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It Is Rather Expensive

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
September
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Despite tlie pretended friendship for the common people professed by Gov. Pingree, time has proven that his reforms - which are never pressed to an issue - are a cloak to cover his meaus for advancing himself politically. While crying "Stop thief," and pointing toward the great corporations as despoilers of the public rights, he has been busy fattening his favorites ;it the public crib, until the taxes of the state have increased enormously. To demónstrate this. we need only present froni the official records, whicü ire open to everybody, a comparison of the expenses of the executlve office at Lansing, for every item of which the governor is directly responsible. The annual report of the board of state auditors (page 482) gives a series of comparisoDs, from which we quote, giving the general expenses of the executive office lor corresponding years of the Winans, Rich and Pingree adnïinistrations: Winans. Rich. Pingree. General expenses ...$262.70 $438.81 $5,009.08 The highest expense for a year under Rieh was $1,050.81. Thns Gov. Pingree spent almost twenty times as much as Winans, and nearly five times is much as Rich. Among the items making up these amounts we find: Winans. Pingree. Printing $44.22 $984.72 ïinding 7.25 435.54 Postage 66.00 635.70 Stationery 51.59 1,114.79 These are the principal items. Note that Pingree paid for stationery more than $1.000 in excess of the amount paid by Winans. and spent for postage nore than all the governors before him for a decade. Gov. Pingree's extravagance in his own office forms a bad record and demonstrates his nnfitness for the trust reposed in him.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News