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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1891
Page
4
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In the Canadian House of Commons Foster argued the McKenzie Dill, once feared for harming Canada, has actually opened markets the nation otherwise could not reach. He described it as joyous news for Home Market supporters who favor American goods for Americans only.
The anti Harrison movement widens beyond the West aiming to oppose a renomination. The Minnesota low tariff Republican Club is seen as a device by Braine men to shift support from FiatRaison to Blaine and reciprocity. Akron leader ConGeer declares he fights Harrison for ignoring his patronage postmaster appointment. The reformers may be satisfied on tariff but not for those snubbed in patronage.
The cabinet will discuss the silver question and the impending cessation date for cheap dollars except for redemptions. Washington reports show Harrison facing pressure from silver Republicans to inflate the currency while Foster delays, recalling Windom’s idea to reintroduce free coinage of American mined silver, a position that would shape the administration’s stance on cheap money for renomination.
A Western Republican writes to a congressman lamenting that duties on foreign wool raised prices yet Western wool prices fell by four cents per pound in two years. He notes imports rose in early 1891 despite increased duties, challenging tariff proponents. The letter seeks an explanation for the unexpected outcome.
The manufacturers favor foreign wool and will keep it despite the Republican tariff. The public bears the higher price, and Western wool growers do not reap the expected benefits from the tax.
The report notes conflicting dispatches from Chile where both sides inflate claims. Insurgents seek recognition as belligerents while President Balmaceda resists. Messages claim rebel collapse but opposing reports suggest continued conflict amid exaggeration.
A critical look at Harvard Commencement shows a balance of progress and tradition. Despite new electives and liberal speakers like Kozaki, the ceremony preserves Latin programs, old chairs, and ceremonial customs, reflecting "conservative progress" in university reform.
The Ottawa budget fragment signals a shift toward freer trade with the United States under the new Canadian premier. It indicates a rethinking of protectionist stances, suggesting willingness to remove restrictions and pursue trade on equitable terms. Public sentiment and past politics appear to have influenced this gradual openness.
The piece notes Liberal calls for broad reciprocity between Canada and the United States in manufactures and raw products, while acknowledging present tariff limits. It compares current Liberal aims with Sir John A. Macdonald era policies and suggests the late leader would likely have softened the budget, as successors largely follow his opportunistic approach.
Italian newspapers back the ministry while probing an Italy England accord linked to the Triple Alliance. No formal treaty yet, but Rome reads English support as a shield in the Mediterranean. Radicals warn such backing risks national distress and potential war as Italy’s tax burden grows. 정부 ministers seek a prorogation but require a confidence vote amid faltering support.
The new international copyright law, taking effect next Wednesday, is expected to immediately stimulate publishing. English books are already moving to print as reputable houses, previously cautious, now enter markets. Prices will rise to fair levels, enabling honest competition and fair returns to writers.
A recent English protest against the South Kensington syllabus for honors exams mirrors concerns in Boston grammar schools. Supervisors sent papers containing questions outside taught material, with one class of sixty failing entirely, yet rated as average for its grade.
The Philadelphia theatre managers bet with a newspaper man over Eva Hamilton's expected draw at the box office. If reputable houses nationwide refuse her time, it would mark a significant step toward cleaning up the stage, as heroic efforts seem futile.
New York baseball fans hailed the Giants as they defeated the Brooklyns on Tuesday in a decisive matchup. The victory boosted the Giants’ standing and energized the city’s early season hopes.
A Tribune observer mused that the victory would spur a future clash between the same rival teams at the polo grounds and asked at what stage in a properly umpired baseball game do contending nines cross bats. The writer wondered if cricket was the Tribune’s intended reference.
A London detective agency offers male and female assistance skilled in gaming and Monte Carlo experience to ensure proper conduct at baccarat. The suggestion that a guest may be a detective in disguise adds a curious twist to country house card play.
The trial over alleged violations of the car stores law begins briskly in New York, promising a long case. The sole notable fact to emerge is the surprising claim that a living American may have never heard of Chauncey M. Depew, highlighting widespread unfamiliarity with the prominent figure.
In Sanders Theatre Boston the speaker lauds Harvard and Yale honors to governors judges and scholars including Governor of Massachusetts James Barker and Justice John Randolph Tucker while praising local figures Professor Dunbar Goodwin and Colonel Lyman. The narrator also warns a friend about abandoning city life for a country village, predicting negative effects on his writing and observing how urban stimuli aid creative work.
Personal notes report Mrs Leland Stanford starting five free kindergartens in San Francisco. Other items mention a Louisiana planter finding a silver canteen marked U S Grant, several people relocating to New England towns, Queen Victoria viewing nude drawings with controversy, Beethoven ancestry traced to Antwerp, and the van Beethoven maternal line ending with Maria Theresia van Beethoven’s death in 1824.
A collage of brief items notes bank examiner puzzles, Col Jacob Ruppert Jr and his $14000 St Bernard purchase, playful exchanges about marriage and publishing, police respect for a Commencement punch, and political reform. It also recalls a theater joke about a newspaper office and a lunatic asylum, plus remarks on racing, gambling, bicycle fashion, and an Emperor’s stance on gambling within the Guard Hussars.
The Narragansett Boat Club in Providence reports the new club house is nearly complete and will be dedicated by a water fete in early July. The rebuilt facility includes repaired boats from the fire, four new St Lawrence River skiffs, a forty five foot pleasure barge, and new canoes. Historic shells from 1881 and 1880 have been saved and restored. Opening late in the season likely means no water representation this year.
Paris dispatch says ex Empress Eugenie sails for England today with Princess Letitia daughter of the late Prince Napoleon Ex Empress yesterday had an affecting interview with ex Queen Isabella of Spain both ladies weeping copiously.
Washington reports that President Harrison may withdraw from the race if a free coinage bill passes and he must veto it. Silver sentiment splits Republicans, threatening a minority unless the party sticks together. Indiana’s anti-Harrison faction, led by Major McKinley and Colonel Dudley, could swing delegates against him if the issue deepens.
The Treasury disputes McKinley tariff aims while Collector Beard fights double duty on sorted third class carpet wools. A letter from Acting Secretary Spaulding directs doubling the duty based on ad valorem value, provoking protests from New England manufacturers and wool barons regarding legality and impact on prior value.
A new lesson from the decision shows that insatiable Ohio wool growers remain unsatisfied even with McKinley rates. They seek a fresh version of McKinleyism that even a McKinley Congress would not enact into law.
The article weighs whether to fix 2 percent or keep 4 percent bonds as the Treasury debates funding. It notes political pressure, bank offers, potential impacts on circulation, and Treasury estimates of new vs kept bonds, with forecasts of shifts in deposits, circulation, and near term money supply to support the crop season.
A critical review of George Saintsbury’s Essays in English Literature 1780 1860 and Essays on French Novelists. The article notes strong method flaws and uneven pacing, praising Borrow and Lockhart essays while criticizing treatment of Flaubert and Octave Feuillets. It lists translations and companion works, with publication details and prices.
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