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Asia is suffering from appendiciits. Corea is the vermiform appendix. The late republican congressional convention was a case of hanging cats on a clothes line, tied by the tails. There was unión but no harmony. Adrián Press: The republican party is declaring its friendship for the old soldier. Let's see. It has elected one soldier for governor. They kicked him out after one term. They never elected a soldier to congress in this district, till after the democrats had placed Col. Eldredge in the house of representatives. They elected their first soldier to the supreme bench, only after the democrats had chosen the one-armed Morse. The populist party of Michigan which is composed, according to latest information, of the candidates on the state ticket, the exchairman of the populist state central committee and a populist excandidate for congress residing in this county, is split up the back over internal dissentions. The row is a veritable tea-pot tempest. Yet their candidate for governor thinks they will carry the state this fall. He is evidently properly classed. When congress assembled, a year ago, the senators were classified as: Democrats, forty-four; republicans, thirty-eight; populists, three; and vacancies, three. After a year's session an entirely new classification is required. The senate has divided into trust and anti-trust parties. A new factor has entered into American politics and a new issue is presented for the coming fall elections. The question is: Shall the trusts or the people control the legislation of the country? - Grand Rapids Democrat. According to all reports the militia boys have been subjected to more rigid discipline while in camp this year than heretofore. This is well, for without discipline the citizens composing the militia would be no more serviceable in emergencies than any other like number of citizens with arms in their hands. Discipline is the very life of all military organizations. Without it their usefulness as such is gone. The object of the state in bringing the guard into camp once a year is that the men may become perfected in all that pertains to the proper discipline of soldiers. The new "deal" should be welcomed therefore by one and all as tending to their highest interests and greatest efficiency as Michigan national guardsmen. Willard Stearns, of the Adrián Press, who is an active candidate for the democratie nomination for congress in this district, in his last paper makes an unjustifiable assault upon a democrat whom he regards as standing in his way for the congressional nomination. An editor who uses the columns of his paper for the advancement of his own personal or political interests makes a great mistake. Far better would it be for those interests, were he to use the political columns of his paper solely for the advancement o' the cause of his party. Any other course will not gain him strength, certainly not in Washtenaw. There is an open rupture in the republican fold in Ohio against McKinley and McKinleyism. The i powerful faction which is opposed to the protection idea, gone to seed as represented by Gov. McKinley, is led by Col. Conger, and will not down at the swish of the party whip. Still, McKinley insists that the question of protection be "put before the country in a more pronounced way than ever before." He insists that "proper protection" must be restored to all industries that suffer from recent legislation. This indicates that the governor is a back number. McKinleyism has I had its day in court and as an issue is dead forever, and the best thing that can be said of it is that it is dead. At the same time there is strong evidence in the utterances of Governor McKinley that he regards the senate bilí as a considerable change in the direction of tariff reform. Manufacturers in the east are already threatening to cut wages on account of the new tariff rates. Their threats will undoubtedly be carried out for the effect it will have on their pocketbook and in the approaching campaign, provided their workmen will submit. There is no valid reason, however, for any reduction, yet if they can use the new tariff to wring larger proüts from the industry of their workmen by a reduction of wages, the opportunity will not be allowed to escape. They have never paid any more wages under the highest tariffs than they were forced to in a free trade market and evefy possible pretext even then was seized upon for forcing wages down. The absurdity of the claim on the part of the woolen manufacturers that wages will have to be reduced becomes apparent when it is remembered that under the new tariff act they will not only get their chief raw material, wool, free, from the moment it goes into effect, but that they will continue to receive the full McKinley rates of protection on the product until the first of the new year. Their vaporing about the necessity of a cut in wages is but cant and hypocracy resorted to for the purpose of covering their selfishness and inordinate greed. From all over the country come gratifying reports of the revival of business. The new tariff, partial and unsatisfactory as it is to tariff reformers, will undoubtedly give great Ímpetus to many of our industries. The advantages resulting from the cheapening of the raw materials of manufacture are great, and when taken in connection with lower duties on manufactured goods will greatly stimulate manufactures of all kinds. Lessening the cost of raw material will cheapen production, and lower duties on the finished product should diminish the cost to the consumer and henea increase sales. These advantages, taken in connection with the practical exhaustion of the surplus in all lines of manufactured goods, must add greatly to business prosperity, and the beneficial effects will be so apparent as to convert many to the new order of things. The full benefits of the new schedules will not be experienced for some months, as it will be some time before all go into operation; but the immediate effects from those that become operative at once will be sufficiently marked to indicate what may be anticipated later. The king of Siam is dead. Long live the king of Siam! The king of Siam was an amiable monarch, an esteemed neighbor, a kind husband and an indulgent father. He leaves a hundred and fifty wives and two hundred and sixty-seven children to mourn his loss. He had other relations a few years ago but they are not living to cherish his memory, as the king had put them all to death, fearing they would sometime want his throne, or try to borrow three dollars apiece of him. The king of Siam had no very near neighbors, outside of the royal retinue, as he had sacrificed them all to his gods and searched the región round about for any stray, plumplegged foreigner, who might havetripped against the boundary line and fallen over into his empire. The royal' god of the reigning family was bom with an organized appetite like a protection monopolist, - all teeth, claws and stomach - and delighted in nothing so much as to feast on the dear people. It was feared at one time that if something were not done to reduce his appctite for child beef-steak and adult human liver, fried, the supply would run short of the demand, but the English government finally placed a restriction on the human sacrifice industry, as it was becoming unable to furnish missionaries to take the place of those chewed up by the pot-bellied deity of the royal household. Since then, matters have run along more nearly according to the laws of supply and demand. Among the last words of the loved monarch were, "I have fought the good fight; I have cut off the heads of all my enemies and most of my relatives;" and he closed up with his favoritepun, "Justas Siam, without one plea" and died. The funeral took place in the presencê of the immediate family and such other kindred as had not been assassinated by the monarch's order. He was not a member of the Masons or Maccabees.