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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1879
Page
2
The piece rails at Democratic inaction in Congress and the Grant boom, condemns Southern brutality and national politics, praises Frisbie and Blaine, critiques tax cuts and state administration, and highlights Sherman’s biennial state financial report with calls for policy reform and orphan care critique.
The Des Moines Register notes likely winter agitation in the Legislature over court expenses and cutting costs. It cites New York’s one day per witness rule as effective, while criticizing current witness overuse. The Express devotes space to the President’s Message, urging coins, greenbacks, civil service reform, and rotation in office, with emphasis on enforcement of election laws and party dynamics.
A letter from Glasco discusses travel by wagon and train from Monticello to Glasco, comparing horse era and steam. It reflects on emigration, schooling, and the role of reform movements, noting how reforms originate with common people before reaching leaders, with examples from anti slavery and temperance.
A narrator recalls vivid vignettes at a Leavenworth train stop. Encounters include a Connecticut man warning of sickness and grasshoppers, a content English bachelor, an old African American woman sharing peanuts, and an Irishman with age banter. The recollections spiral into Revolutionary War memories and Civil War-era echoes.
The essay argues that broad reforms progress slowly, hindered by leaders' self interest and position. It notes war urgency accelerates reform and compares religious reform to temperance, praising mass education as the driver of thinking and forward movement, while warning leaders who resist progress must yield or be left behind.
Monticento Iowa board members J O Duer H M Wright M M Moulton C F E Wales H D Sherman and J McConnon met to read approve last minutes. Bills and salaries for teachers and staff were approved and rent receipts tallied. Committee to procure hoods for ventilating stacks and a weather vane appointed. Adjourned to December 19 1879.
Monticello regular session December 1 1879 approves last meeting minutes. Weighmaster J G Wood presents November city scales report. Various claims allowed including water tank, salaries, bridge work and materials. Ordinance No 96 for stock yards use read a second time. Town to refund Samuel Price license money conditionally. Water Works Supt Bradstreet and Engineer D Page approved for $250 yearly. Adjournment.
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