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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1889
Page
4
A 1880 editorial argues protection boosts working men’s wages and employment. It counters free trade claims that protection only helps capitalists, asserting that under free trade capital and idle wealth suffer while workers face lost jobs. The piece admonishes voters to resist foreign-influence rhetoric and favors domestic production to secure steady pay.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat defends a hard line against trusts tied to tariff policy. It explains that tariffs created home competition, raised prices for consumers initially, and aimed to lower them toward foreign levels through domestic industry, while opposing monopolies. The piece notes Republican papers increasingly share this stance and argues that trust opposition is central to true protectionist policy.
A fragmented note comments that closing all activities in a large city like New York seems useless and urges timely answers from LBL to make progress. The text remains incomplete and puzzle-like with no clear events or actors.
In England well-run reformatories called workhouses offer all the allure of saloons but without their vices. Prohibitionists claim high licenses cut saloon numbers yet not drinking or crime. Philadelphia’s records show prison commitments fell over 10,000 in the year ending June 3, 1898, while Sunday offense arrests dropped by 2,000, suggesting high license may be effective.
Public Opinion notes growing belief that smoke from soft coal has beneficial sanitary effects. It claims suipur in coal burns to sulphurous acid gas a known disinfectant and that creosote and similar fumes from bituminous coal release carbolic acid which may reduce disease germs. The hog cholera inquiry report due from the Agriculture Department promises findings on losses between 3.15 and 25 million dollars. Taplinger’s Magazine September features Edgar Pawcett’s portrait and his romance Solurion.
City council approves minutes, budget items, and sidewalk repairs. Aldermen discuss culverts, gutters, crosswalks, and tile work from State to Linden streets, with costs not exceeding specified limits. Marshal instructed to enforce street train rules and dam repair reconsideration noted.
Fishermen Chas Hillabrant and A R Lewis caught fifty bluegills four bass and seven fetch during a three hour outing Tuesday morning on Gull Lake. The Paradise Found German party at Wendover drew guests from Kalamazoo Marshall and Cattle Creek with a fairy grotto setting and performances by Miss Mary Dosley and Brett Harte.
Mansnatt Pripary Arn 23 1533 presents a fashion preview for fall and winter 1889. It boasts a boundless woolen and trimming stock, luxurious silk serges, and a wide range of clothing for men youths and children from Michael Kolb Son A W Mann and Weber Shiel Co. with guaranteed fit and quality and special August prices across departments.
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