Another View

TIh-i-o are two sidos lo all questions, and the Adrián Times presonts another view of the Cleveland reception in this city ly Ann Arbor officials: "W11J the amiabie burffhers of Ann 'Arbor, -vlio presented Mr. Cleveland ■with 'the freedom of ,the city,' put up up in i box, ,all of which the tax-payers will likewise liave to put up for, please teil us Mrhat it is ? So far as an American city or au American Citizen .is concerned, euch a proceed■ii? ia simply aji act oí abject nonsense. In ome of the JEnglish eities it is customary ior the authorities to go through a performance of tliis sort, Wheo Bome princeling or dukelet conUescends to vieit tham. Tlie ceremony does mot convey much even tliere, but so as an American municipality is ooncerned, it is as vapid as it is meaningless. As a gentleman of fair a.bilities and some accidental promioemce, it -was all j-iglit for the officials f Ann An-bor to treat the ex-president is an honored giiest. But a manly .ddrees of ■welcame, a nice souvenir for his lovely wife, or a pretty bauble for liis blessed baby, would have carVied jnuch more signdficajice and heartinese of liospitallty, than the cmpty eeremony wliich tlicy eeem to liave earried out with as inuch impressiveHiess ;is though it meant something. And in doing to our public (guests, it ís belittling on both sides to emulate absurd and almost obsolete old ivorld irivoilities."