Hurrah For Mr. Waterman And

troit! Nearly 20,000 already secured for the long-desircd gymnasium! Keep the ball rolling. Public sympathy seems to be all on the eide of Prof. Bellow?, the Norma1 school instructor who believes tliat a Normal school should be a Normal school and not an academy. If the Ypsilanti school is not to train teachers, wfaat, pray, is its mission? The fact that both the oatgoing and incoming governors express sentixnents very favorable to the UniverBity is very encouraging to all who have the interest of that nstitution at heart. ItBhows that the ,eople of this state, by an overwhelming majority, are ready to assist in every poasible way the great school of which they arejustly proud. A cokrespondknt in this issue says that the supreme court " has decidi'd that the wholeliquor business is illegal." Such is not the case. The court simply saidthattbe state mightmake it illegal, should it so desire. There is nothing in the constitution of the Uuited States which can be construed as prohibitory of the liquor trailic. The farmers in this and other states have wisely directed their attention toward the subject of taxation. If they will be content to feel their way while treating this subject, they will probably be able to confer a lasting benefit upon society, bat radiealism wil! not doTaxation ia one of the most difficult questions with which governments have to deal . InE fatal accident which befel Mr. Amsden in the infamous den kept by Miilman et McN&lly is a temperante Íesson íto forcible that he who runs may read. It is said that no less than half a dozen persons have met their death in that malodorous saloon since it was opened. How mucli longer will the Christianjaw-abiding people oflhis cily tolérate such hell-holeb? Mmi interest is feit by all classes of Christians in the trial of the Itev. IIoward MacQueary for heresy. The point at issue is not, whether the doctrines promulga'el by Mr. MacQueary are true, but whether, as an Episcopal min6ter, he has any right to preach or publilh them. Indications point very strongly toward conviction. Should that be the result, Mr. MacQueary will probably ttach himself to the Unitarian church. Ii is to he hoped that the farmera and other temperance men in the state 'egislature will paus a high license law which shall be what the name aplies. Nothing less than $1,000 can be called "high" license at all. Should íuch a tax be imposed on liquor dealers, aiany of the low doggeries would be awept out of existence. There are several places in Ann Arbor which would be roisaed by no one except his Satanic Majefty. State legiblatures are not always per neated with the peaceful atmosphtre of a Sunday school. In Nebraska the capital has been burrounded with military troope. In Colorado bitter factional „Ighti have alinost caused bloodehed. it Minnesota, Illinois and New Hampshire they are forebodinga which are not very reassuring, to siy the least. In Michigan- siaid, wite old Mlchlpaa - legislation will undoubtedly beenacted in tliegoodold-fashioned way. Even tlie fractiousdemocracy will srarcely venture to break over precedent. Wuen ex-Prehident Cleveland spoke st Philadelphia recentlv, he discoursed pleasine platitudes on tlie i-ubject of liherty, free trade and other Ihiog, but not a word had lie lo say alioiit free coinage. That is a queslion with which Mr. Cleveland doch not care lo deal. He is intelligent enougb to kuow that free coinage is cliimerical in the extreme, but not couraiieous enouuh to declare against t. liihtead of bei Dg the noble patriot and unprejudioed .'.late man, he is, we are afraid, as iiiuch of a trimmer and demagogue as the Hon. David B. HillhimseH. The general tone ot the opinions expressed by the speakers at the recent farmers' meeting was wiiae and conservative. It is folly lo ascrihe, as some áo, all the evils of poverty to bad legislation. The amount of money in a eountry is uot the sine qua, non of prosperity. The coinage of 100,000,000 dollars would not add one iota tothe aggregate wealth of the nation, and if these same dollars were to ünd their way to the dark dungeun of some capitalist, there to lie idle and rust, there would be a positivo loss. Money is not productive in itself; it ie simply the oil which lubricates the wheels of trade.