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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The Iowa Anti-Monopoly Con.
VentiOn.

This convention adopted as part of
its excellent platform the following res
olutions. They are sound to the core:
'sThat the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the States, and especially of
the right of each State, to order and
control it's own domestic institutions,
according to it's own judgment exclu-
sively, is indispensable to that balance
Of power on which the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric de-
pends; and that we denounce as GRIM
inal excess of constitutional power the
policy of President Grants Admins
tration in fostering the enormities per-
petrated in certain States of the Union,
in arbitrarily interfering with their
local affairs, in sustaining therein the
usurpation of aliens and irresponsible
adventures, whereby certain men have
been illegally invested with official au-
thority, and others deprived of their
constitutional rights; oppressive laws
enacted; burdensomc taxation imposed !;
an immense and ficticious Indebtedness
created, resulting in the degradation of
those States, and the general impover-
ishment of their people.
"That the conduct Of the present Ad-
ministration in it's bold defiance of
public sentiment and disregard Of pub
lie good; in its prodigality and wasteful
extravagance; in the innumerable
frauds perpetrated under it's authority
in its disgraceful partiality for and re-
wards of unworthy favorites; and its
reckless and unstable financial policy
and its total incapacity to meet the
vital questions of the day and provide
for the general welfare, stands without
a parallel in our national history; and
the highest considerations of duty re-
quire the American people, in the exer
else of their inherent sovereignty, tt
correct these accommodating evils, and
bring the government back to it's an
cient landmarks of patriotism ant
economy"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
NUMBER 2.


From the speech of Gov. Palmer be.
fore the Reform Convention Of Illinois
s'Let me tell you that the great mis-
sion of the Farmers party. in addition
to those l have already stated, is that
they shall recover the liberties of the
people themselves. Let us see what that
means. You are looking to Congress to
relieve you from this thing, and to the
Legislature to remove that evil. Let
me tell you, my friends, that the phil
osophy of the American Government is
to keep the power in the hands of the
people and as near home as possible.
(Applause.) Your policy is to keep it
in your township, in your county, in
your State. Do you expect relief from
Congress? How much do you know
about the way things are run in Wash
ington? The telegraph tells you some-
what, the members Of Congress, who al
ways tell the truth, and those newspaper
men, who are more truthful than George
Washington and Ben Butler (laughter)
we depend on them for the little slip
of news that we get of what was done on
the previous day at Washington. We
know nothing about it. Look to your
own State Legislature. Here we have
the greatest lig ght through the press, and
if any of our legislators make fools of
themselves one day, the whole people Of
the State know it the next morning. But
Washington is 1000 miles away, and
you know little of the way things are
run there. tell you, at Washington
to-day is being formed government
founded on the systems of the aristocra-
cies of Europe.
They live upon your labor, and they
despise you; they treat you as if you
were hewers of wood and drawers Of
water they build houses and speculate
in property there, and then. expend the
public money to improve their own
property.
have been, will say, sometimes re-
garded as little insane on this ques-
ton of State rights. About six years
ago I warned the people of this State
that the time was not far distant when
railroads would try to boost themselves
by an appeal to the Federal courts,
They told me that was insane on the
subject; but what do we see to-day
These attempts of Railroad companies
} to escape from the juries and judges Of
} Illinois; these attempts at invoking the
Federal power to protect them, are fal
more than l feared before; far more
than the things I feared to see. But We
} must demand that these companies, Gre
ated by our laws, be tried by our judges
and juries.'' applause.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The AGRICULTURAL labOrers in the east

The agricultural laborers in the east
ern counties of England are organizing
a through-country march which will
fairly eclipse Sergeant Bates famous
performance. They propose next week
to start a company of one hundred
laborcrs on walking tour through the
northern counties; but they intend to
turn their trip to better account, finan-
cially, than the American pioneer did.
The object of the proposed procession
is ITO elicit sympathy and relief" ito
proclaim their grievances and collect
money to help them to get their griev-
ances redressed. A more practical
scheme in aid of the locked-out men is,
however, under consideration-viz a
wholesale and free transportation to
Canada, under the auspices of the Colo
NAL Government Scotch Exchange.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

While the land owners of Minnesota
are struggling to defend their rights
against the aggressions ofmonopolies, q
more unequal battle is going on in
England between the farm laborers and
the owners of the soil.
In such contest all our sympathies
are with the poor men who are trying
to wrest living for themselves and
children from the lordly aristocrats
who represent one Of the worst monop-
olies on earth, the monopoly Of the soil.
Let JOSEPH ARCH and his followers
come to Minnesota, and help us make
this land the paradise of equal rights
and equal opportunities God intended
it should be.
We quote the following from an
English paper:
Fifteen thousand people assembled in
Paradise Square, Sheffield, on Thursday
evening, to support the agricultural laborers'
lockout in England. Mr.. Robert Leader,
editor of the Independent, presided. Mr..
Joseph Arch addressed the meeting at great
length, and was enthusiastically received
He denied that he had ever advised farm
laborers to strike in harvest-time He had
travelled through many parts oil the country
for the express purpose of advising them not
to do so; but ii farm laborers were called
villains for wasting the providence of God
by refusing to gather in the crops, what was
to be said of farmers who refused to SOW the
seed, and what of landlords who wasted land
by turning it into game preserves He de-
nounced the manner in which the farm
laborers' wives and families had been turned
out upon the world to starve, because theil
husbands had dared join the union. Tall
of Sheffield rattenings! Fifty thousand
times worse rattening had been done hS
farmers and landlords in England: and if ::
landlord rattened, he was as bad a rattenel
as Sheffield grinder. tremendous cheer
ing) He did not believe in fine coats ant
long purses covering crime. Crime was a.
bad beneath the mitred brow of the bishop
or the coroneted brow of the prince, as be
meath the cap of an agricultural laborer
After replying to the Marquis of Bristol
speech at Bury on commons land, and re
pudiating the charge OF Communism whicl
had been preferred against him, Mr.. Arcl
said that ii the town joined the country, an,
bought all the land that came into the mar
ket, and put agricultural laborers upon it t
cultivate it for them, the land question
. would soon settle itself. Ifthe country di
not know the value of the agricultural labor
er in the land he would let them know hi
value out Of it. That day he had lette
from Newmarket, asking him to accompan
r several ship-loads going to Canada. He wa
reluctant to initiate an exodus, because her
the land was sufficient to support them. Blu
r If the farmers of the Eastern Counties di
I mn <1,eS A1x~
soon, 81 declare (said Mr.. Arch, emphati
cally), if my life is spared, with the infuenc
, / have with the Canadian Government, r
| drain the Eastern Counties, though shoul
!: have to. cross the ocean again and again.
: Resolutions pledging the meeting to suppo1
the men locked out were enthusiasticall
passed.
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why the Working People Should
Take am Interest i'm FOlitics-All
the Burdens Eall OH Them.

the Burdens E0lI Oh Ihems
There is no way under the heavens
above for the poor man to escape his
share of the taxes paid by his rich
neighbor. Let the real estate owner be
taxed on his income, and the man he
rents dwelling to find the price ad-
vanced. This man who rents dwell
ing is grocer, and finding his expenses
increased by higher house rent, he in
turn increases the percentage of profit
on his tea, coffee and sugar, and the hod-
carrier and coal-heaver, who purchase
the tea, coffee and sugar, thus pay more
for them. But the advanced cost to
them is not pushed upon any class with
whom they have business relations.
The laboring classes cannot saddle any
lower stratum Of society with the burdens
their financial masters put upon them,
for there is no lower stratum to fall
upon, and they are powerlcss to recover,
by increased wages, the extra cost of the
articles consumed, this increased tax
upon the top layer of society has i'm
posed upon them.
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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY JULY %, 1874

There is an honest directness in the
way of doing business in Kansas, that is
truly refreshing. We clip the following
from the leading editorial in Ross last
Spirit of Kansas. It is honest and to
the point. The people have sermon
in it it would pay them well to reflect
upon:
''1t has been the power Of capital in
vested in politics that has made possible
the vast combinations of carriers and
money brokers that can, with a stroke
of the pen, raise to the renumerative,
or depress to the starving point, the
price Of every bushel Of wheat and corn
in the country. 1t is that power which
corrupt legislation has enabled to lay its
hand upon almost any town or city in
the country, to build up or destroy, as
the interest, favor or malice Of the COM
bination might dictate. This power has
been secured through the venality of
our lawmakers, State and national, and
nothing can take that power from them
but the determined and united action of
the people in filling their legislative po-
sitions with men who have not been, and
cannot be, corrupted by money or be-
guiled with Establishments of Office.
Gas this is a government of and by
the people, upon whose intelligent use
of their prerogatives depends the prop
er exercise of governmental functions,
SO we are essentially and naturally a
nation of politicians. As it is through
| pOlitical cOrruntiOn that the nuhlic con.
science has been debauched, and the un-
punished thief of millions upon millions
Of public moneys has been rendered
possible, so it is through political &C.
tion, and mainly that, that we must
seek and hope for reform.
''It was through comprehension Of
that fact that the institution of the
Grange was hailed by so many, even o.
those who failed to connect themselves
directly with it, as an element that was
destined to act not unconspicuous part
in the work Of political, financial ani
social regeneration. Though entirely
non-partisan, and professedly non-poli
tical, its teachings are having the effect
of educating the masses of the people
in the science of government, and Great
ing higher standard Of political mo
rality, to an extent that has not befor'
occurred for many years. Though il
one sense non-political, yet in another
and that high sense, the Grange is tn
coming political force before which po
litical knaves will yet be swept into de
tserved oblivion
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The Little People.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.

A dreary place would be this earth
Were there no little people in it;
The song of life would lose its mirth,
Were there no children to begin it.
No little forms like buds to grow,
And make the admiring heart surrender
No little hands on breast and brow,
To keep the thrilling love-chords tender
The sterner souls would grow more stern
Unfeeling nature more inhumaf1,
And man to stole coldness turn,
And woman would be less the woman.
Life's song, indeed, would lose its charm
Were there no babies to begin it,
A doleful place this world would be,
Were there no little people in it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
THE NEED OF SACRIFICE.

Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his
crown,
The just fate gives;
Whose takes the worlds life on him, and
his own lays down,
He, dying so, lives.
Whose bears the whole heaviness of the
wronged worlds weight,
And puts it by,
It is well with him suffering, though he face
mans fate;
How should he die?
Seeing death has no part in him any more
no power
He has bought his eternity with a little hour
And is not dead.
-Srinburne.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Let the People be Prepared.

The very capable and able writer
for the (Waukesha, Wis., Plain Dealer
has hit the nail square on the head.
Russell Sage, Vice-President of the St.
Paul road. when at Milwaukee lately,
said the St. Paul road would 60 into
the canvass next fall with all the force
it could bring to bear, and he had
strong hopes of success, FOR HE DID NOT
BELIEVE THE FARMERS WOULD HOLD To-
GETHER LONG. Alex. Mitchell, the Pres.
ident of the same road, has said sub.
stantially the same thing within week.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

PARsoxs is working not to save the
Oranges but the Republican party.
The Oranges have nothing to fear
from free discussion,
ssWhere mind meets mind
To blend and brighten"
but such discussion is death to the Re-
publican party. That party is in the
condition of the fellow who was on trial
for sheep-stealing, aad when the Judge,
to calm his fears, said to him, 'sDo no t
be alarmed, you will get Justice re-
piled, 'sYour honor, that's just what
ann afraid Of"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

Canada is better governed than tho
United States, for she has appropriated
sc, ,0O0, 600 to facilitate water transpor-
tation. The Canadians will yet carry
grain from Lake Michigan to Montreal
for $3.50 per ton. 1t costs $6.45 per
ton to bring it to New York. We must
have more adequate canal trasporta-
ton, or Montreal will divert the trade
of New York to the st. Lawrence
Samuel B. Buggles.
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A Good Sentiment.

Hon. Chas. Mcclure, of Red Wing,
the man who years ago converted Good
hue county to Republicanism, uttered
the following excellent sentiment at the
Grange celebration in that county, on
the 4th inst
The politicians direct the politics of
the country. No man should be found
supporting any measure which is wLong,
simply because it is party measure"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

CANADA is better governed than the
United States, for she has appropriated
sc. 600, 900 to facilitate water transpor-
tation. The Canadians will yet carry
grain from Lake Michigan to Montreal
for $3.50 per ton. It costs s6.45 per
ton to bring it to New York. We must
have more adequate canal transporta-
ton. or Montreal will divert the trade
of New York to the st. LAWRENCE
[Samuel B. Ruggles.
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upon GENERAL PROSPERITY.
From the address of the Master of the
National Grange, Master Adams of Iowa, de-
livered at the last National Grange meeting
at st. Louis, January, 1874:
"Article xii also demands most serious
consideration to definitely decide what in
terpretation shall be put upon the word
are substantially a unit in the opinion that
the Order should not in any sense become a
political party. But at the same time, there
are questions most fundamentally affecting
our material interests achich can only be
reached through legislatiom.-It seems IN
PERATIvE that such questions should BE dis
cussed in tic Grange. Shall it be said that
such questions were political in the meaning
of the Constitution? The questions Of
TRANSPORTATION, TAXATION, FINANCE, COR
RUPTION IN PUBLIC PLACES, acre such as come
members, and they wish to know whether
they will be denied the privilege of can
vassing them on the ground Of politics.
To this suggestion the National
Grange replied as follows in their
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
W. piA"SASAly 0AO SlASOACIy hoSCIG tIIC
oft repeated truth taught in our organic law,
that the Grange, National, State or Subor-
dinate, is not a political or party organiza-
ton. No Grange, is true to its obligations,
can discuss political or religious questions,
nor call political conventions, nor nominate
candidates, nor even discuss their merits in
its meetings.
| Yet the PRINCIPLES WE TEACH UNDERLIE ALI
TRUE POLITICS, ALL TRUE sTATEsNANsHIP, and
if properly carried out will tend to purify the
whole political atmosphere of our country
For we seek the greatest good to the greatest
number.
We must always bear in mind that no one
by becoming Patron of Husbandry, gives
up that inalienable right and duty which be.
longs to every American citizen, to take q
proper interest in the politics Of his country >
eve propose meeting together, TALKING
TOGETHER, and generally ACTING TOGETH.
Err, for our mutual protection and advance.
ment"
eve are opposed to any such spirit an6
management Of any corporation or enter
prise as tend to oppress the people and rol
them of their just profits"
"We are opposed to excessive salaries ant
high rates OF interest" =
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

'The only speech made which pos
sessed any particular significance to the.
present generation was that of Hon..
George W. Julian, of Indiana, who held
that, in striking the shackles from the
negro, but one form Of slavery had been
abolished, and that the labor question
is the natural successor and logical Sc
quence Of the slavery question. Report
of the Abolition Reunion at Chicago.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The New Haven Union very truly

The New Haven Union very truly
says:
"The people begin to understand that
party names and party discipline are
humbugs. They feel that there is more
for them to accomplish through politics
than the qualification of the ambition Of
schemers and tricksters, and. they in
tend to abolish the old way Of doing
things, and establish new.''
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

"The last weeks Owatonna Journal says:
'.The people are beginning to understand
thatarch demagogue, Donnelly" etc.
Why shouldn't they? w. NJ, G. l. Par
sons, in his address on the 18th ult, devoted
a half hour or more to Donnelly although he
didn't mention his name, as we suppose this
to be his habit in his addresses elsewhere !;
and we almost came to the conclusion that
some body or some party was paying him for
such seruices. And we are not alone in this
notion. Rice County Journal.
THE MILK IN PARSONS CoCoA-NUr.
Brother Parsons is terribly opposed
to any connection between the Oranges
and politics, but in his speech, June
18th, at Mortified, he made this point:
"But he so far broke from his moorings as
| to make this remarkable utterance, that none
but a Granger could be elected to Congress
in this State"
That meant Parsons. But where are
''the beautiful principles of our order p
The ritual will be just as charming if
we donot elect member of the Order to
Congress and we can suck our thumbs as
we'll with Parsons in Winona as in
| Washington.
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&rauge 2epartu1emt.

From the Constitution of the National
Grange.]
THE ULTIMATE OBJECT OF THIS ORG GAN1zA-
TION IS FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND PRO-
lection.
Human happiness is the acme of earthly
ambition. Individual happiness depends
upon GENERAL PROSPERITY.
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''THF day has cone when the farmers
of thS Votnfty ~ thu scourging to
which they az sSfEies I'd from monop-
oily exHOrti6fb I'd ,blic thieving.
They sef the k6lf an .ly widening be-
tween the wealth and ,e labor of the
Country. IN our an =, ,al and unjust
laws are permitted x tand and their
spet4tiok pressed, I'll have experienced
,s,onRh thknow thai he laboring in
arests this count V will. ere many
ve&rs, be but little b We those of the
old word, and or present shoddy
nonopQly lerdlhgs !, Ii form an aris-
toc5acy Wof3e than at Of those who
hotq theat aIeeed uperiority by the
sqttsery M plrdh. Every laboring
riS VA o. prod beers interests are
wlt4 fn0se "a ~ poor man, and all
siI0uld stand er in defense of their
Common inee4e Industrial Age.
! ! j. ! ! !: ! | |
- cou4txY "a in Illinois, a few
q panorama of the
Il @ year-older sat wrap
+ the scene, until the
u ID Rebecca at the well
n4ef Hooked up and: said
A -. AZ y = 1 ht picture! I'll Just
lHc re Grangers.'
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Well Said.

We clip couple of extracts from the
admirable poem, written by Hon. Ebe-
nezer Ayres, and read at the Cottage
Grove Farmers picnic. They breathe
the true spirit:
But woe to them who dare invade,
The rights, to US that God has given;
The champions of the plow and spade
On every wrong will make raid,
Till every calling, every trade,
Shall learn that ''time makes all things
even."
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Grangers, underneath your tread
Is the soil that God has given;
And the sunlight overhead
Is the approving smile of heaven.
On yonder almost endless plain,
Spread out the fields of emerald grain;
And your own hands the seed have strewn !;
And you shall reap what you have sown,
And never yield to idle hands,
The hard-earned fruitage of your lands.
Mr.. Ayres is one of the true men of
the State. For years he fought, in the
Legislature and at the polls, the battle
of the people; and the Monopolists
covered him with ridicule and abuse.
Last fall, when nominated for Lieut..
Governor, many even of the farmers
believed the lies and calumnies of the
enemy, but wherever he spoke he dis
abused the minds of the people; and
when the canvass closed he had won a
high place in their regard, as an honest.
able, intellectual man. The people need
just snch leaders in every part of the
State. Let them come to the front.
The Grange advance., 1874-01-21
MARKETS..

OFFICE OF THE GRANGE ADVANCE,
Jan. 21st, 1874.
Since our last issue there has been a de-
cline of one to two cents in wheat in the
cities Of Milwaukee, Chicago and New York
with business light.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 19-4 P. M.,-Wheat
closed nominally at $l.25 for No. 1 :; No. ?
was dull and heavy at $1.223 in favorite
houses seller January, $l.224; seller
February at $1.23a; March, $1.255 seller
April at Sl.29a May nominal at $1.333
No. 8, $l.179 bid.
CHICAGO, Jan. 19-4 P. M.,-Wheat closed
irregular at $l.233 for seller February
seller March, $l.265. Corn closed weak
at 56@563c for seller February 574@58c
seller March and seller May at 63a@6Sac.
New YORK. Jan. 19-Wheat closed lower
Receipts, 1O2, 900 bushels. No. 2 spring
Chicago at 81. l.59@1.61a; No. 2 Milwaukee
at $1.60@1.63; Iowa spring at $l.55@
1853; No. l Minnesota at $l.6z@l.64; ;
amber Michigan $1.65; Illinois, $1.64;
Northwestern spring, $1.62; white spring
$1.65. Rye, quiet at $1.05@l.10 for
Western and State.
RED WING MARKETs.-Wheat $1.O5 ;
Oats So to 40 cts. Corn 48 to so cts. Po-
tatoes IS cts. Beans $500. Butter Is cts.
Eggs 25 cts. Hay $1,000 to $1,000 per
ton. Pork dressed 81 cts. Beef 81 dressed.
The Grange advance., 1874-01-21

a CELEBRATED Scotch divine had
just risen up in the pulpit to lead the
congregation in prayer, when gentle
man in the front gallery took out his
handkerchief to wipe the dust from his
brow, forgetting that pack of cards
were wrapped up in it. The whole
pack were scattered over the floor of
the gallery. The minister could not
resist sarcasm, solemn as the act was
in which he was about to engage. o
man, man surely your psalm-book has
been i'll bund.'