10 Dec 1897
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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1897
Page
1
J M Avaxaspin and Wolk Awnnosr contested in Edin with Aeaveiate Edin as organizer. The event featured uncertain outcomes and drew regional attention to the competitors and venue.
Ex governor Jonas P St John in Colorado on business visiting his son in Denver. A petition from the Citizens League and forty prominent Denver citizens asked him to speak on political issues. He accepted naming Friday evening Dec 34 at the Coliseum as time and place.
A Philadelphia Medical World letter argues religion and politics must align to improve public services and housing. It critiques specie basis, defends paper money, and condemns gold standard schemes as harmful to national prosperity and ordinary citizens. It urges nonpartisan public policy rooted in patriotism.
In Wheeling, private gas works were bought by the city with bonds long paid from gas profits. The city now earns about 25000 a year from gas receipts and sells gas at 75 cents per thousand. City books show 6000 worth of gas burned in public buildings with no charge to the city. The profit covers lighting streets with arc lights and provides city lighting far cheaper than private firms.
The passage features Wendell Phillips criticizing the idea of gold backing a dollar bill as a false pretense and swindle. He argues the gold dollar is only present when no one wants it and missing when needed, noting the world's trade requires more than recent banking improvements.
Open day and night at the office over the hardware store on the south side square. Large and well selected stock of gloves and stoves offered for immediate purchase or inquiry.
A Dawson City Klondike wage note cites $15 daily as standard and links gold standard to labor respect, while The Topeka Capital is critiqued for omitting mass hunger in gold-based economies. Garden City Sentinel mocks heaven streets paved with gold. Governor Leedy vows no pardons for prohibitory law violators, praised as courage to act, while Lawrence World (Rep.) calls McKinley burdened by Congress.
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