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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1897
Page
4
The piece argues pessimists magnify national troubles while optimists offer progress, urging confidence despite past harms from war laws and monopoly tariffs. It credits Wilson tariff openness for markets but cites four years of strain and a counted money circulation rise as signs of slow recovery.
The passage urges aiding diverse national interests amid abundant resources and warns against exaggerating disaster. It notes critics favoring high wool taxes, likening such taxes to wolves in sheep's clothing. It also notes lamps after dark as a light relief rather than a burden on carriage travel.
The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce calls for municipal reform and urges adoption of the Philadelphia charter for Pittsburg. It argues Pittsburg, a major industrial center, deserves governance improvements similar to Philadelphia and urges fair, nonpartisan legislative action despite local Allegheny politics. Spain’s crisis lingers as Cuba and Weyler forecasts recede.
The text discusses anti immigration groups here resisting efforts to sway Europe on a bimetallic commission. It notes concerns about influenc e and opposition shaping policy.
A California woman, Miss Leila Kirkham, who bought a marriage license to an English lord, has obtained a judicial separation and returned home. The piece denounces American heiresses marrying impecunious titles as a vulgar trend, noting husbands often value mistresses over wives and that most exceptions prove the rule.
Fragments show talk of costs of fortune and humiliation of wives, claiming women are honored in some lands, yet crime against the sex dominates discussion. The Senate schedule lacks a definite extension of sugar-planting or clear policy on the issue.
The article discusses a proposal to duplicate an eight million loan ordinance and submit it to a public vote, avoiding revisions to estimates and delays. It criticizes current fiscal policy, urges expenditure retrenchment, and notes recent prosecutions of city officials in Pittsburgh as a cautionary example of accountability.
The piece notes a partisan purge in the Post Office with Republicans sweeping the corridors and Democrats barred from letter distribution and stamps. It mocks civil service rules as omugwump and praises the clean sweep as restoring ward club equanimity while Councils' Sergeants-at-Arms prepare for official junkets.
The article describes Tom Watson aiming to oust Marion Butler and reorganize the Populist Party at a Nashville conference on July 4. It portrays Watson seeking control to create a party that answers to him, branding Bryan Butler and Bargains as failures. It notes potential new South American trade links affecting the continent.
Senator Bacon of Georgia offers an original interpretation of the Chicago platform urging a revenue tariff with duties set to operate evenly nationwide. He argues the clause guarantees no special favors for any class or local industry, but ensures every class and section is entitled to the same protections.
The excerpt notes a Senator advocating protection for wool in the North and hides in the West, with pine for Georgia. It says the stance aligns with tariff log-rolling but is defended on revenue grounds, a departure from usual practice.
Senator Quay proposed amendments to the tariff bill surprising the Senate as Senator Penrose was absent. In Washington, Olmsted and Ermentrout presented petitions on immigration limits and international arbitration respectively. Pennsylvanians Vankirk, Orlady, Chisholm and Barringer were in the Capitol for various interests and visits.
The White House crowd includes Attorney General McKenna and Secretary Gage seeking pardons and appointments. Senators Mason Cullom Deboe and Elkins plus Reps Dovener Tawney and others press for posts such as Glasgow Consulate Fish Commissioner and Deputy Auditorship. Colonel Mosby visits amid a bandaged head after an accident. John Russell Young's nomination as Librarian of Congress is discussed.
F Thompson of Johnstown Pa urges in a letter to the Times that Philadelphia museums offer a method for a more complete and just tariff settlement. He argues an alliance with the government and consular service would depoliticize tariff policy and reduce stock jobbing, calling it a second declaration of independence.
Mme Barrios who is in San Rafael will soon go back to Guatemala to share the dictatorship with her husband. She is suffering a severe nervous prostration and noted the change would not alter conditions in Guatemala or the Central American Republic since Barrios had effectively ruled for some time.
A collection of pithy excerpts from editorials across Chicago Atlanta Chicago Tribune Washington Post Kansas City Times New York Press New York Journal and others. The opinions span foreign policy taxation and party dynamics including remarks on the Turco Greek armistice Bryan McKinley and Sound Money Democrats.
A flood of letters from Girard College alumni and supporters refutes Martin I. J. Griffin’s critique of Stephen Girard’s philanthropy and the school. They praise the founder’s religiously balanced education, defend the college’s curriculum, and condemn Griffin’s portrayal as misinformed.
The joint committee from the Councils heads to Harrisburg to urge a $500,000 State appropriation for deepening the Delaware channel and widening the Schuylkill see shoals removed. Proponents urge river improvements to reach thirty feet depth, citing losses of ships like the Kensington and Southwark and Savannah line suspensions.
Prince Eui Who, the potential future ruler of Korea, arrived in San Francisco aboard the Coptic to pursue studies in the United States. He is 20, traveling with two Korean nobles, Pak Yong Kiu and Sin Sang Koo, and will enroll in a three year English program. He is not the heir apparent as the crown prince is regarded as an imbecile.
Cincinnati June 7 The Times Star publishes an interview with Congressman Paul J Sorg announcing his bid for United States Senator if Democrats win a legislative majority next November. John R McLean of the Cincinnati Enquirer is the only other announced candidate now canvassing in the city.
Dr Eduardo Wilde ex-Minister of Justice and ex-Minister of the Interior of Argentina, a Buenos Ayres University faculty member, arrived aboard the Coptic from the Orient. He is touring world education systems and will continue to the East before returning home, with a stay in America planned.
Harrison Snyder petitions correction in this issue page three column two under Unfortunate Men Aided. He states Front Street Gospel Mission and Rescue Home are not entered free from debt and do not have $200 or $50 in treasury. He asserts debts exceed $125. June 7, 1897.
English artist Aubrey Beardsley has recovered from illness and is in Paris expecting to do much work this summer. Reports touch on new monuments and notices about Lincoln friend Austin Gallaher and telegraph plans linked to Lake Nyassa.
A colorful, era-tinged piece describes a fantastical airship circling from Beersheba to Nantucket, breathing Greek fire and sparking a crowd’s excitement while a sea serpent fades from the waves. It layers in local social notes about dinners, clubs, and summer preparations.
Special Telegram to THE TIMES from Pittsburg reports August H List of Philadelphia, a veteran Adams Express Company worker with 32 years on the Pennsylvania lines, is dangerously ill with typhoid fever at his nephew Professor August H List's Braddock home. He fell ill while en route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg a week ago and is not expected to recover.
St Augustine's Church of Bridgeport bought eighteen acres a mile from Norristown for a parish cemetery at a cost of $18,000. The elevated tract will be dedicated early next autumn.
Charity Green aged 105, the oldest woman in Massachusetts, died at the Home for Colored Women in Boston. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, she passed away today.
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