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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-13
THE INDIAN rHInr>

In accordance with treaty ~tiPuistjons
and the p,oyi>ion. ot existing laws.
more than twelve thousand dOiiars have
been expended in aid ol the remnants
of the two Indian tribes siii living with
In the State, about $500 ol winch ha,
been devoted to the PenoJscot tribe, and
50. 200 O the PassAmaquuddy uiuc. o.
The amount devoted 10 the Pcuoh>Coi'.
however. about 5000 ~, Tie interest
on the fund belonging To the tribe held
in uust hy the State. By direction nl an
act OF the last leg sisiatuir, The proceeds
ot certain shore rents amountm. 10 over
- 900. are TO be distributed among The
members OF the trJ,. \, probably
some heads OF ltmi.ic, entitled To receive
a large sum. would make an improper
use oil the same, II Is p,ssi.ic tiiI the
law may need some amendment To give
larger direction in The disposition OF the
I,pd
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-13
INDUSTRIAL school FOR GIRLS.

regret that the late financial disturb
anccs have ~ Yet prevented Toe Trustees
OF The Maine luGusliiIl School Tor Girls,
nom securing lic twenty-five thousand
dollars required through private suo>crp
lions, before they could avail themselves
o! the i've thousand dollars condiIionally
granted by the State to all IN the esiaD.
lishmcnt and maintenance oi the propos.
ed institution. The School has been 10
Gated in Hallowcll. in consideration OF
liberal donations from two benevolent
ladies ol that city aud 1t is intended to
put it in operation aS soon ~ the balance
OF the private contributions required can
be secured Il is to be hoped that
measures to that cnd will be successful
at an early day, 50 that the State may
be provided with school so much need
ed Tor class OF girls leading an idle,
vaerant or vicious lie, OF in great dan
ger OF falling into habits OF vice or i'm
mortality. Tosecure such school the
State may wisely extend liberal assist
apce
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-13

so that the rate of taxation may be still
further reduced. Pennsylvania finds no
difficulty in securing sufficient receipts
from indirect taxation to support the
State government. A large share Of the
State expenditures of Massachusetts, is
met by the proceeds of State tax upon
the valuation of the corporate stock OF
railroad and other corporations over ana
above municipal taxation for real estate
and machinery, and upon the business OF
Fire aud Life Insurance Companies
Without indicating more in detail what
sources Of revenue may be made available
to this State, desire to call your attcn-
ton 10 the subject, and TO suggest care
lul inquiry and investigation, with view
of deyising methods OF lifting some por-
tion of the burden of taxation, from real
estate. Such policy would give needed
encouragement to our agricultural inter-
e,ts, and promote the development of the
resources of the State.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT..
Although the object sought in estab-
fishing a Department of Insurance, was
simply to secure such a supervision of
the business of insurance as would pro-
;cct the public interests, yet the fees
received Tor licenses have not only paid
the salary and expenses of the Commits
siouer, but also yielded to the State a
revenue Of about eleven hundred doiIars
Cor ,he year ending July l, 1873. The
indications thus far are that the revenue
.or the present year will be as much. The
Department has conferred great benefits
upon the public by preyciting many
doubtful companies from doing business
in the State, and supplying needed inior-
nation on insurance topics by means OF
10, annual reports.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-01-13

Next 10 skilllul instruction, nothing Is
more essential 20 the highest efficiency OF
our public schools, than careful, lntelii
gent and well sustained inspection and
superyision. Excellent rs is the work OF
must of orr school committees. yet 1t IS
not to be expected th't men engaged IN
other pursuits. can spare the lime re
quisite to keep abreast of the progressive
educational movements OF the times, and
thus bc able 10 suggest improvement in
the work of the teachers under their
charge. and inspire in them that proles
sional pride and ambition which is 50 es
sentiaI TO success. As il is physically
Impossible for the State Superintendent to
personally and effectively reach the
several towns aud town committees,
sooner or later il will be found necessary
to establish some form OF intermediate
SUPERVISION, through which the State
Superintendent may impress on them the
results of his obelyatio and experience,
and secure n uniform system that Will
cover The examination and cerlilicatlon
Of teachers, rs well as the most effective
inspection OF schools. In view ot the
fact that time and means will be required
to perfect and extend the Free High
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Our Thanks.

We desire to thank our friends for
the very gene rous and cordial reception
with which they met our first number.
The demand was so great that we were
not able to send specimen copies to
many persons to whom we had intend
ed to send them. Over five hundred
copies were sold upon the streets of St.
Paul and Minneapolis by the newsboys
while the club lists and single subscrip-
tions came in rapidly from all parts Of
the State.
We want our friends to take hold
earnestly and extend our circulation.
The more readers we have the more
good we can do. Nothing less than ten
thousand regular subscribers will salts
fy us.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

The Changers are doing good work in
Northern Missouri, but the long winter
has prevented them from accomplishing
many desirable things that would have
been of great benefit to all. All the
men who follow the pillow are aware of
the evils that the Changers are con-
tending against. and to-day it is obvi-
Gus to all farmers that something has
been done for them by the way of re-
duction in the price of agricultural i'm
plements. We can now buy a pillow for
twelve dollars that last year cost us
eighteen walking cultiyator for TWEEN
ty-four dollars that cost us last year
twenty EIGHT. This is economy in the
proper place. for it was folly to pay
such enormous prices. remember that
in 1853 ten dollars was the price of the
best breaking plows manufactured. and
a two-horse corn-planter could be had
for thirty dollars. Now the manufac-
turers Of those implements have inn
proved their machinery so that they can
make three to where they could make
one then. But the manufacturers be-
came monopolists. and the farmers had
to acquiesce.-J. B. S.. in Rural World.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Why the Working People Should
Take an Interest in POlitics-All the
Burdens Fall ON Them.

''There is no way under the heavens
above for the poor man to escape his
share Of taxes paid by his rich neigh
Dor. Let the real estate owner be taxed
on his income, and the man he rents a
dwelling to will find the price advanced.
This man who rents the dwelling is a
grocer, and finding his expenses increas-
ed by a higher house rent, he in turn
increases the percentage of profit on his
tea. coffee and sugar, and the hod-car-
rier and coal-hcaver, 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 la
boring 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 up
on, and they are powerless to recover,
by increased wages, which the top layer
of society has imposed upon them. y
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

From the speech Of Gov. Palmer be.
fore the Reform Convention Of Illinois:
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
ingtonl 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 Qaughter)
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 light 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. I tell you, at Washington
to-day is being formed a 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 | 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 far
more than l feared before; far more
than the things 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
Why the Working People should
Take an Interest in FOlitics-An
the Burdens Fall OH Them.

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 adj
vanced. This man who rents dwell
ing is a grocer, and finding his expenses
increased by a 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.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
Agents tor the Anti.NOnOpOIist.

The following named friends are kind
the ANTI MoNoPoLIsT in their respective
localities, and solicit and receive subscrip-
tons for us:
Rochester, MINI. VIM. Elliott, r. w.
Montague.
Northfeld, Minn-George Bush, Albert
Trip.
St Paul, MIMI A. Lusk
Minneap polls, Minn.-W. L. Bassett.
Glencoe, MIND. J. Pettijohn.
Hutchinson, Mimi Norman Campbell.
Mankato, Mlnn-J f. Wallace
Castle Rock, Mimi &. Van Slyke,
James Quillialn.
Pennington, Minn.-Andrew Warsop, Mr.
Works.
Monticello, Minn.-Hon. Thomas Nelrose,
Thomas SmthSon.
Albion, Wright Co., Mimi. +. Howard.
Red Wing, Minn.-Mrs NJ l. Washburn
Riceford, Houston Co., Minn.-Anthony
Bernatz Martin Horahan.
Mount Pleasant, Minn-Hon P H. Rahilly
Hastings, Minn.-Phillip Eagan, Fred
Kranz.
Lamberton, Redwood Co., Ninn.-Albert
Small.
Willow Lake, Redwood Co., Minn.-W.
+. Smith.
IL. D.
Henderson, Minn.-Wm. Carroll.
Long Lake, Hennepin Co, Minn.-Isaac
a. Christleb
Cleveland, Lesueur Co., Mnn.-William
Lancaster
Rosemount, Dakota Co, Mimi Michael
Conner
Mendoza, Dakota Colon. J. l.. Lewis
Faribault, Rice Co., MIMI. OGrady.
Cokato, Wright Co. Minn.-Wm. Lee.
- NJ D.al
ardSon.
Grand Meadow, Mower Co., Mimi. E.
Pearce
Elnra, Olmsted Co., Minn-James Laird
Brainerd, Crow Wing Co, Ninn.-Wm
Murphy.
High Forest, Olmsted Co, Minn.-P A
Honeywell
Rose Creek, Mower Co., Mimi. VI. Ray
n. N. Thompson.
Litchfeld, Minn.-Wm. Al. Campbell.
Houston, Houston Co., Mimi. -Jno Crane
Hon. David Taylor.
Caledonia, Houston Co., Minn.-Martir
Rohan, Richard Levett.
Winnebago, Houston CO.-Peter Dolan.
Money Creek, Houston Co., Mlnn.-HOn
VIM. Beals, John Hennessy
Brownsville, Houston Co, Minn.-Michae
Ryan Tip.
Rushford, Fillmore Co.-John Maloney.
Aurora, Steele Co., Mlnn.-CorydOn King
Fergus Falls, Mnn.-Robert Miller.
Red Wing, Minn.-John NJ Swanstrom.
Watertown, Carver Co., Minn.-Cuell'
Merriman.
Cottage Grove-Hon. J. McCluskey.
Lake City, Mnn.-Robert Terrell
Austin, MIMI. a. Elder, L. c. Dorr
w. H. Merrick, |. Ingmundson.
Woodbury., Washington Co, Minn.-Hon
Z. Ayres
Dresback, Winona county, Hon. J. P. Ne
WILL.
St Peter, Nicolet county, F. PIcKLRR.
Montevideo, Chippewa county, JAS. r
CASE
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 of monopolies,
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 a 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 OF the country
tor the express purpose OF advising them not
to do so: but il farm laborers were called
| villains tor 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 their
husbands had dared Join the union. Talk
of Sheffield rattenings! Fifty thousand
times worse rattening had been done hv
farmers and landlords in England: and if a
landlord rattened, he was as bad rattener
as q Sheffield grinder Tremendous cheer
ing) He did not believe in fine coats and
long purses covering crime. Crime was a.,
bad beneath the mitred brow of the bishop.
or the eoroneted brow of the prince. as be,
meath the cap of an agricultural laborer.
speech at Bury on commons land. and re-
pudiating the charge of Communism which
had been preferred against him, Mr.. Arcl,
said that if the town joined the country, and
bought all the land that came into the mar
ket, and put agricultural labOrerS upon it to
cultivate it for them, the land question
would soon settle itself If the country did
not know the value of the agricultural labor
er in the land he would let them know his
value out OF it. That day he had letter
from Newmarket, asking him to accompany
several ship-loads going to Canada. He was
reluctant to initiate an exodus, because herr
the land was sufficient to support them Blu
: ii the farmers of the Eastern Counties die
not settle this question reasonably yer,
soon, 81 declare said Mr. Arch, emphati
eallyl, If my life is spared, with the induenc,
| have with the Canadian Government. II
| drain the Eastern Counties. though should
have to. cross the ocean again and again
, Resolutions pledging the meeting to supper
the men locked out were en.husiasticall,
passed.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The Iowa Autobiography Con.
VentiOn.

This convention adopted as part Of
it's excellent platform the following res
olutions. They are sound to the core:
THAT 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-
ponds; 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; burdensome taxation imposed !;
an immense and fictitious Indebtedness
created. resulting in the degradation of
those States, and the general impover-
ishment of their people.
THAT the conduct of the present Adj
ministration in its bold defiance of
public sentiment and disregard Of pub
lie good; in its prodigality and wasteful
extravaganza; in the innumerable
frauds perpetrated under its authority !;
in its disgraceful partially for and re-
wards Of unworthy favorites; and it's
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, III the exer-
else of their inherent sovereignty, to
correct these accommodating evils, and
bring the government back to its an
Gent landmarks Of patriotism and
economy
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
laborers on walking tour through the
northern counties; but they intend to
turn their trip to better account, fnan
cially, than the American pioneer did
The object of the proposed procession
is "to elicit sympathy and relief" -tc
proclaim their grievances and collect
money to help them to get their griev
ances redressed. A more practica
scheme in aid of the locked-out men is
however, under consideration-viz: ;
wholesale and free transportation t
Canada. under the auspices of the Colo
NAL Governments Scotch Exchange.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23

AMONG the small creatures who are
trying to make living out Of the
Grange movement, is one J. o. Milne,
formerly of Todd county. He is about
as much Of farmer as is cat-bird.
He first allied himself to the Farmers
Insurance Company and his connec-
ton with it was one of the weights that
dragged that institution down. Then
he hoped onto the back of Brother
Denman; as deputy to sell agricultural
implements in Minneapolis. Not sat-
istied with thus making good living
out of the farmers, he has now begun to
advise them how they should act in
reference to politics; and to denounce
those who don't agree with him as
''demagogues." Ne sutor ultra crepi.
dem. Stick to the shop, Milne. The
farmers will do their own thinking.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA. THURSDAY JULY 49, 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. 1t is honest and to
the point. The people have sermon
in it it would pay them well to reflect
upon:
st 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 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.
las 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 corruption that the public 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 ac-
ton, and mainly that, that we must
seek and hope for reform.
1T was through comprehension of
that fact that the institution of the
Grange was hailed by so many, even Of
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 and
social regeneration. Though entirely
non-partisan, and professedly non-poli-
teal, it's 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 before
occurred for many years. Though in
one sense non-political, yet in another
and that high sense, the Grange is the
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
All the Signs Point the Same Way.

All the Signs Point the Same Way.
[London Correspondence Chicago Journal
A Mr.. Nerewether has just been trav-
cling over the world. and has published
a book of his experiences. He is an
aristocrat and Tory, but this is what
he says about America: ''Of all the
places in the world where man can be
most comfortable, most Independent,
and may do best, America is the place
for me-" But still hugging his Toryism,
he comforts himself with the belief that
1.-The American republic had nearly lived
its life," that "C@sarism floats in the
air. ETC., and declares that when the
country has entered upon its new exist
ence as monarchy. it will be heaven
upon earth. 1t is rather curious, but
he merely echoes the prevailing idea
here, and throughout Europe, that a
change in your system of government is
only question of few years. Who
will be your first king, wonder Will
you find one among yourselves, or i'm.
port one from abroad We shall be
able to spare you member of the royal
family, if you like, for our beloved
Queen is rejoicing this week over the
birth of her twenty-second grandchild
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-23
The Little People.
BY JOHN 6. 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 inhuman.
And man to stole GOODNESS turn.
And woman would be less the woman.
Lies 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.