The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-01-22
$ will be watched by every patriot with anxl.

will be watched by every patriot with anxl
ETY."
Senator John Sherman says: my hope Is
that congress will pass laws to establish and
limit maximum rates of freights SO that the
production OF the farmer may not DC in danger
OF confscntion by exorbltant rates Of freight"
! Senator Wndham says: That their Ohe
farmers demands are just and proper must be
apparent, aud that they will DC complied with
is as certain as that our government shall en-
Gure and the farmers Of the country continue
To appreciate the justice of their claims aud
the undoub,cd power to enforce them"
As early rs 1871 Horace Greeley said, IN a
speech at Minneapolis, Mimi: "A dozen or
50 OF railroad magnates, summoned by private
message, meet from time to time in one of our
| large cities; they consult in secret, dine and
wine satisfactorily, adjourn and go their sew.
eral ways. Next morning the telegraph wires
will have flashed across the land with their
decision, that every bushel of grain going TO
market, every bale OF goods passing inland,
shall pay 20 to 30 per cent. more freight than
has hitherto been paid. In effect this bevy of
railroad kings have arbitrarily reduced the
value Of every farm every quarter section, ev-
cry bushel of grain IN the Great Vest
These prophetic words OF that true friend of
the farmer were strikinglv verified when, on
the 22d day Of last November, with ware
houses filled to overlooking, and all the rail
roads crowded with freight to their utmost ca
pacIty, freIghts were advanced east from Chi
cago cents per GENITAL, laying "a tax on the
grain crop Of the West, on the authority of
Judge .Jere Black, of seventy five millions OF
dollars. Can 1t be from any necessity grow
ing out Of the situation Of affairs, any lack Of
business or increase of expenses, to compel
them to lay this burden upon the farms Of the
West and the consumers Of the East? OF, no!
bit simply because they c0u|d.
OH dire are the evils that loom up anear,
Filling our hearts with dread boding fear;
Turning up vices that muddle our brains,
While Shylocks are reapIng their harvesis OF gain
Can there be no remedy for this abuse
of power? Can there be no means devised
whereby the tOiling farmer may not receive Il
iar equivalent for his anxiety care and toll
in planting, cutivating and harvesting the
crops that furnish three.iourths Of the value OF
all our exports; something done to enable the
farmer, his wife and children, to enjoy equal
privileges and surround their homes with the
same refining influences that are enjoyed by
other classes OF people!
We think there can and will be, and one OF
the great moving forces that will help BRING
it about is the Grange.
We would not underrate the influence and
strength OF the corporate powers of our coun-
try. Corporations count their gains by mil
lions. individuals that but few years ago
were penniless quietly draw their checks
to buy whole lines of railroads. absorbing and
controlling what people valnly hoped to be
competing lines. The highest legal talent in
the country Is retained by them, and every
thing being done that can be done to hasten
or bring about in our country the deporab!e
condition Of the old world. There are not a
few OF our lawmakers that ride on free passes,
with special cars even, and it is all done for
an object.
The Grange has dared to boldly beard the
lion in his den. From the very outset of our
Order we have labored to bring about the
needed reforms and though our petitions have
been sighted and remonstranccs unheedej, we
have done very much IN educating and shap.
ing public opinion, and trust that we shall
soon learn that it is better TO elect good repre-
tentailves than petition bad ones.
If we are fully alive to our true interests,
and use our own influence, both within our
Order and outside of il, we certainly shall
prevail. Two years ago the railroads had sol
nearly completed their plans to close up the
canal that they made their boast that they
were going to dry up the ditch" Our county
Grange sounded the note of alarm, calling the
hNttubi'ii VI 'ti PN'PIS w 'ui tthS'ii
aroused such an enthusiasm in Its favor that
our state Legislature placed 1t beyond immedi.
ate danger
Brothers and sisters, let US press steadily on
ward iE the work of building up our noble
Order, needing neither the scott of ridicue on
one hand or the willy schemes to divide and
estrange u.s. on the other. We to-day have al
grand brotherhood OF workers, the mystic
cham extending from the Atlantic to the Pa
citic, and from the orange groves of the south
to the frozen lakes of the north. We now have
a membership of five hundred thousand true
and faithful patrons.
Our order Is of recent origin. We do not
90 back among the misty shadows Of the past
three by the jpeaker 81 the house, two by tines
president of the senate, and two by the goy,I
,rnor-whose duty it shall be to thoroughly
md exclusively inquire and examine lnts,
he revenue systems of the different states anig
other nations, to collect and digest the samfss
and report their findings to the next generSy
assembly, together with simple and econom
cal system OF raising a revenue. &c
Meantime Senator Whiting proposes NOR
speedy and partial reform in one direction
least by the introduction of bill to prevei
the double taxation of mortgage propert
L provides IN substance that the owner OF mo-,
gagged property may deduct from the fu's
value thereof the amount of the mortgaged u ID
on irving the name Of the holder of the molts
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