The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-09-22

When this document will see the light he
did not say, but he did remark that the
committee would take Its time about It,"
which seems likely.
The Senate has Instructed It's finance
committee TO examine into the copper
trust The subject is interesting Perhaps
the learned Senators will explain some Pc
culiaritles Of the copper trade. For exam
pie, some years ago American manufactur'
ers of raw copper were able TO buy Ameri-
can copper in England, paying return
freight and still getting II cheaper than
they could buy II In America! They took
advantage of the law that admitted practi-
cally free of duty the return OF American
goods in original packages. The copper
mine owners stopped that, however, as soon
as they found II out, by providing Tor the
destruction of the original packages IN
EngLand! Then Americans paid Amerl-
Can prices for American goods, which II
seems are vastly higher than English
prices for the same American goods. The
Senate may be able 10 say whether the
American price is equal TO the foreign
price with duty added or only 90 per cent
Of II.
The Senate passed the Chinese exclu-
sion bill and on Monday voted down mo-
ton TO reconsider. Then Edmunds at
TEN pied 10 detain the bill, from getting 10
the President, by resolution, but that, too,
was given up 1t Is another Of those stupid
schemes TO get the President "in hole
by making him sign bill violating treaty
stipulations or lose "tne Slope" by a veto.
The end Is not yet, but the whisperings are
that the President and Mr.. Bayard have
had more recent news from China than MIR.
Elmunds, (Which he did not take pains to
enquire about and that the hole was filled
up before II was made and new one dug
into which Br'er Edmunds a a., may take
a tumble. 1t is curious to note how fast
Mr.. Edmunds Is extinguishing himself.
With Grover Cleveland at the White
House four years longer, a microscope Will
be needed 10 find Edmunds.
In the course OF the debate on Monday
on the bill 10 create department of agri-
culture Senator Plumb described the com
petion which American farmers meet In
the markets of the world from South
America, Australia, India, and Africa, and
declared that unless existent conditions
were changed India wheat would sell In
New York In five years, duty paid, In com.
petition with American wheat Mr.. Plumb
is one of the tax-ophobists. He thinks the
agricultural commissioner should also be
tax ophobist, one who will save the
farmers from pauper competition by add.
ing IN re- taxes TO those the farmer
already pays! There Is less danger of
India competition in New York than there
is that the republican policy of destroying
all foreign trade will close up the farmers
market for his surplus and compelling him
to sell In that "home market" they have
been promising but have never given him.
The republican plan cuts both ways with
the farmer: II taxes what he consumes and
would cut of his outlet for the surplus he
has to sell. When that day comes the
American farmer may not be slave In
name but he will be In fact.
The yellow fever plague has taken un.
disputed possession OF Jacksonville, Flori.
da, and Is daily increasing Its rSvages
During the week there has not been day
when the NUMBER OF new cases has been
under 100 and has exceeded 100. The av-
erage has been about 1875, with deaths
mum bering from IL to 20 per day. The
total number Of cases to Thursday night
had reached 1895, with 1872 deaths. Busi.
ness, of course, IL at o stand still, and there
IL much suffering In the city aside from
that of the fever directly. Thursdays tel,
egrsms report that refugees have carried
the plague beyond Jacksonville. At Gaines.
Vile the fever has appeared, - well as al
Fernsndnia. 81. Augustine is surrounded
by 1926 armed men for the purpose OF pre-.
venting persons from entering the town
Two deaths have occurred at Henderson,
Vile, N. G. Memphis ia In terror at the
report of case In the old infected quarter
Of that city. An attack would probably be
not 30 bad ~ the last one, as the city has
been improved by proper sewerage, but
the authorities now, regret that quarantine
had not been established At Decatur, Ala,
10 new cases were reported on THURSDAY !;
and the prediction Is made that the plague
will spread all over the south. 1t appears
that the earliest frost at Jacksonville for
the last six years was Nov. 18tA.
John Dillon, the Irish Nationalist, has
been recalled from Dunkalk jail. The res
lease Is a surprise, Notwithstanding he Is
undeniably III, which was given by the
authorities as reason for his release. The
tories object, saying that II III he could
have been removed TO hospital; the libe'
rails proclaim the act as one which indicates
a weakening BY Balfour.
On Friday last an excursion train on the
b. and o. road at Ankeytown, o., left the
track, and ran into q freight train, after
which the engine exploded. Nine persons
we're killed and many we're injured.
The lurid Herr Most, who has spent
about all the time since the anarchist hang
Ing at Chicago In jail for riotous conduct at
that time In New York, Is again at large
and has Issued flaming circular inviting
his associates 10 celebration Of Nov. 18th,
In memory of the hanged anarchists,
A sensational telegram came on Saturday
from Hillsboro, ILL.,, announcing death
from genuine Asiatic cholera; hut 1t proves
To have been fatal case of cholera NOR
bus, which has similar symptoms, though
the causes are widely different, Asiatic
cholera being due to germ
The latest crop report from Dakota indi
cate loss of 35,000,000 bushels In the
wheat crop as compared with last year and
%, 000, 600 bu. as compared with two years
ago.
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