Editorial Notes

Pauper labor and free tratle ure English, you know. "The tarifT is a tax" shouts Ihe free trade parrot. Perhaps so. Direct t:ix;it!on 9 nota tax is It? Maj. McKinley luis been burned in efflgy in England. Tliat will lmrt Maj. McKinley intensely. Disaster usually follows a democratie tidal wave. IIow quickly the financial paule in New York followed the recent one. With free trade and psuper labor the farmers can ralse their produce and let it rot.for there will be no one able to buy of them. The farmer who votes against a protective policy must be n brilliunt financier for himself. He ought to have a taste of free trade. Financial disaster follows close upon the great democratie victory, as might be expected. Another one would swamp the country. Never in the history of the republic:in party have republicans been so lirm and determined for a victory two years henee. Hurrah for '92! England pays more to subsidise her great steamship Unes in one year than all the powers of the world combined. Free trade England! The Englieh papers are teeming with editorials about "the great victory just won by our American alllps," meaning the democratie party of the United States. How quickly northern democrats Hdopt southern methods of counting in their own candidates? They pull the hypocritical mask off quick as soon as ilie opportunity occurs. The Southern papers are just now filled with editorials lashing the "Grand Army Beggars," as they cali the Union Army veterans. They are not advocating a per diem pension bill to any extent. The Detroit Jüvening News, that did more to delude and deceive the people In the late elections than any three democratie papers in the state, already prediets the defeat of Cleveland in 1892. The handwriting is plain. The republican vote in Michigan is more than 75,000 short of the republican vote of two years ago, while the democratie vote is not increased. Does not that teil the story of defeat? It was not a change of sentiment, but republican apathy that did the work. Senator Chauncey V. Wisner, the democratie state senator from Saginaw says that the very first legishttion of the new democratie legislature will be nn act to repeal the extstitig llquor luws and to take the bur.lensome tax oif of saloon keepers, iïe says the demócrata are pledged to do that. Fire aheud Cliauney. There were 475,000 votea pi lied two years ago and only 375,000 this year in Michigan. Of the numbers not voting about 75,000 were republicans and 25,000 democrats. Which proves conclusively that it was not a change of sentiment that gave us a democratie victory, but republican apnthy. Michigan will be 20,000 republican in 1892. The supreme court of this state has decided: "no person can be declared eleeted unless he lias more votes for the oflice than any otlier perron. A minorlty candidate can never be depmed eleeted." And yet in the face of that decisión Boes Jacobs commands the democratie canva.osing boards throughotit Michigan to count in minority democrats everywhere and they obey. The Detroit Free Presgvve its hearty, free and cordial support to Boss Jacobs, a man under indictment for crime, and one who has just bulldozed the board of cinvaseers of Wayne county into stealing two offices, an act that ought to send him and the canvassers nssenting thereto, to state prison. And yet tiiis same Free L'ress accused the repubücans in the recent canvas of nomlnatiog unclean men for office. Consistency, thy name is not Free Press.