Examine Your Label

The ñgures upon your paper indícate the time to which your subscription ís paid. Examine your label and if you are ín arrears remember that money is a very dtsirable thing in the vicinity of a newspaper office. With the large list of subscribers which the Democbat enjpys- larger than the combined lists of any two other papers in Washtenaw county- the burden of carrying delinquent subscribers becomes correspondingly large and we must exact prompc payment of all subscription accounts. Jim O'Donnel's boom for governor seems to have been consigned to an unmarked grave. A united and enthusiastic Democracy insures Democratie victory in "Washtenaw this fall. Fbom the Times-Herald we glean the information that they are talking paving in Chicago. The present would not be a bad time to talk up the paving of Huron and Washington streets. The Republican war revenue bill taxes pretty much every thing but the property of the ïich man. What a blessing that Democratie income tax would have been to the national treasury in this hour of need. Cámara will take good care that no American boats are in sight before he again approaches the coast of Spain. And by this time Spain must be sorry that she ever furnished the dough with which Columbus discovered America. It may have been noticed that just now Gen. Spalding does not need to lead a brigade in Cuba in erder to neounter a hot time. It is unnecessary to state that the United States Senator who is on trial down in Deleware for robbing a bank is a Republican. If there is a Mark Hanna out of a job in the second district he can secure a profitable engagement by applying to Gen. Spaldiug. "'Yielded Gloriously,' like a Spanish adrniial," will be inscribed in the year book if several want to be congressrnen next Wednesday. It would be no small satisfaction to know what sort of a chaser the coming Republican state convention will take after it swollows Pingree. In the meantime Pearson's Weekje or the Huron street curiosity öiop might publish Gov. Pingree's Biffalo speech. It's about the finest eiposition of Republicanism that has drifted this way in manjr a day. Lick the new revenue stamps and praj that the contractors and bor d buyers may let this country finish up the war in short order. - Coldwater Sun. Theke is one point upon which the Republican congressional candidates are all agreed and that is that each other's booms are equipped with false bottoms. The mean things our Republican friends are saying about each other are really shameful. Such things would not be tolerated in a well regulated Democratie camp. On sober second thought Grant Fellows, of Hudson, has concluded that there are others who want to bump up againsta Democratie stone wall this particular autumn. We have not yet been advised of the part Moran's new Republican club proposes to play in the congressional fracas next week. lts future usefulness might be conserved by keeping it under lock and key on that day. If the Kaiser should be imprudent enough to introduce nis proboscis in the Hispano-American muddie the Flying Dutchman will become more substantial than the airy creation of a poetic imagination. If reports from the front are to be credited, the Spanish offleers upon whose shoulders the national honor of that unhappy country restsso heavily are almost as fluent in the use of ridiculous bombast as our own William Alden Smith. War may be heil, as some eminent authority on both subjects has suggested, but without any intímate knowledge of either, we will venture the opinión that neither ís as hot as a Republican congressional conveniion with five super-heated candidates in the field. The good people of Ann Arbor need not be unnecessarily alarmed if the city is shaken by sounds resembling the bombardment of Santiago next Wednesday. At least four congressional booms are scheduled to collapse on that day and this will necessarily cause the liberation of a large quantity of compressed air. The attorney general has decided that the crow is a protected bird under the Michigan law. The decisión comes just in time to save the birds from the slaughter -which would otherwise accompany the enormous demand to supply the Republican editors in connection with the renomination of Gov. Pingree. - Petoskey Democrat. While the editor of The Democrat has not been asked to join the councils of the new anti-Ping-antiJudson-pro-Moran youns: men's Republican club he will venture the opinión that common prudence upon the part of its progenitors demands that it be concealed in some secluded spot until Billy Judson gets through holding conventions. We are indebted to the Detroit Journal for much valuable criticism upon the war in Cuba. Having assaulted everything from Tom Palmer's bank account to Hazen 8. Pingree the Journal staflf may safe ly assume to give counsel concerning military movements without being charged by their less experienced brothers of the press with putting on airs. The Republicans of Michigan will be fortúnate if they secure as good judicial timber for the supreme bench as Judge E. 1. Kinne, whose name is mentioned prominently in connection with that nomination. If Republican supremacy is to continue in this state it is about time that party exerts itself to redeem this branch of our state government and the nomination of this gentleman would make a pretty fair start in that direction. It will be accepted upon our part as an evidence of good faith. Last Friday the new revenue law went into effect. It arfords some queer contrasts. The old woman who earns a dollar a day over the wash-tub or in cleaning offices, that day was taxed ten per cent of her day's earnings when she bought a pound of tea to solace her weary body. That same day William B. Astor had an income of approximately $10,000 from his"investment," and he d.idn't pay a blessed cent to the government, because the supreme court says it is "unconstitutional to tax incomes." Fifty years from gnow, the time servers who made that decisión will take their places in history beside the infamous bench who gave the Dred-Scott