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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1888
Page
4
A fragment listing Grover Cleveland as the presidential candidate with no visible running mate or further details. The text suggests a political ticket but provides no additional names, places, dates, or context.
Classified notice lists subscription rates per month and per year in various currencies with postage prepaid options. Mentions Boston address 242 Washington Street and notes post office registration as second class matter through Boston Mass.
A historical critique links immigration scrutiny in New York to protectionist policy. It argues pauper labor from Europe is shipped to the United States by emigration bureaus, endangering American workers. It warns high protection interests hypocritically opposing foreign labor while employing paupers, urging abolition of protected monopolies and tariff trusts.
The New England Homestead finds over 90 percent of subscribers favor protection against the Mills bill. Farmers defend tariffs for farm products, while rail and milk contractors reap profits. Milk producers form a union, set minimum prices, and threaten six months of withheld sales to contractors to secure fair margins.
The piece argues producers face organized contractors and trusts, with manufacturers forming cartels to raise prices inside tariff walls. It notes producers lack cohesion and consumer power is limited, citing a new lumber trust and a tariff illustrated by Henry J. Puitrorr in Tariff Chats.
The author rebuts Blaine's claim that Massachusetts workers hold more in savings than all British workers. He cites Massachusetts deposits of about 187 million for workers, vs Britain’s 503 million, noting wealthier accounts inflate the Massachusetts total and criticizing wartime taxes as misrepresented.
Ex-Minister Taylor protests Africa as a place for civilized Africans and appeals to Frederick Doverass, billed as the world’s most prominent Negro, to stop an amendment in the general deficiency appropriation bill. The measure would authorize $100 to any steamship line for each Black man carried to Africa, with Liberia and other destinations in view.
The excerpt argues that parts of Africa are unsuitable for Black people to rise without white support, asserting that racial advancement requires association with white civilization. It claims mixed heritage with American stock has become a global missionary process, predicting Africa will receive from America what it owes, with interest.
The passage mocks Mr BLaine as a reputed statesman who would provoke a business panic in the United States. It asserts his claim that 1887 was prosperous and that the President planned a radical shift harming commerce is false in every part, accusing him of ignorance or deception from abroad.
The piece explores unlikely scenarios where James G Blaine could become president through various contingencies if Harrison declines or is unable to serve. It argues that only a pledged Cleveland majority of electors could prevent such possibilities and uphold reform.
The piece argues that Democratic rule under President Cleveland expanded pension approvals more than the last three years of Republican power. It cites totals for original, increase and miscellaneous claims, net increases, and total pension disbursements, praising Cleveland’s veto record on fraudulent private pensions while noting lavish spending.
The text counters Republican attacks on Cleveland's pension record, arguing veterans see him as a trusted ally in the White House and insisting he has long supported old soldiers.
The article criticizes Republican efforts on tariff reform in Congress. It argues Senate talks yield nothing concrete as secret conferences fail to produce a bill, blaming Blaine’s return and Protectionist allies. It predicts no tariff reform from the party, deeming reforms blocked by trusts and monopolies.
The piece attacks the Republican motto and White Cap terror in Indiana, critiques tariff policy, praises Cleveland era economic conditions, and cites figures like Harrison, Carnegie, and Butler to argue for pro labor, anti trust reforms. It laments oil booms for trusts, praises Dakota statehood hopes, and notes parliamentary jabs by Reagan and SumMan.
A plan by architect L S Buffington to erect a 28 story iron and stone office tower in Minneapolis is described. The design uses continuous laminated iron posts, diagonal bracing, iron floors, and a non conducting exterior with stone and copper. The roof will be tile with a glass lookout, and the interior features include many external offices, reduced wall thickness, and rapid construction potential.
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An elderly mill worker woman confronted her husband returning home after an all night spree. He insulted her and kicked her, so she struck him with a dinner pail splashing milk and beans. After a scuffle she locked him up for the day while the crowd approved the reform.
A playful quarrel from New York Sun features Mr Geelip and Miss Maude debating blame for a bicycle mishap. He insists the fault lay with the bicycle, while she counters with equal humor that the bike bore the fault for a moment before the rest rests on it.
A call to subscribe to The Weekly Globe at 25 cents from now to November 165, urging readers to form clubs to aid new democratic voters. Encourages taking a sample copy and showing it to others, with instructions to address The Weekly Globe in Boston Massachusetts.
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