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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
3
A protariff critic argues Roosevelt misreads protectionism and warns against surrendering duties that shield consumers from extortion. It traces how tariffs bred domestic combine power, claims abolition would curb extortionate trusts without harming industry or wages.
The Chicago Chronicle critiques the Monroe doctrine remarking that the sitting president will favor the German baron’s praise of Theodore Roosevelt as a world leader. It argues that Americans have Europeanized, confusing ruler with administration, and questions abdication of power under two administrations.
The Indianapolis News discusses how protective labor rules often shield machinery more than workers. It argues that glass blowing machines will replace slag labor and that labor saving devices are inevitable. The piece questions whether tariff defenses for protecting workers remain valid once machines take over.
The piece notes concerns about the steel trust and political funding from agricultural districts in the west. It reflects on a President's broader view of economic policy and the need to move beyond treasury pressures in 1904 while sensing dissent from Iowa and the northwest as the senate is observed.
The passage notes reform promises and rival factions surrounding the vice presidency and Tarih remain steady if Roosevelt and four Republican congressmen influence the outcome.
The author questions the idea that a stronger navy guarantees peace and asks how long and at what cost the buildup should continue. They challenge the assumption that all men are savages and robbers watching for a chance to exploit the weak, asking if this reflects modern civilized mankind.
A Washington opinion frowns on President Roosevelt for promising a Senate rejected appointment. The letter reveals the president insisting on a Steele posting while Oregon's ex Senator Simon and his fellow senator refuse consent. The piece roasts the constitutional approach and the improvised exchange.
The President faces steady pressure from political figures including Perry Heath of the Cu ban national Republican committee and James B. Clerkson to end the investigation. Critics say the department’s rivals highlight corruption as a sample of municipal mismanagement amid treasury plunder concerns.
Mr. Burrows of Michigan declares the senate seat tied to the lumber trust cost $220,000 and warns it would be dangerous to admit Brigham Smoot to the upper house. He argues Smoot paid less than full price or nothing, calling him a rate cutter and disturber of senatorial values. The rhetoric ends with a call to cast Smoot into outer darkness.
The article compares Holland’s strike coverage with local coal region labor unrest. Troops moved under pretense of quelling disorder, a familiar scene, but no judge barred public travel in Holland as in despotic regimes.
The Honorable John W. Griggs voices tremulous indignation at the Northern Securities decision calling it revolutionary. He is remembered for criticism of Sherman Act enforcement and his claim trials and the Sherman law would not reach them. He is shaken by the St Paul ruling.
Are Above the Law declares that Northern Securities derision is preposterous and financiers will evade it even if the Supreme Court affirms. He argues compliance with law is not required of captains of industry and finance, while labor unions demand higher wages.
The text argues that the public must be safeguarded from monopolies that manipulate prices for unjust profits. It emphasizes shielding the people rather than smaller corporations that may benefit incidentally from monopoly power.
The judge rejects claims that he can stop majority stockholders from freezing out minority holders at whim. The only clear case where a U S judge can issue an injunction is when labor unions seek higher wages.
An Irishman explains a scam that exploited a £4 reward for informing on ratepayers by letting a friend be caught first and then collecting the prize his companion had earned. The pair plan to split and start anew, hoping the board stays closed longer.
An Oscenia Massachusetts bar tale recounts Nesbit and Ferguson handling a land suit. A farmer faced non resident notices by publication and answered questions carefully. The lawyer warned that counting the cost of the advertisement could keep him out of lawsuits.
Miss Martha Havemeyer recounts a story of young Alice Roosevelt walking with her nurse in a city park when a boy lost a red balloon. The girl comforts him saying the balloon has gone to heaven and he will get it again when he dies.
Mrs. Suan D. Crossman of Rock County Wisconsin turned 100 at her Beloit area home on March 29. Five generations represented by fifty relatives attended the milestone birthday. Born in Cheshire Massachusetts she is linked to Earl Clapp a Revolutionary War major. In 1848 she and husband moved to government land near Afton Wisconsin and raised seven children, four surviving including Mrs Meten M. Chandler who served as a missionary in Siam for thirty nine years.
A New York Times excerpt recalls a Maryland crowd at Senator Gorman’s speech. A disappointed listener laments not hearing him after travelling fourteen miles, wedged by a crowd described as predominantly African American. The senator responds with a witty remark about a jewel set in gold.
An article by James Stemons in the Independent argues tipping has declined as waiter wages and employer duties shrink. It cites wages for colored waiters in Cleveland, New York, New Orleans, Louisville, Philadelphia, and other cities, noting a daily tip average of only a few cents and overall underpayment.
Allan Hawthorne recalls Hildegarde Hawthorne as a child who prayed on her knees the night before a seaside summer. She said she prayed to avoid praying during the trip, highlighting a humorous family anecdote from the New York Tribune.
Forty years after Bilkins first saw a joke in an old almanac he teased Silkins. On a rainy day Bilkins challenged Silkins with an umbrella joke, Silkins shouted its theft and struck him while a policeman escorted Bilkins from the gutter. An ambulance followed as the officer warned against mocking borrowing and rain.
A fragmented excerpt riffs on Shakespeare’s Sonnet about love not altered by time or impediments. It mentions love’s constancy, time’s sickle, and enduring fidelity, though the text here is garbled and reconstructs key phrases from the original sonnet. It conveys a meditation on love’s permanence against decay.
The excerpt notes that a theory matching facts does not prove truth. It mentions Poincare, a French mathematician, suggesting many theories may fit a facts state while only one is true. It references Cornell University and its twenty six fraternities.
A tall crook greets a friend with a claim of escaping as a chauffeur and evading capture. The dialogue mentions a past thirty day sentence for prior conning and hints at a rough day involving railroad ration cleanup, safes smashed through windows, and coal baskets.
Dialogue shows Henry and companions joking about tips and a phrenologist’s verdict. They tease Miss Rose and discuss perceptions of propriety during Prohibition. The light exchange hints at social tensions and insider slang of the era.
A collection of comic exchanges features sharp one liners about marriage, work, and family life. Witty asides include a scolding wife, a punning tramp, and quips from a spectral narrator about industry and livestock. The pieces skew toward light, everyday humor with familiar archetypes.
A fragment recalls a tramp who ransacked a house for shoes and claimed to be from Boston. He said he was only after buttoned shoes, as told in a grandmotherly anecdote preserved in the clipping.
Fragmentary line recalls someone reminding another about a prior promise to return home from the office, mentioning a wife and a vow to go straight home. The garbled text reflects uncertain context and missing surrounding details.
A dialogue scene features Mr Scrybbler and a Little Brother debating titles and phrases. The exchange hints at wordplay on authorship and expression with quirky misreadings of phrases such as The top of the morning and bottom of it. The fragment suggests a humorous literary moment in a casual setting.
In a testimonial from J. W. Walls of Lebanon Kentucky the backache and kidney disorder relief from Dean's Kidney Pills is described. He credits the remedy with rapid relief after ineffective medical care and notes a free trial offer through Foster Milburn Co.
Lord Strathcona writes from London that he would gladly welcome an arrangement to provide money to assist suitable British families to emigrate to Canada but such a scheme seems to appeal to either the government or to capitalists.
Proposal for a London Arctic garden using refrigeration to lower temperatures and cultivate flora from Arctic regions. Describes interest in displays of hardy plants and related botanical exhibit concepts in a controlled hothouse setting.
Mia Z. J. Monson of Powersville Kentucky, age 66, says she suffered eight years with kidney trouble and four months in bed before using Dodd's Kidney Pills. After taking the remedy she recovered, regained strength, and now performs her own work without pain. She urges others to follow her advised course.
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