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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
2
The piece surveys racing and labour stories, from Jeffries and Cuba to the Maine and Kitchener. It notes oddities in markets and crime, mentions Carnegie libraries, the sugar trust, and a 116 year old Indian, all in a brisk, satirical review of current affairs.
A historical critique urging Americans to demand clear aims for the Philippine War. It cites 7,062 battle casualties since February 4, 1899, and 4,165 deaths overall with 2,897 wounded, arguing the public lacks a defined objective beyond liberty and union. It warns the war risked private gain and future turnover of islands rather than lasting national power.
An anthracite coal road president declares it none of the public's business as to why they refuse to arbitrate a strike costing the public. Metropolitan Railway Company president Vreeland echoes the sentiment over pollagnous sulphuric acid fumes harming city residents for months. The piece condemns public corporations for ignoring public welfare and questions when the public will rebel.
Quay reportedly extended peace to former ally Elkin and rivals, with both sides ready to bury past feuds. The pirate chief is depicted as maintaining control by overpowering opponents with influence and force, as signals of renewed plunder emerge.
Five regiments of regular infantry in the San Yago battles incurred 604 casualties and supplied 164 pension applicants. From five volunteer regiments, no one joined in battles yet 2407 pension claims were filed. The register hints at the volunteers' unselfish patriotism despite restrictions on admission.
The piece argues that tariffs do not create trusts and cites Standard Oil and the hard coal trust as examples not benefiting from duties. It notes railroads’ discrimination and compares global pricing to U.S. prices, suggesting tariffs’ limited role in monopolies while criticizing reciprocal trade and trust influence.
Admissions of men prominent in the coal trust reveal a grasping dangerous monopoly in the United States. The combination allegedly forces a strike to push prices and cause misery to miners and dependents. If public officers fail to act, replacements will. This is a public safety issue, not a policy one.
The prince of Siam is described as educated at Oxford, thoroughly Westernized, and liberal minded. The piece argues he is as good as other princes and would face no difference if the U S were more democratic, noting the congress did not fund or recognize his visit, and suggesting he may prefer solitude.
Mr. Austin, head of the treasury bureau of statistics, once a believer in the doctrine that trade follows the flag, struggles to explain a drop in exports totaling over 100 million dollars in value. He is not alone among imperialist soothsayers who claim expansion boosts foreign trade and national prosperity.
The Republicans are in a tight spot over tariffs. Campaigns will bring a fire of questions that could only be answered by admitting the party is tied to tariff made trusts and bounty fed manufacturers and lacks the courage to break its bonds.
A reader decries current economic conditions noting salaries and wages stagnate while prices rise rapidly. The author argues that Republican rhetoric calls this prosperity, but asserts it is an unnatural, injurious state where the few profit at the expense of the many, with burdens unsustainable.
A laboring person seeks fair wages amid rising living costs since 1865, questioning whether endowments or charitable gains truly improve access to superior education in this country and what lessons papers should heed about economic burdens and opportunity.
The Saint Louis Republic argues that defeating the Republican party at the polls is the method to curb trusts. It urges revising the tariff to make it merely a revenue measure, implying broader political change as the remedy.
A fragment reflects on General Jake mith praising Herod for gallantry while noting Herod’s massacre of children over ten, challenging public opinion and suggesting revision of assessment of Herod.
A hazy verse in a 19th century voice speaks of longing for Love and the relief of his arrival, followed by sorrow as his brief presence leaves the heart aching. The speaker recalls the instant happiness and enduring memory, with mournful undertones and spiritual yearning.
A. Cattermull, AFL organizer in Chicago, resigns to return to carpentry citing better pay. The AFL constitution fixes organizers at 3.50 a day for eight hours, below Chicago carpenters’ pay and far from New York rates. He argues organizers work longer hours, often sixteen hours daily, and deserve decent wages.
The piece notes wage growth over fifty years based on census reports, with Boston Transcript highlighting a decline in the last decade due to excluded salaried workers. It cites rising real wages from lower commodity prices, while acknowledging census limits, and reflects on optimistic claims and ongoing worker discontent.
Observance of contracts between employers and employees is essential and sacred. The Chicago freight handlers strike showed unions honor matters beyond wages, stressing that agreements must be kept and only broken under extreme necessity after all honorable means fail.
Secretary Wilson reports United Mine Workers membership at 232 280, largest U S labor group, with 202,926 07 strike benefits paid last year. Philadelphia blacksmiths nearly win nine hour day with 181 of 200 shops signing union scale. 363 on strike, 829 returned. Bureau of Labor to publish union data, noting growing membership and improved conditions. Copper smiths press for nine hour day and $3 60 daily minimum after strike action.
A historic note argues that workers and employers hold rights in wage negotiations and that a wage schedule posted for Chicago freight handlers sparked debate. It underscores mutual dependence, urges dialogue, and asserts both sides may validly insist on terms. The piece discusses strike justifications and the need for respectful negotiation.
A notorious beggars league in St Petersburg mutilates children to gain sympathy from benefactors while a wealthy gang chief posing as a philanthropist pockets 16 paras in money begged from the public.
In Dresden a tax on every cat led to the gathering and killing of 10,000 cats. The proposal asks whether a rise in rats and mice followed and whether repealing the tax would reduce harm to animals while allowing cats to roam free with no license.
Aman contests a solicitor's fees after his father left him money. A legal adviser argues the Saal settlement while a separate analysis by J. M. Camp details the Tava composition at Duquesne Steel Works. Newfoundland townspeople extol simple honesty and austere religion with open doors and no arrests.
A grocer faced a charge for selling chewing tobacco on Sunday but defense argued it is a necessity. Judge Brows agreed and discharged the accused, then resumed with another case and chewed a plug himself.
A forthcoming Woman's Exhibition in New York will showcase a table with sewing samples by famous actresses. Visitors would pay to see Lilien Russell's stockings darned and Legite Carter's trousers patched. The scene is described with lively boastful color and urban bustle.
The municipality of Edinburg conferred the freedom of that city on Sir Wilfrid Laurier premier of Canada and Sir Robert Bond premier and colonial secretary of Newfoundland during their July 26 visit to receive degrees from the university.
The Rocky Mountain locust devastated Kansas, Mingauri, Nebraska and Iowa crops worth 110 million dollars with indirect losses likely matching that figure. Separately, vast iron salvage from the sea was recorded, with up to 150 tons dredged in twelve months along England’s east coast.
In Lambertsville New Jersey a local farmer has died after being bitten by a rocater. The incident plays on a local joke that the Jersey skeeter has no antidote.
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