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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
4
The article surveys Illinois and national affairs from a January 1889 issue. It covers a New York crime and vice scene, a Spring Valley coal strike, prison demographics, tariff battles in Congress, voting reform talks, railroad accidents, a Palmer nomination speech, anti trust measures in New York, Dakota statehood debates, dam fishway laws on Fox River, and sugar trust dissolution debates with broader labor implications.
The New York Herald will send Thomas Stevens, famed for his world bicycle journey, to investigate the fate of missing explorer Stanley and Emir Bey in the African Equatorial Province. Letters from the expedition will appear in the Weekly World, offered to Dixon Sun readers at reduced rates.
The Sun notes repeated violations of state fish laws near Rock River with emphasis on illegal seining and failures to provide fishways at several dams. The Rockford Register reports on the Fox River situation nearby.
In the New York Attorney General suit to dissolve the North River Sugar Refining Company Judge Barrett finds the Sugar Trust a bond of corporations not stockholders. He notes mergers turn firms into corporations and condemns the charter evasions that undermine public policy. The decision upholds legal protections against corporate abuses.
The piece questions President Cleveland's 1887 claim that farmers suffered while mill owners prospered under protection. It cites Illinois State Board of Labor Statistics data on farm mortgage trends from 1870 to 1887, showing rising acres mortgaged and total indebtedness, plus growing battle mortgages. It notes high interest, land values declining, and taxes aiding mill owners who supply most loans, hurting farmers and laborers.
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