After The Soldier Boys

Now that the legislature is in session, the ïollowing resolution passed by fchie Livtnigstoin county republican cooMeaitio'n last (all, is being given pnonninence by papers tliroughout the state : , Whereas, A recent statement of the public prees shows ithe last encampment of th 6tate troops to have cost $42,000, therefore, Besoh'd, Tliat we, the republicaas of Livingston coanty, in convention assembled, coineider &aid encampment an extravagant use oí the public f unds and hereby request our members of th state legfelature to throw their votes and influence against iurther appropriat krans for that use, thereby reduclng the burden of the peoplc. There .is a feeling existiag throughout the state, that the momey which tihe annual cncampment costs ,is not a wise expenditure, and that instead of being a help to military knowledige it is elraply a rollicking week oif for the men composing the militia of tlie state. This is probably true to a certain extent. We havo heard ia great many fathers remnrk that it was a dangero-us thing, and that thE3r would not consent to have their kous attend the encampmont as a member of a company. And yet it is probable that the actiou of a few cause the entire militia to be censiired. It is always well in times of ppace to prepare for war. There is aio knowlng how soon our militia inay 1k . needed. And yet there fe a questtan whetiier, in these hard times, whe;n it is difficult for the people to pay the barden of taxes assessed against tliem, whether or not the encampment could not be safely dispensed Avitli for a year or until we g-et back to republican times again. As tliings are at piresent it doesn't matter much whether Mr. Hill and Mr. Cleveland pull togetlier or separately- taey have reached the highest poioit of all their greatness, already. Tlie Ann ArbOT Courier spelled it Borromglh. The senator will object. - Xortlivdlle Beoord. Oh, no he won't. He doesn"t care a fig, mow. Tliere is only one' way to promo unce it, any way. If this present congress desires to resume pleasant business relations with foreign eountries, the proper thing to do is to restore the reciprocity measures of the McKinley bill. That would restore trade and open up foreign markets for our produets and keep gold at home. Xeither Blaine nor Logan added anything to nis fame by his "promotion" from the Houöe to the Senate. Let us hope that Burrows' transfer to the second chamber will turn out more happily.- St. Louis Globe-üemocrat. The movement which is under way in several oí the eouthe-rn states for ballot reforni is encouraffing. A free ballot and an lionest count would, even fro-m a purely business po int oí view, be of the greatest benefit to tlie Bouth. Ib te to be hoped that Blamd,, Ín his two years' work on his fanm which he says he wül put ia whso he retires froirn oífioe a few weeks henee, wül render better service to the country th&n he has fui-nished In all his congressioin-al caxeer. The Stockbridge Farmers' Club, at thieir January meeting, passed resolutloins agioi' the good road law. 'Course. WO liave used these same roads ever iince the country was settled, and what was good enough for dad 1 good enough. for us. If the railroads are blacklisting men as is confidently asserted by the men themselves, and they are unable to get work in this line simply because some one of the railroads has a grudge against hem for something, said railroads ought to be prosecuted for that kind of work. It is not only unjust and un-American but it is unhuman. The InterState Coinraerce commission should investígate. The report that the Crown Prince of Japan wants to mairy an American hieiress is aa indicatiorat liat the youth has decidedly progresshie ideas. If a Yajikee girl ever eh&res the throne of Japan, eihe will be the boss of Asia, and tlie íleets of Europe would be wise to withdraw to their own waters. No Englieli admira! would ever then oppose Japa,n's fleet sailing up all the rivers in CJhioa, if they wantel to go there. And it is possible that they will do eO anyway. It is notsurprising tliat the democratie party cannot handle the financial aifairs of this government suecessfully. That party has nnt been a successful party in anything for generations. It has not attempted to build up anything for a half century, but on the contrary has constantly attempted to tear down whatever the republican party has proposed. You couldn't expect a railroad wreéker to turn into a successful banker in a day or a year - so why expect an impossibility from this party. - Ex-Senator Eustis is the ambassador of this country at Paris, and in striking for higher wages, renders the following as a partial account of a year's expenses : House rent in Paris per year $12,000 Ambassador's coach and livery 5,000 Diplomatic dlnners and eiitertainments 3,000 One ball per annum 2,000 Entertaining American naval officers- 2,000 Attendlng State Department functions 1,000 Official presentations 2,000 Total $27,000 To the poor people who have hard work to get enough to keep soul and body together these times, the above figures look somewhat extravagant. Just think of it ! Five thousand dollars for coach and livery ! New Yosrk's Hill is a Holló w. And the income tax wffl not genérate enomgli voleante power to elévate the depressiom to a very great Hill again. The exposition grounds in Detroit have been eold to a inanufacturing company. That's a good thing for Detroit, but a niigihty thing f the state fair society. The republicans in the legislature set an example in ohosing senators and offtoers that the Detroit council would do well to follow. l'action means defeat. It means it in Detroit. Tlie amount of thO government deficieecy for December, was $33,778,000 ! lUiat is to eay, the government ran behind that much during the montli past. That inuch more was spent than was received. you grasp it ? Repreeentathie Kempí oí this district, has tntroduced a bilí legalizimg the coimmitment of insane patients froon other states in private asylums of this state. Tliis is in behali of the private asylum at Flint, which is an ataiiirable imstitution. Senator Patton comes out of the contest at Lansing with the respect of all witta whom he carne in contact. We shall, uow thattlie Kepublicans of the state know him better, expect to hear f rom him, as to know a man of his admirable qualities is to respect him. Itis comforting to those of his friends who were anxious to see him get the nomination, to know that no unscrupulons methods are charged up to his paign.- Jouesville Independent. Every Ohio paper that comes to our table bears the following at the head of ts editorial page : For President ia 1896, WILLIAM McKINLEY, OF OHIO. Just a little premature. McKinley is a grand man, but the people may conclude to take some one else for a standard bearer. Wlien you get right down to business Michigan's senior senator would make an awfully good president. Bv the record as published in the daily papers, whereby the Carlisle bill was defeated, by a vote of 124 yeato 129 nay, the member from this district, Mr. Gorman, failed to vote. His name is absent. It is not even among the pairs. Perhaps his ideas have not settled down sufficiently so that he can teil "where he is at." He did not want to offend "the government," evidently, by voting against the bill, and didn't want to offend a large number of his constituents by voting for the bill, so he did the very common thiug for statesmen to do - he dodged. Gov. Flower has learned a lesson at this late day and his party would have saved many votes had he learned it earlier in his official career. He absolutly refused to pardon a man convicted of a crime against the ballot box. Gov. Hill injured himself and his party by insisting upon running a man for supreme judge of that state, whose fingers were smutted with dishonesty and who attempted to secure advantage for his party by upholding bare-faced frauds upon and theft of political rights. An outraged public will íesent these things coming from whatever person or party they may. The majority always has and always will favor honesty. Speaking of a skeleton found in a sewer trench at Ann Arbor, the bones of which were grabbed by students and taken to their various rooms, the Courier says: "It will be a hard job to get him together again on the day of resurrection." To one who has faith in the Christian religión, the flippant blasphemy of the Courier must be shocking, and even a worldly man would wonder that a "family paper" should adopt the one and language of loaferdom. - Ypsianti Sentinel. The Sentinel starts the above item off with a falsehood, and then wrapping its eligious cloak around itself with con;ealed tongue and coagulated blood, rozen to the niarrow, stands mute in )ious horror at the flippancy of a conemporary ! Ye Gods, what a sight ! Mrs. Bloomer, the lady who flrst gave conspicuity to the garments which bear ier name, has just passed away at Council Bluffs, aged seventy-six. It can be said in all seriousness that few women of the century have made a deeper or more evident mark upou their times. It required a bold and original thinker - a sort of female Columbus - to concede that her sex had legs, and to put them even in muffled evidence. The reform is only beginning to take hold upon humanity. It is the complement of the bicycle, and it is growing. Urs. Bloomer has built out of flannels i monument more enduring than brass. -Chicago Times. The proposiition to make one of the Tequiirement oí the commissioner oí schools íor a coumty to be three years' service as a teacher, is one that should not be passed by the legislature. Tlie present requlrements are suffiicient. It is now very diificult to fill tlie positiom in many oouaties by tliO present requirements, make them stül more difficult aind it will be impossible to fill the position at all in many of owr nortliern countiee. The new municipal charter bilí wMcb wfll be presemted to the leglslature for consAderation this winter, seems to be wtth general favor. It is deserved. There seems to be no valid reason -wiiy each of cities of Michigan ehould cairy on its official business under a special charter. Michigan cities and -villages are not so different in tlieir needs and so varied in their cbaracteristics that eaeli needs a separate and divstinct law of life. ThO unifioatiom of theii' charters will be a gjood thing, and one that wiU be appreciated by the people oí tlie state. Nmv tlie questioTi is, who shall succeed Mr. Burröws .in ooaigress for the tJürd district ? Seeral citizens seeni to be williing to make the sacrifice. Amoog tliem are Yo'ur Uncle Jimmie Momroe, Secretary of State Wa&liiiigton Gardtner, Milo B. Campbell, Col. Janes, and Mr. dapp, -wtjio noiminated Mr. Buirrows in the caucus. AlthO'Ugh Uncle Jimmie is lvretty Avell adManc-ed in years to be lookkig for a seat in ccxngrees, ha lias no't developed amy politkal spavins or stiffness in amy part oí liie anatomy, and the yoainger aispirants iiad best look uot for "the Oiearo of four and twenty battles." Mr. James E. Ka.mlall, tJve Maryland author, hias p'iven niuch time of late to urging tlie tbeory that malaria is oomieyed in impure drinking water and ner by ithe air. He is; especially distnistful of Burface wells, and holdis that they arO at fault in, what is t-ei-med malan-ious districts, as eau be proved when they aa-e disused and drLnking water ototained froni the raiinfall ot from an artesian source. , If the whole of mantón d coulcl be supj plied witJi pure water for drinking , and cookieg the rapid disappearance , of severa! dieeases would probably , border on the marvelous. If tais democratie administration can overeóme its abhorrence of foreiign entanglenients, it will ask for a full and definite explanation from ■the Sublime Porte of the outrage which has recently been reported by the Americaji Board of Foreign Missions. We do jiot imagine tliat any Turkisli official has .the right to open the mail of ome American citizen sent another American citizen, even within the Turkish Empire, yet that, according to üie dispatches pubüshed a few days since, is what has been done. If America is a country wortli living in, if it has a government wortJi preserTOig, tlie democratie officials at Washington ought to demónstrate those {acts by injectimg a Httle vigor into tdie foreign policy of the United States. At last Ingersoll has been conrerted. He is a believer in part, at least of a hereafter. The last election did it. A number of yeai'S ago he remarbed : "I sliall believe to heil when Missouri goes repnblican." And Ingersoll never breaks his word. The nine repTiblicans who united with the democrats in the Detroit coimcil to organize that body and to elect officers, were Hke the calf that ran its head eo far into the jar for milk that was at the bottom, that the jar clung to its head and reinained there umtil help came to the poor beast. Tlie democratie jar Is now fastened so tight on those republican oommitteemen tliat it is doubtful if any help will be able to remove it. Tlieir heads are in the jaws of the democratie trap, and tlhe spring Is a stlff one. Now is the time to advocate the laws which should be passed at the next sion of the legislatura, so we shall say a few words in regard to the law which we think ought to be enacted. A man who buys a farm forsix thousand dollars is still íive thousand dollars in debt for which he generally gives a mortgage, bearing five or six per cent interest. This man is worth according to this transaction oue tliousaud dollars ; yet as the law now stands he pays taxes on six thousand dollars, five thousand of whicb he does not own. The man who holds the morgage it is supposed pays taxes on the mortgaged property also. This systeui of doublé taxation ought to be done away with. A man should be exempt from taxation to the amount of bis indebtedness. Tax a man for what he is worth not for what he hopes to be worth. There are apparent objections exempting mortgaged property froin taxatiou, we believe a better plan than the present one could be easily devised. - Leelanau Enterprise.