The President's Message

The President lias sent bis nmmal message to Ooagreu, it la notable ehlefly f.r il grmt length and for his sticking to hisold beliut that the tnrill' is i tax. Like the Bourbon be is, lie does not learn by xperience, but sticks to the propotition so ovenvhelmingly repudiated by tbe people. Tbe very thing whicli more tlmn any other defeated hlm, ie stlll maintairis and by bb recommitment of bis party to the doctrine-of frea trade he pota it still ileeper in tbe hole and makes it furtherimpossible for any honest demoerat to return to tbe pariy wtao Ie ft it tliis year for protectlon. He Bai.l the tariltis a tax, wliereas he bas found it was a blizzard. He expresses his sorrow for the farmers, llowever, many of tliein who have long evenings for reailing and retlection understand the principies of protection fur better tban he does, for ihey are iotensely practical, while be is purely tbeoretical. And it was these same farmers who moie tliau any other class defeated liim. üne tbine about the mesaajre we strongly depreoata. That is the old cry of Most and other anarcliists that the rich nre Kettinfr rirlier and the poor are being ground down. It arouses diecontent and dass hatred. It is b.id enougli coming from a demagogue stump speaker, but when endoreed by one In his high positiou it is calculated to work immense harm. When workmen nre getting over two dollars a day right here iu Ann Arbor who a year ago w?re getting seventylive cents for similar work in Gennany, it is decidedly wrong to try and discontent tlii'm by false assertions. The country is fortúnate enougli that such misleading demagoguism is relesraled to the obscurity it deserves, whcre its bad Inflaence i? put at uaught.