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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1892
Page
8
Special correspondence notes business men manufacturers and bankers favor Republican protectionist policy. It cites wage levels and employment, western homestead records, and veterans' pensions to argue for Republican gains. The piece contrasts Cleveland era actions with Harrison era claims, urging voters including foreign born citizens and farmers to back Republicans.
A pamphlet shows women and children in chains to attack free trade and Grover Cleveland. It argues the party would ruin families by restricting work and forcing wives to labor, urging support for Benjamin Harrison and the Republican platform.
A record of rising farm exports under the Harrison administration credits increased overseas sales of bacon ham and lard beef products cattle wheat flour and corn cotton seeds fruits nuts oil cake and all agricultural goods to reciprocal tariff measures and ministerial diplomacy. It lists home markets created for barley tobacco potatoes eggs raisins prunes nuts and other fruit and notes wool protection and extensive department efforts to prevent disease and improve trade data.
A Baltimore Sun letter from a canner notes tin can price drops after the McKinley tariff. He lists former and current prices for nine can sizes and says large buyers will confirm the reductions. The speaker compares past wages of 1840s and 1850s to current pay, asking whether workers will accept past conditions or face European pauper labor.
Charles Foster warns that Democrats in full control would ruin protection reciprocity and sound money. He urges voters to oppose them in the coming election to avoid a national calamity during prosperous times.
The piece argues that free trade harms American families by urging protection from free trade ills. It contrasts Britain’s reliance on parish relief with the supposed prosperity of American workers whose wives and children benefit from Republican protection. It asserts American women brickmakers do not exist due to political choices and praises domestic prosperity under protection.
A special to the Democratic New York Times from Topeka Kansas reports Mrs Lease urges Populists to refrain from helping Democrats and vote for Harrison electors. She calls Weaver a strong Populist leader and predicts southern states may favor Cleveland, signaling a shift in Kansas politics amid the election talk.
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