The livsterical statesmen at Washington ...

The livsterical statesmen at Washington and elsewhere who have been ranting and frothing at the mouth over the riot at Honolulú, while utterly oblivious to the far more serious occurrence at Brooklyn, have about worn themselves out, and have completely exhausted the patience and nauseated a long suffering public. Their good sense and judgment, if they ever had any, seems to have forsaken them and left them to be tossed about by their pa.tisanship without compass or rudder. In their ravings they descended far below the plane of decency in their charges against the president of the United States and his secretary of state. But it is said there are now some faint glimmers of returning sense among these statesmen, and a sensation of shame for the unwarranted course they have pursued. What advantage the United States could gain by the annexation of these islands is a mys tery. They are peopled largely by Asiatics and natives whose every instinct is inimical to our civilization and institutions. The natives have scarcely the veneer of civilization, and are said to be leprous and polygamous. Aside from the few Americans who control the business of the islands, any way, the population appears to be totally unfit for representative government. Political responsibility for Hawaii would add a heavy burden, with no advantages and no reason, moral or otherwise, therefor. On the other hand, etbnical reasons alone, if there were no others, ought to be sufficient to prevent a thought of annexation. The clamor over the subject seems not to have disturbed the equanimity of the president, however. Wednesday was a long to be re membered day in the annals 01 Michigan Free Masonry. It was the occasion of the laying of the cornei stone of the new masonic temple. The gathering was in every waj worthy of the intelligence and material position of this great state and of the order of orders in whose honor the vast assemblage came together. The exercises were impressive, solemn and beautiful. The symboüc event with which the laying of the corner stone was corapleted was a beautiful conception. When the grand master had finished the exercises at the stone, a thousand homing pigeons, those messengers of peace, arose from the site, and soon gaining their hearings, sped away, as on the wings of the wind, in every direction, to their various destinations. Beautiful symbolism, significant of the teachings of that brotherhood bound together by moral forres stronger than bands of steel for the good of the world and the well-being of all. The exercises from start to finish were without a hitch and most impressive. The impressions given and carried into the thousands of homes there represented were such as will strengthen the ties of the noble order. From present indications it does not look as though there would be a deficiency in the government levenue much longer. The revenues during the present month have considerably increased and appearances are that the income tax will be larger than the esdmates. From now on there will also be a greatly increased revenue from the sugar tax which up to the present time has yielded very little on account of the vast stock of free sugar laid in by the refiners before the law went into operation. The revenues will in all probably soon overtake and pass the expenditures. The true course for democratie congressmen who have hoped to redeem the fortunes of their party by the enactment of a conservative revisión of our currency arrangernents is to plainly confess that neither time nor party conditions admit of j the realization of their purpose, and not to make a display of desperation by becoming parties to a measure that would brand their party with the lack alike of brains and principie. It has become quite evident that, neither in congress nor out of it, is opinión yet sufficiently matured to admit uf the consumrnation of a really competent judgment upon this question. - New Vork Journal of Commerce. Free coinage of silver like fiatism has had its day and though it may yet prove troublesome it is no Iikely ever to regain the grounc it lost by the repeal of the Sherman act. It is only during a passing moment of general confusión that the bragging of the silver bullies o both parties in congress will be heard. In the mock-defiant attitude of silver senators can only be seen their purpose to make the best terms possible out of the fears of legislators who believe in maintaining our currency on such a basis as to preclude fluctuations and depreciation. - Boston Transcript. Last Sunday ex-Governor Josiah W. Begole finished his eightieth year and in the afternoon seventyfive members of the Genesee Commandery, Knights Templar, in f uil uniform , called to pay their respects. They presented the venerable exgovernor with a beautifully engraved scroll of congratulatory greeting signed by every member of the commandery. The ink on the newspapers announcing the resignation of CasimerPerier, president of France, and the dangerous crisis to result therefrom, was scarcely dry before the news of the election of his successor, Felix Faure, and the absolute tranquility of the country came on the wings of the lightning. This is one more evidence that the republic has come to stay this time. The Mexican government has sent its ultimatum to Guatamala and unless the little Central American nation backs down there will probably be war. It is thought that the other Central American countries are back of Guatamala. If war is declared it is thought more than probable that President Diaz will take command of the Mexican army in person. The Michigan Mining school asks the legislature for $115,000 with which to run the institution for the next two years. The school is one of the best of its kind in the country, but that is a pretty large sum of money to be expended on a school with less than a hundred students. The fruit growers over about Saugatuck will ask the legislature for a better peach yellows law. They claim that the yellows made serious inroads on the big orchards there last year and owing to the defects in the law the commissioners were unable to stay the ravages. The legislative junketers are having a good time in the upper península. They were at the Mining school Wednesday, Thursday they visited the Calumet and Hecla mines and last night they went to Escanaba. It is allegeged that there are 6,136 persons engaged in the business of making laws in this country. It is not surprising under such circumstances that the country is afflicted as it is.