The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-13

portionm ent based upon the above showing,
as the share OF each OF said counties, to be
paid for Salary OF the Stenographer for the
year 1874, Wa
Kalamazoo County 1881 92
Van Buren, County s111s OS
~, 10000 a.
ioIdi $1,000. ............,... v@VVV w
Yours Truly,
CHARLES r. BRowS,
Circuit Judge.
From this it will be seen that the tax-paying
pc lie of Van Buren, county are paying ninety
three dollars seventeen and one-third cents per
month for Stenographer's Salary This is but
a single item, yet the demand is sounded from
all official positions for an increase OF salaries
and further depletion OF the pockets OF the
good natured. toiling tax payers.
A little more expedition and less expense
would certainly be novelty, well worth trying
in these hard times.
The new calendar oflthe University Of Mich
igan shows the whole number OF Professors to
be A, of whom 20 are IN the Literary depart
ment, II IN the Medical, and 4 In the Law
The students number 4s4 in the Literary de-
partment. 31i In the Medical. and 314 in the
Law. Deducting names which occur more
than once, the present total is l, los. Michigan
sends SD, Illinois Ill, Ohio 10S, New York 81
Indiana 81, Pennsylvania AZ, Wisconsin As,
Iowa 81, and other States a smaller number -
The number OF women students has increased
from 81 IN 1871 to 92 at the present time, Of
whom So are Literary, IS Medical, and Law.
The Board suggests an increase Of tuition fees
to students from other States from $40 to S25
per annum,--a very reasonable requirement.
The Bonded indebtedness Of the city Of Lam
sing, is one hundred and twelve thousand dol
lars at the present time winch is sixteen dollars
| to every man woman and child OF that young
city, SLOWING the population to be seven
thousand, without counting the interest on
seventy seven thousand dollars Railroad aid
bonds for three years 1t Is ten and three
fourths per cent. on the e9ualized valuation Of
the property OF the city. This indebtedness
will soon be increased by the issuing Of fifty
thousand dollars OF Bonds for School House
purposes-the issue having been authorized by
a vote Of the people. This latter will increase
the Indebtedness to nearly twentv-four dollars
head for every person between the ages Of
one minute and one hundred years.
1t is obvious that our citizens can not give
effect TO their political sentiments except
through some political party. Every voter
must either take advantage OF existing political
organizations or endeavor to create new ones,
though he begins solitary and alone; but all
political organizations are based upon the fun
damental principle of acquescence on the part
OF the minority to the clearly expressed wishes
Of the majority.
When political party has made its nomina-
tons or expressed its wishes by resolutions
adopted by regular and duly authorized con-
vention it becomes the duty OF the minority
either to acquiesce in that decision or to secede
from the party. Upon this principle Of organ
} ization the Democratic party has always acted.
Individual members held diverse opinions upon
the Wmot provlso and the Kansas Nebraska
controversy, but after the national convention
laid down its platform the party demanded adj
herence thereto until the next convention
changed the political creed
Ii Is sometimes said that the demand OF ac-
quiescence on the part OF the minority to the
views Of the majority within the political party
constitutes party despotism. on, this view is
the result Of confusion OF ideas. It is no re-
ligious despotism If the Methodist or Episco-
pallan Churches demand OF the individual mem
bers acquiescence in the DEGREES Of It's properly
constituted legislative bodies; for whenever
an individual member can no longer conscien-
tiously abide by the action Of the national synod
or convention, he is at perfect liberty to with
draw and connect himself with some other re-
hgous body that NAV more clearly express his
religious opinions. Arguments designed to in
duce the majority to change it's policy are al
ways in order, but unreasonable complaints
and fierce denuncations without arguments
can only tend to dlsintegraton. In these cir
cumstances we are compelled TO call the atten-
ton of the Republican party to this vital sub
ject, because il this systematic abuse OF leading
members by each other 10 continued, and every
measure of the Administration ID either BELT.
tied or misconstrued the usefulness OF the Re.
publican party as a political organization will
be impaired, aud those meuIbsrs Who are re-
sponsible for thus deplorable state OF affairs
will be held strictly accountable by their con-
stltuents.
The Detroit Trsbene SAYS The inancia
simmering at Washington 10 commencing to
yield something tangible. 1t has become GER
tain that the House is both reckless and ig-
norant on the currency question, and that it,
majority ls IN favor Of stesdying tue monetary
nerves OF the nation by administering some de
coction OF brandy, either more greenbacks, oil
more bank notes, or some kind OF intro con.
vertible bonds. This is true of its majority IN
numbers, but not Of it's majority n brains
The anti-infatlon vote on Monday last included
the names Of nearly all the ablest men on Its
fioor-Beck, Burchard, Cox, Dawes, Eldredge
Garfield j. Il. Hawley, the Hales, &. +. Hoar
Nesmith, Poland, Willard. Roberts, Mason
Maynard, and others-while the general crowt
OF unknown and uninfluentlal men went tho
| other way. From the House, therefore, moth
ing but wild and unwise legislation is to be ex-
pected.
In the senate, however, the anti-infationist'
have at present majority. divided between
the resumptionists, and the men Who like Mr.
Boutwell, do not believe IN disturbing the ex