The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-05-12

10 war or depress the stock market Go %
any Wall street man Of prominence to-day
and he will tell you, unless he should hap
pen 10 lie prejudiced because | may have
pinched him In some deal or other, that
have never turned my Tyre for the purpose
OF melting the nation 20 civil war or soug ht
10 unsettle values or 10 wreck great fnan.
cial enterprises But say that at a time
when the less man knows about the tar.
III the more freely he enters into discus
sion of II, think II would be wrong for
me longer 10 restrain myself. Go where
you Will In the country to-day ana you will
ind men talking about the tariff and the
tax on raw material who haven't had a
mouthful Of raw material or any other
Kind In the house for weeks, except az
their wives earned II and brought it home
10 them. This country Is full of men who
have thought so hard for the common veal
that the seats of their trousers shine like
the dome of the Massachusetts, state house.
Aud now there arises In the distance a
large and growing surplus which indicates
that as soon as the two parties get nearly
balanced and sit up nights to watch each
other at Washington there Is a good deal
more money coming into the treasury than
Is needed 10 run the mighty machine Of
government. Friends Of the present meth.
cd say II Is easier to handle surplus than
to handle deficiency, for you can return D
surplus to the people. That Ia true. You
can take II from the pockets of those who
unjustly paid II and then return II to those
VINO have no claim upon II, meantime
paying good salaries to those who collect II
and 10 those who disburse II, allowing a
good sized percentage for what may be
DETECTED towards Canada.
Mr. Blaine desires 10 reduce the surplus
by reducing the tax on tobacco, thus max.
Ing tobacco juice as free as water and
winning the esteem of several voters who
would trade what patriotism they have for
an election day cigar with spinal column
to II any time. AS a man who has used a
low grade Of high test cigar for some years
and as a man who has been In the habit of
supporting MIR Blaine year after year I'M
I'll had almost become slave TO the hab-
II, desire to state that the style of states
manship which strives to win my young
and trusting heart with the promise of sew.
en- good cigars for quarter, Is not the
kind that first established this republic on
paying basis.
Everybody recognizes the utter impossi-
bility of knocking out financial stringency
by means of melodius resolutions or of
paralyzing poverty with dark red presn-
BILE. You cannot gather fresh train figs on
board the Thistle or passify old man Gas.
trlc with the empty promise of cheaper
chewing tobacco.
How is it with the American farmer
He has been driven up further and further
into a corner by the Legislation of the last
twenty-five years, and yet, because he Is
not actually starving to death, he Is pointed
to with pride. The American farmer con.
tributed more to the war than most any
body else, both In blood and money, and
really got less in return. He got the price
less boon of liberty, 1t is true, the liberty to
pay big war prices for everything he want
ed, and to sell his crops tor less and less
year after year, competing with foreigners
abroad and foreigners who came here TO
compete with him; liberty to pay big pri.
cas- for machinery, help, clothing and ev-
erything else he bought, and then ride in
to town on December day, accompanied
by the cold and still remains Of an assas
sinated hog, only to be told that the
threatened foreign war had flattened out,
and that pork had gone down to four cents
Ii Is depressing to ride sixteen miles in the
society of hog that has died by ones own
band and every time you look around to
see that same frozen smile, with chip in
It, while his chest is thrown open In an
ingenious Way by means of hickory stick
In order TO show that his leaf lard is all
that it has been represented. it Is not
cheerful TO ride all the forenoon with no
)ne near you but this cold and pulseless
,lay with no eye upon you but the leaden
aye of the dead. Let the reader who new
ar tried 1t ride sixteen miles when the
shades of evening begin to lower, ride over
, lonely road over bare ground with pair
If lowbrowed hobs, a green calico com
'orter over your knees and the clammy
features of dead and decollete hog In
your lap. Then If you want TO feel yop"
spirits sink out of sight, certain, af r
you have laid out all the money in your
mind on basis Of eight cents per pound,
hat three to four cents are the quotations
IN an animal that you have loved in its
hid down cellar so you couldn't
hear him squeal when he was killed, and
afterwards helped to scrape with case
knife so that even in death he would be a
source of pride to you!
Men tell us that manufacturers make
towns, so we must foster manu-
lecturers On the same theory a violent
ieath every morning before breakfast was
hat made the flush times in California,
Nevada and Colorado In order TO have
we must have more murders
and lynchng soires. Why. when'a man
was killed in Lesdville every day or two,
aborers got as high as ten dollars day,
Therefore crime makes money plenty and
wages high. BILL NYE.
WorIh Knowing.