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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1900
Page
2
The text compiles assorted short items from a late era page, noting personal ads and local signs such as a Linn county farmer using a gateboard for sales, a name change for Avalon College to Ruskin College, and survey-like population figures for Hawaii. It also references hurricane relief in Galveston and Spain-U S trade progress, with scattered remarks on European monarchs and social topics.
Dr. Talmage denounces the worship of wealth as a modern golden calf. He likens stock markets and Wall Street to idol temples, cites 19th century forgeries and panics, and warns that borrowed prosperity harms families and nations. He urges repentance and fidelity to spiritual over material wealth.
A strange inch long insect with four inch tentacles damages rubber tires in Evanston drawing crowds as reports spread. Prof W A Lacy labels the creature an Ichneyman not common to the area. Separately Dr Ormandy claims bricks can be made from glass-making waste.
The article notes the estate of the late C P Huntington facing death taxes of 300000 with 200000 due to New York and 200000 to the general government under the wartime revenue act. It compares British death duties of about 70 million pounds and 65 344 English estates totaling 1 4 billion dollars.
The fragment cites phrases on public offices as a trust attributed to Neeaolng Tt and notes past remarks by Charles Sumner in 1874, Darmen B. Eaton in 1881, Calhoun and Jefferson. It references a New York Press-style collection of quotes on government integrity and public responsibility.
A veteran repeatedly sends a regular $75 quarterly check to the treasury. He requests the funds be placed in the miscellaneous fund to be withdrawn only by a treasury employee in Philadelphia. He notes he will not take a pen sion while the government provides a salary for his service.
The piece recounts a Declaration of Independence based Democratic platform from 1896 through 1900 and argues against imperialism and trust power. It cites Jefferson Jackson Hamilton Bry an McKinley and Warren Worth Bailey, praising equal rights and liberty while warning of plutocratic control. George T. Ladd at Yale calls imperialism unjustifiable after world travels and studies in Japan and India.
The Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn says reports claiming the United States supports slavery in the Philippines and in the Sultan’s dominions are false. He notes the constitution bars slavery in U S territories and asserts no effort has been made to suppress or endorse such practices. President McKinley’s position on the matter is underscored.
A fragment from a 19th century critique accuses Secretary Lyman J. Gage and President McKinley of steering internal revenue funds to the National City Bank of New York. It alleges favored depository status and political influence yielding substantial bank gains amid a financial crisis.
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