Editorial Notes

The colored people of East Siiglnaw have a promlse f rom Fred Douglas that he will deliver the Emanciparlo Dny oration for them uext Autisi . The assertion is made tliat for every forty-eljfht voters Michigan liasone liquor dealer. That ratio muy hold gootl in 8ome of the cities hut it is doubtful if taking the state togcther the figures can be verlfled. The Detroit base hall club has corauienced going up tlie ladder. Bince the re organization it has won four straight heats from the great bean-eaters of Boston. And now Detroit papers and folks coramence bragging again. The riglit royal wclcome giveu the Mexican editora and their ladies touring over thia country, at Detroit last Monday, was a pleasant ulfair, and must have given onr Mexican brothers of tlie quill an ex cellent impression of the hospitality of the people of the peninsular state. The road to ofBce is crowded full with aspiring aspirant?, is very crooked, vcry exasperating, very delusive, illusive, fallacioiis, very dazzling, and juet as you reach out to haul in the piize sornc otlier fellow steps in abead of you and walks off with t. When it comes to picking up a typographical error in a cotemporary the Berrien Springs Era can throw all its immense weight into au article, and blae away like an old army inusket. 15ut when it comes to giving reasons for any position it takes the Era is lame- very lame. Hon. Don M. DIckinson is said to contémplate writing a new book on " What I Know About the Michigan Delegaties in Congress." And the Michigan delegation in congress are said to be seeking an ameuuensis to compile a volume on "What wc Know About Don M. DIckinson." Both works will be full of startling situations and immense houd lines. Tuis idea of issuing the messages of our governor, or any other officials in PoIíbIi, or French or any other foreign lanifuage, isnotagood one. This is an English speaking nation, and the Eoglish guaxe is me omciul languase. The sooner all citlzcns get so they can understand and use tliat language. the better t will be for them and for the state and iiation. One of the delegates it the music teacher's convention, in New York city last week, advocated the manufacture and use of a "dumb piano" for practice. Sucli an instrument nilght not cultívate the pupila ear for sound, but would be sound comfort for the ears of niany a poor martyr now compcllcd to listen liour after liour to the practlciug of new bt-giuners. Detnocrats are telegraphine nnd telephoning all over the country to find out who in creatlon Edward L. liedden is. President Cleveland or Hubert O. Thompson, or somebody, has appointed said Hedden collector of the port of New York, a position heretofore only given to men of acknowledged ability. But a new turn has boen taken, and a man nppointed who never was heard of befoi e. The Episcopalian convention for the western diocese of Michigan, beid at Grand Kapids last montli, uitli Hlshop Gillespie piesiding, refused to strike out the word "male" fiom the canon, 90 t luit women might be allowed a vote atchurcli elections. No female suft'iage for them. ture world, however, by their devolion to the church bere, tliey will each be accorded two votes in that happy laii'l. The signs o( me o. ._ .„„atp that the : Ilon. Don M. Dickinson has more power at the White House throne than the cutiré congressional delegation of Michigan. Let's see. Is there not some okl and proud tradition in the dominant party that democracy means governnient by the people ? Modern democracy seenis to mean one man power, while tlie people are not to be consulted. The Hou. Don M's. little finger has grea'.er power for patronage in its crook than the en tire elevated hands of the 80,000 demeorMa Of Michigan ! A comical incident in the Illinois senatorial contest transpirad at Watseka, Iil. May 20. Major Peters, editor of the "Republican" of thut place, and republicnn member of the legielature f rom Iroquois county, when assurcd of Lognn'a election telegraplied the boys from Springfield: "Logan is elected. l'aint my old home red." He meant, of couise, for them to hold a jolliflcation in Watseka, but the boys took him at his word, and showing the message to Mrs. Peters, gainedher consent, and forthwith the entire male population turned out, and procuriiig the brightest red paint imaginable, painted the house, bain and outhouees scarlet - roof, chimney and all, not sparing even the fences and tree trunks, When the Mnjor heard of the nflair he was the maddest mm In the nation, notwithstanding Logan's election. That bright woman, Gail Hanillton, speaking of the prohibitory movement as a tm'rd party issue, says: "What po)iti(al prohibition has thus far done may be summed up: By methods not ouly autagonistlc, but quarrelsome, feometimes eyen to the borders of scurrility, by misrepresentations that charity alone can crióme to niisuDuerstauding, it hns shained ita own propliecies, destroyed its own harraony, depleted its own ranks, vitiated its own laws, defeated the party from which all prohibitory U'gislation hus come, enthroned the party by wliich all prohlbitory legislation has been opposed. This it can continue to do indefinitely ; but no protestation on the part of it leaders, and nodelusioii on the part of its followers, cun alter the fact tliat it is workiog in the interests of intemperance and uot in the interests of temperance No intelligent observer can fail to rccognize its character and its tendency." The Ann Arbor high school graduated 47 BtudcnlH ibree of whom were coloieü - haline Ubserver. Yes, sir, that is a commou occurrence here. Hardly a class graduates but contains more or less coloied people. At the uniyersity three colored students graduated this year, also, and we don't suppose that one ainoiig the number, who marclied up beside theui, at either institution, feit any the worse for so doing, or that any of the audience thought anv tlie less of thein for m doing. We teel certain that some of the audience feit proud of the fact that the colored race, so recently undersubjection, could furnish representatiyes whose abilities and scholarship could stand the test required of graduates. Hadn't the Chelsea Herald man better teil the people where the school in this county is whoge graduates refused to march up and receive thelr diplomas because a colored student was also enlitled to one with them [Since writiug the above the Herald learns that lts assertion was not a fact.]