The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-07-01
Ottawa, June Is, 1882.

| The people UtN answer, ana TO IL IN tlile
| by leaving the plow the plane and the avl
| To elect sheriff to office next fall.
Ottawa, June Is, 1882. TAx'PAYER.
The Streator Free Press says of the coke recent
ly made from Strestor slack coal: son being
subjected to the test Of chemical analysis at Chi
cago, it was ascertained that the coke made from
Streator screenings contained LIS OF one per
centum Of sulphur. AS standard OF comparison
we may state that the celebrated Connellsvllle
contains but 40 OF one per centum, which shows
that our coke has about three times as much sui.
phur in it as the Connelsville. The present ex.
pertinent is q great improvement on one made
some years ago which gave residue Of nearly 8
parts of one per cent. sulphur"
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! The Journal, lamentng over the decline" of
Ottawa, says: at has been common expires.
sion for many years, that our city, with pa
tieHce worthy of martyrdom, has been awaiting
in silence some frst.class funerals. The old man
with the scythe is gradually approaching to har-
vest our hopes, and ere long his tireless and
bones. Death is q skilled burglar, and to his icy
touch all combinations that secure Golfers magi-
cally yield. Let us watch and pray at least for
the building up Of our town and county, and
meeky bend to the rod which may cause person.
sonal aitliction to the favored few for the ulti.
mate building up OF the many" Very poetic,
truly, and charitable!
I The trouble has been that until few years
back Ottawa men hacs been waiting for dead
men to build up the town! "Wat TIL we have
some iirstclass funerals, +" has said many man
SIS or 40 years old doing business here! Good.
ness gracious, are dead men going to build
lively towns? Did they ever do it? Isn't It the
young men-from so to As years od-who do the
great things for the building up Of towns? Why
should rich man with one foot in the grave
worry his life out embarklng in new enterprises
out Of his line or furnishing brains to run young
mems schemes? Let us have mercy on the old
men, give them chance to ENJOY what they
have earned SO hard. Did old men build up Chi
cago or Denver, or Kansas City, or MinneapO.
lis, or any other great town? Business men will
sit on store boxes in front of their shops and Ia
ment because few elderly men they see enjoy
ing their wealth insist on living; yet when
there has been q call for business mems meet
ing out of 1900 voters not SO have ever attended!
few men like w. H. Hull, F. L. Fske, T. ID.
Catin, DR.. j. .. Harris, l.. II Games, s. +. King,
J. 4. Shaver, E. e. Allen, l. N. BEEN and few
Others we could name by thinking longer, backed
up by the business men generally Of the city,
will build ap the town faster than all the funer-
ais that could pass given point in century-J
left alone.
The men who long for some rich mans death
are the weights holding down grain bucket-shop
chairs and who revenge themselves for their pet.
ty losses in 2.cent grain gambling by damning OF.
tawas rich men to whttling accompaniment.
We want less of this talk to strangers; less
discouragng OF home enterprises, less gswb
in grain margins, less stomach. aching, less med
ding by smart alexis in other peoples business,
less i-told you.so when q wheel breaks; rather
we need more pulling together, more use of
brains and observation, more enterprise and use
OF nerve by young men. The mechanics and
clerks Of Ottawa under 80 years old spend money
enough in cigars, beer and billiards TO start
glass factory every year! DO the 60 saloons In
Ottawa take in less than 5000, 900 year? The
man who waits for dead mems shoes before 20.
them and loaf the balance OF his days 20 die
in the poor house. Give us a rest on dead
men. When the business men OF town damn
it and its inha bitants, who in heavens name, is
going to praise It?
The La Sale fress doesn't like the idea of two
more republican conventions this fall tor this
county: one, to select delegates to the congress.
sional convention and another to nominate o
county ticket. One convention wonld be less
expensive and would create more interest, it
thinks, besides, it adds, "Too many caucuses and
conventions breed discomfort and sore. headed
ness, and the republican party is not likely to
have a walk away in this county this fall it Is |
desirable to preserve harmony and play the
strongest game" Viewed in the light of republic
can politcs-in LaSalle, the Press'S head seems
to be level La Sale's republicanism is peculiar,
however.
TEMPERANCE
A prohibition CLUB has been organized in Ton. |
lea, with j. s. underhill as president; P. j. |
Roberts, secretary and treasurer; and Geo w. |
Keller, James Richey and NJ. klrkpatrik execu-
tive committee. Its avowed object is to cooper.
ate with similar clubs throughout the county Ia
the work of putting in the field and eecting
lstraight-out temperance ticket, comprising the
names Of men who will make one issue para
mount to all Others, namely, the preparing of
an amendment to our state constitution prohi
biting the manufacture and sale Of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage, and the submitting OF the
same to popular vote. in accordance with the
provisions of existing laws. Still, the Ottawa
Republican, organ ~ of both the Temperance
and republican parties, insists on telling
its readers the temperance people are not going
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