The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-10
Current Events.

The great battle has been fought, and
Harrison and his party have won 1t, having
carried New York and Indiana, Connect.
cut and New Jersey going for Cleveland.
To Gov. Hill and New York and Brooklyn
politicians the control OF the state and city
machinery is Of vastly greater personal I'm
portance than the great cause OF tax reform
In the nation, and the national democratic
party suffers, as II has suffered before, from
these causes The battle could have been
won but for those causes; the democratic
party will always suffer until those causes
are eliminated from New York politics, or
until the party In the West shall be In a
position TO dictate TO the East. That day
will come The principles of the demo
cratic party are eternal; and as the two
great parties stand at this day, the democ-
Tacy Is as great as ever, as strong as ever,
and will grow greater and stronger every
year,--for the cause u low taxation, oppo-
sition to trusts and mon 2polies is right,
and the right will prevail. The seeds Of
tariff reform sown In this campaign will
terminate and develop like the grain Of
mustard seed, until rs branches shall
cover the earth. The cause Of CONNER
cal liberty the cause OF the people rs
against the aristocracy of monopoly, Is
slow In It's progress, but II Is overwhelm-
ing when Us flood tide has been reached.
That great cause has started on ms Indus
trial emancipation in this country. The
day will come when the rights Of the pro-
ducer shall triumph and this triumph will
come through the democratic party.
The campaign Of Gov John VI P,lmer
In this state was magnificent Onp,--the
browning work of a long busy and hon
CRADLE career. The northern part Of the
State, whore the wealth of the State Is
largely concentrated, responded royalty 20
mis- demand for reform in taxation, and In
the management Of State Institutions. on
a basis Of less benefits % office holders In
proportion 70 the gifts 20 the insane and
the helpless. II l., and always will be,
a crying shame that, while II costs the
State $4,000 70 feed and care for its
unfOrtunates In State Institutions, the men
who manage those concerns should absorb
SGs3,000 in salaries, &c. II is also crying
shame that an army Of constables, under
the control OF private corporation, should
usurp the police powers of the State; and
If that outrage is abolished, and II doubt
less will be, the working men will In after
days rise up and bless John M. Palmer for
his grand effort To bring about that reform.
He will never be governor, but the attack
he has made on State abuses can hardly
fail to bear fruit; and his defeat will give
him and the people a substantial victory.
Pinkerton and the State pap-suckers are on
top today, but they will not stay there, and
when they go, as they must 90 one day,
John N. Palmer will be the man whom the
people can thank for sending them.
The law prohibiting the importation of
contract labor has some curious phases,
after all A year ago heavy fine was
imposed on the trustees of Trinity (Epis-
copal) church, New York, for import
Ing certain we'll known English divine,
whom they had hired to preach to them
from the pulpit of that venerable and pow
erful church. He PROFESSIONALLY came to
America "under contract" but, after al,
law that Furnishes him, or his parishion-
ers for calling foreigner 10 administer the
sacrament to them, and on the same day
allows a ship.load of "paupers" TO land to
seek their concealed employers In the
mines of Pennsylvania because their pre-
ylous contract cannot be proven, though
known, is very much like the republican
tariff bill Of 1888 which reduced the duty
on playing cards and increased 1t on books.
And the other day, when company of |
chorus girls landed 10 sing at the Standard |
theatre, certain good friends Of labor y J
expected Collector Malone 10 stop them
but he did not. Working men can never |
be protected by such shams. Nor can they |
be protected by the sham protection of to-
day 1t is Just as sensible 10 talk OF pro, |
tectlng cotton by putting a duty on cotton
cloth To protect labor duty must be
lsved on tutor, and not on the article labor |
produces Mr. Howard we'll stated the case
In his letter published last week Ameri- |
can labor can easier compete with products
than II can with labor. II is not cheap pro-
ducts that degrades labor; II Is cheap labor.
That Is the contest of American labor to-
day: with cheap labor, and not with cheap
products What he wants IL cheap pro- |
ducts and high wages; what stares him In
the face IL cheap wages and dear products.
The former benefits him at both ends of
his purse string; the latter makes him
poorer at both ends.
On an inside page considerable space Is |
given TO the troubles In Hayti, which |
luIchtcu LILO AutcI COLO VI <AucllCHL Ill t1ht |
country II was intended, as will be seen,
20 send the Kearsage, but that order has
been revoked, and on the I'd orders were
given the steel cruiser Boston 10 proceed to
Port'au- Prince, She arrived on the Sd at
Kingston, and Is now AT Port au- Prince.
Hayti is under the government of negroes
and our correspondent alluded TO shows
quite happily what beautiful mess Sambo
Is making Of his chances.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
Of Secretary Endicotts daughter TO the
we'll known Joseph amberlip, of Eng>
land who Is now on his way to America.
An unnamed disease is said 10 be caus.
ing fearful mortality In Southern China,
rivaling yellow fever In the South when
seen In Its worst form. The disease is thus
described: the patient feels a slight head.
ache, followed with nausea, when the VIC
tim almost Immediately falls dead.
Cardinal Newman Is seriously ILL.,
The accident to the railway train carry,
ing the Tsar and Tzarina OF Russia, wreck
ed some days ago, has been reported as
merely an accident; but later reports lead
TO the opinion that the accident was but
another nihilist attempt on the life of the ,
Tsar. The train left the track, and the
royal occupants emerged from the wreck