Editorial Notes

The watchword of tbe average Mictnaa republican just at present Is "Alger nd victory!" Xext to schools and chinches good oads are the greatest evidences of inteligent and enlightened communlties. No sore spots to heul up. No compromises to make. Nothlnfc '¦" hinder a granil m.irch to viotory witli Gen. Aljrer s a leader. Life is too short to muke president of 11 the good men who have been named. tot its about rtght to begin at the liead of the alphabet- with Alger.- Midland iepuljllcnn. Some of our klnd-hearted democratie friends are alraid "Cfen. Alger will not run well," and so are very anxious that ,he rcpublicans should not make a misake and nomínate him. Ahem '. Mr. Cleveland believes in free wool for northern farmers, but not free sugar for southern planters. Will the people of the north tolérate such unjiist discrimmation against their financiiil interest'? The I'hiladelphia Press recozni.es it as it really 9 : "The Altfer hoorn for president is not confined to Michigan alone. It covers the Rtnte and laps over the edges into adjoiningr commonwealths. It is one of the healtliiest, handsomest and most attractive booms in the Held." You mnytake the greatcst trouble. nl hy tiiruliiK itaround flndjoyon tlie otlicr sUle. - Talmage. True, perhaps, but did you ever try to turn one of thote great troublcs around, Mr. Talmage? If not, and if you ever have one, we advise 3Tou to make the attempt and let the world know the resnlt. A copy of the Irish World comes to hand cautioning the republlcan party against the nomination of Walter Q. Gresham, whose record the World claims has not been exactly straight, politically He has not always supported the nomineesof the republican party as heshoulc have done. Now teil as truly, did you ever hear of a common soldier of the southern array ever arising to prominence? Not much. Xothing less than a captain, and very seldom anything less than u colonel ever peeps his head above the level down south. Talk about aristocraey, what do you caU tliat? The South Lyon Picket has a head put on it. A new head. A very plaln hend. Ahead of all competitors, as it were. But the old head was quite a head and in our humble judgment it was ahead of the new head in beauty. If you cannot make any particular heailwav in tliis item, wliy, head her off, that'a all. The Gratiot Journal recojmlzes our eongres.man'8 good points: "Congres1 man Allen, of Michigan is making lus miirk in congress. He is vigorous and al)le In debate, and In hls recent bout with Bontelle of Maine rejrarding Miclitgan's filice of the river and harbor appropriation, acquitted himself hnndsoniely." Perhaps it is analogous that Congressmiin Allen, whn bus often been called "fog-horn Allen ' because of hls magnilicent stentorian voice, should make his best efibrt in behalf of ttie Michigan Harbor bilí last week. If itgoes through and gives Michigan all it asks, it will be due more to his brilliant oratory than to the introducir. He was defeated for the legiMature. then defeated for congres; never say die, he carne up serenely again and snved hia district by 1,500. The scond district is all right. - Quinoy HeruM. The republican party is accused of keepinjr up the anitnosities of the late war. A more tinjust charge was never made. The party has no feeling tigainst the south hut that ot fricndsliip mul brotherly nflfcction. 15ut it does protest against the policy of the governraent benig thaped by the men who only a few years ago attempted to distroy this nation. It fiirtlierinore protests aginst nnjuet discriminations against the north constantly being made by the party In power to-day. Cleveland's free trade message strikes a blow at the farmers of our northern states by recommending free wool, but the sume message proposes to coddle southern planters by retainingthe duty on sugar. And this is only one of the mny wnys that the northern people are being over-ridden by the democratie southerners. Unrter "free trade" or wlmt Isbetter known as the "Walker lariO"," from 1846 to 18H0' the uu rcltHiifs use dto borrow money from the farmers at a fair rate of interest, bat uniler the present tari tl" poverty and mortgagei farms predemlnaie and nierohants liave to i-t their money from the banks and other lQgtllutloDH ol raonoply. A tariff that wlll bonestly protect the American farmer frum extortlon and glve him a chance to pay hls mortgages and save hU home ia the only tariffneeded In this country.- Monroe Democrat. It is quite evident that the editor of the Democrat has not examined the list of mortgages returned to the register of deeds of his county, or he would not make such an assertion as the above. That list shows that about one third more residents of the country, in proportlon to the population, hold mortgages in their own names than do residents in the citles. Tnere are hundreds and thousands of dollars deposited with merchants and business men in the cities every year by farmers, for safe and prorltable investment. Some of this money is placed on farm property and some on city property, and not a little Is drawing interest ia the banks. Hut give us free trade, free wool, free salt, tree lumber, and all other things free, and theu see who would have money for investment. Instead of our own people having money to loan they would have to seek the markets of London, Liverpool, etc. The Democrat can uut point to a time in the history of this nation when it prospered under free trade. The greatest commercial depression this country ever experieneed was during the very free trade times to which it refera.