State Taxation Increasing

AVhile the valué of the farms has been steadily depreciating, and the price of what the farmer sells has been rapidly declining, the state taxes, except for the two Democratie years, have been rapidly increasing. Here are the figures of the state taxes for the past eleven years: 1886 $1,202,161.67 1887 $1,860,085.16 1888 1.45S, 466.04 1889 1,821,521.10 1890 1.263.744.00 1801 1,443,849.61 1892 1,419,210.61 1893 1,931,214.69 1894 1,689,135.89 1895 3,013,919.52 1896 2,068.638.62 Compare the two years of Winans' Democratie administration with the two years of the Rich second administration. During the two Democratie years (1891-92) the state taxes were $2,863,060.22. During; the two years of Rich's last administration the state taxes are $5,082. 45S. 14, an increase of $2,229,397.92. ín other words the state taxes for the past two years have been about 78 per cent. larger than for the two years of the Winans administration. Will the voters of Michigan indorse the high taxation indorsed by the present administration? I trust In the common heart of all more than in the private scheming of any financial syndicate. I don't excuse the ignorance of the masses, I don't celébrate their poverty, I don't ignore their frailties, but I say that they are far nearer the truth regarding all social and politica! problema than those hoodlum students of Yale, whose only argument is an insane college yell. It is time to co-operate and enjoy the creation of our lands; otherwise all the energy, and daring, and inventiveness of our fathers has come to naught. I do not believe that Colnmbus diacovered America for Hanna, or that the monopolist is the last and highest product of