Sewerage "criticism."

For two yeara r more ilu' common 'council and a eommitteo of the Iïusi■ness Men'a Assoeintion of this city have been Btudying np the important and to Aim Arbor, the preasing questaon f sewerage. One or two report; hiivr been ma de. and niuch time expended in gaining informa (ion thereon, and Prof. ('lias. E. Greene, who is vonsS.ii'rnd at the head of his profeet-ion, has dvawn plans andperfected detalla (or a complete system ol sewera in the city, which have been BUbmltted to the council, and a long report oí the sama was offieially pnbllaheld .1 year or so ago in the Arjrus, and yet that paper in ita last iasue says: The sewerage qnestion is nne whlch ■demanda the tallest and most oom plete inveatigatkm. It is one on walen 110 man or sert of men shonld arrómpate to themselvea perfect knowledge. Hoiv lcmtr must the question Ik' discussod befare it can be acted on? Has ;vny one man or set of men ever arrogated to themeelyes "perfect knowledge" upon the 6ubject? If so, who? JSpecify. pipase. Purther: "When seweraice tloea ome it will be alter many bright min Is have given utterance oo.thelr honeat opinions du the subject." Is tbe truc meanlng oí the nbnvc this? : "I havo not ha;l time yet to ■consider the subject." Ageln: "The mere fact that such a propoeition is crltlclsed la no siirn that the critic is oppoee 1 to sewerage. ' Oh. do! Cerbainly not! You turn the hoae on to lacrease the blaze. not to put it out. "And sewerasre will come in time. Tlwre la no doubt about that." If the writer of that will (PO about the streets almost any evenins, and tak ■ hia nose witih hiin. even he may be cpmvlneed üiat Bewerasce ousht to 1e liere now. The peoplfi pay the tax'S. They eay whetiier or not the city will 1k aewered, and the pcople think for theiiiM'ives." Yes. sr. it is just that class of peo ple Who have been thinking for thpmuelves. The ones who pay the taxes itre the ones to 'lx consulted. The Arsus will íind a good many of that dase in the Business Men's Association. "The people will exerciae thetr righi of free apeecih and froe judirment and tbe cuily way to pass any public im■j)i-ovemeut is to consult the people. Not all the people? Some of the people. The editor of the Argus and tJie city attorney, for instance. 'The cliicf value of a report does not Ue ia the namea attached to it, "bilt in ttoe reasoninR advanced in it." Now. really. Bro. üea.kes. doea it not makv ut a little dlfference whether proposttion is "oora" or whether ome one else conceived it'? Just re■ileet upon that polnt a moment. "The mere fact that a dozen of our kxst business men should announce ■theniM-lves in favor of any propoaition jn whtóh the whole people are Inter■nested, will not earry sucli a propoiliun uniese tUe people understand it ■ctearly enoug i to aee that it is for tiheir gii' I." No. a few memoers of tbe Business Men's Assoclation, or gome oí ttoe comanon couneil do noi constitute the jeorle, bat they constltute a portion of the pe ipie. an 1 a portion, too, who ■v ee lingly intereeted in this questLr.n. nol only becauae of their own private interesta, but because of the interc-ts oí entire city, where all ilirv esees ia invested and at state. y are men who do not pro off on iümerioal echemea, and men who ■would !„■ as loath lo engage in an nterprise that would lead the city 0 1 iwstiits and tPOUtole as either the city attorney or the editor of the Vriiiis. for it would be greatly detrlroential to tiiem. to have auch a thing happen. They are men who ÍM'lieve in building up Ann Arbnr in ■very way. They are mii who are i.r.i ■ .i and no' vlalonary. They men who do nol propose to sii fuietly by and !;■■,■ any cllquc sei ' )f urn put up a job upon Ühe tax I the city. These sewera must lo built lioneJtly and ecanomically, ;md no shrewd makiiiK schemers musí be allowed bei put their Knjgers into it. for t ï ; ■ ï own private Sbenefi i . Whenever a public improvemenl iiropoeed, there are alwaya thoae who n i icaiiv to throw eo'.d water upon "il, from different motives. Borne bevause they did not propoee the plan imaelves, some becauae they think that another scheme migbt beauggestby whii-h they oould make money out of it, othera because some of their trleada oppose it, and they are willing ta be used as catsp&we, and stiil ttbers wlio are to be found in every ooanmunlty, becauee they are on th off sji'. ■ of i he enterprlae. The question of sewera la not a politieal question, in any sense, and tin fact that the chairman of the counci oourmlttee is mn in politieel sympa thy Avith the governing powera .the city ouprht not to make any li( terence, o,a it is intlmated it doea wiö) 'eonie. All the money would be expended ïiy the party In power, bo th.it there umin nnt tu be any (eeling m thai aeore. in regard to emptylng the seweranv int o the rlver, the ground lias Ihh'11 threshed over Beveral linies. It is nol a 1 1 ■ queetlon, and t hc only thing tu be guldeti by is precedent. What otli-er places can dn. Ann Arbor can d i. Then' is only one state in the uninn that prevenís eities from running their sewers Into rivera, namely, Xew Jersey. When Michigan becomea as thickiy popnlated as tliat state, and lias as maiiy lactories, then tile sanie step may be tafeen bere, bnt it cannot opérate aiíainst eities that have airea. ly blWhed thelr aewers. And then, too, there are varloui ways ol disposing of seweran'e. Sonie eities (ilter it aüowing the liquida to flow away, w'nüe Ihe siiliils are cartcd off or borned tui). The crylng noecssity at present is s u,rs. and the (Uestions appertainIng therein can all be settled lierc as tlie.v are in all other places where 1hcy have been put in. There are 250,000 different species of hliJTs, it is said, all Ol tlicm aft er the farmer. It costa $28.22 per capita to run the city of New York tinder tho control of Tammany. Freo allver coinage lunacy and free tra do idiocy will prevent the Camplxlls trom boing in it down in OfalO this (all. Dld one dollar ever buy more of the general neceasltiea and convenienees of life tlian it does now? If so. when was it? Ex-Presidont Cleveland is now smirking anil sniiling. and casting amorous glancee boward Tammany. Can he cut out D. B. HUI? Well, hardly. The Australian parliament is Beriously considering the questton of femalr Buffrage, and it is t.hought that women -will be nllowod fco vote in that country. Honpstly, now, has the democratie party ever been known to establish or oarry out any reforma, elther great or small? If BO, picas enumérate some of theni. Tf thero was a prohlbltory duty on pome kinds of yarna - democratie yarns about the hoalth of the gecretary of state, for instanco - it would be a fine thing. It is estimated by men in posltion to jndge that Washtenaw connty will be in dein for running expenses close on to $50.000 by next December. Is it economy? Is it good business jttdgment? Tlíe American hog will now be admitted to Franco. This means the genoine American lwg, and not its human imitators. Tho Yankee liever f.iüs in eecuring the right of way it wil] be noted. Oen. Benj. Franklin Kelly, who raised the first regiment of loyal troops south of Mason and Dixon's ine, and who served in the Union army Ul through the late war of the rebelion, died last Tliursday, at Oakland, Md., aged 84 yeare. The adoption of the authors' copy■irht law by the last eoaigress has Kien eelebrated by a coojtregatlon of uit hors in England. Lovers of booka vill now have to iay more to gatisty licir thirst than tiiey have had to ïeretofore. Xo more ltterary piracy. The ratio of almsliouse paupers n 1880 to the total population was 1 to 7Ö8. census of 1890 made it 1 to 857. The, paupers have not ncreascd as fast as the population. Now let oongress prohibit pauper imntigration, and the country wil! be far Tetter ofi', witib a far lower ratio. Tlie Ohio (Jatnocpartlc state convenvontion at Cleveland, that renominatmI iov. Campbell last week -was a ïarmonious gatherlng, says the Free ['reïis. Yes, the harmony was quite KJtieeable. It was the sort that Be■ïires democratie victories down in .Mississijijii, etc., the harmony of the shot gun. The rcpuhlictm party, ever gince it was bom adder tbe oaks at Jackson lias been successful in cotntending for a soun.l governmont, a sound currency imd a sonnd business ljasis for tho entire country. Onder the sound pol icy of tho rapmbllc-an party, the natloi has íloarished as lias DO otJier natioi in tihe worid. ís it safe to cbange it policy now? 'i';iin: afboat It. At tlie fall election of lStCO most o til!' saloon keepers of Michigan con tntmted $5 earh lo the campaign fuñí of the democratie party, making a sun of upwards ol $40,000. In considera tion tbat party, if miccesstnl, ngree to ï'e-duce the Uquor tax trom $500 t $300. It i.iid not keep iis promise N. . i'i ■ .-.il (in keepers want lo know wii u tiiry contributed the funda í i and where the ïimiiey i? The colored people, throngh the Na tion. il Emancipation Monument A ,-u-i ition, propose to erect a Bupur monument 71 feel hlgli, in the Expo titlon grounds, commemorative of th emancipation of the iiegro race. Th planj iirovi i.' for a huge stone plint surmounted by a negro soldier, ani eurrounded at the base by bronz statnea of Lincoln, Lovejoy, Job Brown. Garrison, Phillips and or three otnera prominent in theeman cipíition movement. If McKinhy should happen to b defeated In Ohio it would drive Ui (lismayed republicana lnto the Blain cani]). On the contrary. il' McKinle shonld pull through he would be Btumbllng-bloob in the way of lx( Harrieon and I'.iaine. Much depem on tii ■ oasl nf the dte tliis year In th l'.urkryc Btate. Travers.' l'.ay Eagli Ali. that "if." it haa long stoo in the wiay cd democratie aacceas, an t:i!i stMiiis there. McKlnley will no "be a st uinbMng block in the way" i anybolly. but he will be the next go ernor of Ohio, and will lidr iu to pow er over a Campliell also. Yon muy squirm and yon muy fiRgor- Do whatever olse you will: But the sumar bowl is biggel Sinco McKinley passed thc bilí. -Whteling Intelligenetr, Tlicy arpear to have changed from rug stores to jug stores, out in Kanis. II' Mr. Blaine woald only dle, wiíat aoarce o f comfort it ■would lx1 to the emocratlc and miwwnmp presa. DM yon Dotlce tl' erllence Ín Oblo, Grover? They didn't cvcn mcntion our name. They were too busy haríoiüzins: - "wld búllete." Tho last tegislature, ohoeen In the riterest of "eoonomy and reform," apicnt more money than any previous iglalatnre ever lid. If the bllUon dollar congreas liad not Ihtii preceded by a two-penny conreas, it would n t havr liad sncU a load to Bhoulder. Mrs. (ov. Campbell, of Oblo, U said to be a txMter polltlcían than the (ov. enor, hlmself. And yet 1 h.it inay not be any great praiso for her. On Jnly lat there was $754,349,7."1 in cash in the I". S. treasury, at Yns'aiiiííton, D. C. The "agin the overnment" liara shouid takc some t.her tac i. Our export trade was to decline iner tlic McKtnley law. yet the exporte f Tjread-etnHe alone for .Tune, show n increaso of $2,364.483 over the same uouth lasi ycnr. Tlu' lasi congrega paid fí $265,726,77.48 oí the public dobt dnring the vo last yeara ol its exlstence, orer 10,500,000 raoh month. Please noto hat ye billion dollar howlers. The eustoins reoeipte lor the past Toar were $10,000,000 less than for in prevlome year. Au act of the biion dollar congress, my dear demoratic brotlwr. l'arnoll and tlic ivomaii wbo is now Irs. l'ariit'll aro coming to Amorica o regata their standing. Tliey wlll lip up. They bet ter stay at home uid kivp tjuii-t . ■Vhon we ptokcd up the 'NYyandotte ïerald the other day, it was "vvitli ooks of surprise ttaat we filanced over ts columns. It has beien completely nctaniiorphosniil. It is now in eiht page paper aiul brigrht as a dollar. Hon. James 8. Clarkson, having reurnol from Europe says: "1 am nare eonvinced than ever that the "McKinloy tarifi law is lor ns the best piece of leuislation congress has enu-.v.l iu inany yeara." Tiiose whD are acquainteJ Wlth Capt. Manly, and know his personal habits, Will novor believe the assertion of Dr. Shank about his extravagauee, and Uteged talse Btatementa Ho has always lived an honorable, ipright liíe, and has nevar been glven o extravagance or mlerepreeentation n any line, except being perhaps too ïasty eometímes. No ono in Ann Ar)or, not even tihose wlio porsonally llsllfce the Captain, wiil for a moment entertain any Btatementa eöectlng his nt'giity and tiuthfulnoss. Xo, Dr. liank, wtiabever els' niay be said oï 3apt. Manly, he is not a liar or a Ependthrift. Tnere are people In this city who know Sbank, and if it comes to a question of veracity between the twc the tleclalan will be made ho quiek that t will makt' Shank's head Bwlm. Oomm&n&ant .Manly gaye he removed tbe dead eata Irom the neglected conoers of ttoe Soidior's Home and kopt tihe macbjoery clean. Was it this kind of reform that the democratie board of nwuiagers couldn't stand?- Detroit Tribune. It seems a-s though Capt. Manly had been in that party lenig enough to know that to wash 'up would lx1 fatal.