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Newspaper
Bloomfield Democrat
Location
Bloomfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1893
Page
2
A partisan bulletin urges readers to pay debts to the Democrat paper, call for higher taxes on playing cards and whiskey, and press for tariff reforms. It argues that whiskey and tobacco revenues fund government while wool tariffs lower prices, predicting Republican opposition and widespread dissent over the Wilson tariff bill.
The text contrasts fears of destruction with a vision of a thriving nation. It suggests people dream of ruin and monstrous threats but will wake to a country marked by prosperity, commerce, education, and intelligence.
A Western newspaper reports Carnegie, described as an eastern lord with vast Scottish estate, vocally opposes a bill to cut iron tariffs. It portrays him as profiting from protectionist policy and condemns tariff relief as benefiting foreigners while stating Americans deserve the laws.
Congress met in regular session and the President sent his message immediately after convening. The document is a strong Democratic outline advocating tariff reform, aligned with the Wilson Bill and addressing all government questions. The full text appears in our columns. Read it from start to finish.
A Canapolis editorial roasts protectionist arguments, arguing free trade would ruin farms, mills, and many industries. It contends the nation would suffer without subsidies, citing pig iron, wool, salt, and lumber as doomed under the Wilson bill, while urging self reliance.
An unnamed individual in an industrial area rejects thanks from officials who publish him as incompetent and dependent on government charity, challenging the portrayal and asserting independence from state aid.
William M. Moss of Bloomfield has been appointed supervisor of Indian schools and will leave at week’s end for a tour of Indian schools in the Indian Territory New Mexico Arizona and California. The winter trip is planned with no final assignment announced.
A miscellany section presents verses about signs of fortune and marriage, then a Catherine the Great Voltaire knitting anecdote, followed by crisis reports in Saxony and related notes. Additional items describe a Calumet electric street railway map in Chicago.
The Auckland News recalls a philosophical Maori dispute on cannibalism. Polack argues if enemies are eaten upon capture, others would likewise eat him. A hawk and larger species are cited as counterexamples, then a hog wanders by prompting the judge to test self cannibalism with bait.
Engaging tale claims Bjorn son of Hergolf, a 16 year old Icelandic sailor, first sighted a green coast in 1002 near Newfoundland. Lief Erikson joins to pursue profit, naming land Helleland and Markland, later Vinland the voyage ends with winter at the first anchorage.
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