Editorial Notes

Is there a man in Washtenaw county who would be benefited by free silver coinage ? If su we should like to hear f rom hini. Tree trade papers are in great detnand by janitors and others having cleaning to do, beeause they contain so much "concentrated lie." What does Gov. Ilill think about free silver coinage? After he shall speak, ihen we should like hear what Mr. Grover Cleveland has to say about it. The Patrons of Industry, the Grangers, the AJliance men, in other words, the farmers? Whore are their plums? In the general distribution they appear not to be in it. Dr. Tanner proposes to join Signor Sacci in a uinety day fast at the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1892. If the World's Fair people indulge in such tomfooolery they ought to be annihilated or forced to listen to one of Frederick Villier's leciures. A Pennsylvauia paper pointedly remarks : Noah advertised the flood. He lived through it and the fellows who laughed at him were drowned. Ever since then the advertiser has been getting along, and those who don't advertise are getting left. If one is to judge from the billa introluced in the legislature to abolish this office and abolish that office, the entire list of state officials are in danger of being wiped out. But then, no one need get scared. It is simply an introduction (Lor effect). "o action willever be taken -on more than one or two of them, and some half dozen new positions will be ■created to supply the deficiency. George Bancroft, the historian, died at bis home in Washington, I). C, on Saturday, January 17, of oíd age. The The deceascd was born at Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3, 1800. He entered Harvard college vhen only 13 years of age. He held uiany prominent positions, principal among which was the mission to Germany ander President Lincoln. His United States history is a standard work . .Major McKinley aas promised to atI the Oliio Repubïican League Ban■quet at Toledo on Lincoln's birthday Many other distinguished Kepublicans will be present, and the committee have liopes of secumig Col. Ingersoll to respond to the toast, "Abraham Lincoln." The indications are thatthe Toledo banquet will excel all that have heretofore been held. Our political brethren at Toledo are sparing neither labor or expense to vender the occasion enjoyable for all that attend. If a citizen of the United States should be shot down in cold blood in either England, Gennany, France or Russia, - the strongest nations of the world - would this government rest a moment uatil ampie reparation had been made? Xn, not for one moment, and the people ■ould be as anxious as the government itself . But a man holding a commission f rom the President of the United States ioran important office can be murdered in cold blood in Mississippi (or any other Southern State) and this great, strong, powerful nation, feared by every other nation under the sun, is entirely powerless to bring the murdurers tojustice! Was ever such a thing heard of before King Kalakua is dead ; long live the queen ! Her name is Princess Ielinckalani, pronounce it to suit yourself. This item refers to the Sandwich Islands. For "thirty pieces of silver" our Baviour was sold. IIow niany pieces did the Southern statesmen use to buy Senators Teller, Wolcott, Stewart, Jones, Shoup, McConnell, Stanford and Washburne? Within 30 voars the United States lias paid to foreign natious - mostly to Englaud- the suiu of $3,120,000,000 for its carrying trade, and all because we are afraid to pay subsidies. Penny wise and pound foolish. The N. Y. Mail and Express has a quotation froiu scripture at the head of its editorial columns every day. The one for last week Tuesday, when Wolcott and soine of the other republican senators made their great free coinage speeches, wasthis very appropriate one : "Making the ephah email, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with the balances of deceit; that we niay buy the poor for silver." The next day this quotatiou followed : "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver." Has it struck any one as peculiar that the necessity for a "wheat inspector" appean for the first time ? Our democrat reform administration has 500 applieants for every office, and good politics, less the reform, requires more ornees. A wneai inspeeun im a $1500 salary attached is rather in contrast with the ante-election cry that there are too inany offices, but it puts a broad smile on the face of the office seekers. H'rah for reform and more offices. - Ypsilantian. Ypsilanti Sentiuel : We shall keep it before the people, that compressed air s to be the motive power for street ransportation. In itself it is the cheapst medium of power, and the least estructive in operation. An engine nade to apply it will never be injured )y heat or rust. Neither will the reseroir in which it is held, or the pipes hrough which it is conveyed. In possijle cases of explosión it will neither nirn nor Bcald. How shall it be applied ? They talk about storage batteries of lectricity, and believe that they are uccessful. But "storage batteries" oí ompressed air are farmore cheaplyand asily made and renewed. AVe await he experiments reported from Detroit, not expecting full suecess, but without [oubt that it is a long step toward that desirable result Iu response to an urgent demand, ongres9 provided that the 1890 eensus hould contaiu the mortgage indebtedness statistics of the whole country. The mortgages for the past decade have been aken from the records, and the census office reporte a total of over $850,000,000. The investigation into the purposes for which mortgages were incurred shows hat about three-fourths of them were or purchase money or for iuiprovemente, and that one-tenth was for business uses. The total sum, though an immense one, s not alarming, considering the main causes for which it was assnmed. The total sum is very much less than what was supposed. Two years ago some uortgage statistics were going the rounds of the press that placed the farm mortgage indebtedness of illinoia alone at $1,000,000,000. And the farm, not the total mortgages, of Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin were estirnated to beover $4,500,000,000. At that time it was shown that these figures were largely the result of loose guesswork, and our readers were waraed that no reliance could be placed on them or on any political arguments basedon them. Mortgages are grievous burdens, but the census returns show that they are not nearly as great as depicted. Judge Tourgee, in the Chicago InterOcean, has rnany truthful and bright things to say, but none better or more truthful than the following which we eommend to the thoughtful consideration of our readers : "The south rules the Xation ; it matters little whether in the uiiiiority or majority. And the chiei reason why it does so, is that it never has any traitors. It is but fair to say that no greed for gold or honors is suflicient to induce the southern man to abandon the the southern idea. He; is for the south, right or wrong, first, last, and all the time. It is an admirable quality in that it means success, rulership, domiuiou. Especially is this true when his opponent lacks the same quality. On this the south has always " backed " with confidence. It has alwaya regarded the northern political leader as open to a trade and more inclined to trade-than to flght - as prizing advautage above principie, and caring less for-what he did than the the excuse he would render for doing it. In this estímate of their opponents the south has rarely been disappointed. They have found it easy to buy, even with proinises they had neitherthe power nor inclination to fulnll, as much influenee and power as they required to attain their ends. Our political history for a quarter of a century before the outbreak of the rebelhon is thickly strewn with the skeletons of northern political traineert who sold their manhood and their power to the slave oligarchy. To-daj the same power demanda the right to nullify the laws of the United States and impair and degrade the right of National citizenship, and finds willing instrumenta to perform its behest.