Dishonest Twaddle

The down-town calamity organ tvies to raise a partisan cry about cedar being on the free list, and says that "this will practieally kill the business in Alpena," and ihen modifies the claim by adding-: "at least for this winter." A reviejv of the shipment of cedar during the last five seasons will eonvince any fair-minded, reasonable man that the cedar business in Alpena will not suffer one fence post the coming' winter on account of "f ree trade." Look at the figures. Cedar has been shipped from Alpena during the five seasons now drawing to a close, as will be found in the following table, where we give the total number oí pieces shipped each year, which includes posts, ties, telegraph poles and grape posts. 1890 735,700 1891 887.500 1892 1,044.000 1893 801.000 1894 1,117,100 From the above it will be seen that there have been more pieces of cedar shipped from Alpena up to September 22, this year, than for any previous year, and when the important fact is taken into consideration that there are more than a million pieces now in the river, cut last winter, an honest man does not have to go f ar to ascertain why the cedar cut in this section must naturally be very lig-ht the coming winter - simply because there was a supply cut last year sufficient for two years. Will the calamity howler please give the above figures and facts to his ers?- .