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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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Some one ought to proposo a monument to Ignatius Donnelly. He ought not to cypher one very niucli Ionger. Ex-Mayor Creiger of Chicago, intimatee tliat Chicago canr.ot prepare for the world's fair in 1893. It raust be rememberpd that Creiger is now a back number. He is not in it. Nevada will have at the AVorld's fair a soUd gold brick weighing 1,000 pounds. ' W'hat a brick that would be for one of the boys to have in his hat, eh? A third party in politics is about like a person interfering between a man and liis wlfe in a domestic dispute. 'Twcre better not to do ir. It is quite amuelng to see the mugwnmp presa Bqulrzn around the American tin plato problem. The New York Evening Post has got so far as to admit that ,perhaps tin píate can be made liere in Minitod quantities. Speaker Reed has been traveUng over England, and strange to say, has not changed his mind one iota in respect to the "beauties" of freo trade, and luis telling the people of England hls opinión, also, and they listen to him. Russia will have to answer for hor cruel expulsión and treatment of the Jews, Koonertor later, and tho answer will be written in b'.ood. No nation lias ever dono a groat wrong to au oppreseed people without belng ealled upon to suffer for that wrong. English authors who are elamorous for free trade In all manufactures are strenuous In beltall of protection for the work of their own hands and brains. They want overything cheap bul thelr own product ions, and are consequently regular democratie poliiticians. This is not uu "off year" in theology. Wlth I'rof. Brlgga in the Preabyterian chnrch, and Bishop P.rooks In in the Episcopal church, and the very euphonious, but not infalliKe, encyelical of the Pope on the labor question in the Catholic church, religión appears tote on the move. The Hon. Don M. Plcklnson of Detroit, announces that the democratie program will be the passing of a new tariff bill and going to the country on that issue in 1892. He probably desirea to havo the duty on sugar reatored and American tin abolished. Thoee are the points in the MeJ'lnley bill the democrats fight. The new political monstrosity which Ignatius Donnelly and a few others attempted to bring forth at Cincinnati recently, declares for governmont 1' per cent. loans with "non perishable products" as security. The rich man who now owns bouses and lands. can, under this plan, borrow all the money he desires to of the government at 2 per cent., for be has tho necessary seourity to put up, but the poor man. ii he wants any money, will have to pny the man to whom the government has loaned its 'money at 2 per cent., from 0 to 12 per cent. according to circumstancos. What slush to catch the ignorant vote with. It is slmply a Jay Gould scheme to make tho rich richer and the poor poorer. Gov. Winnns yesterday Bent In a veto of the G. A. B. appropriation. He clncsn't believe in spending public cash for private purposes Jie says. The ;. A. II. lboys don't take it that wny, irovernor. The efficiency of the typograph as a ty-pesetting machine is now being teeted hy the Courier, and this article together wlth i greater portion of the type upon this page were set by this greatest new invention of the age. If practical ouc or more oí the machines wlll Fbecome permanent fixturos. in the Courier office. Secretary Foster lias appolnted" a committee, consisttng of Ex-Coiirtossniiin (rosvornor, of Ohio, Dr. Kempster, an expert in cases of insanity, and Mr. Powderly, a brother of Master Workman T. V. Powderly, to visit Europe, and investígate the marnier and incthod of sending emigrant to this country. Truth from the fountain of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "The only organization actually antagonized by the so-called peoplft'a party is the republican party. Nearly every vagary, imbecility or iniquity contained in the declaration of principies just adopted at Cincinnati is advocated or favored by the democrats of some loeality or other." l'i'om the Census Bulletin issued by the government, it is noted that fortyfoui' out of the eighty-four counties of Michigan have no indebtediuss whatevei', and Washtenaw is one of the forty-four. A record that but fow of the states of the unión can equal. The state of Texas has two hundred and seventy counties, of whlch seventy-two only are out of debt. Rev. C. H. Parkhurst of New York, preached a sermón last Sunday in which he criticised religious intolerance severely. He likened the men who are attacking Prof. Briggs to the day lnquisltora, and sald that thcy attempted to make theologians at Princeton "the same as a machine makes shoe pegs." He wlll attend the Presbyterian assembly this week at Detroit. The query is what is it ? The proper pronounciation of the name Itata is puzzling the brains of many people just now. One says"Eye-ta-ta,""another calis it '"It-at-ta," and still another mumblesit, "Eototter" whilethe Irishmau declares it is "Atetater." The New York Press of a recent date contained this reference to aformer Aun Arbor citizen, the president of the T. & A. A. R. R.: Ex-Governor James M. Ashley, vho was one of the leading figures in Congress in the sixties, is now president of a railroad running from Toledo through Michigan, and has an office in this city, where he spends much of his time. I met bim in a downtown cafe the other day, when, by way of illustrating a point in discussion, he told me of a rejoinder that he once made in Congress to Mr. Collamore of Vermont. The Vermonter was au extremely conservative man, and ilr. Ashley had proposed some radical measure of legislation whieh was being discussed. Collamore walked over to Ashley and quietly inquired : "Ashley, what is your precedent for this bill? " The brainy Ohioan, who was as aggressive as a young lion, looked up at him a moment and then replied : "We uiake precedente here, Callamore." I fancy that if Governor Ashley had been re-efected to Congress from "the Toledo district when he ran there as a forlorn hope last fall, he would have kept the coming democratie Congress busy with the precedents he would have suggested lor their meeting. A rather non-committal interview with Gen Alger is published in the New York Press of a recent date, out of which politicians are at liberty to make all they possibly can : "General Alger has been at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the entire week. tary Blaine called on lrimthere, and that they discussed politics to some exteut is not improbable. I was standing by General Alger'e side on Thursday, when an acquaintance said to him that it was reported that he had been up town to see Mr. Blaine and that agreat political conference had been held. "Well, I am of legal age," was the General's response, "and I go where I please, when 1 jilease and cali on whorn 1 please and talk what I please. There is no law against calling on Mr. Blaine and talking with him. All of which is irrespective of whether I did or did not cali on Mr. Blaine." Then he turned to me and eaid : "And you may print what I say, if you like. I ana a private citizen, with the same rights as other private citizens, I hope."

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