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Look Out For No. 1

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Atf ;i'ï to be Made on the ï'iiïvcrsïty. - Out Markets and Property Effected. - Higher Taxea llie Besult.- The Dut y of Uu Honr. The farmers of Washtenaw County have a serious problem facing them. AnnArbor as a city is practically dependent on the University, The greal iiuinber of students coming lieve and spending niue months of each year, producothing, but spending moneyhere for their living, créate the largësi of her market using population. Without the University, Aun Arboi nothing on which to buikl alarge population. Her mant ies are almost nothing, and were the University to be taken , be would shrink to not more than half her present size, and her streets would be lined wil turases. Out of what the students spend each year in Ann Arbor, at ; 6300,000 is for the producís of the farms right in tliis county. Take away this market, this home market. and you have an idea of what you have done for the surrounding property. Ypsilanti, with her Normal School, differs from Ann Arbor only in degree. She has in round numbers one-fourth ás many students, so her relative influís equal to one-fourth that of Ann Arbor. Compare thes.e benefits with the eost to each man. For every $1,000 valuation of property. he pays about 15 cents to the support of the Universitj it does not take many men a Kuis time to figure out where theyiare direcily benelïtted more than ten times that amoimt. In certain parts of this state, notably in Detroit, c Voris have been made i'rom time to to dismember the Iniversity, and remove eertain departments to tintt city. Detroit peopLe know what they want, and if possible they propose to have it. They propose to elect some of their very best men as members of the state legislature, and send them there pledged to work for this object, it is dollars and cents to them, and they are aftei those dollars and cents Men skilied in all the arts of legislation wïll g.i principal ci'ty ín the state is no reason why De! roit should reach out with insatiate maw for every thing in sight. Butthat iswhatsheis doing. Faimers of Washtenaw eounty, business men of her cities .and villages, if you are alive to your own interests now is the time to show it. If you have no love for the University, your own interests should lead you to use all your influence against this move. If some demrtinents ero to Detroit manv alunes and librarles must.be doubled, that means more taxea; nnmy more teachers mast be employed, that means more taxes; many more buildings must be built, repáired and ma.intained, that means more taxes. IJetroit people have persuaded some of their best and busiest men tp go to' the legisïature to push this. Wáshtenaw has persuaded one.of her best and busiest men, at a personal sacrifice, to go to the legislatura to flght this. No man in this coimty is better fitted to do this work than Andrew J. Sawyer. Ilis age, his business education, his experience as a legislator, his wide acquaintance throughout the state, all will combine to give him an inñuence at Lansing that no other man can have in this struggle. Ilis politics eut no figure in this matter. The Washtenaw democrats will not care for the politics of the people who bny their potatoes and other produce; but they may have cause to sigh for purchasers if all the plans made against our prosperity are carried out. We cannot fight these' schemes without a leader, and a leader worthy of their steel will theyfind Sawyer to be. THB Democbat has taken no partisan part in politics this campaign, and does not now. Tiiis is business pure and simple, as we see it. We must have an aggressive fighter. and no other man in nomination from this county so well filis the bill. ïhere are other and broader grounds to take -t these propositions and they will be taken at the proper time, but this is the dutv that lies at hand today.

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Ann Arbor Democrat