Courageous Illinois Senator Warns on Tariff Decline in Farm News
At Piper City, Senator L. D. Whiting of Tiskilwa urged Illinois farmers to unite against protective tariffs. He blamed tariffs for rising costs and debt, warned of trusts and monopolies, and urged farmers to push revenue reform, collective buying, and political representation to curb rural losses and protect prosperity.
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Chicago Herald
Ford
Illinois
Chicago
Bureau
New England
New York
Jefferson
St. Lawrence
New York State
Kansas
Minnesota
Chicago Tribune
Michigan
India
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
State of
General Assembly
Cook County
Massachusetts
Henry Clay
Jay
Clay
Carl Schurz
Schurz
American Protective Tariff League
Congress
John M. Hinton
Knights of Labor Assembly
Milwaukee
Inner Ocean
Lexus
Belgium
Knights of Labor
Labor Association
Court House
Millington
Bay View
Voorhees Defends President Against Republican Misrepresentation
In the Senate on Wednesday December 4, Senator D W Voorhees rebutted John Sherman and other Republicans over the President's message. He argued the surplus is unjust and harmful and attacked Republican misrepresentations as a threat to American manufacturing. He praised the President's tariff reform aims and urged careful internal revenue reform.
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United States Senate
D. W. Voorhees
John Sherman
Indiana
Messrs. Sherman
Teller
Grover Cleveland
Democratic Party
United States
Colorado
Ohio
Sherman
Paris
Republican Party
South
New England
Pennsylvania
Jefferson
Democrats Oppose Tax Policy as Robbery and Excess
The Indianapolis Sentinel reports a fierce rebuke of Republican tax policy. It accuses opponents of endorsing robbery by taxing $100,000,000 yearly beyond government needs. The piece claims Democrats unite for fiscally economical governance while Republican factions fracture.
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Democratic Party
Cleveland
Republican Brothershite Press
Chicago Tribune
New York Times
Indianapolis Sentinel
Chinese Dread of the Wet and U.S. Pension Trends
A collection of remarks on Chinese aversion to rain and the practicality of rain avoidance, citing Tientsin and cloth footwear. The piece contrasts Democratic and Republican tax ideas, then notes rising Civil War era pension rolls from 369,551 in 1886 to 416,648 in 1887 with a further rise in the first four months of the current year.
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China
Tientsin
Chicago Times
Illinois Affairs Chronicle of Events at Century's Turn
Illinois notes describe the next State Fair at Olney in September, coal veins near Danville, deaths of H. H. Hills and Frank Haybrook, and Gov. Oglesby appointing William P. Boyd to the State Board of Pharmacy. It covers whisky tax receipts, a patrician quarrel ending in a son killing his father, a Willow to Daviess County stock move, Chicago real estate gains, a health board advertising case, and the death of Stephen Sawyer White, Chicago’s oldest resident.
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Frank Haybrook
Quincy
Oglesby
William P. Boyd
Arcola
State Board of Pharmacy
Ulysses Pemberton
Gallatin
Saline County
W. Parkinson
Willow
Daviess County
Chicago
Minnesota and Northwestern
Illinois
United States
Waterman
State Board of Health
J. C. McCoy
State Board
Star Chamber
England
Stephen Sawyer White
Cook County
Fort Dearborn
White
Great Lakes
Black Hawk
Stephen White
Chicago River
Desplaines River
Lyons
Mr. White
Hanover
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Indiana Statesman
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Illinois Affairs
Olney
Danville
H. H. Hills
Bloomingdale
Peoria
Johnson County
Fayette Morris
Mound City
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