The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-06
Some Notions.


Some Notions.
The Ottawa Republican Is now talking Of
" land slides" In New York. Like that
one 10 Maine, perhaps, TRADER
Yes The official returns Of the late
elections show larger Republican vote In
1888 than In September, lsS+.-Republiean,
Now. really! True, the:repubicans did
have a larger vote by 69l than In 1884 The
democratic vote was larger by 2,7OO. The
republican majority In 1888 was 1919, 10
1884, on u smaller vote, 1000. Mr.. Re.
publican, are you tampering with crabs
Some OF the free whisky psrty's argu'
ments against free raw materials are quite
funny. Here Is one stuck up IN New
York street car
"Ready made clothing Is rs cheap In this
country as In free trade England II. New
York makes $S0,000,0O0 worth Of ready
made clothing. Ii you want 10 crush out
that industry vote for tue democratic party
and the Mills bill'
Now, isn't II curious? If clothing is as
cheap here of course none would be i'm.
ported even II free of duty, for freights,
packing, insurance and commissions would
make 1t too dear 70 import. Yet II 1t is
made to pay In addition to those charges
the 45 per cent tax of the Mills bill, $780,.
100000 worth will be imported! At the
same rate, II Harrison and Morton be cleo.
ted and the 40 cents pound and 35
per cent ad.valorem tax be continued, how
much will be imported9 The logic of the
above quotation is, the higher the tax the
greater the imports! Wonder what these
free whisky cranks think OF working men,
anyhow.
Speaking of tree wool and the dire dis
asters II threatens, one cannot but sympa
thiZe with the johnson Wool Extract Co.
This alleged extract Is not an OIL nor a
patent medicine, nor yet a hair restorative
not even corn salve But the head of
the firm says the Mills bill would wipe
out the business altogether" This is sad,
very sad when II is learned that the pro-
duct Is " sometimes COMPOUNDED with shod
dy;" but is not shoddy. Oh, no. What 1t is
he explained by saying 1--WE buy up large
quantities of rags, and In fact, anything
that contains wool, and by chemical pro-
cess produce wool fiber" which is man.
featured into cloth. Thisis not shoddy, he
says; but we are told rose by any other
name would smell as sweet, and no doubt
1t would. Then he went on to say: The
principal use this cloth Is put TO is the
manufacture of underclothing such as is
worn by the working people; !" and he de-
clared that the Mills bill, by taking off the
tax of One-tenth of the value of the II ateri.
al of this stuff and putting wool on the free
list, would close his factory. Now is not 1t
terrible,-this wrecking of u promising
Infant industry" that is blessing the
working people with shoddy underwear
instead of leaving them hopelessly to revel
In the demOralizing luxury of a good all
wool article which free wool would enable
them to buy.
49,
One of the flimsiest Of the campaign lies
of the republican literary bureau is the re-
turn to the old scheme popular In the times
OF anti rebellion tariff agitation OF making
alleged quotations from alleged English
newspapers to show that England wants
America to have free trade. The quota
lions then deceived no one, because at the
time they were made England was not a
free trade country. They were forgeries
uttered to work upon the prejudices of the
people, The same is true now, nearly ev-
cry one of the alleged quotations floating
around the republican press from the
interCcean and Chicago Journal to the
Ottawa Republican and Roses nose, being
deliberate forgeries, so proved and ac>
knowledged
There's that chestnut which Allen Thorn
dyke Rice's N. Am. Reoiew takes as the
text for a" symposium" in which several
nice gentlemen give the British shoel:
The only time England can use an Irish.
man is when he emigrates to America and
votes for free trade,
This credited to the London Times; but
II cannot be found in the files of that pa
per; and the Times denies ever having
said It.
Then there's another credited to the
EnqliM Iron Era TO the effect that:
The Golden club is trying to raise a
large sum of money TO be spent In further>
ing the free trade propaganda In America
There Is no such paper on the English
newspaper directory as the Iron Era; and
the Golden club is not raising the money
for the purpose named, for the good reason
that the Golden club In England Is not
certain that they want to see America have
free trade.
Recently these two quotations, with the
still further one credited TO the London
Spectator that
Grover Cleveland has done more to ad-
vance the cause of free trade than any
prime minister of England ever has done,
,unra (anI otIll ara 81 ab hy tho Hon, a