August 9, 1888
1- Relate the circumstances or proposition
2- Is it true? Is the common opinion correct?
3- Give the historical association and like cases. Contrast the past and present.
4- Whom does it affect? Are the motives honest or the reverse?
5- Have crime or temperament any connection with the matter? What will be the general consequences- good or evil?
6- What are the causes? Is any one to blame? Is there any inconsistency? The explanations. Could the affair have been prevented?
A. What are the remedies? The conclusion to be drawn from it? The future?
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July 25, 1888
One of the statements that the democrats in congress, and the democratic press throughout the country, never cease to make when they discuss the tariff and wages is that the cost of your food, your clothing, your boots, your necessities of all kinds is increased by precisely the amount of the tariff. There was not a democratic speech made in congress during the debate on the Mills bill that did not contain a statement of this sort.
Another statement which the democrats are fond of making very frequently is that the workingmen of this country are no better off than are the workingmen of England, that the cost of living is much cheaper there than here, and that there is not much difference in the price of wage. Leono Levi, the well known English statistician, is authority for the statement that the average weekly earnings of 5,000,000 families in England (this includes earnings of all members of the respective families able to work) are $7.08 Of course the average earnings of the head of the household would be much less than this, probably from $5 to $6 per week.
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May 26, 1888
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Shaw Stocking company was held at the office at the mill Monday. The report of the treasurer, Mr. Butler, showed the affairs to be in a satisfactory condition, a very good business having been done in the last half of the year. Manager Shaw, in response to some inquiries gave some interesting information concerning the company’s property in trademarks and patents and the methods pursued to defend it against encroachment. He also spoke of the present condition of the half-hose trade as affected by the unprecedented importation of German goods, with which the country is being flooded. The result on the low grade seamless goods is disastrous.
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May 24, 1888
The terms of twenty-six United States Senators will expire on the 3d of next month. The retiring Senators are equally divided between the two political parties.
There were 182 business failures in the United States, during the seven days ended on the 18th against 192 the previous seven days.
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May 24, 1888
Cattle. The supply was competitively light to-day and consisted mainly of high grade cattle the result being that prices for such were easy; common cattle were scarce and anted and 25ยข p. cwt. higher. Sales were made as follows: Choice heavy Chicagos, weighing 1500 to 1600lbs. $5 25 5 50;medium weights, 1200 to 1400lbs., $4 755 00; prime light weights, 900 to 1100 lbs., $3 35a4 10; common to fair thin steers $3 10a400. Fresh cows, $25 00a45 00 per head and dull;calves active and all sold at 4 1/2 a 4 1/4c – - for heavy and 5 1/4a5 3/4c for light to fo; balls, stags, dry cows and heifers higher at 3a4c Per lb.
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May 11, 1888
Lexington, KY May, 11 – Col. A. M. Swope, one of the most prominent republicans in this state, and a former collector of internal revenue of this district, met Col. Williams Caseius Goodloe, also a prominent leader of the republican party of the state and a delegate to the Chicago convention, in the lobby of the Phoenix hotel, and denounced him as an infamous liar and scoundrel, and at the same time drawing off his coat. the hotel was crowded with strangers attending the races. Col. Goodloe said that this was no place to have a settlement, and no trouble originated at the time. The affair grew out of the speech made at the Louisville state republican convention, held last week, in which Goodloe denounced Swope, and stated that nineteen out of twenty delegates from this county were not on speaking terms with Swope. The affair created a great deal of excitement and rumors are afloat that a meeting between the gentlemen would result. The friends of the parties are trying to harmonize things at the Phoenix hotel. The result has not yet been learned. Mr. Goodloe is in the hotel but the whereabouts of Col.Swope cannot be learned.
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