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the annual exodus from Ann Arbor in the summer. There is no more charming place in the country in which to spend July and August. Mr. Manly may have been hasty and dictatorial at the Soldiere' Home, but he certainly was neither dishonest nor extravagant. The board of managers have carried their charges to a ridiculous extreme. The name of Dr. Andrew D. White is mentioned in connection with the nomination for governor of New York. Vain and fruitless. So iong as the lowest elements continue to rule the empire state, no statesman or acholar need apply. The August returns to the statistician of the department of agriculture make the condition of corn90.8; spring wheat, 95.5; spring rye, 89.6; oats, 89.5; barley, 93.8; buckwheat, 97.3; potatoes, 995; tobáceo, 88.5, hay, 90.5. Evidently the crops of this year are not an entire failure ________ Sixce the McKinley act has been in operation, from October 6, 1890, to June 30, 1891, the total value of imports into this country was $630,206,005, as against $588,769,905 for the corresponding period a year before. It will be remembered that Democrats said that the McKinley act would destroy commerce. The treasury department has pre pared a statement of the amount of per capita circulation at different times during the past thirty years Here are the figures for four chief dates : 1860, $13.85; 1865, $20.82; 1885, $23.02; January 1, 1891, $24.10. These figures destroy the force of the arguments advanced by the advocates of fiat money and free coinage. Thf. Republican party has but juin ped from the frying pan into the fire. It is difficuït to see how J. S. Clarkson is an improvement over (uay. Hls political methods are much the same and he is equally shameless in defending them. The Republican party is committed to civil service reform. It cannot afford to select as iu leader a man who is bitterly and openly opposed to it. The recent meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union at Washington cannot but be full of encouragement to all the friends of temperance. Resolutions were passed, to the effect that there should be no race, no creed, no color, no national distinction in the struggle against the liquor trame, and Catholic wonien were asked to co-operate with the Women'e Christian Tefmperance Union. Prohibüion is hinted at, but the resolutions wisely lay more stress on the necessity of total abstinence. The unión has already done fmch, and is sure to do still more in 'the futnre, for the public moráis. In Minnesota, where it is particularly strong, Irish saloon-keepers are rarely to be found. The recent action of the Catholic clergy of New York city in protesting unitedly against the proposed laws in the interest of saloons also shows the influence of the movement The cause of temperance is daily becoming etronger among all classes of people. _____ Immigkation is a qruestion which will i not "down." The number of Ihoae who seek a home in the United States is yearly growina larger. For the year ■ending June 30, 1891, the number was 055,496, and if the increase continúes it is lilcely to be at least 680,000 for the present fiscal year. This means that probably more foreign-born than nativeborn citizens will be added to the population of the country before June 30, 1892, a fact whicli would not be so appalling, were it not for the further fact that the increase comes largely from undesirable races, sucii as the Italiana, Toles, Hungarians, Bohemiana and Rusaians. These people almost invariably settle in large cities and are tending to make theni, more and more, hot beds of vice, Iawle8aness and lanarchy. If the policy of almost free admission continúes, the United Statea, like Romp of old, is sjre to invite its own ruin, while, at the aame time, it will fail to improve the people who flock to its Bhores. It would be well if the eternal din about the tarifl' were Btopped, and more attention were paid to the queation OÍ immigration, which is after all far more urgent.