Bitter currency battles loom in 1895 notes
The Silver Messenger from Challis Idaho reports on the failed attempt to push a currency bill in the House before adjournment. It quotes Bland of Missouri and McLaurin of South Carolina opposing the plan and hints at a government direct coin issue as alternative. The piece bemoans 1894 and looks ahead to 1895 with warnings and hopes.
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D. C
Bland
Missouri
Coinage Committee
House
Friends of
Washington
Cleveland
Sec
Carlisle
Representative McLaurin
South Carolina
Wall Street
McLaurin
Carlisle currency bill sparks Populist opposition query
The message questions whether the Carlisle currency bill will be fiat money if passed and asks if Populists will oppose it, noting the parties’ prior claims during the last campaign. The wording reflects a debate over monetary policy and party alignment.
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Carlisle
Mills Not Yet Old Enough for Idaho Office
Idaho lieutenant governor elect Mills, a Republican, is nearly two years shy of the constitutional minimum of 80 to hold the office. The piece notes the age requirement and jokes that political reaction would be stronger if Mills belonged to a different party.
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Mills
Idaho
Debs on Christmas Day Words from Prison Speech
Eugene V. Debs serving in prison for Pullman strike speaks on Christmas Day. He recalls Christmas is the home holiday, cites Puritan bans, and recalls Santa Claus and Abou Ben Adhem as memories of childhood amid calls for charity and fraternity.
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Eugene V. Debs
Jesus Christ
New England
Central Court of
Massachusetts
Santa Claus
Abou Ben Adhem
Jehildhood
Christmas Under Fire From Plutocrats and Plight of the Poor
A critical meditation on Christmas that contrasts joyous ritual with widespread hunger and economic cruelty. The author recalls early observances and condemns trusts and legislative greed as Diocletianic forces, urging a Christmas that truly embodies charity and honest politics. The piece ends with Bryant’s verse invoking a dawn of welfare and peace.
Cleveland to call extra session after adjournment
The passage claims Cleveland will convene an extra session of Congress after the current one ends unless the Bankers' or Carl isle fiat money bill passes. It accuses Grover Cleveland of yielding to Wall Street, predicting a national crisis and labeling Cleveland a traitor to his people, with two more years of fever ahead.
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Cleveland
Congress
Bankers
Carlisle
Wall Street
Grover
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