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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
4
Washington February 20 Special Correspondence a Democratic member says ninety Democrats oppose the Presidents military program and will stand firm when the measure comes up. He calls the President’s speeches hysterical and a political junket while praising a Washington protest meeting as a broad display of Democratic sentiment.
A midwest Congressman argues on the House floor that the Republican party should restore and expand rural mail service in its national platform. He criticizes Wilson era cuts as harming farm postal facilities and claims rural voters will back a pro rural delivery stance.
The article argues Mr. Wilson's speeches reveal a self focus and personal pronouns signaling an "I" centered politics. It notes his claims on frontier guards and future plans, comparing his rhetoric to imperial leaders and stating the tariff alone does not define the campaign issue for 1916.
The State Gazette urges the Santee church to actively cultivate and feed the converts drawn to Christ by Billy Sunday. It calls for all members to share in the evangelism, provide care to new believers, and fulfill Jesus’s command to feed, clothe, heal, and nurture the flock.
The piece argues New Jersey Republicans must resist Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive movement. It accuses Roosevelt of betraying the GOP, seeking favors, and reigniting bitterness from 1912, warning that bowing to him would ruin the party’s bright outlook.
A compact quotation from Thomas Scott Rey states that lack of a solid reason for action is a clear reason to refrain. It emphasizes caution and restraint when motives are weak.
Lewis T. Davis recalls a severe cough. He says his brother McCabe Davis gave him Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in a small bottle. After taking it, he bought more but used only one bottle as the cough disappeared and has not returned. Obtainable everywhere.
The article rejects the term Greaser for Mexicans in Yucatan noting daily bathing and high standards of cleanliness. In Merida and other towns 90 percent wear freshly laundered light linen or cotton, with streets described as models of cleanliness and visitors remarking on spotless bodies and clothes in white attire.
A photograph shows a Yucatan family hand making rope from henequen fibre with barefoot workers. Men start by tying the fibre to the big toe and winding the strand with their hands. Women in the household make carpets and other items. The text notes past slavery, revolution, and current improved conditions, with a suggested link to a future shoe market for United States manufacturers.
Gen Salvador Alvarado, governor of Yucatan, earned a strong national reputation for reforms aiding the common people. He abolished the lottery and alcohol sale, raised wages, supported women's suffrage, funded public schools, closed vice districts, jailed or deported exploiters, created a sanitary code, reformed litigation costs, cut redundant offices, and organized state supervised cooperative marketing for henequen farmers.
Dr. Victor A Rendon former Secretary of State of Yucatan and a prominent reformer negotiated a 10 000 000 US tour to finance a farmers marketing system. He now directs in the United States the Yucatan State Commission selling henequen for the state.
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