His Silence Was Golden

When Mr. Bryan delivered his 10,000 word speech in New York, as well as during his tour Eastward, he has not once inentioned the tariíf. Well, thatis his safest course, considering his record, and a very shrewd course it is. His avoidance of the Tariff issue is Mr. Bryan's way of saying, "The Tariff is settled." Not that Mr. Bryan believes that the Tariff is settled, any more than does Mr. Whitney or any of the other Tariíf reformers. Three years ago, Mr. Bryan declared the Tariíf a vital issue and advocated Free-Trade as the panacea for illa. Nor did he except the Wilson-Gorrnan bill as a settlement of the question. He said, during his discussion on the Wilson bilí : "I think the duties all the way through this bilí are hiher thau necessary and I favor the bill nut because of its perfection, not because the duties are brought down as low as they inight be, but because the bill is iuftuitely better than the law which we now have, and is a step in the right direction." Why does Mr. Bryan falter in his "steps" toward Free-Tiade? Why does he not labor for that "perfect" bill which would give us Free-Trade? Can it be because he is afraid to face the issue, after two years' test of only ' 'Tariff Reform ?" - Am . Economist. The annual sales of delinquent tax lands in Washtenaw County is now being adyertised in the Ann Arbor Courier. A comparison with the sales of 1892 show lt0 descriptions this year as against 46 then. This clearly demoustrates the fact that the gold standard is robbing the people of the ability to keep their homes. The sales are for the tax of 1894, with one exceptiou - one description of 1893- Ypsilauti Sentinel. When the pópocratic papers resort to such cheap clap-trap as that to bloster up a waning cause they must be hard up. If the editor of the Sentinel will step in this office we will show him the tax ales of 1873, also published in the Courier. That was a great inflation, ree coinage year, made memorable by 'that awful crime." That year there were 205 descriptions in the tax salew. What was the matter then ? Will the Sentinel please teil? As every one knows the legislature of .891-2 passed a law in reference to the owners of tax-deeds, and the supreme coart rendered a decisión that scared real estáte owners, and never, in the history of the state, were taxes so nearly all paid as in that year. That is the reason why the tax sales published last year were so small, and the editor of the Sentinel knows it, but attempts to ascribe it to something else. Senator Stewart publishes a paper, and is so anxious to make all possible out of it that instead of having it published in Washington D. C, where he would have to pay unión prices, he has moved the office to Alexandria, Va., where there is no unión, and where be can get printers at his own price. It would be a nice thiug to learn how much he expects to raise the wages of these workmen when he secures the debasement of the dollar he pays them in to half its present value. McKinley is of Scotch descent, and Bryan is of Irish descent the later name being originally O'Brien. ' John W. Hayes, general secretary of the Knights of Labor is iu the eniploy of the silverites, and is doing all in his power to force the meuibers of that order to vote as he wants theni to. He thinks that tree trade has not injured the American workinginan suineiently, so he wants hiin hit again this time witli f ree sil ver. It would seem as though the lesson taught four years ago ought to be bitter enough for almost every workingman in the land. It doesn't seem as though this partisan official or auy othercould iufluence workingmen to take another step toward their owd degredation, and that of their families. Every vote cast for free silver is a vote to rob the laborer of half his pay. It is a vote to add starvation to present misery. The popocratic press are pieking up the mortgage foreclosures in papers and publishing them as "the result of a gold standard." Such things may be made to work as Barnurn once said the people like to be hum-bugged, but the thinking people will be apt to remeinber the prosperous times under the republicau policy of protection, they may possibly lay the blame where it belongs, to the free trade aud anti-reciprocity features of the democratie Wilson bill. There's where the trouble lies in this nation tod ay, and just where it lies.