The republican majority last fall was 10...

The republican majority last fall was 106,000. This spring, by adopting an out and out free silver platform, the republican majority is less than 50,000. This gain of 55,000 votes in five months, is due to the single issue of silver. Had we not adopted it the republicans would have had as big a majority as ever. - Adrián Press. The Press man after telling the above whopper was so pleased with it that he put it in another column of the same page and issue again. Although the Press man by this act has written his name several notches higher in the list of immortals than the lamented Ananias, yet the lie will deceive nobody. A few more such victories as that of April ist, will bury the cause of free silver too deep for resurrection purposes. The campaign last fall was also conducted on the free silver issue, and the party was beaten never so badly in the state. The thrashing was repeated this spring and the only reason there was a falling off in the republican majority was the fact that they understood that one-half of their voters could stay at home and still do up the dems - on such a platform. The result showed that their confidence was not excessive. So sweeping was their victory that the dems. would not even have saved Donovan, of Bay, had he been running. In fact the only county the democracy carried in the state was the island county of Manitu and the wonkï not have carried that had it not been situated out in the lake and without information as to what the democratie platform was. "Mayor LaFleur purchased Sio ewes for $103 and one ram for Sio at the Shropshire sale at Paw Paw last week, for his Litchfield farm. He seems to have faith enough in sheep to go 100 miles to buy them - and his faith is well founded." - Hillsdale Democrat. And Mayor LaFleur is a rank republican protectionist too, one oi those fellows who believes the sheep industry has been irretrievably ruined by the Wilson tariff law. How strong his faith in the republican howl must he, when he will hie himself 100 miles to attend a sheep sale and pay more than $10 a piece for them. Why do these republican howlers buy sheep at such prices if they are honest in their predictions of disaster to the wool industry, fromjthe putting of wool on the free list? Can it be that their object is simply to preserve them as curiosities, as relies of a great industry brought to sudden extinction by the tariff policy of the unspeakable democrats? They are to be kept no doubt as a sort of fetich with which to conjure up eternal enmity, in the souls of the young scions of republicanism, toward those responsible for the wreckage of the once great sheep industry. It is estimated that in Massachusetts alone 80,000 wage earners have had their wages increased 15 per cent. within the past month. The same thing is true in other sections as well. The rise of wages. is an infallible indication of permanent in' crease of business and of business profits. Those who employ labor never increase wages on a mere spurt in business but wait for perrnanency before dividing with labor the increased gains. The benefits of this improvement will extend far beyond the direct benificiaries of the increased wages and will aid in giving new Ímpetus to business of every kind. The wage earners, having more to do with, will purchase more; this in time will cali for increased production and the employment of of more labor. In fact all these things are actual rather than prospective happenings just riow. All these things go to prove that the country is entiring upon that condition of permanent prosperity for which it has so long been anxiously waiting. The supreme court has finally granted, for May 6th, a rehearing of the income tax cases. There will be a full bench this term, Justice Jackson having signified his intention of sitting. It is to be hoped that the decisión on the rehearing will carry with it a little more confidence and respect than did the former one. If it is unconstitutional to tax incomes, no matter from what source received, the constitution should be amended and the right to levy such tax granted in terms not to be misunderstood. The whole burden of taxation should not rest upon consumption any longer. The great aggregations of wealth of all kinds should be forced to pay for the support of goverment in proportion to the protection received. The whole wealth of the country should contribute to the common defence and general welfare. But how is this to be accomplished outside of an income tax? The legislature has passed a law requiring school authorities to keep a flag floating over all school houses at all times when school is in session. There seems to be a bit o) overstraining in this. It is most fitting and proper for every school to have a flag and to float the same on the breeze on occasions, but to make it obligitory that it be raised every day and in all sorts oi weather, smacks of buncomb. Might as well make it obligatory for everyone to wear a flag in his button hole. The teaching of patriotism is a sacred duty incumbent upon every citizen but it strikes us that this flag law is a little "texcessive. The legislature has passed and the governor has signed the uniform license bill fixing the license for all classes of saloons at $500. The bill received a unanimous vote in the senate. It was given immediate effect and is therefore the law of the state. There is no doubt but that the measure has the support of a large majority of the people of the state and probably the majority of those engaged in the liquor traffic who believe in living up to legal requirements. The suggestion of Attorney General Olney, that if it is finally decided that there is no constitutional warrant for the levying of an income tax, then there are good grounds for suits to recover taxes collected under the old income tax law, would seem to be founded in logic and justice. But what an issue this would open up. The supreme court of Wisconsin holds that a life imprisonment sentence in that state shall constitute a divorce without further legal proceedings, There seems to be good sound sense in this, at least.