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If Gov. Winans Had The Best Interests

If Gov. Winans Had The Best Interests image
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Day
12
Month
August
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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of the state and the Soldiere' Home at heart he would make a clean sweep of the present board of managers and put in men against whom there is no suspicion of wrong doing. Will he do it? No. When nn Ann Arbor man ta.kes liold of nny great undertaking, the Courier nlways feel8 like lemling a helping hand, hut we must confess that Trof. Harrtngton has been making it altogether too hot for us. It doeun'1 appear to be neoeesary to run the we&ther bureau quite so hot. He ought to lot up a little and save somc of t.ho ealoric to temper next .Tanuary witfh. The people of Detroit pro ved themsiIms equal to the emergency in the late national eneampment of tibte Q. a. r.. Col off from si.aic asöstanee, and left to their own resources they aroee in their might luid gave the G. A. Iï. sucli a reception as they never befare reeeived in any city. There was not a hit-ch or a miss in any of the arrangement. Th crowd. nlthough the largest the city . liail ever wltnessed, were taken care of excellently well, and no fault could lic tound by any imh with the entertainment offered. It is a womöerful work to care for such an Immense nnmber of people, but Detroit did it ia a manmer to be proud of. and is dcserving oí all the pralse that is being so lavislily bestowed upmi her. (iov. Winana must have liad a keen bwlage of consclemce as he guietly took in the situation. At aay rate he ooiieludcd not to make bimseli at all COOspicUOUS upon the occasion. While there, lic may liave thought of a different scène, some mciuhs ago, when the people of Detroit so generously arranged f ir Min a hrilliant receptioD, and carried it out so graiidThe ncxt eneampment will be held at Washington, D. (.'., and of course all Michigan will want to attcad. Good common horse sense is shows by the the Commonwealth, of Covington, Ky., in upholding the idea of convict labor on the highways : "Tennessee, like Kentucky, has many thousand acres of fertile land which are rendered worthless on account of the poor roads over which the produce must be hauled to find a market. To put convicts' labor on these roads would put bread in the farmers' mouths and improve the value of the land many fold. This plan would throw no workm'en out of their positions, but would open up a new country, which would demand the attention of many." Convicts ought to be kept at some sort of work, so that the flnancial load on the public to maintain the penal institutions be lightened. There has been a great cry against convict labor and not without cause, for while the output of every prison in the way of manufactured goods is but a drop in the great national bucket, it has effected local enterprises so as to bear hard on "honest labor." Certainly in the employment of convicts as suggested by the Covington paper, would not only be no detriment to "honest labor," but an actual help. The scheme is worth the experiment, and we do not doubt but that afíer a fair and System atic trial, convict labor on the highways would be accepted as a solution of the difricult problem as to "what shall we do with our convicts?" Wc aro ot'ten asked what the "f ree coinage of zilver" means, and it is preBumed that few people have a thorough understanding of the term. Here is a good description of the term : "Free coinage means the miuting of all applicauts of aa much silver as they mayfurnish for coinage, and the turning over to them the full number of dollars which their bullion will make. That is to say, for every 37DÍ grains of pure silver, which has long been worth only 75 and 80 cents in the markets oí the world, a dollar would be issued, and the bullion ównera would make a profit of from 25 and :JÖ per cent. Under the present systeni of limited coinage this margin goea to tlie people who give the silver in the dollar its extra value, and the ïnoney of the country is not exposed to the danger of having all the surplus silver of the world dumped into our miuts to add hundreds of millions to the present great stock of silver dollars. &ü et gold, which has a greater intrinsic value than the silver dollar by about 3 per cent., circuí ates on a par witli the cheaper coin.but with the mints open to al! the silver in the world the almost inevitable result would be the driving out of circulation of aiiout 40 percent, of the money in the w ui'itiy, and a panic would be nearly certain to ensue." The ni'iv grocery store of C'. A. Maynard, on 'S. state ut., wiil be oponed Saturday. Jo'hn Krause had the end of the niiddle finger of his right hand taken oíf by th winti er at Luick Bro's pdantng mili yesterday. It was a narrow escape for something more serious. A fkxwtog well has been put down on tlie farm of Prof J. B. Bteere, by i'. M. Thoinpson. The well is 31 feet decp and throws a stream six (eet high. This makes the 18th flówing well Mr. Thomps-on has struck. As Alhert Sorg, Oharels Mryers and Jasper Imus were returning from a fisliing excursión to Strawberry Lake Sunday evening they carne near Ix'ing Rtruck by lightniiiíf. The fluid carne down within aboiu CO foet of them", i-ed Mr. Imus so that he feil out of the buggy, and etunmed the other gentlemen. Moral: You shouldn't fisli on Sunday.

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