The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10
Prose and Poetry for the Hour.

PINE ISLAND, GooDHUE Co., MINI, }
August Is, 1873. :
Editor nti-Monopolist
Thinking you might like ''word o
cheer from this section, take this
method to ''gee ye greeting" Farmers
are about through cutting their grain !;
but the busy season of stacking, thresh-
ing, fall-plowing and hauling off grain
is yet in prospect, with no cessation Of
steady labor from early spring until
mid.winter; and for those who get out
their summers wood, there is no place
to stop or rest even then. Surely
if there is class of people in the world
who should be well paid for their labor it
is the worthy tillers of the soil. There
is a vast amount of finely writtep rhet-
oric made use of by those who know
comparatively little about it, of the
beauties, independence and poetry oe
agricultural pursuits. But the facts in
the case are, as regards Minnesota
farmers, if there is any romance about
it, it must lay in the knowledge of
drudging from early dawn till dewy
eve; with the pleasing reflection, that
after paying harvest help, thresh ing
bills,and hauling wheat away, "they will
barely have enough to pay the interest
on the mortgage old Graball holds
against our home, and if he wont wait
another year he will have to foreclose.
that's all
The laboring classes begin to think
that you have struck the keynote that
if followed up will produce harmony
out of this discord; and with their
help will put new 'song into their
mouths
"Men of thought and men ef action"
should lay all party spirit on the shelf,
and nominate, elect. and support the
right men for the right places; and the
evils Of the present time may soon be
corrected, and the unrest, disquietude
and sense of injustice now pervading
the minds Of the laboring classes, will
no longer be felt.
If they were in boat, without oar
or compass. with disabled or demor-
allied crew, and they became convinc-
ed they were rapidly drifting toward a
malestrom or breakers that would hurl
all on board to destruction. and a ship
came in sight to rescue them, would
they stop to cavil about what party
the men on board belonged to! Com
mon sense says no. But are not the
laboring classes in vastly worse con-
dition than this Instead of the men
being disabled they are, as it were, fast
asleep. and we believe the ANTI MoNoP.
oL1sr is just the bugle blast needed, to
arouse them from their slumbers and
induce them to reverse steam, bout
ship and steer for the harbor of moder.
ate wealth, clear conscience, and hap.
piness.
What though the bugs the Murphies take
and grasshoppers the grain,
The value OF your farm will raise, and dom;
you see the gain.
Why if you don'tthe justice see, you lack il
calculation,
Your farm assessed two thousand, is now
four in valuation
What though your cattle all should die. bu,
just one yearling steer;
| Wen say he's worth more than the whole
the gain you see is clear.
Voters, we're working for your good, se
don't begin to rant,
Nor follow after Donnelly, but help suppor.
King Grant
Two-thirds Of all you have we want, 70 run
our Institution
We have the brains, we'll use them well,
no need Of distribution.
You need not read, you need not think, fol
we the Kings vicegerents,
Wen take your labor and .yVur chink. i
! you'll be our adherents.
! ~ MORAL.
II Cogres, proves din of robbers. We
Muss make your money. Is our spirits. ffee
LIBERAL HEPUH,EIN