The Reason Why

The Hillsdale Leader tells the Adrián Press man soniething in the folerwing that said Press man doesn't appear to have thought of : "Tm. ïogg, of Scipio, and nis sonïn-law Carr, ol Jonesvüle, wanted a cw feeding sheep and lambs ior the ■w Ínter and liad to wort over tlie iuo into Ohio to gefc all they aceded. ihiToupon Krother Stearns of T.he Ad■ian Iress reads tlie Hillsdale Leader end Ann Arbor Courier a lecture, t)ecjinsc as he s;iys there is a demand ior sLeep. the Ieadei' and CJourler tliat tïw.. democratie free wool tiarifl had lcrtroyed the sheep industry in Micngan, to tlie contrary notwithstand' Sorry Ilrother S. can't see it, lint i: was a fact nevertUe'ess that under ( publican protection almost every aimet in Michigan liad a few sheep. ["bey Avere profitable ior wool, for niutton, and i'or their increase in s.mbe. Prices were profitable and atisfactoey ; and further, ïf Mr. 'ogg or anybody clse wanted a few fceders' they didn't have to go out o; their own neighborhood to find hem. Now, under the destroying fiect of free trade, if you want a leep you have to hunt all over Hillsdale county and then sometimes run tnev into Ohio bef ore you can find one !'