The City Election

In the city election which takes place next Monday the principal issue is au económica] administration of the city funds. For some years the expenses of the city government have been growing out of all proportion to the increase of population, and the tax rate has been crowded to the limit allowed by the charter. There is a feeling prevalent that, vvhile we need specific public inrprovements, the general expenses of the city should be redueed. The Democratie ward caucuses Monday night put in nomination for the offices of aldermen and supervisors Jnen who are thoroughly idenütied with the interests of Ann Arbor and who are heartily in favor of economy. A vote for the Democratie candidates is a vote for the be&t interests of the city. H. C. Exinger, Democratie candidato for alderman from the Third ward, is a practical man of affairs ani he will represent nis constituents in an efficiënt nianner. The contention of some peopls is that railroads are necessary public institutions and, therefore, fhould 'oe txcr.sei! from some of the burdens which must r.ecessarily be borne by other i;roperty. But who shall say that the farmer, the grocer ar.d the manufacturer are not quite as useful to the eornmunity as the railroad, or that the people whose industry makes business for the rai'iroads are not as essential to the railroads a.s the railroads are to the people. Of course the Detroit Journal did not expect to be taken serionsly when it said a few days since: "The Hon. Perry Powers has just returned from Mexico prepared to give an unprejadiced opinión of the condition of Mexico and its relation to silver coinage." The Hon. Perry is not able to give an unprejudiced opinión upon his own stock of superlative egotisni, to say nothing of a subject which reqiuires the careful and considérate attention of the student rather than the loquacity of the blatant demagogue. The Hon. Perry F. Powers is said to havo discovered white in Mexico that the silver standard upon which the business of that country is done redounds to the benefit of the capitalist and money loarer. We heard an intimation of that alleged fact in the last presidential campaign. But, somehow or other, the unanlmlty with which the patriots who are engaged in the business of being "capitalists" opp ised the ftee coinage of silver, led many to the conclusión that it would be a pretty good thing for the American peopje.