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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1888
Page
4
In Boston Dr Cogswell seeks removal of his fountain from the Common unless the city meets gift conditions such as ice for the fountain and lamps at night. The piece also praises women stenographers, notes Hunt paintings in Albany, and cites Dr Hammond on private versus public school calendars and malaria risks in September.
George M. Pullman travels to Boston to enroll two children in Southboro schools while Barton McGuckin narrowly survives a theater fall in Dublin. Rev John Carroll of St Mary’s Chicago, born 1797, ordained 1820, is hailed as the oldest priest. Hutchinson, Yale pitcher, joins Chicago league. Cora Benneson of Quincy, Ill., a Michigan graduate with LL B cum laude, travels the world and holds Bryn Mawr fellowship. Washington’s Chinese legation fosters popularity with gifts and calls, though their photos blur for locals.
Boston Post notes a Republican campaign table claiming Cleveland era pension stats. It cites 1084 bills passed by Congress in three years six months, 668 approved, 416 disapproved, and 1369 special pension acts enacted with 191 vetoes. The piece argues these figures reflect campaign bias and contrast with the Black commission report.
The passage quotes Mr Labouchere warning that coercion has worsened Ireland to the point where Home Rule offers little hope. He likens the nation to a dying patient, saying 50 000 tenants would be homeless under Home Rule, and notes misgovernment's damage won't vanish quickly. He adds Labouchere is often more pessimistic than circumstances justify, and the effects of Home Rule remain to be tested.
The Irish secretary, having weighed a harsh medical report on Mr Dizion, orders an unconditional release from Dundalk jail. Observers say the move reflects prudence but is unrelated to the Parnell commission. Critics call it tardy reparation for a cruel outrage and say it weakens support for the British government.
Messrs. Joan Kemp & Co. of Glasgow introduce an out-masted fore and aft iron schooner of 900 tons rigged by American plan with no yards, a triangular foresail for heavy weather, and a sixty five foot boom spinnaker. Built of iron in England as cheaply as wood, it carries cargo as a square-rigged ship and requires half as many men. The South American trade will prove its value and spur more vessels of this build. Repin’s use of American methods recalls clipper era English imitation.
Josery H. Walker, member of the Home Market Club executive committee, pleads ignorance of fraudulent quotations circulated in campaign materials. He condemns deception in any form and says quotations must be verified before use. Walker also says he would resign from the committee if deception is confirmed and would press verification from RApley F. Fe.
The piece condemns repeated calls to withdraw extracts, implying Walter will retire. It rebukes Worcester's candidate for praising reform while accusing deceit, calling Republican quotation tactics an imitation of the other side. Walker is accused of late, irrelevant partisan grandstanding.
The article disputes Home Market Club rhetoric about English workers, citing official data that wages, life expectancy, schooling, and trade rose since free trade and tariff reductions. It argues English conditions improved while continental costs fell, contrasts French rail safety with American standards, and warns U.S. farmers of tariff pressures from cheap Indian labor and imports. It urges state action and November wheat-state votes to influence policy.
Details confirm the Paris Lyons and Mediterranean railway bears major responsibility for the fatal accident near Dijon. The road bed is described as poor and rails as too light for express traffic, despite contradictory statements. The article emphasizes inadequate maintenance and stressed infrastructure as key factors in the crash.
In Senate discussion on expanding Agriculture Department powers Senator Plumb of Kansas argues for government support to diversify industry by paying bounties for sugar from sorghum and beets. He fears Indian agricultural competition harming US markets and stimulus to sugar production could shift West’s grain focus. The piece questions faith in paternal government and notes Kansas soil favors wheat over sugar, warning against waging war with nature.
An anecdote from Nym Crinkle in the New York World shows Bartley Campbell fearing audience reaction to My Partner at Union Square Theatre. A severe reviewer told him the play was among the worst, yet Campbell celebrated, knowing public opinion would likely differ. The piece argues public taste often diverges from propriety and talent struggles to find a hearing.
A New York air ship project claims to fly on thoroughly scientific principles. If the inventor succeeds in sailing over New York City and nearby areas and returns to his launch point, he aims to rival submarine devices claimed to cross the ocean in four days, challenging current notions of aviation ingenuity.
The excerpt notes that Robert Els mere has been placed on the index expurgatorius by narrow minded English librarians. It cites Mrs Humenrey Warr as author of a brilliant novel and questions the propriety of radical theories in fiction. The piece hints the librarians favor the Established Church and oppose exposure to challenged ideas through literature, calling it intolerance for modern times.
Washington Sept 19 The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City case that it cannot compel the Burlington and Northern to raise rates to a remunerative level if current rates are below that point. The decision clarifies limits on price regulation in railroad rate cases.
The steamship City of New York did not depart for Europe today as expected due to a mismatch in her new machinery. Officials announce she will start at 6 o clock tomorrow morning after completing fitting work.
A crank letter to New York Democratic headquarters signed as the American Pitt is discussed as a potential challenger to Blaine. Maine results are analyzed against 1880 fusion votes, implying a Democratic gain. The Portland Advertiser notes fishermen favored Putnam. James Langdon Curtis accepts the American party nomination with unusual full approval.
A despatch reports Ithaca New York colored Republicans angered by a Harrison and Morton club decision to bar a prominent colored man. An officer allegedly said they would buy niggers at the polls for $2 apiece, amid broader charges that tariff-forgeries manipulate race prejudice to sway voters.
The Hon A T Wright a veteran Republican of Indiana argues for Cleveland and tariff reform in plain style. He cites becoming a tariff reformer in 1882 due to the Republican tariff commission report, Arthur's message to Congress, the 1884 platform, and the views of Garfield Folger McCulloch Wilson and others.
The excerpt cites 1000 Irish American voters in New York who backed Blaine in 1884 but switch to Cleveland in 1888. It notes Republican faked English flag notices and forged British press extracts to sway Irish born voters, calling it a gross insult. It also reports bursts of Cleveland enthusiasm in Illinois and Maine, with pro tariff reform gains cited.
A collection of whimsical notes and anecdotes spanning inventions, bets, plagues, theater folk, and a Shanghai court where a single lawyer faced discipline for a family land dispute. The items sketch social foibles and curiosities, from a barber's challenge to a magistrate turning a dispute into a dinner-table lesson.
The Boston Journal defends that forged quotes from London papers are of no consequence, arguing they would have been typical of those papers to use them. It asks how the same reasoning would apply to General Harrison and the dollar a day for a workingman, as noted by the Providence Journal.
The World Dispatch notes Senator Sherman outlining a dream of peaceful conquest, seeking annexation of English-speaking provinces from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Ocean. He urges the Senate to forgo retaliation bills to not impede this vision, while a quip references absorbing Canadian possessions and fisheries.
H J Pettifer, the Home Market Club's British protection advocate, will deliver his first foreign speech in Boston tomorrow night on what free trade offers laborers in England. He may not address protectionism for workers in Germany Russia France Italy or China, and his topic has no place in American politics today.
During the war we were taxed all, rich and poor, and after victory the rich shed taxes on wealth while the poor kept paying for tools, nails, tiles, and home essentials. A surplus exists, yet funds unclear. Commentary from the New York Herald Tribune.
The Boston Journal defends a humorous line on forgery quotes while distinguishing misquotations used in campaigns from genuine forgeries. It argues that deceit for political gain should face legal consequences, whereas casual lies in journalism escape legal sanction unless they cause pecuniary loss.
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