The Ideas Expressed By Congressman

Allen relating to the appointment of a postmaster for Ann Arbor seem to us perfectly fair to all interested in the matter. What a happy oíd age Florence Nightingale ought to have? Although 69 years of age and an invalid she is etill interested in all that goes on in the world, and wrote with her own hand a letter of sympathy for the Johnstown safferers. There are some who would prefer such a record as her's even to that of the champion pugilist whose lowly doings have filled the columns of all the sporting papera of the world this ■week. ________ - A. A. CBOzíEE's'prohibition address is oneof the mo8t sensible we have seen lately. For Michigan at present, we believe the prsent temperance laws are very practicable. To a certain extent yon have to take the world as it is. "The voice of the people is the voice of God" and that voice is not for prohibition in the constitution vet. Education in the schools and out of the schools must still go on, and the good results will come Bometime. What's the use of saying anything about the disgraceful aud brutal Sullivan-Kilrain 75-round prize-iight of Monday? A million of dollars has changed hands, millions upon millions of typee have printed their inky faces on millions of sheets of clean, white paper to record the dirty affair. Worry and misery and wretchedness have been increased, discontent made more universal, the morality and manliness ofthenation dragged downward. For what good ? If that's the question.what is the use of wasting another drop of ink? __________ The appointment of Prof. H. C. Adams as one of the Statisticiana of the Census Bureau is a just tribute to his ability and fairness. It is especially fortúnate that the appointment should come at this particular time and froni the source whieh it does. This reeognition of the professor's ability from auch a man as Mr. Porter, who is at the head of the Census Bureau, should put a quietus to the unwarrauted reports which have lately been made about Prof. Adams being impartial and unfair. It is to be hoped that the professor will not accept the position tendered him, as the University cannot afford to lose such a man. The Register has been waiting to see whether or not someone would not take some active steps towards putting the School of Music upon a more firm basis. The plan proposed by Prof. Stanley is certainly a most excellent one and should meet with the hearty approval of our wide-awake citizens. As it is, we have a School of Music only in name. By raising the guarantee fund proposed, and we believe with proper effort it could be done, a school of music could be established here in Ann Arbor, of which we might well be proud. But such a thing can never be done by talk A small amount from each of one hundred of our citizens, would give the school the start it needs, and which it must have if it is to be a success. Once such a school is well established it will soon be able to pay back with interest all that inay now be given to it. The Business Mens' Association cannot find a more worthy object towards which to direct its attention. Of course it is "awful wicked" for the farmera to feel light-hearted when they read the latest dispatches to the effect that eastern Kurope will have a poor erop of wheat this year; that the quantity of wheat on passage f rom India to Europe wasonly 1,880,000 bushels, against 5,808,000 bushels at the same time last year,but the good farmers and all others whowill share in the general prosperity of this favored land must try and stifle the feeling of undue exuberance in that of sincere regret at the misfortune of their unfortun,ate fellow-men who will have to send their gold this way for the great surplus of nature's bounties at our disposal. The Detroit Tribune, of the 9th, considers the matter in this light: "India wheat is England's hopeful instrument with whifh to punish the United States for not buyiug England's manufactured goods, but India's worse than pauper labor (4c per day) is not a eufflcient offset for its uncertain climate, poor wheat and long distance from market. The severe test of the last few years has shown that the United States, with its favorable climate, superior harTesting mrchinery and unequaled carrying and handling facilities, can stand the competition as long as Russia, India, or South America can. Our acreage has diminished little if any this year. In India it was largely diminished, according to the returns froin the late harvest there. The outlook for American grain producers is certainly growing brighter. Prices are appreciating and short sellers are much more timid than they ■were. We had strcmg cable news yesterday and prices went up L to lc." The question of locating the new hos - pi tal will a rather difficult one for the regenta to settle satisfactory to allNearness to the campus seems to be considered a very important matter. But there are other things which should receive due consideration. A hospital such as is proposed will bring a very large number of people here for treatment who will not necessarily be confined to the building. Hundreds of halt and mained and blind, many of whom will be exceedingly repulsivo to the sight, will be seen in the neighborhood of the hospital. The sight of such horribly mangled and deformed people, while it is disagreeable to all, often has the most far-reaching and even fatal resulta upon people in certain conditions. It seems, therefore, nothing more than reasonable, that the hospital should be well out of the limita of the city where apacious gronds ma y be had. Thia would give the unfortunate patients a pleaaant place for exercise and would obvíate the necessity of so many invalids from abroad being aeen about our city. The question of crime and pauperism is forcing itself more than ever before on the minds of thinking people ; and it ia full time that radical measures should be taken for their suppresion. There is no question but that the abolishing of the liqour saloons would reduce these evils and misfortunes more than one-half. To work for that end is worthy of the best efforts of every good citizen. There are many other causes forthesad state of affairs to be found especially in our cities, and it is well that they should be thoroughly understood and every preventivo used possible to be found. To show how great a work this is: it is computed that there are in the state of New York alone 300,000 crimináis, insane persons and vagrants, and that seven-eighths of these are of foreign birth. It is proposed to establish a bureau of crime and pauperism in that state, such as should be in every state of the Union, wbich should keep a careful record accessible to courte, to political economists and reformers, by means of which these great questions might be studied and remedies discovered that would be for the benefit of the entire country. This country has wealth enough, if people won't believe it. How to evolve the most true happiness from that wealth is the great próblem of the age.