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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1902
Page
6
A stream of social wit and satirical quips comment on royal pomp, reform ideas, finance, and culture. References dip into King Edward, J Pierpont Morgan, the Duchess of Marlborough, and a Newport dinner, with jokes about a German coronation, Paris to Innsbruck race, and iced drinks warnings.
The article defends protective tariffs as essential to national independence and industrial growth, citing Hamilton and Washington. It contends free traders favor consumer interests over producers, warns against cheap-labor competition from China, and argues reciprocity must accompany any trade gains to sustain protection. The piece warns history repeats with cycles of cheap eras and industrial decline.
The essay argues for keeping protection while allowing reciprocity. It claims U S industry thrives under protection, with ample home markets and capacity to export, and warns free trade could leave a nation defenseless. It asserts the United States is economically impregnable and ready to sell to the world while buying vast imports.
A Chicago Tribune report notes a U S Chamber delegation urged President Roosevelt to consider reciprocity with Canada, predicting gains in American commerce and coal demand but warning of stiff opposition from farmers, coal and garment interests, and manufacturers. Ottawa would seek farm and garment duty relief, triggering boundary region protests and a difficult ratification. The piece concludes such a scheme would require broad consensus unlikely to form.
The piece argues against drastic tariff revision, noting past peaks of prosperity and the panic after Cleveland’s inauguration. It cites the Wilson and Dingley Acts, praises measured protection, and urges a cautious expert-led revision while maintaining GOP unity. The Pittsburg Dispatch and Indianapolis Journal viewpoints frame tariff reform as medicine rather than cure.
The San Jose Mercury argues against reciprocity and extending markets for some U S products at the expense of others. It says tariff talks belong in Congress, warns that piecemeal tariff changes would upset trade and shift leverage to the State Department, risking widespread hostility and instability.
Pretoria adopts an English tone as bronze Voortrekker figures intended for Kruger statue base are shipped to England for a war trophy display. Samuel Marks offers funds to erect a statue of the king at Kruger site, with a London Telegraph letter hinting at a statue of the queen opposite. Royal arms appear on government building façades in stone.
Blackwell Oklahoma hosts a unique Fourth of July event as Col Blackwell, a prominent Indian magnate owning a 12,000 acre coal field and a $2,000,000 fortune, unveils his own monument at the cemetery and reads his will, gifting much wealth to charity. The gathering includes invited friends from across the territory, with rail fare paid by the host.
A John G Whittier autograph manuscript with twenty two four line verses sold in New York. A four page Oliver Wendell Holmes letter dated December 29 1855 discussed his address to the New England Society and views on slavery. A three page letter by Washington Irving to Daniel Webster concerns his recent appointment as minister to Spain.
Delaware courts ruled on salaries at Thomas & Davis Wall Paper Co. John Thomas, general manager, had been approved for $10,000 yearly by directors. Dissatisfied stockholders protested extravagance and the court reduced Thomas to $1,500 annually with other salaries proportionally adjusted.
Rome reacts as the Vatican bars a Catholic sister from attending Princess Raspigilosi after the civil ceremony to wed the prince. The prince cannot obtain church sanction and is divorced from his first wife. The sister was formerly Mrs. Col. Parkhurst of Bangor Maine.
Washington expects Major General S M B Young to become lieutenant general and head the army after Gen Miles retires. Miles reaches retirement age in August 1903, with the president aiming to promote Young before his own retirement in 1904.
Miss Louise Truax a 19 year old Detroit native astonished a Lexington Avenue Baptist congregation in New York by whistling during offertory and after services. She plans to make whistling her life work, has studied with noted teachers, and declined a $3000 yearly opera offer to perform in churches.
John J. Scannell former New York city official bought Gen. DuBois Brinkerhoff’s Fishkill Landing farm at auction to satisfy a mortgage and then let the former owner stay as long as he wished sending bills for improvements. In a separate note, Henry White beat ex congressman W C Owens for $500 then $1,300 in a card game in Lexington, Kentucky with White winning the larger pot.
John Niniger Speel of Minnesota named the nest paymaster general of the navy. Speel, 49, former fleet paymaster on the European station aboard the flag ship Vigota, is a nephew of Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota and began service in 1875.
An 1850s Manchester exhibition featured a print titled Portrait of Lord John Russell that depicted a naked madman. Halle mocked the image, and an onlooker reportedly remarked that the statesman likely drew it when out of office, highlighting the era's crude humor and political satire.
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