The Decline of Agricultural Prosperity Addressed
Senator L. D. Whiting spoke at the Farmers Institute in Dixon Illinois on the causes of farm distress. He traced declines to trusts pools and high tariffs, citing mortgage burdens and tax shifts, urging agitation and organization to defend agriculture.
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Dixon
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Chicago Herald
Farmers’ Institute
Opera House
L. D. Whiting
Bureau County
New England
Pennsylvania
New York
Ono
Kansas
Minnesota
Oglesby
Europe
Asia
Illinois
Massachusetts
Cook County
Chicago
Railing the Farmers and the tariff debate notes
A Louisville Courier-Journal summary exposes the New York Tribune’s bid to mobilize Western and Southern farmers against tariff reductions. It criticizes the petition draft by Miller Grosvenor Reid Burroughs Lyman Hall and others for urging protectionist duties. The piece condemns the plan as misleading and harmful to farmers while touting free trade as fair to the broader economy.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
The
New York Tribune
New York
New England
Cassius
North Pole
Herald
New York Harbor
Tribune
Congress
West
Warner Miller
William M. Grosvenor
John T. Reid
Edward Burroughs
J. D. Lyman
J. N. Hall
James Wilson
Iowa
Texas
Mexico
House of Representatives
Grosvvenor
Andrew Carnegie
Farmers of America
Miller, Carnegie & Co
HARMFUL HIGH TAXES and Tariff Reform Stance by Sutton
Marshalltown Iowa correspondent notes Senator P M Sutton as a prominent Republican voice for tariff reform. He advocates a protective taxation system covering tariffs internal taxes and direct taxes and urges reform to align taxation with protective economic aims.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Cor
Chicago Herald
P. M. Sutton
Illinois Affairs and Local Incidents in Vermilion County
A roundup reports crime and politics in Illinois. Ralph Lee receives eighteen months for a shooting linked to banker Samuel Rawson and Chicago Police Chief Ebersold's resignation. News covers a Jasper County fatal musket accident, Prohibitionists’ Springfield conference, and tariff views from Iowa leaders including ex Senator Bills.
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Snell
Clifford
Ralph Lee
Samuel W. Rawson
Chicago
Frederick Ebersold
Roche
Eugene
Cayuga
Vermilion County
Wm. Collett
Collett
John M. Palmer
Hannah Kimball
Springfield
Taxation on Beer and Whiskey From 1852 to 1888
A Montgomery Advertiser critique argues the Internal Revenue tax on beer and whiskey has raised 1.4 billion dollars since 1852, questioning what subjects could have yielded so much money with less burden on taxpayers, noting that abstainers paid nothing.
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Internal Revenue System
Montygomery Advertiser
Added Tax Upon Labor Casts Burden on Consumer
The Philadelphia Record argues that tariffs shift taxes onto consumers and burden labor, noting every cent added to coal wood salt sugar ore or lumber is a tax on the workingman who buys goods.
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Philadelphia
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D. &. Porter
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Ricardo
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Davenport
Bills
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Abraham Lincoln
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