The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-10-05

Unlike some people we are not trying to
build ourselves up by pulling others
ldOwn,-Rose
The structures of the FREE TRADER on
this man Rose have been largely in the
nature of a self-defense. When he came
into this town, he announced with flour
ish that lis mission was the humiliation
of the FREE TRADER. He may have been
sent here for that purpose. Whether he
was or not he has followed that purpose
through all the 81 years he has been here.
He has not annihilated the FKEE TRADER
but he has followed 1t and all its friends
with malice that could exist only In the
heart of q low and vicious character, bent
on the aggrandizement of self at the ex-
pense OF his fellows. After submitting to
this sort of abuse for upwards of three
years, believing that the public takes no
interest In private auarrels, the FREE
TRADER has taken occasion to respond
not in kind, but with the purpose of show
ing to the people of Ottawa the kind of
man they have to deal with.
Rose began his real newspaper career as
a publisher Of obscene newspapers. This
profession he followed just as long as the
police permitted him to circulate his mas
Itiness, moving from Detroit to Cincin-
natl In order to continue this vile business.
When the police made II too hot for him
there, he disappeared for time $50 we
will say now, turning up, not long after, as
editor of a paper published In the interests
of the retail liquor saloons In neighbor-
Ing city, and there never was any project
which that element proposed, no matter
what, that Rose hesitated to father and
advocate. When he had used up the
funds those men would furnish, and had
become a bete n0ir even to them, he takes
another header $50 we will say and we
hear of him next In Streator. His enter.
prise there In exposing the alleged lewd-
ness of minister of the gospel brought
down on his chiefs head fine of 800
and costs In Ottawa he has already set
tied one libel suit by the payment of $500,
which payment he was permitted to make
by merciful victim. These things sim
ply 90 70 show that the character of this
man does not exhibit any sign of change
since the days when In Detroit he kept
the police busy suppressing his obscene
paper to keep 1t out of the hands of the
young who could be befouled by its unut-
terable nastiness His professional policy
Is the same-attack every man who Is
likely to tolerate 1t through personal fear
or disinclination to fight skunk. Only
last week he stood sponsor for pair, who
If not downright swindlers behaved very
much like such, taking hand in the de.
velopment Of their plans and assisting
them with his time and the columns of his
paper. He appeared, on the face of things,
to be perfectly willing and anxious to help
them along In their questionable perform
ances. Even this week he perpetrates
lie by claiming 10 be the official organ OF
deliberative religious body, the member
of which spend their energies and thei
lives In the endeavor TO overcome the dis
, astrous influence of such Sunday sheets a
Roses Nose, Roses Ne,cs and the Cincin
natl Sunday Ne,os, specially prepared TO
, the delectation Of wantons and blacklegs
, on which Rose first made his mark II
: journalism.