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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
4
Friday morning May 1 1896 report notes the Indiana Republican State Convention will meet May 7 at Tomlinson Hall Indianapolis. It will comprise 1415 delegates and is expected to be highly engaging. Railroads offer special 61st class round trip fares with tickets sold May 5 and 6 and valid for return through May 9.
Speech echoes a tariff critique by McKinley calling revenue tariffs an enemy to American industry and workers, predicting poverty and bankruptcy if used. A contrasting demand for steadily rising wages is framed as national progress, with applause split along party lines during a legislative session.
The speaker rails at Democrats, accusing northern laborers and Irish exiles driven by free trade of joining southern planters to force workers into servile tasks. He argues wealth and leadership lie in the South, with the Northern faction obedient to southern will, citing Hon. William P. Frye.
A Manufacturer comments on American and British economic practices. He notes mills idle, laborers underpaid, tariffs prostrating manufacturing, British finance governing farming, and reliance on borrowed money while aiming to retain gold in the treasury. He frames these actions as a study in human folly.
The text argues Congress must raise more revenue amid a $43 million deficiency and lack of treasury authority for loans and emergency funding. It warns of two foreign wars and calls for coast defenses and new warships as the nation faces fiscal and strategic risk, reflecting a calling to greatness and duty described by Phillips.
A Kansas City Star account describes a mole working along a riverbank in Clay County. A two mile tunnel system under a dried sand flat reveals barrels and boxes of plunder, driftwood, and a wide, springy surface. The narrative echoes a traveler’s observation of nature and chance discoveries.
A New York Sun piece recalls a man with four patches on each shoe who learns from a shoemaker that one larger L shaped patch covering both the welt and a top crack lasts longer. The tale ends with the narrator recognizing his growing patching expertise and future need for more patches.
A Osaka based company led by Osazaki Ejijiro plans iron works to manufacture boilers locomotives railway cars and bridges. Japan currently relies on foreign locomotives with around 100 American Baldwin units in service as English builders challenge the market.
In Cripple Creek Colorado and surrounding areas daily production in 1896 is projected to reach a record two hundred million dollars with Cripple Creek alone earning over one million monthly. Mining stocks rise rapidly and many pay thirty five to fifty percent dividends, offering profit with small investments. J E Morgan & Co of New York advertise as financial agents for Prudential Gold Mining Co and others, promising free details and a book on speculation. Additionally a line advertises trips for trustworthy men and women to travel in Indiana with salary and expenses listed.
A notice proclaims a five percent cash discount on merchandise excluding rubber boots and shoes. It emphasizes that a dollar buys more, with ninety five cents payable for a dollar’s worth of goods, highlighting very low prices now being offered.
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