Sauce For The Goose And Gander
At th-e council meeting Monday even:jL; little was done outeide oí the oJ-dinary routine. The niucu discussed ord:nance s'hutting out foreign ftnms irom öoing business jiere by solicitatiion, was laid lor two weeks. It seems as though this ordinance, f passed, ougiib Va include otlier business tlhan toundry. For Lnstaoce, there is some $100,000 or inore invested by Ann Arbor ..■itizens w. tlbo printing and binding trade iai thits city, and yet tolichtors irom Detffolt and Kalamazoo, by oiiering tjribes to our couaty oificers' in tfee way of presents, and perhaps otto er inducements to others, secure a gneater share oL tihe blank books used iln this city, and also all legal olanksOui' home business men pay ttue taxes of course, and foreign houses wno pay nootBiimg, and help no one in aay get the trade. If one itaduistry is tio be protected every ilidustry s'hould be. Even t(he cürcuit court calendaré w are told, are prönted in Detroit "Wliat's sauce for the goose is sauc for the gander."
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