Henry B. Brown, Of Michigan, Has

been appointed by the . resident associate justice of the supreine couit. It is a wise appointment, ovei which eery rpMdcnt of the state may well rejoice. TiiKFanuers' Alliancehas declared o ' favor of subtreaBuricP, free coinage, government telegraphs and olher questionable fichemes. It miglit better have thrown the weighl of itfi nfluence in favor of reciprocity, civil service reform and tempérame legihlaüoii. The Farmers' Aliiaocê is a great and growing powir which sliould be exerted wisely and cuutiously. After the first of January it will be Governor Winanü and ex-Governor Luce. ïo the latter may be said, in parling, "We 11 done, gqod and faithful servant." To the formermay be said, "Do your best, and the public will be grateful." We are sorry that Mr. Winans is not a republican, but hoe that fact will not prevent a faithful discharge of duty on his part. Owing to the vefitige8 of sectional hatred between the north and the south which still remaiii, it may not be wise to press the federal election bill at this time- jnst as, owing to the laxness of public Eentiment, it may not be wise lo enac-t prohibition. Neverlheles?, the proposed bill is eminently right in thefy. There is every reason in the world why the United States should control its mil elections. A century of judicial decisions and a bloody war have decided Umi ibis is a natipn and not a mere confederaron afstates. .As il is right and jast that the nnüon fhould not control t lio state electioup, it is equally right and jutt that the states should not cantinne to control national elections. And wheo we beat lo miud the fact that, owing the connivance of state governinents, .rogs frauds are commüted withiii the limita of :he states, which affect the intereBts of the wbole natioi), the pro;osilion laid down above becomes incontrovertible. Tl. ere may, however. be no necessity for legislation on the subject, for the south U becoiniiif; alive to the gross wrongs to which t lias Bubjected the negro voterg. The revisión of tbe Ui68issippi constitulion was a step in tbe right direction, wbich niight well lm imitated by othersoutliern Btates, Tlie governor of South Carolina, in his inaugural addri'sF. afserted that tli dya of terrorifm niusl soon pass, and theFarmer's Alliancp, wbich is a sowthern organization, is doing miich to destroy the mitipathy of (be spothernera to the "Yankees." Senator Btakfobd recently intr. - duced ;i bill which he tbinka would solve the financia) problem and furnieh ilie country witti a ilt-xible and Btiftioient áirculaüng medium. The principie of the lil] is mucli likethalöftbenational lankintr t-ystein. He would haïfe the lovenni.eiit jfsae legal teder notec, i 1 outhecredit f the nat ion. These rould be lojined, as money, to iqch perions as deeired '.hem. T- per cent nterosl would be p:iid and the security demandad by Ihe governoMnt would be rc:il cslate. Inasmiicli as no limit would be set, the United States would loan as much money as would Batisfy the general detnand. Should the latler (row 1 ese, tli e notea woold be returnd In tlie treasury, and, for Ihe time beinp, won ld cease to be money. The ilemaiwl of the people would always be salisfled, because, while the genera) rate of interest was above iwo per cent,the cbeapergovernment. money would nlvrays be il.-eireil. Here is a sclieine, Whicb1, at first blusb, eeema moil ilsnsible, It. wo:ill appi-.renlly furnbth a most elaütic mrrency. It is vasily preferable to the farmer's alliance plan of Bub-tresaitrier, becanse Innd is imperiBhfcble, and for that reason much Rafer as security t'nan wheat, oats, or potntoes. It h, tneless, utopian in the extremo It would nvolve the issue of millions and millions of fiat moncy and would tend to produce tuoh crises as roult from lack of confidenoe in the etabüity of government. It wonld le a longer step toward socialiim than the nation has as yet taken. Judging from the number of farm mortgages which are daily being foreolosed by eastern capitalista, we might reasonably lear that the governwonld soon bec-ome the psessor of hundreds and bundreds of acres Which would either lie idle on Ita hands, lm rented out to teuants or be sold to purohasers. Xho state wuuld "hnfi perioriu the functions of landlord, liddleman and capitalist. Nothing rould bo left to the individual except hor. In short, according to Mr. Stanford'tt Rcheme, tbu government would become tboroughly socialistic. There are many people who would welcome uch a result, but t::e great majority of thinking men are not as yet ready to -abandon iudiilualiu.