The Ypsilantian quotes us as say ing tha...

The Ypsilantian quotes us as say ing that our wool dealers here squan dered tvventy-five to thirty thousanc dollars last year keeping the price up five cents above what it wa worth. VVitb. all due deierence to the Ypsilantian, we hope that we may be allowed to state that we neve made any such statement. It seems a very funny procedure for the Detroit Evening News to de nounce the ladies who are asking the state officials to close the dens of in famy in the upper península, anc then to publish the fact that it woulc sencl an emissary to Dan Dunn's dei to spy out what he could find. Does it not look as if the News wantec Dunn to have everything smoothec over by the time the News man get there? Many of the republican papers are now pitching into the supreme cour because they declared the section o the liquor law prohibiting brewers frain oing upo n bonds, unconstitu tional. They could not do otherwise Our republican friends should reac the decisión carefully and also recol lect that the constitution of Michi gan prohibits the granting of liquo Iicenses. It is impossible, lawfully to make a license law out of our tax law. Mr. Blaine in his "Twenty Year of Congress," says of Thurman "His rank in the senate was establish ed f rom the day he took his seat, anc was never lowered during the perioc of his service. His retirement from the senate was a serious loss to his party - a loss indeed, to the body. He left behind him the respect of all with whom he had been associated during his twelve vears of honorable service." The loss feit bv Thurman's retirement as depicted by Mr. Blaine will be repaired on the fourth ofMarchnext when Mr. Thurman will return to preside over the senate. The Michigan Farmer leans towards a republican high tarifF. Yet n its last issue, in a protective tarifF article, the Farmer quotes from the New York Sun, another high tariñ paper: "There is only one country in Europe in vvhichthe wages of labor are within a half of what they are in this country. That is üreat Britain. Wages in Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland are only onethird ot what they are here." We quote these statements from these two high tarifF papers because they utteiiy destroy the argument that a low tarifF means a less sum of money paid for wages. Great Britain enjoys free trade. Germany is a very highly piotected nation, and yet wages in Great Britain are much higher than they are in Germany. This is ihe best answer in the world to give those who would contrast the wages of this country with those of Great Britain. Why not contrast them also with Germany where the tarifF is so high. The republicans are prone to set this congressional district down as assurredly republican this fall. They do so because Capt. Allen carried it by 1032 plurality two years ago. One fact they lose sight oí. Allen carried it on a very light vote. In 1 iSS6 he received 1 174 less votes than he did in 1SS4 vvhen he was defeated and the stay at home vote was mostly democratie. The vote the district was 3,333 less than in 1SS4. That the difference 111 the result was caused by the democratie vote not being out in 1SS6 is shovvn by the fact that in 1SS4, Cleveland had S13 plurality in this congressional district. Two years later Luce's plurality, on a vote over 3,000 less was 469 and last spring on a light vote also, the fusionists had a plurality of 60 in the district. The signs all point to a Cleveland majority of 1200 or over in this district this fall. Can Allen overeóme that lead? Two years ago he lead the state ticket in majority 563. There are no indications that he can do better than that this year if the democrats and greenbackers give their candi, date a united support. With 1200 majority for Cleveland ought we not to have a democratie congressman? There will be 110 stay at home vote this fall and Allen will have to poll 2,000 more votès than twö years agö to be elected. John Boyle O'Reilly, editor of the leading American k paper, the Boston Pilot, was a sujjporter of Blaine four years ago having deserted the democratie party to follow Blaine's leadership. He now expresses the sentiments of a preat number of Irish-Americans who voted for Blaine in 18S4, when he says : There is not a sincere democrat in the country, with whom principie is deeper than personality, who does not profoundly believe that Mr. Cleveland is the best man the democratie party could nomínate, and that he deserves the great place for his wise, firrn and magnanitnous course during the past four years. . The mistakes of the democratie administration have not been the President's mistakes. Some of the men he elected for his cabinet have hampered his work and most gravely threatened the stability of the democratie party. But these men were in truth more the choice of the party itself than of the president. Mr. Cleveland will lead an undivided national party to the polls. His opponents have not a man large enough to show against him, now that Blaine is out of the field. We shall march onward to a democratie victory that must result in such a reaffirmation of democratie loyalty to principies as the fathers of the republic would approve and the future will ináorse.