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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
December
Year
1889
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Public Domain
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cians are willing that anything may be said about them so long as the trulh is not told. The Free Press evidently forgoi all about this in its trealment of the Ann Arbor postoffice question last week, and furnished the people of Ann Arbor and the constituents of Congressman Allen with an unusual amount of solid truth in its column article. Of course Allen does not read the Free Press and so he will not be likely ever to hear what mean things are being said about him. In another column we print a stateJinent by the president of the Mormon cburch for the associated press. It presents the Mormon side of the question in it.s lust llght. Do the iactsin the case bear out the president's view ? We do not believe they do. There has been entirely too much testimony to the contrary by persons who are known to be perfectly reliable in every respect to warrant one in believing that such is the case. It is not reasonable to suppose that where there are so many and serioue complaints by responsible people that there is not a great deal worthy of the most severe condemnation. A:s a resultof TnE REGisTER'sagitation of the sewer question last fall,the council ahked that parties interested phould suomit HugjiPstions and plans for consideration at the Becond rfguUr meeting of that body in December. That meeting occurs a week from next Monday night. It seems to us that it is the duty of the Board of Health to see that suitable plans are presented at that meeting. No other question, when it comes to matters of health, so much concerns the peopleof Ann Arbor as does that of sewers and the Board of Health ahould see that every effort possible is made to further the matter, and to adTise aa to what is the best method of sewerage to adopt. Monday's Free Press gave an outline of the Eev. Dr. Ramsay's eloquent sermón last Sunday on the evils of the liquor business. Alongside of this report was published a list of over onethousand saloons doing business in Detroit. The Free Press pretends to be anti-prohibition, y et no temperance fanatic ever preached a more telling sermon tbn did that paper when it placed those two reporta side by side. The Free Press evidently has since come to realize that the effect of such an ar rangeaaent is dangerous to the liquor traffic and to the democratie party whicb, in Detroit, is sustained by the liquor element, and hastens to say that the plaiing of the two reports together wás due to an accident. Of course the Free Press could not be supposed to supplement intentionallv any such plea as that made by Mr. Riimsay. It would imjure "the party" though it would benefit humanity. Thk decisión of Judge Anderson of 8alt Lake City, refu-iiivr eitizenship to Mormons who have taken ihe endowment house oaths is a severe blow to Mormonism. The Judire, in summing np the case, assails, in a very derided way, the loyality of t he Mormon church toourgovernment. Heclaimsthat in the endowment house, the oaths as administerpd, bind the maker to avenge the death of certain so-called prophete and to teach their childien to dispise our government and to oppose :t at all times; and he further claims that in no case bs a Mormon preacher ever been known to advise the people to obey a lw of the United States that in any way confleted with their practices. Such a state of affairs should be dealt with in just the way Judge Anderson has seen fit to treat them. It is only by so doing that the Mormon people can be forced to respect our government and obey its Uws. _______ Pkesjdent Harrison's first message given to Congress Tuesday is an intelesting and readable document, and worthy of the most earnest consideratroB of everyone. The president has preeented in plain, concise, business-like terms the present condition of our country in respect toitsgovernmental manaeement and resources. Inasmuch as the republican congressmen are almost unanimously in sympathy with the wise and progressive vit-wMi the president, and the party has for the first time in many years gained control of both housesofeonaress, ■we may expect such efficiënt Io;islation as will promote the peace and honor of our country and the prosperity and security of the people. The full text of the message is given elsbwhere, and ita plans for dealing wtth the questions of finance, tariff reform, pensions, education, the southern question, foreign affairs, and other important matters, will be read with interest.

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