The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-20
SOME OPINIONS.

An article in the New York Commercial
Bulletin by "a western river man, states that
four tow boats, with twenty barges 800 feet
long, so feet beam and GO feet hold, to be load.
ed only to five feet, will transport down the
river, in twelve trips each, $4,000 tons. A
daily line of ten-day passenger and freight
boats carrying 500 tons each will transport
10000 tons per annum. The tri-weekly fast
mail line will transport 23,400 tons per an.
nnm. This is 2OO,01O tons more than was
transported in 1878.
These boats and barges can be built in a
good and workmanlke manner, OF The very
best material, in ninety days if necessary, for
the sum of $GS0O00. THIS, together with the
present tonnage, which has transported down
this great route ABA 400 tons in 1878, and are
capable Of transporting much larger amount
If properly handled. This would 90 far to.
wards providing for the anticipated increase
IN our river traffic. The different kinds of
tonnage should be run with pr0mptness and
regularity which alone will bring back the
former travel by the river and provide for the
increased demand of commerce for our west
ern products. Merchants, mechanics and bus
mess men of all classes are directly interested
in the prosperity of this public highway. The
whole community should sanction an enter
prise of this magnitude and usefulness-C Com.
IN the 81. Louis Republican.
| If the Republican party will let alone the
| issues settled by the war and treat them as set
tied, and will cease to maltreat, SANDER and
mallgn the southern people, and will thus al
low parties to form on economic and proper
political questions, the people of the south,
like all other people, will divide.
This whole matter must be decided by the
intelligence Of the Northern people, If they
are unable to see the very plain motives of the
Republican leaders and papers in keeping
! alive the sectional passions and issues, or il
they are unwilling to rebuke those motives,
we shall have a solid North against solid
South, and very soon solid despotlsm for all
repeat, we of the South accept the results
Of the war in good faith. We will soon recOv-
er from all the losses Of the war if Republican
rogues and slanderers will permit us to do so.
We are strongly in favor of preserving and
perpetuating to our children our constitution
al system of federal and state governments.
We do not believe better system can ever be
devised for this country. But sectional des-
potism accomplished by sectional ISLANDERS and
administered in sectional hate is the very worst
form of all sectional despOtism. We are op-
posed to any more civil wars for any purpose.
-!Senator Ben HILL, Of Ga.
There are a great many women in Boston
highly cultured women, too-yet for voting
purposes under the ne Y school law only about
thousand lave registered. How does it hap.
pen that where our female friends most want
to vote they take so small an advantage Of the
opportunities they have? Unless they assert
their privileges more resolutely we shall feel
justified IN depreclatlng their claims altogeth-
er.-!St. Louis Republican,.
There are some who will not have 1t that the
war is over till they have their way. From
much of the talk of late one would think that
all the toll and trial of the war was in vain {,
that these soldiers and sailors of yours did
nothing Of lasting value, and that that Clio
rious war and God given victory must count
for naught, and that the real way to save the
country Is to keep certain politicians in office
and that servile following is the only test of
loyalty to the Union. For one resent this
pcrversioD Of our motives and this belittling
of our achievements. ] am indignant at this
insult to the memory of that great company
of noble souls who are martyrs IN sacred
cause and triumphant cause. Do not mis-
take the issue. Your sons Will not have died
in VAIN because the rebelliOus states are
brought back into the Union, and send their
best men to represent them in Congress, even
though they had the courage to WELD the
sword instead of the pen in the time of mortal
struggle. Men who freely poured out their
hearts blood for their convictions, though
wrong are less. to be feared than they who
skulk in the rear and gloat over the strife so
long as they can fill their pockets with plum
der, snatChed alike from foe or triend.-Er-
G0r. Chamberlain, Of Name