Lamentable Lack Of Truth

It is a fact that the American people has scant respect for tliose whorn it chooses to make, interpret and execute its laws. While an obsequióos and slavish submission should be left to absolute monarchy, and though by the principies of free government, the agent of the people is no more to be reverenced than the citizen who delegates to him his functions as an offieer, still a moderate amount of respect, an amount that at least calis for the exercise of the truth, is in the highestdegreedesirable. That this respect is not always accorded may have have its explanation to a great extent in partisan politics. Yet partisanship is no excuse for under stating f acts. The party organ that wil] villify or calumníate a deserving public man is undeserving the support of any party. Partisan issues ought to be fought out on the open field of truth. To cali the agent of the people arogue, when the people has just expressed its appreciation of him as a public offieer, is to cali the people rogues. And to cast reflection upon a man to whom the people openly, deliberately and advisedly commits the power to make its laws is to cast reflection upon the people itself. This is exactly what the New Washtenaw Post did last week in commenting upon the selection of McMillan as United States senator, from Michigan. It said, concerning the two selections for senators : "The merit of the first (McMillan) is that he is a millionaire, while the latter (Burrows) really has qualificadons for the high office." The plain inference is that Mr. McMillan's only or at least his highest merit, is that lie is a moneyed man. Nothing could be farther from truth. His money had no more to do with his election than did the New Washtenaw Post. The people of the state were and are satisfied that Mr. McMillan is worthy, by virtue of his qualifications as a thorough, painstaking and honest man and legislator, of the high trust imposed upon him. That a man is a millionaire should be no hindrance to honest political preferment. If the people of Michigan had wanted someone in the place of McMillan, they would have said so. That he is the unanimious choice of an almost unanimous republican legislature should shield him from such slursasthe Post would erst. In slurring him that paper slurs the people also. Let us have due consideration and respect for our public men. The latest European alliance is said to embrace England, France and Kussia. But just why England should desire such an alliance cannot readily be seen, as heq, interests and Russia's must conflict. Such au alliance cannot be a lasting one.