One Thing Is Sure, The Division

Street improvement will be a lastitig one. People can't get ou it to wear it out. If the Dingley tariff is responsable for the business revival it must also shoulder the responsibility of the famine in India. It's a safe guess that the membors oí the city eouncil don't select the División Street macadam for the purpose of exercising their fast horses. That two-inch macadam road on División street, that is five inchs thick, is recoimmended to wheplmeu who are clamoring for improved roadk The school childreu of Washtenaw county must not overlook the tempting cash prizes which The Democrat offers throug-h the Washtenaw County Fair. The bankers are more modest than the Dingleyites. They neither claim 'he credit of discovering Klo.udike gold nor of deatroying the wheat erop of Europe. One more effort at building twoiiicU stone roads should eonvince the city eouncil that what it don't kno'v a'bout street improvement wouid .mako a largé book. The gratitude of the immense throng of bicyclists who daily and nightly wbeel along that two-ineh macadam road on División street should amply repay the common. eouncil for its effort to secure improved streets in this city. Tlie more the coal strike is studied the more it becomes apparent th.it the reduction in coal tariff by the Wil sou law is responsible for the lov.wages whicli caused it.- Cnckoo Press. Bat the coal strike did not begin uitil t!ie Dingley bill was passed. In another column will íbe fouad a letter froin Cyrus M. Starts of We", ster. The columns oí Thé Demoorat wlll always be open to the faiujers of Washtenaw for the discussiom of marters of interest to them and they are iuvitod to make uso of tlin. Those who are enough to liv along the "lmprored" part of División street now, have .-ïll the seclusion that is to be found at a sunnner resort in the winter time. The luk s can't use the street, and other vehicles are waitlng for the spring rains to settle that two incites of broken stono. .lust what sort of a bargain was between Julius Caesar Burrows and Senator Bill Thompson at G Raplds last weck has nol yet bec an open secret, i.ut jndj i che Detroit ÚMtagdalen's past liaisons ir 's an unholy alliance and was not forme-i in the interest of the Prince of ük I'otato l'atch.