Year: 1874

Corruption is personal matter, it cannot be-
long to part, as such. it DOES not consist in
adherance to free trade, Woman Suffrage, spe-
Gle basis, protection, or any other view OF So
ciai ECONOMY. Now, where-ever specific charge
OF corruption has been brought against any Re-
publican Office holder, we venture the assertion
that it has been brought by Republican in
tuence, and Republican voices have condemned
the crlme and punished the criminal. These
very efforts have given the democ ats the key
note for their denunciaton of the corrupt
party" We do not believe that politics IN it.
self is corrupt nor corrupting. Neither do we
believe that bad men rush into pohtlcs for the
advantage it offers to thieves and "grabbers. "
But the present attempt OF the democracy to
calumnate the Republican party, by a general
charge OF corruption, is such an unwarranted
slander, that it eau only be considered for
lorn attempt to win votes for the sake of Of
fice.-Paadlum.


They have a man on the Detroit Free Press
that can tell a capital story as well as hunt up
a reminIscence and start it along il good CIDER
as witness the following


AS evidence of the estimation in which the
local paper ls held, and OF ts influence over
the minds of its readers, an incident may be
related: Twelve or fifteen years ago Demo-
cratic paper which had crept up into the
"north woods" and starved and struggled for
year, had to give up the ghost. dying only a
day or two before election day. One OF its
subscribers heard the news while he was in the
village dong some trading, and the blow fell
heavily upon him. On his way home he had to
pass the house OF brother Democrat, and he
yelled out and brought the man to the door.


"We're gone up Sam !" he exclaimed as he
was asked what he wanted.


What-how?"


I" No use to go down to Fish Creek Wednes-


"No? What's happened? 2" inquired the 9TH
er, coming down to tue gate.


"Why, the Herald has busted and there amt
any Democratic party to vote for no more "
was the reply.


During the pioneer days Of Iona the town
had an editor who was patient and long suffer
ing. Some Of the members of certain church
got nun 10 give TZu tOWATu recurring Uinlster
then they wanted - for the heathen; then
they wanted their religious notices inserted
free then he was asked for s25 toward helping
build parsonage, and he finally found that he
was giving the church more than he gave his
family. He nevertheless "hung on" for a
time longer, or until one evening he went to
prayer meeting and was asked to leave bis
Office for week and 90 and help clear the
grounds for camp-meetlng. That was The
last straw, and he rose up and said


Brothers, I'd like TO go to Heaven along with
you. know you all. You are clever and
oblgng, and kind and tender, and 1t would lie
nice for us all, as congregation, to go In to-
gether. but I've concluded to leave you and try
and dodge IN along with somebody from De-
trolt or Grand Rapids. It's money money
money all the time, and I've given tins church,
until tonight, if my wife should die, she'd have
to go to Heaven barefooted


The congregation seemed to realize that a
free horse was being ridden TO death. They
let up on the editor and pacified him. lie even
had special tent assigned him a. the camp
meeting, and all was well.