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Again Chasing A Shadow

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Day
13
Month
March
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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The people of rthis nation go from ome p3iantasy, ono craze to another ■with. alanning rapidity. They are qnicÊ, nervous, full of unre6t, and ■witóa ihimgs do mot go right they loot. aboait for a. cause, and grasping liold of some plausible scheme, they do not valt to ascertain whether they bare the right thing, or not, lut raëh. iraatieally ahead bound to force Uhieïr raew theory into practico withwt inquiry as to results. Omce it was frec banking, and the ■wild cat" times resulted. Once it was greenbacks. The craze oxèzed a great anany people and sonie of ftfiem are afilicted with it yet. T hey argmed itliat the only thLng needed ■was the govemment stamp, to make moiiey. I3ie craze went on until the thinlcing portion oí the people so afilicted began to think, and then the tanbble bnrstid. The next craze ivas íree trade. This ■w-ent go f ar that ib was partially made into law, and we are "enjoying" its results to-day. The people did Bot begin to think quick enough. They were sure their theories were right, and turnea the govwrnment over into tre trade hands. But when they came to feel the result of thelr crazy ■work iiow quick they turaed back to old, substantial party that had taten thcin througli so many troublons times in sa It will be just so now. Tlic people are cbasing tho ignis iatnus of f ree silvcr. Tiiey cain not walt to reason fche matter, to think ie over, but rush líke a flock of Bheep. They will so until tliey citlier jump QTer the precipice of disiistcr ;unl tailfc headlong into the chasm of ruin, or perhaps until tihey come to a íence, erectéd by the coiiservatlve maeses, over which they cannot climb. T'or ithe true gToumd i& this, as well aeiai rUc, s the grea.1 middlc grounil botweea tin: two extremes. It is mot íree silvr, -with AU that metal mined in tho world dumped upon us, nor is it tho single gold standard, but a combination I the two metáis wiith favor to neithr- That wtll 'be the solution of this qaestioa, and that is the positkn of tlie ríreat republican party o-day. TVhen all the lcadioig liations of ■ftc world agreo to the free comage sil ver, then that scheme can be real5ied, and Hot -untU Uien. .nythins élso meaais busiaess and commercial Hsaster foor any nation that adopts it. It is ncither a theory or n, conditiou that confronte us but a predicnmeait. If partial tree fcrade for two years has caused such wide spread disaster to the business of this nation, what would the complete thiivg do. Chas. A. Dana, of the X. Y. Sun, lias always been a plain spoken man, and bias always set down on a man or scheme of whom or which he did not appnove, sevorely. Now lie lias to amswer to a charge of criminal libel, and the case looks serious against him. The name oï Senator J. E. McLaughlin, of Detroit, is memioned ior thepositiom of liauteaant governor, made vacant ly the nomination of the present incumben t for congress, in the 3d district. The SenatO'i' certainly has the good wishes of okl Washtenaw, and no better choice ould be made. Have you noticed of lato Ixow the Detroit Tribune is forging ahead as a newspaper. Tor years the Iree Press took the lead, and many republicans -vvere forced to take it in order to eet the news. Now the table senns to be turned, and even the democrats are forced to take the Tribune to obtain the news. AVhcn Senator Shennan said tho people would give 120 for tlie gold bontte that President Cleveland seCTetly contractod to deliver to the foreigoi syndicate ior 104.50, he was laughed at by somO who didn't have sense enougli to know what they were laugWtog about. Senator Sherman's statement is verilied even bef ore a single bond has been dis osed of by the syndicate. It aias refused oiiers which means that before the people can get the bonds they will haTO to pa y more than 120. It looks as though. ma.ny of the Germans would desert the g. o. p. it the present legislature should submit a prohibition amendment to the of the people. This would b& a blow to the machine, and for that reason any discussion as to the right or wrong of the matter is out of order and the question wffl be dropped.- Detroit Free Press. Now what the people would like to know, is the position of the Freo Press and the democratie party on the question. Do they favor Bubmitting the question? The wiíe oï President Dole, oí Hawaii in interceeding wlth lier liusband in behalf of ex-Queen Liliuokalani shows herself to be am enlightened and Christiam wom&n. Her attitude is much in contrast with that Of the semi-savoge fiiend of Mr. Cleveland who wished to make it a condition, to lier restoratioin that she should be permLtted to chop off the head of this womam's liusband, together with the heads of &uch of liis frieaids as she inight elect. Tlie chances are that Mrs. Iole herself would ha-ie been led to the chopping block. Miss Lieiter, of Chicago, is also to marry the bou of a titled foreiner, amd a loit inore of our hard earned moiney will flow oer the ocean. The Leiter money came in by way of the yard stick, but its outgoing will be measui-ed by the forty-foot pole. Tbere are rich girls in Europe, who, outside of their wealth, are worth the woolne?. It would seem to be the d'uty of our patriotic young meo to see that the wedding dowry does not nlways sall trom the samo side oí the ocean. Just now the balance of trade in this line is much against lis. "ft'o eincerely hope that the bill cently introduced in tlie state legislature relatlve to the sale of patent and p-roprictary medLines, will pass. There should be some judicious regulation to prevent injurious nostrums le:ng Jialmod ofl upon innocent peoplc. Tlie country is floodcd with ut and nou-patent stuff which does does mach injury and hut little good. Thousands of dollars are spent by people oí ih':s state that ought to ba raved. - Manchester Enterpr'se. T'.iiif;; right. ïhe patent medicines are often composed oí narcótica or V.iinois. oud Lnstead of curing dis, lead people to f arm bad habite vnú cause much. suïfering'. Some of the French Kavtuits claim that tlie ycar 1895 will be a reniarka.ble O'ne, botli from the astronomical and iclitiiniis point of view. On Good Friduy iiext (April 12), the heavnly boidies wliich gravitate ro'und tlie suiii wUl be in exactly tlie sume posltion tliey occupied in the íirmainent tho day Christ died on tune cross. It will be tke first time that such a tkinj? lias occurred since that great day, just 1862 years ago. That was tho thirty-thlrd year of the Christian era, whieh dates troon tho birth of Jesús Christ. At 4:02 in the morning, París titne (about 11:20 p. m. on April 11, New York time), the moon will pass before Virblnis (Spica) and hide that constellatlott for more than an hiOUT. The demócrata are not good nt providng a reveuue, but they are master hands at.spending more than they c1" get. Cleveland can serve out the rest of his term with the coinforting reflection that he canuot be snnbbed any more by a democratie congress. Tlie south now has four of the cabiuet offices, and vvill tima be compeled to bear her proper sliare of rosponsibility for the follies and tnistakes of the Administra tion. Tlie cotton erop of Texas is the largest that bas ever been produced, but at the same time the price is the lowest that has ever been known. It seems to be impossible to carry out the idea of reducing the acreage; and the next best thing, obviously, is to establish local manufactures and vote for the protection policy. The democratie senatorial convention as lts ssssion in this -city, deliberately kicked out of tlie democratie party all its members who believe in Zonest money, or in other words who do not believe in the f ree silver craze. Will tliese demócrata lick the hand that smites them, or wlll they step out aíter baúig kickeil out ? The Railway Age says 38 roads ere placed in the bands of reeeivers in 1804, inyolving müeage 7,025 bonds $196,547,000, stock $199,144,000, total $395,791,000 against 74 roads in 1993, with 29,340 miles and total of securities of $1,781,046,000. In 1894, 42 roads were sold, representing 5,643 miles, $164,216,000 in bonds. $154,783,000 stocks, or a total of $313,999,999. The number was exceeded only four times in twenty years, mileage equaled only once and the securities ineol ved were more thau any year except 1866 and 1867. The Bpaniards are evidently setting somewhat scared. The news comes from Madrid that a bilí to give Cuba a measure of home rule is likely to pass is an acknowledgement that the situation in the colony recjuires soniething more than military repression. The Cubana have been far more patiënt under heavy taxation than Americans were in the colonial period. A drain to Spain of over $20,000,000 a' year has exhausted Cuba, and the policy of shooting or imprisoning the inhabitants will not lessen their discontent nor restore prosperity. The New York Sun says : Now that so much of the West has ceased to be distinctly new country, and presenta in general the social and business conditions of the Eastern States, the idea of migration thither offers fewer attractions to young men in New England, and they show an increasing tendency to try their fortunes at home. Thisis especially noticeable in Maine, where trade and agriculture are stimulated by markets created by visitors drawn thither by hunting and fishing and its summer resorts. It is estimated, on official authority, that the population of Main is now 722,000, a gain of 71,000 in four years, and the remaining years of the decade promise to show even more rapid increase.

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