Pennsylvania Has The Greatest

The Argus Democrat and Ypsilanti Weekly Times.

Published by The Democrat Publishing Company. D.A. Hammond, President, S.W. Beakes, Secy. and Treas.

Published Every Friday for $1.00 per year strictly in advance.

Entered at the Postoffice in Ann Arbor Mich as second-class mail matter.

Friday, January 24, 1902.

Pennsylvania has the greatest number of colleges, 35, of any state in the Union, while Ohio is a close second with 34. Michigan ranks nineteenth with nine colleges.

The American people take every occasion to testify their belief that Schley is the real hero of Santiago, and the belief that he has been unfairly treated by the politicians is very widespread. Schley may well leave his vindication to history.

Mumps have been having full swing in Michigan this winter. Over 5,000 cases have been reported in Detroit. Ann Arbor has not been behind and there have been a large number of cases mostly of a mild form and many which have not even received medical attention.

In the year 1899-1900 there were 8,009 pupils studying for the ministry in the theological seminaries, 12,516 studying law in the law schools, 22, 752 studying medicine in the medical colleges besides 1,909 studying homeopathy, 7,928 studying dentistry, 4,042 pharmacy, 11,164 in the nurse training schools and 362 in the veterinary schools, a total of 68,682 in these schools.

Senator Frye says the militia system is no good and should be dispensed with. He declares that if the United States is to be a world power, and he is one of the men who started the country on his version of a world power, then we must have a standing army large enough to do the business. he points to England and shows how the militia system there has broken down under the demands of the war in South Africa with two petty states and says England is face to face with conscription after the manner of that practiced in the continental countries. All this being interpreted means, of course, that the United States must follow these examples. Thus one by one do the ugly shapes of imperialism thrust themselves before the American people. A navy too we must have after the manner of that of England and likewise the attending expenses. The world power business in the Philippines has already cost us $300,000,000 and many lives and there are seventy thousand of our young men in those islands now fighting and sacrificing their lives and for what? Why, of course that the United States may become a world power in the modern or Frye sense. But such is the price we must pay for being that kind of a world power. We have been a world power for years in a broader and better sense in that that our principles of human liberty and human rights as believed in and practiced by our people and government have found lodgement in the hearts of all men who were struggling for liberty. In all this there has been little of the right of might but very much of the might of right. If all this is to be reversed, we shall undoubtedly need a larger standing army than we have ever kept and probably the militia and the volunteer soldiers won't do and we shall need to resort to conscription after the manner of Germany. If we are to be a world power in the sense of forcing our ideas and rule on other people we must of course pay the cost.

Michigan elects a governor again this fall. The state is republican beyond question or cavil. When the disgraceful republican caucuses of two years ago and the disgraceful convention with its deals and trades and lavish use of money resulted in the nomination for governor with none of the qualifications needed by a great executive one would have had reason to suppose that the republican party was doomed to defeat in the state contest at that time had he not had experience of the tenacity with which republican voters stick to their party ticket. The debauchery of the electorate was carried on to such an extent at the caucuses that it must have been personally known to almost every republican. Yet the ticket was elected by an overwhelming majority. The governor then elected has been mediocrity personified. We have fine hundred men in Washtenaw county of better material to fill the governor's chair. And yet the governor thus elected will in all probability be renominated and re-elected. In almost any other state this would not be the case. if, for instance, Bliss were running in republican Ohio he would be doomed to defeat. They have to run men of a higher calibre there. Occasionally there can be found a republican paper that kicks on the inevitable. The Hastings Banner is the most recent example and its indictment of Governor Bliss is more scathing than any democratic paper has written. The Banner says:

Nobody claims that he has marked ability, nobody claims that he in any way ornaments the high office which his hirelings bought for him; nobody can claim that he has done a single thing to merit a renomination. On the other hand the boodle that bought him the office, the buying of delegates like so many cattle, the selection of "Tip" Atwood as his campaign manager and "pap" dispenser, the appointment of Bill Judson as state oil inspector, are reasons enough why he should not be renominated in the minds of honest people, who have some regard and desire for pure politics.

About the only ones in this state who are clamoring for the renomination of Gov. Bliss, are those who are members of the Bliss machine and have good pulls at the public "pap." And on what grounds do they clamor for it?

On the ground of brilliant intellect? No.

On the ground of statesmanlike abilities? No.

On account of a capable administration? No.

On the ground that the "people demand it? No.

Then why do they clamor for it?

Simply on account of "party precedent." Stated plainly and frankly, simply to cause Bliss boodle and the "influences" claimed to have been working for him, bought up caucuses and delegates, which his abilities (mental, not financial) could not attract, he ought to be renominated on the ground of "precedent." If a man succeeds in boodling his way into office through buying delegates, and rewarding such disreputable politicians as Bill Judson with fat appointments, "precedent" demands, so the Bliss hirelings claim: that he be indorsed a second time for an office bought with money and promises. With a good, clean capable administration, where the official in question has secured office through ability, not boodle, and has fully met the expectations of the people, there is a certain force in asking recognition of "precedent." But when "precedent" demands the indorsement of boodling the situation is changed, and that party is weak indorsement of boodling the situation is changed, and that party is weak indeed that sanctions it.

The Banner has just awakened to the enormity of the great state of Michigan being thus represented and he does not know the voters as well as we of the other porty who have, to use a splang phrase, been up against it. He predicts that the renomination of Bliss will mean defeat of at least such largely reduced republican county tickets in many of the counties will be lost. For he says: "Can it (the republican party) afford to go before the people and decently ask for an indorsement of an official teeming with the scent of purchased delegates and boodle packed caucuses?"

Y.M.C.A Made a Branch Library

The action of the board of education at their meeting last Tuesday night, the Y.M.C.A was made a branch of the public circuating librar yof the high school. Hereafter any book in this large library can be had by applying at the association rooms. Besides a number of books will be kept at the Y.M.C.A for periods of three or four weeks and then returned and changed for a new set. The same rule will govern their circulation as in the high school. In this way a wide range of good books will be brought within the reach of several hundreds of young men and boys who would never think of going to the high school building for them. Thus the desire so often expressed by our leading citizens for public library down town is beginning to be realized, in a small way at least. The first installment of 30 books has already been placed on the shelves and the first night saw a number drawn out. The Y.M.C.A reading rooms are open to the public, and any young man may spend his leisure hour there reading these books or the magazines and other periodicals to be found on the tables. Association members will have the privilege of taking the books to their homes.

Blown to Atoms. The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate live and bowels to expel poisonous matter cleanse the system and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headaches. Only 25c at A.C. Schumacher's, A.M. Mummery's, Ann Arbor, and Geo. Haeussler's, Manchester, drug stores.