Prof. Beman Has Pat Bis Foot In It

Last week he published a most sourilous attack in a city paper on the senior al - derman of the fourth ward. The artiole was a base fabrioation, and the editor yesterday published a retraotion. Beman would like to "make oonoessions," buthe went a little too f ar and will probably have to stand suit . There is a good case against him and he should be salted. Then he should be kicked out of the university. The sucoess of our great university ie dependent in a measure on the bounty of the state. The professors and instruotors are servante of the people. They are paid certain salaries, and their services belong to the university. We do not believe it a part of their duty to watch bawdy houses and saloons. While it is well to have the laws properly enforoed, it is disgusting to know that any man, more partioularly a professori n the univereity, could be prevailed upon to perform the dirty work. But then, you can not always account for tastes . The state law is very clear in its prohibition of the sale of liquor to young boys and students. All classes of people in Ann Arbor - saloon keepers as well as others- have an interest in a rigid enforcement of the law in this respect. To say nothing of the university studente there are hundreds of young boys in the high school, many of them f rom abroad, whose parents would not allow them to remain in Ann Arbor a single day unless they believed that the authorities of the city would see that the law was enforced and their sons proteoted from the influence of the saloon . The city has a good reputation in this respect, and saloon men themselves should take a pride in having the opinión go abroad that no liquor will be sold to minors in Ann Arbor. It will pay saloon keepers in the end to take this course, for one or two prosecutions for selling liquor to minors will certainly more than offset all the proflt they can mabí hv apLünír to that class of custom ís1. .TEaseuaiions are orettv sure to folliquor law; besides, selling to minors is more likely than anjthing else to créate a feeling in the community as to make the saloon business not only disreputable but unprofitable. Every man engaged in business, whatever that business may be, has an interest in making that business as respectable as possible. An honorable saloon keeper, with a wife and sons, and daughters, will certainly hesitate before he will viólate the law and subject himself to the expense and disgrace of prosecution for the paltry five cents which he gete for the glass of beer or whisky whioh he sells to a minor Business is business, and every saloon keeper with a thimble full of brains will order children out of hie shop rather than accept their patronage. The manifestó published in the Register, signed by the president of the citix.' Wimiu ii-.ju u. vBTv imnolitio and do no harm to anybody, and how is it going to do any good? At the very time when the council had voted unanimouBly and heartily to co-operate in the enforcement of the ordinances and laws; at the very time when the marshal was earnestly co-operating with the league to discover and complain of violations of those ordinances and laws, the president of the league publishes a letter, the only effect of which must be to disgust the most influential members of the council and discourage and dishearten the marshal and make him less efficiënt in the performance of his duties, It shows that a man may be a good mathematition and a splendid temperance "worker," but be a very poor judge, indeed, of human nature and the way to practically manage the affaire of men in this sinful world. If the attempt to secure a more thorough enforcement of the laws in this city is a failure, the citizens' league can assribe it to the ill illiWil 7(al cr, iliorrlinafo oonoeit of their "president. For fourscore years the temperance lecturer or fanatic has kept up lus dismal howl, and it remains doubtful to-day whether he has ever accomplished anything for the cause of temperance. The cause has advanced, no doubt, but that progress is due to the general enlightenment and progress of the age. There are Germán farmeri) in the county of Washtenaw who never drink alcoholic beverages and rarely take a glass of beer, who belong to no temperance society and wear no red ribbon- men whose quiet and silent exainple is doing far more for the cause of temperance among us than the rantings of all the questionable characters who make a living by talking temperanoc. The people of Michigan are rapidly coming to believe in the neceesity of restoring the death peualty as pumshment for murder. We can not be blind to the ract tnat crime - especially the crime of murder - is rapidly inoreasing in this state. It is very doubtful if there 18 a civilized country in the world, with the populationof Michigan, which can show such an awful record of crimes, dnring the past five yeara, as this state. The Crouch butchery, the slaughter of the Knocks, includmg two helpless children, and the cruel taking off of poor Bertha Duckwitz by the wretched brute Stevens - these terrible crimes all oceurring in the space of a few months, present a record which no other state can parellel. We have heard some of our best people eay they wished Gov. Alger wou ld cali an extra session of the legislature for the sole purpose of restoring the death penalty for murder. The truth is, somebody has got to hang in Michigan for murder before long. If the law does not authorize it it will be done without law. It is a dangerous and serious thin;_r, when the best people ia a community begin to feel that they would have a moral right to seize a murderer like Stevens and hang him to the nearest lamp-post, as we understand the people of Detroit feit when they heard of his terrible crime. It would be a disgrace to the people of Michigan to' séize a murderer and hang him without a trial and in violation of ! law, and it is to avert this disgrace, as ■well as to protect the community, that the death penalty should be restored. Michigan has given a fair trial to this theory of the sentamentalists, and ifc has miserably failed, let us return to punishment which is enjoined by the old-fashed Bible, and which the experienoe of mankind has shown to nave the greatest terror for the criminal. The temperance people of Iowa have scored another victory. The Chicago and Ñorth Western railway company refused to transport beer for a Germán brew6r, who brought a suit in the United States court for damages. The oompany defended on the ground that the Iowa statutes forbade th transportaron and the oourt sustained the defense. The brewer appealed to the supremo court of the United States and that body affirmed the decisión. Whatever any or all other classes of citizens may think about the possibility of enforoing prohibitory laws, the liquor men believe and tremble. The Champ ion, of Chicago, closes a two-colnmn article on the temperance victory in Atlanta, Ga.with these words: " Will the liquor dealers of Tennessee, Mississipi and Louisiana - will all the southern states where prohibition is agitated - take a warning from the fate whioh has befallen Georgia? No state needs a more lively shaking up than does Kentucky, the banner state of whisky distilerios. Our f rienda in Kentucky and Tennessee may laugh at warnings of the Champion if they please, but we tell you in solemn and awful earnestness, look out ; gird on your sword and face the ememy and flght for your rights and your libertj, or in less than two years Kentucky and Tennessee will be stricken with the prohibition plague." No President has dealt with the evils of Mormonism with more force than President Cleveland. In his message lie says: The strength, perpetuity, and the destiny of Ihe Nation, "rest upon our homes, established by the iaw of God, guarded by parental care, regulated by parental authority, and sanctifield by parental love. TheBe are are not the homes of polygamy " Then he speaks of the mothere of our land, who "live according to God's ordinances, and each, secure and happy in the love of the father of her children. sheds the warm light of true womanhood, unperverted and unpolluted, upon all within her pure and wholesome family circle." "These," he adds, "are not the cheerless, crushed, and unwomanly mothers of ploygamy." Those who predicted that a democratie administration would encourage polygamy are happily disappointed. The President even so far as to recommend legislation preventing the importation of Mormons into the Couutry. - Toledo Sunday Journal. Someone, with a sound head on hi sboulders, and a good heart in his body has said: Every year, every local pape: gives from one hundred to five thousnnt dollars, in free linea, for the sole benefi of tho yieipity in which it is located local eaitoi7iii piupui , -. -v. - mi_, does more for this town than any othe ten men, and in all fairness, man, h ought to be supported, not because yo may happen to like or admire his wril ing, but because a local paper is the bes investment a community can make. I may not be brilliant, nor crowded wit bright thoughts, but financially it is more of a benefit 10 the community tha the preacher or teacher. Understand us now, we do not mean morally or intellec tually, but financially, and yet on th moral questions you will Snd the ma jority of the local papers on the righ side of the question. To-day the editora of the local papers do the most work for the least monev of any men on earth Subscribe for your local paper, not as a charity but as an investment. - Ex change.