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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
6
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition ended a week ago and St Louis responds with sustained vigor. City leaders note stronger ambition, ongoing investment, and no decline in business, crediting conservative financing and steady growth rather than a boom. The fair is seen as an incident of co ordinate development, not a temporary spike.
The President argues prosperity justifies permanent improvements like ships forts buildings and waterways while warning Congress to guard against excess. The Treasury Secretary reports a deficit of 41,770,571 for the year and says public improvements must be matched by increased revenues, implying higher taxes as the cost of a vigorous admin.
The piece critiques Senator Platts bill reducing congressional representation tied to suffrage, and notes it as a Republican Club York City product unlikely to advance this session. It urges responsible police conduct, calls out alleged false testimony at hearings, and stresses discipline for liars rather than those who clouted. It adds an ironic appeal for more babies, urging mothers to bolster the nation and even suggesting Mrs Chadwick as a Napoleoness of finance.
In a message to Congress President Roosevelt emphasizes frugality in federal spending. He calls for reductions and efficiency, framing it as essential to national welfare and fiscal discipline.
An amused note accompanies a playful verse about the opening of the East Boston tunnel. The writers admit the poem is rough and note the rhyme challenge with funnel and gunwale, choosing gunwale as the rhyme and asking readers not to judge their poetic skill too harshly.
Congressman Roberts urges Washington to fund action against gypsy and brown tail moths. He introduces two measures totaling 265000 dollars for extermination and study under the Agriculture Secretary. States and municipalities demand national aid as pests spread interstate and defy local efforts. The State Board of Agriculture backs federal intervention.
Washington December 7 congressmen who have visited Panama return impressed with the advisability of a sea level waterway in place of the lock and dam canal authorized by Congress.
The Twentieth Century Club announces a winter play series at Jordan Hall beginning Dec 13 with Riders to the Sea and The Twisting of the Rope, then Sister Beatrice on Feb 7 and Enemy of the People on Apr 25. Howell Hansel and wife, noted animal lovers, share stories of a stray cat, and Yaacob Strauss offers a seasonable verse. Charles W Leadbeater to lecture on color and thought forms at Beacon Hill Club rooms in Copley Square.
A Melrose official, Alderman Charles J. Barton, was seen on the street wearing a pansy boutonniere picked from his garden, as Huntington Chambers Hall hosts Sunday and Wednesday events. The piece notes Melrose as a growing town and Cambridge’s sparsity of tramps, while recounting locals who sit by a woodpile hoping for a meal, one claiming travel from California and another predicting a fat dinner after a successful hustle.
In a fever dream during a Civil War night on Union lines, Gerry, a young sentinel, wrestles with fear, hallucinations, and guilt as he clings to a letter from Alice and imagines his friend Bob among the enemy. A mate’s real arrival breaks the trance, revealing Alice’s wedding plans and ending Gerry’s delirium.
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