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Day
11
Month
July
Year
1888
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Freí! wool but protccted sugar! Eli ? Wlll Harrison be defeatedï The answer Í9 to be found by spelling hls name backwards- No, slrrab!- Charlotte EUpublican. _ Unlesa sonie of tbe democratie papers iiit throwlnfr (lirt they must not com(ilain ïf republicana are forced to iight lire with tire. Neal Dow, tbegreatprohibition leader, who ran for Mayor on the democratie ticket in Portland, Me., last sprinjr, and was defeated, now favors Cleyeland's election. llon. Daniel L. Crossman, of Williamston, lies hopelessly 111 at his home of ean cerous affections. He bas been clerkof the house of representativos since 1873, and is probably the best posted man for the politlón In tliis state, or periMpa In my other. The Cinclnuatl Zeltung. the workHginau's orean, says: "We find it vcry unchristianlike to quarrel with the republicans on account of their temperance platform. The demócrata nre white with rag that they have not adopted snch a ¦hlffh-toned' style in thelr platform ." Oen. Harrisou whllo in the senate was thfl father ot the pension bill, wbich was altorwanl adopted by the G. A. R. Ilis record i' unassailable at ever point. Of course the ilirty, lying politiciin, who is affectcd by triith a9 n muil dop; is by water, will batch up stull to till ;iilllble peoplc's eais. John W. Mackey, the great millioiuiire, wliO8e wife is too proud and aristocratie to live In the United States " where there is 110 society lit to associate with," bul who llves in Paris in (jreat splendor and style, is.a strong Cleveland man. Verily the democratie, party must bc the poor mau's piirtyü! The national convention of' democratie ilubs, held ut Baltiinore, Md., Ia9t week "dld not deern it expedlent" to tackle the Chinese quegtion. But the products of (Jhinose laborera at f rom 10 to 25 cents per iay, it was resolved should be ailmitted duty free to compete with the products of the American iaborer. How do you like it Bro. workingmen Í President Cleveland 8olvesthc Chinese problem satisfactory to himself by havi t ïyr bis own and Mis. Cloveland's washinj; done by Chinamen. Talk about, words, actions are what teil the story" Qive the Heathen Chinese money to send back to his own country while liundreds of white wennen are Roinj: without food, even, for want of work to earn it with. 11 seems rather ludicrous to Éee lot of men howl for free trade with onc breath, and the next one clammor for an international copyright law to profeet their own work. They should be consistent and demaud free trade in everything. It looks a llttle selfish for men to ask protection for themselves and free trade for their neitjhbors. But we won't have to o out of our own city to lint just such men. We ehould like to ask our foreijrn po ulation how maiiy of tliem caine oye: licru tirst and earned the money to sem back after their families? Nbw wliy dit thcy not earn the monpy there '! Simpl becausc It would have taken too man; years and many ofthem never could hav faved enous?h of their earnings in a lif time to have accomplished it. Now if we have democratie free trade, and brin wages down to the level of Europea wnges what 11 the consequences be It doesn't fake even an obtuse intcller very long to see that point. Arraugements have been made tur a special newspaper train on the M. C. 1{. R., wbicb wlll iilo be a mail train, the expense beinr borne by the governnient, and by the Detroit mom Ing papen?. It wlll Icüvo Detroit at about n. ni., reaohing Ann Arbor at about 5 o'cloek, giving our residonts here their Dtornlng Tribune before breaUfast time. The Tribunef by-the-way, is impioving woutlerfnllj It serves its readers 8pavs regularly am quite frtquently wilh 10 and 12 wc nlled piifres. It is nperior in tlm way o general newp, state news, style of litetature, and general make up to any other morning paper that is now or ever has been given to the public froin Detroit, And the Tribune 3 booming, too, now that practical men have got hold of t. The Cincinnati Volksblatt, the greatcst Gernuui 4per in Ohio, says: "The proliibitionists are the confederate9 of th demócrata. The democrats keep Chinese workmen out of the country, therefore they admit Chinese productiona free of duty so that the American laboier obliged to compete with the Chinese. I is ridiculous for the democrats to inali capital out of the Hnulellu resolution, a the National Llquor Dealers' Associatio ailonted similar rcsolutions In üctobe 1886," viz: " Resolved, That we favor public and pr vate moral lty, good order aud educatlüu o tlie people." "Resolved, That we earnestly reoommem moderatlou and condemn all excess. We re coguizeand conflnn the Injary whlch nrlses frotn all kinds of Intoxicatlngdrinks and con ilciiiTi In Btrongest lerms every place, no ma ter under what name lt exlstx, wlilcli enoour ages ihe mlsuse of tlie saine." Just now the presldentlal electlon Is peiu inL and every republican dealer and manu facturer. Is trylng to crowd down the pi Ice o v. (il to Influence democratie farmers tu vot for protectlou. -South Lyon Picket. That item 3 not tlie truth. lt' a dealers and manufaeturers were republi caiis then tliere might be some sliadow o a pretext on wliicli tu make that state inent, luit as there are as many deinoeratl wool dealers and manufaeturers as re publicans, tlie silliness of such au Mier tion is at once apparent. The low price of wool is caused by tb dullnes8 of business, and business is du! because business men are afraid to inves their money in buying goods that ar liable to go down on thelr hands if th tree trade part}1 wlth its Mills blllshouh be s.iccessful. You many ask any mei chunt or dealer in manufactured woolen goods in Ann Arbor yon clioose if he i laying in a stock of goods, and you wil invariablv recelve the same auswer: "No mach. We areorderingonly justenoug: to supply our customers, and as it i wanted. AVe carry no 8tock nov-u-day. but run as close RS possible, because o the uncertainty of tariff lcgislatlon aiu the future inarket values." One mer i'liant tailor in conversation the othe day told us that "there is not one dolla inyested by merchant tailors in this city to-day to where tliere was $10 a year o two ago. We are all trimming our sail for breakers. And if the free trade pol icy is Micrcsi-fiii in this nation tbere wil be breakers ahead, too, you can bet."

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Ann Arbor Courier
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