Mindanao Moros May Trigger Trouble If Missionaries Arrive
Chicago Record dispatch reports Congressman Hull of Iowa warning that allowing missionaries into Mindanao could unleash a fierce Moro rebellion. He describes Moros as Muhammadans who practice polygamy, fears preaching against plural wives would provoke resistance, and says 200000 Moros would fight zealously for their religion.
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Chicago
Herald
San Francisco
Hull
Iowa
Manila
Mindanao
Spain
Decrease in Railway Wages Across Kansas
Secretary Lee Johnson receives sixteenth annual labor department report showing 1898 railroad wages totaling 15,024,931.13 with average salary 59.58 dollars. Last year wages were 12,670,943.66 and average 522.45 dollars, indicating a downturn in railway pay.
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Joe Hudson
Topeka Herald
Lee Johnson
State Labor Bureau
Department
Kansas
Not Many Pops There. Farmers' Advocate Parody Piece
A Topeka editorial mocks the state penitentiary prisoner poll by Warden Jewett listing 511 Republicans 189 lyse rats and 20 Populists. The piece questions the party balance and jokes about pardons to achieve a Republican majority.
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Farmers’ Advocate
Topeka
Jewett
Stanley
A Housewife's Troubles in Morning Mayhem
Ciara Augosta Trask laments a hectic household routine from dawn to dinner. The verse sketches a mother's daily tasks heating water, cooking, dressing children, managing illnesses, and a late husband returning with a guest, all ending in a frazzled, stringy hair moment.
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Ciara Augosta Trask
Orange Judd Farmer
Bryan on Harmony and Reorganization in Kansas City Platform
Ottawa Republican Times reports Mr. Bryan’s measured reply to West’s plan for harmonizing two Democratic factions on a Kansas City platform. He argues harmony demands surrender of core Democratic principles, notes silver advocates oppose income tax and anti trust laws, warn gold corporate elements aim to control organization, and questions how West could appease deserters while maintaining a populist platform.
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Bryan
Ottawa
Republican-Times
Missouri
Kansas City
West
Orgast Jrsion
G Gold-Corporation
Cleveland
Chronicle rails at oil railroads and confiscation
The San Francisco Chronicle is accused of praising oil discovery while railroads allegedly confiscate wells’ product via high rates. The text contrasts Socialist critiques of worker confiscation with the Chronicle’s defense of “commercial pirates” who own state machinery, asserting the rich do no wrong.
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The
San Francisco Chronicle
Rep
Chronicle
California
Socialism Bans and the Railroads in Public Fear
A clipped column contrasts Republican and Hartford opinions on socialism and government ownership. It warns of a future where a centralized rail system controlled by a few directors could replace public choice, likening it to the United States and predicting rapid, inevitable change driven by financiers and greed.
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Kansas
Indepence
Oregonian
Rockefeller
Hartford
Connecticut
Courant
New Steel Corporation
United States of America
Is THIS prosperity a sign for the nation
A wholesale forms dealer claims 4.2 million in accounts and 100000 borrowed from banks to keep stock, while a leading city newspaper reportedly loses money on each edition, drawing from reserves to cover running expenses. The producer cites these as evidence of overall prosperity.
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Omaha
Trusts Force Men Toward Politics If Union Banned
Appeal to Reason argues that if trusts block men from joining unions, the workers will turn to politics as the only means of redress. The comment frames labor pressure as inevitable and political action as a consequential outlet.
Graft Suspected in El Reno Land Office Checks
Ottawa Republican Times reports a detected scheme at El Reno where a land-office map showed fifty quarter-sections checked off without filings. Officials fear widespread fraud by sleight of hand as unscrupulous locaters allegedly marked desirable claims for clients, defrauding honest seekers and embarrassing land officials amid low filings.
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Ottawa
el Reno
Lawton
Landoffice
Z Reno
Public Ownership in Canada Signals Telegraph and Telephone Nationalization
Central Farmer notes Canada will nationalize telegraph and telephone services using a public fund of 7 million dollars. The piece argues demand for public ownership grows, cites resistance in the United States, and envisions slower but steady relief from monopolies as steps toward public control unfold.
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Omaha
Canada
United States
Jerusalem
Jericho
Railroads and penny postage earlier with government ownership
The writer argues government ownership of railroads would cut postal costs by delivering transport at cost, removing private profit from mail transport and enabling penny postage sooner.
Reorganizers forewarned by Ottawa Republican Times
In the Ottawa Republican Times Billy De ford argues the reorganizers will not prevail. He warns that even if they succeed the reorganized party would likely receive the same aid from sincere organizers as the prior Bryan campaigns, nothing more.
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Billy Deford
The
Ottawa Republican Times
Bryan
Leader of the People Voice from Kansas Populist Era
A Kansas Populist statement foresees a future leader who will unite the toiling millions to win a decisive victory against wealth and privilege, signaling a call for mass mobilization and reform.
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Kansas
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