Editorial Notes

" The biuijer the hog the more be squeals."- W. Stearns. Are tliere any.men now in congress who resigned and left the army " for the goodof the service?" Vre care not 'm trbicb army they servcd. OME. HONESTY. APPINKSS. ARHISON. Tlie Ypsilanti Commercial will give $10 to any one who will tel) them liow m.my beang there are in a quart. Why not ask Stearns? He knows beans. Is thcre a man of any prominenee In the late Bouthern Confederncy that is not a free trader? No, not one! Tlien tlils greut linancial questiou is a sectlonal ono, s it not ? " It is i tï:ht to tlie denth," snys Spnator Vest of Missouri, betwecn tlie southern idea of f ree trade and the northern idea of protection. We hope our northern people can realizo this fact. Aecording to their own argument thcre tont a 6tock of goods in this city but wnuiii deprecíate from 10 to 25 per cent. by the sucoess of the democratie party next November. Where will g? Mr. Stearns admits that the letter publlshed last week relalive to hls dlsrnissal from the service, is true and uitlientic, and hit defene 1 3 quite Ingenióos. Hut a defense agalnst facts s at the best a sorry thing. Tjfivi P. Morton loadeil a shlp with provisions at a coat of $50,000 and seiU it to Btarving Ireland in 1880. Mr. C'li veland sent $20 to the Charleston snfleier-. What charitable deed has tlie noble oíd Roman ever done ? "Let us strip for the tight," MM Belva LockwOOd in a speech tlie otlier day. There was a wild stampede., and in two minutes the only men left in the hall were thoe who had been trampled iiuder foot and rendered unconsclous. The republicana asked Gov. Richardson, of South Carolina, for representation on the electlon boards, and he insolently replied: "The repiiblican pat tv luis heen dead w many years In this state, their noa-recognitfon as a party is jOitiflable.'1 No sectionaliem down south. The South Lyon Pioket has been metamorphosed into the Tri-County Plcket, and comes over to the repiiblican rankt iiiid is tiühtinu a red hot fight for protection and tilt' repabltcan pnrty Iiro. Cliilson is a butler, nnd with bis energies to pu-h the repiiblican cause In that viciniu will help boom it on to victory. Old Mr. Edison, the Inventor' fatlier, used to be such a pood deiuocmt thxi Tburnian, wben in Port llnron went to cali on hini. Soou afterwards he canie out for Harrison and Protection. The "Old Roman" bad better come to Michigan agalB and open sonie more democratie eyes to the errors of free trade. It is no wonder that Cipt. Allen is such a grand good man,'' said a cltlzen the other day," for lie liad one of the bc-t mothers that ever lived. When the war broke out she had live staltrart sous, and sbe called them all to her and b:uli; them go todefend this country. They all went, and not one of them 'renlirnea ior the good of the service.' " Mr. Güenlher, the able Germán congrewman of Wliconsin, worked fr $7 a per month in Germany. He carne, befe R poor yoting man hut bas worked and studieil hls way to the front, and now ranks with the best in the nation. A soon as he struck this terribly "tax ridden country he hired out for $ÜÖ a month. He believes in protection. We make the assertion now, and rwa prove it by files of the Adrián Pre, Willard Stearns' paper, that he h .8 bren the most bitter, vinliitive and abii.-ive of labor orgatiizationi of any editor in the ht -iie, with the inasible exoepUoa of the Ypsilanti Sentinel. Two years lince there washardly au issue of ei t her paper Owfc ïitJ co tai o Wttnr f i In f o qirnl' nrjrtinzed labor. "Laboring men let Allen feel the welght of your ballota. See If it won't make soaie ü'.llerence with hlm."- Argus. Yes, the laboring men of this county and district will be very a.pt to vote for a man like Stearns who classes them with "Chicago bomb throwers," and calis them "anarchists and communist." Mr. Allen will undoubtedly teel the vt'etfrlll c f their balloti - tmt they will bc i'or, not agaluBt him. This battle of the tarirl is a tight for Bnprèmacy between the nortb and the south the same as in '61, and forthe same reasons. The south was beaten then, and devastated. To-day if the south mkceeds, tlie north will be devastated just the same as the south was in '61, though notby the sword, but by the destrucli n of her industrial system and ruin of her Kreat workshops and idleness of her great tarmt, and the laborers therein and tliereon. The St. Clair Republican of Oct. lltli, saya : In 1804, Gen. S. B. Brown of this ctty, Men mi. ni, -i of the lltli Mloh. C'av., demsnded tlie resltmitlon of Lleut. Willard Stearns, of the same regiment, lor the goodof the service. AsSteaniR wasglven to undersland that the colonel lntended to follow the demaiid in i-M' ui rofusal with somethlng else, the reslgiiHtluii was teudered. This rcsliiiialiuii for the good of the service was of courie accepted anda discharge issued acconlinsly. Stearns Is now the democrat conKresslonal candtdate In the second district but Is certatn to get left, as that district lo too putrlotlc to aishonor ltself by clectlng a man with sueh a record. Had the article la refereoce to Mr. Allen's record on the Baker bill, in the last Argus possessed the essential element of Iruth, it would have been a most excellent point. But it is false in all the vital pointe, as we can prove to any man who oaret enougb abont it to step in this office and examine the House Journal of 1877. Mr. Allen did not make a speech in favor of the bill, nor did he vote for it uut il it was amended in favor of the workingmen, by Mr. Allen liimself, as we can also prove. What possible rood does It do the Argus to deliberately misr. sent Mr. Allen? We are told that Mr. Stearns said in one of hia recent speeches: "I will yet lick Col. Brown." Col. Brown, it will be remeinbered is the Hth cavalry Colonel, who accepted bis (Steain'si retlgnatlon "for the good of the service." Mr. Stearns knows the Colooei's iddrets, and bas kiHiwn it for yearp, but he oever bas had the courage to carry out bis threata. Wouldn't it look better to go up to St. Clair and tbresh him and then braj; about it afterwards? Is t foecoming In a would-be congrwimin to make such bully ing threats on the Itumpf In the county of Wayne the Dstroit papers - all but the Free - openly eiiarge that the democratie county nominees, not only bought their iiomiuatiou from a ''syndicale" of saloollist and ííamblers, but they even go so for as to name Ibe amount each man paiil for their oomnation. And no one seems to deny it. After baring up enoa'gb delégate at $100 i pleoe to secure the nomiuathms promised, this famous syndicate is alleged to liave made $0,000 elear oll'the deal. Höw [iroud the leader of the party must feel jver that grand affair ! What u tbrill Of manly pride mu:t tingle throagtl their frame as they go to the polls and vote for the men so shamelessly placed on their ticket. It may not be generally known that ;here is a direct tax levied in (reat lïri tÜO on religión. In order to obiam a [cense to be a lecturer, an BoglUbman must pay $2 50; a licensc for a building for tlie performance of divine service, ind any chapel for tolemnlzlng marriages, costs tlie same; other licenses for preaculng and bolding divine service :ost $10 eaob. A faculty or dispensation 10 oinit om; eeclesiHstical duty costs in Kngland $160, and Scotland or Ireland $100 in some cases and $125 in otliers. la ;here any American who preferí this direct tax on religión to ctistonis dutio? - It may be "mean" to refer to tneae tilines, but they are truths our people ouglit to know, just the 6ame.