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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1892
Page
6
Chicago Times argues that tariff protection raises production costs and hurts workers. It contends free competition lowers prices but harms labor earnings, citing land, labor, and capital factors. The piece warns against tariff scare tactics and urges workers to reject protectionist claims.
McKinley told Lakeside listeners in Madison Wisconsin that diamonds and jewelry face 25 percent duty while cheaper woolens reach 150 percent or more to deter smuggling. He argued Democrats misjudge revenue needs and favor low duties on luxury to avoid broad taxation of essentials.
The excerpt argues for authorizing a postal telegraph service amid broader tariff and protectionism disputes. It condemns open plunder and predicts wage stagnation under high taxation, contrasting labor interest with monopolists’ gains, citing the Omaha World-Herald. The text also reports Minnesota flax experiments yielding fine linen towels from Belfast stock, signaling potential linen industry growth. Committed to the Force Bill.
The piece reviews McKinley tariff provisions for steel and imports, arguing rebates on steel duties could lower prices but not wages. It notes laborers’ interests, political reactions, and a wave of posturing by Democrats, Republicans, and party press about tariffs, shipbuilding, and immigration.
St Louis Aug 29 reports festivities starting Aug 24 with electric lights streets and grand panorama. The Union Depot site is cleared work begun on its $3,000,000 foundation with forty two tracks and a pocket terminal to keep smoke out. Suburbs draw workers as electric lines extend into county and population is rising toward 1900 estimates around 750,000.
Baron Fava sails for Europe as Italian minister to the United States. President Harrison names Robert Forrester of Utah inspector of that Territory. Cleveland not planning political trips this campaign. Unger of East Liverpool Ohio kills brother-in-law and then himself. Lewee of Natitoches Louisiana defaults to 311000. Arkansas railroad property assessment for 1892 totals 18985486, up 461644. W F Cowham of Jackson Michigan fails for a large sum. Diphtheria epidemic at Brighton Illinois. risk of cholera if outbreak. Paris experts say Havre cholera not far from Hamburg Antwerp. Barton family reunion near Mind along the Wabash. miners leaders trial noted.
The new British pharmacopoeia adopts metric weights and measures exclusively, replacing traditional English units in Britain and the United States. The change marks a shift toward standardized metric values in pharmaceutical practice.
A string of clipped quips evokes era tone with phrases on dust flies, fish bite, shutters, capital jokes, ironed railroad ties, costly talk, and a sharp contrast between boyish and mature behavior. It reads as a collage of witty lines from newspaper miscellany.
An ad touts Swift's One as a harmless vegetable remedy that draws impurities to the surface and purges the blood. The copy claims it strengthens nature, benefits even delicate children, and aids in cleansing toxins.
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