From The People

Ed. Coürier:- Sir: As the Argiis makes no attempt whateyer to explain away the iticonMstencies of' lts utterances on the lumber tarlff questlon, as found in the quotation from that paper In my communication of last week, f take It for frranted tliat the editor of the Argus is like the fellow who sald he was never going to speak again, as he never opened nis mouth but what he put hls foot in it, and so condueles to let the whule thing go by default. It is true he kindly told me where I could find the proceedIngs of the Forestry Convention, and also told me what was sald there, but so far hs helping the fditor out of his tariff muddie of two weeks ago, it amounted to about as much as last year's Agricultural Report would in solvlng the Holgarían questio. I hardly thought the Argus would '"let the record stand" as it made it, but as this is the evident desire of that sheet, why, so mote It be, and uext fall when the g. o. p. assembles at the gruves of the defunct democracy, to see that they are decently burled, and that they are not trying to take with tliem the "surplus" they desplsed so in life. The epltaph on the tombst'iiie of the Argus wlll read : "üied by suffocatlon at the hunds of Michigan laborera, who did not believe ia the advocacy ol eniorced idleness by governmentul interference in the cuttlng down of our pine forests; who do not believe in encourasrlng. by so doing, the prosperityof Canadian lumbermen; who do not believe in stopping the manufacture of lumber hore, and the admisslon of CHnadian lumber free of duty and at (Janadii's own price; who do not believe in allowitiK foreign wool, foreijtn salt, foreign clotuing. forelgu iron, foreign manufactures of all kinds to come here In tllrect comnetition with home industries; but who do believe that churity begins at [lome. and lii.ti A mpripmi itn-aata i , .,„,,, toitL ÍIUll I 11,(111 I I i I t' 1 ('M [ íllll] American workmen should have tlie benefit of proper protective legislation Sic Uur ad ostra ( ?)." Tlmnkingyou for the space in your columns I have occupied, and trusting Unit for thesukeof its readers, the Argus will hereafter pursue a consistent course in its ultra free ideas, I subscribe myeelf uot "X." but Yours truly.