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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1899
Page
6
The Common Council reduced a 1 million dollar sewer loan and fought to shield firemen salaries from cuts. Debate centered on allocations for sewer work, hall repairs, and city payrolls with calls for itemized spending and wider wage reductions.
The speech decries imperialism and warns against tying moral mission to conquest. It argues the United States should expand influence without violating constitutional rights or the rights of others, and condemns coercive rule as inconsistent with Christian principles. It cites missions success without annexation and warns of dangerous consequences in the Philippines.
Speakers praise American responsibility toward the Philippines and Cuba after the Spanish American War. They urge just treatment, moral uplift, and the spread of schools and churches, while praising citizen effort and unity under the flag.
A speech condemns expansion as satanic and urges rejection of annexing the Philippines. It argues that imperialism harms constitutional government, inflates military power, and corrupts religious ideals by claiming divine mission through foreign conquest.
Dr. Clark urges expansion as a universal rule based on Christ’s teachings. He cites growth from Maine to Massachusetts, Vermont, the West, Canada, and worldwide, arguing America must extend aid to Cubans Filipinos and Porto Ricans, not conquest. He praises Britain for just rule in India and Africa and warns against greed.
General Gomez hosted a reception at the Cuban club for Robert Porter and party. Attendees included Captain Campbell and Senor De Quesada. celebrations featured American and Cuban flags, speeches praising U S and Cuba, and a late ballroom dance with Cuban dancers.
The passage argues that associating slavery with church and state complicates Protestantism, warning that religion does not advance when tied to state power. It urges Endeavorers to resist political deception, insisting Christianity must expand through freedom and virtue, not worldly political tactics.
Alderman John Soley is laid to rest after funeral services at Masonic Hall Chelsea attended by many prominent residents. Eminent Commander W Mertin led the ceremony with tribute from Rev. R Perry Bush. Pallbearers included city officials and Masonic representatives. coffin interred at Woodlawn Cemetery.
James Douglass, an officer at the State Prison in Charlestown, had the end of the third finger of his right hand bitten off while trying to separate two fighting dogs on Main Street at about 6:30 last evening.
The New York copper sector surged with Calumet & Hecla hitting a new high near 775 while other names like Centennial Boston & Montana and Quincy rose. Miners' Company stock sold vigorously after a 20 subscription with high demand, as market chatter linked to Standard Oil rumors and Utah prospects.
The February 2 report lists the highest and lowest prices for the day along with the closing prices and the bid and asked figures.
The United States transport Sherman, dressed in bunting with fresh paint, sailed from Brooklyn at 4:30 PM bound for the Philippines. It carries about 2000 people including crew, the Third Infantry, a battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry, and officers' families. The ship anchored off Liberty Island and will set sail tomorrow morning.
New letters emerge linking Commissary General Eagan to vituperative remarks about General Miles. Robert B Roosevelt, former Holland minister, calls the commissary’s July work shameful and dishonest. A reply from General Hagan labels Roosevelt an unmitigated liar and accuses him of calumny.
Miss Huster Parker longtime housekeeper for ex President Buchanan during his administration died yesterday in Lancaster Pennsylvania from old age. She was in her th year.
London February 2 The new United States ambassador Mr Joseph H Choate will take possession of the former Curzon residence in Carlton House Terrace if reports prove accurate.
St Mary's Men's Club under W W Grundy presented a minstrel show at Lyceum Hall East Boston last evening with about 1600 attendees. The program included songs by J Antrobus and Gertrude Arling a dramatic sketch A Pair of Lunatics by C Horsford and Amy McNeill and a troupe of fifty black faces. Horsford served as interlocutor with Ed Thompson UH R Roberts and OC Long in charge of the bones and Fred Grant bh Sawin and W S Foster in charge of the tambos.
Washington February 2 The court martial record for General Eagan is now with the President for final action. Worthington attorney for General Eagan filed with the adjutant general the supplementary plea granted to logge af was an elaboration of points made before court martial.
John J. McNally's A Reign of Error expands to a grand spectacle with a doubled company rehearsing in New York after a week at the Boston Theatre starting Feb 18 and a week in Providence. It will open Hammerstein's Victoria in New York to run the season, as Sousa composes a hymn from Lincoln's favorite poem to be sung at the Boston Theatre opening of The Siridex Etec.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Bull's Cough Syrup will positively cure chest colds. The product is priced at 25 cents and marketed for quick relief.
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