The Boss Parties and Their Robberies Across Congress
The piece attacks Republicans for enacting measures that harm workers, from the exception clause to the silver acts, calling tariff policy indirect taxation that benefits a few while oppressing the masses. It condemns railroad and capital power and argues both major parties betray the people, urging a new common people's organization.
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Congress
Republican Party
People's Party
Democratic Party
Wall Street
Cleveland
Iti Ales
Working Women Wage Gap Cited By Jeffersonian Survey
The Jeffersonian cites a census finding that in 22 large U S cities about 17 427 working women across 842 vocations earned an average of 5 51 weekly. It frames a plea for higher wages and humane treatment, noting male workers can strike while women face constrained choices.
Wages, Despair, and Slavery in Sweat Shops
A piece argues that 20,000 to 23,000 women and children in Chicago sweat shops earn nothing to six dollars weekly, with many receiving no pay first month. It denounces deliberate wage suppression, praises abolitionist zeal twice featured by Lincoln era rhetoric, and calls for a Christian nation to end injustice and protect the vulnerable.
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Chicago
Scribner’s Magazine
Land barons own vast acreage fueling absenteeism in America
Nixerery land barons in California and English nobility with American holdings total tens of millions of acres and millions of acres worth, all absentee owners siphoning tenant rents abroad. The message decries wealth for the few, poverty for the many, calling for national pride and warning against Carnegie branded iron.
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Nixerery
California
America
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Kansas
Facta
IL. D. Lewellingd
IREAD
Anderson County
Carnegie
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