The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-28
of all our people, II WAS, Ottawa and Dix.
on would not offer such large suma Of mon

OF oil our pe0po, IL IL Wac, OttaWn anu DlA'
on would not offer such large suma Of mon
ey for the purpose Of getting manufacturing
establishments. 1t makes q market and
builds up their cities. IfMendota continues
to boom this way, we will soon have to send
our butter and eggs to OTTAWA and Dixon
to get them eaten.' Here Mr.. Wills admits
that 1t is not the protective tariff that makes
market and builds up our cities, but those
large sums Of money, the $25, 900 presume
given to the baby manufacturing establish
ments; but let Mr., Wills and the other peo-
pie Of Mendoza, who have butter and eggs to
sell, console themselves with the pleasing re.
Election that the interest on S2j, 900 Isl 700
will each year pay the freight on great
many dozens of eggs and pounds Of butter
both in Ottawa and Dixon and Chicrgo, too.
Mr.. Willis gives quite number of statis-
tics on the authority Of Funk and Wagnell s
n. Y. presume they must have been taken
at the time England and France kept their
surplus grain in Russia, India and the Uni
ted States, the grain that brought us back
English gold but as they ..aresnot relevant
to the subject of free trade and 1.-THE tariff,
will only give two quotations as sample:
"The average price of wheat in New York is
So to $4 per 100 lbs; in England, $3.50 per
100 lbs" In a Scotch newspaper Of last
month barrel -four Qikely from America)
was quoted in Ayr, Ayrshire, at $2.o4 per
100 lbs; 4 ID. loaf of bread at 10 cents.
I will now quote little piece Of bun
combe: "a word to our free trade friends,
who complain so much about being taxed to
DEATH They had better settle down on this
fact, that they live in the best country in the
world, pay less tax and live better than
those in other countries" know Mr.. Wills
has very pleasant home, and so have the
most of people in La Sale county, and they
ought to be 80 far satisfied. We are near
coal pits and have plenty of cheap coal to
keep US comfortably warm, and we have no
dread of the billiards. of the north. But
let Mr.. Wills, if he please, suppose himself
only few years settled in Dakota or North.
ern Minnesota, and striving to make himself
a home; has built himself a little house Tx
l6 feet with lumber taxed 81 per 1000 IT,;
he is trying to warm his little family, shsk
ing with cold, with taxed coal that costs hin,
$40 per ton, conveyed to his nearest railroad
station on rails that were taxed $23 and ST.
per ton and that the scanty blankets in his
possession were taxed 95 per cent, and the
Undertaking of himself and family taxed
so and 60 per cent and suppose that the
members of his little family were almost
freezing, and his limited supply Of Goa
about gone, and at the same time enc o.
those most terrific storms was raging thai
we read Of in the papers few days ago, il
which so many lives were closed in the froz
en- embrace of death Il would ask Mr.Wills
if he could on his Bonded knees thank Goo
that his protectionist party, as he believes
in their great wisdom and from no selfish
motives, had seen fit to use their Influence
and means for the purpose of having suct
duties imposed on the necessaries Of life T.?
WALTHAM.