The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-07-21

@lN NC DFtNH UNto yVu ffee W NtH"S VIZ"
Free Tobacco" Reps, LIST Chap, and last
Verse, RECESSED Edition.
My brethren, in response to the plead.
ings of my conscience and an humble de-
sire to aid my fellow Republicans, have
chosen the above text as tue foundation OF
my present discourse. The text, when
properly analysed, Is one that should call
forth your appreciation, your gratitude and
your unbounded thankfulness that the vi
tality of this nation and her best interests
are dependent upon people whose noble
generosity Is SO clearly expressed IN tine
language of my text. One Of the highest
attributes of man, Is mans liberality 10
man, and the text only points TO one of
their almost numberless, similar innate traits
OF liberality, as 1 shall endeayor to prove
70 you In this discourse. The authors who
fitted that plank into the Republican plat
form, knew well the necessities of an over.
burdened, hand calloused, povertyridden
people, Is there one In my congregation
who doubts their foresight, or fails - com.
prehend the noble sacrifice made In this
free.will Offering in your behalf-Iet him
reflect for moment, and consider the
Thousand and one times he has paid 1Oc for
bug juice, when in his pocket he felt that
he ought TO have had II for &c.
Some Of you perhaps may say, In your
ignorance of the workings of the great and
glorious Reps, that you would rather they
had removed the tax on the necessaries OF
life, such as groceries.
Poor deluded man!
This very fact, that II was not removal
of the tax on groceries, Is still greater
disclosure of their keen foresight and I'M
firing watchfulness over their pet lambs
the voter and tax payer for II requires but
the brain of child to discern that they
fOresaw that If they removed the tax on
groceries, and few of the delicascies that
the poor are prone TO banker after-the
result would be suicidal TO the laboring
clases-they would eat themselves TO death
In four weeks, and would be preaching TO
an empty house and my last years salary
unpaid. 1t is such keen forethOught as
this that brightens their lives and calls for
a gold medal from each of their laboring
constituents. 1t shows the ever ready hand
to prevent you from falling into the perils
of gluttOny. No man ever repented on
full stomach; 1t is not recorded In history
save that he repents of having eaten too
much, and this Is what they would guard
against.
You think your condition hard one.
Look at the mOnopolist, the money lender,
the bloated bendholder, the capitalist, the
land grabber and protected manufacturer
all are in misery compared TO the man who
Is compelled to labor for the necessaries of
life. Alright they close and bar the doors
to their gilded palaces that your tax con-
tributions have wrought, ana lie down on
their gold.lined cOuches to dream that the
measley tramp has entered In the dead
hours of night and carried away their solid
silver ware or their diamonds, constructed
from the tears of sorrow shed by you over
you imaginary burdens, and which they
kindly cOndescend to wear In sweet remem.
brance of you. Think you, my brethren
and sisters, that all of you combined could
could raise enough solid silverware to en-
tice tramp six rods from a railroad? No!
but your conscience Is clear, and you sleep
sound, and here again Is displayed the
generous, self.yielding propensities of the
rulers of the Reps. who are willing to bear
these burdens for your good, and take their
chances of being yanked bald.headed by
the tramp or midnight prowler.
Again: Their noble spirit shines out in
the fact that they tax your clothing. Now
it is plain to be seen that if this tax was
removed you could all dress like kings and
it would make you proud, vain and naughty.
You would become stiff -necked people"
In this, again, they display their ever pres
ent, unyielding exertions for the welfare of
you and your posterity. o, brethren, think
of these things, study them with an hum
BILE spirit OF submission, and In November.
vote for an extenuation of these principles
no matter If you are tax,ridden, fettered,
bound In slavery to giant monopoly.
Through all these slight tribulations comes
the fact. freighted with joy as the sudden
bursting of the CLEAN that shoots from the
lighthouse across the surging waters to the
returning mariner, that you are adding
smiles around their homes Is not this to
you priceless rec0mpense?
Then grin and bear 1t; let the world see
that you can live as long on poverty and
the anticipation of getting poorer as the
next man; but vote for them, keep them In
power and learn to recognise the fact that
you are ignorant-too exacting--that man
wants but little here below" and then my
dear BRETHREN
When your last dying ember refuses to
burn
And you are cremated In the furnace
of taxation,
Let them still levy a tax on your ashes
in the urn,
To protect the monopolies of our ma
ton. G. WIFI.