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Roosevelt Wins!

Roosevelt sweeps opposition away

November 12, 1904
In a large landslide win, Roosevelt thwarts any chance of Alton Parker winning.  In the beginning both Parker and Roosevelt had the same political views on most topics.  The media thinking it would be a close race on political views, decided investigate both candidates’ lives.  Although both Parker and Roosevelt were found to be good and honest people for the most part, it was Roosevelt who seemed the better candidate.  It was obvious that Roosevelt would win after the media got through with him.  The election was over about 11:32 last night.  Roosevelt made a 30% win against Parker.

 

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Madonia's Body Found in Sawdust Mafia Involved

2nd Killing In a year

August 19, 1902
The leftovers of Benedetto Madonia’s were found stuffed in a barrel.  This is now the second time this type of case has happened.  A murder done in done in a way like that happened just last year, when Joe Cantania’s corpse was found on 73rd street.  Both Cantania’s and Madonia’s bodies were stuffed in a barrel surrounded by sawdust.  One of the differences was Madonia was stabbed over a dozen times and his throat was cut from ear to ear.  Also, Madonia’s genitals were forced in his mouth.  Madonia had known connections with a Mafia clan in Buffalo, NY, which had started to move into another Mafia clan’s territory.  The leader of the clan, Ignacio Lupo, had his area set up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  Lupo got very upset with invading Klan.  It is believed that Lupo went to a high mob boss to ask for help.  Lupo with the help of a mob boss killed Madonia and stuffed him in the barrel.  There will be more as the story unravels. Madonia was a clan leader who worked mostly in Buffalo.  Although little knew him, the ones who did had open hatred to Madonia.  Madonia’s service will be held in Brooklyn.  It will be closed casket.
 

 

Economic Struggle Leaves America in Uneducated Hands

 

 January 2, 1905

All over the city, children as young as 7 or 8 can be found mending clothes, making flowers, or picking nuts, all in tenement housing. It’s been going on for years without protest, so what’s happening around the city now? Labor laws in New York City prohibit the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories; but there is still the question of tenement housing, as brought up by The National Child Labor Committee, created last year. Founders Florence Kelley and Lillian Wald skip over the money-making necessity, and shed light on the details of the labor scene; the exhaustion of underage children, the illiteracy in children too busy working to attend school, and sickness. These dangers come down to the fact that although there are restrictions on factory workers, the work can just as easily be passed along to tenement housing to be completed by underage workers. Many children are kept out of school in order to work extra hours for their families, or work from when they get home until late at night. This is reflected in the growing number of children in the country who are unable to read or write.  Even the smallest children, many of whom are two to four years old, and too young to attend school, have just as much or even more work to complete in order to contribute money to their families’ weekly earnings. What does this signify about the economy as well as societal structure in New York? As families struggle to make ends meet, sometimes all measures are taken in order to provide the bare necessities for living, overlooking the youth of America, and depriving them of what they need. The economy, having dipped so low, requires that each and every family member, regardless of age, earn money one way or another. Tenement housing with proper registration is perfectly legal, yet is a loophole regarding the age requirements. These children, the future of our country, are missing out on the opportunity for the education they deserve, as well as their childhood. If the stronger child-labor laws that The National Child Labor Committee is in favor for, the future of the country is unstable and rests in uneducated hands.

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Cleveland Administration Steps Back From

 “Natural” Business Failure

February 19, 1893 
What is happening to our economy? As our nation’s finances spiral down into unforeseen holes, it is difficult to say when we will climb back up to stability. The surplus of the government, having been drained, has caused a tumultuous decline in the economy and stock market. Investors in the stock market quickly pull out and claim what is theirs and European investors are pulling their funds out as well. As a financial depression engulfs the north, an agricultural depression of the same weightiness sweeps the south and west. Businesses and banks that are dependant on the Reading Railroad weaken and eventually collapse under financial strain; many working individuals are unemployed and bankrupt. Yet through all the struggles that families are enduring, the Second Cleveland Administration sits back and watches 4 million Americans go unemployed, believing that the ups and downs of the business cycle are natural and dealt with only by time. Most Americans however, don’t have the time to wait for this financial crisis to blow over as most are already well underway in their struggles, and well in debt.