An Exchange
Tomorrow the Democrat and the Washtenaw Evening Times move to the offices in the Opera House .hlock former]y occupied by the Argus, while the Argus will be at iome in the quarters thus vacated by the Bemocrat and Times. The Democratie stae ticket is clean and strong from top to bottom. The U. oí M. Daily has .been packed .iway with Frozen Truth for the summer. And there are p.eople along Main st. who are really glad that ftaving don't come every year. And it beats all what a lot of time and money those "sound money" fellows are spending to kiJl a jead issue. It may be surprlsing, bat the agent for the so-eaJk-d paving brick whien it is proposed to use on Main st. says that the brick are aü right. The horrors of war are exceeded only in the vivid imaginations of the hterary gentlemen who construct the acare head-lines for the .daily pro:.-:. With three such dlstinguished gentlemen as Cavanaugh, Wedemeyer and Tarsney to entertain the ero.wd, 'WTiitmore Lake should be a very popular point next Monday. The Democrats have their position upon the issues oí the coming campaign. We are now waiting fttr the skillful game of dodging wjueh the enemy will be obliged to put up. Philanthropic professors who try to shift the burden of their laxes onto unprotected widows need not necessarily become red-headed if the baard oí .review intervenes on the ground oL bumahity. Those who fancy that the business of being a war governor is oeoupying all of the time of his excellency will have occasion to revise their ealculatiftns. The old man not only flnds time to cover tlve war situation f rom Jlichigan to Florida, but he is also storing end of trouble for Julius Caesar Bürrows. It is gently whispered that there are men in the employ of the Univ. who are implicated in the "Voice" conspiracy to injure the school and its leading professors. If this be true, the present affords an excellent opportunity to teach them a valuable iesson in dotnestic economy. The Universlty funde are not large enough to afford salaries t) men who are undermining ita ovvn foundations. The undue prnminence which it has been necessary to give the Register as the mouthpiece of the small coterie who are constantly conspiring injury to the business interests of Ann Afbor has led the editor of that sheet to the very erroneous conclusión that he is of some consequence - the whole thing, as it were- when the fact is he is only an incident, and a comparatlvely insigniflcant one at that, which it has been necessary to exploit to criticising the pure cussedness of the people who are using him as a tooi. Govérnoï Pingree, on nis return from Tampa, was jnterviewed at Washington, and beinff asked if Burrows would he re-elected said: "Re-elected? Why should he" We've got half a dozen better men, anycme of whom can beat him. We've had free spails too long to have sm.-h a man as he continue to fooi the people. I'm willing to bet a -box of Tampa c-igurs that .tither Burrows nor any other senator v.ho voted against the income tax will be re-elected. Ány senator who votes to tax every old woman's cup of tea and to' let the fat income go scott frce will be d-efeated and oughc lo be." Sectianalism, the old serpent, is dying. Down at Chickamauga sectional feeling between the soldiers of the North and the South has ceased to exist. Col. .awton, of the First Georgia regiment, ave the Thirty-flrst Michigan regiment a concert and ordered his band to play .Marching Through Georgia." Soldiers rom the North and South, joined in heering the music. The Michigan regimental band returned the compliment by playing "Dixie." It appeaivs that the officers of northern regiments had prohibited the playing of popular northern airs bv their musicians in order not to ofEend the southern soldiers. Hearing of this delicate coneession to southen. feeling, Col. Lawton gave the Michigan boys a serenade with "Marching Through Georgia" as the star number on the program. When Uncle Sa-m annexes Hawaii he will be confronted with a rather peculiar problem tó solve. There are 20,000 Chinese in the island.and, of course, these will be citizens. The United States will then have a Chinese question in connection with its negro problem. The concert of Europe has its Esstern tion and this land of the tree wiil se on have its Western question, and "wlll be right in it." However, the Chinese can be prevented from moving to this country. A dispatch from Washington , throws light on the subject. It says: "The United States Supreme Court has held that a Chinese person born in this country of parents of Chinese descent and subjects of the emperor of China, but domiciled residents of this country, is a citizen of the United States. Indirectly the court siso decided that the Chinese exclusión acts, so far as they conflict with the fourteenth amendment to the federal ccmstUution, are nuil and void. "As has been said, there are now ome 20,000 Chinese of the Hawaiian islands. Under the iewands' resolution now in the enate these Chinese persons will buorne citizens of the United States as oon as the islands are annexed. TUere is a provisión in the resolution that ao Chinese person shall be allowed te enter the states from the Hawaiian isands. This provisión is clearly in conflict with the fourteenth amendraent oL the federal constitution, and a tesrt case under this clause would undoubtedly result in having the Supreme Court declare that the annexation of the islands by the proposcd method is centrary to law. "Under the present constitution of Hawaii the Chinese, Japanese and native Hawaiians are not permitted tu vote. When the islands become par: of United States these restrictions vill be removed. Of course, congress can pass laws restricting the suffrage by prescrjblng property or educaíional qualiflcations. But an educational qualification will not affect the èauakas, nine of ten of whom can read and write.
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