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The anthracite coal production for May w...

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Day
8
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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The anthracite coal production for May will be restricted it is said to fifty per cent. Of the 4,564,641 separate farms in United States, about 30 per cent. are occupied and managed by their owners. In 1S92 the republicans carried St. Paul, Minn., by 3,500 plurality Last week the democratie candidate for„ mayor was elected by 1,000. The democrats also elected treasurer, municipal judges and five aldermen. The Coxey movement should be a strong appeal to congress to legislate for others than the rich in future. These people are but following the successful example of the organized protectionists for years past. The duty marked out for the democratie party, by its principies and professions, its platforms and campaigns, and by the will of the people twice deliberately and emphatically expressed, was to change the tariff policy of the country; and this not alone as a just and wise settlement of an economie question, but as a proper limitation upon a great power of government which had been perverted and abused for personal and selfish ends. As this was its chicf duty, so fidelity to this duty is the vital test of the success of its administration. - Ex-Gov. Wm. E. Russell. Michigan has a new senator. That Gov. Rich did wisely in thus early ending what might have developed into much unpleasantness is unquestioned. In the appointment of John Patton, jr., of Grand Rapids, he has named a man of high character and undoubted ability. He is a college bred man, and well and -broadly equipped for his new duties. While he has had no legislative experience, his student habits, thorough acquaintance with the issues of the day, and power as an orator, all fit him for usefulness in the body to which he has been commissioned. While his appointment will cause some heartburnings, it wtll please the younger element of his party. Those who have borne the "burden and heat of the day" will not be satisfied with it, and may desire "redress of grievances" at the hands of the legislature this winter; but be that as it may, the appointment is a good one, and the state and the governor are to be congratulated. The silly falsehood about the for eigner paying the tariff tax was never more plainly shown than in the letter published by Congressman J. W. Moon in which he declines to be considered a candidate this fall for the republican nomination. Says Mr. Moon in this letter: "All legislation is shaped from the cottonplanters' standpoint, and they, with downtrodden labor and Liverpool for a market, are now as it seems to me, sacrificing every northern interest out of revenge. "Tariff for revenue only is yet the cry. They, however, want the duties put on sugar and rice for that revenue and high enough to give them all the protection they need, and then let the northern farmer and laborer buy the sugar and pay the tax." This is good republican authority for the democratie contention that the foreigner does not pay the tax. Mr. Moon rides the same saddle used by republican congressmen since the days of the war, appealing to sectional prejudice, but he can be forgiven all that for the admission made that the foreigner does not pay the tariff tax.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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