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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

They have curious Arrangement IN
Hastings. The Gazette rents certain
part of its columns to VIM. E. Reed.
the wellknown grocer. and one of the
best fellows in the world. and gives
him the right to print in it what he
pleascs. Very often. in this newspa-
wlthln-a-newspapcr. called Reed 8
Bulletin, will be found editorial arti-
Giles in direct opposition to the opinions
set forth IN the rest of the paper; for
Mr.. Reed does not confine himself to
flour, sugar. soap and candles, but
ranges over the whole world of thought
and action. The other day Stebbins
struck out one-half of an article of
Reed S. and supplanted it with an argu-
ment IN favor of strong drink. thus
making it appear that Reed was preach
ing doctrine in direct opposition to
his well-known principles.
This week Reed comes back at Steb-
bins in the following pungent style:
Last week Stebbins left out part of our
advertisement and used the space we had
paid him for, in an attempt to ridcule us.
But the miserable. tobacco W hisky-beer-
mudd.ed-tub only showed how mean he
could be to steal the little room we have in
the Bulletin, when he had the whole Gazette
to make i fool of himself i'm
This is pretty rough. But Reed
clinches it by saying that Stebbins has
during the past fifteen years proved
himself ito be man Of no principles -
and Stebbins prints all this; and his
readers say amen, to it. Stebbins can
not complain. like Dogberry. that '.he
was not written down an ass for he
was; and he printed the manuscript
himself; and he does not dare to deny
it; and no one else will.
But then it pays Steb: and what
after all are honor. self-respect and
manhood in the scale against green
backs.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
AFTER BIG GAME.

Stebbins Of Hastings is aroused! Al
last he hears the voice of an outraged
people. The clamor of the plundered
populace has at length reached his ears
like the roar Of great sea.
Hundreds of millions have been tax.
en- from the people by the manufactur.
ers, under the operation Of the Repub-
llcan Protective tariff.
Hundreds of millions have been taken
from the people by the plundering rail
roads, through the refusal of a Repub-
llcan Congress and Republican legisla-
lures to give the people necessary leg
lslative protection.
Other hundreds of millions have been
stolen from the people by Crsdit Mobi-
ller frauds, Chorpenning claims, Back
Fay steals, &c. &c.
Steb's blood begins to boil. Some
thing must be done. So he carefully
takes toddy out Of the bag; he puts his
nose to the track; toddy shifts and snuff
ties; he smells the trail; he darts for
ward; he holes his prey; and Steb
shakes his broad paunch and dances
with delight and cries out: He's got
him !-toddy's got him! toddy's done
it-hurrah!'
The plundered millions rush forward:
" What gigantic monopoly, what mon
ster wrong has toddy brought to earth!
Is it the High Tariff? Is it the Rail-
roads! Is it another Credit Mobilier!
Speak. oh, speak!
Let us not burst in ignorance!
No; says Steb. but we have found
out. that the Dakota county commits
sloners allowed the time of guaranty on
a furnace to expire without giving no.
tlce to the maker that it was defec-
tive!
Turn aside, oh, ye plundered mil
lions forget your other griefs here
is one mightier than all. Beside that
furnace what are your petty High Tar
ITS, your little Railroad robberies, your
tritilng Credit Mobilier frauds your in
significant Back Pay steal. Teddy,
ike Queen Constance, cries out
go, that my tongue were in the thunder's
mouth
Then with my passion would | shake the
world"
And Steb wants us to concentrate the
full blaze of the ANTI-IONopoLIs in one
burning focus upon that furnace.
'EAnd to leave the world to darkness and tc
him -
We couldn't do it. Steb. There is
40 fire brick in the world would stand
it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
Isn't Posted.

The Editor of the Winnebago City
Press. has so little familiarity with the
Holy Book. that even with our paper
before him. he cannot quote our motto
correctly. but makes it read. Speak to
the children of Israel that they 90
FORTH and he is consequently alarmed:
he thinks the children of Israeli mean
Dunnell and the office-holders. Well.
brother Christie, they will have to 90
forth anyhow. Bible or no Bible.
And then he asks us whether it is true
that "a liar is an abomination to the
Lord As an abstract proposition we
believe that statement to be true: but
when We descend to individual instances
we can not speak positively. For in
sance, we have no certain means of
knowing what the Lord thinks of Chris
tie we can only infer from the general
proposition that he don't like Christie,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

The first number of the Anti lionopolist
paper just started ~ Hon, !. Donnelly, aud
printed at St. Paul, is, as might he SUPPOSED,
an excellent paper, and brimful of lust what
nllght be expected from such an editor he
pitches into his opponents right and left, an d
notably into the editor of ths st. Paul Press.
who has pursued Mr.. Donnelly for these,
many years with malignty that is hard to
explain III any ordinary way-Red Wing
Argus.
We explained it: Ramsey hired him
to do it. But he is letting us alone
nobly now. Joseph is good boy. and
only attacks private citizens. He is
like the fellow in the story: lis this a
free fght'' said he. And thew told
him it war. Then, said he count me
out, and he marvelled." joseph
don't like free fights but when it
comes to hitting man from behind.
with sand-bag. on dark night. we
will match him against anything in the
world.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
Free Trade and Protection Con.
traSted.

The following figures, taken from the
United States census. show the marked
contrast between the effect of low
tariff and high tariff upon the agri-
cultural interests of the country. Let
our readers study them carefully. The
first column shows the percentage Of in
crease during the decade Of low tariff
from 1850 to 1860; the second column
the increase during the high tariff de-
cade from 1860 TO 1870. The compari-
son is confined to the Northwestern
States, viz: Minnesota. Nebraska. Iowa.
Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Dakota
Territory
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
The Mortified Standard. Mitchell :

| THE Northfeld Standard. Mitchell
paper, is shocked to think that we should
descend to the nasty work of stirring w
Republican corruption. 1t says:
I'VE really hope to see the subseouen,
numbers devoted to Il more noble obiec-
/ than to stir up the corruption that the Press
has beer tcoliotcing in for the past three
years. For shame Donnellv, wash your
hands and let them alone
This is cool. Here is Republican
paper unhesitatingly acknowledging
that the st. Paul Press-the great
organ of the Republican party-has
been ''wallowing in corruption for the
last three years, and that it is dis
grace to any decent journal to even
expose it.
That won t do, Mitchell:
You would hut skin and film the ulcerous
part.
While rank corruption, mining all beneath
ln1ectS unseen
No: the doctor stomach NAV turn
at the foul ulcer he cuts out. but he
owe. duty to his patient: and he must
ply his scalpel. though the stencil fill
the heavens.
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THE MinassotiQn, of Duluth, raw.

THE Minnesotlan, of Duluth, saws
!! Of our paper:
"The Motto is speak to the children Of
israel that they go forward Those who
have read the Scriptures will remember that
out of the Jour millions who went forward,
only two of them saw the promised land"
That point is very we'll taken. But
the trouble Is that the Israelites didn I
60 forward fast enough. They were
forty years wandering tipdef Republi.
can leaders, when under proper Anti
Monopoly guidance they might have
accomplished the whole trip in two
weeks.
And then they took to worshipping
one of Bill King golden calves. That S
what hurt them. There's where they
stuck. And their hearts longed for the
leeks and flesh pots of Washington
we mean Egypt.
And they say that the golden calf
has been lately lifted up in Duluth,
and that Tom Presnell fell on his knees
before it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

IHE Hastings Gazette quotes ap-
provlngly the following sentiment:
The Mabasha Herald man does not
seem to like Maj. Strait as we'll as he
dld two years ago. We suppose it is
because HI did not get that collar"
Ergo; no man supports Strait unless
he has collar, i'd est an office. Todd
and Stebby have an office. therefore
they support Strait. The voters of the
district did not get collars, There
weren't enough to go around.l there.
fore they don't support Strait.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
AN ANSWER AND AN OFFER.

Stebbins, IN his last Gazette, says:
s'Does Mr.. Donnelly dare to assert that he
did not receive compensation for service.
rendered the Hastings & Dakota Railway
Company while he was a member of Con
gress
We answer not the first cent.
We Will give you one hundred dol.
lars. Steb.. for every dollar you can
prove against us.
Speak UP. Steb: call you1 witnesses
establish your insinuation and relieve
your own impecuniosity with the re-
ward We offer; or acknowledge your
self the meancst of allliars.-a liar by
inuendo.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

HE motto OF the Anti-AIonopolist is,
Speak to the Children of Israel that they
90 forward" 1t seems too bad for Donnelly
to make Moses responsible for the strange
beverage Hebrews. Minneapolis Mail
Don't. Crofut. We have known
men to commit suicide who had pcrpet
uated just such puns as that. The in
ternal revulsion and the moral degra-
dation which accompany such perver-
sions of language are too great strain
for any ordinary constitution. Reform
it altogether.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
A CURIOUS SIGHT.

We looked in last week. accidentally,
upon meeting of some of the federal
otfice-holders.
They sat around table "a quiet
and lugubrious set. They were men of
the same type; -sharp-nosed. thin
faced, wiry. active. cunning little fell
lows; with whom ottice-holding is a
trade. and to whom politics mean sim
ply place.
But their brows were wrinkled, their
eyes perplexed. Something was wrong.
They had cried their old war cries, they
had shouted their old shibboleth, but
there was no response from the silent
masses. They had pulled the wires
until they twanged again, but the pup
pets, for the first time, refused to
dance. The old machinery was there;
they knew every crank and cog-wheel;
it was apparently as perfect and as COM
plicated as ever, but it would not work.
Something had taken the life out of it.
What was that something?
In the abysses Of the public mind, in
the depths of the popular conscience, a
great quiet, speechless change is going
on. The people are thinking, thinking,
thinking; even as they did years ago
upon the slavery question. In their
churches, by their firesides, at the
plough. at the threshing-machine. at
the picnic, everywhere, with bowed
heads and bordering brows, the people
are thinking, thinking. Thinking now
no more about slavery, secession, rebel
lion, reconstruction but thinking of
railroads, high tariffs, excessive taxa
ton. corruption, extravaganza, and the
rising apparition Of crowned head
coming up out of the sea Of misgovern-
ment.
And 80, at their table, sit with per-
picked brows the little wire-pu]lers,
their art lost, their power gone, their
glory departed.
And so the revolution rises. At first
it will be true to the people; it will
triumph; it will do great and good
work it will wipe out many grievances.
But by an irresistible law of nature,
power will corrupt it; the knayes who
now fight it will join it; they will rise
to the surface; and then will come an
other revolution; and again a band
Of perplexed knaves will sit together,
with knitted brows, asking each other,
What does it all mean? q
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
1t Takes Time.

The Wabasha Herald is out for
Strait. 1t says:
There are many reasons why this active
faithful and deserving public servant should
be continued at least another term. We
shall give them in future
That's right. Take time to think
them over.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
We send copies of this

We send copies Of this
paper, and in some instan-
ces packages of copies, to-
many Of our friends. AS
the postal law requires the
prepayment Of papers sent
to those not regular sub
scrlbers, ave hope those a0ho
attend to subscribe qUW send
as their names by RETURN
MAIL.
When we send more than
one copy to one address,
we would be obliged if the
person receiving the pack
age would distribute it
among those he thinks
most likely to subscribe.
The paper will be fur
nished in clubs Of five on,
more to one address for one
dollar and fifty cents each,
or seventy-five cents for
six months.
For all subscriptions OBJ
tanned for a year, six
months, or three months,
at the rate of two dollars
per annum, aOe aOlW pdy
twenty-five per cent. con1n,is-
sion on the amount collected.
THE ANTI-MoNopoLIsT has
been started to advance the
interests Of the people by
the success of the Anti
Monopoly party.
70 help this paper, there
fore, IS to help the cause.
We trust our friends will
! send us lists Of names Of
subscribers in each town.
ship.
Let us hear from you at
once, so that we can place
lyou on our subscription list
IN TINE FOR OUR NEXT NUM-
Der.
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3fGaltitratinu5.
Voice from the Cattle Yard.

THE TI-MoNoPoLIsT looks like the Dis
patch, reads like the Dispatch, smells like
the Dispatch. The 1Iin@eapoIis Mail.
The Minneapolis Mail looks like Bull
King, reads like Bull King, smells like
Bull King, lies like Bull King. and IS
Bull King.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

From this table. drawn from the
highest authority, it appears that the
agricultural interest was vastly more
prosperous during the ten years from
1850 to 1860, than during the last ten
years.
The increase in agricultural popula
ton, in land improved, and in grain,
vegetables, hay and hemp produced,
was more than twice as great during the
ten years Of low tariff as during the ten
years of high tariff. Notwithstanding
the great consumption Of slaughtered
animals, during the war, and the inhat.
ed prices caused by greenback cur
rency, the value of animals slaughtered
during the ten years of peace was
greater than during the decade which
contained four years of war. And de-
spite the high prices which still rule the
increase in the cash value of farms was
less than half as great during the last
ten years as during the preceding ten.
But, it will be asked, did not these ten
years from 1860 to 1870 represent pc
Rod of great prosperity Yes; for
some interests, but not for the agricul-
tural interest.
Let Us compare the increase of farm
property with the increase of manulac-
turing. We quote again from the cen
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them over

THE Minneapolis Evening Mail SAYS:
and so, now, he has established the
ANTI-MoNoPoI-sr. square, cleanlook-
ing, bright, piquant. versatile eight-page
weekly, in st. Paul. 1t is an enter.
tanning sheet-there is no denying that
and the selections are particu-
larly good"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
What is the Matter with JO-
sephe

For years the Press has devoted a
large part of its space to the consider
alton of our merits. Now it is preserv-
ing mastery silence. Our advent to
the editorial world has so reduced our
fair proportions that Joseph is unable
to see US. Prudent Joseph!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

The Wright County Eagle, speaking
of the ANrI-MosoPoL1sr, says:
I'VE reserve our endorsement until
the fall campaign opens.''
five had known that we never would
have started our paper.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

CRoFFuT thinks the people are pros
porous, because the national govern
ment is able to borrow money. Wny
does he not assert that the paupers in
the Hennepin county poor house are
making their everlasting fortunes: and
prove it by the fact that the county
can borrow all the money it wants
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

THE National Republican Central
Committee are divided in opinion. Win
dom is in favor of water routes. while
Zach Chandler prefers whisky-and-wa.
ter routes,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
Another COnundrunl.

Why is the new paper in Minneapolis
called the Mail!
Because all Bill Kings bulls are
males. But as Crotfut edits it, it had
to assert it's sex conspicuouslv.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30
DIALOGUE FROM SHAKES.
PEARE.


Enter: The Short-Horned Caesar
king and Antonius (Daggett.)l
Casar-Antonius.
Ant.-Casar.
Casar-Let me have men about me
that are fat;
Sleek headed men. and such as sleep
o,nights
You'd Wheelock hath lean and
hungry look;
He steals too much such men are
dangerous.
Ant Fear him not, Caesar he's not
dangerous.
He is noble Roman. and we'll given.
Casar-Would he were fatter; he
loves not beer
As thou dost, Antony: he hath no
stomach;
As thou hast, Anthony
Such men as he are never at heart S
ease
Whilst they behold one richer than
themselves.
He robbed me once Of thirty thous-
and dollars.
And would again, if he but got the
chance
| rather tell thee what is to be feared.
Than what | fear, for always l am
Caesar.
Exeunt buttoning up their pockets.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-07-30

McCOrKniCk,s Reapers and Mowers.
The machines that they offer to the
farmer for the sea son of 1874 are as fol-
lows:
THE ADVANCE.
This is a perfect combined two
wheeled, double barred reaper and now
er, with serrated reaper sickle and
smooth-edged mower knife. This ma
chine is the father of the reaper family
and is the result and outgrowth of a
long life time spent exclusively in the
manufacture of such implements. It's
merits in the past are well known, but
valuable improvements have been added
since last year, the most important of
which perhaps is the method of dipping
the platform and cutter-bar down, and
throwing lhe reel forward into and I'M
der lodged and falling grain. This i'm
provement saves erery head of lodged
and entangled grain. With this i'm
proyement the Advance stands without
a rival.
THE IMPROVED PRIZE MOWER.
This is unique, easy-draught, close
cutting, folding bar, two-wheeled mower.
This machine has long stood at the
head of the class as the best mower for
heavy, matted grass. This mower cuts
four feet wide, and, though very light,
is provided with powerful, high-geared
wheels, imparting to the well-balanced,
keen-edged knife speed that carries it
through everything before it, even with
the horses on an easy walk. A farmer
who consults his own interests will
purchase no other kind of moving ma
chine.
THE NEW RELIABLE.
This is one wheeled, wide cat. sim
gle reaper, combining some of the fea-
lures of the ''Oid Reliable" built in the
most substantial manner for heavy
crops, but of easy draft, though cutting
swath sic and a half feet wide, and
capable of bringing down its twenty
five acres per day. A farmer provided
with one of these reapers is prepared to
make short work of large grain crop,
and will feel himself master Of the stu
alton under any and all circumstances.
Address Northwestern Agents, John
Rhodes L Son, Hastings, MINI.
STRAIT is the way in the Second District I.
minneapolis Mail.
And s'broad is the way that leads
DEATH"
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A COnslndrum.

In the Minneapolis Mail of the 24th
inst this paragraph follows right under
the names of ''Croffut, johnson and
Smith, Propriethrs. y
(Which OF them is it that is the champion
liar of the century p
We give it up, gentlemen. Settle it
among yourselves. The public are I'M
able to discriminate, but would doubt
less be
"Happy with either
Were t'Other dear charmer away"
The Minneapolis Mail is at it again.
It now asks the question
"a century usually produces precisely
one great man" Which of us is it this
time
There will be row between ''Crotfut,
johnson & Smith, Proprietors, if this
kind Of thing is to continue.
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THE NEW RELIABLE.

STRAIT is the way in the Second District
minneapolis Mail
And ''br0ad is the way that leads
DEATH
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-10-09

\ Washington correspondent Of the New
York Times sums up the outlook in regard
to the next Congressional elections through
out the Union. lie says that when the last
session Of Congress closed, the situation was
pretty BADLY muddled. The Republicans
expected to encounter losses at the polls from
three causes, viz the currency question,
transportation, the civil rights bill. The
supposed initiation sentiment of the West has,
however, proved to have been grossly exag-
gerated; and the unanimity Of the RepGb-
licans in favor Of return to specie pay
ments and the honest payment of the public
debt, with the division Of the Democracy on
tie same questions, has actually Injured to
the benefit of the Republican organization in
very marked degree. With regard to trans
portation, the Changers have now no hopes
Of receiving any aid Of the Democrats, 50
that where they cannot elect their own can
didates their influence generally viii be
thrown on the Republican side. Some Con-
sentative capital has undoubtedly been made
at the South out of Republican efforts to
pass Civil Rights bill, but that influence,
he thinks, has reached its climax and is now
not he wane. From such data, therefore, he
calculates how the Republican majority
now standing at ninety in the House and
twenty-nine in the Senate-will stand in the
next Congress.
He estimates that in the old rebel
States the House representation will drop
from IS Republicans, % Democrats and . |
Liberals-the present Classification to so |
Republicans, 81 Democrats and doubtful |
in the next House. The evident determine
ton Of the White Leaguers to control the |
Southern elections may vary this result. but,
it is thought, not materially. Going over
the rest Of the Congressional districts, and |
taking the very worst view possible for the
Republicans, he figures up Isl Republicans,
III Democrats and % doubtful. As this es-
innate comedies two Democrats to NIassa-
chusetts, two to New Hampshire and two
to Connecticut fourteen to New York mine
to Ohio, six to Illinois, ETC., we should say
that it was decidedly more generous than
just. The following, however, is the estim-
ate most approved by judicious Republicans
who have given attention to the matter: