Editorial Notes

The tariff ou sugar waa the democratie doctrine of tariff for revenue only, which tariff is always a tax. Vote for a pure and good man for 1 tice of the Supreme Court, the Ilon. Robert Montgomery. The nominees for regent on the republican ticket are thorough, going business men, and just the kind the people want in those positions. The republican papers are exultant over the fact that under the oper&tion of the McKinley ti i LI, we are to have cheap sugar. Restrain your glee. you editorial "gillies." "I hate cheap thlngs; cheap means nasty." l)on't cher knaw?- Adrián Press. What a delicate way the Press has of passing judgment upon its own effusions. By next Wednesday we hope to announce to the public that the State of Michigan has been redeemed, and that political thievery has been rebuked. Go to the polls next Monday and help do the good work. Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania, wanting a criminal who had escaped to Connecticut, addressed a requisition to Gov. Bulkley, of that state. What a mistake. He should have addressed Gov. Hill, who assumes to govern New York, Connectieut, tlie lT. 8. Senate, and a few other thiugs. Every farmer or any other person who wiL read is being supplied by the democracy of this city and county, with Henry George's work ou free trade. A beautiful theory is spun by George, but by George it is nothing but ;i theory. The prices the McKinley bill is now giving farmers, talks Louder thau all fine spun theories. The editor of the Ypsilanti Sentinel is kicking because as it says : "With rare exceptions the old office holders and employés sit as quietly and apparently as safely as if they had taken root in the positions." Which proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bro. Woodruff has not been up to Lansing. If he should go he would find his brother democrats all there, including Fridlender, and in power. The New Orleans papers uphold murder, lynch law, lotteries, and every other conceivable sin on earth, almost, so it is not to be wondered at that they condemn Secretary Blaine for his timely, proper and manly letter to Gov. Nichols, asking inforuiation on the subject of the recent mob murders. That city, which is the hotbed of everything corrupt, will vet have to be taught a lesaon of humiliation that will be lastiug. As a sample of wbat a real democratie legislature will do, take one day's proceedings of the Arkansas legislature. Last week they passed a bilí in both houses to pension rebel soldiers ; they took down Washington's portrait frorn above the speaker's desk and put up one of that arch-traitor, Jeff Davis, and to show still further how little they care for advancement, they defeated the bill to have the state represented at the Columbian World's Fair. We can predict one thing, that is Arkangas will not be troubled with new ideas or men to develop her resources as long as she manifests such an unpatriotic spirit. Furthermore, we are of the idea that even our own democratie legislature would do the same as the Arkansas, if they dared to do so. People of Michigan, how do you like to have such a party in power? One of the leaders of the New 0r" leans mob that murdered elevea defenseless men was John C. Wickliffe, editor of the New Orleans Delta, known to local f ame as "the Grand Parish Bazoo." Several years ago he stood all day at the polls in a New Orleans preeinet with a Winchester rifle in his hands and said: "I defythe whole d - n United States governmeut," and he did defy it. Not a coloredman voted at that precinct on that day, and theU. S. government allowed him to go Scott free wlien he ought to have been put in prison and kept there. W. Parkerson, another leader of the mob, at the same election armed a crowd that took possession of the polling places, and any one who voted had to have straight hair and a white skin. These are the men the U. S. government ought to bring to justice, cost what it rnay. Because 20 lbs. of granulated sugar can be bought for $1 now, unrfer the provisions of the McKinley bill, while during March only 15 lbs. could be bought for $1, the tariff being taken off on April Ist, the Adrián Press trots out its poll parrot and it mechanically squeaks "a tariff is a tax." No one ever denied that a tariff for revenue only is a tax. The democratie idea of putting a tariff on things we do not raise or manufacture is a tax, and the consumer has to pay it ; but the republican idea oí a tariff on things we do produce, a protective tariff, is not a tax. The tariff on sugar the last democractic house fought for and ref used to take off, but were determined to take the tariff off of wool, wheat and all farmer'a producís, thus reducing the farmer's income and swelling his expenses. It remained for a republican house to cheapeu the necessaries of life the farmer has to buy, and at the same time help the market of all his products. The committee that were appointed by the petitioners for a citizen's ticket, met last week and adjourned until Saturday night to await the act ion of the party conventions.