Joseph B. Moore

The nomination of Judge J. B. Moore, of Lapeer, for justice of the snpreme court was one of the test that has ever been made in our Btate. He is a ripe scholar, a lawyer of many years' practice, and he has occupied a seat on the circuit bench for a number of years. In ability, education, legal equipraent and experience he is the peer of all the men who in the history of the state have been elevated to the court of last resort. Personally he is courteous, and his manners are peculiarly winning, while his private character is singularly pure, and is in f act without a stain. Recognizing the peculiar qualiflcations and nndeniable fitness of the judge for this judicial position, and also the fact that nnder ordinary circumstances his election by an overwhelming majority ■would be among the certainties in Michigan politics, the opposition has adopted an ingenious device by which they hope to accomplish his defeat. This is the injection of the financia! question into a judicial andeducational campaign - judicial and educational because a justice of th'è supreme court and two regen ts of the University are to be elected in April. The state has been flooded with posters, and later will be with cards, eulogising Mr. McGrath and coupling his name with the, at present, quite popular "16 to 1" aspect of the silver question. The hope is to float the Democratie eandidate for the supreme court on the tide of an assumed popular clamor for free silver. The fact is that the question of the judgeship of our supreme court is absolutely separated from any question of coinage or finance. But if it were not true why should preference be given to the Democratie candidate over Hon. J. B. Moore? One is a Democrat, and the inquiry is pertinent as to what that party - Judge McGrath's party - has ever been ble to accomplish on one side or the other of the question of national finance? It has been on both sidesand occupies exactly that attitude today. The fact is simply that if relief is to be secured, the country must look to the Republican party, and the great victories ot last autumn emphasized this after two years of Democratie control and business and financial depression. The scheme oí the Democratie partymanagers may be ingenious, but it is only an invention for the purpose o securing votes by false pretenses anc misrepresentations. If Únele Sana allows John Bull to bleed Nicaraugua to the tuue of L15,000, he ought to be booted. The Ameritan l'rotective Tarifí League nnnounces tlie appointrnent oí Han. J. C. Burrows, U. S. S., as vlce president of tlie organization for Michigan. Justin M'Carthy, tlie Irish journalist, politician, historian cmd novelist, lias wrltten for tlio April number of Tno Forum an article of uncommon interest on "Lord Rosebery." Wm. W. Wedemeyer, the republican candidato for county school comriiissioner, is a young man wlio will niake a splendid oflScer. Young, capable, energetic, lie is by all means the man for the place. Is it not.strange tliat a party so trongly opposed to monoply as the emocritic party professes to be, hould be so crazy over the anti-fusion av, whieh is really au anti-monopoly iw ? The Reichstagin rei'using tocongratuate Prince Bismarck on liis birthday id a very ungeuerous thing. It was a olite thing to do and certaiuly liad no lolitical significance. Tlie ouly outome is to lower the Eeichstag in the stimation of the world. Oh, for a patriotic Ajuerican statesman at the helm of the ship oí fitate in the eecretary of state's department. The present incuinlxint of tliat position is too narrow, too billious, too vindictive, too impatriotic. Give us a eha.nge, Grovw. If any political party has nominated m unfit man for school cominissioner, may there be in that county enough overs of tlie children who are independnt of party, to teach politicians that ehools are too sacred a tliing to be rifled with. - Michigan School Moderator. Experimenta in different parts of the ouutry appear to have settled the fact hat wheat fed to hogs is thus made to ring about 70c per bushel. It still pays to raise that erop, therefore, even f the world is not willing to pay over 40c per bushel for it as an article of human diet. England's opinión of the efficiency of ,orpedo boats is shown by the fact that he has built 200 of them to swarm into action with lier fifty-five great battle ships and coast defenders. The United States at present bas but three swiit toredo boats ready for active service, and only three are building. The disparity s striking and unsatisfactory. It bas puzzled many an American ongue to pronounce the name of the iew president of the French repnblic, "elix Faure. To get an offiejal prouinciation a down east editor wrote to bat distinguished gentleman and received this reply : "Fel sbould be pronounced Fel, as in fellow, lx as in xion. Faure exactly like the word or." All together now : Fel-ix For. Correct. It has been figured out that the passage of the proposed bill equalizing iquor taxes in Michigan at the uniorm rate of $400, would result in a oss of nearly $3,000,000 to the several counties and citie3. The total number of firma and persons in the state who jay a $300 liquor tax is 998, giving a gain of $99,800 through an equalization 400. However, there are now 3,980 aersons and fiiins who pay full $500 ;ax, and the amount received froin these would be lessened by $390,800 through a reduction to $400, making the net loss $291,000. A mob of Spanish army men in Madrid have destroyed two newspaper offices in that city because the editors made some critical remarks about soldiers who pieferred to be ornamental at home rather than active in fighting the Cubans. The Madrid army officers are about as courageous in their demonstrations as the Spanish naval officers who opened fire the other day on an unarmed merchant vessel. The editors whose property was sacked probably have no redress, but the ship carried the United States flag, and Spain would be wise to make the most ampie explanation and apology without delay. It would be idle to attempt to teil the people what tliis administration bas oost tliem. Tliey know too well what they have lost iu wuges, the reduction of profits, and the destructiou of opportunities to either make profitable investments or eani au ordinary livelihood. But here is a brief coinpilation that will be of interest to everybody : During the twenty-eight months next preceding the election of 1892, under a republican administration, and when the McKiuley law was in force most of the time, the receipts of the treasury were $868,000,000 and the expenditures $800,000,000, leaving a surplus of $62,000,000. During thè twenty-eight months since the election of 1892, when it became an assured fact that the democrats would carry out their determination to destroy protection, the receipts of the treasury have been $755,000,000 and the expenditures $870,000,000, leaving a deficiency of $115,000,000.