English Manufacturers Assert That
they have to meet the competition caused by the American system of protection by a corresponding reduction in the prices of their pioducts. Free trade newspapers of Michigan assert that the protection tariff costs the state $33,000,000 annually. How to reconcile these ïtatements is a conundrum. The Courier insists repeatedly that The Register has sneered at Gen. Alger and other leading men in its party. We challenge the Courier to show anything The RsGIBTBB has said about those men one-half as mean and ungenerous as it, the Courier, has published concerning Gov. Luce, and whicb utterances were vigorously resented by many of its intelligent reader?, especially those of the agricultural class. It was not so not long since, but dow such scholars as Angelí andAdams, and others, famous the world over for their profound knowledge and great achievements in the fieldsof science and philosophy,do not detract from their dignity when they write for Rome of the leading magazines and papers devoted to the amusement and instruction of youth. A writer is not apt to lower the Standard of his work when he knows that his thoughts will be laid before an audiencï of at least 2,000,000 persons. Reckoning an average of five readers to each paper rcsults in the almost incomprehensible number that may be influenced for good or evil by the thoughts expressed each week in the paper we refer to. Surely a writer ought not to trifle with such an audience. Oi-R free trade contemporary, the Argus, made the wild assertion, last weel that ''the proteetive tariff costs Michigan over $33,000,000 annually"; that the consumer "stands the tax, plus the profits on the tax made by the irnporter, the wholsaler and the retailer." Well, i f the people of this country, under a protective tariff system can afford to give away such princely Bums to no more villainous creatures than the average manufacturer, and still have enough leftto live on comfortably as they do, in coinparison with those of any free trade country in the world, let us cling to protection as long as we can. But if the intelligent people of this country should be fooled into believing such nonsensical assertions, there would very speedily be such an uprising of the maases as was never before seen. If the free trade theorists wish to influence the minds of their readers to a belief in their doctrines, they must not ' indulge in such bewildering fiction. The days of Munchausen have long since gone by. "You can't always teil where lightning may strike." Ifthe news comes, in a day or two, that Beal has the postoffice, The Registeis will feel that all the "muscle" put into this item has been wasted. But if this should happen to reach Washington, and President Harrison should see it before the appointment is confirmed, something else might happen. Stranger things have been heard of. Ifthe President would like to know what the opinión ofhis Register is on this question, we might suggest that it believes there are several persons in this city whose past record shows them capable for the position of postmaster ; over whom there would be no discord ; and whose appointment would give more general gatisfaction ; allay the feelings of discord in his party ; aid the republican party in gaining the eupremacy in this connty, and result in greater good, generally, than the appointment of Mr. Beal. This is also the opinión of hundreds of good republican patrons of the Ann Arbor postoflïce. "The Backward Boy," is the title of a series of papers written by different college presidents for The Youth's Comlianion. The aim of these articles is, undoubtedly, to secure the opinión and advice of the foremost educators of the land upon a question that causes parents and teachers moretrouble and anxiety than any other they have to grapple with in the training of children. President Angelí contributed the first paper, in last week's Companion. He showed the necessity of having as complete an understanding as possible of the natural inclination of the backward boy. If he has a passion for any branch of knowledge be sure that he has a chance to gratify that passion, and by judicious cultivation of the one talent he may be found to possess, a rich harvest may finally result. We quote one paragraph : " It must be confessed that a teacher who has a large class may, with reason, be perplexed to decide how much the bright scholars are to be delayed, or to be deprived of the structor's inspiring help for the sake of the backward pupils. But surely he is not justified in refusing to give some special attention to the most needy section of the class. A skillful teacher can do much forthem without seriously retarding the progrese of the other scholars. Many a devoted instructor has foundarich reward for giving theni special help outside of the regular hours of school." The second paper of the series, published this week, is from the pen of President C. K. Adams of Cornell.
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