Free Trade Talk Dominates Georgia Press in 1887
In Sumter County and beyond, editorials clash over tariff policy, inter state commerce rules, and political alignments. Reports cite Rhode Island Democrats, tariff reform debates, and droughts in Texas while Mormon revival and a Georgia land boom draw attention alongside exchanges on wages under free trade and protective tariffs.
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Macon
Telegraph
Georgia
J. F. Hanson
Macon Telegraph
Atlanta
Camilla Clarion
Major Hanson
Columbus
Young
Major
City of Americas
Sumter
State of Georgia
Swenty
Sumter County
Emily Carter
E. Taylor
J. F. Markest
Sumter Unty
Letyvers
Svumrer County
J. H. Allen
Gusaia Tatum
Im A. O. Speer
Summer County
Z. F. Markett
M. K. Ryland R
Petilieper
A. O. Speek
W. J. Harper
W. H. Harper
Court of Ordinary
Aaid
D. Speer
Free trade taxes would burden the South more, newspaper argues
The Macon Telegraph reprints a National Republican piece asserting direct taxes under free trade would fall on population and hit the South harder than the North. It argues tariffs already make a surplus, predicts no immediate direct tax danger, and claims under free trade the public would see true tax amounts unlike under protection.
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Macon Telegraph
National Republican
Congress
Staw
Protectionlats
South
Telegraph
The Liver as Housekeeper and Dr Pierce Remedy
An allegory warns that a sleeping liver invites disease. Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is praised as a liver remedy and blood cleanser, claimed to cure headaches skin diseases ulcers scrofula and other blood taints from a sluggish liver. The Chattanooga Times notes over 100 Mormon elders in the South amid regional tensions.
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Tam
Pierce
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