Prosperity and tariffs raise wages and prices alike
Two trusts have advanced wages for steel and tin-plate workers while steel and tin prices rise. The armor plate sector faces a government price cut, with foreign sales at $300 per ton. Senate action aims to revive shipping and tariff protections, shifting costs to taxpayers and consumers.
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Steel Trust
Tin-Plate Trust
Peter
Paul
Sam
House Committee
Senate
Hanna
Groundhog Swaps, Italian Climate, and Offbeat Weather Jest
A playful weather note mocks a prolonged Italian climate amid no snakes for six weeks and a groundhog death. It jokes that March roars like a lion while peaches cold snub forecasts and hints at future efforts to restore the land with a new groundhog and peach trees.
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Kansas
Italy
Hole
Rotten beef scandal taints General Miles era army
The piece attacks rotten beef findings against army contractors, noting most testimony centers on sergeants and blaming officials for feeding men inferior meat. It credits General Miles for acting and condemns Congress as the era’s most expensive, while criticizing the administration as weak and corrupt.
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Miles
Eagan
Spain
Political Opinions and Tax Law In Kansas News
January and February income of Webb McNall’s department of insurance totaled 99387.08 with 55042.84 from the 2 percent tax law, prompted by the Topeka State Journal. The piece voices GOP anger, calls for McNall’s removal, criticizes Goddard, and criticizes the Populist senate on the fee and salary bill. It also questions John Collins’ murder case and reports an Ottawa soldier’s affidavit about rotten beef distribution dating to 1868.
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Webb McNall
Department of Insurance
SuperintendentcNall
Topeka State Journal
McNall
Republican Party
Gus Anderson
Ottawa
Republican stance on state manufactory of twine sparks mockery
The text ridicules Republicans for voting nearly unanimously for a law to create a state manufactory of binding twine, calling it socialism and predicting sharp partisan backlash and mock rebuke from their ranks.
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Republican House
Congressman Buwersock criticizes Second District aides
In a sharp remark, Congressman Buwersock says no one in the Second district is competent for his private secretary spot. He sent to Minnesota for a man, triggering strong pushback as supporters regret not acting before the election. The Lawrence tie man dismisses the past votes as all that mattered.
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Treree
Buwersock
Minnesota
Fron Lawrence
Kansas City Journal on McNall and Insurance Reform
The Kansas City Journal urges reform in the insurance department, criticizing McNall’s supervision and calling for national control. It contrasts public praise with the need to curb office abuses and improve state and federal oversight, noting broader themes of political accountability. The Flaming Sword in Chicago contributes a metaphysical reflection on mental atmosphere and epidemics.
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Kansas City Journal
McNall
Kansas
Insurance Commissioner
Lic General Administration
Lawrence World
Arctic
Peary
Nansen
Chicago
The Coming Age March Issue Features Broad Disarmament and Culture
The March Coming Age presents a symposium urging universal disarmament by Mary A. Livermore Rev R E Bisbee and Ernest F Crosby on wisdom humanity morality and economic progress Dr Lorimers historical piece The World's Indebtedness to the Jew and musical essays by Daniel Batchelor James A Herne and others highlight culture and optimism The review notes many important features that make a splendid Boston number broadening readers horizons and lifting spirits
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Mary A. Livermore
R. E. Bisbee
Ernest F. Crosby
Dr. Lorimer
Daniel Batchelor
Philadelphia
James A. Herne
C. K. Reiss
Boston Review
The New Party and Farmers Power
A critique of a proposed farmers party arguing its impracticality due to farmer disunity and intractability while acknowledging potential power. It notes Congress and legislatures are dominated by corporation lawyers and hints at systemic corruption, urging farmers to unite for self protection despite skepticism.
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America
Congress
The Decadence of Christianity and Its Cause Critique
Emilins denounces powerful trusts and combines that crush small merchants and workers, drive wages down, and push people to vice. He asks why society tolerates root causes and urges direct action against the wealthiest thieves who own property and profit from unfair means.
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Emilins
Chicago Chronicle
Tur
Salary probes rise as old pay restored and GOP faces crisis
Lawrence World notes salary probes prevail and restoration of previous salaries, while trouble piling up for the Republican party grows alarming. The brief reflects editorials on political scrutiny and party peril.
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Republican Party
Lawrence World
Government Gone Crazy in Cuba Reconstruction
An Atchison Globe editorial criticizes General Maximo Gomez as a bought ally of the United States in Cuba’s reconstruction. It attacks paying Cuban soldiers seven million dollars, calls Gomez an adventurer, and condemns American officials for debt-funded policy that neglects needy Americans. The piece labels the government as gone crazy and urges restraint.
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Maximo Gomez
United States
Cuba
Gomez
Opposition to Expansion Draws Top Judges Across Parties
March 4 report notes hundreds of Republicans oppose expansion. Albert H. Horton former Kansas chief justice and David J. Brewer U.S. Supreme Court justice are among critics. Topeka State Journal.
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Anceison
Albert H. Horton
Supreme Court of Kansas
David J. Brewer
Supreme Court of the United States
Topeka State Journal
Johnson Criticized War Policy Sparks GOP Mockery
Lawrence World remarks that Indiana voters will have less Johnson in congress after March 4. It notes Republican papers praised him before for honesty, now mock him for criticizing McKinley and his war policy, calling Jolson a good man despite the change.
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Ture
Johnson
Congress
Indiana
Lawrence World
Congressman Johnson
McKinley
Jolson
McKinsey
Congress man's Minnesota hire sparks Republican jab
The letter notes S D Bowersock traveling to Minnesota to recruit a private secretary, a young Minneapolis lawyer. It mocks a fusion congressman leaving state lines for a lucrative position, calling him prodigal or son of a gun, and mentions Fred Bowersock of Minneapolis as private secretary to Kansas Congressman J D Bowersock per the Pacific Times.
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S. D. Bowersock
Gove
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Minn
Toar
Fred Bowersock
J. D. Bowersock
Kansas
Pacla Times
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