The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-10-12

divided among men who for fifteen year
mad never known themselves: to have an
disease as the result of the war, until /
was developed by this back-pay grab-act
The author cites the evil effects of tn,
pension act as to soldiers OF the Mexican
war, which to the establishment of every
one and to the credit of the ingenuity o.
the claim agents, developed 81 1896 surviv-
Ing soldiers of the war with Mexico, wheI
there never was ten thousand soldiers en-
gagged on our side in all the battles In thai
country.
This article ought TO be read by every
one, even the pension seekers 1t does not
In any way criticise the pension of the
honest deserving crippled soldier whose
claims the country will never Ignore, but
II scorns the shams and frauds, the trickery
and corruption of the claim agent and the
army hummer.
CULLOM ON TARIFF.
THE Forum October number embraces
articles from number OF popular contrib
utors. A leading political article from the
pen of s. M. Cullom, will attract attention
He labors to show that protection benefits
the farmer. The products of all the farms
in the Union he puts at three billions
three hundred millions of dollars last year,
and says that OF this enormous value, we
exported but ten per cent. He avoids any
reference to the fact that by our Chinese
policy of isolating ourselves within the cir
cumferance of wall, We have no ships and
little trade with the world outside, In COM
parison with our productive powers. The
United States by reason of Its vast extent
and variety of products, and the vast aggre.
gate annually of Its grain, live stock, agri-
cultural implements, &C., ought to be the
greatest commercial country of the world; ;
but by our stupid, criminaily absurd tariff,
which excludes from our markets almost
all foreign commerce, on fair terms, and
has driven our ships from the SEAS placed
the United States on par with China and
something inferior to Japan, In commercial
progress. The senator who wrote the
article In this magazine is fair sample of
perverse blindness, and fatal craftsmanship
which causes farmers TO mortgage their
homes to build up eastern manufactures
and gigantic trusts and all on the seductive
Idea that "home market Is one of the
grandest of all modern discoveries. He
the farmer on having had to
export 30 little as ten per cent of their pro-
ducts, and glories In their saving of ninety
per cent for the "home market which Is
making them rapidly SO wealthy! He
scout "the idea of their being any value,
even If we could get II, In securing poss-
ession of the trade or the world, or furnish
Ing all the goods imported by every coun-
try on the face of the globe, for 1t would
fall short of our home trade by billion of
dollars The farmer who will turn back
In his books to the prices he got for his
cattle, horses, hogs, corn, &c, before the
war. under a reasonably low tariff, when
he was not In debt, but was making money,
and when there was both home and big
foreign trade and the United States had
more merchant ships, great and small, than
all the world combined, and compare 1t
with Senator Cullom's "home trade,' can
easily weigh that redOubtable republican
office seeker in the balance and will find
him wanting. j. G. A.
The October 81. Nicholas has contribu-
lions from Noah Brooks, Joel Chandler
Harris, Celia Thaxter, Elizabeth Robins
Pennell, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Julian
Ralph, Margaret johnson, Elizabeth
Cavazza, &c. Its frontispiece Is the favor
ite picture OF the noble French hounds
that belonged to the Count de Barral, and
an article, Among Dogs of High Degree,
by Noah Brooks. Harris story Is from the
treasure house Of Uncle Remus, recountlng
Brer VOLTS unprovoked attacked upon the
Creatures with no Claws, Celia Thax-
ter's story is Almost a Tragedy, and .
tragical conclusion Is only avoided by the
intelligence of cat. E. Cavazza tells the
story Of volcano eruption In the adven-
lures of A Doll on Mount Etna. Mrs. Pen
nell calls attention to Stevenson and Jeffer-
les as writer's for the young who are truly
young In spirit, and makes out their titles
as masters of Make Believe. Eleanor Put
nam tells good story Of college life, and
Lucy Montgomery gives suggestion for
the holidays In Dora Miller's Wonder Ball.
An excellent bit CT descriptive writing Is
The Making of a Great Steel Gun, by q. F.
Muller. Julian Ralph tells a fish-story
about Where Salmon are Plentiful, and
Ruth Putnam has amusing chronicle Of a
Close Corporation, which will touch the
hearts of all editors.
The Century Magazine closes Its nine
teenth year with number for October
which, besides Its leading serials on Lin.
coin and Siberia and the Old Masters, con-
tains several papers of peculiar import
ance. One Of these Is study of Moliere
as CGsar, and a portrait of Coquelin as
Mascartlle. Another striking paper, Rem
iniscences of the Herschels, is by the cell
ebrated American astronomer, the late
Maria Mitchell. With the latter article IL
q portrait Of Miss Mitchell, and a picture
of her last observatory, at Lynn, Massachu-
sets. Miss Bracket has an appreciative
Open Letter on Miss Mitchell In the same
number. A group Of brief illustrated ar