Teller-lincoln Similarities

"iSmllarltles" between Teller 1he silverite. ond Lincoln the patriot : I-.inc.oln was not a lavo owner. Teller is a silver mine owner. Lincoln believed fuut color distinction was a great ovil. Teller believes that color distinctiion is the snlvation of himself and all other mino oivners - but that colmus t be sil ver. Lincoln belioved all human belnga shsould 'bc f ree. ■ Teller believes t h;i r all sil ver should be free, but tliat the human íaniily Should le ïnailc lis slaves. Lincoln wa .so broad that he liad "charity for all. mallce toward none." Teller is so narrow that lie fcan see no good in anything Uut eomo tscheine to adv;mce the pecuniary Interests o-f the silver mine owners of the west. Lincoln was a man of the people. Teller is an aristocratie mine owner with no thought of the people sav as they can bo tuseii to liisi oivu adaTOtage. Lincoln's heart was flesh and blood, beating in sympabliy with the heart of every other human being, whatever bis condition or race. Teller's lieart is of silver, and St chrobs oniy as the white metal Soes up or down in the miarte of trade. Lincoln served all the people. Teller leads a few and sceks 'to cli'ive the remainder. Liincoln had room in his great intellect for all the yarïeil interests of his country. Tjeller has room but ior one interim i -silver. Lincoln never allowed selUstmess to control any of his public acte. Teller allows nothing but seliishness to control his public acts. Lincoln never placed his envn opinions above those of his party. Teller sets up his own opinions as greater than all things else, iind because the judgment of his associates is overwhelmingly agaiust him he bolts his party. These are a few of the "similar!-" tiies" between these two men, as Keen by thoföe who loot dispassionate]y at things. Teller is as far from ATraham Linooflin as Jeff Daviis was from being a patriot and a suldier. . A consistent ticket would be Tillnuam & Teller ! BeJore election the people will recotgnize the íact that it is the taiiií, stuud mot the finances that need (reviwkm. Xow that the silver senators liave left the republican party they ehould rasisn their offices given them as república ns. A. euggestdoti to tho Chicago coe■rontioin : WMtmey & Hopkins. That will tatoe lia the gpnd and thei Iad- both have votes. Detroit is well iixed now for democratie daily papers. It has thrce of them : The Free Press, the Trilbune and the Bvening New8. If tliere are any people among us of foreisu birth who will applaud a sonud money policy ti,at people will be the Germán. They as a natlon hate any pretense or sham. They are by nature Bturdy and BOlid. Judge Eldredge at Mt. Clemens has made the imjunctiion issuod against Sumday ball playing permanent The Judfee eTidently believes that Wufnday is a day o'F rest and1 consecratto'n, not of hilarity and desecration. Tfae attempt to palm off Teller as I a eecond Lincoln, is realy funny. If Lincoln had owned a lot of silver mines, and had 1etrayed his party becaus eof hfe selfish Interests, do you think hO ever wooild have treen heard oí ? Xot mach. That the high schools of Michigan arO of great bemeiilt to1 the öons1 and daugttters of poor men, has heen proYOn hy B'bate Sup't Pattengill, who1 in a recent address before the graduating class oí the Lansing high school sa.id that in Michigan thls month 'fh-ere fwttH be graVluated irom the high Schools albouit 5,000 studeats of wtuoim l(ss thaln 2,000 are (boys. Thia speaker said he had made' aa investigatiotn tö determine the occupatio'n of tfluei parentts of the gradualbes. lHe had found 3G 1-2 per cent. laborers, 18 per cent. professional men, aind 17 per cent. merchajitls. 'The reamainijig 3 per cent. could nofc he classiified. Of tlhese classes 12 per cont pay taxos on $20,000 or over; 17 per cent on from '$5,000 to $10,000 ; 35 per cent. Irom $1,000 to $3,000 ; 18 per cent. on loss than $1,000, amd 12 per cent. pajy no taxos. These figures, Supt. Pattengill asserbed, stov conclusively that the high school is the poor maa's college.