Communication

Ana Arbor, Jan. 13, 18U3. Editor Courier : Deur ïiir - I mu excediiigly Blírpris8d VO ii-.id in yotir p'agter m Jan. llth, now you liavc gooe mu ol your uay Ui .-lap l;ii íni'i-s SO iiuuii'r iíully Bhrough an limagbnary ullusion 10 an artkle wrtttén in the Leader. I (im'i tiiink there wiu- a man lio liarth paleí! in lile c(jiii-isaliun that u.-iil uuy iü wiU tuwanls Univeralty ui Mkliigaa, neither was tb ere dng sald tigatnsí the L'rilverslty i niy kiiivliMln 'Mu' iliusiiation you liave taken exceptlOB u van Uroug'üt aboui l.y the queetlOD being askr.i, w'ii. are l parties and what s thelr avocatlou, cenpation, trad or tfUBinOBB, tuac (Iemand acadelaiíed llallis ? Amoog tlie dtfferept iiiiswits, one af party related the story to tJic frtsky student, wlnch I took for gramted as ttme, bul 1 could see OOflliug aiiain.st jur jíieat and ktghÜ i'-. ,cl I íiivirsiiv. That Bprlg of a student may have come (rom the Jarm and be may, iy penseveránce, dome a etaJnlng light to the T'niversity's credit and his beneflt. 1 am si -k and tlred ií this constant trade clasedflcatkn and bickerlng. it s DOt iieiiíhborly or manly. Such talk is lietrimental tO fhe rood name of the Tuivi-isiiy and slicmld be topped at once. I have heard much more lidi ule of the management of the Dniversity by yonr citlsens than 1 ever heard a farmer say. If a citizen ridioules any state inst ituiion. be alone siiouid be held reaponelble fop what he hem done or said, and not a hole ((imiminity connected with hls tleeda or acttons. I iniJifíine yon have been out .slciu'n ridinu and got ca u.iih t in a Mg snow drift. Yon liave undonl)tedly taken cold, whlch lias made yonr stomach oait oí order, for which I sliould reiomniend ;i few drope of farmer's relief. By gotag out into the country and Uvinji amoog ns fuñen a wille, and get close in touch with us, yon wil] Lind we are no-t su;h awful bad people as you ]ii tured us to be. Vuil will lind out Uittt our Christian Bfiirlt averages well with our city cousins, and we have diU' respect for tiiem, you Avill beffin to tliink. Wlwi knows but that fellow wlio gold fihat WOOd mifrht have been a trailer, and may be it was only talk. On the rottenoflBe you tfllk about, eomment is nniHM-cssary. Yon slroot way off f rom the mark. AX EYE WITNES8. The farmers are all risht, friend "Eye WitiH-ss," and as they have not been attacked they dld not need sucu a livfly defenee. Jvai becansa wc referred to a mejui thinjï a man had (lime, it did not refleci on iarnicrs in general, anjr more tiian il we dad said tlie man kept gPOCertee on Main st. 1h,uM not have expected all the Other grocere on tha1 .street to have ruslied in, claimlng they were attacked aa a daas. Jf yon are sii-k of "trad claselficatlon" don't keep it going. It will die (nu if von don't stir it