"Mr. Newkirk Fails To Reply" and "The Way It Was"

A Wordy Circular Avoids the Points in Issue

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INCORRECT QUOTATIONS

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From the Argus Are Set Forth to be Answered --- Newkirk Makes the Odd Statement That Funds are Not Money

City Treasurer Newkirk has issued a lengthy circular for general distribution, purporting to be an answer to the Argus, which avoids or misrepresents every statement that the Argus has made. Even when it pretends to quote the Argus and uses quotation marks, it quotes incorrectly.

It does not explain how he came to pay out money from the city treasury without a warrant signed by the clerk and the mayor, as required by law. It is absolutely silent on that point. And this is the main charge that the Argus has made against the city treasurer's office.

But the circular does develop the fact that the city treasurer has no comprehension of the city charter or the city finances. He is bound down by a blank for making a report, which some one has gotten up, which is incorrectly gotten up and which mixes state and county and school taxes with city funds. This has apparently caused all his confusion of thought in reading the Argus articles. This blank does not bind the Argus. When the Argus gives figures showing the amount of money in city funds, it means city funds. It does not include state, county and school moneys.

The treasurer says "We might have $50,000 in city funds and not a dollar anywhere in money." That is simply his assertion. The truth is that if the city has $50,000 in the city funds it must either have $50,000 in money or it must have loaned that money, supposing everybody is honest. There is no getting away from that proposition. As a matter of fact the city today has money in the city funds, but it has practically loaned it to make up overdrafts in sewer and paving funds, in other words in district funds out of which the treasurer has been paying bonds.

The treasurer's circular does not jibe with itself. He says that it makes no difference to the city in money whether it has $30,000 in a city fund or has it in the State Street Paving fund. Later on he says that when $5,000 is paid into the State Street Paving fund it can only be used to pay bonds even if not yet due. Technically this latter statement is true. But if so, then it makes all the difference in the world whether $30,000 is in a district or city fund. If in a district fund the city cannot use it, according to Judge Newkirk's own argument. It was this mixing up of funds which was probably responsible for the original demand of $40,000 bonds. If $30,000 is found in a district fund where it cannot be used, and because it does not belong there was transferred to the city funds, why does not the city have $30,000 more money?

What Treasurer really maintains is that he can loan city money to district funds, but he cannot loan district money to the city funds. This is not logical. He can find as much authority for one loan as for the other, and in reality he cannot find any authority for either.

Nearly a column of space is devoted by the treasurer to a hullabaloo about an Argus mistake in figures, which never appeared in the Ann Arbor Argus, but which was merely transposition of two figures which appeared in the Ypsilanti Argus but which was discovered and corrected before any Ann Arbor papers were run off, and yet of all the many figures the Argus has given this is all the mistake he finds. And in connection with this in the Ypsilanti Argus the figures were correctly given in the same article.

But the Argus does not intend to allow Mr. Newkirk to befog the issues, and requests that he answer the following questions:

1. Was not the State Street paving paid for out of the street fund, and was not the money received from the sale of bonds left in a paving fund, which did not belong to the whole city, until after the Argus exposed it?

2. Was not the Ann street paving paid for out of the State street paving fund? Has the amount thus paid ever been replaced in the State street fun?

3. Did you not pay out money for bonds without any warrant signed by the mayor and clerk, as required by the charter?

4. Did you not pay some bonds, without any such warrant, without having sufficient money in the particular fund from which said bond or bonds were paid to pay said bond or bonds?

5, Did you not refuse to allow access to your books for fear of what might be said in the newspapers on city finances?

6. Has not every taxpayer a right to know the condition of the city finances? Have you any right to keep it from them? Is it not the duty of the newspaper to comment upon them?

7. Did you not attempt to get rid of all the money which was in the city treasury on the morning of February 28, so that your monthly report would not show a bank balance, by paying bonds due in March and which should by rights have appeared in your March 31st report?

8. Could you not by taking the time you spent in trying to get rid of this money on February 28, have got your books in such shape that you could have made the monthly report as required by the charter?

9. Was not your purported statement of resources and liabilities as made by you to the council last Monday night incorrect?

10. And finally, to return to the bonds, did not the council, instead of yourself, have the right to say whether or not bonds not due should be paid?

The columns of the Argus are open for your answer.

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THE WAY IT WAS.

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The Bedfast Man Who Got Up and Went to Business.

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This is the way it was. The man had been sick which "rheumatism and a complication of troubles," and had been bedfast all winter. He had three of the best physicians in attendance, but his condition baffled their skill. Then it chanced that a pamphlet was put into his hands. He read of cures of men and women whose condition suggested his own, and he said:

"That medicine is just what I need. Send for a bottle at once."

If every sick person would reason as logically and act as promptly as did this man, there would be many more bedfast people able to be up and go to business. Every human body is organically alike. The blood is the life of the richest man as well as the poorest. If a king's blood gets out of order the same conditions follow in his body as in any other man's. If a millionaire's blood be impure, his wealth can't preserve him from the skin eruptions which usually indicate the blood's impurity. And if either king or millionaire wants to be cured, he has to use the means open to the poorest person in the land. There is no royal road to health more than learning.

ALL PEOPLE ARE ALIKE.

Since we are all alike, flesh and blood, then what cures disease of flesh and blood in one case should cure it in any case under similar conditions. That was the argument of the man who was bedfast and the sequel proved it to be sound and logical.

"Quite a number of years ago, when I was girl at home, my father was prostrated upon a bed of sickness," writes Mrs. P. M. Wheeler, of No. 2 Ann Place, Bradford, Pa. "He had rheumatism and a complication of troubles which baffled the skill of three of our best physicians. All through the winter months he lay upon his bed, suffering severely at times with rheumatism in his limbs. While in the condition a pamphlet containing a description of Dr. Pierce's remedies fell into his hands. I do not remember whether it was left at the door or came through the mails, but I do remember of his sitting up in bed and reading it through and then exclaiming, 'That medicine is just what I need! Send for a bottle at once!' Just then a neighbor came along who was going to town (we lived in the country, five miles from the nearest drug store) and we sent for a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. We laid aside the doctor's medicines and commenced giving my father the 'Golden Medical Discovery' according to directions. The first three days he felt worse, as is often the case. After that he commenced to gain. His physician was surprised at the change in