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Editorial Notes

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
May
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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The f ree trade parrotstill cries "a tariff is a tax." That nonsense has been exploded long ago. There are Gü newspapers in Michigan this year, and not a poor one in the lot. Stay in Michigan, young man. London is trying to find a verb by which to express the carrying power of electricity. The London Telegraph suggests the verb "to telcfer.1' Why not this one: "tellafeller." The last legislature must feel greatly pleased over the brllliant record the supreme court gives the üquor law it passed after so much time equandered in lts preparatlon and perfectlon. Right Rev. Caspar Borgess late Bishop of the Catholic church of Michigan, died at Kalamazoo on the 2d inst., of paralysis. For eighteen years he preslded over this diocese, and was greatíy beloved by liis people. S. Sherin, secretary of St. Paul Executive Committee of the National Educational Associatlon, sends word that half rates will be glven to all who desire to attend the meeting to be heli! at St. Paul, Minn., July 4th tollth next. Farmers who a year ago, wept over the collapseln theonlon market.duetooverproduc. tlon and vowed to ralse no more of the fruit burst forth afresh In tears because they have not a thousand bushels each to sell at the present prlce of $1.00 to Í1.S0 per bushel. Somehow the farmer and the oniou are not able to pull together.- Adrián Prese All on account of the robber tariff, too ! Now if we only had free trade the farmers would always know just wliat seed to 8ow to get rich right away quick. The truth of tliis paragraph from the Caro Detnocrat, will be readily noted by every reader: " The number of idle men that exist In every community, without the visible means of support, Is really surprising. Go where you will and they are to be found- on street corners, in saloons, hotels, groceries, and public resorts of every kiud and nature. They talk about hard times and luck of work, but they manifest no desire to improve the one or perform the other. Life to them is made wholesome by loatlng and complaining. They are ever the saine and thelr life is not lmproving." The fact that the democratie congressmen who voted on the motion to stab civil service reform by refusing an appropriation for the support of the civil service commission were two to one in favor of that cowardly attempt to destroy the merit system, while three-fourths of the repubIican8 voted on the right side, affords more striking evidence than appears on the suriace of the difference between the two parties regardlng this great question. Civil eervice reform is naturally most irksome to the spoilsmen of the party in power. It is now protectingthousandeof democrats In federal offices and shutting out many republican " workers." Nevertheless, the party in control of the government was for the reform, and the hungry Bourbons were against it. What would become of the merit syetem under a democratie adininistration with a democratie congress ?

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Ann Arbor Courier