The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-07-19
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Cypress none, aud this you believe will b
attained by tariff only for revenue. Arr
you prolectionist' 1t suits your case jus
as we'll Do you believe in a tariff for reye
nue. only? 1t accommodates itself to you
views just as readily. In short it means
anything You please-hence, nothing
1t declares against permitting foreigner
to invest in large boIie. of our Publi
land We have always supposed that fire.
trade in land was desired by our people. /
a foreigner offers the best price for land VIII,
will not sell to him. If he may not bu.
from the Government he may from citizens
and secure all he wishes. And why is i
worse for an English lord or German
banker to own 5000 or 10000 acres of lane
in the United States than for an aristocratit
American to own the same amount? Eacl
buys il to speculate in, and the chances are
ten to one that the foreigner will sell ou
first and at the lowest figure.
1t declares that eight hours should make
days work What does this mean? Very
little. 1t does not propose to secure TO the
laborer the same compensation for eight
| hours work that he now gets for ten-not at
all. What then? Why he may work eight
hours and call it day, and whatever an
employer is willing to give for it he must
take This is all. a great boon truly. Ten
hours make legal days work now, yet mul-
! ttudes of men work twelve or fourteen
hours for day and for moderate wages too
No act of congress or of legislature can
make something out of nothing, Work will
always be paid for in proportion to the
amount done and the demand and supply
The man who chops cord wood will not be
paid the wages of the accomplished machin
ist, the farm hand and day laborer will not
receive the same remu neration as the engl
neer.
The farmers and manufacturers, the great
employers of labor believe they are paying
all they can afford to give for the commod-
ity now This plank either means that leg
isation must be tried to increase wages or it
means nothing.
The party is in favor of liberal pensions.
We had hoped the pension craze had about
run its course. That those that were dis
abled in the service of their country should
be literally provided for all will agree that
they are, all know; that others should be
pensoned, we believe is an outrage on the
people of the country. That a man should
have pension simply because he was in the
army is wrong. He was well paid while
there and that is all he should have. II the
thing is carried much farther 1t will be in
order to pension those who staid at home.
They are worthy Of some consideration,
surely.
As to a navy" ''sound currency" "the
public lands, &C., the Republicans have
managed the government in their own way
for more than twenty years, and why have
they not thought of some of these matters
before? They have had time to build
enavy" and have used considerable money
in doingit. Where is it? And now they
wish to try again. They would persuade us
that we need an iron clad navy Indeed
Why did they not find it out before? We
need no such thing. and if we do it is not
safe to trust them to build it. We should
surely have to wait more than twenty years
for it and should probably die without see-
ing it.
They have just learned that the "curren-
cy" "the public lands, "our shipping
"labor" and several other things are in a
bad way generally. If it takes so longto
find out that something ought to be done
about these things, how much longer will it
take these doctors to find out what ails the
patient, and how long to decide on the prop
er remedy? 1t looks as if a generation Of
least must pass away before they will be
ready to do anything, and the patient may
die before remedy is discovered. May il
not be well to call another physician-tC
try homeopathy in place of allopathy? Is
not change of treatment advisable?
Such are some of the views of Republi
can-not follower of false gods-concern
ing the Republican platform, A more
meaningless, nonsensical, wishywashy series
of weakly stated generalities, it was never
the fate of mortal man to string together
The Democratic party may well take heart
They caunot possibly do worse, let them dc
what they will,
A few words on the situation and We
lose. Already three candidates have been
nominated for the presidency. A fourth
surely will be, and il may be, fifth. The
Republican party can no longer claim to b'
any better than the Democratic. 1t says Il
the Prohibitionist, "You have no hope but il
us The Democratic party is hopelessly
welded to whisky Ii you do not vote will
us you help them and injure your owl
co,se Is this true 2 IL is not. Is moi