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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1888
Page
3
A fashion column reviews spring millinery trends with updating hats bonnets and ribbons. It highlights new mantles and cloaks shown in Paris and New York with emphasis on drop velours boi du rose and passementerie. Also notes Easter church attire and Vanderbilt toddlers outfits and a Boston Harvard costume design discussion.
Henry J. Philpott argues tariffs are a hidden tax averaging $18 per average family, urging readers to demand transparent, understandable tax systems. He warns against mysterious taxes and cites protests by wealthy interests resisting tariff reductions to protect business.
The Chicago Tribune argues that tariff duties far exceed domestic labor costs, showing rates on imports average well above wages paid in the United States. It cites 1886 data, notes the average tariff around 46 percent of import value while wages were about 20 percent, and claims much of the tariff functions as bounty to factory owners rather than labor protection. It quotes Frank Hurd on U S labor competitiveness and asserts American workers earn more per day due to skill and organization, not tariffs.
Barbara Albright is dead as Chicago area crime and public notices mix with local events. The report covers Polo murder victim, Rock Island encampment dates, Radford post office fire losses, Rome hunting accident, Springfield mayor indictment, new Cairo and East Cape Girardeau Railroad leadership, Galena medical figure death, and a Norris City lawsuit over baptism. It also notes wheat and rye crop prospects, a Chicago railway accident with a fatality, a train flagman case, and a hotel thief ring led by Lizzie Murray with ties to Dublin and Philadelphia society.
The speaker questions a tax policy hidden in mystery and argues reform is resisted by protected groups. The passage frames a pro protectionist stance and warns that opposition blocks reductions, hinting at broader national disruption.
The tariff sustains several large trusts including the Steel Association Iron and Steel Beam trust and the Sugar trust with prohibitive duties on high grade sugar. Copper is also affected as tariffs helped create a domestic monopoly controlled by foreign inputs and the French ring.
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