The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-11-29
OTTAWA FREE TRADER; SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 80, 1879.
SOME OPINIONS.

Federal officials and Republicans generally IN
Minnesota last year to stand up and induce
that base regulating State TO make some pro.
vision for her long time due railroad lands
dcht-Ntic l0yh FOrM.
ILLINOIS is II wealthy state, and its people
deem ii one of their duties to prOYde NUM-
iiccntly Tor the uniurunatcS who, through in
trinity of body or mind, are unable 10 take
care of themselves. The total expenditures
for this class OF persons in the year ending Sep
TENDER 80 last were sos, IA This SUR was
distributed among ten clcemosynary instltu-
tions containing 2,4iS inmates The average
cost of inmates of the Soldiers Orphans home
was $I3S; for patients in the blind asylum,
$50; and for the whole number of untortun
atcs in the ten institutions, $500. This is a
larger sum thah is expended on an average by
the members Of II labOrer's family of five per
sons. There are thousands of such families
whose total earnings do not exceed $500 year
which would give an allowance of 500 for each
member. The state of Illinois, therefore, pro
yides twice rs literally for each of the rccip.
tents OF It's charity as workingman who earns
his own living can provide for the members
Of his iamly--to say nothing of the far better
house-room the pauper enjoys over the laborer
The entire public expenditures for charity in
he state (S'5S,OOO) is perhaps as great as the
entire ordinary expenditures for the state gov
ernment-so that in money point OF view
charity is quite as serious a matter as govern
ment.-St. L0uis Republican.
THE Republican papers of the New York
| Tribune pattern are preaching homilics upon
the strength Of the Reputation element in Nlr-
| ginia us shown in the returns of the legislative
ELECTION. 1t is put down as a token of a gen
eral disposition of the Southern Democracy
towards dishonesty. Such talk proceeds either
| from ignorance of the real situation in Nir-
ginia or is "a wIliul perversion of the truth.
The fact is notorious that in the late contest
the Democrats, or Conservatives as they choose
to call themselves, planted themselves boldly
on debtpaying platform and refused TO sane
ton the candidacy of any man who was not
! pledged to the debtpaying policy as embed
led IN the McCulloCh bill, while the Read
busters were read ont of the party and fought
by the regular Democratic organization with
might and main. The leading white Repub-
licans, educated men like Judges Rives and
/ Hughes to their credit be it said, took the
same position on the great question at issue
deaf to argument, and were marched IN drOves
to the polls by kitchen and field-hand polite
ians to do the work of a demagoguc who used
the REIMBURSEMENT programme as a means OF or
ganizing new party in order that he light
be elected to the United States Senate and his
henchmen given possession of the minor State
offices in the gift of the Legislature. 1t is this
class of voters, so-called Republicans and gen
orally nOn-taXpayers, To whom Virginia Is in
indebted for the triumph of the repudiators
But the TribuHe doesn't care for facts so long
as 1t can get its regulation fling at the solid
south. Phjladelphjd Times (Ind)
Even one murder of a negro by a Southern
white man would be a great find for our es.
aries. Up to the time of going to press, how
ever, no Southern white has obliged them, and
If the Southern whites continue their peacca
bic and veXatiOuS course some jealous Radical
will be forced to 90 down and murder few
negroes, in circumstances which shall sickly
DER the crime with the pale cast of politics
In the absence of murders our esteemed con-
, temporaries have been driven to allege that
there are labor troubles" in the South, marked
by tyrannical cruelty on the part Of the whites
blacks. The enormous cotton crop made at
the South this year is rather in the way of this
view which nobody has adduced a particle of
proof to justify. \ small piece of evidence
tending to show what are the real relations of
the blacks and the whites in the South has Just
reached us IN an extract from the ReD0rter of
La Grange, in Georgia. Georgia is one of the
States, As the readers Of the 1'rG6nne and its
colleagues know, IN which the negroes most
nOtOriOrsly wrlthe under the iron heel of the
oppressOr. 1t Is therefore Il startling piece of
news that the oppressor has permitted the ne
grees of Georgia to give fair of their own
and that the organ of the OppressOr has printed
an admiring account of the same We call the
attention Of the Times to the fact that IN the
procession which opened the fair there were
three companies OF colOred militia and that
the tyrant did not take a single shot at them
: he fat, NM Of
have been to him. In fact the only accident
of the day was the breaking Of the collar bone
| of Il cOlOrcd knight in Il COlored tOurna-
ment by reason of the addiction of his charger
to the unchivalrous practice Of bucklng. The
products shown at the fair were all, it IS TO be
borne in mind, the property of the negroes
who exhibited them. Among them was a
! good showing OF horses, mules, cattle sheep
and swine" an exhibition of vegetables Of
which our Georgia contemporary says that
they would have made a good show at State
fair and collection Of farm-made articles,
such as baskets, brooms, ploughstocks axe.
hClycs, iron plOughs and harroWs" In fact
the evidence furnished by this fair points in
the same direction with Senator Hills letter
in reply To Mr. Chltcnden and with all other
trustworthy evidence concerning the position
of the negroes in the Overwhelmingly Demo.
crotic State of Georgia. This is to the effect
that while a shittless negro IN Georgia is like
" enough to be no better satisfied with his
condition than a shftless white man, not only
is no obstruction put in the way of negroes in
Georgia who try to improve their condition,
by industry and thrift, but every encourage,
ment is offered to them by their white neigh.
bors.- World, n. y.
One day last week two gentlemen at Dixon
caught in Rock river with hook and line IS
pike and pickerel weighing over 80 lbs. |
Eight Of these weighed over 81 lbs Which |
may increase the interest in this from the Kan.
kakee GaZttte, in answer to a statement that |
salmon are being caught in the Kankakee riv-
or: The salmon are merely walleyed pike |