A Word On Exports

The Free-Trader is always telling us bat under protection we are not able o sell our goods in foreign markets, rat that if we have free-trade we shall )e able to sell in every market in the vorld. During the last twenty years íngland has been a free-trado country while A merica has been protected. We can see how the exports of the two eountries have increased from the folowing figures : Increase of exports over preceding ten years. 3eriod. England America 1870-1880 3t.:, L2B.0 1880-1890 5.5 ;i.7 Average increase. . . .21.0 84.3 It thus appears that during these twenty years the average increase of exports has been only 24 per cent. in ree-trade England while it was 84.2 ser cent. increase in America. This 'act is calculated to upset another freetrade theory. The Times would suggest that if Washtenaw is to have a candidato that the only way in which he can develop any strength in the congressional convention is to have thesolid Washtenaw delegation. Mr. Spaulding will have the solid Monroe delegation and the Wayne delegates. Mr. O'Donnell will in all probability have the solid Jackson delegation and Lenawee will probably be divided. For Washtenaw to go into the convention divided over her own candidates is sitnply to give up the fight. The Times suggests that the l'riends of the Washtenaw county men get together and agree to abide by the vote of the convention as a whole and have the delegates instructed to vote solid for some one.- Times. In its report of the Prohibition county convention, held in this city on Priday, the Detroit Free Press speaks of the convention as having nominated a Democratie ticket. The Free Press must have come to the conclusión that the Prohibitionists are Democrats from the fact that E. Cora DePuy, the efficiënt editor of the Democrai, was making a speech before the Michigan Woman's Temperance Union about the time the Prohibitionists were holding their convention. Miss DePuy said that ehe preached temperance in her paper and expected to conduct it on this line until the Democrats were imbued with prohibition principies. Wonder if there isn't a mistake somewhere? Can Democrats really quit drinking long enough to become prohibitionists? Evidently Miss DePuy thinks so and the Free Press ditto. But, then, this is the age of wonders. Every child can name the seven great wonders of the world. If the Democrats can stop drinking whiskey, not get drunk anymore ana become good prohibitionists, then the close of this century will witness the eighth wonder of the world. I MET Joseph T. Jacobs, of Ann Arbor, walking up Woodward-ave. yesterday, apparently as serene and happy as if he were not an active candidate for Congress, with all the worry that that fact would naturally imply. Jacobs isn't a man to borrow trouble anyhow, but I think his present peace of mind is due to his confidence in the outcome of the fight. Jacobs is a prosperous business man and would be a valuable representative. Some of his opponents urge against him the fact that he cannot make a speech, but I am inclined to the belief that this should not count against him. He could doubtless put up just as good a campaign and look after his district as well as some more forensic fellow and then he might acquire the gift of speech-making just as many public men have done after their entrance into public life. ExCongressman Lacey, while not a brl liant orator, is nevertheless one of th most eft'ective speakers that eve stumped this state, yet he had little o no oxpe rience until he was sent to Con gress.- The Politician in Detroit Trib une.