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7rr and ten extra, at the senior n tion Tuosday night. People, at least a great raany, think that those who have sjient foor years at the Gniveraity of Michigan should huw more sonso than toarrange such a program, but it aeeme noL Tttere is lots of room tor rsform lathUreapectthat the next senior lit class miglit well eossider. ïy it has a fair chance there is no recsaa why the proteotive policy- whloh is nly oae form of enlightened, progresair and independent Americanisin- shoald not do for our shipping what it ïiasalready done for our manufacturing. It has made us lirst in the world in the sne; there isno reason why, U it is intelligaittly and systematically applied, it caiiaot make us ürst in the other.- Boston Journal. WOMAN'S and children's dress goods skould be plentiful this season. In March, 1894, we bottgrht frora abroad to tlie extent of té79,657; last March we bought tt the extent of $1,85 UUT, an increase of nearly $1,300,000. If all our milis are as busy as the Free-Ti-aders Stelt us, there must be an enormous surplus of dress goods in the market. Our manufacturers will uhdoubtedly apprcciate the blessing of free wool. THE question of who shall keep in repair the bridge over the Michigan Central railroad on Detroit-st. is one that ia sorely worryinsr the commun Oouncil jüst at present. There seems tobeno question that the council made a, mistake when they ordered the bridge closeduntil it could be rebuilt.following a, long process of ad rertialng for bids. This error was rectifiod Monday night ïy the council recinding its former acftion and ordering the bridge to be tempocrily repaired so that it may be used at once. ______ It is reported that President Cleveland said the other day, "It takes idleness to produce agitation." For once we commend the wisdom of the President. Some 500,XK) people have been made idle because of the peculiar doctrines which he and his friends advócate. Whon the idlene3S is enforced , nitil the idlers have nothing in their atomachs, there is a tremendous agitation, and it is a wonder to us thatunder éne pres8ure of the last two years there isas no armed revolution been inauus-ated.- Tribune, Salt Lake, Utah, May 15, 1895. Miss Mary Blount, one of the vicepresideats of the S. C. A., has compiled tatistics showinji that about 75 lady atíldente have paid thelr own expenses while attending the U. of M. Some wait on table or wash dishes at boavding houses, some do nuraing, othera take care ól chlldren. It is said the domand forco-ed work isgreater than the supply. The Register is glad to know BUOh opportunitios are open to lady studente who have not the goocl fortune to have plenty of tais world s o-aods. VvTe wish to cautlon Mis Blount that it wilt be wise for hor, as well as the co-eda who are working thetr way fe, to keep the names of such eo-eds a profound secret. There ssora in the University today who do not bolieve that students should be allowed to gradúate who are so disreputablo as not to havo lots of cash and who try tu work their way through college. ' Such professors have "plucked" students and kopt them from graduatitifi Forthis very reason. THE expei-ience of the past lew yeare has eertainly taught the country that its be-t interests are best served by ourselves. Tariff legislation that luis coatributed to the promotion and sueeess of our business interests, agricultural and manufacturing, has varibly advanoed the welfare and proaperity of the American peoplc as individuals and as a whole. On the other hand. Tariff legislation that has been enaeteu with the direct purpose of promoting prosperity among manufacturing- and producing interests of other countries. has very naturally served to depresa our American interests. The late Congress afïorded a depressing example of Buch legislation, and that Congress was sadly laekintf in business experience. But a small number of its members were business roen who understood business afïairs or appreciated business methods. It is not wise to leave in the hands of such men the national leislation in which the prosperitv of the people in America is at stako. Our experience has tauerht us that it is the business men of the country, as a rule, who are standing by its best intorests; henee a largo numberof business men should be in Congress to help shape legislation. The prohibitkmists reoontly had given them one of the strongost prohibition arjrumonts that we remember ever to have heard. The Walker's, who have the largest establishment for the manufacture of v, hiskoy in the world at Walkorville, just across the below Detroit, practieally own the whole of that thriving litt'e villiage. They employ a very large forcé of hands about their distillcry. Years ago it was the custom of the proprietora to allow any of their employés vvhenever their inclination and appetite proinpted, to partake, freoly.of the productsof the still. A few years ago the proprietow deeidedto raake a chango, and now no offense will c;ause an employee to lose his position more quickly than for him to taste liquor at the distülery. This dern idea on the part of the proprietors was fully explained a few days since when a resident of Walkorville applied tor a lieense to open up a retail liquor store at that place. Tlie proprletors at once set up the most bitter oplosition to the granting of the lieenae They said their interests at staketere too large to allow them to permit the retailing of liqur to their vast number of employés if they could prevent it. They declared that they "made whiskey tosell and not to drink" and they did not wanttheir employees todrin kit. This is a remarkable position for a srreat firm like that of the Walkers to take. The prohibitionists will without the doubt make use of this argument to farthebt limit possible, and with a great many pcople such an argument will go a long ways.