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Editorial Correspondence

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Day
6
Month
August
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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Mammoth Hot Sprikgs, July 20, 1800. Courier :- Having been out ten days on the Michigan Press Excursión I am so heavily loaded with facts, incident?, statistics, etc. that I must discharge it, and you shall hear the report, over 1700 miles away. At the annual meeting in Saginaw wliich lasted for three days we met with the utmost hospitality from the cltlzens, such as receptions at the elegant homes of W. 11. Burt und S. G. Fisher, at VVenona Beach, Germania Garden, winding up with an immense banquet at Teutonia Hall. Ann Arbor money, gotten rijilit from the F. & M. Bank, was no good,' for even the Street car conductor refused it wheu they saw our yellow badges. We were shown how they make salt one day and Congressman Wheeler's shipyard the next. Everything was thrown open from the Germán parks to the balloon ascensión with parachute drop. Saturday a special train rolled out of the Saginaw depot with three hundred editors, their wives and sweethearts. It ran neariy a mile a minute most of the way to Cheboygan, stopping an hour for the Grayling people to give us a bountiful dinner. They had secured a brass band to serenade us wbile eating. Tliis is a prosperous town of 1,500, with electric lights and is the centre of the fishing country. The Cheboygan people had carriages, boats, a reception and other entertainments. Following this carne a dellghtful day's stcamer ride up to Macklnac and the Sle. Mary river by the Delta Transportation Company's good boat "Soo City.'1 The scenery is wild and rugged, the channel winding and at times narrow. It is one of the most iuteristing river rides of the nortb. Along its shorts are Indinos, half breeds, French Canadians, iishers,hunters and pleasure campers with their tents. Sault Ste. Marie we found busy with her water power, cañáis, and ship cunáis with the huge government locks. Altliough her boom of three years ago was carried too f ar shehas about grown up to it again, so that it is only a question of time wben sbe will revive under the influence of manufactures whlcli her canal wlll bring. She has electric street care, and incandescent lights in most of the stores and the best houses. By their water power they can furnish the lights at fifty cents per lamp each month- cheapcr than gas. Here was the usual reception at the City hall with speeches, dancing, etc. The Soo line to St. Paul has just come uuder the control of that enormous system, the Canadian Pacific. However they treated our Michigan editora just as courteously as though many of them liad not been opposing the addinission of Canada to the Union. We boarded the Pullman car?, which weretobe our rolling homes for a month, and the next morning found them at Iron Mountaln. The peopie there had raised $1,600, to entertain their quilldrivlngguests. With thls they fiirniglicd meals at the hotel all dar, carrhigcs, and a rand batiquet in the evenii}{ for which they engaged a caterer frmii Mihvaukee for $400. The Chapín Irou mine is In thia place, which the party were greatly interested In vlslting. AU of the machinery isrun by cotupressed air drivcn through an irainunfe iron pipe four or flve miles from Qiilnnesec FalU. There the water Is run trough a ñume over turbine wheels. These opérate englnes to compress the air antll they obtain about 1,500 h. p. An interesting thlug about thls place Is tliut Cliapla owuedall the land where the mine stands, and when he failed a number of years ago his credltors rcfused to accept tor $100. Afterwards when iron was found he leased H to the company for a royalty of lifty cents a ton on what they got out. That is now forty cents, but as they produce 2,000 tons a day hls Income trom it is $800 a day without any troubl or i i-k. He lives down at Xiles, wherc many stories are told of his penuriousnou. Irou Muuntuin is one of those towns which has sprung up suddenly, where money coinés and goes lively. $250,000 ai e pakt out every month among the miners, making things boom. The tnachinery for pumping water out of the mines hits a peculiar interest when oue Is told that the water runs in a (oot cach minute. Should the engines stop five minutes every miner below would be drowned. Those men are unconscious héroes who work in mines for their families at such awful risks. St. l'.nil and Minncapolis are still lighting over their census returns. Both citïes had been overestimated by booming and have been at something of a standstill the past three years, it they have not lost some of their lloating population. Maiiy Ikiiisi-s are for sale orto rent. Stil 1 they are beautiful cities, with many enormous Olocks and palatial homes. Nbrth Dukota was traversed on the Northern l'aclfic, running through solid nerts of heavy wlieat, still three weeks from liarvusting. Farmers are happy in Uk; promlae oía large yleld, but they still fear the deadly hot wimls which dry out the substanee of the grain. lf these do not come thrywill have the biggest crops since 1S82. Kveryone was on the qui vive to tee tlie balrymplv farm with its 20 tquare miles of wheat. They will cut it with 24 self binders, eutting a swuth 192 fect wide. The next point was the huge bridge at liismarck crossing the Missouri. Then came the Bad Laiuls, where nothing grows. Haius had seared and scarred thoie liills Li ii ti 1 they stood desolate, majestic, fniitartic. New figures and forms succeeded cae.h other in eudless variety. The li ï lis were usually Hit on top, with steen preeipicous sides where no man or unimal could cliinb. It was uot an uuinteresting monotouy. Montana is vast and unimproved on its eiistt-rn side. The grass was dead, no tices broke the landscape save a few cottonwoodá along the Yellowstone river, along which we rau for 400 miles, clear into the park. R inges of bilis on either side, with their burreuness and the heat made t seeni like travelling in Italy in August. All thiougii the tliermoineter was ever 100" caued by a fu in ice like simoon. After a uumber of hours of thia the bilis iHCiiine less ruüged.assuiniug the appearauce of the lonely moor between Eiigland aml Scotland. Nlght brought us to Livingston where we leave the main line to come into the park. Ie ís a floorUhlng four years old town of 2500 people which Is a centre of distribution for the ranches, mines and the park. These give it a good business, with plenty of mouey in clrculatlon, although a borrower has to pay one per cent a month as interest. We found everybody here is from the Easr, ranny from Michigan. Theelectrlc lllils in Livingston are run by a L". oí Mman (Ross of '82). In fact our Universlty boys are everywhere. At Minneapolis Is W. B. Chamberlain and many others; at Iron MouDtaln ure Pelhaiu and F. C. Cole; at Soo are W. B. Cady, Jack Burcliartl, etc. Some ten kodaks in the party are always ready to catch the unsupectin}f, innsmucli that thí popular cry is: "Johnny }{et your kodack!" We are now in Yello%vstone Park aboat to take a íive days trip throu'gb it. In our uext letter I sball endeavor to teil abont it J. E Bkal. Ai. y (.rgHiiization goli)L uto politics ia Hable to run upon the shoals and become "all broke up." The Hepublican party has ilways stood up fur the rights of hiimanky. Itspolicy has ahvays been one of protection to the American workingmiin. It opposeü and wipedout of existonce slave labor. Now it proposes to elévate and assiH the paíd laborer by a wise and huiiiane poliey of protection. The wise ñaancial aud prolectire polk'y of the republican party has kindlcd the lires in thousainls of furnaces and forges; has set whirllng luillions of wheels ín th.HHuiiíls of milla and faetones; has developed hundidla of mines and brought to liglit tlie bidden treasurers of the earth; lma con verted the wllds of the primeval forests ínto lu.xurious fields of wavlng grain; has reclaimed tbeouce desert íields of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, etc., has to a great extent changed the imponer lnto manufacture; has made the country independent botli in times of war and peace; bas made us the most prosperous natiou of the earth on wbicb the sun to-day shines; lias ralsed the wages of the masses of laborera above those of any other country on the globe and the people are not going to desert that banner for one of free trude thtl will reverse these results. Il Is said of some ot' our democratie friendo that they are still votiiii for Gen. Jackaon. Perhaps a paragraph f rom a letter written by that fainous democratie ebampion, May 17, 1823, to Col. Uobert l'atterson, of Philadelphia, ïnay be of interest. In acknowledging the present of a hat made for him at an American fuctory, out of American materlals, he said : "lts workmanship, reflecting the highest credit upon the authors, wlll be regarded as an evidence of the perfectlon which our domestlc manufactures may hereafter acquire ifproperly foatered and protecttd. Upon the suecess of our manufactures, as tie JiandmaUi of agriculture and commerce, depends in a great meature Ote independence of our country, and 1 aasure you that none cun feel more seniibly than I do the necessity of encouraging thfin." That's the protection doctrine that Gen. Jackson taught. Respectfully referred to the Adrián Press.

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