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Letters From The People

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
April
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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ttai-ir , ? ? 'sopen to the people to expresa ISïl 'yi'ion upiu any mibject of Interest to ,Vr Pi ÍS1 a"U eorre8poiiieiice upon all sidet n "F1""? 'sdeHlred. All weask of correspondent Is to keep out of persomililles and use argument lustead of abuse. Be conclse, don't use more words tlian necessurv to expresa Ideas The pubhsher of the CoUBIBH KJoqrÏÏl.]"1'"" respouslble foropinMb. Editor:- A circular "To Voters," issued by a oommittee of the Citizen's League and signed by about 100 names uiakes some curious stutenienta. About thiity are in actual business m ourcity, about thirty professors, instructora and employés in the University and High school, whose salaries the cltlzens help pay, several studente, half a dozen ministers and the "remnant," as Mathew Arnold niiglrt gay, gentlemen of 110 occupation- at least in Ann Arbor. Tlie signéis "Appeal to the citi.uns to support the Citizen's ticket," giving as one reason "For several years our city oflicers have not satisfactorily enforced the ordinances of the city." Yet the circulur bears the name of "several citizens who have not üved in Ann Aibor "several " years- nor one year. Some names are on tuis circular without authorlty, and very many are nameR of those who take bat little interest in the business or sjovernment of the city unless it be to defame it by sensatiomil publications of the comparatively few vices and lmmoralities found in Ann Arbor. The evidence of the superior sagacity of these signers is sliown iu their wasting votes on candidates who couldn't possibly be elected, and yet whose "defect" they declare "will be interpreted to mean that tlie laws may be violated with irapunity !" If the gentlemen, professors, ministers and all would "get their ears to the ground," get acquainted with their fellow townsmen, learn the deiiuition oL a citizen, the needs of the city for improveinents In streets, in protection from corporations, trom high taxes, in encouragement to labor and growth, and less oflicious governing- that in a governineut "of tbe people, for the people and by the people," the people not only elect but select tüe candidates for ollice (and any other method of selection is subversive of the very fundamental principios of a repre8ent:itive government); If they wonld attend the piimary meetings and if the eaueus lacks character and dignity lend it some, in exohange for common sens! and politics] wisdom, they may be of real services to the city and to tlieir "fellüw-citizens" to wliom they so illogically appeal. One of ihe

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News