Easy To Criticise

The próíufce and loud critirisra ei the Axgus amd oí the democratie press generally, oï tlie fallure oí the management ol the recent college repubÜean club banquet in this city to minutely comply with e-verythlng it pfoposed to do, is easily accouated fox Soinetlünig must be done to offset the effect of that meeting, and that is the loophole grasped at. One thi.ng is indisputable. After a thins is over with, it is easy to sec where some thimgs might have beeu bettered. It certaimly would have been better had it bee-a possible for Maj. JlcKinley to have complied with the original arrangements and spoken from the stand in front of the eourt hou.se. But his state oí health would mot permit of his talking in the opea air, and a.s a eonsequence he was obliged to speak In Oniversity liall or not at all. This is the largest availah'r liall iln the state, and It was Hlled to overflowiBg. As to the proeessl m ín tlxe evening, its failure resulted from the (act the was g tting late, and all who held tickets were tunxiaus to get to the banquet, and so did not wait to lorm to line. The fault lies with no one pqrticularly. Had there been 10,000 people amd torelies ín line, what difference would It have made? This lead up to the true saylng that nothing on earth is perfect. The editor of the Courier attended the last Inaugural ball at Washington, at whteh 15,000 people were preseat. THe managers were old and exporieneed men, au'l fchey had all the funda they wanted at their command, and yet all of tlvose 15.000 people liad to pass through one small door-way to get froni the ball room to the banq-uet room, and vice versa, and of course, the jam was terrible there alj t lic niuiit. By expendimg a few dollars several door ways miglit have been eut througb that wall and the people aceommodated without any 'discomfort. Afterward this great mistak'e was notioed. It must be remembered that tliis was the first experience of these young ïncn in anytbing of the sort, and as ia always the case the work feil upoa the few. The affair was larger tliaja they had dreamed of its being. It was a moaister of success, and it is not t o be woTidered at that some things wert! not thought of. Take it all in all the affair was wonderful. The objects' for which it was started were accomplished, and the ü. of M. Kepublican Club is to be congratulated upon its emergy, life, vigor, aoad goahead-itiveness. Th eresults of this meeting wiU be feit all over the country in the way of arousing young men to their politic-al duty. Xo ome meed feel badly about the jibes and "guys" of our democratie friends. It is not supposed for a moment that they would be pleased over it. In the least Argus "E. B. P." takes fhe Couricr to taek for the statemesnt that the f ree traders lioaild step in and buret this "anthracite coal monopoly" wirth their beautiful theorie?, amd then goes on to prove that there ia a dut y o.n bitumroous coal. Xo oaie ever de.nied it. Bitiiminous or eo ft coal was not referred to in the item, but anthracite coal was especially meiitioned, and the ''anthracite coal monopoly" is the one he steers periectly clear of in hits communication. Bituminous coal is mined in a mnjority of the states of the union, but the anthracite or hard coal fchiat is o generalij' used as fuel tlic families of this country, is mined but very lilttle outside of lJennsylvania and parts of Oh, and perluaps a small itiautit,y in West Virginia, and on tais eoal is founded the "I'ennsylvania coal monopoly," and on tlite ooal there ia no tarlff. Il "E. B. 1'." "wiil crack tliat nut iiLstcad oi1 ais ftagers, he can hü given plenty, more vo hammer at. "Major McKinley was riglit in wliat he sakl about the effects of the tarMf in Bermuda," .said ïïm. C. Swan, a law student to the university irom the Bermuda Islands. "There lia; been great depresston this year at home in all our products, because o tïie higlier duties on our potatoes antj anions. We have our best markei in the I'. S. and we have to seU everythiing at so much loss a price t'hain formerly, but they are no higher i.n this country. Therefore we have i'o stand the duty. If I were aa American I would favor protectiou every time, aind I cannot sec liow any person in the U. S. can talk iree trade." As much as It might be desirable to keep on l'riendly terins witli Cliina, it will not do to pay too great a price for the privilege. Presklunt Harrisou in signing the anti-Cliinese bilí passed by couigress, did what was right. Thtí Chinese are unliike any other dass oí people who come to our shores. They ■never become American citizens. They. never conform to any of our ways of living or of transactíng business. All the momey they earn is saved and Bent back to China. They are not enterprismg and upbuilding. On the contrary they are like leeches. They suck in the wealtli of the natiion and give notliimg out. They are treacherous, lecherous and leperous. They. bring no women to thiis country except for immoral purposes and their ways with our women are those of debauchery. They bring the opium vi.ce wtth them and teach it to Americans. They are a most undesirable clase of emiglrants, and íor the safety of the nation should be shut out. They are received imto no othr country( and why should they be here ? There are 500,000,000 Cbinamen and only 70,000,000 Americans. America does not want theni. Let them remain at home.