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The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
FREE WHISKY.
place.

1t goes without saying, that the republi'
can platform adopted at Chicago, as the
Christian Union says, "offends the common
conscience of the nation as much as Its
common sense. To the average man the
demand that the war taxes shall be main
tained rather than diminish the bounties to
the favored few, is prote ction reduced to
absurdity. In an equal degree the demand
that the war tariff on necessities shall be
maintained even though its maintenance
Involves a whisky deluge, is prote ctioD
welded to iniqui'y,'
A few statistics IN regard to whisky full
ly illustrate and justify this strong language
Up to the war the manufacture of distilled
spirits in the United States had been free
from all taxation by the federal govern
ment, and as it averaged in price through
II the United States not more than ~
e,nts per gallon the consumption was
enormous, and delirium tremens was q
common scourge. The establishment OF
the internal revenue system in 1862, and
the consequent great increase in the price
of liquor Immediately showed its effects
In 1860 the consumption of whisky had
reached S9,9GS,65l gallons. In 1870, with
large addition to our population, the cor
sumption had fallen to 19,S95,70S gallons
and in 1880 to ~, 26l GA gallons.
The reduction in consumption becomes
the more striking when considered rela
ativelv to population. In 1910 when the
whisky production was 43060,Ss4 gallons
and the population 1909 ,453, the con
sumption averaged SO gallons per capita
In 1860 it averaged 2S6 per capita; but il
$780, with population that had nearly
doubled since 1860, the consumption haC
fallen to AZ gallons per capita. "Tht
amount of whisky consumed in the United
States today" said Mr.. Blaine in hi
cent of that consumed thirty years ago.
The figures show the effect of the inter.
nal tax lev on whisky was steady decrease
of the consumption, year by year, SO thai
steady pursuance in the tax for few de
cades more promised almost total exter
patton of the whisky scourge.
But rather than surrender "any part" OF
our present enormous useless, and in sc
many cases admittedly injurious and vi
cious tariff levies, the republican party
would reverse this whole hopeful order OF
things, and renew the old whisky flood
with all its attendant delirium tremens
horrors. Is not the Christian Union there
fore justified in saying, not only that the
republican platform offends the common
conscience and the common sense of the
nation, but also that II reduces protection
to sbsurdity, and weds 1t to iniquity?
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

The noteworthy part about this table is,
that II not only gives the highest wages
paid In the U. s. and the loloest In England,
but with but one or two exceptions, 1t gives
the wages paid In occupations In the U. s.
which are wholly unprotected and In no
way affected by the tariff. In what way
are blacksmiths, bricklayers, machinists,
railroad engineers &c, protected" or even
remotely affected by the tariff? To be
honest, the Inter Ocean ought to have given
a comparative table of wages paid the
cotton and wool spinners and weavers In the
two countries, the cord wainers, glass
blowers, nailers, &C., &c, with the fact,
which even j. G. Blaine admits In his
book, that taking into account the greater
number Of hours Of work and the greater
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
Our friend Allen, who devotes anot

Our friend Allen who devotes another
column Of the Republican to the FREE
TRADER, must see that 1t would be ridicu
lous on our part to argue with him when
there is nothing to argue about. What he
Is "trying to get through him." we suppose
is to show that the Walker revenue tariff
of 1s46 was failure, because for portion
of the term of its existence (from 1S47 to
1S6W 1t failed to produce enough revenue
to meet the wants of the government,
This much of MIR. Aliens position II
true, that for the fiscal years 1858, SO, SC.
the revenue tariff (of 1857 did not produce
income enough, owing to the panic of 1857
which was the result entirely of financial
heresies-wild' cat money, &c. Prior &C
that time, as every reader of our history
knows, the Walker tariff did produce rev
enue enough. 1t was so thoroughly salts
factory that the whole subject Of the tariff
was dropped for years, and the republic
aside from the slavery agitation) enjoyed
Its golden era;-a happy period, Is one
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

"Certain grades of woolen goods" says
the Inter Ocean, "are as cheap in Iowa as
in England"
That, according to Ben Harrison, the
republican candidate, is very bad. In a
speech in Chicago on the Goth of last
March, he said:
| am one Of those uninstructed political
economists who have an impression that
some things may be too cheap; that l CO.
hot find myself in full sympathy Win tnj
demand for cheaper coats VIII i.cn seems +,
me necessarily to involve q Cheaper m n
and woman under the coat.
1t may do for mar. like Ben Harrison
whose annual income is equal to what tt
nine teDths of our people would be re gard
ed as snug fortune, to talk in this heart
less way about people to whom cheap clio
thing is dire necessity The extraordi
narily foolish talk OF this candidate, who
has such contempt for cheap clothing
accords, however, admirably with the fac
that he stands on platform that offer
these Cheap men and cheap women" fre'
whisky.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

d. A. Maher In card elsewhere an.
nounces himself as a candidate for the
office of Circuit Clerk. Mr.. Maher has
been citizen of Ottawa for over l6 years
he has been town collector when he fur.
nished bond of $4,000; been highway
commissioner for years; alderman for sey .
eral terms, and is on all things accounted a
thoroughly competent, honest and capable
man. As candidate for county office he
would make a lively race for any man
pitted against him. His candidacy is sub.
ject to the decision of the county demo.
cratic convention.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
THE MATTER OF PENSIONS.

One of the stock arguments urged by
the republican party for years past and
now against the democrats is, that they are
unfriendly toward the soldiers In the mat
ter OF pensions The party has now been
In power for three years, and comparison
of the records made during three years by
both parties on this subject may be inter
ssting For this purpose let us take the
last three fiscal years Of republican admin
istration of the pension bureau 1sS3, 1884
and 1885, ending June 80, 1885, and COM
pare them with the three years of demo-
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
THE lIFFERENCE.

| lue DtIcaloi TIeo 4 Ttoo ouiI Icpcdts tue
current Republican slang -whang of the
day In saying: THE Democrats would
revise the tariff so as to do away with the
protective feature; the Republicans would
40 revise II as TO maintain protection. . .
The question to decide is whether protec-
tion is wise"
The editor 0f the Free Press is too intel
ligent not ic know that in the above state.
ment of the position "f parties on the tariff
question he lies. The Democratic platform
on the tariff question is ClevelantH.'s last
Decent Der message in which he says; al
is not proposed to entirely relieve the
country of this (tariff) taxation; .
and in readjustment of our tariff the in
terests of American labor engaged in man
ufacture should be carefully considered as
we'll as tie preservation Of our manufac'
lures. 1t may be called protection, or by
any other name, but relief from the lard
ships and dangers of our present tariff laws
should be devised with especial yrecaution
against mperlling the existence of our
manufacturing interests
No honest man can deny but that this is
as strong an endorsement of the "protective
principle as any language in the RepuS-
lican platform. The difference is, that
President Cleveland and the Democratic
ipsrty believe the present tariff is crammed
with taxation and other abuses that have
nothing to do with protection" that are in
j fact injurious to our manufacturing inter
ests, and that these should be eliminated
and reformed. Up to the last every Re
publican national convention admitted the
q same fact, and promised reform of the
tariff and elimination of its abuses Blu
3 the last Republican national convention
Y upon whose platform Harrison and MCrtCr
I stand, took very different and advanced
I ground by declaring against any change
A In the present tariff laws except such al
5 shall further tend to check imports o
A articles produced by our people," and if
I after repeating the tobacco tax and tax up II
a spirits used in the arts, there shall still
o remain larger revenue than Is requisit,
e for the wants of the Government, we favo
; the entire repeal of the internal (tobacc,
e and whisky tax rather than surrender AM
il PART of our protective system"
In word, the Democratic party woul,
: so reform our present tariff system IS t,
relieve the people from the enormous bur
den of useless taxation 1t involves, at tht
same time with especial precautiol
against imperlling our manufacturing In.
terests;" while the Republican party i
opposed TO the surrender of ANY PART O
our present protective system, that Is, t,
= any change of the present tariff, except I,
ADD further restrictions to check import
of articles produced by Cur people," Tn,
Democrats would get rid of a dangerou
/. surplus revenue by relieving the burden
. of the people; the Republicans oppose an,
!. reduction of taxation to relieve the people
h but would Increase the levy, not to rails,
more revenue for the use of the govern
. ment, but In such way as to divert tn,
revenue from the public treasury into pri
|, vate pockets!
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

the question Of ,cd9es to be decided by the
law of demand and supply. Ii the de-
mand Is brisk and the supply light, wages
will be high; II the demand Is light aud
competition lively wages will he low
In other words the tariif per sc has no
thing to do with wages Is not that JUS,
what tariff reformers claim
Another is is:-"reduction of duties in
lcreases markets, cheapens products, and
multiplies products" This the Republican
disposes of by saying sagely:
As our government imposes no duties on
exported articles the tariff does not inter
fere with the securing of additional mar
kets.
There can be no such thing as a foreign
trade without importaton as the republi
can party seeks to prevent importation II
necessarily follows that should they sue
cead In stopping all importation, exporta-
tion must of necessity cease also-unless
Americans are as foolish as to gice aro,
their products. But the Republicans Idea
is that by exporting alone We can grow
rich-a very common fallacy. Translated
into everyday business English this simply
means that merchant sells his stock and
gets no pay for IT, or is giving away his
capital TO pay debts. Egypt is probably
the most impoverished civilized nation In
the world, yet in 1874 its imports were
only sos million piasters, while Its exports
were l,343 millions piasters; and Its
splendid balance of trade" has been In
this proportion TOR years. What does II
mean? II means that 1t poured into the
laps of foreigners goods worth S35 million
piasters for which it got nothing In return
England and Belgium, both the richest
nations In the world, on the other hand,
have for years had balance of trade
against them-they have imported millions
more than they exported. What does that
means 1t means that these countries pos.
sess bonds, stocks, and other property In
immense quantity of or in other coun-
tries, and that the people of those other
countries are working Tor them ana pour
lug the products of their labor into Engs
land and Belgium, getting nothing In re.
turn. If Mr.. Sapp takes $50 worth
of paper from his stock room and puts 800
worth of labor in printing on 1t, exports II
to Chicago and gets no return for his mon.
ey; he has lost $3.50 If, however, he sells
his printed stock there, and brings back for
it, or imports, press worth s175, Ile has
made money. And that is the whole theo-
ry of exports and imports. Commerce is
valuable for rhat 1t brings to us, and not
for what II takes from us.
The democrats want commerce that
will pdy, and not commerce that is one.
sided, that means only that we are export.
ing to pay tribute, debts or interest to for.
eigners.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
ratio rule nsse, 1887 and 1889, which

| New NAMES huutu AVcii~I iD'i~-'
But of the new names add ed by the re
publicans there were 1906 added by Gen
Black between March II, 1885, and june
80, counted in the l0S,l2l credited to
the republicans, making the actual number
of hew names added to the rolls by Gen
Black l72l32.
But what has the President done for the
soldier since he has been In oflice9 Well
he approved the act of March 10, 1886
which has increased 10 Sl2 per month the
pensions of 102,56S widows, minors and
dependent relatives of Union soldiers. He
approved the act of Aug. 4, 1886, increasing
the pensions of l0092 crippled and manned
soldiers from $2i to $50, $50 to $3G, and
$50 and $3.50 to Si5 per month. He ap
proved the act of Jan, 30, 1887, placing
81, ,70i Mexican veterans on the rolls at s.
a month. He approved the act Of June Z
1888 granting arrears of pensions to widows
from the date of their husbands death In
all cases filed subsequent TO June 30, 1880
All those filed prior to July |, 1885, were
entitled from date OF death of husband
under the arrears law of 1879, provided, of
course, they establish their right TO such
pension. The approval of this act will
Immediately affect 10000 widows of the
late war. These several acts benefit IA
364 ex-union soldiers and Mexican veter-
ans to the amount of S9,000,00O He has
also approved, or allowed to become laws,
over 1900 private acts granting pensions,
while but l, 524 private pension acts were
approved, or allowed to become laws by
limitation, during the entire "a years tn, I
the Republican party was In power. There
is little doubt that before the present
Congress adjourns he will have approved
or allowed to become laws by Limitation
nearly or quite as many private pension
acts as all the republican Presidents from
Lincoln 70 Arthur combined. These
records show that never in the history of
the republic has any former administration
extended the pension benefits to so many
beneticiaries as has the administration of
Grover Cleveland and no candid, honest
man can examine his vetoes of private
pension bills without being convinced that
In every case the President has held
strictly to his ideal that the pension roll is
a Roll of Honor, on which the coward, the
deserter or the scalawag has no rightful
place.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
AN 0RAlIE

The Ottawa Republicans article ysster-
day morning on False Assumptions of
Free Traders" is quite as funny reading
as &c. d. T." One of the false assumptions
Is: Tariff advocates claim that protection
insures plenty of work at high wages"
The Republican says:
No such claim Ia made. The sole object
Of protection 10 to prevent the importation
ofecheap foreign products leaping
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
THE WAGE OukSrION.

The Inter OcedR replying to the inquiry
Of correspondent as TO how wages In the
U. S. compare with those of England, Ger.
many and France, gives the following table
to show how much better labor is paid in
high tariff America, than In free trade
England.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
FULLER CONFIRMED.

CHICAGO, H., July %, Fuller was con
6rmei In the Senate to-day as Chief JUS
tice of the United States by vote Of Al t.
20, He has been tried as BY fire, which
has only proved the purity of the metal
j. d. CATION
To the northwest particular by, where
Melville w. Fuller Is known, his CON
firmaton by the Senate will be received as
rapturously as WAS his appointment by
President CIeve land. His pre- eminent
qualifications for the office, the purity of
his private life, his spOtless record as Il
man and as lawyer, his high manlines'
and purity of character freedom from
petty partisanship and breadth of views on
national affairs, all combine 10 make him
an ideal chief justice; and there Ia NJ
doubt that rs chief justice he will leave
behind him record that will place hi
name among the great ones who have
adorned that ilustrious Office and made /
the most august tribunal in the world
The Senate has redeemed itself by III
action of yesterday.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21
Democratic Congressional Convention.

The Democratic Convention for the Eighth Coheres'
sonal District Of Illinois Is hereby called fer August
l.th. 1883. TO be held at the La Sale County Court
House In Ottawa at o'clock p NJ; for the purpose OF
nominating a candidate 10 represent the kghth con
gressona District In Congress, aud also 10 select can
didate for the State Board of Equalization ana such
other business as may come before the convention
The respective counties comprising the district are en-
titled to representation based on the vote cast ior
Cleveland and Hendricks In 1854 being delegate lo
every 400 votes. and one for every traction over <o
La Sale county .,,..'''.'''''''''' IN
VIII .,.,....'......'..'.'''''''
Grun0y .T.ss''s's''''''' '''''''
Du Page ........... .....s''ss'''''
Kendall ,....................'''''''
1Othl... '''''''' ~
BY order OF Eighth Congressional Committee, tins
26th day Of June, 1888. y.roupv
THos NJ. CRoss, Secy Chairman
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

The civil service om.lissioner's report
Is I'm the hands Of the President. The law
has now been in operation four and one
half years, executed by both democrats and
republicans, and while ii is not perfect yet
il has been thus far substantial success,
and has been benefit to the public service,
results that, as the commi i-sioners say,
"are not eXtravdgantiy described as sur
prising" The commission is rapidly
extending the classified service" subject
to the regulations prescribed by the law,
the latest department to be classified being
the supervising architects office, that off
Ger himself having only one weak specia
rule standing between himself and exami-
nation He Is, of course, "down on" the
civil service law and the commissioners a
we'll
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

Tie President has again vetoed private
pension bill; but 1t will hardly be taken as
a text for a campaign oration on the
hatred of the President toward the
soldier A man, the record shows, enlisted
In the Union Army in 1862; was captured
by the rebs in 1864, whereupon to avoid
prison life he Joined the rebel army and
fought with 1t until recaptured In 1863. TO
avoid imprisonment again he pleaded that
he enlisted with the rebs 20 escape hard,
ship and starvation, when he was released
and mustered out. He died In 1868 Ieav'
ing widow, who now asks TO be pebsloned'
The President, in his veto, says: "lhe
greatest possible sympathy and considers-
tion are due to those who bravely fought,
and who being captured as bravely Ian
guished in rebel prisons But VIII take
no part in putting a name upon our pension
roll which represents Union soldier found
fighting against the cause he swore he
would uphold; nor should 1t be for mo-
ment admitted that such desertion and
treachery are excused when it avoids the
rigors of honorable capture and coniine'
ment," win the true soldier object to this
view?
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

Jay Could, this week, had very narrow
escape from stroke of paralyses; but Il
recovering.
Though the newspapers have, as rule,
indicated Gen Sheridan as improving In
health at Nonquit, New York paper
says that private Information OF the Gen
erals friends says that he is not improving
and is only saved from growing worse by
the closest attention Of his ply sicians,
Canadian wOrkmen held a mass meeting
on Saturday night at Montreal 10 protest
against the landing of undesirable immi-
grants, and proposed that the government
impose fine Of $1,000 on any vessel
ringing such people to Canada.
In the British parliament bill was In
troduced by the government TO investigate
the charges made by the London Times
against Mr.. Parnell. The gag" was at
once applied and the measure forced along
without debate, which was prevented by
the tories.
A bill has been introduced In the French
chambers TO abolish duelling, which Will
be passed.
An unusually heavy rainstOrm OF an
hour and quarters duration Hooded
Wheeling on Thursday evening. Atabout
10 o'clock, while numD OF people were
watching from bridge the flood on
Wheeling creek, the bridge suddenly gave
wsy. Of the party eight were recovered
and from 10 to 20 believed to have been
drowned. Several dwellings were also
swept away and eleven persons therein
drowned
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

dynamite bombs of the gas pipe type,
made 30 familiar during the anarchists
trial.
The Ottawa free trader., 1888-07-21

The strike of the iron masters Of Penn
sylvania has proved grand nzzle' y
The workmen were firm In their resistance
to the proposed reduction OF 10 per cent In
wages, and have succeeded In beating the
masters, the Western Iron Association
having been forced TO disband, allowing
individual mills 10 make such terms with
the Amalgamat' Association OF workers
As they are able. The result Is that the
majority of the mi Is are now running at
the old wages Anu this grand attempt
of the masters TO bulldoze public senti-
ment against reduction in tariff taxes
proves an ignominilus failure.
Daily Republican., 1888-05-29
THIRD EDITION.


A Greenup (Ky.) correspondent of the
z>.-r,unati ENQUIRER is authority for the
sniloVipp despatch: Informal on comes
- tbis Mace Of a remarkable ard exeit
sne race between an expres IS train on the
C& q Railroad and three-year-old
colt one oay last week. The colt belongs
20 Vince Carpenter, at Limestone etation,
IN Cayter county When the express
srain arrived at Limestone en- the cay In
auction, the colt topped en- the track IN
front of the engine, and, when the tram
started, the colt started aleo, keeping
some distance IN front oil the engine unit
n large tr, s,le wa, reached at soLaier' inc
next stopping point, a distance OF nVe any
n quarterf miles from Limestone; ns
rot started over the trestie, but fell Gown
and The race came to Sc end. The engine
stopped, a Iope attached to the cot and
IL was remove from the track. In the
race of FIVE and quarter miles, WIN Oh
was reported to have been made In the
abort time of thirteen minutes, the colt
Jumped several COW gaps, crossed nuner
ous small trestles and ran around one or
two bridges. When the colt lett the
track TO 90 around the bridges the en-
pineer gave his engine full speed to try to
mass the animal but 1t succeeded In get
ting en- the track in front of the engine
again and the race was then renewed. AT
Enterprise number OF men trleu 10
scare the colt from the track, but II pase
ed arouud them and got back on the track
before the train could go by II. Inc en-
Eineer says that several times he gave
his engine full speed, trying to pass it or
run over it, but 1t wss too swift for his
engine. In the fall on the treslle the
colt was not injured much and was used
An blowing in the field the next day."
Daily Republican., 1888-05-29
A Heavy Orop of Peaches.

Frank o. Stidham, who has returned
from o visit to the farm of his father In
law, Mr. Collins, OF AppoQu!nlmipl
Hundred, informs us that the peacl
trees are loaded with fruit. and shou't
the season throughout prove tavorAbl,
the crop tits fail will far surpsss any
other ever produced in thai teation
II only half the peaches remain on tht
trees until ripe the crop will be unpre
cedented. The mArke ing OF the SAINT
will require considerable skill aud man
agement 10 order to make the croI
profitable, and we hope thbt the pro
Jucere, as we'll as the Consumers, may
be benefi tied and thst the railroad COM
panies and middlemen may net eat or
all Tho profits.