The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-13
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berS.
The intellect of our whole population
will have to be matched against the in
tellect of the railroads. The railroads
are united as one man, with unlimited
amounts of money at their command;
directed by the keenest intelligences
they can find in their own ranks. The
people are slow, stupid. incredulous:
and divided into different pursuits and
different political parties.
If the people are to win they must
unite as the railroads have united: they
must inform themselves thorough
ly; they must watch land study every
movement Of the enemy.
The railroads already own three
fourths Of the newspapers Of the coun-
try; they will now try to buy up the
remaining one-fourth. They already
have hundreds of subsidized politicians
in their train, ostensibly on the side of
the people: they will now try to pur-
chase hundreds and thousands more.
The leaders in every township will be
approached, and arts worthy of the
devil will be exhausted to hold the peo-
pie in subsection.
The courts will be purchased; judges
are only human; and the railroads can
afford to give princely fortunes for a
single opinion. You do not take the
human nature out of man by simply
wrapping the official ermine around
him.
The subsidized forces of the corpora
tions will never dare to make an open
war upon the people; nay, they will
each and all Of them, profess to be the
best friends you ever had on earth but
-but-bM-they don't think you can
do exactly this or exactly that >
they want to control the roads; oh yes;
but-but-that way is open to this OBJ
lection, and the other way is open to
that objection. And then they don't
like such and such of your leaders; this
one stole chickens when he was boy !;
and the grandfather of that one was no
better than he should be;-you must
first discard all your leaders, and kill all
your bell-wethers, and leave yourselves
to their guidance. And then there are
the great unsettled questions of the
recognition of the Southern Confederacy;
and the payment ofthe rebel debt ; and
the prisoners at Andersonville, and the
battle of Gettysburg; and, and
"They shout and sing, oh, rumpsy ,dumpsy,
Colonel Johnsing killed Tecumpsy''
There is but one course for the peo-
pie First, intelligence. Read, think,
study all these questions.
Second. union. Let the merchants
and mechanics understand that every
dollar Vanderbilt and Tom Scott steal
from the Minnesota farmers.
leaves that much less to 20
to the support of the merchants and
mechanics of the towns. That the viii
lagos and cities are the mere outgrowth
and eHorescence of the agricultural
population; and that impoverished
farmers means always impoverished
towns people. Thus let the whole
people unite as one man.
Brush aside all the clamors of the
politicians all efforts to turn you
away from the real issues at stake to
dead and buried questions. When
Vanderbilt and Tom Scott are marshal
ling their forces to cnslave you. the
man who will talk to you about the
recognition Of the Southern Confederacy.
and such like stuff, should be ridden on
a rail out Of the State.
Do not let sixpence of your money
go to support any man or newspaper
that is not positively and unequivocally
on your side. No man can serve God
and Mammon at the same time; and in
this battle, he that is not with you is
against you.
Above all, look to your legislatures
Pick out your very best men men
who are not in the shambles to be
bought men who, to use phrase of
the French Revolution, are not even
suspected Of being suspicious.
SUPPORT NO MAN FOR AMI OFFICE WHO
ADMITS ANY PRESENT ALLEGIANCE TO THE
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Remember that the shameful failure
of legislation upon the railroad ques-
ton, last winter, Uds due to a Repub-
ican caucus. held at she Metropolitan
Hotel, St. Paul; at which, as a party,
the Republicans agreed to support the
miserable apology for Law now on our
statute books. The community that
looks to the Republican party for relief,
might just as well look at once to Van
derbilt, Tom Scott and Jay Gould.
The Madison fKiS.l Farmer saws