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THE ARBOR DEMOCRAT. VOLUME XXX. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 25, 1898 NUMBER 31 If Jim and Julius could place an es- be to enhance rather than to diminish Are these the utterances of a loyal Re- date of the Pingree people. General gether with a good chorus, the person- THE DEMOCRAT. timate of what Hie people of Michigan the value of gold, for the demand for publican? * Spalding, as usual, is on the fence with nel of which, with other participants. it would thereby be increased. 5. He believes in a tax reform which one leg "safely" on each side. Mr. will be announced later. Watch out PUBLISHED EVERY FBIDAY. actually think of them by the side of the fairy talcs repdrtel by their Let us recapitulate. We are agreed will be more than a reform in name— Sawyer has taken his stand with the space in another part of this paper. CHAS. A. WARD, EDITOR AND PROP. "trusted agents," tftey would doubtless with the gold men that prices aie de- a reform which will shift the burden straight line Federalists with an em- have a clearer conception of magnifi- termined by the value of money an:l of taxation to the place where it really phasis which will make him the leader THE COMMON COUNCIL. TERMS: $1.00 PER YEAR. cent distances. that the value of money depends upon belongs, and he accuses the leaders of of anti-Pingree sentiment in this sec- the Republican party in Michigan of its quantity. tion of the state and their logical can- Kegular Meeting at Council Chamber It is not against the useful and neces- Then prices must be determined by conspiring with the corporations to pre- didate for the congressional nomination. Monday Evening. LABEL> sary functions of corporations that the the available quantity of tlie material vent these reforms. The contest henceforth will be between' people protest, tout against the danger- which the private citizen can convert All of the symptoms revealed by this Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Wedemeyer. The meeting was called to order by at will into money wliicli is legal ous and unwarranted usurpation of diagnosis are radically Democratic and Spalding will be left on the fence when Clerk Mills, Aid. Cady being then : tender in tlie payment of any and all chosen president pro tern. Mayor His- Entered »t Ann Arbor Postoffice as Secoafl power over t he rights and property it is not surprising that the federal the delegates are chosen. debts. The only material w itch tne cock's veto message was then read as Class Mail Matter. of individuals, which are frequent in private citizen can thus -convert i nto doctors who have been watching their the history of the more powerful cor- legal tender money at pleasure in this development with anything but friend- STATEMENT REFUTED. follows: OFFICE: TIMES BLDG., 8. MAIN ST. porations. country is sold. Then it follows that ly eyes are alarmed lest the germs of "I hereby disapprove that part of the available quantity of g id must Democratic contagion infect the rank I', ol M. Students Not largely Sons your proceedings of the 7th inst., relat- determine prices, and prices will be and file of the Republican party. ing to the adoption of a resolution re- While Editor O'Donnell is ringing the high or low as that quaniity is large and Daughters of Wealthy Parents " CLUBBING LIST. changes upon his "economical" harp quiring the publication of the names •ew small. SPALDING'S MENDACITY. At a farmers' institute held at Owos- of all parties receiving* help from the the people will remember that this These are conclusions which cannot so last week the opinion was expressed YOU can secure the Democrat and same old chestnut has been played for Congressman Spalding's speech at the city. The poor fund is raised for the the following.publications for be questioned. The only way in which Postoffice club banquet in Ann Arbor by one of the speakers that the stu- purpose of aiding those of our citizens one year as follows: thirty yeurs by the Republican party prices can be permanently raised is by dents at the University of Michigan in Michigan, and that taxes and in- last Friday night was largely devoted in distress and while some claim it as Detroit Tribune il-20 an increase in the world's stock of to squaring himself with the assembled are for the most part sons and daught- a right others ask it only in their mis- Twice a Week Free Press. 1.40 creased appropriations have been chas- gold, or the reinforcement of that ers of wealthy parents, the implication ing each other up hill all this time. constituency. With this we have no fortune. The former class would be in- Michigan Farmer 1.50 metal by some other suitable material being that the children of farmers different to this publicity, and it might Michigan Farmer and Cleve- fault to find. But a few of the state- which may be freely converted into ments which the general considered have small share in the benefits of deter some deserving- people from ap- land Daily World 2.00 New York Brokers made $7,000,000 oat money on the same terms as gold. The higher education. This is a widely pre- St. Nicholas 3.25 of the government on the sale of the necessary to complete his task were plying for what was really needed and Harper's Magazine 4.00 silverites insist that silver is the prop- so palpably false and misleading that valent opinion, but one that has often be the cause of great suffering. ^Kansas Pacific. How? The holders >of er material to supplement gold as a been proved to be wholly erroneous. Youths Companion 2.00 the first mortgage ;rot $1.28 for each we cannot suffer them to pa^s unchal- "I believe the poor fund of the city Cosmopolitan 1-50 standard of value and as they have lenged. At the last official canvass of the stu- is expended with reasonable care. •Farm News 1-00 dollar invested. The government held several centuries fo successful bimetal- dents it appeared that the number of the second mortgage and got 48 cents He said that the coinage of silver has From April 1st, 1885, to April 1st, 18S6, Womankind 1-00 lism to back their contention, as against those belonging to any other class, be- there was expended $2,712.51, while from American Poultry Journal 120 on the dollar. The third mortgage not been stopped, but that the Repub- 25 years of gold monometallism to sup- lican administration is going right ing in fact about one-third of the total. April 1st, 1896, to April 1st, 1897, the :New York Tribune 1.26 realized $1.15 on the dollar. This should port the position of the goldites. they Referring to this fact, President Angell realize at least $1,000,000 toward help- along coining silver and that over expenditures were $2,079.22, and the av- Address, have the best of the argument by a sixty million standard silver dollars used the following significant words in erage for the past four years has been ing Mark Hanna prove that God still good big measure. a report to the board of regents: reigns in 1900. ! were added to the circulation in 1897. about $2,100, not an unreasonable sum THE DEMOCEAT, In this he deliberately attempted to de- "Most persons will be surprised to see for a city of our size and population. how greatly the number of farmers' Ann Arbor When Gen. Spalding was painting KLONDYKE SWINDLERS. ceive his hearers. With the exception The monthly report of the commission- of the extremely small amount which children exceeds every other class. If er is filed in the city clerk's office, it that gorgeous picture of prosperity at There is always a fascination to the we assume that the farmers gain their The editor of the Register took four the Republican banquet in Ann Arbor extraction of gold from the hidden re- comes to the mint in unrefined gold is a matter of record and can be ex- columns this week to tell what a mean bullion the government has not added living by manual toil and add to them amined by any of our people interested the other night his perspective w.as not cesses where it has been so carefully the- other classes who unquestionably lot of fellows he has .been consorting broad enough to take in the works of concealed by nature. The mention of an ounce of silver to its holdings since in the matter." with. the Sherman purchasing law was re- support themselves by physical labor, The vote on the passage of the reso- the Michigan Furniture company, gold mining conjures visions )f sudden I estimate that the fathers of 45 per whose employes suffered a 10 per cent, and magical opulence in the minds of pealed in October, 1893. The bullion lution over the mayor's veto was then The Democrat can say on Indisputable purchased under that act is held for cent of the students who reported may taken and stood: Yeas—Aid. Gross- cut in wages just one week before, al- the inexperienced. People who, on all properly be considered as thus gaining authority that the PostSioee club is not though the factory is situated less thun other matters are most careful and the redemption of the treasury notes man, Brown, Soule, Coon, Cady—5. destined to become a mutual admira- which were issued in payment for it.