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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
4
A brief notice requests U S readers to send their choice on the subject via a postal card for publication or to visit for a discussion. The appeal stresses urgency and asks no delay in sharing opinions.
A Kansas City wholesale house letter to a traveling salesman warns against weak customers after the 1896 election. It notes price shifts in oats sugar crackers and evaporated fruit, promises gold sent by express, and stresses vigilance against slow payers while urging prompt sale to strong, creditworthy trade.
A proposal argues the state should hire and own a printing office and print textbooks used in schools at actual cost to save money. The author invites others to share opinions on this subject.
A Kansas reader argues against a constitutional convention as a GOP ploy to trap Populists, citing cost and sufficiency of amendments. An isolated New York starver, a master architect, lacks work and implicates paternalism. Chicago retailers face hard times, some relocating. New York’s institutions seem shaky. Legislation offers Senators salaries to 7500 and Speakers to 10000, while gold’s purchasing power rises. West Superior Iron and Steel passes to Rockefeller, consolidating Mesaba mining interests.
Senator Matthew S. Quay of Pennsylvania denounces the National Business Men's League as a scheme for wealth to dictate high office. He argues one must protect farmers, small merchants, artisans, and laborers, and warns there must be less business influence in politics to prevent corruption. He asserts senators should serve the country in gross, without special affinities.
The Oregonian quote from the Portland paper is cited to assert that Grover Cleveland opposed silver inflation, defended the national credit, and stood as a model of honest money and stable government, portraying him as a unifying figure for factions against monopoly and trust-backed politics.
Detroit mayor and governor elect Pingree denounces great fortunes and advocates taxation or limits on wealth. He cites Vanderbilt income examples and calls for constitutional amendments to enable income or inheritance taxes and to divert accumulations to government aid. He questions the cost of European ducal ties and cites Carter Harrison’s fortune as a benchmark.
Rockefeller and Carnegie plan a major ore transport alliance with Bessmer Steamship and F W Wheeler & Co. A new large steel steamer will join a fleet of eighteen vessels and nine barges to haul 1,600,000 tons of ore from upper lake ports to Lake Erie ports. The arrangement consolidates ore handling from mine to furnace, with Rockefeller and Carnegie controlling the process.
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