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Editorial Notes

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Day
9
Month
September
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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But what is a dollar'?- Ypsilanti Sentinel. If you had cente enough you would know without askinST. Fout escapes from the state prleon at Jackson withln one week! Hadn't they botter get Ex-Warden Hatch back again '.' The whole world knows where President Harrison stands on öie sUver shark's coinflhe BCheme. - Ann Arbor Courier. Thank you! Now please let uk know what the scneme is.- Ypsilantl Sentinel. What's the use o: wasting words '.' Es-Speaker Reed appears to have been poweriul enough out oí power to squelch tv ambition of Roger (. Mills- he oí the (in)famous Mills liill - to be speaker ol the next house. He dld it witii a linlr Interview. Froin complete returns received by the commiesioner of Internal lievenue, the bountiea to be paid on thé next BUgar erop wiU approxiniate $11,000,000. The erop is expected to reach 550,000,000 pounda. The Sentinel says thai World's Fair Commissioner Belden eau eall on republlcans and mugwumps ií he wants to, wiirn he isits the county f airs, lmt the demócrata don't want 10 see hini. That may be a relief tor Helden. C. I'. Newkirk, superintendent ol the state public Bchool at Coldwater, has resigned to take the general western agency of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., with headquarters ai Chicago. And now one or two state papers eau ;ive up idea oï golng into hysterics. The passage ol the law by the scjuawbucks reducing the test of kerosene oil from 1J0 degrees flash test. to 051 degrees burning test, is makinf; Berioua trouble. It not only endangers the Hves of the people, but falla to reduce the price of oil any. Besides, all Insurance policies in this state are based upon the United States test of 110 degrees. Nearly one-half of the iron produced in the United States for the year ending Sept. lst. 1890, uas mined in Michigan. 8o saya the Commissloner of Mineral Static) es. The exaet amount produced by Michigan mines was 7,185,17.") tons, valned at the mines at f26,000,000. There were 82 iron minen and 17 Wast furnaces in Michigan that year. And for forty years, like the ostrich which hides lts head under lts vviug and imagines ltself out of sight, the Dnlted States lias kept óut foreign competitiOD and -foreign customers. If a llttle free trade is good for us, why would not a general policy be het ter ?- Sentinel. Tor the reason that it Is aot. Because one peacli is good to eat, is no reason why you should ranke a hog of yourself and eat a bushei of peaches, regardlesa of condition. The lionest enioi-cenient of the federal meat inspection law, with the microscópica! examlnation for trichina, ir the hands only of experts, will open the Germán and Prench markets to pork producís. Ik it being done V Evasión of the law and the export 01' any bilt perfectly sound and healthful meats will result in keeping the foreign markets closed, and in doing an Incalcnlable damase to the producers in this country. Tile 8ta1 ■ of UaHsachussettS'is to expend $10,000 in showing the worlil al the .world's fair, wha1 a complete Bchool svsti'iü sii.' iias. H.-is Michigan, with one o! the besi school systi-nis o! any state in the unión, taken any step toTvard letting the people : i he worlil know aboul ii ? It you have : little time this fait; wiiy not devote i: to repairing the hlghwaj: i '■ íi-ont of your premlses ? li tbere are mts and holes get the pathmaster of your district to buy a load or Imi of crushed stom' at the jail, takt' your team, draw it and fill up tlic unpleasant depressions. im' or two good examplea In a community WOUld be COntagiOUS, and in ;i little time the roads would become cxsellent. The saving to your team, let alone your peace of mind, wonld be Bufficient pay lor ir all. It nüghi be woll to c;ill the attention oí the land-loan advocates who u-e railing against rellroads to the lact that ander the land-loan bill introluced in congress, railroads and all other corporatlons ownlng land could borrow money on 11 i-tu the ïovernmeni a1 two por cent. as easy is the farm owiut. Not only ili.it. but there are provlsiona deftly contealed in the iiil that would enable land-ownlng corporationa to get the llon's share oí the benefits. The fact that the AUiancea so generally approvcd of the Stanford bill, shows huw little tiu'.v really know aboat it. In Beven month's time the Detroit Tribune has accompllshed ;i wonderful stride forward. It has put energy, money and bralna into the paper and these three essential qualltles, workIng together, will bring success to any enterprlse. The Tribune now ranke with the great dailies of the country, and Michigan republicana have a inetropolitan Journal to whieh they can point with pride. Every departnient of the paper feels the torce of this new impetus, and the COnsequBBCe is a briiíht, clean, lirainy, newsy nevs-paper, based on the solid rock of repubHcanism, is issued every day from the Tribune oftice. l',y methods peculiar to southern demócrata twelve Btatee are made solidly democratie, eigjhi of whleb are Burely republlcan with a free ballot and fair count. By methods peculiar to northern demócrata the same party proposes to vender the republican ïn.ijorities in severalof tlie nortlu'rii states of no account whatever, and thua control nhe country on a basis of repression. vlolence and shameless gerry mandering. Michigan is the tlret vlctin in the north ol the propoeed democratie plan. A large republican majorüy nas been made ol no valué to the party, but so ÏLvd as bO glve the democratie mlnority' control. The ra ilion ds are awful bad corporatious, to be surc, luit then, whieh one oï our readers would care to (Uspense with them and go back to the old f.ishioncd stage coach and lamber wagon? The freight and passenger trafHc ol this country could not be cared for with the modes of conveyance ol a llttlfi over a half cëntury Bince, a ml without these eorporations. wc Bhould have to fall back Into the Bemi-civilization of Asiatie countries. Railroads have done quite as much, if not more, for the advancciiiont and civilization of the world than aii.v other one thing. Whlle howllng agains! the railroads my friends, iliink whai the world wonld bc wlthoul them. And In this connectlon 11 mighi not be out of place to suggesi that the londition of our wagon roads are not jast what they ought to bc. Lest sone of our good democrat readers Should t hink That a sound cnrrency and homest money was purejy a repubUcan idea, we quote uie following (rom tiia; democrat ol demOCrats, Crover Cleveland: "The revival jf business enterprise and proeperlty bo ardently destred ánd apparently BO ncar would 1; hopelessly poetpaned. Gold would be withdrawn to its hoarding places, and au uriprecedanted contraction in ilie actual valué oí our ourrency (VOUld siieedily take place. Saddesl oí all, in ovory worksnop, mili, factory, siore. and ou every railroad amd farm, the u.-ines oí labor, already di'prcssed. WOUld suffer still further depression by a Bcaüng down of ttoe purchaslng ]K)vcr of every so-cailed dollar pald into the hand of toil. From these Impending calamltles it is surely a minst patrtotic and grateful duty of the re-presrniatives of the people ïo de'.iver them." The foüowing tatole of records made n crosslng the oceaan is i conslderablc interest to the maritlme people of the great lakes: YK. BHIP. 1). II. M. 18M Scotia x 2 48 1878- Baltic _ 7 2U 9 187") City of Borlin 7 ]"" 8 1876 liermanic 7 11 87 IS77 Brltannic 7 lu BI 1880 -Arizona 7 7 ■-': 1883 Alaskn 6 18 ::7 1hs4 Oregon -- 8 11 ÏKM Vmerlca .- - 6 10 01 1886 Etrurla -- r. .". 31 1887 I inbriiL 6 1 I'J 1888- Etrurla i I &5 1889 i'iiyof Parle 5 19 Ui 1891 Ma)e8tlc_- : 18 8 1891 Teutonic S 16 81 It wlll be noticed that the ffreatest Edngte reduction w made In 1882, wlicn the Alaska bettered the time of her sister sliiji. The Arizniia. hy jii'arly 13 hours. The emallesi changea in the record wore made in 1877. when the Brltannic clipped of 44 minutes, and in 1887, whan the Umbría cut down the Etrnria's time 49 minutes. The most significant fact set fortli in bnla table is that In the ntaeteen years slnee 1873, the record lias been lowered nu fewer than fourteem times. Tliis rapid series of reductions, together -wlth the gain oí 9 bours and 24 minutes sinen 1888. affordg the best poesible reasons for believing t li.-i.t progresa toward the five-day vöyage Will continue unchecked.

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