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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1888
Page
4
The Weekly Globe surveys plans and sayings of party leaders nationwide, detailing their views and recent doings, with emphasis on key statements and proposed actions across states and regions.
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The Hoston Weekly Globe lists subscription prices in 1888. One copy per month costs 50 cents, one year eight dollars, with postage prepaid. By mail yearly rates are two dollars for the Daily, one dollar for weekly. The paper is entered at the Boston post office as second class matter.
George S. Boutrrll analyzes Powperry and labor leadership urging education to improve workers conditions, not strikes or boycotts. He contrasts industrial power, trusts, and starvation with a move toward legislation and informed tariff debate to secure just compensation and stable employment.
The essay discusses imitation of a writer's style, noting three imitator types. It argues that true style arises from independent thinking and personal expression, exemplified by General Grant as natural and simple, with restrained qualifiers. It compares imitators to Macaulay Burke Junius and the Smiths, concluding genuine style resists imitation.
The coming Ways and Means Committee report on the Mills tariff bill warns that prohibitory tariffs shelter trusts, combinations and pools that corner supplies, inflate profits, and depress labor through artificial glut and reduced purchasing power. It argues protection mostly shields the combines rather than workers or legitimate business.
The piece discusses Rhode Island’s upcoming Wednesday state election, aiming to unseat the Republican ring after Governor Davis’s rebuke. It notes Beard and other orators pushing a tariff scare, argues against wage reductions from tariff cuts, and asserts woollen mill interests would gain from duty-free wool. It emphasizes local manufacturing concerns and the need for a government by the people.
Senator Merritt introduces a finance committee bill to replace mint designs at long intervals to keep U S coinage in step with art. Mint director Kimball notes historical dates for gold silver and minor coin designs and suggests considering presidential or leading American female portraits to advance women’s rights, while criticizing current imagery.
Rhode Island voters confront reform amid a tight race reflecting the anti ring sentiment and a push to end property qualifications for ballots. The piece notes nationwide tariff debates on wool and discusses Spreckels beet sugar trials, praising self sufficiency and German beet industry while awaiting trial outcomes and their impact on American agriculture.
The article notes sugar self sufficiency options beyond tariffs and surplus limits. Louisiana’s cane syrup, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire maple sap growth, rising apiculture livelihoods, rising corn syrup and glucose use, new milk and grape sugar factories, expanding sorghum lands, and Claus Spreckles plans to plant 25 tons of beet sugar seed on the Pacific coast to boost beet sugar production.
The piece riffs on Congress racing through bills while the calendar stays full, naming figures like Joan Suerman, Blaine, and Jay Gould, and notes political mood shifts from New England rail plans to Anthony’s leadership and the impact of private armies and mercantile power on policy.
Giorox Alfred Townsend surveys New York legal life amid Chief Justice Waite's death and Jay Gould's clash with lawyers. He laments high office rents, analyzes corruption and schemes to indict Gould, notes influential figures like Sage, Whitney, and Sharp, and sketches a city atmosphere where law and money intertwine in late 19th century New York.
A Telegram reporter questions a brass mechanical locomotive exhibit about nickels earned. The owner explains receipts have declined from over $100 a month per engine to about a third of that, while the machines still profit. The toys cost about $100 each including cases. grip testers and related devices cost $25. Hotels and saloons often seek display, paying small placement fees to attract customers.
Corella Key Bell reflects on persistence and scrutiny as a metaphor for truth in Atlanta Constitution prose. The piece invites relentless knocking at doors of understanding, noting envy as the subtle obstacle that tests steadfast inquiry.
A House debate reports on a Tennessee resolution seeking Post Office guidance about Canadian versus American mail terms, seeds and bulbs imports, and enabling measures under the postal treaty. Members clash over authority, the impact on revenue, and the treaty’s fairness to Americans, with the resolution tabled after lengthy exchange.
A Telegraphers’ bond grows from long wire chats with unseen partners. A Boston A and P operator recalls a New York colleague he never met, planning a meeting and a week in New York before life’s drift separated them. He later learned the man had died while manning his key for 18 months.
A Satirical Norwalk Record item laments repeated pressroom troubles including water pipe disconnections, gas shutoff, a sick job printer, and staff ailments. The piece mocks the office’s woes and financial tightness while hinting at personal threats and general turmoil.
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