The Blind Hog Tale and the American Masses
JO McDill reflects on a Harper's Weekly cartoon and a fable of blind hogs led by a seeing hog to water, using it to warn that prejudice and credulity steer American voters. He urges active fight for knowledge, liberty, and a united republic against division and corruption.
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Curtis
Harper's Weekly
Europe
America
Ilavis
Kaskaskia
Mississippi
Acros
Aseving
Breed Out The Animal
A compact moral fragment contrasts humans with animal ferocity and cites Darwin. It questions Wall Street metaphors like bulls and bears as sharks in boards of trade, noting daily societal examples of predatory behavior.
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Boards of Trade
What Are You Wishing A Quiet Guiding Poem
A reflective verse urges readers to improve the world by personal ethics and daily acts. It presses selfless motives, prudent thoughts, and wisdom woven into daily living. It links kindness to communal happiness and suggests personal discipline as a path to societal betterment.
Immigrants pour into America from Europe
Europe continues to send large numbers of people to the United States with nearly five hundred thousand landing in New York last year. The piece argues that immigrants include many fine people and that liberty advances in Europe while receding in America, noting Americans also pursue happiness and that no single nation holds exclusive rights to free government.
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Europe
America
New York
Socialism seen as solution to living wages and surplus workers
The author argues the labor surplus causes misery and that socialism offers a cure by expanding room for Europe’s surplus population without harming Americans. Under current conditions population growth worsens hardships for the masses, while socialism provides employment at living wages.
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America
Europe
Who Made Hanna and Quay in Kansas Farmer piece
A speech reprinting critique argues Lincoln was not self made or university formed but God made him. It pivots to question who made Hanna Quay Bailey Burton and labels Hanna Quay leaders versus Burton Bailey as corporate driven. The piece contrasts Lincoln’s humanity with today’s Republican leadership and condemns greed over patriotism.
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Gleed
Kansas Farmer
Lincoln
Hanna
Quay
Bailey
Burton
Why Newspapers Are Dunnners
A brief analogy compares persistent newspaper dunning to a farmer selling 1 000 bushels of wheat to 1 000 customers who pay in dribs. Debtors view small dues as insignificant, while ongoing delay undermines the publisher’s finances. The piece argues publishers have cause to continue persistent dunning.
Socialist State Ticket Nominated at Emporia Convention
The Socialist state convention met in Emporia on the Fourth and endorsed a full state ticket. Key nominees include I. Matignon for congressman at large, C. Jorsuch and H. H. Benson for associate justices, A. S. McAlister for governor, J. M. Parr for lieutenant governor, J. T. Barnes for secretary of state, J. E. Taylor for treasurer, W. J. McMillen for auditor, G. C. Clemens for attorney general, Mrs. Lucila R. Kraybill for superintendent of public instruction, and C. G. Warrington for insurance commissioner.
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Emporia
I. Matignon
Scranton
Osage County
Charles Jorsuch
Olathe
H. H. Benson
Greenfield
F. L. Dermott
Fr. Scott
C. R. Mitchell
Geuda Springs
F. J. Arnold
Wichita
Winfield
C. G. Warrington
Kansas City
Kas
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Anna Cuampe
Nalin
Anderson County
K.R.P. A
JO McDill
England
Russia
Llies
God
Man
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Socialist State
Li, Adams
Vaughn
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