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Let this youug year that, silent, walks beside me, Be as a means of grace To lead me up, no matter whiit betide me, Nearer the master's face -Ella Wbeeler Wileox. The readers of The Courier will remember that during the last congressianal campaign we urged as one ofthe reaeons for the re-election of Capt. Allen that having made a good record in congress he could do better work for the district and command lyetter jilaces on committees tlian any new man could hope for. The standing and influence of a miember of coogrees is made or marred largely by ble place on committees. All the work is done in and by tho cotnmltteee the house slmply passing bilis as presented by them. Consequent ly the members on important coramittoes are niucli ecmght afttr and attain high influenee, While those an unimportant committeee are without i-tmigth or weight. The .people of . Reed's district in Maine and liurrow's district in Michigan had the good eense to re-elect them many times, until nw, although a minority, thiey have a place on the ways and means cornmittee, the most important of all, and are leaders in the house. On the other hand, this district has a new npnsentative, and in looking over the eommittees the friends of our prcsnt congressman are chagrilied to find him unrecognizcd, save on a ccwple of unimportant places, such as the committee on "irrigation of arid lands." This is one -without standing ot influence, and one far beneath the claims of such a atrong and prosperous district as the second. It only illustrates the foll' of the uorth in changing their lifeprejsentatives so often, while the south gt-ts good nirn and returns them time alter time until they 'become influenijal ehairnuen of important committs where they can benefit their conBtituente. ' Tli!' pres ín mereflesa tarlll system does not oréate wcalth, it otily prevonts lte natural distribution; it takes from the many to enricli the icw. it makrs cxaciii lis. small in amount from cach, from millione of our peopie, which Ro into the pockets of the lew.- Speaker Crtop. Tf the above aesertlona wcre truc bow long wou ld the tarlH exist ? Tftin why teil sik-u egregiona falsehoods a bout it ? Tt is a strikinR fact that no southerner, no alave holder, ex-slave hoklor or son oí a slave holder, ever yet favored anything but free-trade, Free trade. slave labors anl cotton klng, has alwaye been the doctrine of the BOiith'Tii statesraan. Fre trade íueans cheap labor. Alívü.vs (lid and always win. The buildloR up of industries in America lias been fought tooth and nail by tli ■ southern consressmen and public, men. from the 'time of the foundation of the irovcrnincnt, down Uirmiiih Calhoun to the pn-s"iit day of Mi!l and O-iep. They woold Hkc to see this country produce tlvo. raw material, ship it to Europe and then have it shipped back herc in manufactured foi-m. They would like to see the profits of business put in the hands of foríign manufacturéis instead of American manufacturero. They want a landed aristoerney fiere In tliis nation, with but two classes, the aristocrat and the laborar. They do not fancy the prosperity of the north, made so by a protective tariíí, and if they 'can kill it they wfll have the satisfactian of seeinR the north reduced to the level of the BOUtll. They are as fierce enemies to the commercial prosperity of the north as they we.re to'the indissoluble bonds ol this union thirty years ago. Truly, lile is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is to behold the sun. -Edwin Arnold, Sopee muy in' qnite as black as he is painted, lmt liis suceessor is Iïlacker. -Detroit Tribune. Mr. Springer, chairman of the waya and meane oommlttee! What doos that mean, Mr. Mills? Yesterday was a war day asiin, on paper, and the notes of preparation contained in the üailies OUght to mak( Chili slihvr. The recent Jog in London was verj dense, lmt it was notluug compared ti the fog that is anveloplng the dem ocratlc party just now. On ('hristmas Day the war new8 looked pivtt.v Chili. The next day ir mellowed up, ome day on the next day off. Great country lor newa thls. Ihere can no conception among the Ajneriean people ol the soffering tli.il is being fUilured in tlte faniiiu etriefcen proriooee ol Ku.-sia. What littl" details we do oblaiu are of a lieart-rendiiifí and alcKening nature. Winans has still inferiora wnoee resigaatiooe would be aoeepta ble i,, tli,. party. We alinde to Ui, managers cm the Soidiers' Home.- YpBilanti Sentinel. This is "puWlshed without coniment." The marnier ia whlch the Mills torees in th ■ house show thelr teetu to Mr. ("risp an.l his foMowers, is terrible to contémplate. The famoue perform■'"■ ' KItoh by the monkey and th. parmt uill be a sirte show to wha! is coming. The following Item partrays the situation of Ex-Secretary of State Sop■! to a nicety: "When Freuchinon cluise ze ttgatte, ■.: ïun eez g-r-rrande; but When ze tiffairc ciiase ze Frenchmon, a Satre Mom Dien! ze fun loo.se hees grandieure." beOl.- YpdlantJ 8entlnel. Thut eettles On that pubject the Senönel is ii.nln at home.- Ann Arbor Cpurier. You bet! We have been flRhtlne H.s Bátanle Maj.sty. as cepreóente by th,. (unrirr. for lo, thes3 manv yeare.- Sentinel. 0om't doubt it. Lunatice are quite apt to spead thelr time li.iihting imagiary foee. , H the reader wants to settle in a wlde-áwake community, all he has to do i.s to look at the lo-al newspaers. A wide-awake. wrll-supportx-d wie nevxpaper is always associated wlth good schools, churchea, .active nisiiKss. and intelligent people. It ii v.-r fails. Xo hueineea man or pioer in any eommunity makee any ettr investment than iu the dollars ie gives to the support of a good ïo-mo n wsp.-.p t.- Hunteburg Argus. A paper that ought to be in every íoueehold throusiiout the west and northwest eepeciajly, is the Chicago ínter Oceau. C'ould every famlly have the reading of this able Journal, it wou ld mak; them bet ter, and in so loing iniprove the entire country. The ínter Ocean is sound on every qufstion of public polie.v, and no paper in the United States is more ably edited. You will never miss it if yoii invost the small amouiit mecessary to secure it for !a year. 'Gov. Winans did a commendable deed when he requested a recreant and dlfihonest official to resign," was the unlvereal expression oo all sldes here last wek in reference to the Soper pisode. Can it be that after charges vnv preferred against a man of such ■riou.s nature that lie was compelled tó resign a state office to which ' w was elected by the people, that Gov. Winane hes entered into a barsain o hush up the matter? That thia "■ui will be allowed to slink out of office, and liis deeda be covered over vith the m.mtle of charity ? Either Ir. Soper is guilty of crime, or else i ■ is eotitled to the oifice of secretary of state to which the people elected lini. Lansing Kepublican: "In the course of t'lu' da.v cx-Mayor Crotty, the tauneiicst of demócratas, was asked ü he u-as a democrat. The genial x-mayor thought of FrUHander, of Doyle. Muntne & Co., hesitated ja tecoiid. whilü bJe countenance took u u lemou-and-vincgar expreseion, nd he sakl, very soberly: "I- I &m out of politics." It may be remarkd tliat tluTf are uthers who poeseas he same gone-ltke, homesick, nauseat ng. kill-me-quick ieeling, tliat i.s a gfnuine coustitution breaker, :ind at he same time it would uot be out f the wa.v 10 say the glorious Michgan democratie bird has lot its last ail feather in the muck and slime bat lia.s been gradually eiigulfing the arty." At AlWon College things are cvilfntly forgolng anead. In adilition 0 tli' jimch nccilcd. and asaured 11rary building, growlng demands f the Inetltutlon jnake absolutely eeetsary a oew Hall lof Science. Tovard th irietion of 'uch a building, ne o', the best known men in Michigan fis u glve $5,000, iwlth the undertandlng that the Btructure 'shall cost 40.000. Within the last few weeks a gentleman and lii.s wife have deeded the college a farm valued at $5,000. During the laet 18 montas, gifts, ineluding Mr. Ezra Bocrtwlck'8 last donation, have been made'to the college aggregating $155,000; the amount unprecedented in the same 'length of time during the more'than forty years that the institution has 'existed, first as a seminary and 'later as Alblon Ooilege. The trustees have decidid to build a gymnasium. !It is expected work will begin 'on it early in the spring.