Free wool debate stirs fear among manufacturers
The Springfield Union questions why supporters of free wool fear advocacy. It recalls last year's clash when Davy Harrrster urged Whitman to drop the wool manufacturers' tax argument. The piece attributes opposition to tax removal to threats from the wool growers ring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield Union
Davy Harrpster
Ohio Wool Growers’ Association
Whitman
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Secretary of the Treasury
OuTHWAITE Bill Advances in Senate Report on Railroads
The Senate committee on Pacific railroads unanimously backs the OuTHWAITE Bill, praising its balance for debt payment to railroads and government safeguards. It urges swift action to ease relations between roads and federal authorities amid immigration and tariff debate. The piece also criticizes proposals to broaden contract labor prohibitions and highlights calls for enforcement and source controls.
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Senate Committee On Pacific Railroads
Congress
Special Commission
Porters Joy Over Senate Tariff Bill Contrasts Kansas Stand
Editor Porter of the New York Press praises a Senate tariff measure as beneficial to manufacturers and laboring men. Senator Plump of Kansas opposes a 50 percent sugar cut without offset by free fence wire. The piece warns the bill is far from unanimous and criticizes plans to outline its details as risky and muddled.
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Porter
New York Press
Washington
Plump
Kansas
New York Tribune
Chicago
Buncombe
Tribune
Tariff Burden on Grain Bags Hits California Farmers Hard
Pacific coast grain growers suffer under tariff rules with high bag costs. California farmers pay about two cents per sack to a jute ring led by the California Jute Mill Company, costing California grangers roughly 400000 yearly on grain bags. Minnesota farmers ship wheat in bulk to avoid bag costs. The Mills bill seeks to place jute sacks on the free list, led by L P Drex as a prominent figure.
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Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Minnesota
California
California Jute Mill Company
California Grangers
L. P. Drex
Cali
California granger decries jute ring tariff impact
A California granger argues that the jute monopoly takes more from farmers each year than it costs for clothing. He predicts tariff reform sentiment will shift in his direction as this policy evolves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fornia
California
Begging Circulars Rise From Republican League Heads
A confidential appeal from Albert Daggett depicts the Republican League of the United States as vast and hungry for funds. It claims 6000 branch leagues and over 750000 voters, urging subscriptions to support campaigns led by James P. Foster and others against Cleveland’s tariff policies.
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United States
Baltimore
Democratic League
Louispurry
Connecticut
Merchants’ Exchange Bank of New York
Harrison and Morton
James P. Foster
Daggett
Mr. Foster
Louisbury
Daccett
Foster
DaGeett
Pennsylvania
League of Republican Clubs
Albert Daggett
New Street
New York
Sir
Republican League of the United States
League
James P. Fosterr
Paineas
Louispury
Merchants’ Exchange National Bank
Andrew B. Humphrey
Broadway
Ernst Nathan
Republican League
Fifth Avenue
Harrison
Morton
Grover Cleveland
Lowell's Political Essays reviewed by Tavern er
The piece surveys Mr. Lowell's political essays from the Civil War era and Reconstruction, noting their historical interest and literary style. It cautions that the collection leans polemical and places emphasis on portraits of Seward Douglass Lincoln and McClellan with some current political predictions, while highlighting moments of conciliation and calls for civil service reform. It ends with a humorous aside on plumbers wealth and a critique of a vine-covered Arlington Street fence masking a temperance issue.
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Lowell
New York
Lowe
LowElt
Mr. LowEll
Lower
Lowing
Lincoln
Sew-Ard
Seward
Chicago
White House
Lincey
Dovn G.lass
Lowellt
South
North
Lowetu
Johnson-Seward
Blair
Hoar
Civil Service
Congress
Tey
Button makers win tariff case noted as case in point
The passage critiques protectionism, arguing the high tariff system lets manufacturers plunder each other while harming consumers, citing East hampton and Samuel Williston as an illustrative case in point of the Williston button business.
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Easthampton
Samuel Williston
Williston
Architecture vs. display in Boston skyline clash
In Boston the Beacon Tremont corner rises with glass and iron, dwarfing neighboring architecture. The writer warns loftier yet out of scale buildings spoil light, air, and streetscape, urging restraint and harmony over showy facades and excessive window space. A local plumber adds a brass sign spectacle, signaling emphasis on visibility in an aristocratic Back Bay.
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Beacon and
Tremont Streets
Tremont
Beacon Streets
Back Bay
Current Comment on Mills Bill Excuse for Shutdowns
The piece argues that protected manufacturers dodging tariff bounties use the Mills bill as a pretext for plant shutdowns. It claims such excuses are politically timed before elections and recalls market gluts over the past dozen years, noting little chance of Senate passage.
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Senate
N. Y. World
Protection and Bounty in Tariff Politics
The piece argues tariffs are inflated and “bounty” payments enrich trusts. It credits Cleveland Democrats with cutting unjust bounties, while condemning Republicans for backing high subsidies to monopolists. The notice reflects party rhetoric in a Democratic vs. Republican framing.
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Democratic Party
Cleveland
Republican Party
N. Y
The Uncrowned King Blaine Courted by New England Republicans
The Springfield Republican notes a plan by New England Republicans to honor Blaine widely with receptions from Connecticut to Boston. It says party leaders push Blaine as an unofficial king while critics warn the American spirit opposes such demonstrations and leadership.
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Blaine
New England
Connecticut
Providence
Worcester
Boston
Lowell
Lawrence
Burden
New York
King
Kaiser
Republican Party
Thurston
Springfield Republican
Ind
A Chance for Senator Hoar Over Canadian Money Dispute
A Philadelphia Telegraph item notes Winnipeg banks refuse to honor American dollars above 95 cents in silver, prompting talk of retaliatory measures by Senators Stewart and Hoar. It frames Manitoban silver skepticism as a national issue with possible implications for trade and fishing rights.
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Senator Hoar
Dominion of Canada
Winnipeg
Man
Senate
House
Stewart
Nevada
Hoar
Massachusetts
Philadelphia Telegraph
General Harrison's Worthless Bid in Tax Policy
A Times (Ind.) critique cites Harrison's pledge to carry party control and defer tax reform. The piece recalls over $900 million in yearly tax excess since 1880, argues Republicans offered no relief and even raised indirect taxes, calling the pledge worthless.
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Harrison
Mr. Harrison
Congress
Republican Party
N. ¥. Times
Ind
Haynes Chosen to Lead New Hampshire GOP at Sept Convention
At a Concord meeting the Republican State executive committee selected M. A. Haynes of Lake Village to preside at the September 4 state convention. Plans for the campaign’s start were discussed and a grand State mass meeting was set for Weirs in early September.
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New Hampshire
Concord
N.H
Republican State Committee
M. A. Haynes
Lake Village
Weirs
All Sorts of Social Quips and News Bits
A collage of brief satirical lines and assorted notes from a late 19th or early 20th century publication. It mentions politics, labor, immigration, drink, education, and humor drawn from cities like Astoria, Lynn, Atlanta, and Missouri. Includes quips about McKinley, college life, and a prison inmate rumored to be of noble birth.
Notable figures visit Saratoga and London era society
Lieutenant T. J. Clay, champion U S army rifle shot and grandson of Henry Clay, visits Saratoga. Ex Speaker J. Warren Keifer and Colonel Samuel J. Menard depart for health reasons. Edward A. Oldham becomes World Charleston editor. Jay Gould plans Adirondack and Catskills fishing trips. Miss Katie Beach, Washington belle, becomes engaged to Mr. Thompson after previous broken engagement. London Court Journal describes Carmen Sylva’s poet’s chamber, a hedged reed room with birds, moss couch, and rock desk for verse.
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T. J. Clay
United States Army
Saratoga
Henry Clay
J. Warren Keifer
Ohio
Adams House
Blaine
Senate
Samuel J. Menard
North Conway
Edward A. Oldham
Daily
Hot Blast
Anniston
Ala
The
World of Charleston
S. C
Henry Clay Lukens
New York
Jay Gould
Adirondacks
Catskills
Mr. Gould
Katie Beach
Washington
Mr. Thompson
Miss Beach
Alan Arthur
Mitch
Beach
Arthur
Europe
Miss Behan
Woathy
London
Katherine
Gaiety Theatre
London Court Journal
Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Buit
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Boston Post
Post Publishing CO. Publishers
Milk
Washington Street
WAT Us Co
Post Publishing Company
Broadway and
Wall Street
Bridgman, Birminghamm & Co
Corcoran Building
Fifteenth Street
Congressional Committee
Italy
Federation of Labor
Gloucester
McApoo
New Jersey
State Department
Boston Journal
West
Williston Mills
Williston Seminary
Hampshire
Mt. Tom
Easthampon
Samuel WinListon
Point
Samuel Wiluiston
Committee of Ways and Means
Mr. Williston and Company
Douglaass
Stephen A. DouGlaAss
Army
Navy
Arlington Street
Commonwealth
State House
Taverner
Brussels
Tokio
Astoria
John
Jim
William
Lynn
Zweibeern
N. Y. Sun
Georgia
Missouri
Sam Jones
Jones
McKinley
Atlanta
Crawford County
Ill
New York World
Bill Nye
Bill
Bret Hart
Mark Twain
Puck
Lord Leveson
Inquirer
Illinois
John Kenwood
Nashville
Tenn
George
Her Majesty
Her
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