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Work For The Common Council

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
April
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The new common council will have important work to do. There is the duty of appointing a city treasurer. So fiar as we know, there is no objection to ihe reappointinent of Mr. Moore, and ihe ordinary custom demanda it. He ïas just become used to the work, and ought to be continued. Then the ques;ion of having a pólice that will make the saloons fearful of violating the laws is important. The council is called Republican, and some Democrats are calculating on its failure to enforce the laws. The responsibility, they say, rests on the Republican party, and they are chuckling to themselves over the predicament in which they think it leaves the Republican party. If the laws shouldbe enforced, then the Democratie party will be still more solid with the saloon influence, if such a thlng be possible ; and if the laws are not enforced, then they can point to it to tbe detriment of the Republicans. Well, if the common council is truly Republican, the party will have to shoulder the responsibility, we suppose; and if it fails to do its duty, it deserves to suffer. It would eeem like suicidal policy for the party to act in an uncertain manner, or to act in the interests of the saloon. There is the question of providing for the health of the city. We ought to have a medical health officer at a salary of $2,000 per year who should devote hia whole time to the health interests Of the city. It would be a grand stroke Sor the prosperity of the city ; and un!ess it be done, we shall expect to continue chronicling deaths from scarlet fever and diphtheria. Typhoid fever, too, will bicorne more destructive in Ann Arbor unless the nuisances of privy-vaults and cess-pools are abolished.

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Ann Arbor Register