Free wool gives the manufacturer cheaper...

Free wool gives the manufacturer cheaper raw material and enables him to produce his product at a lower cost than heretofore. The duties on woolen goods have been largely reduced. Prices will be correspondingly reduced, and all consumers will be benefited thereby. In fact, prices have already been reduced under the new tariff, as may be seen by the business advertisements in newspapers all over the country. Fot the benefit of those who may not be convinced that the reduction in tariff rates caused by the new bill will result in a reduction of prices to consumers, we quote from the latest advertisements of one of our most reliable business houses. Accordin# to the statement of this firm they commenced a sale yestérday morning of " Silks, velvets, dress goods, curtains, fur capes, jackets, cottons, blankets, flannels, hosiery and underwear, purchased during the past two weeks, under the new tariff, which means a saving of 25 to 30 per cent, on August prices. We increase the purchasing power of youf dollar at least onethird." In an interview in the Niágara Cataract, Mr. H. A. Massey, president of a large Canadian manufacturing company, employing 2,000 workmen, and shipping its products to all parts of the world, announces that the company intends to move its plant into the States, for the reason that raw material is cheaper here under the new tariff than in Canada. He says: " That new democratie tariff of jonrs will benefit your country immensely. By freeing raw materials it will eheapen the cost of manufactured articles both to manufacturer and consumer. It will draw to your side manufacturing concems from Canada who want a wider market and an opportunity to manufacture goods cheaper and more profltably. It is that new tariff bill that has attracted us to your shores." Let the calamity howler who sees in free raw materials ruin for our manufacturing inïerests, and loss of employment for labor, refiect on the above against the time when kis vocation will be terminated. I( Washtenaw county democrats elect any oue this year it is sure to be an Ann Arbor man. In fact, with the exceptlon of a coroner from Ypsilanti no one else was allowed on the ticket. - Norttaville Record. Ann Arbor is not in it this year. The republican ticket is to be elected in this county, and that has not an Ann Arbor man on it with one or two exceptions. Just watch the rasalt'.- Courier. So far as the Record is concerned the Argus begs to inform it that it is away off. Ann Arbor city has on the democratie county ticket prosecuting attorney, one circuit court commissioner and one coroner, which of course the city should have. Then the candidate for clerk lives in the city, but the nomination went to him because of his long and faithful party services. He had far more votes outside the city than from within. So far as Ypsilanti is concerned, it has not only coroner, but circuit court commissioner and county surveyor, while other parts of the county have sheriff, treasurer and register.. So much for the Record. It is decidedly "amoosin," however, to observe our esteemed contemporary, the Courier, making a virtue of what it could not prevent, especially under the peculiar circumstances of the case in point. The only reason the republican county ticket has not more representatives from the city is because the city candidates could not get votes enough to get there. Barkis was willing all right enough. The death of Prof. Joseph Estabrook at ülivet, Sunday night, removes trom the activities of life one of Michigan's most prominent ducators as well as one of the mrest and most saintly characters it ïas ever been the pleasure and proit of the writer to know. All of his ong life was devoted to his chosen rofession of teaching and thousnds of persons all over this fair tate will cheerfully and feelingly cknowledge the influence on their hves of, and the inspiration derived from, his teachings. In certain respects, he was not as great a teacher perhaps as some others, but in his moral influence over young people he was incomparable. This aróse from his lovable disposition, mildness of character, deep and fatherly interest in all the concerns of his pupils and in his manifest sincerity in everything he did. His teaching extended all along the line from the district and village school to the superintendency of city schools, the principalship of the Normal school, principal of the Normal department of Olivet college and state superintendent of public instruction. Nor did this comprise the sum of his work as a teacher. During all of the years of his most arduous services in the school room, his voice was constantly heard in the pulpit urging his hearers to a better life, and his influence here was as potent as it was in the school room. He who writes the educational history of Michigan aad leaves out the honored name of Joseph Estabrook will have made a great mistake. He lived a noble life and did a grand work and his deeds will live after him. The present pol'c is to crush out the growinj? of sugar enne in the Uirited ! States and transier tlie ndustry to ioreign coiintiies.- Courier. Here probably is as fine an illus, tration of the diluted vaporing of protectionism gone mad as an'yone need ever expect to see. But that even the kindergarden Courier can believe the dominant party in this I nation to be actuated by such a pur1 pose in its tarifï poliby is impossible. lts object must be to deceive the Í unwary, therefore. Farther on in I the same article from which the above clipping is taken, the Courier says: "The policy of the McKinley i bill was to encourage the production of sugar in the United States while the Wilson bill bankrupts the southern sugar cane growers." But why did the cane growers need this encouragement any more than the corn or wheat growers, unless it be to seduce them from their party affiliations by means of a bribe? Time was, and not many years back, when these pitiable objectsof the nation's char ity managed to eke out a livlihoo without government bounty anc they were not bankrupted either. Why they should be ruined by the removal of that bounty now is not clear therefore. Then 4the justice of taking $13,000,000 a year from the pockets of the people against their wil], by means of the inexorable taxing power, for the purpose of conferring it as a gratuity upon these six hundred cane growers is not apparent. The sugar bounty was a rank piece of that log-rolling legislation which has scandalized the halls of congress and made our economie systern a patchwork of jobbing. No one need fret over the anticipated bankruptcy of the sugar cane growers. They are in no immediate need of the good Samaritan act. No doubt they will manage to worry along some way and take care of themselves even though the people are no longer compelled by act of congress to pay them tribute. At least there is no reason why other industries which are struggling against heavy odds should longer be burdened with their support.