How the city of Cleveland, Ohio, has pro...

How the city of Cleveland, Ohio, has prospered under ten yeara of republioan protection and reciprocity, is ivc'.l told by the recent United State census: The present census shows that in ten years the number of manufaeturing establishments in Cleveland has incrensed from 1,055 to 2,065; that the capital lnvested in manui'acturtng has increased in the saine perlod period from $19,430,989 to $58,974,3.4(3; that the number of hands employed has grown from 21,724 to 53,349; that the yearly wages paid fiave advanced from $8,502,935 to $30,423,635; that the value of raw materials used has increased by $24,691,336, and that the value of the product has grown from $48,604,050 in 1880 to $98,926,241 in 1890. Sueh a record of industrial progresa fe more effeetive than all the free trade theories ever printed. It is an argument for protection whose force cannot be lessened by any amount of rhetoric. Take the hlstory of frce trade in this country irom its inception, and it will be found that its most fierce advocates are men who have believed that the laborer should be ownednot hired. Don't take our word for it, but look it up lor yourself. Under the action of the McKinlej law the export-s of this country in creased $111,340,102, in one year Pretty good law, isn't It ? The editor of the Stockbridge Sun i mistaken, in stating that the edi tor of the Courier is a candidate fo lieutenant governor. He has distinet ly stated apon several occasions that he is not a candidate for any office The Oourier had better soak its feet and go to bed early with a hot water-bag on the seat of lts distress -Adrián Press. If tlie Press would soak lts head sometime it -vould be "clear out of sight." Among the ncws items Saturday was one stating that a man 02 years oíd and a woman 65 years old, had eloped from Covington, Ky., and been married at Cincinnati. A case of second ehildhood, doubtless. Hon. John S. Barbour, the senior senator from Virginia, died at Washington, D. C, last Friday, May 14, after an illness of a few minutes, and without any apparent suffering. The cause of death is ci-edited to "heart fallure." There are said to be spots on the face of the sun. Old Sol has probably had a scrap with Senator Hill, of New York. The man who will be nominated at ilinneapolis June 8th, wlll be able to knoek those spots off all right, The young Kaiser of Germany proposes to tax nowspaper advertisments to help pay the enormous expense oí royalty in that kingdom. If he does he ought to be the recipiënt of some "free ndvertising" at the hands of the press of Germany. The English eonipartment cars are so often used for assaults and immoral purposes and sometimes murder, that it would seem as if they ouglit to be done away with, or else arranged more on the American plan, so that. the passengere may not be so niuc-h shut off from each other. The Ivondon Times gays that one of the industrial effects of the MeKinley bill is that "four well known English textile firms have moved the whole or a part of their plant to the United States, and many of the most gkllled hands "rom the tin píate milis of South Wales have emigrated." The g. o. p. machine is running at full pressure without a gpvernor, and nothiiiK is more likely than its balance whecl will burst from centrifugal forcé - "Ypsilanti Sentinel. It is a fact the Sentinel will not deny, that there is a great suction of air near a rapidly revolving wheel, and that feathers are easily drawn ïh and destroyed, so don't stand too near that balance wheel, please, Mr. Sentinel man. Capital alwavs has and ahvays wlll take care of itself. It is the laboring man that needs wtee and benificent protective laws. Under free tradc in tliis country, capital, driven out of business here, would seek investcaent in foreign countries, probably, just as Knftlisli capital driven out of Enuland by the dry rot of free trade, is seeking inTestment in the United States, and buying up every great industry here that it can purchase. Do away with our tariff laws, and see ■how quick the change would come. In eonnection with Maj. IcKinlev's viüit to Ann Arbor it is of interest to mention tlie fact that one of the largest tin píate manufactures of Wales, E. Morewood & Co., began last Veek the construction of a large plant for the manufacture of tin plate at Elizabethport, N. J. The works will cover three acres of ground and in three months will bo in operation able to make 5,000 boxes per week. This is the first foreign company to start tin plate making in this country, and it is due to the McKinley bill. Long live McKinley and nis ISill. The Adrián Press does not think much of the alleged wisdom of the Wisconsin democrats, it is judged, by the following quotation: "White we do not care to criticise democratie policy in other states, y et as we read the financial plank of Wisconsin's democracy, it's our candid opinión, that ïor assinine politica] wisdom the builders of that platform, dista-nce all competitors. They rake in the jackpot. They bet ten buttons that the republican anti-silver legislation is wrong, then show down with a regular republican policy, on a full hand against silver." Tlio wlll of the "recent" Win, B. Astor in cutting oif his daughter Mrs. Drayton, and his brother Henry, from inheriting a cent of liis property, is no credit to nis memory. Mrs. Drayton was his oivn daughter, and Henry was his own brother who eommiitted the crime of marrybng a pretty country irl wliom be loved, and with whom lie has lived happily several years, for which act lie was disinherited by liis father, and hls share of the property given to Win. B. Astor who now in turn euts him off. That is snobbishness even in death. Such wills ought to be broken. Tlie democrats in congre.ss are endeavorlng to again bring before the house the question of the free coinage of silver, and hope to have a cloture rule applied so that a prompt oonsideration of the bill may be insured.' That is a consummatkm devoutly tö be desired. By all means the democrats in the lower house should pass such a bill, and if necessary to adopt a cloture rule, they should certainly adopt it. The country at large is just now pining for free silver, and cloture, and the statesmen at Washington have no right to deprive them of that for which they are so much in need- in their minds. They really want cloture more than free silver, though.