Practical Temperance Work

Gen. Alger owns and controls more tlian 100 square miles of lamí tliat bristles witli lumberiog camp?, railroads and appliances for carryiiiK ou his girantic business, which employs uearly 1,000 men. Iu all of these 10 or 12 years that his business interests have been extensiva, and no person has been able to ohtain a lease or building permit forstore, stiop ordwelling without probibitiou embodied in the contract. A perniit to open a saloon at Black River would bc taken up quick at $1,000 per year. Flve years afro he purchased Blaok River latead at n very high prlce to prevent it trom belog used for liquor purposes. Will sombody teil us where David Preston's temperance principies ever cost him $10,000? What belter assiirance do temperance people want that the best interests of the cause will be safe In the hands of a man- il' made a govei-nor - who so stanchly stood by it at so great a sacrifica as a private citizen? IIow many pretty rood temperance people, are there 111 Detroit and throuhout the state who own property (hat is rented and used foríaloon purposesf How many more are there who own property tliat tliey would oloseup and derive no income froin ratiier tlian have it used for that pulpóse ? One Who Knows. Títere nextr has been a bel ter man nominaied, either polUically, morally, socialli, er any otlter icny, for congress in thit district, llwn Capí. E. P. Alien. Vote for him.