The First A Winner

The Lyceum Course of the Y. M. C. A. opened very auspiciously !nst Tliursday evening, at the Prestiyterlan ehnrcli, there tyeing spme 500 or GOU peopie present. Laura Dainty Co. oí entertainers proved thetnselves ;iood eneiitcrtaiiií-rs and flrst class artista. ] aura Dainty, as everyone knows, is a reader of far more tlian ordinary iitiüty aud she was at her best thnt evcnins;. The manner in whtch she reudered "How Salvator Won," was Indeed thrilling, svhile "Jes' 'Foie Cliristmas," was very comical, and 'Volees of the Night !"' woll. the -.vay tt; Imitated thehowllng and whistllnti of the wind. made shivers ereep aiid goosepimples form all over ones auatomy. Her rendering of "Aunt Mellssa" convulsed the audienee, and "Cfime Here," was eifectively orougtit out. Iiut few before ïealized how tbosé hvn words could be inade to convoy so nianv dif.erent expressions cinl moods. The Misses KoWnson, in tlieir musica' parts - Miss JJouise with vio'in and iriss Gertrude with harp- proved tl.emselves very clever artista. They also established the fact that aome of the old melodies could be rendered in au ai-tistic manner and still retain tl:e melody and the player ose none of her reputation as an artist- in fact if arything. add to it in the ïuinds oí the listeners. Mr. Richards had a well trained vcico and -was very satisfactory to the audienee. -He proved nimseU thoroughly capable oï mastering either c'assical or the popular songs of the people. His anvll song. "The Armourer," struck a very popular elioid. About the best test of appreciation of the concert was the tact that nearly every number on the program was encored. What greater .iompllment could be paid than that? The Y. M. C. A. are to be eougratuInteci upon their success in l.iunchlng their entertainment course. Ifc was no small undertaking, and that it has started out so successfuHy, when there are so many courses of entertalnments here in Ann Arbor, makes it evident that there are some iiustler omong the loys. It is about the firs-t time that anything of Uie sort O and for the towns people, has ever met with anything like suceess. "Tl;e most stubborn factor in the toi e'gn "trade situation i the largness cf the imports. For the month of September, the arrivals o' ioreign mercliandise -show an increase over 1894 oí $14,000,000, or 29 per cent; and foi' the iirst nine months of the current calendar year, the increase has been $97,480,000, or nearly 20 per cent. On the other hand, the expoiti? of merchandise are almost identical (both for September and the nine months) with thone of the same lime last year. Thus the eourse of our uu trade, since Jimuary 1, '95, lia-i loen $97,500,000 ess favorable èbai'. it was ior the sanio period of 1SÖ4. In these nine months oï 1804. the exporta exceeded the impoitt. ly AT3.0U0.0C0 ; this jear, tlie importe exoeed the exporta i y 000,00." The above from so gooil an authorit.v as Honry Cews, aftorda a most s!gni leant view oï the resulta oí ihe Wilson bilí. (The theory and argument oï iree trade is iliafc it will open up ioreign markets to mamnactuiers. The actual resulta are that Wü sell no more abroad, but import mere, makiug the balance of trade agaiust ■us. Tliis we have to pay either in gold from our treasury or in bonds. Actual practlce of free trade principies has shattered the cornoi- stone of that büghting structure. Tearing down our owu walls does not ten.r down the walls of other countries. Tliey continue to buy where they can buy cheapest. That is in pCndia, iind South America, where labor is cheap.