Freedom at risk in ship subsidy fight and press suppression
Youngstown opinion warns Congress will push a ship subsidy bill benefiting a few rich men at taxpayers' expense. Roosevelt’s forthcoming message is awaited. The piece denounces post office suspensions of a Populist paper and criticizes Manila officials for pressuring soldiers to re-enlist, arguing such government action threatens individual and national freedoms.
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TL. W. Young
Kansas
Congress
Roosevelt
Scott
Iola Register
Manila
United States
New Zealand Railroading and Socialist Ideas
The San Francisco Call criticizes New Zealand for government interference in private business. It notes 2,200 miles of railroad earning seven million dollars with five million in expenses and argues that state ownership in coal, farms, tailoring, and railroads could raise wages or lower prices. The Appeal to Reason reprints the Call’s view that railways should serve the people, not profit.
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New Zealand
San Francisco
Calle
Sedden
Be Strong by the Tides and the Captain's Call
Poem urging steadfast faith through storms and unknown seas. It speaks of tides of sorrow and sin, shifting sands, and a divine command to take the wheel with ready hands. The future holds a written chart in loving light guiding souls through peril.
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God of Heaven
The Timidity of Capital and Taxation Demands
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld an order to assess 235 million dollars of Chicago corporate property, prompting threats to leave the state. The Commoner argues capital’s timidity is a tactic to shirk taxes, urging small homeowners and workers to protest inequality in federal, state, and local taxation and demand justice from government.
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Supreme Court of Illinois
Thompson
State Board of Equalization
Chicago
Two Billion Dollar Glass Trust Aims to Monopolize
A Commoner column cites Bryan era rhetoric arguing a planned two billion dollar glass trust would become a public menace. It criticizes tariffs and trusts, notes figures like Lord Roberts and Hoar, and urges Western states toward tariff reciprocity ahead of next year’s elections.
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Lord Roberts
South Africa
Senator Hoar
Copperhead
Doubt on People's party state ticket nomination
Lola Friend notes John W. Breidenthal doubts a state ticket for the People's party next year. She suggests misquoting may be at play, argues the party won’t die despite heavy sabotage from opponents, and claims only its enemies bemoan its demise.
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John W. Briedenthal
People’s Party
Mr. Breidenthal
People's Party
Lola Friend
How to Reduce the Surplus in the Treasury
The Chicago Record Herald reports that Secretary Gage says revenue piling up, forecasting a surplus of at least 130 million dollars for the current year. It notes war tax reductions of about 40 million dollars last year and argues Congress must heed the call to adjust fiscal policy.
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Ways and Means Committee
Gage
Treasury
Congress
Rural Kansan Attacks Anarchy and Editorial Crackdown
The Rural Kansan notes Congressman Curtis plans a bill at the next Congress to replace the death penalty with deportation for a sect labeled philosophical anarchists. It criticizes a harsh section criminalizing anti-government writings and imagines a Bryan presidency muzzling Republican editors, arguing that anarchy deserves obliteration.
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Curtis
Congress
United States
Supreme Court of the
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Washington
Lincoln
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