The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-11

The British extradltion treaty has been
shelved by the Senate, Its confederation
having been postponed until December
next
Chicago had horrible murder on We'd
nesday morning Amos }. Smell, an old res
ident, having been shot by burglars In his
own residence on the west side. The rob
bers had gone through the safe, taking
some $4,000 In county warrants and checks,
and had piled the silver In the middle OF
a room, when Mr.. Smell attacked them
with q revolver To make their escape,
they shot him twice, killing him. No clue
has been found of the murderers though
some arrests have been made OF suspicious
parties.
The Metropolitan National Bank of Gin
cinnati has failed, and President Means ar
rested and held in 100000 bonds. An eN-
animation discloses the fact that lis man
agement was as rotten "a that OF the
infamous Fidelity. lis means were used
by It's directors in speculation, and the
Bank itself invested in numerous wild cat
land schemes. The depositors will lose
heavily.
Some few weeks ago the y. Y. 7yibune
sent out invitations 70 Representative lar.
mersn TO meet nj the Fifth Avenue Hotel
n. Y, 10 formulate the farmers " views
on the tariff all expenses OF those attend
ing, travelling and hotels TO be paid by the
Tribune. The scheme was so palpably
one 70 gather togather a body of protection.
lists and give TO their uttersnces the appear.
anCe pr,md fdcie of genuine manifesto
by "the farmers" that few Of the genuine
article Of farmer were trapped into attend
ing,-"expenses paid" Nevertheless this
gathering of famous Farmers" met, and
appointed committee headed by that
celebrated granger, wood Pulp" wv. b.
Miller, who have made report, asking for
duty on horses and cattle that which say
are "frsuduleDtly imported On the pretense
that they are for breeding purposes only;
20c duty on barley, 25c. on potatoes and
onions; SO per 100 on cabbages, 50 ton
on hay; &c. per doz. on eggs; 30 per cent
on fowls; duties on linens, etc, bounties TO
sugar growers; and restoration of the
wool tax of 1867, etc, etc. In short, I'VE
farmers" want the wool tax raised, Is the
gist OF the business Happily America is
not iocd importing nation. 1t never i'm
ports potatoes except when her own crop Is
short and she needs them TO feed her POOR
as well as rich farmers as well as trades
men; New York only buys Holland eggs
when she can not get the fruit Of the Amer
lean hen; and no one has had suspicion
that the home production of the savory
enion was damaged by the millionaire's
fad of eating the Spanish article at % to SOC.
a pound and the farmer. surely, Is too wary
a fowl to be caught by the chaff of tax on
poultry, thrown into his eyes to blind him
while the numerous trusts" ego through"
his pockets,
The wool men, growers and some Of the
had meeting in Washing
ton not long ago 10 TX up tariff on woods
and woolens, AS they wanted It; and this
schedule, it Is now announced, is 10 be
adopted by the republican members of the
ways end means committee rs the republi
can programme as TO wOolens. IL shows
how far away from the republican platform
of 1884 present republicans have wandered,
and that tariff reform In the house of Its
friends" is fearful and wonderful thing.
In the first place, this new tariff lays a
duty of 30 per cent on raw goat skins to
protect the coarse" rO0I growers. The
result would be to ruin two great industries
(the tanning and dressing Of morocco
leather and the manufacture of ladies'
Gloves which have ilourished under free
raw goat skins, and also break down the
Infant manufacture of shawls, &c, which
has sprung into existance because of free
goats hair. But this is not all. With
NIL ta,;H lnotarp
the duties on all woolens, but in such way
as to make the most excessive burdens fall
on the woolens worn 10y the poor For
instance, they increase the tariff on poor
mans blanket from "a per cent To 100 per
cent, while the rich mans fine blankets Is
increased from n to only 80 per cent; the
poor mans cloth from 80 per cent to l2S,
and the rich mans only 81 cheap tannels
from 81 TO 122 per cent, and fine tlannels TO
only 1903; cheap shawl to 1876 per cent and
n dear one to only 81; a poor mans hat
costing 47C pound Is raised from tax Of
% to 1876 per cent, while rich mans costing
+ 80 per pound, Is increased to only 20 per
cent This increase, Is all, Of course in the |
interest Of the laboring man. And
yet the lo,oest duties are levied on the
very goods that have in them the greatest |
amount of labor And this is protection to
American Mb0r'
A meeting was held in Kansas City on
Wednesday, in the interest of Springer's
bill to open up the Indian Territory to
or that part of II called mo
Mans Land" lying west of the Five
Nations. The resolution favorS the open
Ing Of the territory TO actual settlers only.
An important petition has been sent to
Congress by l45 firms of furniture manu-
factureis, asking for free raw materials of
their business. The petitioners represent
1917 millions of capital and nearly $4,000
men. The taxes they have been paying on
raw materials are from 30 to 1924 per
cent.
Mr.. Henry Georges expression that the
labor party would not nominate candi- |
date for president, has gotten him into
trouble with his party; and the chances are
now that he will either be read out of it or
forced Into more humble place in its
ranks
ABOUT WAGES.