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Editorial Notes

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlie laborer will not be wortby of bis hire umlt-r frve trade. If free tr.ide is not a relie of slarery wby did tbe Soutbern confederaey incorpórate it in its constitutlon ? It is so everywhere. Kree trade and well paid 1 .bor are diainetrlcally opposed to eacb (ither. Tliere is not au aiticle in inufacturcd in Illfl United Slate on wbicb a ttirifl' lias buen jiluced but wbut is lower in price HOW Iban wlien tbe tarift was placed upon it- with perhaps sugar excepted- und yet tbe '■tariffls a tax." Is it not singulai ? 'Tliere is not au iuiporter iu New York but has got it in for the republicun party because of the McKinley bill," saldone of our prominent merchnnts to tbe writer a d:iy or two since. Certuinly, ibal's wli.it ntgM be expected. It is not the importéis, however, wbo have the best interests of thh country at he:irt. They defire to in ike nioncy off of forelgn cbi-ap labor. No Americana are leaving America beCiuse tbey can not earn a decent living in America. Tbis country U not siiippiii({ paupers for whom "cast off clotbiug" ís beKfell "y any vce president ofan cmgrution society. Tliis country is not vomiting any beggars npon "the markeU of the world." This country inakes a home market which buya its lióme labor, and uiuch of the labor of other countries al80, and pays a ood price for it. - Howell nepublican. The lDütructlon of young men and young women In tin country liaa uodergoue ((real chatiKee lu tbe past lorty yeur. A cullege uiirnu formerly ineant books, la the inuln, wlth bu occuülonal diversion In the handlliiK )f Uiu globes and experlmentluí; witli chemcal aiid philosophlcal apparatus. Gymnastics were lndulged Ín very temperately by the boys whlle the glrU never thouglit of meddllng with thera. Now lt would seem as ttiough book wi-re about the Uut thlng thul í college boy han any knowledge of. They lave Ruch a curriculum of nutdoor aporta to go through Ibat we wouder iiow tliey flnd my time to asneiuble In the chapel for prayere. The above is a specimen item beiog publUshed by some of the paprrs of tbe country, and Is as near the truth as some oíd foasils are capable of getting. In fact tliere Is llttle or no truth in it.

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Ann Arbor Courier