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Says the Hillsdale Leader: "Wool is low....

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Day
29
Month
May
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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Says the Hillsdale Leader: "Wool is low. So is wheat. There is scarcely a farmer in the land who does not know and talk that wheat is low becanse of over-production and competition with new wheat conntries, and that snpply and dernand have regulated the price entirely, nnder high tariff, low tariff and no tariff. The same canses precisely are responsible for the low price of wool. The only difference is that wool competes with shoddy, with a more disastrous effect npon its price than that sostained by wheat, because yon cannot substituto a shoddy wheat - there is none. If the measure of the price - tbe currency - has something to do with the low prices of these staples. it affeots them nearly alike. Bnt do not attribnte the low price of your wool to the removal of the tariff upon it. That statement is too full of holes to hold water. Ten years ago Hillsdale oounty farmers received about thirty. five cents per pound for their wool ; and the price bas steadily declined nnder a moderate tariff, then declined nnder a high tariff (the McKinley law) and has remained nearly stationary nnder the present tariff law. Yon must look for other causes than the tariff for the low price of your wool. And with only one eye on a dark night you will have no difficulty in finding those which are entirely sufficient to account for low wool. ' ' Tb ose who speculated in May Festival tickets last week got badly left. Ta raany instan ces tickets that cost their holders $4 each did not realize more than $1. 50 to $2 for the series. Tickets, even on the night of the Wagner concert, could be purchaed for 25 cents and 50 cents each. This was bad not only for the holders of tbe tickets, bnt also for the May Festival itself. The management bad given out weeks before the Festival that only standing room tickets were left unsold. This was absolutely true, but the reasan of this was that the tickets were in the hands of scalpers. Many people from out of town were thus prevented from purchasing these tickets and at' tending the concerts, for they would not come here on the uncertainty of being unable to obtain auything better than standing room, or if they were fortúnate enough to obtain seats, have to pay an exorbitant price for thein. The prices asked by those who held the tickets was out of all proportion, $10, $12 and 15 were the usual figures, but as stated above the prices obtained will leave the speculators in the hole. The law f aculty of the university has formally disapproved of the practice of clandestine marriages, several of which have recenrly been reported among stndents. It is to be regretted that sonie one in authority does not censure the practice of "suppressing" marriage liceuses in aid of claDdestine marriages. One of the principal objects of tbe license law is publicity, and no couuty clerksbonld "suppress" a license issued by him for a single day, or even an hour, if inquiry is made for them. As well neglect or refuse to make the reqnired record of the marriages after proper retara to his office - Times. The Argus is sorry to say that the office of the oounty clerk of Washtenaw connty is no exception to this practise of suppressing ïnarriage li censes. It is no uncoirmon thing when one looks over the marriage licenses on file to find a missing uuinber. It is a wrongfnl practice and should be made punishable by fine or imprisonment. Some one has put in interrogativo form some of the points in Secretary Carlisle's Chicago speech, and asks the following questious: "First, is there a free silver coinage country in the world today that is not on a silver basis? "Second. is there a gold standard country in the world today that does not nse silver as money with gold? "Third, is there a silver standard country in the wurld today that uses any gold as money along with silver? "Fourth, is tnere a silver standard country in the world today that bas more than one-third as much money in circulation, per capita, as the United States have; and 'Fifth, is there a silver standard country in the world today where the laboring man rficeives fair pay for his day's work?" We request our free coinage friends of the Adrián Press, the Ypsilanti Senfcioel and the Wasbtenaw Times to ans-wer these interrogatives. Ann-Arbor once more has au excellent board of public works, cornposed of Thomas J. Keeoh, Win. H. Molntyre and Dr. W. B. Smith. Now tbat the mayor has satisfactorily solved the board problem, we rnay hope to eee tbs street work handled ia a busiuesslike and economical manner, the iruprovements of a permanent character and all quairels aud bickerings with the council relegated to the rear. All tbree of the membeis of the board have had previous valuable experience in city affairs, all tbree have served on the council, two have already done good service on the board, Dr. Smith bas served several terms as mayor and what is better yet, all of them are men of good judgment. It is not strange that some of the enemies of an honest ourrency shonld be soaring themselves with the btig-a-boo of Cleveland's renomination. Were it not for the faot that Cleveland has had two terms, be could defeat straddler McKinley. But no president will ever serve three terms in this country and President Cleveland is not the man to fly in the face of the unwritten law of the country wbich flrmly fixes the number of terms one man may hold the presidency. In spite, however, of this fact, some of the fellows who must have a bug-a-boo with whieh to keep themselves and their fellows in constant terror, still lay awake nights thinking about it.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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