The Republican State Convention Will

be held in Detroit. August 2, and O. The state wheat yield for 1890 will be four million bushels less than it was in 1889. __ __ _____-- - "Goverhor Nichols, of Louisiana, has had the courage to veto the lottery bill, which was recently passed by the legislature. The conference committee has prepareda silver bill which provides for the purchase, at market rates, of $4,500,000 of silver every month. The council, at its last meeting, ordered a number of new sidewalks built. That is right. There is nothing in a city which a stranger notices so soon as the condition of its sidewalks. A Ncmber of the booming western towns are in sack-cloth and ashes. Thev have found that Uncle Sam does not see doublé nor inspect the hotel registers, in making up the census. The Adrián Press, with characteristic jealousy, charges that the students have been included in the Ann Arbor census. Fie, brother Stearns! A gradúate of the University ought not to make 6uch wild statements. It is the belief of TnE Register, that the advantages of Ann Arbor as a summer resort have never been sufficiently advertised. The natural beauty of the cityitself.thebeautiful suburban drives, the University library and the charming lakes near by ought to attract many visitor8 every summer. There is no reason why a university town, so favorably situated as this, should not be as lively in summer as in anyother season. It would seem as if the prosperous city of Ann Arbor might pay its health officer more than $150 a year. Dr. Breakey has refused to keep the position at that salary, and it is certainthat no other competent physician will accept it, unless the renumeration is increased. There is no other office in the municipal govermnent which requires morecareful or moreconsc'eutiouswork, and the city cannot affoid to lessen the efficiency of the health department by paying a small salary. It is truly pitiable to see the weeping and gnashinj; of among the Democrats. "othing that the present congre88 has done seenis to please them at all. They have yelled themsel ves hoarse applying to genial Torn Reed Buch terms as "tyrant" and" bully," and have pretended that the world is going to rack and ruin on account of the Lodge bilt. If the insane asylums are not crowded before many months, it will not be the fault of our Democratie brethren. Cokgrbssman Bynum, of Indiana, at the recent Tammany celebration, railed most vociferously against the Ilepublican party. He thought that even the sword should be U8ed to prevent the enactment of that "infamous" Lodge bilí, and he named a great number of "iniquities" of whicb, in his opinión, the Republican party was guilty. But what would be Mr. Bynum's remedy for all these " evils? " Doubtless his ideal will be realized only when Dave Hill sits snugly ensconced in the presidential chair, with Tammanyin possession of all the offices and the solid south in charge of all the legislation. With a genuine free trader, facts go tbr notliing, when they interfere with his theoretical ideas of governmental questions. Such illustrationsasthe following, to show that the protective tariff is not a tax on our citizens, will have no weight with him ; but for the honest seeker after undoubted facts to prove which of thetwo great theoriesthat are now so prominently before the American people, such illustrations as follow are valuable: ' Years ago," says a correspondent of the New York Press, " in the forties and before, silk goods came .to this country free of duty. In 1846. I think, an ad valorem duty of 20 per cent. was levied. I was then in the silk goods trade, as Mr. Constable was, and inany jobbers and some importers thought silks would advance in the market 20 per cent. In fact they did not advance but very little in price, and soon feil back below the prices of for iner years for precisely the same grades and qualities of silk goods. At that time I rented the lofta of the building I occupied to the agent of a silk manufacturing concern in Zarich, Switzerland, one of the largest agencies of the kind at that time in this city. In talking over the subject of the 20 per cent. tariff with the agent, he said, "I say to you frankly that the 20 per cent. duty paid to the United States comes wholly out of our pockets; our profite on the manufactures are thatmuoh less." Now, as regards the duty on tin that is proposed. What satisfactory explanation can the freetrader give to the assertion of the London Iron and Steel Trades Jour aal that it the American duty on tin plates is increased to two cents a pound the Wales manufacturera will have tb reduce the price of tin píate? How can protection in that case be called a tax? The laborera should welcome such a tax, for it not only lowers the cost of their dinner paila, but gives them a chance to earn something right at home to put in those dinner pails. _________- -