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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1888
Page
4
In the Moston Post July 3 1888 analysis President Foster of the Republican League derides Pennsylvania protectionists as fat while the Philadelphia Manufacturers Club demands tax cuts and higher duties. The piece laments the Chicago convention wrangling over Harrison’s nomination, suspects England dictated the choice, and questions Elkins influence over the delegates.
Colonel Bon Ingersoll fresh from Chicago opens campaign for Harrison and Morton. He advocates a 108 percent duty on all iron and steel shapes to end foreign competition. The monopoly trust has ordered a lockout as 100,000 workers strike over wage cuts, dampening tariff zeal.
The New York Tribune notes Independents support Cleveland for tariff reform, not due to opposition to Blaine. It recalls George William Curtis's 1876 stance that Independents favor revenue reform, and asserts no masks or disguises in evaluating tariff reform on its merits today.
An East Boston ship builder argues that removing tariffs on raw materials like iron would revive U S shipbuilding. He notes civil war era tariffs pushed costs up, turning yards into repairs and limiting ocean vessels. Freeing raw materials could restore competitiveness and uplift workers.
The Boston board of aldermen joined the common council in approving a city representation at the Ohio centennial in September. The move, previously defeated, was carried by a narrow margin after reconsideration. Critics call it a public-funded junket with no clear local demand or purpose. The tie-breaking vote fell to the alphabetically last yeas member who cast the deciding yes.
The piece traces a shift in agricultural sentiment from protectionist to tariff reform. It notes the New York Tribune and Topsfield Farmers Institute advocating duties on some imports, highlights Minnesota’s GOP drift toward tariff reduction, cites Albert Scheffer Meriam and Governor McGill as examples, and mentions Ohio farm institutes shaping tariff views.
The piece notes a growing break with high tariff ideas across several counties and a rising tariff reform sentiment among iron-working districts. Judge Blandin’s past rulings against rebates illustrate broader shifts. Workingmen’s lodges and cooperatives act as schools of political economy, reshaping views over the past decade. The agricultural districts show educational, aggressive movement building toward a campaign outcome at the polls.
The piece surveys Liberal gains in Ayr and other English bye-elections, noting Conservative unease and the potential for Gladstone to win a parliamentary majority. It contrasts Tory and Liberal Unionist tactics, criticizes factionalism, and questions Republican rhetoric about patriotism and policies amid a charged political climate.
The piece criticizes Republican tactics in the current campaign, arguing they claim exclusive intelligence, loyalty, and patriotism. It notes Warner Miller and Elkins promote this view, while warning of broadening appeals to baser voters. It condemns tariff policies as unjust and harmful to good government.
The July number surveys Macmillan’s unusual items and essays by Pater and Berrill on Charles IX and Lamb, with travel pieces and Henry James’s Reverberator. It highlights Olive Thorne Miller on Representative Women’s Clubs and Mrs. Helen Campbell’s Prisoners of Poverty Abroad, plus Our Day’s symposium on Inspiration and Arnold’s Nineteenth Century reprint.
London revived Double Marriage based on White Lies with Arthur Dacre leading a Prince of Wales's matinée cast. The staging marks a late revised version by Charles Reade, last seen in 1867 at Queen's Theatre with Alfred Wigan and Charles Wyndham in key roles.
A Savannah newspaper argues that cotton planters do not benefit from tariffs on jute bagging and cotton ties. It explains bale pricing already includes non cotton material, and deducting bagging and ties would raise realized cotton price. The piece contends the claim is misleading and repeated in Congress to influence policy.
United States Minister Strauss comes back from Constantinople on three months leave and has made a good impression in the city of the Sultan. A reception will be held for Bishop J. H. Vincent at the New England Chautauqua assembly in Lake View South Framingham on Tuesday evening July 10. Private Secretary Lamont will not take a vacation this summer. his wife and children plan a trip to Cortlandt N Y and then the Maine coast. Colonel Lamont’s duties are heavier since the Chicago convention adjourned. a new plunger from England will try his luck on the turf. He is grandson of Spanish Duke Santonia, 23, educated in England, and will keep race horses with a large income of $800,000 a year. The duke's earlier fortune came from Cuba in tobacco after starting as a Madrid hatter. Mr Robert Louis Stevenson and his party sail from San Francisco aboard Dr Merritt’s Casco, the largest yacht in those waters, for seven months visiting Marquesas Islands, Otaheite, and Honolulu while Stevenson continues his literary work.
A Boston observer notes an open car in the Beacon Street area on the Marlboro Street extension toward Brookline. He discusses transit expansion, local residences, and the impact on city life, with reflections on Ashburton Place and historic estates. He laments manners in public settings and envisions a new travel adviser role for selecting summer resorts in New England.
Corinne leads the Boston Museum audience in Monte Cristo Jr a burlesque melodrama with songs dances and scenery. The piece mocks the Monte Cristo tale with Dantes escaping Chateau d If and returning as a jewel laden Count of Monte Cristo. Strong performances from Miss Crawford and James Sturges plus a clever chorus elevates the show despite weak dramatic footing.
A new old attraction titled Fun in Boarding School was presented at Oakland Garden last evening. Likely Charles Hoyt piece for Minnie Palmer, lively and uproarious with memorable turns. Lisetta Ellani stars as a mischievous pupil with solid support from Jerry McAuliff and a full company remaining for the week.
The Chicago News notes that Western Republicans including Mr. McKinley are not satisfying loyal Republicans with a high tariff and free whiskey platform. The piece suggests possible political surprises at the next election in Minnesota and other areas.
The Chicago Herald argues the Republican platform includes a free whiskey plank. It claims voters should repudiate leaders who endorse it and asserts taxes would cut whiskey and tobacco instead of essentials. The piece challenges McKinley supporters and questions campaign honesty.
The Chicago party convention issued a clear platform insisting on high tariffs as a final good, not merely a means to protection, while acknowledging some Republicans disagree. The party, entangled with trusts and monopolies, shows the influence of those with wealth and power within its ranks.
Robert W. Flack of Buffalo plans a July 4 trial run on rapids ahead of an August 8500 race with Charles A. Percy, aiming seven miles in about half an hour. Ossian Mansfield of Keene NH was found dead by hanging in Beech Hill woods, 50 years old, death by own action. Lucy E. Low sues George H Proctor and Francis Proctor publishers for 5000 for alleged libel in the Cape Ann Advertiser and Times. The temperance crusade likely opens at Portsmouth NH today with over 100 warrants to be served by sheriff, deputies and Portsmouth police. Frank Reed of Worcester Long Distance Telephone Co. probably fatally injured unloading poles.
A collage of anecdotes and brief notes spanning politics, society, and travel. Reflections on politicians, a Chicago bigamist, hair vows for Harrison and Morton, a British Columbia training enterprise, lavish Annapolis mansions, an ancient elk horn axe found near Bradford, Alabama church farming, Albany cathedral memorials, and a London ambulance corps mishap with a surgical misstep.
From Truth, a letter mocks Chamberlain for his Ireland plan that his family praised while Gladstone dismissed it as moonshine. The piece argues the public ignores his ideas, seeing him as a man without followers floundering between Tory and Liberal camps.
Captain Sampson orders the Constellation returned from New London to Annapolis to investigate hazing charges. Sixteen cadets are implicated in the incident aboard the ship.
Fortress Monroeg Virginia July 2 The Swartha with General Sheridan and party sailed at daylight. There was a fresh easterly breeze and the thermometer stood at 70 degrees.
All directors of the Union Bank of Providence have arrived in Montreal for the trial of teller Pitcher. He faces charges of carrying stolen funds into Canada and the proceedings will begin tomorrow.
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