The anti-monopolist., 1874-08-13
A FAITHFUL OFFICER.


They have a very faithful public SER
want at Cottage Grove, in the person of
the postmaster, Sam. w. Furber, Esq:
He is particularly careful to see that
President Grants mails are not used to
carry the ANr1.MosoPoL1sr, any more
than he can possibly help. He has
grave doubts whether it would not be
proper to suppress that sheet alto
gether; and if it was necessary have US
burned at the stake, Samuel would as
sist, grimly satisfied that he was doing
Almighty God service such as only a
Furber could properly perform.
While he was Internal Revenue officer
he put the whisky sellers through with
ferocious fidelity to the public inter-
est. And it is said that he would COM
bine business with pleasure, and, with a
keen sense Of the eternal fitness o .
things, would first drink their whiskey
and then arrest them for selling it to
him without a government license
thus satisfying his stomach,
his pocket and his conscience, all at the
same time.
And like the rogue in the ballad,
"He went to church with great propriety,
And sang the hymns out loudn'
| Nay, he even preached and prayed,
and thanked God that he was not as
other men and, we are sorry to say,
he was not. For with the holy drawl
yet on his lips, and the pious quaver
yet mellowing the dulcet tones of his
sanity voice, he would, it is said, sell
the ''soul destroying stuff Jas in his
prayers he described what the Irish
man called the blessed liquor" over
his counter, to the poor unfortunate
victims of appetite in his neighborhood.
And he was accommodating to them
very for when they could not pay, it
is said, he trusted them; and took
mortgages on their homesteads and
then in due time foreclosed those mort.
cages and turned them
'Out of house and hald,
To thole the winters sleety dribhe,
And cranreuch cald."
And thus this holy man throve and
prospered in the shadow of the church;
and felt that while he was feathering
his nest in this world, his prayers and
preachings had secured him a front seat
in that Blessed Land where drunkards
cannot come, and Anti-Monopolists are
unknown.
But in an evil hour he presumed so
far upon his piety and his republican
ism, that he sought to prevent prom
inent Anti-Monopolist from opening a
store in his neighborhood !; whereupon
the said Anti-Monopolist, with no re-
spect for the drawl and the drivcl of
this child of God, went for him; and he
now languishes under indictment in the
United States Supreme Court for selling
liquor without license, with a lively
prospect of yet uttering his prayers
and singing his hymns, like many a
blessed martyr of old, from behind dun
geon bars.
But the most disgusting part of the
story remains to be told. This man
who has made himselfa a centre of calam.
tiles to whole neighborhood, who has
erected his fortune on the ruin of his fell
low men, and who has prostituted the
noblest instincts Of the human heart.
love of God and respect for virtue, into
cloak to cover his acts, is still retained
by Messrs. Ramsey and Averill. as
postmaster at Cottage Grove!! The
same man who is under Indictment in
the United States Court still represents
the United States in handling and dis
tributing the public mails and. as such,
thinks the ASrI-MoNoPoLIsr cheated the
United States out of one cent stamp.
And yet, perhaps, Messrs. Ramsey
and Averill are right in keeping him in
the office Of postmaster. Is he not fit
representative Of that breed of Chris.
tian statesmen who have so long preyed
and pilfered in this land-the Harlans.
the Pomeroys, the Pattersons. the
Howards. the Colfaxes, and all the rest
Of that sanity crew.
A NATURAL INQUIRY.