represent him or them But the re.
publican party Of the It'll district is rather
large institution mostly outside of the Neus
office; and we thought, and still think, the |
party big enough and good enough to require
the biggest and best MAN obtaluable in the
district for worthy campaign leader. The
champion can have no quarrel with
us on question of "polItcal sagacity."
La Sale Press.
The wlckedness OF the negro immigration |
scheme is gradually developing itself, and in
such way that the humanitarian sentiment
of the country should rise in denunciatory
protest against 1t. While the exodus from |
Texas to Kansas continues, there are those re.
turning who give deplorable accounts of their
experience, and especially Of the suffering that
is sure to be entalled upon the Hnfortunates
who have no means to get home. Seven fam.
lies arrived at Dallas the other day on the
back track, and represent the whole business
as snare and delusion. One of the party
stated to Herald reporter that at is q land
scheme coupled with politics."
and said there was bound to be great distress
among the immigrants in Kansas this winter
Another states that when he landed at Parsons
he found thousands of his race camping out
On the open prairie turned loose like lot of
hogs to do as best they could" They went
here on assurances from white cmissaries that
he United States government would support
hem until they could get fixed to make their
)wn living. 1t will be the same wretched .
hing over again in Indana-necessaril so,
because the poor negroes are for the most part
hipped through by the EmIgrant Aid society =
md are then left to shit for themselves The ,,
raud amounts to crime, and it is only to be q,
wondered at that the men who are engaged i'll
his nefarlous proceeding are not driven ,
mt of it by the sheer force of public con. ,
Louis Republicans l.,
Hon. Horatlo Seymour, president Of the !
New York State Agricultural Society, in his '
ddress at the Utica Fair the other day, thus
eals with the land question: Our territories t
re nearly equal in extent to the territory of '
ii Europe. If we add the Canadas, which 5
re so closely allied to us by language, inter !
curse, and pursuits, We largely exceed the
United area of all European countries When {
We take into account the values and tenures Of 7
heir lands, and compare them with the low Ic
'rices and free titles OF our own fertile soils, s
t is clear that that they can not be brought |
nto such close practical proximity without |
making great changes upon both continents i
he lands of Europe must come down in !
'rices. Tenant farmers can not pay the rent d
harges which they have hitherto borne and {
ompete with the land-owning farmer in !
America. This does rotlnvolve mere change t
n commercial values. 1t touches not only t
ocal relationships, but is blow at the very t
tructure of their governments. Their lands c
an not yield large rents when the cheap and 9
nrtlle soil of America can be bought for less 9
er acre than the yearly rentals charged per I