The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-10-01


Compare Pennsylvania with Alabama.
The population of Pennsylvania is
3,52l,951; that Of Alabama 10000.
The assessed wealth of Pennsylvania is
So, sO8. 34O,l12; that of Alabama S20l,-
$50, S41. But the State debt of Penn.
sylvania is $2S,656,876; the State debt
of Alabama is $52,76l,917. Alabama
has but one-eightee7th the wealth Of
New York, but she has TWICE AS MUCH
DEBT!
Or, compare Alabama with Iowa. Iowa
has 100000 population as against
996,992 in Alabama. Now compare
their State debts:
Iowa. 49,. ....$ 100000
Or, try it another way; Minnesota
had in 1870 about one-half the popula-
ton Of Alabama. Suppose our State
debt was in the same ratio as that of
Alabama. We would then owe, instead
of less than 100000 as now, TWENTY
SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
How much prosperity would there be
in Minnesota with such debt bearing
interest How long would it be before
the people would be driven from their
! homes by tax-gatherers And how
much would they love the government
that inflicted these calamities upon
them?
Government is not an. abstraction.
1t emanates from the governed 1T
means peace, security, prosperity and
plenty. No man can love the highway.
man that robs him. No people can
love the government which beggars
them; and turns them out into the
woods and marshes, barbarians and
outlaws. If you strip people
Of everything that makes civilization,
home, protection, security of property,
and all the usual incentives to industry,
you must not be surprised if they turn
sayages. What else can they do y!
Whittier can they fly! What human
industry can stand up against system
which steals faster than they can create.
What is the remedy? To deprive
the negroes of their rights and turn
them over to their Infatuated enemies |!
Not bit of it. That way lies civil war
Of the most dreadful character. To
perpetuate the injustice and keep the
robbers in power until the south is
utterly desolated! No; that can only
breed violence, bloodshcd and destruc-
ton. The North would find itself
chained to corpse. What then Is the
remedy!
LIST. Change the Administration at
Washington. Horace Greeley said of
carpet baggers, after his visit to the
South:
Well, gentlemen, the thieving carpet bag
! gers are amournful fact they do exist there,
! and | have seen them. They are fellows
who cyawled down South in the track of our
| armies-generally very safe distance i'll the
rear; some of them in suffers wagons some
| bearing cotton permits some of them look
ing sharply to see what may turn up and
they remain there. They at once ingratiat-
ed themselves with the blacks, simple,
credulouS, Ignorant men, very glad to well
come and to follow any white who protested
TO be the champions Of their rights. Some
of these got elected Senators, other,lRepre,;
sentatives, some Sheriffs, some judges, and
so on And there they stand, right in the
public eye, stealing and plundering, many
OF them with both arms around negroes. and
| their hands in their rear pockets, seeing il
they cannot pick paltry dollar out of them.
These are the fellows who have taken
possession of the Offices and covered
those afflicted States with debt. A
change Of administration would drive
them out. They would pick up their
carpet bags and leave on the double.
quick. The work of plumber would
cease. Industry would revive,-pros.
perity and peace would follow.
I'd. Place in the White House some
man who would protect the whites
from the carpet-baggers and the ne.
| groes, and at the same time protect the
negroes from the whites. We could
not permit the blacks to be oppressed
any more than the whites.
But, says some one, If you permit the
intelligence of the South to rule it, you
place the rebel sentiment in power.
True, but if you permit the rpet-bag.
gers to rule it, do you not make en-.
emies and rebels of every white tax.
payer of the South We have par.
doned the rebels; We have restored to
them the right to vote, to hold Office
and to bear arms. Can we trust them
that far and not trust them with the
exercise of local self-gove.nment9
The rebel sentiment exists there now.
The question is how to destroy it. Can
it be done by blows, bayonets, chains
poverty and wretchedncss Has tina,
treatment, during 500 years, made Ire
land love England! Can you kick a
man into affection for you!
i But suppose the South comes to un'