TIip official mijority in Arkaisis s 14,...

TIip official mijority in Arkaisis s 14,891, HKiiinst 'M.'áS') in 1884. Tlie September issue of the American Mngnz'ne is a notewortliy one. In ddition to n ti interi'Sti'iif md varled collection of clioice of literatura features, are two very forcible attlclfs on questiona Of the day - ono on "The Presidenta Error," by James G. Blaine, aixl the other by Governor Foraker, on "Tarift and Libor." Mr. Blaine takes Mr. Cleveland ceverely to task for many of the assertions made in lus message of last December, and G'iv. Foraker handles his subject in li is usual clear style. Wm, L. Scott and his hard coal monop oly have ndvanced coal 50 cents per ton to the poor people of this natlon. They know tbat the well-to-do people have all boiighl their supply and that the ).eople to be ground down bv the advanee are the poor who cannot affjrd to lav in a Hupply anead. There is no tarlff on hard coal nor bas there been for many years, yet the ''coal trust," with thechair man of the national democratie cominittce n t its head, puts up the price of the poor man's fuel as the eold weather approaches, and then this man has the audacity to ask you, my lalioring friend, to vote to keep hlm and liis party in power. No wonder Mr. Scott can aftord to give $250,000 to his party for political purposes. Bilt does he raise the wajres of the coal lips.rer? wlien he raises the price of conl? Thafi the question ! Referred to Stearns. Thomas (Jranajre of Bay City, the well known salt and lumber manufacturer, lias given tlie Tribune some pointers on what he saw in Europe. He said: " Like nny penon wbo eroploys a large forcé of men I was interested in thecondition, socially and tinancially, of the foreign liiboring classes. Xow wlien I teil you that in Liverpool I saw more pqualor, wretchedMM and inisery tlian ia any city I ever visited, yon may gatber what I mean. The would-be laboring element flocked the streets, looking pinched and liungry. They were either vending small articles or begging, generiilly the latter. Their hornos, too, wh:it I saw of thein, were wretched. The general complaint whs ' no work.' Now England is a f'ree trade country witbitspovertyaiul wrelcliednepg. I had heard of the pauperism and mendicnncy of Italy, so I visiled the old Roman eommonwealtb. Letmetíll yon that In three month's obiervatlon In such cities as Milan, Naples, Pisa, Florence and Rome I Paw üttle detitutlon and apparently happy and contented people. The poorer classes, such as one sees at work on public instltutious, were as well clotbed as the American laborer. In Switzeilnnd it was the same, and both these countiies protect thelr industries. I found England wlth its limiiless resources incompetent to factor its lowly. and two soiall and inconsequentiRl conntrie?, one of wliich bus just tlirown off the inertia of years, tluiliy and advancing."