The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-16
(For the Anti Monopolist. ]
CHAMpL1N, Mimi, July 8, 1877

FRIEND DoNNEILy Let me congrat-
ulatc you on your heroic newspaper
enterprise. You are launching big
ship on the rough and stormy waters
Of the raging political sea, and | trust
you arc just the man to command such
a craft. shall hope for you large
success, since the Righteousness Of our
cause is its best eulogy and defense.
ssThricc armed is he who hath his quar-
rel just" Let the ship be freighted
with rich cargo for the toiling multi
tude, including heavy sledge hammers
to break their rusty chains of bondage.
Truth vindicates itself; and for that
reason you will get along very COM
fortably without any post Office collars,
muzzles or gags, to choke down the
hcrcsy Of free thought. One free press
is worth hundred shackled ones, be-
cause freedom is power, and the want
Of it is cowardly weakness. We can
well afford to be generous towards our
opponents, because, if we give them
rope enough, they will hang themselves.
Monopoly will kill itself when working
men understand their own rights and
unite their strength. Therefore scatter
widely around your ASr1-MosoroJ.1sr,
and the saving truth will Ay to every
worker on the sunny type-wings ofyour
plucl<y newspaper.
Some may not realize what a free
newspaper really is, and take all papers
for such. But they are sadly deceived.
Try the St. Paul Press, and the Min
ncapolis Tribune. You must sing their
tunes, or have no music. Capital and
monopoly are their very basis, and
workingnen and labor have no voice,
or arc forced to cat at the second table
in the back kitchen. Their editors are
mere scrvile employees. Men had bet
ter be street scavengers and chimney
sweeps than sell their souls for such an
editorship, for there may be manly
scavcngers.
Country editors arc too many Of
them mere beggars for the bread they
eat, many having scaly chance even
at that. And as to principle, they are
generally quite accommodating. Some,
like Artemus Ward, havn't mary a
darn principle
My duty is done when | cxhort all
working,ncn to be proud Of productive
labor. There is more real honor for
stout, healthy, young man to dig the
soil for raising corn and wheat and po-
tatocs, than in peddling jewsharps or
patent trinkets, or engaging in any
official robbery. And if you take a
paper, don't subscribe for any one
string fiddle, but be sure and get the
spunky monopoly -killer-the ANTI
MoNoroLIsr. A. GAYLORD SPALDING.
AS TIE Minneapolis papers have al
ready given the substance of Master
Parsons speech. at the secret meeting
Of the Hennepin county Changers, at
Minneapolis, June 18th, we think it not
improper to give the reflections Of a
leading Granger of that county, who
vas present, upon Master Parsons and
Ais doctrines:
LONG LAKE, HENSEp1S Co., MINI.
II attended large gathering Of the
Changers in this county yesterday, at
Minneapolis. Parsons occupied nearly
the whole afternoon, and it would have
been fully as instructive, and infinitely
more pleasant, to any person Of intelli-
gencc, to have sat and listened to the
whistling of the winds. The first part
of his speech was TRADE against l.
Donnelly, for having the audacity to
send that address to the Changers Of
Minnesota, leading them astray from
the beautiful principles of our order,
then he expatiated on the beauty ane
sublimity of the ritual. | longed t
tell him did not envy the man wht
could find food for his mind in thu
twaddle of the ritual; but | suppos'
that would have been treason. He i.
certainly fool or knave. or a comb
nation of both. According to him thu
End and aim Of the order is to brin,
men and women together, to revolve il
The little circle of ceremony inside tn
Grange, and forget all the great ques
hons that stir the outside world to it
most profound depths; questions upo'
which the happiness of mankind yes
our very existence as nation depends
He wishes us to ignore all that would b
Of any practical advantage to as an
emulate the patience and stupidity