The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-25

congressional committee 10 DE placed Oh
| file and preserved, showing that the re-
publican party Is represented by men who
preach one thing and practice another, and
that self.interest is the only motive govern.
| ing their actions.
The committee left New York on Tues
day for Boston, which they expect to prove
a rich field, MS the high protective tariff
mill owners of the New England States
are said 10 take Nil the benefits OF protec.
ton 10 themselves and 10 import under
contract pauper labor from Europe and
Canada.
Mr.. Mills has information that large
sums Of money are being sent into his dis
trict by the protectiOnists 10 assist In the
fight against his return 10 congress. The
same game which was employed In Illinois
two years ago against Mr.. Morrison, and In
Kentucky against Mr.. Carlisle, Is 10 be
tried In Texas this year against Mr.. Mills.
II Is no longer new game, however, and
being thoroughly understood, Will Mr..
Mills believes, be beaten by the democracy
of his State. In his last run for congress
Mr.. Mills received over 5000 majority.
The senate having requested the fisheries
treaty, the President on Thursday sent
message TO congress recommending re-
taliatory measures. The Canadians having
refused TO grant TO Americans their well
defined rights under the existing treaty,
the President recommends that rights of
transportation OF goods In bond duty free
across U. b. territory, as stipulated by the
said treaty, be withdrawn. This would
effect about $27O,OOO,0OO worth of goods
passing through U. s. custom houses TO
and from Canada.
The treaty was designed to settle all
existing difficulties, and the President be-
lieves II would 80 have settled them but
the senate having rejected II without
much discussion of the treaty on Its merits,
(the discussion having largely been In the
nature of attacks on the administration
and twisting the British lions tall and
without suggestion Of amendment, the
President believes there Is no other course
practicable under the circumstances,
though, as In cases of all retaliatory meas
ures, IL is apt to react 10 the detriment of
American interests TO a certain extent.
The senate 80 far forgot Its dignity and
the courtesy due the President, that II ad.
journed, on motion OF Edmunds, who
remarked that the message could wait"
1t was read ia the house and applauded by
the democratic side, and Wilson, of Mime
tration 10 carry the recommendations of
the message into effect.
II anything were necessary 70 prove the
utter failure of the Illinois assessment law
TO bring about true assessment, the annu.
al returns 70 the State Board would be
enough. Notwithstanding the state is
growing richer every DAY, or ought 70 be,
the assessment for this year shows that II
has declined In value over IS millions dur
Ing the past year. Only ten counties,
apparently, can show an increase, while all
the rest show a decrease, Mclean (Blcom,
ingtOn) as much AZ g., GA, 600 and IL others
from 100000 upwards, La Sale being
credited with loss Of $443,475 The total
assessment OF the state is $706 304 500.
This system Of assessment, OF course, has
Its effect In the rate per cent, which is
higher or lower az the assessment Is large
or small; and, no doubt, our republican
friends will make use Of IT. but the fact
that the amount of state tax they have
levied has been rapidly increasing, being
last year about AZ per cent higher than the
year before, remains cold, naked fact
which their learned and ingenius disputa-
lions on rates per cent" have not yet sue
ceeded In clothing with presentable gar
ments. In Gov. Palmer's term the rate
may have been higher and was; but Pal
mers administration paid nearly $2,5O0,OOO
of debt, and extraordinary state expenses
tnntlans En- Al
equally great levy of 1887 we're for ordin
airy expenses; and that they were extrava-
gantly high for the state no man who looks
nj them In sober spirit of enquiry can
question.
Gen. Ben Harrison has gone - Middle
Bass Island In Lake Erie, TO rest his arm
and his-mouth. Since Blaines return
Quay's orders to keep Harrisens mouth
closed, have been pretty well obeyed, and
this trip WAS made quietly ami without
ostentation." Ii Is 80 bad to have Blaine
deluging the country that Quay absolutely
refused to be responsible for the additional
rivulet that might flow from Harrison.
After all, Harrison Is really coming to be a
pitiful figure In his subordlnation to Blaine
and the Blainic crowd. His own personal.
ity will be quite stranger TO him after this
campaign Is over and he resumes possess
Ion of himself in the quiet of his Indian
apolis home. He will aouotless feel more
like a man, however.
The Hon Allen G. Thurman opened the
campaign at Port Huron, on Wednesday,
from which city he goes to Chicago, where
he will speak (at the Cheltenham Beach
barbaque) to-day. The Port Huron speech
was confined to the tariff, and was superb
effort In the course of the argument he
said Let me speak of American labor
IS compared with labor In other countries.
II Is true, In America generally working
men receive more wages In money than In
foreign lands, but by no manner of means
TO the extent you may suppose from hears
ing b much about II. The average daily
wages In Great Britain Is 81; cents; In New
England, $102; Ohio, $lOs; Colorado,
$l.45. In the entire United States, where
the population Is only twenty four 70 the
square mile, $1l2 Is the average daily
wages Does that not merely prove tina,
the denser the population, the greater Ia
the competition and the lower the wages.
And you hear great deal about the pau.
per labor Of England, and yet you see tina,
In that most prosperous state Of Massachu.
sets the average wages are only about 4
Canta mora than In ENGLAND .nd ~ -,