Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-08-25
EDITORIAL.

The fatal pardon of Gov. BegOle
Threatens to depopuiate the State
Prisons; If he keeps on he will soon
reach seven ii es seven. -.
SENATOR ''o,GER tells the Chicago
Tribune that President Art ur is an UNI
deniabe success. and would make a
strong man for 1884, if he holds out
faithful.
The South is sereneiy solid for Demo-
cracy, having buldozed the negro ele-
ment to not voting, and the North is Re-
publican because of superior intelli-
gence, principle, and character.
REPUBLICANS in New York indicate
that they are tired of fighting each other,
and propose to fight the common enemy.
Harmony throughout the Republican
ranks is certain victory in 1884.
THE fact that the marriage returns
are not faithfully given BY clerical
officials throughout Michigan, is suffi-
Gent to warrant the necessity of law
requiring persons to be married to OBJ
tain. legally, permission.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is peculiar in Sc
Letting the wild, romantic, picturesque
Yellowstone region as place to spend
his vacation, but let him stroll where he
will he will return to the Presidential
chair after more recreations than the
present.
The strike has terminated, after last
ing one month, by capital triumphing
over labor. Many skilled operators will
not return to their keys, much business
has been diverted from the telegraph to
the mails, the public have not as much
confidence in the Western Union as
public friend, governmental postal
telegraph system is forthcoming, and
sOlidifed efforts of labor will yet COM
pei capital to justice.
MINISTER FOOTE represents Uncle |
Sam at Corea, God-forsaken, half
Chinese land, where they don't like for
eigners. He thus writes from KingitaO.
that the best house available was "a rude |
one of wood and paper, with paper win
dows, situated in an undesirable quarter, !
in the midst of novels and filth To be
a Councilman of Cheboygan is better
than to be Foreign Minister to Corea,
where they can't decently provide for a
Foote.
THE Michigan Legislature embraces
several members who took strong
grounds against the wickednsss of the
pass system, and yet these men, along
with the Governor, accepted free trans
portation from the Michigan Central,
Detroit, Marquette & Mackinac, and
Chicago & Northwestern railroads when
they decided to see the Upper Peninsula,
without giving any public explanation
of the reasons why their practice does
not harmOnze with their teaching, but
doubtless their reasons are satisfactory
to themselves,
SINCE 1855 Republicans have controlled
Iowa, and as result the state is free
from debt, and $24,OO0OOO have been
handled without dollar going astray.
No defalcatiOn, no shortage. In TeDnes-
see Polk represented Democracy by
stealing $366,540. In Maryland, under
Democratic rule, record of rascality
the most robust and staggering has
been made. There should be a faith
fully prepared document exhibiting the
record of both parties in the several
states where they have been at the helm
of authority. This would enable the
people to Judge nationally and righteous
ly between the respective claims of the
two parties in 1884. Nothing would be
of greater benefit to the Republican
party than to ventilate the dOings of
Democracy, and the Republican record
helps the right.
THOUSANDS of children of tender age
are employed In tending to machinery
in factories throughout Michigan and
elsewhere, and as natural result of
the unnatural procedure, accidents,
disfguring, crippling, and deaths, fire.
quently occur. Everything in the
N afura IF hova nd Girls renders them nm |