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

VI Minnesota last wear TO stand up and induce
that base regulating State TO make some pro
vision for her long time due railroad lands
ideht.-Ns,C lOrb World.
Illinois is il wealthy state, and its people
deem it one of their duties to provide mum
Iicicntly Tor the uniOrtuna,cs who, through in
trinity Of body or mind, are unable to 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 nstllu-
ti0ns containing 2,41S inmates. The average
cost of inmates of the Soldiers Orphans home
was $685. for patients in the blind asylum,
$50; and for the whole numbe of untortun-
atcs in the ten institutions, S2O2. This is
larger sum thaa is expended on an average by
the members Of II labOrcrs 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 800 for each
member, The state of Illinois, therefore, pro
yides twice as literally for each of the recip-
tents OF lis charity as Il workingman wis carno
his own living can provide for the members
Of his iamily-to say nothing Of the far better
house-room the pauper enjoys over the laborer.
The entire public expenditures for charity in
he state (Si5SOOO is perhaps AS great is the
entire ordinary expenditures for the state gov
ernment-so that in money point OF view
charity is quite as serious matter as govern
ment.-St. L0uis Rcpubltcah.
"Thc Republican papers of the New York
| 7'TJuAe pattern are preaching homiics upon
the strength Of the Reputation element in Nir-
GINA rs 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 wlltul peryersion of the truth
The fact is notorious that in the late Contes.
the Democrats or Conservatives as they choose
to call themselves, planted themselves boldly
on Il debtpaying platform and refused TO sane
ton the candidacy of any man who was not
pledged to the debtpaying policy as embod-
led IN the McCulIoCh bill, while the Read
justers were read out of the party and fought
by the regular Democratic organization with
might and main. The leading white Repub
lcans, educated men like Judges Rives and
| Hughes, to their credit be it said, took the
same position on the great question at issue.
But the colored Republicans were as usual,
deaf TO argument, and were marched IN droves
to the polls by kitchen and field-hand polite
ians to do the work of a demagogue who used
the REIMBURSEMENT programme as means of or
ganizing new party in order that he might
be elected to the United States Senate and his
-
offices in the gift of the Legislature. 1t is this
class of voters, socalled Republicans and gen
orally nOntaXpaycrs, to whom Virginia IS in
indebted for the triumph of the regulators.
But the Tribune doesn't care for facts so long
as 1t can get its regulation fling at the solid
south-Fhjladelphia Times (Ind)
Even one murder of a negro by Southern
white man would he a great find for our es.
tecmed and truCulcnt Republican cOntempor-
aries. Up to the time of going to press, how
ever, no Southern white has obliged them, and
If the Southern whites continue their peacea-
| bic and veXatiOus course some jealous Radical
will be forced to go 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.
temporares have been driven to allege that
there are labor troubles in the South, marked
by yrannca erusiiy on the Part rte 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 lust
reached us IN an extract from the Reporter of
La Grange, IN Georgia Georgia is one of the
States as the readers Of the IribRne and its
colleagues know, IN which the negroes most
InotOrlorsy writhe 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 n 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 coOred militia, and that
the tyrant did not take a single shot at them
as they passed, great as the temptation must
have been to him. In fact the only accident
of the day was the breaking of the colar.bone
OF coorcd "knight' in u 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 good show at State
fair" and a collection of farm. made articles
such as baskets, brooms, plough.stocks, axe
helves, iron pIoughs and harrows." In fact
the evidence furnished by this fair points in
the same direction with Senator Hill's letter
in reply To Mr. Chlttenden 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 whlle slttless negro IN Georgia is like |
~ enough to be no better satisfied with his |
condition than 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.-Word, y. 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 Gdzttte, i'll answer to a statement that
salmon are being caught in the Kankakee riv-
err THE salmon are merely wall-eyed nike
On LllE o. L..L..r, ..E -.