Importing Belgians To Fill Trust Labor Shortages
Moncie, Inc reports 200 Belgians from Brussels will work in American Window Glass Company factories in Muncie. AP dispatch notes the window-glass trust and other big firms have long imported foreigners to supplant American workers, claiming cooperation interests cannot hire the best locals. The piece warns against foreign anarchists among immigrants and questions continued trust-driven labor imports.
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Chinese Loot Cases Dropped In State Department Report
The Chicago Record-Herald notes officials have no disposition to criticize Secretary Squiers for importing a vast quantity of Chinese relics. It is understood he bought the items to present to an eastern museum. Reports say the articles are loot taken from palaces.
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Charity and hypocrisy among the rich and poor
A Lawrence Jeffersonsan-Gazette opinion argues that wealthy donors appear as philanthropists only when their taxes avoid the burden. True sympathy, it says, lies with the poor sharing scarce bread with the sick, while the affluent give little despite public appearances and church pews.
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Partisan Attacks After Presidential Assassination Spark Outrage
The New Era of Springfield Ohio condemns the Republicans for capitalizing on a national tragedy. The editorial denounces the bid to seize political advantage as a low point in morality and decency under party rule.
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Republican Party
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Ohio
Saloon-Hotel Rule Sparks Lodge Membership Debate
The Sovereign Grand Lodge at Indianapolis ruled that a saloon run in connection with a hotel makes the hotel proprietor a saloon-keeper and ineligible for lodge membership. The Topeka Herald notes this decision amid local chatter about value and form.
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Sovereign Grand Lodge
Indianapolis
Topeka Herald
Would We Weep With Those Who Weep Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A reflective poem questions whether comfort and success dull compassion for the poor and outcast. It ponders if enduring hardship, hunger, and loss awaken sympathy, and asks if happiness would still prompt humility and gratitude toward the Giver and Heaven.
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Heaven
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Political Quackery in New Era Letter from Turrovor Wheaton
Turrovor Wheaton argues against violence and reactionary measures to fix politics. He calls for justice as the foundation of society, warns that assassinations and oppression won’t cure systemic ills, and urges higher moral laws over partisan zeal. He cites Montesquieu on unjust statutes and condemns mere dress and ceremony without a just social order.
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ExputsuMen Buy American Steel Rods Cheaper Abroad
A quoted Southern Mercury critique calls foreign buyers of U.S. steel rods a demeaning "deima gogue" and "agitator" and "anarchist" as it notes they obtain rods at far lower prices overseas, implying a political stance on trade.
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United States
Southern Mercury
Government Railways in Europe: A Global Trend in State Control
Dr. von der Leyen notes in the German Review that Prussia’s government railroads, bought from private lines and run publicly, spurred similar moves across Europe. By 1901, many nations including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland pursued varied state ownership or mixed models, while only England and the United States remained largely private.
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Switzerland
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Only White Servants at the White House
The New York Herald reports consternation as Mrs. Roosevelt declares she will employ only white servants at the White House. The inference is that Black waiters, coachmen, cooks, and house staff must depart, though several have served through many administrations.
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Socialism and Anarchy Contrasted in Southern Mercury Quote
A Southern Mercury quotation contrasts socialism and anarchy, noting socialism seeks all government and law, while anarchy seeks none. It argues only revolutionary socialism could sympathize with anarchy as opposing principles.
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