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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Another Steal.

The cunning little State of Connecti-
cut has invented plan to levy tribute
on the West, by taxing its life insurance
companies on funds gathered principal
" from other States; and those funds
are then used by the people of Connec-
ticut to carry on business, while the
people Of the West are unable to COM
pete with Connecticut in manufacturing
for want of cheap capital.
1t turns out that the working expen-
SEES of our eastern life insurance COM
panies are altogether out of proportion
to the working expenses of life insur-
ance companies in England. The COM
parison is as follows:
UNITED STATES. ENGLAND
Working expenses 81. 81 perct. 9.l3per ct
Taxes, Ell per ct. .46per Ct
That is, the cost of running a life IN
surance company, is more than three
times as great here as in England, while
taxes are eight times as great.
But this is the glorious free-land o
universal liberty and stealing, and Johr
Bull is fool compared with our intel
ligent people!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
How are the Mighty Fallen.

This is a melancholy world. Last
winter there shone in the State Senate
bright peculiar star, the distinguished
Senator from LIE Sueur-Hon. Freeman
Talbot. He Illuminated that body
with the corruscat;ons of wit worthy
Of Curran; dignifed by suavity and
grace greater than that of Palmerston.
He was one of the leaders Of the Repub-
lican party in the Senate; and he might
have said TO them in the language of
Henry of Navarro:
"Press where you see my white head
shine,"
for he was their ori0amme.
But as Hamlet says: ''The dust Of
Alexander may come in time to stop
the bung hole Of beer barrel;;' and
from his lofty pedestal of statesman
ship the illustrious Talbot has descend
ed to become a peripatetic peddler Of
the St. Paul Press, and correspondent
under the fictitious name of Jerry Sui
livan, and the disguise of an honest man
for that delectable sheet. Alas
Alas!
But we will not dwell upon the pain
full theme, but rather
"Walk backward with averted gaze
And hide his shame
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Responses from the People.

How can we doubt the triumph Of
our principles when the very women of
the land can feel and write as our hon
ored correspondent from Red Wing,
whose letter appears below!
And how can we doubt the success
of the -MoNoPoL1sr when even the
Washburn family are working for it
But, seriously, we thank our kind
friend, Mrs. Washburn, for her able
letter, and her generous services. If all
the women in our land could turn their
thoughts from fashion and frivolity to
consideration of the great interests
of mankind, the day of female suffrage
would not be far distant.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
News About Bees.

Mr.. Pettigrew, one of the most sue
cessful of English bce-keepers, has made
public results of recent observations,
some of which are new to us, and tend,
if possible, to increase our respect for
these wonderful little insects. The
king, or queen, or mother, as he. she, or
it, is variously called, is Matched from
the egg in fourteen days, whereas it
takes twenty-one days to hatch a
worker" and twenty-four to hatch
drone. Moreover, the queen lives four
years, while the workers maximum
lease Of life is only nine months. The
bees have the power, or knack, of select
ing their queens before they are born.
That is to say, they will select an egg
from the common stock, that has no
scar mark" perceptible to human eyes.
This they place in royal cell, and feed
the grub with milky gelatinous sub
stance, known as "royal jelly The
result is that queen is developed. A
healthy queen will often lay two thou
sand eggs day during the heat Of sum-
mer, and may, in the course OF her life,
deposit as many as eight hundred thou
sand eggs. 1t has been ascertained, by
observation, that the fructifying of many
flowers is due to the constant passing
and rcpassing of bees, whereby the pol
len is mingled. And many careful gar
deners have found it impossible to keel
distinct the different varieties of spec
les, owing to the crossing effected by
these industrious messengers.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
A Tender Subject for Stebbins,

Our old friend, Stebbins, gives our
new paper a very handsome notice.
which he concludes in the following
kindly manner:
s:Near the close of his salutatory comes
the significant statement: 'One thing we can
promise, that it nerer ar,H De bought,
which we presume is the same thing as say
ing that the Hastings 4 Dakota Railway
Company have no longer any use tor the
new hedged editor"
Now, Steb., would it not be better to
avoid abiding to the subject Of being
bought :" You remember how for
weeks after Averill was nominated you
refused to hoist his name. or the name
of any one else, and maintained state
of mastery inactivity and diplomatic
silence. until Averill came down and saw
YOU, and " arranged that printing bill
for 5000; and then, and not till then,
you realized the dasy you owed to 1.-THE
grand old Republican party" and hoist
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

ed his banner. The people Of Dakota
county remember it perfectly well, If you
don't. You and Todd have been living
for years on the fruits of treachery and
ingratitude. Every pound Of flesh on
the bones of either of you, has been paid
for by the cowardly desertion of one who
had always been your friend.
For you will admit, yourself, Steh, that
nothing but the accidental circumstance
of your publishing paper in Dakota
county; and forcing yourself before the
world in the attitude Of our organ, ever
induced Averill to buy you. Will any
human being believe that if toddy res
ted on his own merits, (God save the
mark y he would ever have reached the
elevation even Of pound-master, much
less have filled for four years the most
lucrative federal Office in the State!
No, Steb; when you sold us out you
sold Averill too-badly. The universal
disgust with you and toddy was one of
the causes which have left the Republi-
can party in Dakota county in minor
ity more than twice as great as their
total vote; that is to say the Republi-
can vote in old Dakota is about 600
the majority against them nearly 1900
That is your work, Steb, in great part.
Never mention the word thought
again, Don't.
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&arifnltnral.
The origin Of Our Fruits.

Professor Asa Gray, in paper read
before the American Pathological Socie-
ty, makes some interesting and apt re-
marks as to the origin Of our cultivated
fruits. He asks, severe the fruits made
for man, or did man make the fruits :!
These, he says, ssneed not be taken as
mutually exclusive propositions for as
God helps those who help themselves,
and mans work in this respect is main
ly. if not wholly, in directing the course
or tendency Of nature, SO there is just
sense in which we may say the art it.
self is nature by which the greatest
triulnphs of horticultural skill have
been accomplished. Moreover, am
not one Of those naturalists who would
have you believe that nothing which
comes by degrees, and in the course Of
nature. is to be attributed to Divine
power. The answer l should give to the
question, as we thus put it, is: l. Some
fruits were given to man as they are,
and he has only gathered and consumed
them. But these are all minor fruits,
and such as have only lately come with
in the reach of civilized man, or are not
thought worth his trouble. Cranber-
ries, persimmons and papaws are ex-
amples. Whether even such fruits have
or not been under course of improve
mcnt irrespective Of man. is another
question. 2. Others have come to man
full favored, and nearly all that he has
done has been to increase their size ane
abundance, or extend their season. Cur
rants and gooseberries, raspberries, ant
black berries, chestnuts, and, above all
Strawberries are Of this class. 3. Blu
most of the esteemed and importan
fruits. as well as the grains, have not s.
much been given to man as made b,
him. The gift outright was mainl,
plastic, raw material, time and oppo1
tunity. As to the cereal grains, it
only of the oat that we probably kno1
, the wild original Of wheat there ha
been an ingenious conjecture, partly bu
, iusufficiently confirmed by experiment
l of the rest, no wild stock is know
which is not most likely itself an es
cape from cultivation. Of some of thcr
such especially as maize, not only ca
no wild original be indicated, but in a
probability none exists. So Of the st;
!! pie fruits of some, the wild original
7 can be pretty we'll made out; of NOR
t they are merely conjectural; of SON
e they are quite unknown AID, herhap
$ long ago extinct.-The Genard.
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The several counties will be entitled
Additional Agents.

In addition to the list Of agents
named on our first page we have re-
.ceived club lists from the gentlemen
named below, who will be kind enough
to act as our agents and receive sub
scrlptions in their respective localities
Pine Island, Goodhue Go. = Geo. w.
Paige, Jr.
Nicollet, Nioollet Co.-Hon. ?. H. McDer-
Smith Lake, Wright Goa. E. Cochran
Hastings, Minn.-B. A. Day, Jonathan
Beswick.
Millersburg, Rice Co.--Nelson H. Fulton
Mantorville, Dodge Co.--Henry Beard.
West St. Paul-Charles Crawshaw.
Window, Minn.-Wm Prentiss.
,Owatonna-J w. Mortord.
brownsville, Mower Coz J. Stimson.
Dundas, Rice GOWN. Tew:
Litchfeld, Meeker Co.-Jesse V. Branham
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Welcome I! Anti onopolist.
RED WING, July :

RED WING, July 81, 1874.
"Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel
And he but naked, though locked up in
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupt
ed"
g Truths would you teach, or save a sinking
land,
All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ."
So they say lady is canvassing Red
Wing for Donnelley's paper! What
does she know about politics! Well,
that is cool, to say the least Of it, when
| it is we'll known fact that was raised.
or like Topsy,' aspect l Crowd in
land where the people were SO patri-
otto and loyal, that their tallest
crops were liberty poles, 100 feet
high, with banners, on which were en-
craven these symbolic words: Liberty,
Equality, Justice. Know about politics!
Just this, if no more, that it is every
man duty to vote; and also, since that
it is the people who are by right the
actual lawmakers, since by your votes
alone is the power delegated to corrupt
officials, it should be your highest
duty to hear both sides, and let rea'
son be our ''chief Justice and decide
for the right. Never mind party, stand
by principles. Let the American youth
never forget that they possess noble
inheritance, capable Of transmission, i
wisely improved, to their latest poster
lily, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty
of property, of religion and independ
ence. 1t has been reared for immor
tally. It's defenses are impregnabl
from without. It may, nevertheless
perish in an hour, by the folly or cor
ruption or negligence Of it's only keep
ers, the people. Republics fall whel
the wise are banished from the publ
councils, because they dare to be hon
est; and the profigate are rewarded
because they fatter the people in OF
der to betray them. Thus spoke tn
lamented Judge Story; his words no.
, have terrible significance
: MRS. M. l. WASHBURN.
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The wheat Market.

The Mark Lane Express of Monday.
June 25th, says This unusually vari-
able season at the close of last week
again reverted to winter GOODNESS, COM
mencing with sharp frost, several
times repeated. and accompanied on
Wednesday morning with nice fall Of
rain, which has done immense good to
the spring corn, but haymaking had
commenced, and of second cut. The
root crops still look very bad; the frosts
have cut the potatoes again. Some Of
the forward wheat is very much injured,
and with harvest again materially de-
ferred the lightness Of our stock is thus
more certainly put to the test. As it
appears, rain at the same time Tell IN
France, and wheat has given way IN
Paris Is per quarter, and as much, or
more, in many Of the provincial towns,
while the extremely high rates OF rye
show reduced values about Is Cd, but
oats had previously suffered 50 much
that, in spite Of the rain, they have al
vanced. and not near enough has fallen
materially to affect the prospects O
spring corn in that country. Here thu
downward course Of wheat has beer
stopped. but other corn has maintained
| it's value, and the contracts for the au
tumnal delivery Of -four and wheat o.
the Continent show large abatement o.
| present rates. The critical character 9
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Resolved, That copy Of this resolu-
ton be sent to the Farmers Union for
publication.
We have now under discussion the
following question, which every Grange
in the United States ought to discuss
until they understand it:
ssResolved, That our present system
of taxation, which excmpts the wealthy
and imposes all the burdens of the gen.
eral government upon the consumers is
wrong and unjust and ought to be
abolished" Respectfully yours,
! 6. JACKINs.
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Gov. Davis and the GrasshOp-
perS.

Bill King and Ramsey are working to-
gether. Hence the Minneapolis Iri-
bune goes for Gov. Davis rough-shod.
1t says:
"Gov. Davis philanthropy, or his
great desire to be United States Senator,
has led him to go too far in this matter.
He has exaggerated the suffering con-
siderably, and the urgency of immedi-
ate relief still more. Minnesota is able
to take care Of all who have
been losers by the grasshoppers,
at, least for the present. Suffi-
Gent opportunity has not been given
our own citizens to organize relief
measures, before the Governor tele-
graphed to the east for aid. His course
has been most injurious to Minnesota
and as shown by the above extract, has
led to gross Misrepresentation of large
class Of our citizens. 1t you'd aid TIT
cause ofthose needing relief if Cor
ernor Davis could be suppressed
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HAssAS. Hennepin Co., July %, 1874

HAssAS, Hennepin Co., July 20, 1874
Editors Anti MOnopOlist.
The Hassan Grange, some five weeks
ago, adopted the following resolution,
and sent it to the Farmers Union for
publication. As it has never appeared
in the Union, send it to your paper !:
Resolved, That after having read and
heard read the letter of Mr.. Donnelly,
published in the Farmers Union OF
May Both, giving his opinions as to
what are proper questions for discus
sion in the Grange We hereby endorse the
sentiments therein expressed
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Wind-POwer Mills.

Horace Greeley, when he visited Min
nesota, called the attention Of our peo-
pie to the great amount of wind-power
going to waste on our great prairies,
and argued that our people should util-
ize it.
This has been done at Owatonna, and
more lately at Pennington. The Press
of the latter village thus refers to a
gr:st mill just erected there by Andrew
Warsop, Of Hastings;
"Warsop's Mill is success. This enter
prise was commenced by Mr. Warsop be-
cause he had faith in it. He knew that he
could put in the best of machinery for grind
ing, and he knew the power was plentiful
and cheap. The mill is now in perfect run
ming order, and will be kept very busy in
doing custom-work for the farmers. The
kind of -four they will get will Of course de-
pend much upon the quality OF wheat they
carry to the mill; but the grinding in itself
is ali that can be desired The committee
| bonus at the outset have reported favorably
upon the work of tile mill, and are satisfied
that Mr. Warsop has fairly filed his part Of
| the contract Let others do what they
agreed to-as we doubt not all will be will
ing to- We have used the flour from the
mill and we find it as well ground as that o.
the Gardner mills at Hastings.
Mr.. Warsop, we understand, lis ready tt
take contracts to build other wind-pow
er grist mills. We see no reason why
they should not be as great success il
Minnesota as they have been for gener
atoms in England and France. We I'm
derstand that at Owatonna the mill doe
good work for three-fourths Of the year
}, This is as much as can be obtained GU
Of an average water-powcr.
We would be glad to have Mr.. War
sop give our readers some statistics a
to the cost of his mills and the amour
of work they will do.
A civilized people ought not to le
even the wind go to waste.
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The Second District.

Politics are running into the shabby
end of nothing.
There is Strait, who comes as near to
nothing as mere legislative response
can come, he is to be nominated again
for Congress. 1t is all arranged. What!
BY the people? Not a bit of it. The
people what have they to do with
such things!
But Thatcher and he have made bar
gain. Strait is to 60 back this fall and
Thatcher is to succeed him two years
from now; and he, Thatcher will then
claim the right to succeed himself for
two years more. This farms the thing
out until 1882! And where, in the
meantime, if this pretty programme is
carried through, will Austin and Liberty
Hall, and Asa Hutchinson, and Har-
r;ngton and all the rest of them be!
Probably all handsomely enscoused un-
der their tombstones before Thacher
finishes his second term.
And then see how nicely the bargain
works itself out!
As soon as Thacher closed his bargain,
Jcnnison, in the Red Wing Republican,
opened in favor of Strait. And what
do YOU think he advanced as the great
argument in favor Of Strait : His hon
esty! No. His eloquence! No. His
genius? No. His learning No
What was it then?
Why, that he. Strait, hae
induced Uncle Sam to build
a post office building IL
Red Wing. And therefore Strait mus
go back to Congress!
And then Todd and Stebbins, of thu
Hastings Gazette, approvingly quot
what the Republican says. 1t is tru'
that Hastings has received no post otiic
building from Uncle Sam; but the'
Uncle Sam feeds Todd and Stebbins.an'
that is as much to the delighted peopl
of Hastings as if they had a $1OO.OO
post office.
And the next Office holder will take u
the refrain, and so public opinion mani
tests itself;-and Strait will be re-nom
mated; to be buried under a majorit
of ten thousand, given by narrow mino
localities that possess neither govern
ment post Office building or Todd an
Stebbins.
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Anti-Mumupolist.
Autobiography Convention.
FIRST DISTRICT.

The undersigned, appointed by the
Democratic and Liberal Convention for
the First Congressional District of Min
ncsota, held at Owatonna on the 18th
day of September, 1872, hereby invite
the voters of the above parties and all
other persons opposed to the present
Republican administration and party,
to unite in electing delegates to Con-
gressional District Convention, to be
held at the city Of Owatonna, on
TUESDAY, SEPT. LIST, 1874,
at II o'clock M, for the purpose ofnom-
mating Member of Congress, and for
the transaction Of such other business
as may properly come before the Con-
yention.
The several counties will be entitled
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ROCHESTER, MiNS. July Is, 18'

ROCHESTER, MiNN. July Is, 1874.
Editor Anti Monopolist, St. Paul.
DEAR SIR: Your paper came to hand.
1t is as able and pungent as expected.
l am glad the Anti Monopoly party
have at last got State organ, bold
enough to advocate the rights Of the
people.
Every man thus far that I have sole
| tied has subscribed for your paper. Il
is just what the people want, and they
know it. Yours respectfully, VI. +.
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LoSG LAKE, Hennepin Co.,
July 81, 1874. {

DEAR SIR: am much pleased with
your new paper. It is just the thing
and quite fills the bill. l hope the
friends of reform will respond in a
proper way, not by sympathy alone,
but by sending long lists Of subscribers
to the paper. l think | can procure
about forty names in this town, alone,
and send you list in this.
Our political meeting was quite a
success, and, strange to say, there were
only two persons present not in full
sympathy with US. These support
Bill King. but otherwise they are with
the Anti-Monopolists soul and body.
The Autobiography feeling is SC
strong in many townships Of this ceun
ty. that the Republicans cannot raise 8
quorum for caucus to send delegate:
to the ring conventions.
Truly and resp'ly yours, G.
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The Way 1t Takes.

LrrcHr1ELD, Mimi, July 81. 1874.
DEAR SIR: Yesterday about three
o'clock made up my mind to step out
and secure you club Of FIVE. In two
hours had So, with the cash. all paid
up. We can raise it to 50.
Respectfully yours, b.
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In our article ON the fifth page, entitled
"A Shabby Recantation," one or two ty-
biographical errors occur;-one being the
substitution Of the word ECONOMY" for
s'hunesty." The two things generally 80
together, but they ars not synonymous.
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BRECKENRIDGE, Wilkin Co., MINI.

BRECKENRIDGE, Wilkin Co., Mimi.
DEAR SIR: Please forward your pa
per to the following subscribers:
Here follows list Of names.
We hope to give the Autobiography
ticket a respectable support in this
county this fall. But most Of Us are
not able to spend our time and money
travelling over the country fmportunine
settlers for their votes. As the U. 5
mail agents are compelled to do so BY
their masters, they have us somewhat
at a disadvantage. Nevertheless tn
result will be very different from wha
it has been heretofore.
Yours truly, B.
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Milwaukee Sen
credit Of Milwauk
looked at the giraf
renarking that it
| that throat-One
!. - long. =
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IT was for no n
farmers and lab
bonded together
enancipate hon
shackles Of class
the Independence
the oppression OF
to eface from the
United States the
the West to bull
and exacting mill
the laboring peo1
garchy Of wealth.
| armies in the fell
| omce-holders, col
! political leaders, I,
| the toiling masses
is made up. Con
| question. Comp
| ST. Paul Dispdt
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Edye 4 Co.
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Ball 4 Co.
schr Joseph Nickerson. Whitman. Baha.-Theo b.
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