Does Gen. Spaulding oppose the income ta...

Does Gen. Spaulding oppose the income tax ? The voters of this congressional district would like to be informed on this subject. We don't believe, however, that either Gen. Spaulding or the republican papers of the district will dare enlighten the voters of the district on his position. It is understood that there were just six persons in attendance at Barkworth's great afternoon mass meeting in Freedom Tuesday. - Ann Arbor Courier. They were the only six voters in town who thought of not voting for him, and Barkworth convinced them that they better make it unanimous - Adrián Press. The republicans of Grand Rapids decidcd against their own townsman, Senator Patton, in his ambition to succeed himself, and in favor of Mr. Burrows. However, Grand Rapids citizens still have the opportunity of having a fellowtownsman in the person of Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, for United States senator by voting for the democratie candidates for the legislature. Congressman Weadock in his Saturday night's speech said any article the production of which carne a monopoly or passed into the hands of a trust, should be at once free Usted. This would compel the producer of the same to compete with the world for the markets. This is good democratie doctrine, and in practice would no doubt greatly curtail the power of the plutocrats. The contemptible trick played by Congressman Burrows and wouldbe Congressman Spalding in leaving the platform at the Lenawee county fair and going to the horse races, instead of remaining to hear the other speakers, saved the "Columbian Orator" the unpleasantness of being present while Mr. Barkworth removed great patches of his political hide. The democratie candidate is the equal of Mr. Burrows in mental grasp, and evidently his superior in good breeding. The campaign that Hon. Thomas E. Barkworth is putting up in this district is a winner. Wherever he goes he strengthens his candidacy. This is because of his freedom from the arts of demagogy and his masterful knowledge of all public and economie questions, which enables hitn to present the issues of the campaign in the clearest and most convincing manner. He is an always ready and eloquent debaterand is worthy the metal of any foe, man with whom the enemy may match him. There is no question but that he is worth far more votes today than when he was fust nominated, and this strength is destined to increase. The idea of a republican walk away in this district is defunct, and many republicans are quietly admitting the probability of his election. According to the Marquette Mining Journal the feeble infant Michigan copper industry, over whose impending early demise, made imminent by the removal of the fostering care of a protective duty, the sympathetic republicans have shed tnany briny tears, has considerable vitality with which to stem the rigors of the coming winter. According to the Journal the Calumet and Hecla mine, with a paid in capital of $i, 200,000. has paid dividends to the amount of $41,850,000, and now has $3,496,156 in cash and copper on hand. The Franklin mine, with a capital of $220,000, has paid divdends amounting to $1,280,000. The Quincy mine, with an investment of $200,000, has paid in divdends $7,070,000. The Tamarack, having a capital of $520,000 has paid ividends to the amount of $3,870,00. To assert that such an industry eeds government assistance in rder to do business is monstrous ypocracy. The policy of conferring bonuses in the form of protective duties upon such interests of greed has reduced industrious Americans to serfdom, and converted honest toilers into traraps and anarchists. . One of the most widely known men of Washtenaw county is the genial and popular democratie candidate for county clerk, Jacob F. Schuh. Mr. Schuh, like a large portion of old VVashtenaw's sturdy and substantial citizenship, is of Germán origin, but in business training and habits and all that pretains to public affairs he is as genuinely American as though native bom. He has always shown deep interest in all that relates to the duties of the citizen, being public spirited and ready always to give of his time and rueans for the public good. This together with his agreeable and approachable manner has made him popular with all classes. He was city treasurer for a number of years and is at the present time a memberi of the board of public works. The duties of any position which he ■ sumes are always promptly and ! ciently performed. He served for a series of years as chairman of the democratie county committee and; did much to promote the ' tion and interests of the party and j his nomination as clerk is but a just : recognition of his faithfulness in , the interest of democracy. He will I be elected and will make a 1 tent and obliging official. The Courier has been shocked by the resolutions of the first district democracy. The results are certainly to be depiored since it has given rise to such vagaries as this: "The man who goes to buy h pound of sugar even, and has to pay seveu cents for it when he formerly paid but five. understandá the gall of that resolution.1' We fully sympathise with our neighbor in the limitations of his pocketbook, that forces him to buy a pound at a time as he must, since our grocer is perfectly willing to sell us goods at i8tbs for a dollar. "What is the democratie record for the past two years? Here it is: The bonded debt of the nation has been increased $50,000,000." Why not teil us just why the new treasurer had to issue $50,000,000 in bonds. Was it to anticípate an expenditure by the democratie administration? By no means. But it followed the proposed acts of Mr. Foster and was to meet the necessities of the empty till, from which over #48,000,000 had been filched as a bonus to pet bondholders, and that had been so otherwise drained that it required jugglery on the part of the retiring treasurer to even makeit appear solvent. "The gold reserve has beea reduce $4-5,000,000.' True, but what was the cause anc who is responsible? The scare abroad and the dump ing of our securities upon us by their foreign holders, brought about by the Sherman silver law of republican origin, compelling the purchase of 54,000,000 ounces of silver annually, to be paid for in gold obligatious, thereby endangering the credit of the government. "For the year 1893 aloue there was a deficit of $74,000,000! Aud it has kept increasing al'l this year."' This deficit resulted from the vicious legislation of the Reed congress, which led to a dropping off in the revenues of $18,000,000 a year, while the extravagances of the Harrison administraron increased the expenditures at the rate of $60,000,000 a year. The Cleveland administration handed over the government with not only sufficient revenues to meet all needs, but with a large surplus. Four years of republican misrule dissipated the surplus and lef t fixed" obügations for the ensuing year amounting to $95,000,000 in excess of the revenues. ';The sugar trust has been voted $40,000,000 by cougress." If this be true. the fact remains that Henry O. Havemeyer, president of the sugar trust, testified under oath that the trust greatly preferred the sugar schedule of the McKinley law. Besides, the democrats saved to the treasury the $13,000,000 aniiiially paid the cane growers of Louisiana. "In order to keep withiu sight of the expenditures. au income tax, an old war measure, has beeu re-adopted." This tax was enacted for the reason that the democratie party is not a devotee of the republican idea that the government shall legislate for the rich and that the rich wül then take care of the poor. On the other hand, the democratie party believes in the equality of all men before the law, and that every man should bear the burdens of government according to the amount of protection received; that taxes should be levied according to the individual's ability to pay them, and not according to his necessities. The democratie party is willing to go to the country on its record on this question, as well as on all others.