The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-22

certainly deferred payments OF pur-
chase money cannot cover all the In
crease of mortgages from 1880 to 1887,
which Commissioner Lord has shown
to be In this state about q per cent.
The youthful reporter OF the OF tawa
FREE TRADER has taken advantage
OF this occasion To swell the array or
hardshlps and wrongs OF the farmer
by attributing TO Mrs. Elliott dozen
or score OF things she never said, nor
dreamt OF saying. He puts words into
her mouth that were never uttered,
nor can be found In her manuscript.
lie thrusts into her address terms and
phrases and epithets of which she
never heard, and Of which she does not
know the meaning. win the Times.
The person who wrote the above is
doubtless protectiOnist. Mrs. Elliott
is not. He doubtless went to hear
little "Cackle from the Farm by Mrs.
Elliott. such as half the namby-
pamby women write for Granger"
consumption; he heard instead furi
Gus fire of fact and sarcasm which was
simply whitening in its denunciation
of the protective system when viewed
from the farmers standpoint. He Is
more angry at the speech than at the
report of it. The youthful reporter"
did not pretend TO quote word for
word; but he insists that every idea re-
ported of that speech was reported
substantially in the form presented by
Mrs. Elliott. and he challenges any
man to deny it and prove him wrong.
He is the more confident that he is
right and that his report is fair be-
cause the report was made up, not
only after having heard the speech,
but after having also in addition, and
within a few hours, read a greater
part OF the speech in the manuscript
itself after the speach was delivered,
and before the report was written.
Parts of it were, in fact, copied from
the manuscript for a metropolitan
paper, and rewritten from memory,
and condensing it, for the FREE
TRADER within an hour after.
No, Mr.. ~, you are OIL your base
this trip. You are at liberty to object
to the speech as much as you, as pro-
tectionist, desire, but you cannot ex-
plain its merit away by saying a re-
porter lied about it. That is a babys
argument, and don't go.
sometimes very cunning trickSters
are beaten at their own game. Fearing
that the present Democratic leg!sla-
ture of Chic might rearrange the Con-
gressonal districts in that state,
which, as fixed by the Republicans,
are outragcously gerrymandered, Con-
gresham Wickham, of Ohio, has in
troduced "A bill in Congress forbidding
any state to reapportion its Congress
SiOnal districts until after the next
census is taken. Should Congress pass
the bill, the outcome of that air lit
tie game" will be this: The Democrats
Of Ohio will make their new apportion-
ment and elect twenty-one Congress-
men by the new districts. The Re
publicans will elect a like number by
the old districts. Gov. Campbell will
issue certificates to the new district
members, who will thus take their
seats, and such gain on the Demo-
cratic side will, of course, give them
the control OF the organization of the
house and Of the subsequent action on
contested elections. The Republicans
at Washington begin to see the folly
OF their scheme and will doubtless
7 out hts Stang pen, wrf,rn uarurany
drops into its habitual bawdy-house
verbiage, and the wCrd ''panderer" (sic)
Webster: Pander, H. Pimp, male bawd,
procurerl is again freely tossed about.
The FREE TRADER must again dis
claim any acquaintance, or any de-
sire to interfere in the remOteSt degree,
with Roses peculiar branch of profess
sonal work. No one in Ottawa-cer-
tainly no member of the FREE TRADER
staff. we hope will ever sink so low as
to make the hopeless attempt to rival
| him in a line of business in which, by
his vast experience lin all the great
cities" he has attained such a pro-
fciency as to fill one with wonder that
he should now only make ii side is
sue to the newspaper business. He is
clearly wasting his talents. Clark or
Wells street, Chicago, now-but, then,
he's been there"
Dom Pedro, the deposed emperor of
Brazil, has been the recipient of as
great a tribute as was probably ever
paid TO human character and integ-
rity. Though driven out of his coun-
try because his presence there was re-
garded as an insuperable obstruction
To the establishment of the Republic,