The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-01-12

system Vi tdSatlOn lnal makes MIN pay
protective tax on everything that he buys,
while, In turn, everything that he sells,
completes unprotected In the markets of
the world or in other words, everything
that he buys is covered with trust and tax
To twice and thrice its actual value, and
the price of every bushel of grain every
pound of beef and pork which the farmer
sells is regulated and governed by the
bulls" and bears" in these legalized gil
gantic gambling institutions, known as
Boards of Trade, yea, more; the price Of
what the farmer is high and certain,
and Liverpool, in Free Trade England,
sets the price on every bushel of grain we
sell when the law of supply and demand
Is not molested by the grain gamblers.
How farmers, who ny the sweat of their
brow, dig their support cut of the dirt Of
the earth, by working from twelve to fits
teen hours per day, can stand and look
with Indifference upon such a condition of
things, or cry themselves hoarse, as in the
late election. shouting for such unfairness
and injustice, Is mystery to me.
How farmers can vote with eyes wide
open for the riveting OF their chains tight
er, and for the perpetu,ton of the slavery
for themselves, their wives and their chill
dren, cannot see 1t may be, possibly,
that am blind, or loosing my eyesight. |
know am living in a pretty dark corner
of this earth, nothing but republicans far
and near; but | am trying to dissent.
nate little light, doing the best can for
my fellow farmer and republican friends,
and | am living Ia hopes that ere four
years more roll around this little patch of
republican darkness on Covel Creek, in
~ will
OF the brightest lights Of tariff reform In
1892
But to he more to the point, let me ask
my granger friends, what have we to hope
for as grangers? Everything we have to
buy is getting higher and higher and ev-
erything we J ave to sell is getting cheap
er and cheaper. VINO advocates our inter
ests In the national congress, and who
among them all favors projection for U.S.
Our United States Senate is an aristocracy
of millionaires. What do they care for
the masses who make their living by till
Ing the soil. They are Independent, and
their own personal interests are higher
than the peoples interests.
The railroads are raising on their rates
of freights all over. The system of trusts,
the outgrowth of our tariff laws, Is raising
the price of everything we have to buy;
and who is battling for US and keeping
back the greed, the plunder, and the rob.
berry that is let loose upon us!
am friend to the poor man, and es-
pecially to the poor farmer. | don't be-
lieve in class privileges. free whisky, dear
wool and dear lumber. | don't believe in
taxing the people and piling the money up
in useless surpluss. The people have too
many debts to pay and too many ways to
use the money themselves. | don't be
live in taxing any one class of people for
the support of another. The Illinois farm
ers have just as good right to ask pro-
lection for our corn as Ohio has to ask pro-
lection Cor her WOOL but for the present
we have no remedy; the farmers must
continue TO take their medicine which
(high tariff for which they have voted
gives them. No matter how bitter or how
nauseatng and weakening, il must be TAXI
en-, with eyes open or shut, it has to go
down | can stand 1t if the rest can, but l
dislike taking medicine when don't need
il. We, the farmers however, get doub-
lie dose, and hope it will work a perfect
cure for the blindness and madness so
enthusiastically shown by my republican
friends In the late election. hope II will
give them new vision and open their
eyes. FRED }. DAVIS.
Covel Creek, Jan. 1, 1889.