Editorial Notes

The state encampment will be held nt Goguac Lake, near Iiattle Creek, July 24 to 28 inclusive. The solid old democratie strongholds of Monroe, Ypsilanti, Niles, Manistee, etc, elected republicaii mayors thU spring. Tliia should be heraldcd as great harbingers of a democratie cyclone to come. In free-trade England a salt trust lias been formed, and the price of tbat necessity has been advanced 50 per cent. or more. Is it not astonishing how our tariff affects the price of article3 in otlier countries? That Tree trade trust is attributable to our tariff, is it not? A certaln young gentleman who resides in Lyndon, went hunting recently, and aftcr wast uk flve or slx caps, he concluded to go borne and takc hls gun apart and flnd out why It would not go off. After taking It apnrt he found he had put the shot In lirst aml the powderon top. Therefore the boys have the laugli on hlm now.- Chclsea llcmld. It might not be out of place to mentlon thefact that several political hunters lust Monday failed to get their powder rlglit. The democratie tinge to the returns from last Monday's local elections does not ndicate a cliange of sentiment in tlie people, by a long ways. The light vote almost everywhere tells the story. The The republicans were apathetic, and remained at home or attending to private business, a thing the demócrata seldom do on electioa day. They are ahvays on hand. As tlie country increases in wealth aDd population, all forms of indebtedness will increase. Mortgage indebtedness will grow with every upward and forward movcment. It means the transmutation of floatlng into iixed capital. The savlngs of the industrial, commercial, and farmlng classes are being applied to tlie opening np of new lands, the improvement of old, and the erection of new buildings. There can be no better use for the reserve funda of the natlon. It extends the sphere of production, i ti - creases tbe comforts of life, and econouiizes forcé. It is the vitalization of national energy. Emigrantsfrom almost every European nation are being landed in New York at the rate of froin 2,000 to 10,000 per week, and in the majority of cases penniless. ís there no way for this nation to protect it8elf ? Ilonest einigrants, who come here with a desire to make for themselves homes, whether rlch or poor, are aftvays to be welcomed, but the horde of paupers sent here by European nations to be rid of their support; and the horde of people that are enticed to come here by fiattering inducements of agents of the big steamship lines for the money they make out of the trufflc, should be forbidden a landing here, and it cannot be accompllshed too qulckly for the safety of the nation. That little episode down in Penneylvania, where the Italian populatiou mobbed the authorities who attempted to raise the stars and stripes over the school house, proves that to be a startling truth. VVell ma}' the auesüon be asked " Whither are we drifting?" In the debate on the pension bill now before congress, last Monday, Capt, Allen was allowed just one minute to talk in, and this is what he said: "Mr. Speaker, the one minute allotted me is a short time for such h subject. Forty millions of dollars In addltlon to the sums now paid to soldiers is something toward auling tliem. It is not as mach as Uiey deserve, but if I cannot ;ct more I propose to take what I can get, and in doing so I expect to live long enough to see It doubled by another coiigress at another time. The people of this country wlll soon understand that to pension soldiers is not going to impoverlsh the treasury, as gentlemen upon the other slde have always claimed it would, and I for one prefer this bill to the one which carne from the senate with pauper features, which many soldiers feel to be degrading. I am in favor of the per diem bill, but if I cannot get it now, J will not be so foolish as to say that I will take nothing else. To the gentlemen upon the other side, who talk about forcing this bill through the house, I say that I am glad that congress, which has been accustomed for years to force to the front by this means measures of no considerable merit, has for once dared to say to the country: We will give you a pension law f we have to do it uuder a suspension of the rules."