To Our Readers

Inasmuch as Howard M. Holmes, who became a partner in TnB Register nearlyayear ago, entertains ideas relativo to the various methoda of government, at variance with the principies of the Republican party, as advocated by The Register, and as he feels that it would be doing injustice to himself and the public to advocate and seem responsible for promulgating views he does not believe in, the best way out of the dilemma seemed to be for him to dispose of his interest in the paper. His able services have been retained on the city department of the paper ; and the general editorial management will be in charge of one who believes firmly in the party to which this country owes its existence, and which, with the principies of protection from foreign greed.and underthe leadership of the able, upright and patriotic Harrison and Morton will prove a future blessing to the nation and humanity. No matter how good a flre coinpany we have here, the city is Hable to be destroyed at any time as long as such poor hydrants are in use. Last Saturday night, the hydrant broke, and the firemen could not get any water. Asimilar "accident" happened at the State street fire a short time ago, which resulted very disastrously. The fire committee of the common council should see to it that the water company provide hydrants that will not give out at a critical moment, as the city pays well for protection which they do not now have. In his speech at Britton, which is given in supplement form by The Registeb this week, Willard Stearns indulged in some disgusting clap-trap. "If there is a millionaire farmer in the audience," lie cried in opening his speech, " will he pleaee rise ?" And then he declared if he were to make the same request in a large audience in Detroit, ten men would stand up at once, men who were made millionaires by our system of protection to American industries. If Mr. Stearns thinks that he can impose upon the farmers in thia way, he little knows how well they cultívate their natural reasoning powers in the farmers' clubs and in grange meetings. See what his statement logically involves: There could be few millionaires without the protective system. It is only the wildest and craziest free trader that will claim that mach. As a matter of fact many of the great fortunes of today, and, indeed, the largest, were absorbed by land speculation and by methods which have made Jay Gould and Russell Sage notorious. The tariff has had no more to do with it than Stearns himself. ___________ JüSTICE OF TIIB PeACB E. B. POXD, when drunks are not mnnerous, sits at his desk where offenders are made to tremble and writes Communications to the Detroit Free Press ór the Argus. He is an old newspaper man and agood writer. He bestrode his free trade hobby and rode it till it was tired in last week's Argus. The most notable thing in the article, however, is what he has to say about the failure of the Kepublican prophecies to come to pass. The Kepublicans, he says, declared, four years ago, that dire ruin would run rampant if Cleveland were elected. Well, Mr. Pond says, Cleveland was elected, and the country is not ruined. It seems to be one of the chief Democratie triumphs that they havn't ruined the country. They came pretty near it in 1860, making a very bad job of it, indeed; but they exultingly point to the fact that they havn't succeeded. It is, so far as our knowledge of history goes, the first instance in which a great party has sought for a continuance of power on the plea that another party prevented it froni ruining the country. Mr. Pond should remember that the Democratie party, since Cleveland's election, has not had full control of the government, and thus it has not had a chance to display its full genius in smashing things. Mr. Pond may have exaggerated the Eepublican prophecies, and may have belittled the effect of Democratie rule. Anyhow the people seem to fear Democratie tendencies, and all the more now that it has become a real free trade party with a president again who is master of the party.