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The Argus-Democrat and Ypsilanti Weekly Times

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Day
9
Month
December
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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The Argus-Democrat and Ypsilanti Weekly Times

Published by the Democrat Publishing Company

D. A. Hammond, President

Chas. A. Ward, Vice-President

S. W.. Beakes, Secy. and Treas.

Published every Friday for $1.00 per year strictly in advance.

Entered at the Postoffice in Ann Arbor, Mich., as second-class mail matter

Friday, December 9, 1898

The year 1898 will be written down in history as one unusually full of marine disasters.

the November appointment of primary school money to the districts of Michigan was $700,00.

At least one good point can be advanced in favor of territorial expansion. It downs the theory of protection.

If the republican party don't hang itself with settlement with Spain it will have unlimited rope left in the matter of currency reform.

After mature deliberation, secretary of state-elect Stearns has decided not to make a clean sweep. He will let two or three of the old force in the state department stay just for luck.

By the time his brother officers and the war correspondents get through with Gen. Shafter the color will be pretty well washed out of his hero business. It was fortunate the general that he made the most of the gushing hero worship while it lasted.

It took 12 men seven days to determine that Dr. John Kost's mastodon bones were worth $125. As Dr. Kost sued the Lake Shore railroad company for $20,000 for damaging the bone she will feel that the jury is not particularly devoted to scientific research.

A very desulstory reading of the republican press is sufficient to convince one that the republican editorial writer is having some difficulty to tell just where he's at at the present juncture, all of which is singularly soothing to his democratic brethren.

In case the senate refuses to ratify the treaty with Spain those who favor the treaty will begin to talk about the "American house of Lords" while those who are opposed to it will insist that the senate has saved the country. The view one takes of a governing body matters very much whose toes are tread upon.

the extent of our new possessions, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Phillippines, the Salas and the Carolines is in round number 171,000 square miles or a little over three times the area of Michigan. The population of this territory numbers about 10,000,000. Nearly 90 per cent of this population is colored or oriental.

The Argus is pleased to note the fact that the Ann Arbor public schools are awakening from their Rip Van Winkle sleep and that the lower grades are being supplied with supplementary reading matter, a most valuable auxiliary with which the schools in other cities of like grades have long been supplied. Better late, however, than never. May the good work go on.

Before the outbreak of hostilities with Spain we heard a great deal of starving Cubans. Since the white winged dove of peace has again settled down officially between the two countries the starving Cuban again secures a prominent position in the public eye. It might be pertinent to inquire what occupied the attention of the starving Cuban during the interval of war.

The world do move and new principles are being daily introduced into civil affairs. Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, has been indicted by a grand jury for neglect of official duty and the city of An Arbor is threatened with suit for the over zealous work of its peace officers. In the olden time governors were impeached by legislatures for neglect of duty an municipal corporations were not held responsible for acts of its servants in excess of their authority.

The refusal of the president to interfere with the race riots and the nullification of the Federal Constitution in Illinois is sure to provoke from carping critics the remark that his abstention is doubtless due to the fact that Illinois is a northern and a republican state. Attorney-General Griggs says there is no warrant for Federal interference because the governor has not called for help. Neither did the governor of Illinois call for help when President Cleveland sent troops to put down the Chicago rioters, and yet the republicans applauded that act as the bravest of his administration. Is there really a difference in gored oxen? - New York World

Cuba produces sugar, coffee, tobacco and insurgent chieftains. The Phillipines ditto.

Your Uncle Samuel has shown Spain the "open door" with the request that she close it from the outside.

It may be necessary for Mr. McKinley to do a little lobbying to get that treaty approved by two-thirds of the Senate.

While Congress is inquiring into the riots in North Carolina it might throw a side light into the coal mining districts of the state of Illinois.

And when the whole thing has been simmered down it will be found that the most serious charge against Roberts, of Utah, is that he is a democrat.

The Chinese are also interested in the Phillipine question. There are a great many of that race resident there and they don't want to be excluded. 

And now that Andrew Carnegie and the New York World has joined hands we may expect the dangers which beset the country to be speedily cleared away.

Lest the beet sugar bounty provided by the last legislature should prove insufficient to drain the state treasury the next should provide a bounty on suckers.

The rural statesmen, who will deter mine if Julius Caesar Burrows shall hibernate after March 4, whether he sees the protentous shadow or not, are not very easy marks for interviewing reporters.

We extend our most heartfelt symapthies to our republican editorial brethren in this their hour of tribulation. The president has spoken and still he has not told them where they're at.

When Hon. Sam Collins, the rotund representative-elect of the Jackson city district, goes to Lansing next month his constituency will be assured that they have given good weight even though he is a coal dealer.

The gentlemen, whose interest in the dear public and Michigan pine lands, induces them to champion a $2.00 tariff on lumber, are gathering in Washington. The unselfish devotion of these forest kinds to the principle of protection is something remarkable.

Certain reformers propose to give the state of New York control over the police of New York city. It would seem that a proposition to tie the peace and order of the metropolis to the apron strings of the bucolic statesmen at Albany is not in line with home rule.

The supreme court of Michigan decided yesterday that the express companies must pay the stamp tax on bills of lading and that is is illegal for the companies to recoup themselves by raising the rates on express matter. The companies will doubtless take refuge in the federal courts. it is not the policy of corporations to pay taxes which someone else may be made to pay.

The argument so often advanced that railroads are entitled to more consideration than other property because they are useful institutions is a begging of the question. The faction of the railroad is of no more importance to the community than that of the manufacturer, the merchant, or the farmer. Each is an essential part of modern life and each should stand the same before the law. 

Detroit is not only in the throes of anti-saloon crusade, but it is also upset, more or less, by the ice and snow which accumulates upon the sidewalks of that city just as it does in the less pretentious towns. For correcting this irregularity the Detroit authorities propose to bring into use a stand and deliver ordinance similar to the one which an attempt was made to enforce in this city about three years ago. The Detroit authorities will probably succeed about as well as those in Ann Arbor did. The snow plows do the work cheaply and effectively enough here, especially when supplemented as it is by the work of our public spirited citizens with the shovel.

The Saginaw Evening News which is against Senator Burrows seven times a week has discovered a new senatorial possibility in Dr. James B. Angell of Michigan University. The Daily Argus rises to pronounced a most emphatic second to that motion on behalf of the democratic minority. Dr. Angell's selection for senatorial honor would please all parts. The champion of no partisan organization, he is the ideal of all. Dr. Angell is not only a student and a teach of renown, but a broad minded man of affairs who would bring acknowledged talents, ripe experience, and dignity to the position. If the republican party is tired of Burrows let it turn over a new leaf and elect a statesman. In this it will have democratic support. 

The Kaiser endorses the peace propositions of the Czar. The world will wonder which ruler will gain the most in this sparring for position.

In its immaculate assurance Senator Burrows literary bureau is only equalled by that one which lets the light of the glories of the Pingree dynasty in upon the spell bound constituency.

The public debt increased $16,000,000 in November. The war is over, the Dingley bill is on its best behavior and the war tax is working full capacity night and day and yet the demand upon the treasury is greater than supply.

Secretary Gage takes a more pronounced stand upon the currency question than the president. He is for retiring the greenbacks, giving over to the banks the business of issuing paper currency and securing by every possible safeguard the gold standard.

If the present weather continues unabated for two weeks it will mean much to our business men. Cold, clear weather and good roads are always conducive to good holiday trade. Let us hope that conditions will remain favorable and our business men reap the reward their enterprise so richly deserves.