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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

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cseding slowly. The evidence thus far
produced in behalf of the prosecution is
very strong, and unless overcome, the re-
suit of the trial will be conviction of
Spies, Fielden, Lingg and Parson of muir
dow
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

HENRY BELLlEGHhUSEN
Chairman.
DANIEL HEESAY,
ANDREW !. iiHni1k.
JAMES II. ECkEl.S,
EDGAR 4. BROWNE.
SAMUEL T. PAIR,
CHARLES II. ERICKSON,
LOUIS R0lIREk.
PATRICK BARTON,
Committee.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

In the Probate Court conservator was APP
pointed on Monday to look after the estate OF
Rufus Hills, who is now in the Insane Asylum
ut Kankakee.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

The Senate has passed the oleomargerire
bill recently passed by the house but so
amended as TO reduce the tax imposed
upon oleo to two cents a pound.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

Hon, Jerry Murphy, of the Davenport,
Iowa, district, has be en- defeated for demo
cratic nomination by Judge Walter l.
HAYES.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

way In political ca ,vass. They ioa,he the
republican party; they hate the democratic
onc-they love the party of prohibition. They
will have the experience of campaign even
though they fail to secure the offices.
-
Unless all of the newspaper men assembled
at Springfield TO look after the interests of the
state militia have woefully misrer.esentcd
things, the place chosen by the commission as
permanent encampmcnt ground is utterly
unfit for such purpose. The grounds are low
there is an absolute want for water, and the
heat is intense.
The work of the late military commission
demonstrates that about the grea, s lunbug
is a commission sent out on an inspecting tour.
The result of their work is always in accord
with what has been determined upon before
they start on their jaunt.
The graphic dispatch, "The committee of
the whole Of the house refuses to strike out
Hennepin," sent by the Streator Statesman
after the vote on the Hennepin canal appro
priation, would indicate that Mr.. Plumb had
DcCn dltcuuluS IL lew DdSc pail matches at
Washington. The idea conveyed by the dis
patch to n person acquainted with base ball
terms is that game Of ball was going on with
Hennepin to the bat and the comm ttee of the
whole occupying the position of umpire.
Just why the umpire refused to strike OUT
Hennepin is not plain
-.
communication from Camp Lincoln.
Springfield, says that John Corwin, of the
Chicago Times, is in camp" If such is the
case we feel assured that the Ottawa boys
gave him a hearty welcome, for he has always
been favorite with the people o! this city.
Taken all in all, Corwin is the best news gath
erer within the range of our acquaintance.
He is enterprising and accurate. He knows
what news is legitimate and what news is not
legitimate. So, too, when he writes up what
he has gathered in he has the faculty of put
ting it in pleasing form. At Washington,
during the early winter, there was an attempt
made by the other reporters to freeze John
out; but within ten days he had "scooped"
them. So after that they were very wlllngt to
cry quits. 1t did not take them long to ascer-
tain that Corwin without their aid could
gather up more news in a day than they could
without Corwn's.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

Senator Hoar, from the committee on the
judiciary, has reported favorably bill TO
repeal sections, 1857, 1893, 1859, ITO, l.
III, and ,172 of the Revised Statutes, com
prising the tenure Cfofflce act The rePe al
Is not, however, TO affect any officer hereto
fore suspended under the provisions of
said sections or any desi gHation, nomina-
tion, or appointment heretofore made by
virtue OF the provisions thereof.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24
ottawa, ILL.,, July 81, 1886.

Entered az N. Post OHce a. Olg'rI, I,ihpl., ~
Second class MAJ M0ttst
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Ike of Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Dana never feels
we'll himself, save when he is feeling i'll at
some enc else. Mr.. Dana's present attack Of
dyspepsia could probably be cured if he would
take a sail In the late Benjamin +. Buffers
yacht. .....
Mr.: Hynes, of the Streator Times insists
that the democratic convention, to nominate
county officers, be held early 10 escape de.
feat In this matter Mr.. Hynes is mistaken.
There is no need for an early convention,
and it ought not to be called before the mid
die of September. The only effect of an
early convention will be the complete ex-
haustion Of the energies and means of the
candidates long before the day Of election. A
protracted campaign in this county means q
prolonged Generalization Of the voters and
a wholly unnecessary expense to the candi-
dates. A short campaign theoretically
pushed is always more successful than a
campaign that drags along through the hot
days of summer and the more pleasant ones
of fall.
The editor Of the Free Press says Mr.. Plumb
is a giant" Will he be triae more specific
in his statement and state in just what respect
Mr.. Plumb is "giant?"
*s*
Mr.. Cullen of the Ottawa Republican and Mr..
Marshall IF the Kendall County Record have
been saying some decidedly unpleasant things
about Mr.. Plumb's honesty. Will the gentle
men support the statesman from Streator If
nominated by the republican congressional
convention recently called. The question is
one that they can very readily answer-yes
or no.
However much member, of the democrat
and republican parties may disagree with the
prohibitionsts rs to their political tenets,
they cannot deny the utter earnestness OF the
latters belief in the rightfulness Of their cause
In the heat Of the excitement of their conven-
ton on Thursday some of their speakers made
statements that might have been with propri-
ETY. left unsaid; but they were 80 honest in 1t
all and so intensely frank in their manner OF
expression that even those who were the
worst assaulted will not feel inclined to quar-
rel with them. They start out believing that
they are right. This in itself goes great
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24

Mr.. Dana Is devo,ing all the energies Of his
being to booming Mr.. Samuel j. Tiden for
the democratic nomination to the Presidency
in 1888. Mr.. Dana'S present love for Mr.. Til.
den finds It's origin in Mr.. Dana's present dis
! Ike of Mr.. Cleveland. Mr.. Dana never feels
we'll himself, save when he is feeling i'll at
some enc else Mr.. Dana's present attack of
dyspepsia could probably be cured If he would
take a sail In the late Benjamin +. Buffers
yacht.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-07-24
Current Events.

Gy JAMES n. EoKELs, Secretary.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1856

i z. ~ #. i . D +. + +. (. 80 gt
inheriting $50, 900 in 1877. would die
eight years after in the order of sane
tity with fortune of over $20t, ,0o0, 900!
An increase of $3.50, 100000 in eight
years-or 81. SOC, 600 yearl
No man ever earned such gigantic
wealth as the Vanderbilts and the
Goulds and such other industrial vul-
lures have seized and are seizlng in this
country. These monstrous accumula-
tions are obtained by the few by the
robbery of the many--by practically
panperizing millions of men md women.
Can this state of things last2 Ought
it to last2 There is but one answer
No.-Workman.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
The Survival Of the Fittesr.

No matter what new theory philoso-
pliers and reformer5 may advance, it is
always susceptible of being taken from
some contrary point of view The con-
servative point, if strictly adhered to,
would lead TO retrogres5ion; and the
pro Aressive point of view, with all its
extremes, continually confront each
other. The evolutionary law of the
survival of the ittest," or, in other
words, that those who are the fttest in
the struggle for existence have survived
and will survive, Is capable Of the sad
dest misconstruction.
At the dawn of the human race, when
men were chiefly controlled OY physical
forces, this law NAV have been the high
est law, and is probably true in our pres
ent day in regard to wild animals. But
still there must have been many ups
and downs with the prehistoric men
when they were coDtesting for footho i'd
upon the globe against reptiles and
beasts, and many times when they were
decimated by famine, pestilence and
wars, it must have been debatable
question, which was the tittest TO sur
vive between men on the one side and
wild boasts on the other. Now, since
man has finally conquered the rest Of
the animal kingdom, We are forced tc
conclude that he was the tittest to sur
vive. 1t is good enough 80 far when the
question was only one of cunning and
brute force; but in our present days
when that law is applied between man
and man, let US see now it works and
who is the fttest to survive.
All those who, being unrestrained by
any moral principle, or forced in the
current by surrounding example. have
accumulated millions by the profits
which they have been able to take from
the labor of others, may think that they
are on that account the fittest subjects
for existence. But since they could not
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
Wendell Phillips Prophecy.

Over fifteen wears ago-on March II,
1871-Wendell Phillips delivered lee
ture on the labor question in SteiLway
hall, New York, in which he used,
among others, the words here quoted
The absorbing question of the next
generation will be the labor question.
This question is social here-not politi-
cal, as in Europe. 1t is the protest of
labor against oppressive capital. l am
not going to enter in any breadth upon
the complaint of labor against capital,
although l agree with 1t. 1t is sound
that believe our children will listen to
and wonder that their fathers ever
doubted it for moment. Your great
grandchildren will sit in these seats and
listen to some orator telling the story of
Vanderbilt with as much wonder as
modern audience heals Agassiz describe
the haoits of mastodon-[ laughter +
or as we wonder now that we ever
thought it right to keep a fellow crea-
ture in bondage.
Here is a man (Vanderbilt) of co. ne
is worth SAC, 100000; he has gathered it
in forty years There are $4,000 men
who toll for him. At 50 most of them
vet rise each morning to beg of him leave
to toll In the chain which connects
the two there is link which neither
Justice nor Christianity sanctions, and
you will find it out. These are the men
that trade in money and swap stocks,
and these are the men that trade in
crime. Out of that class come four
ffths of the rich men. GirArd said that
the first 81 900 he ever got was gathered
with more toll than all the rest he pos
sessed. That is, it took more labor to
get up to the first round of capital, than
it took to mount all the others.
We cannot afford to have laboring
class in this country narrow-minded and
ignorant When your Wall street looks
down into cradle, it knows that hat
| baby hand will in due time WELD the
ballot, and unless it hastens to put NOR
ality under the footsteps of that baby,
your country is not safe. thank God
for democracy. 1t is glorious system !;
but it shows you that this labor ques-
ton to us is not mere question of sym E
pathy. 1t is a question Of absolute
necessity. We cannot afford to haV1
classes. If the time comes when you
have got class of capitalists standing
apart permanently class of labor
standing apart-this is tue end of the
republic.
Your papers print, with epithets Of
indignation, asst onishment or disappro.
baton the position of the miners OF
Pennsylvania. Three millions Of men
ready to submit to such laws would be
enough to enslave the rest Of labor, and
l say to-day, thank God, the miners o.
Pennsylvania have resisted. Ap,
plause.] Thank God that labor, from
St. Louis to Portland, has organized for
resistance, for it is only the twilight and
struggling dawn of better future.
Phillips saw the threatening dangers
of over-wealth, but even he did moi
dream in 1871 that another Vanderbilt
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
A LITTLE HAYMARKET.
The Police OF Kansas City Aspire to the
Proud Distinction Of the.
Chicago aForce."

The workingmen's meeting at the
market square last Sunday afternoon
was the largest ever assembled at that
place. After short talk from the chair
man, Walter Vrooman WAS called upon
and ad dressed the audience for about an
hour and half Mr.. John Pike of Sc
dalia was then called upon, and began to
speak some very plain truths when a
stalwart policeman tapped Vrooman on
the shoulder, led him out of the crowd
and to the police station. 1t was done
very quietly, and in such manner that
very few witnessed it. but the news
spread through the crowd the speaker
had been arrested, and half the entire
throng hastened in front of the police
station, some of them very much ex-
cited, and trying to force their way IN
where the prisoner was led.
There was considerable loud talk and
excited argument; the discussion was
growing heated, and the crowd was
growing larger and more noisy, W en-
out came Vrooman. He hurried up to
the speakers stand, notified Pike that
the police sergeant had commanded that
the meeting be ended. He then an
nounced to the crowd that they were
prohibited by the authorities from hold
ing any more Sunday meetings on the
city square; that the goodY-goo d "bet-
ter" class OF people could hold all the
religious meetings they desired and dis
cuss as long as they wished how to OBJ
tain happiness after their funerals had
taken place, but the common, low down,
good-fo nothing laboring people were
not allowed to discuss how they could
obtain Justice while yet in this world.
After the tremendous and continuous
shouting ol the part of the multitude
had subsidized, young man Whose name
is unknown, jumped upon tie platform,
Strengthened up and said, in laundering
am mechanic, and l say that we will
have Sunday meetings here, if we so de-
SIR, whether or not the police say
otherwise !' The applause and shouts
that followed could be heard all over the
city. and proved very effectively the
temper of those present. Then a police
man caught hold of the mans leg and
began to pull him down, when dozen
bystanders Yelled Don't handle him
quite so roughlyv after which the po-
liceman was more careful, but the man
was forced to discontinue.
Large crowds of people fingered
around in groups for an hour or more
excitedly discussing whether or not the
time had come to defend the principles
of liberty and free speech, for which our
fathers died, and whether we should
longer submit to be ground in the dust,
being even prohibited from peaceably
meeting together to discuss how We
might improve our condition and change
circumstances 80 as to enable our chill
dren after us to have an opportunity to
live as human beings should.-Kansas
City Labor Organizer.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02

their m1ser1es which were due to Kent
"Here are children who are not able
to testify" said Mr.. George. "Let then
appearance speak for them" Many
were hump-backed and some were mere
skeletons. Some had their eyes full o
dust, as though they, had just come out
of coal mine. Mere babes were there
in rags, wailing piteousIy. Exclama'
tions of rage, pity and revenge arose
from the spirit delegates. A movement
was Seen on the p art of Rents friends,
to leave the room and carry out the pris-
oner by force. Instantly all was uproar
Swords leaped up and clashed together,
as the mass around the prisoner swayed
to and fro. Liberty lowered over all
and was the most active. She saved
many of her friends from death by the
quick thrusts of her long saber.
Usury and Theft gathered a lot of
imps and started toward Justice to at
tack her sacred person. But Progress
had an eye for the spirit'he loved best
and hastened to rescue her. He forced
the enemy back with great loss.
"You have saved my life," she said.
Then shall it not be mine2 You
must know long to devote eternity to
you"
Justice did not repel him.
But see," she exclaimed, Liberty is
being overcome"
Progress turned and saw Equality
dash upon the many assailants of Lib
ertY. and receive cut in his shoulder.
Liberty appeared exhausted. Progress
Joined the attack with Equality; then
the din became so great that Ned's
nerves gave way. He tainted from
fright. When he revived all was over
and the room was strewn with slain and
wounded ghosts. Land Rent had been
strangled; his friend Monopoly was
dead so were Old Fogy and many of
his pupils A few had escaped.
Progress drew Equality aside and
said: "Be brave again" Whereupon
Equality approached Liberty with des-
perate despair and began: Miss LIB
erty is it true that you can look with
favor upon the suit of such an ordinary
but ambitious ghost as myself?"
"You have less confidence now than
when you remarked that we were each
imperfect without the other" was the
encouraging reply.
Labor Movement and Invention were
slightly wounded, vet they stood up
while AL gave cheers for the happy
young couples. Then they all swore
with hand upraised that they would
never rest while Labor paid tribute of
any sort to Monopoly; that henceforth
natural wealth should be accessible to
all suffering humanity. ZENo.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
New Postal Law-Of Interest to Farmers

New Postal Law-Of Interest to Farmers.
The new law permitting the sending
of small quantities of fluids bv mail is of
wide value TO the people at large. 1t Is
in the direction of the modern tenden-
cies of trade, which, while it Centrallzes
the manufacture in the best possible
form, brings its results to every mans
door, at the lowest possible price. Eu-
gland has gone very far in this dlrec-
ton, permitting packages Of even eleven
pounds weight TO be sent by post. while
our limit is yet four pounds. The ad-
mission of fluids under certain re5trlc-
tions Is another step in advance. Until
now, such packages could only be sent
by express, and Humphreys Homea-
pathic Medicine Co., have been obliged
for twenty years past to require an order
of at least S. in order, to send free OF
charge, their invaluable Veterinary
Specifics and Witch Hazel Oil to custo-
mers. They now offer to send them in
any quantity to any address on receipt
of the price. Tnus the tendency oi
mo !ern trade is everywhere to bring the
manufacturer or producer, and con
sumer, practically face to face. Every
man thus has in practice tn g best medi'
cine, dry good or book store, in the
country at his own post off ce.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
A Variety of Colonies.


DENVER, Sept. 25.--In nv haste, while
packing up for Sinaloa, Mexico, 1 mad
vertantly enclosed all nv paper, and
this is my reason for not appearing with
nv usual contribution this week, and no
one regrets this more than myself, as
the dark cloud that has been lowering
around us for some time is now rising,
and the prospect Is daily growing
brighter.
Integral Cooperation seems to be in
the air We breathe, not only the Credit
Foncier of Sinaloa, and of Puget Sound,
but new claimant for the favor Of the
people has now appeared in United
Life" in the c)ld region of Indianapolis,
Minnesota. The labor reformer that
cannot find congenlal home in one of
these places must be hard to please
Here we have every variety of climate
Those who think that Sinaloa, Mexico
with its bright sun to call forth bott
flower and fruit every month in the
year, and shares of stock to be obtained
at $40, is not desirable place to live
can find something more congenial to
their colder natures in Minnesota with
stock at SlO0 per share. And others
may prefer to stop off at the halfway
house, Puget Sound, where stock may be
obtained at $40 and a monthly due ol
25 cents. Ali are good.
THOMAS YOUNG.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02

other side and endeayor to make an am
icable adjustment. I met Captain WIN.
Oliver of the concern, and asked him to
give conference. He owns the entire
town, containing 5000 people, many Of
whom are negroes, whom he may be
said to own. for he exercises absolute
despotlsm. Their wages are absurdly
low, averaging 40 cents day, and they
live in his houses. from which they are
liable to eviction at any time for the
most trifing causes. Well, he gave me
to understand that there was no trouble
in the mills, for he had kicked out all
the knights of Labor that he knew of,
I will talk to you, he said in a domi-
neering way, and then opened on me
with TRADE. calling me a carpet bagger,
and saying ne mad driven one invasion
of carpet-baggers out of the country
years ago, and would drive this second
one out, too He proceeded to abuse the
Knights of Labor, and wouldn't be
placed right, although / endeavored to
explain things to him, but said You
60 back to Michigan where you belong,
you d--n carpet-bagger You have no
business down here. Wen drive your
organization out. Ihave driven the nail
to the head and placed both feet upon
it and am determined to stamp out the
Knights of Labor. This is all mine he
added. pointing with a sweep of the
hand over the whole town. But the
people have rights replied. What
rights?' he demanded. The right to
say whom they will work for, at what
price, and from whom they will buy.
This last item seemed to irritate Oliver.
for he stamped his foot and cried: Boy
cotters They have sent boycotters to
the penitentlarY in New York
Il left his mills, upon which be went
through his town from store to store
making harangues against me. Word
was sent to me through the Knights of
Labor that an effort would be made to
lynch me. But they didn't lynch me,
and l have returned north with new
knowledge. The Knights of, Labor will
break the domin eering spirit of the
slaVe-drivlng powers of the south"
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02

A Socialistic member of the German
reichstag has been fined and compelI ed
to refund to the government 10000
marks, the amount of pay received from
his party as member of the reichstag.
Members are not paid. as the system is
modelled after the British-wealth, not
brains or the people, shall rule. This is
a more cowardly way of keeping Social
lists out of the German parliament than
imprisoning or expelling then, and is
not calculated to weaken their influence
upon the people. But tyranny was al
ways blind.-St. Louis Champion.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-10-02
The south's New Slavery.

Thomas B. Barry. of the General Ex-
ecutive board of the Knights of Labor,
lately returned from Mississippi, where
he went to settle some factory troubles
and advance the interests Of the order.
He tells one of his experiences thus:
"On August % arrived in the town
of Wesson, to settle difficulty In the
Mississippi mills. Sixty employees had
been discharged for being Knights Of
Labor. 1 heard their case. and next
day called on the company to hear the