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Volume Fifty-nine

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Argus enters upon its fiftyninth volume today. The oldest paper in the state, outside of the weekly Detroit Free Press, the Argus yet aims to be in advance of itscontemporaries. lts columns will be greatly im pro ved in the comingyear, and as some marked changes are contemplated, and it will aim to merit its markedly increasingpatron age. The Argus believes that its readers appreciate the honest hard work necessary to make a paper, at once readable, reliable, and full of the news of the locality in which it circulates. It has ahvays found that that kind of work pavs, and when the contemplated changes in the Argus are made, as they soon will be, we feel sure that the paper will be even more a welcome visitor in the homes of the county than it has been in the past. The year 1893 bids fair to be an important and newsy year, a year which will demand stirring reporters if the papers expect to chronicle all the news; a year, we trust, of prosperity to the people. And we wish all our readers a full share in that prosperity. Sixty years ago billion dollar congresses were unknown. The expenses of the general government then did not amount tonearone-twentieth of the expenses of today. In fact the entire receipts of the government for the first forty years would barely suffice to run the governmental wachinery for one year today. The total expenditures of the general government in 1830 consisted of 24,58528l-5S of which $11,355,748-22 was paid on the general debt. In other words outside of the payment on the debt, the total expenditures of the United States in 1830 was about thirteen milhon dollars. Under the present system of extra vagance that amount will not nearly suffice for the expenditures of a single department. In fact the pension department now demands each year an amount which would sixty years .ago have sufficed to rün the whole government for ten years. In these years we have increased from a nation of twelve millions to one of sixty-three. Why should our ordinary governmental expenses today so largely exceed six times those of sixty years ago? The Register, as the organ of the Municipal Club, another name for the republican club, comes to the defense of that organization in a labored editorial designed to prove that the denunciation of the administration of the laws in this city is no reflection upon the present administration, and that although "the present authorities are doing very well," yet there is need of an organization to stop the violation o litjuor laws, shut up houses of ill fame and gambling houses. Now these good people who dream of the great moral revolution they are to bring about in the city have been challenged to point out a single fcouse of ill-fame in the city, or a gambling house. They haven't done that and they will not. Glittering generalities are all that suit them. The only object of the club is to bamboozle a few democrats into voting the republican ticket. Their very admissions show that there is no field for the club. When the Register says that the club does not aim to secure victory for either of the great political parties it only shows that the Register is forced to prevarication to cover up the real reason for the organization of the club, a reason which if known would defeat the very aim of the organization. We feel confident that the democratie party in this city will this spring put up a strong ticket of clean men. Let the republican party do the same and the dent voters choose between thern. But let no man in advancc pledge himself to support the nominees of a coterie of men under whatever guise they assume, without knowing what men shall be named for the suffrages of the people this year. The people of the city wish a chance to name the men to be run for office and they don't desire a self-constituted committee to do it for thetn. We want a good clean administration and when we have one we don't want the city held up to au outside world, always ready to cavil at Ann Arbor's good name, as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, when no city in the State is more orderly.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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