The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-10
PUBLIC orIHYoHa

The South IA now entering into the same
field of Industrial enterprises as The NORTH
building cotton mills, forging iron ana welding
its detached line Of railroads in great systems
which bind the whole section IN greater sym
pathy of interests and cultivate the national
idea, which the Souths comparatively lso!at-
ed and dlsiOincd condition has hitherto msut
repulsivc The cotton crop Is increasing, ne
stead of falling of aS was anticipated. Last
wears WELD was over 100000 bales, and the
/ Atlanta GOaStjtuttOH expects To see IL mount
up to nearly 100000 bales smother season,
! the acreage is being SO greatly Increased,
Southern cotton mills are now running over
! 100000 splndes, ahou, per cent OF the total
number in the United States, and running
them probably, too New mi Is are constant
ly going up, both tor the simpler Clement at
tachment and the established spindle and loom,
Eutcrprising Southerners are sendinA their
sons to be trained in machine shops OF the
East so that they can make mill machinery at
home A correspondent OF the New York
| Tyibune, who has been through the South, found
that white men had learned that they could la
Dor in the fields. They are taking the place
of negro help IN the country districts, the
blacks preferring to flock about the towns and
villages. Georgia Is turning ITS pine forests to
advantage, and has been able to get the con
tract to supply the luml"r for the famous
Brooklyn bride at prices which astonlshed the
New York dealers Georglas gold mines are
also lining the pockets of private capitalists.
More important is the mining of copper in
North Carolina and the recent development of
the coal and iron industries IN Tennessee and
Alabama, AS well as in Kentucky and the Vir.
ginias. Pittslurg is already looking to West
Virginia MS the natural source Of the iron sup
ply, and Pennsylvania capitalists are 1ndng a
bonanza in the iron and coal lands of South.
western Virginia. The development Is even
more apparent IN Northern Alabama, where
furnaces and mills are already in operation al
Birmingham, the center of q recently devel-
oped iron and coal region, and rollingmill
will be in RAINING order by the middle OF sum
mer. The furnaces near by at OXm0or are
said to be turning out some 2OOO tons OF iron
daily and, being able to make the hest iron Mt
cost of from 50 TO $40 ton, that section builds
hopeful expectations of becoming rival of
the PENNSYLVANIA iron and coal regions
Springfield (Nass) Republican,
II would be midsummer madness for the
Democracy to nominate u candidate who must
start in the race beaten in New York, for
that would be inevitable defeat in the election :;
and until the dscordant elements in that State
are harmonized the judgment Of all disposition
dtt lJcLlDCIdlS viii bC tlstt VI tuE upiliiunttpb
of Tilden would be surrender of the battle
There are positive expressions for Tllden in To-
calites in Pennsylvania, and 1t is quite posi-
BILE that a decided majority of the delegates to
the State Conyention would prefer him if New
York cordially presented him; but he who
dreams of Tildcn Instructions in this State
with New York bitterly wranging over Til
denism, must credit the Democracy with a
very narrow measure Of political sagacity.-
PhHddeiphia Times.
The term of the next president of the United
States will expire in March, 1895, five years
hence. Before the tine there will probably
be several changes in the composition of the
supreme court and perhaps majority OF that
tribunal will have been ne Wy appointed with
IN these five years. As the American people
love the republic, they should see to it that the
appointing power for the presidential term is
vested IN a lover of the republic. Noqucstion
IS more important than tins, IN view of the
unprecedented and growing inirac'ions Of the
constitution, and the indifference with which
they are regarded by congress, by the people
and even by the supreme court as at present
constltuted.-Ciacinnah Enquirer.
The manufacturing interests which are pro-
tected by the tariff have formed combinations,
and agreed to put up prices far beyond what is
Just, and so high that it checks every kind OF
business. Iron makers, nail-makers, glass
makers, paper makers oil producers, lumber
men, and IN fact manufacturers of all kinds,
have formed combinations" to put up prices
at the expense of the consumers, which will
check many enterprises just ready to start.
The principle of the protective tariff does not
anticipate or justify this wholesale combina.
ton and robbery Of the people, and when it is
practiced the tariff should be repealed and
competition thrown open to the world.-Iur0'
rd Herald
The Illinois Supreme Court has decided IN
Nichols v. School Trustees, that the provision
of the statute that school directors may grant
the temporary use of the school houses, when
not occupied by schools, for religious meet
lngs and Sunday school, for evening schools,
for literary societies, etc, as they may deem
proper, is not Repayment to any constitution
al provision, and the use of the same when not
interfering with the school will not be en-
joined.