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22
Month
August
Year
1888
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"The best thing In thls republic, next to liberty, is the labor of the people." - Jamee A. Garfleld. In Albion townslnp wlilch gave St. John 2") votes four years aso only two now remaiu true to that fait.li. The two Ca, Cleveland and Cobden, will be buried beneath a great wuve of popular opinión next November. The demócrata are not sayinp one-half as inuch about " republican free whisky," as they were. It commenced boomeranging. There is a good deal of "pernicious political activity" amonsr the gentlemen who have been appolntedto office by Mr. Cleveland. Read that exciting serial story on our llrst pnge, contlnued from week before liist. It is a "dandy." The people are inteusely interested In It. 'Nothing in American politics is more obviou8 Iban that Mr. Cleveland's message ha9 sounded the death knell of Protection." - London (Eng.) Daily News. What's the matter about organlzlng a i'li'vi-land and Thurinan club, lu Itils city.- Ypsllanti .Seutlnel. 01) ! never mind! It isu't really worth the trouble anyway. The Kcchester Volksblati coming over from Cleveland to Harrison makesagreat void in the democratie rank of New York state. And there aro more to follow. There are three bankers and nilllonaires on the democratie state ticket: Hurt, Moran and Norton. The Detroit Free Press ought to catnip over that fact. The greenbackers have at last decidor! to put a national ticket ia tlio. field, hik a nalioiial convention is to be held at dncinuatl Sept. 21st to nominate the same. The Xiw York Sun says if the demo crats do not stop talking free trade it wil be sure suicide. Hindslght always comes too late. Yon didu't epeak of it sooi enougb. On the whole the easiest way out fo Grover Cieveland is to tbrpw up thi Whole business and move that the tiet tion of Harrison be made unanimous. - I' II i la. Press. The Detroit Evening News ends it editorial on Blaine's reception with tbis "for most ieople are fools.'1 And all be cause the people will not be fooled by it pet free trade tueories. The poetlcal political productions 01 the Detroit Evening News remtnds on very much of the Sweet Singer of Miclii g&n. Has the News resurrected this al most forgotten celebrity? What profiteth a man to íain the mar of tlx' wliole world and Io9e hls in come? What can a poor inan jjain by lia vin everything cheap and no way t earn money to buy with? Senator Voorhiec, of Indiana, is com ing to Michigan this fall to help save tl) first congressional district. His presenc will bring up tboughts of Injralls, bnt li galls will probably not be with liini. 50 per cent. of the farmers nf Micliiga (according to official statistics) are en gaged In slieep industry, and yet Chnlr man Weston said the question of fre wool would cut no figure in the camptilg in this state. "The savings of the wajre-workers o England Scotland and Ireland aro no as srreat as lie to-nifrht in the aaving banks of Massachusettg to the credit the wage-workers of that small state." - James G. Blanuï; " We can never cnntrnl the workinrinn until he eat up to-dag wkat he earns to morroio," said Congressniüii W. L. Sent in an interview witli Hou. üimiiltc N ble. Scott is chairman of tlie deinooratlo nntioiial committee. The democratie campaign leaders r at sixes and sevens They see the hand writlnf; on the w.ill mid are enrli tryinj. to blame the otlier for it. The 1 it s thing is the practical bonnclng of Cha Ir man Brice aud the lubititutloa of Sena ator Gorman. John Jarrett, of Pitt9burg, Pa,wh was sueceeded as general inaster work uiiin of the Kaiglits of Labor by Mr Powderiy, is now working for Harrison Morton and Protectiun to American la hor, and will speak in this state during the campaign. There will be a three days' baiu tourniiment held at St. Joseph, Mich., 01 Monday, 'l'iicsday and Wednesday, Stp tember 'M, 4tli and 5th, 1888. Liben prizes will be given. All desired Inior mation will be (tiven by addreísing A. B Morse, St. Joseph, Mich. The Texas Mills, the foe to all north ern milis, is cominjr to Michigan to tel the people here how they oujtht to snb mil to free wool, salt, etc, white south ern suar and rice are highly protected Come on Rot;er, the more speeches yoi make the tietter - for our side. To our discredit be it said that we hav "trusts" here in this country, but in free trade l'.nu'l 'iid there are ten of thes "trust'' or nionopolis to one in the United Stiltes, nnd the t:irifl h;is no mor to do with them thaii t does with ili heijtht of the hills n Jerusalein. The Adrián Press et al, uho have the Chiuesephobia so bad, oujrht to expiain to the workingmen of this nation how 1 is that the private and all otlier laundr work of the White House is done bi Chinampn ? Your candidate doesn' practice what you preach, does he I The man who protects liis home is the man who is respected and honored ii any cotniniinlty. The nation tliat pro tects the ones who nnike these homes, i the one that orospers and is honored ui over the world. Do our people wnnt U Changa this national policy at tliis time Bartley Breen attemptcd to betray the honi-st laborinff man of this state, hut got his finjjers badly hurned in the attenipt He sold them ut to Burt, but failed to deliver tlie rnols. How much was it. Bartley ? Teil us al! abont it Burt "Confession is good for the 8oul,''you know. Siys the Enjjli-h Pall Mali G-izette: "Bnffllsii free trnders would be wél] advised if they tnoderated the ecstacy of tlieir jubilation over President Clevclnnd's message. Evcry word whicli they say in it favor will be used as a powerful argument aalnst, the adoptlon of its recommendntion." Siioceísfnl agrirulture is poFsililo only ut the gatt-s of the manufactiirei ; every day the modern farmer applies for mor and more lielpfrom industry. And manufactures - we are learningr it now at a heavy cost - can tlirive only wlien their oliimiipys rise amid the gol len fields. - RowtkO Autlior. On the top of Cmrecanti Needlp, Black canon, on the Ounnison rivcr, Colorado, risinír abruptly 2,000 fcet, tlies a Harrison & Morton banner. The feat of plicing it there is regarded as wonderfnl in that moontaliiooi reglón, Bnt it is no more wonderfnl than will he the immpnse majority of llarrison & Morton on Nov. 6th. The psilanti Sentinel think its p;rtv can curry Ibe electioii all rijjlit enoneh without timt ion list of demncratla de8ertera ptiblished in the Coi'rirk of An;. 8th. Wt-ll, Bru. Woodrntr, on our Srat page again thi week will be found hmotlier long list. Can you pet alonsr with out the9e, also, without any inconvenience ? Wrote a memlwr of parllament to tlie New York World: " To convert the United Srates is Indeed a trlumph. The Cobden Clab will lienceforth pet np h special 8hrine ( for the wortblp of PimI danl ('levi Imid and Rend hiin uil lts puhücations gnitis. Oobden founded free trade; Cleveland red it. Boch is the buiden of the sonr all through Englund to-duy."

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