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Newspaper
Elyria Lorain Constitutionalist
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1871
Page
2
The Labor Reformers reject nominations at Columbus and urge voters to back candidates who uphold their principles. They call for Treasury notes, removal of bank notes, public land for tillers, free ports for needed goods, curbing monopolies, and amnesty while criticizing tariffs and taxation.
The piece argues farmers should adopt an inventory approach and a hike card to manage rising costs. It contrasts past protections like tariffs on wool with current declines in butter, dairy, and grain prices, urging farmers to review expenses, taxes, and debt to assess margins and challenges. It stresses careful accounting of plows wagons machines groceries and labor costs to gauge profitability.
The piece laments income disparity and class legislation as corrupt and harmful. It accuses merchants, manufacturers, railways, banks, and privileged groups of profiting at laborers' expense, urging voters to act at the ballot box to halt this trend. It argues that policy has concentrated wealth and warns of continued prosperity for the few if unchecked.
A prisoner, condemned for first degree murder, faced execution on November 21 after a trial where the defense request for a new trial was denied. He gave a lengthy, defiant speech claiming unjust treatment, professed love for a girl, and said his final words would be a blessing to her as he prepared to die.
The judge declares the verdict justified by evidence and orders execution by hanging on the specified date. The scene elicits tears yet shows a formal end as the prisoner receives final goodbyes before confinement and scheduled execution.
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