Senior Financiers and Free Silver Debate in Press Echo
The piece rails at prominent financiers in Indianapolis for thirty years of control, predicts Republican missteps over free silver and banking withdrawal, and notes the public talent shift from corporations to the people amid hints of future trouble. It also cites Philadelphia gas profits, Moody on Jesus Christ’s popularity, church reform, and St Louis Provident Association’s fundraising needs with calls to curb greed.
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Indianapolis
Etagna
Ion
Populiar
America
St. Louis Grove-Democrat
Morrw
St Louis Provident Association
Avery
Questions on farming, economy, and party policy in 1890s rhetoric
The Southern Mercury editorial questions why farming paid 1806 to 1873 but not now, asks about per capita money and orientation, taxes, farm prices, and social conditions. It probes the gold standard impact, differences between Democratic and Republican policies, and whether parties betrayed people by silver coinage in 1892, urging readers to consider loyalty to self, family, country, and God when voting.
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Furmere
United States
Democratic
Aliver
Southern Mercury
Debts and prices raise honest questions on seed loan
A Wisconsin farmer writes from Sheboygan asking if repaying a $50 seed loan with $50 worth of seed or fifty bushels is honest. He notes prices have fallen half in ten years and questions if demanding twice the loan value is fair, given mortgage and asset decline. The piece critiques the “advance agent of prosperity” idea and its political use.
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Wilson
Sheboygan
Wis
Leaders of Men Display at Chicago Jackson Day Speech
The Chicago Jackson Day gathering features William J Bryan defending true democracy and criticizing the Chicago platform supporters. He argues against perpetual presidential ambitions and calls for a clear party line on money, imperialism, and bimetallism, while Gov Altgeld lauds minority party reform and warns against plutocratic capture.
False diamonds fuel high society schemes in London
London report reveals a scam where false diamonds replace real stones in jewelry. Nobles, nobles, and creditors rely on brokers as real gems vanish from trust with security loans. The practice lets aristocrats avoid ruin while deceivers profit, with many financiers chuckling at sensational India papers.
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London
Jone
Bareacre
World newspaper circulation vast reach and impact
A Review of Reviews statistician estimates global newspaper circulation at 12,000,000,000 copies yearly. He notes this would cover 10,450 square miles of paper, weigh 26,760 tons, require 333 years to decompose, and form a 490 mile tall stack if piled. Reading time would total about 100,000 years annually.
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Oriculation
Elapan
Alhese
Aighest Alps
Woke Wylde Le Higive Married? Mack Wyld Debate
Fragmentary dialogue shows questions about marriage between Woke Wylde Le Higive and Mack Wyld with humorous mishearings. Lively exchange mentions singing and a phrase Homa Iyert Home as a quirky aside.
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Mack
A Vision of an Interstate Canal from Galveston to Canada
A Dallas county farmer advocates an interstate canal to lower transport costs and boost western prosperity. He cites canalist history, describes a route from Galveston up the Trinity and Red rivers to the Canadian line, and argues water power and irrigation would spur manufacturing towns. He claims the project would cost less than war with Spain and reduce railroad control, urging legislative action and press support.
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Dallas News
A. Baker
Dallas County
United States
Gibbs
DeWitt Clinton
Galveston
Canada
Miscouri River
Trinity River
Red River
North Fork
Indian Territory
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakota
Rosey Mountains
Akron
Cleveland
Hed River
Montague
Clay County
Missianippi
Trinity
Reid
Ohio Canal
Garfield
Ihs
Spain
Cuba
Europe
Galvyeston Harbor
Fort Worth
Tally River
Michigan railroads and a populist governor candidate
Detroit mayor Pingres, newly elected Michigan governor on the Republican ticket, rails at railroad trusts promising 2 cent a mile fares and charters under threat. He argues rail rates fell behind wheat prices and urges radical reform to end discriminating practices, gold standard talk, and party splits. He warns against preachers who oppose reform while propping up monopoly and cites biblical imagery.
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Pingres
Detroit
Michigan
Chicago
Rcc
Republican Party
Christ
Pontius Pilate
Calvary
Man and Wealth in Political Economy
A physician argues that wealth should serve human welfare, not the reverse. He denounces treating rents and profits as ultimate measures of good, insisting the cultivators and laborers define the system's character and that wealth is incidental to man’s improvement and progress.
An Object Lesson Dialogue on Silver Coinage Politics
A farmer and banker discuss the timing of an international agreement for free silver coinage if McKinley is elected. The farmer fears ten years is too long as his family will suffer and future generations grow ignorant, while the banker urges loyalty to the party and patience. The dialogue ends with a critique of proponents of metallic money as misguided.
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Farmer
Mr. Morgan
McKin
Roy
Wny
Ingnorance
Poelbly
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