Enforce The Law Or Wipe It Out

Il m unulci-stooil that Callaban & Pb. luivc bluffed -olie Aan Arbor city ofii'.-ials off In respect to eollecflng t'lie $10 a day lteense th.-it oor eity ordfoanoe saya sliall ba paid by people wdiiO tome . linre to do business temjjorarlly. 'i'iiat firm threatened to test tli.e constHutiojiality of the law, i: is siiil, and t'iuis the jnaltter fiuled. Wih.y ivot tet them mak-e theto bluff gwod ? If t.hore is such a Daw npoa our local statute book aiiyd it ís yaluless, it should be pirove-a so. Ii tiie law is good it should be eaforced. Our mercliants pay heavy taxes tto do business. They are ontitled to prot-ectdon. No outsidei firm has a rigtit to come in liere and iake the cream of t)he business for a few tlays and tlhen skip out. Callahan & Co. takel roni this city thousands oi dollars eveiry year a.nd never pay one penny revenue to ou'f city treasury. Such a thing is rank injuatice. ' It Is too much on the hog plan, und! it oug'ht to be etopped. A lawyer, and a good lawyer, too, rimarked to the Courier in effect tliaJ ■the oixtinance taxing tnuisient aders is all riiglit, and can be cato reed. All it needs is a libtle backbone üu the part oí oifilciaüs. Buppo-ing iu was possible for, a Chicago bank to come iln )ie.ne for a few, tlaysiiand g-obble up the creani of the ciity's banking bu.siuess for the yeai-- would not, our mayor filad woiue. way to make it coiitrïbute handsomely to ttoe contingent fund '1 To be eure he would. Many of us feel tbat he ought to be as mucli iu.tere3ted, as mayor, iln other limes as hie would be in the baukiiig business, and tluat it its his du'ty to liave all the ordinances oí tlhe city enforced." Callahan & Oo. sliould be made to pay $10 a day as vhe law Bays they shall do, or else made to figh. Ii thea'e is any diïfidemce on the part of the city's counsel to pusliing this case, there lar plenty of inoney to procuira the best counsel In the state, withowt expense to the city, it' need be, to test the validity öf thw ordimaiice. The booksellrs in tliis city are on the asse&sment roll on stocks alone for abouifc $25,000 anid pay at the pate oí $15 oa eaclv $1,000 assessmtmt. One of these men, who is assessed' upwards of $17,000 :iltogétber can not buy a book of Gallanam & Co. for his cuatomers. How is that for monopoly ? When this ordhiance was passed lt was pranounceil t-onstitutlional. and ttoeme are plenty Of good legal minds wiho pronoumce it consititutioniil r.ow. iV better opportunity to test the law wlll never otciur. Lets have the contest ajid find out wlhether there is any protectiDai for our business intei'ests or molt.