The Nation Of New York

An Ann Arbor gentleman gained little passing notoriety by making speech in Detroit in which he declarec that college professors were uniform!} free traders because they uniformly read The Nation of New York. If tha be true, then the young men's Republi can club of Detroit ought not to be seek ing, asit does, new "issues" for the party to espouse. It can form a syndicate, buy up The Nation, and change it to advo caey of protection, thus doing awa with this subtle professorial poison. His idea is not very flattering to the professors, and we suspect it is nol sound ; but however that may be, The Nation is one of the most dishonest journals in the country. It is dishonest in that it will deliberately and systematically misrepresent the views of another; and it will imoudentlv ignore the most obvious truths for the sake of maintaining its favorite doctrine of laisst: faire. The Nation is the great organ to-day in the United States of the existing order of things. In civil service reform and like minor reforms, it wants a change, although its course is erratic, but in upholding the idea that the poor have nothing to complain of, in sneering at and decrying every effort they make to improve their condition, the Kation has no equal in this country. The opinions which people hold are usually the result of their education and environment. We are disposed to be as charitable as possible concerning the opinions of others, deeiring the same forbearance ehown towards us ; but a long reading of The Nation has convinced us that it has outlined a course and deliberately followed it regardless of the truth. Not a gleam of sympathy for the poor ever appears in its elegant, aristocratie, and learned columns ; not a hint that possibly once in a thousand times the laboring men may have right and justice on their side. In its last number it fairly gloats over the decline of the knights of labor as an organization but does not and never has given what the editor must see clearly in regard to the great good which that order has done.