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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-06-30

A fourteen year'old son of Mr.. James
Carter. living at Grand Ridge, left home
rather suddenly last week, and going to
Streator purchased ticket to Edwards.
vile, Illinois. Since that all traces of
him has been lest. He was dressed in a
brown striped suit, with brown felt hat,
and suffers when he talks.
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FOR SALE.

FARM OF 40 ACRES, situated on the
west line Of BroOkheld ana east line of Grand Rapids
has three good dwelling houses, barns, cribs etc IN
good repair three good orchards IL well fenced anu
well watcred. VIII be sold in whole or IN part NJ
bargain either cash ON time. Apply on me preml
ses or address ". A MCCOLLl NJ.
jung3-6mOs' Dayton. la Sale county. limos.
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THE COURTS.
Comfy Court.

Judyments.-John Soldering v Bernard
Weygard, jr. by conf for p'aintif, S65l so.
Peter Weygsrd Same, by conf ieft, 1920.
Nsw Cases John Kane Maria Haskins,
asst, damages claimed 500. VIM Harth v
John White Ct a., asst, damages claimed,
$1,000.
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,Married.

AT Wayne, Delaware county Pa, June 26th, 1888, II
the Wayne Presbyterian church, oy the pastor. Rev
tawa H.. and Miss VI. HELEN EWING, of Radnor
Pa, formerly of Ottawa.
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Grand Rapids Matters.

Gold wave struk us first of the week.
w. +. Neeley shipped two fine colts to
Iowa last week, and realized $1,000,
John BrowDfeld spent Sunday 10 Mar
seilles.
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Seneca IDDiugs,

L. w. Brown expects to start for Colorado
on sunday 10 spend the summer,
Several OF our young people attended
the Morris High School Commencement
on Friday last.
Nusbaum's delivery wagon horse backed
off the canal dock into the canal the other
day, and, but for the timely aid of bystand-
ers, who cut the harness from him, would
have drowned.
A special election for president of the
board of trustees will be held. NJ. j. Ho-
gan and } Il Brown are the candidates.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-06-30
COUNTY NEWS.

Ben Harrison may point TO his grand'dad
on high,
And talk 10 the crowds all day,
But he won't be elected VIXEN winter Is
nigh,
For he isn't built that way
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-06-30

Loftant Is preparing tor big celebration
on the 4th. The big feature of the day
will be the fireworks in the evening, which
will be displayed from the water tank
tower. The programme for the day 10
REV. Il. Wasmuth Of Wenona, orator of
the day. Other speakers and toasts to fol.
low.
Miss Louise Stilwell will read the Dec
laration OF Independence.
Grand procession of societies, trades,
lnvincibles,' &c.
prizes for races, ball playing and pigeon
shooting.
"Music by the Lostant Cornet band"
A. w. Merritt Is president of the day
and G. f. Hobert marshal.
The Lostant band furnished music for
the ratification meeting at Wenona.
The Methodist church of this place has
raised the salary of Its pastor to 1850.
Children's Day was celebrated at the
Baptist church on last Sunday evening. A
very pleasing program was presented, and
large crowd turned out
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Marseilles Nlntters

The work OF placing machinery In the
cotton mill has come 70 a halt, at least tenn
porarily, owing to differences between the
proprietor and the water power company.
School has ended for the year, and the
town Is alive with children
The High School graduation exercises
consisted of "Salutatory," by Susie Il.
Tousiey; essay, "rhe Immigration Prob
lem" by Augustus Adams; essay, THE
Mormon Proolem,' by Josephine A. f
Keller, who also had the "Valedictory."
The audience was very large one and the
flowers endless.
Now doth the graduated girl,
Perched on ladder tall,
Tie ribbon on her sheep skin
And nail II to the wall.
hear supervisor Armstrong, OF Brook
field, has just finished building big barn,
and that Geo. NJ. Shaver, of Rutland has
gone to Chicago TO live.
The Baptist church Is undergoing re-
pairs which will not only improve Its ap
pearance, but also give enlarged seating
capacity, which Is much needed
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BARGAIN
IN
Corner Lots

Al the junction Of the c, II. & O. Ry and the Cana,
yALu ABLE FOR MANuFACTORY, or Tor Lum.
~ feet on the canal by 1850 feet ON the railroad
Price 1850, but we are authorized % accent 81 90 II
0feIed soon.
DIR. j. q. HARRIS a. SON.
Feb H. lSSs-tf
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HOMES IN Ten AS Can ss now =, i

anu investments there In
Will produce from - 10 10 per cent per year.
Those who have large email to invest will ace
wisely II they discard the Old chestnuts To Texas
ana ascertain the truth and those, whether rich or
poor, who are seeking new homes will find IN Texas
rich land that will produce all OF the crops raised IN
hot in summer a.d delightful IN wiLter an iHteee,,
law abiding people who never enquire OF the stranger
e. very low taxes; and that home can be secured in
Texas easier than In any other portion Of Uncle Sans
dominion, Prices are ddrdncing Buy now Call ON
us for maps and additional information or 10 with
some OF the hafare excursions and yourselves
msrSi-tf DIR. j. o. HARRIS q SON
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oppressed,

A NOTE to the Journal from Democratic
lawyer and friend, now in one of the Southern
States, says that he finds much opposition to
the appointment of Lamar to the Supreme
Bench, on the ground that be is not a lawyer
of ability and experience sufficient to warrant
his appointment. There is no question that
there is almost universal feeling of this kind
among lawyers, North and South alike, and
it only tends to emphasize and aggravate the
scandalous fact that the nomination was made
without any regard to fitness, bat simply fer POI
litical and partisan reasons. Yet the Southern
men, who oppose the appointment on grounds
of capacity, fariously assert that to reject it on
political grounds would be an outrage.
Why, pray, when the nomination is notori-
tusly political one, and when his confr-
.nation is urged solely upon political groundsf
If the Democrats in the Senate vote to con-
firm an unfit appointment from political con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.

The position of Speaker of the House of
government in the shaping and control of Leg
islation. The Speaker can do a great deal
more in this direction than the President
In the appointment of committees he Yields
great and arbitrary power. Those announced
by Speaker Carlisle for the present Congress
show the bent and direction of his mind, and
furnish some suggestive points as to the po-
litical situation. The constitution of the
committees reminds the country anew that
the Confederacy is in the saddle. Out of fifty
one chairmanships thirty 60 to Southern
States and twenty-one to the North. This is
according to the fitness of things. The Dem
ocratic party is in power, and the main
strength of that party is in the South. The
remains of the late Confederacy are its corner
stone. But for the solid South the Demo-
cratic party might well disband, 80 far as
engaging in national politics is concerned. It
is simply the political assignee in
Thirty committee chairmanships to the
South against twenty to the North is not at
all out of proportion. True, the wealth and
population of the country largely in the
Northern States as are all its great CONNER
cial activities and business interests but it
must be remembered the Democratic party is
in power, and that means the South. The
Speaker is Southern man well as DEM
ocrat, and he could not be expected to forget
his section. Not only a majority of the
chairmanships, but nearly all the important
and powerful ones, and majority of the in
fuentia1 places next to chairmanships go
South. The most important committee in
the House is. the ways and means. the chair
manship of which has always been sought by
members of the greatest ability. 1t is made
up with Mills of Texas, for chairman. who
ranks now great in administration
circles because he is a great free-trader.
Following him are Eve other Southern mem
bers, two Northern Democrats, and some
Republicans as tail-enders The country's
financial wisdom and its economic policy are
to come from Texas, Arkansas and
Georgia. Mr.. Mills is likely to prove
bull in china shop. Perhaps the next
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Mr.. Cleveland, which is about the Presidents
conception of the duty and dignity of his
several Secretaries
THE FOREMOST QUESTION.

The Chicago Inter Ocean says of Mr.. Sher-
mans speech on the tariff that che has sound
ed the keynote upon which the next campaign
will be pitched" This may or may not be
So No one has higher opinion of John
Sherman than the Journal and no one
indorses his tariff speech more heartily and
completely; but the Journal does not believe
that the next campaign should be pitched
exclusively upon the tariff as keynote, and
we do not believe that Mr. Sherman thinks so.
The tariff is one, and very important ques-
ton, but it is not the only question; neither do
we think it the most important. The vital,
fundamental question in this country at the
present time, is the observance and enforce
ment of the Constitution of the United States
and the equality of all men in the rights
uaranteed to them. This is the question
that should be pushed to the fore; it
is the question sneeringly called the
'bloody shirt by the Inurderers
and criminals who profit from political
crime, a sneer echoed by timid milksops and
Statesmen" whose brains are not large
onousA " eaho Al any Juliet Auoo enon enos Va
revising the duty paregoric. Tariff
reform is to take its proper and important
place in the next campaign; but if we are to
have another nerveless and spiritless canvass,
the result, in our opinion, will be defeat and
dishonor as well. The way to win is to make
a campaign that shall wake up the manhood
of the people; that shall inspire the heart as
crusade for the rights of men, the right of
one man to be as good as another, the right to
vote and have the vote counted, the right to
be represented, the right to work, the right to
ive-and if to make such crusade is to
"wave the bloody shirt, " then let the "bloody
shirt" be waved; and in this sign we conquer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, and the free-trade
pack that just now barking with him,
have much too say about the tariffs response
bility for the trusts" and combines" that
have lately developed. There is an elevator
trust" in Buffalo, and there is '.dock and
wharf trust in Brooklyn, and there are sfhard
coal trusts" in the anthracite region. Is there
any tariff duty on elevators and upon docks
and wharves, and on hard coal7 AS well
charge the tariff with the coal combine in In
dianapolis. However, the readiness to attrib-
ute every evil under sun to the operation of
the tariff serves to reveal the true animus of
Cleveland and his colleagues. They are OPP
posed to the tariff in toto; their present move
ment is but step toward their ultimate pur-
pose. 1t is very proper for believers in the
principle of protection to decline the aid of
the free-traders in correcting and revising the
tariff, no matter how profuse their overtures
of friendliness. We fear the gift-bearing
Greeks.
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most important committee is the Judiciary,
son, is also from Texas, though born in
Georgia. We have no information as to his
legal requirements, but as the record shows
he served during the war in the confederate
army, he has the same qualification for the
position that Lamar has for the Supreme
Bench. OF the committee on rivers and
harbors the chairman and every other Demo-
crat except one are from the South. If they
do not get their share of appropriations it will
not be the committees fault. Our merchant
marine and fisheries are intrusted to COM
mittee of which Mr.. Dunn, of Arkansas, is
chairman. Probably he does not know any
thing about those matters but as he served
in the confederate army, he can pass The
important Craftsmanship of the committee on
postofices and postroads goes to Mr.. Blount,
of Georgia, of whom, it is said, the
only postroad he knows is a red dirt road lead
ing up to his house, with mail-box nailed to
of the entrance posts. He will probably
introduce a bill to improve the road so the
carrier can dispense with his buggy and ride
a blind mule, and so make saving to the
Democratic administration. And so on for
quantity. Northern Democrats get only the
leavings after the South has been generously
provided for. This distribution of important
places means that the legislative affairs of the
Nation are committed to the hands of the late
L. l. L. III hat he
tain-head of political power and influence I'M
der Democratic rule is to be in the hands of
the late Confederacy.
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WHAT DOES MIR. CLEVELAND MEAN7

President Cleveland, in his free-trade mes
sage, declared that the internal taxes and
duties on luxuries should be retained. His
exact language was as follows:
"It must be conceded that none of the
things subjected to internal revenue taxation
are, strictly speaking, necessaries; there APP
pears to be just complaint of this taxation
by the consumers of these articles, and there
seems to be nothing so well able to bear the
burden without hardship to any portion of the
people. The taxation of 1uxuries presents NO
features of hardship, but the necessaries Of
life used and consumed by all the people, the
duty upon which adds to the cost of living
in every home, should be greatly cheapened.'
The reduction in the revenue must be in
the neighborhood of 800, 900, 900, if the Pres
dents views on preventing surplus are to be
met, and according to Mr.. Cleveland this rev.
enue must come off by reducing the duty on
manufactured goods. The amount derived
from the tariff last year was 1912, 032, 423 80.
Deducting from this amount $58, O04, 35S. SO
received on sugar and molasses, and 500, 522,-
323. % received from duties on liquors, tobac-
CO, jewelry, and articles of luxury, there is
left only $114, sos, 751.7S. 1t will be at once
ly the entire duty must come off upon manu-
featured articles and raw materials,
for the entire remainder of the revenue
received from all articles except those
ferred to is but fraction above what
Mr.. Cleveland says must be Topped off. If the
President knew what he was talking about, if
his message was anything but a mess of gen.
eralities. and sophistries, and untruths, then
what he recommends is tantamount to the
total abolition of all duty on raw materials
and manufactured goods. If it is not this,
we should like to see some friend of the Presi-
dent explain what his message really meant,
and what should be done in practical way
to carry out its recommendations, and prevent
the further accumulation of the surplus which
so disturbs the executive serenity. Possibly
Mr.. Cleveland will venture an explanation in
one of the promised supplemental messages.
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DIR. BURcHARD, of "R.s r. r." fame, who
blundered into notoriety and assisted Grover
Cleveland to blunder into the White House,
says: considering all the circumstances in
the case, cannot now help regarding Mr..
Cleveland as President of the United States
to-day by the direct appointment of God"
This is Burchard's modest way of claiming
that he was the humble instrument of exc
cutting the Almighty's plans. From the
cordial greeting he recently received from
the same opinion. Grover and Burchard
should retire from public gaze and fall on one
another's necks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07
MR.. LAMAR,S POSITION.

The committee of the Republican club of
New York which reported resolutions oppos-
ing Mr.. Lamar's confirmation, also submitted
statement from which the following is an
extract:
s'Mr. Lamar was once an avowed enemy of
the United States and sought the dissolution
of the Union. He believed in the sovereignty
of the State, the right of secession and the
extension of slavery in the territory then
free. While it was believed that these ques-
tons were settled by the success of Union
arms, and that tho insurrectionary States dis
banded their armies and accepted the terms
of peace. and promised to obey the Constitu-
ton and laws of the United States, yet it
must be said that this belief has not been
realized, nor has this promise been fulfilled.
Today throughout the States lately In
rebellion the right to vote and to have his vote
honestly counted is freely accorded to a
member of the Democratic party but denied
to Republicans. The Constitution and laws
of the United States are nullifed, ignored
and disobeyed with much impunity
as they were in the days of the
rebellion, when hostile forces stayed the
march of the Union armies The State of
Mississippi is an overwhelmingly Republican
State but the existence of the party as
political force has been for several years past
extinguished and the voice of the Republican
voter forcibly and fraudulentlv stifed. The
living and the blood of the murdered are cry
ing to the Nation for redress. AS consp1cu
GUS exponent of this Southern Democratic
plan to dominate the States and the Nation
stands L. O. c. Lamar. He sustains it at home
and reaps the unsanctified fruit of an iniquit-
Gus and unhallowed success. He revels lin
nulliication-in violation of the Constitution
and broken laws at home, while he speaks
loyalty and obedience at the North. At the
South it is the voice of Jacob-at the North
it is the hand of Esau."
This is we'll put. Democrats who cite Mr..
Lamars eulogy of Sumner as evidence Of his
political repentance can not cite a single ut
terance of his approving the constitutional
amendments and the legislation of Congress
designed to secure the results of the war. On
the contrary, he willingly appropriates and
enjoys political honors based on wholesale
fraud and crime. and has never word to say
it favor of fair elections or in condemnation
of the Mississippi plan.
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Now Is the Time to Subscribe.

Clay County Enterprise.
This year. of all others, Republicans of Indiana
should read the Indianapolis Journal. 1t is
decidedly the most ably edited paper in the State
always at the front every important ques-
ton, and reliable. When the journal knows a
thing it says it in a language that cannot be
misinterperted. 1t is timeserver for popular
ity, but will censure its own party and party
friends in their failure TO meet the questions of
the day in manly and honorable way. Aside
from its politics, the Journal is the best news
paper, and is more to be relied upon in market
financial and commercial reports. than any
other paper published in the Mississippi valley.
Every man in Indiana. difference what his
politics, will have invested his money well when
he subscribes for the journal.
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1T WAS NOT FINAL.

The Republican party voluntarily sur
rendered the negro ten years ago, and with
him the right to use his wrongs of suffrage
dogma of political faith. And that sur
render was fnal-Omaha World.
We are not prepared to deny the first asser.
ton of the World. The defeat of the force
bill, followed by the events that came in the
train of that action may have abandoned
the negro" that meaning, as we take it, an
abandonment Of the right and duty of the
government to protect equality of rights" in
the Southern States. But we do question
the assertion that 'the surrender was 6nal,"
if by that is meant that the people of the
North are precluded from agitation and
righteous rebuke of the damnable crimes
perpetrated against the rights of men in the
name and for the benefit of the Democratic
party. For time it seemed that milksoppery
was to triumph, and that the mouths of
honest men were to be closed by the shrek
of "bloody shirt" But, thank God, that
fear has passed away now, and there are
evidences of revival throughout the whole
North that presage public sentiment that
will stand like stone wall against the frauds
and murders that blacken the record and
disgrace the name of the Democratic party
Assassination and intimidation. murder and
ostracism. are not to be forever condoned in
the name of aerveless craftsmanship and
shameless mersantilism. The voice of our
brothers blood crieth from the ground; and if
the Republican party is chargeable with
having Surrendered" in any degree, that
surrender is not final. There is to be such thun-
der along the whole sky as has not been heard
since the days when Sumner and Stevens,
and others like them, were not afraid to
demand justice for the poorest and the most
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had always spent four hours in each day in The
open air, unless prevented by storm. He
added that his riding, of which the newspapers
had made much. was primariIy for the pur-
pose of being out of doors, and not of being on
horseback.
AND now the gay and festive kid
Skates on his skates quite chesry,
But when mamma wants bucket Of coal
He suddenly grows weary.
Toledo Commercial.
THERE was an old man named Lamar,
Who fought with the rebels In the war,
This wicked old coon,
Who believes in Calhoun
Should be left in the cold. sir. ha ha.
New York Press
LEAP YEAR.
Leap till the last armed male expires;
Leap for your husbands and for sires;
Leap for . chance to build the fires,
Fair ones throughout the land!
oil City Blizzard.
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THE Manchester Guardian, English free
trade organ, bubbles ov er with joyful approx
al of Mr.. Lowell's speech, and says: What
strikes Mr.. Lowelrs eye and pains his heart
in the practice Of protectionism in the United
States is the moral. social and political evil
which it has wrought" 1t will surprise most
people to learn how demoralized and degraded
the American people have become under pro-
lection, and perhaps they will feel grateful to
Mr. Lowell and his kind for publishing the
fact to the world. Perhaps we had better
import few ship-loads of comfort and cult
ure from the tenement houses of Manchester.
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Col. Thompson.s New Book.

The Journal has already alluded to the i'm
portant book about to be brought out by Hon.
Richard w. Thompson. of this State 1t is a
history of the industrial and commercial legisla-
ton of the government--or, to speak more
tersely, of tariff legislation-from the earliest
days of the government to the present time
The timeliness of the work, and the eminent quail
ifications of the author to produce at once his
tory of interest and of standard authority. viii
make its publication important event in cur
rent literature. Whatever Colonel Thompson
does he does WE'LL and in this work he has
brought into action unequaled knowledge and
experience. and trained literary faculties Of the
highest kind. The book will consist of forty -six
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07

THEY have a Mcclellan Veteran Club in
Chicago composed of Democratic soldiers.
The other night one of the members of the
executive committee introduced resolution
indorsing the nomination of Mr.. Lamar to be
a justice of the Supreme Court. 1t caused a
heated discussion, which ended in the resolu-
ton being laid upon the table by vote of 8
dragooned into approving so unfit an appoint
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