The Coluinbia, the Ameriea's cup defende...

The Columbia, the America's cup defender had her trial trip yesterday and she is a mighty speedy craft. She experienced no difficulty in leaving the old Defender in the foam she raised up. John Bull will be obliged to send a very smart craft here to beat her.

The proposition that the city buy a site for the projected new homeopathic hospital should be carried by a rousing majority. The carrying of this proposition and the erection of the new hospital will forever put to rest the scheme for the removal of the homeopathic college.

Pingree is for Alger for senator. Who are the people for? Come to think about it, it makes no difference who the people are for. Haven't McMillan and Alger the stuff that makes senators? These two men, having announced their candidacy for the place, will proceed to set up men, no not men, but tools, for the legislature who will be willing to do their masters bidding. The people are too busy with business matters to give attention to such trifles. And so long as such is the case, if they are misrepresented in the senate they have no one to blame only themselves.

There are plenty of men with money who are that confident that liquid air is the coming motive power that they are ready to back their faith with their money. Already hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in the developing of this new agency. Compressed air and liquid air are used. Street cars are run with it in New York as well as the chimes of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Then it is claimed that liquid air is a perfect knock out for heat and that a glass of it placed in a room will do more cooling than a dozen electric fans. It takes the place of ice in refrigerators and preserves food stuffs for hours. Now is a good time for its promoters to get some of their product on the market. Some of their millions will surely return if they can produce the cooling effects claimed.

Ex-Governor Merriam, who was appointed census director by President McKinley is a spoilsman but he is having trouble with the too ardent faithful. A lot of them have gone to Washington thinking to be able to take the "examination" earlier there. The examination of course is simply a satisfactory political pull. The census force will constitute a fine political machine for the coming campaign. While the census law specifically provides for minority representation, the democrats in the service will be about as few and far between as hen's teeth. There is undoubtedly a well defined purpose at Washington to use the census to cut down democratic representation in congress. There will, therefore, notwithstanding the provision of the law for minority representation, be few democratic enumerators in the most democratic of states.

"The tariff is the mother of trusts," says the democratic representative of the octopus, Mr. Havemeyer. That we suppose is to apply to the United States. If, Mr. Havemeyer should step over into England, where trusts still more abound, he would probably say: "Free Trade is the mother of trusts'." - Ypsilantian.

It is very evident that Mr. Havemeyer's statement touches a very raw spot on the g. o. p. elephant. The republican papers from a to izzard have all had hysteria over Mr. Havemeyer's assertion that "The tariff is the mother of trusts." That there may be trusts without protection is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that a protective tariff aids in their formation and largely increases the probability of their being successful in accomplishing their purpose, the restricting of production, keeping down wages and controlling the market. These tariff aided combines through the influence of the large wealth back of them are able to corrupt city councils, state legislatures and even congress.

The Ypsilantian also repeats the old lie that trusts still more abound in England. There is not a particle of evidence in support of this bold assertion. That there are trusts in England is true but the assertion that there are more there than here has no evidence whatever to support it.

At last, if reports be true, it has dawned on Gen. Otis that he needs more men to conquer the Filipinos and be has accordingly asked the president to send them. It is evident that Otis has been too much of an optimist, but at last has admitted his inability to put down the rebellion. It has been repeatedly said that the president was ready to send more troops any time Otis asked for them but as he was on the ground he should know best how many were needed. But it seems he has not known. At no time has he been able to hold the territory captured while claiming he needed no more soldiers. He is now reported to have cabled that he cannot hold much longer what he has been holding unless reinforced at once. If these things be true, they would seem to indicate an unexcusable lack of grasp of the situation on Otis' part and a need for a more far sighted commander.

At a recent conference in Detroit Gen. Alger told how he and Pingree came to kiss and make up and why the anti-Pingree headquarters presided over by John T. Rich were so suddenly closed last fall. Alger says he had been very anxious to do up hizzexcellency and had formed a combine with the McMillan forces to do it, he (Alger) agreeing to supply funds liberally to the good cause. But when the war broke out and he had had a conference or two with the doughty governor he became convinced that the "old man" was a pretty good sort of a fellow after all and also that be could not be defeated for renomination. Accordingly he withdrew from the McMillan combine and this lead to John T. Rich going back to the duties for the performance of which he was paid by the government. Now Alger is a senatorial candidate and Pingree is his chief push. How glorious to thus exemplify the virtues of forgiveness of one's enemy.