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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1888
Page
4
The piece argues against Blaine over 7 percent tariff cuts under a Democratic administration, asserting that tariffs do affect prices and labor, while noting wage dynamics, monopolies, and coal barons shaping costs. It contends protectionism funds wages and criticizes the coal and rail monopolies profiting at workers' expense.
The New York Star reports a Republican plan to colonize a West Virginia state to win its electoral vote. It cites railway interests led by Henry G. Davis and Stephen B. Elkins, with James G. Blaine among stockholders, and claims 5,000 colonized voters drawn from Democratic states via the Blaine Elkins line, threatening Cleveland's 1884 plurality and the Democratic ticket.
The Pension Commissioner’s annual report notes additions to the rolls totaling 62 280 for the year ending June 30, bringing the roll total to 452 557. Pensions increased in 45 716 cases, with $933 086 444 paid out since 1861 and $82 038 386 disbursed in the past year. The report adds a new focus on special pension acts and their path to law, plus a table of acts since 1861 and veto counts through 1888.
A Washington dispatch reports Democrats rushed a stringent anti China bill through the House. Republicans complain the move targets President Cleveland and California interference shifts the vote. Odds favor Cleveland winning California by about four thousand, according to late bets.
The 1850 Pittsburg iron workers struck to prevent wages from dropping from 4.00 to 3.50 per ton. In 1879 Pottsville puddlers demanded a raise from 3.25 to 3.75 per ton. The comparison suggests higher puddlers pay under the 1846 Walker tariff than under the later Republican war tariff.
The records of the pension office refute charges of injustice by the democracy toward Union soldiers. The highest annual pension disbursement under Republican rule was 60,431,972.85 dollars, while the year ending July 1, 1887 saw disbursements of 74,815,486.65 dollars, about fourteen and a half million more than any previous Republican year.
Joseph B. Greenhut of Peoria, head of the Whisky Trust, says whisky interests will vote Republican because Democrats would ruin the infant whisky industry. He comments as Republicans claim to support liquor suppression, while temperance speakers push anti liquor laws.
Republicans argue the delay in Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance stems from sending it to England for Cobden Club revision. They suggest the same envelope may have held a draft retaliatory message on Canada.
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