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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
PEACE, GENTLEMEN.

Too often it happens that while a
party is in hopeless minority it is
harmonious and united, but the moment
success is certain, ambition and personal
interests come into play, and the bright
promise of triumph is dissipated.
The Paramount Chain, speaking in
behalf of the Repu blican element of the
Autobiography party, complains that
Mr.. Wise, (of the Mankato Repiew,)
chairman of the Anti-Monopoly COM
mittee of the First Congressional Dis
trict, has based the representation in
the convention, upon the vote for Gree
ley, in 1872. and not upon the vote for
Barton in 1873; and that this was done
for some unfair purpose.
1t would take great deal of proof
to make US believe that Mr.. Wise would
be party to anything unfair, dishon-
est or dishonorable we regard him as
one Of the best men in the State. If.
however, the call is based upon the vote
of 1872, we think it is mistake, as it
would disfranchise from voice in the
convention the thousands of Republi-
cans who voted for Grant, but who, one
year after. voted for Barton, and who,
to-day, are hear and soul in favor of
the Autobiography party.
Gentlemen, you cannot win unless all
parties are satisfied that justice and
fair play have governed in the councils
Of the new party. Let the committee
get together and correct any
error in the call. Let US have
nothing that can even be construed into
the semblance of a trick; if you do,
your nomination will be only barren
compliment, and Dunnell will walk over
the track.
But above all:-nothing should be
said In or out of the convention as to
this or that candidates, former politi-
cal faith. No man should be prescribed
or favored simply because he was for
merly Republican or Democrat.
Let the dead past bury its dead. Let
us open new set of books. Let
the only questions in relation to the
candidate be: SIS he capable, is be
honest p
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
To Our Friends.

We feel under many obligations to
our friends in all parts of the State for
the generous support they are giving
our paper. As some slight evidence of
our gratitude to those who have raised,
or may hereafter raise, clubs of five or
more for us, we propose to present a
copy of the paper gratuitously to the
person getting up the club.
Those who have raised us clubs and
have paid for their own subscription,
will please designate the name of some
subscriber to whose credit they wish
their payment applied.
We hope every subscriber will call
the attention of at least one neighbor
to our paper, and send in his subscrip-
ton.
We must have those ten thousand
subscribers.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874.

"That Legislatures can
not rightly, or ought not as
a matter of Justice and
political expediency, to
regulate the tariffs of rail-
roads, not owned by the
State, the PRESS Has AL
WAYS MAINTAINED. " - [St.
Paul Press, July %, 1874.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
TODD AND STEBBINS AGAIN.

There is story told of an old wo-
man who, one dark night, gathered the
neighbors, with candles and lanterns, to
help her hunt for something she had
lost. With unquestioning faith they
CROPPED in corners and cutters and dust
holes; until at last the old lady stood
up and cried out, 81 have found it y at
the same time holding before their as
tonished gaze a penny. "What!" ex-
claimed her friends, "Have you made us
waste all these candles and this oil, and
all our precious time hunting for pen
N.Y." Eyes" apologetically replied the
old lady, II didn't care for the penny,
but wanted to see where the darned
thing had got to-"
We feel a good deal the same way in
devoting any space to the consideration
of Columbus Stebbins and Irving Todd.
For the great bulk Of our readers have
never heard of either Of these men, and
those that have, care nothing for them.
The game, we admit, is small to
waste much light and time upon,
but then we are curious, like the old
woman, to see where the darned things
have got to. For the rest, we feel that
it is a good deal like hunting crows with
park of q lying artillery. for the ANTI
MoNoPoLIsT to discuss Todd and Steb.
bins.
When our first number was issued it
received many kind words of welcome
to the editorial field, even from politi-
cal opponents but Todd and Stebbins
hurried forward to insult us, and re-
peated thread-bare lie disproved a
hundred times. The poor creatures
forgot that we were no longer private
citizen, but that we were publishing a
newspaper, with five times the number
Of readers they had; and that it was in
our power to retort upon them with
crushing effect. And We did SO. With
out wasting much time in answering
their SANDER we carried the war into
Africa; and put those worthless on the
defensive. by exposing to the whole
State. their dastardly sale of their prin-
ciples and their paper in 1870.
Let US consider briefly their reply to
this charge.
They admit that they abandone ed
us in 1870, and went over to Averill, but
they claim that they did so, because of
their overwhelming love for the Repub-
lican party. ''They loved not Caesar
less, but Rome more" Or, to express
it in their own choice language, in
their last issue:
SIT was Donnelly's treachery to the Re
publican party, the grand old party, which
had settled the question OF slavery, and
saved the union, which made it Necessary
that him (sic,) and we should part company
Our continued friendship for him involved
the reputation of our past record and q
union with the men who had met US with
Obstacles At every step both on the slavery
question, and ~ to our success at arms II
the struggle for the perpetuity Of the union y
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
SPIRITUALISM,

1
We published in our first issue an
extraordinary account Of certain re-
cent spiritual manifestations in Eng
land, wherein a fesh-and-blood crea-
ture was seemingly eliminated out Of
nothing.
While there are certainly many
things connected with Spiritualism,not
explicable by our present knowledge of
the forces or powers of nature, one thing
remains which initiates against the
theory that extra-mundane commune
c>tions are possible; and that is. that
the so-called spirits have never added q
single new fact to the stock of human
learning. and have never demonstrated
the possession Of information beyond
that held by common mortals.
For instance. all Philadelphia is in
tensely exercised over the kidnapping
of the Ross child, for whom the kidnap-
pers have demanded $4,000 ransom;
the newspapers are full of it, the de-
tectives are ransacking town and coun-
try for the lost child. We read in one
of the Philadelphia papers the follow
ing:
CHOW the spirits have taken hand in the
| case. A number of believers have been hold
ing ircleS in Germantown, anxiously, wait
! ing to be favored with CLEAN Of light The
clairvoyant saw the child in the cellar of
o10
| railroad This was enough Away they
posted to the Ross residence, told the moth
er that they knew where the child was, and
only waited for the carriage to be placed ut
their disposal
Mrs Ross ordered the carriage out and
away they went. They started at night.
while Mr.: Ross was not at home When he
returned he went in search, but saw nothing
OF them until they returned long after mid
night, without the child. The poor mother
did not know that their intelligence had
come from the land Of spirits, and grasped
at the first shadow of hope, born only to
he crushed by bitter disappointment
Here is an opportunity to demon
strate the truth of Spiritualism. If
the air is full of spirits, interested in
human affairs, taking cognisance of
what transpires on earth, sympathizing
with truth and virtue, and readily COM
municating with their brethren in the
flesh, why not name at once the spot
where this childsis secreted. This done,
and the child found there, and spir-
itualism would convert millions to it's
creed at once. In fact, if experience
demonstrated the truth or reliability of
spirit communications, the mediums
could open telegraph and detective off,
ces, and make one hundred dollars where
they now make one; and certainly they
are not Indifferent to the attractions of
money. They would supercede the At
lantic cable and the police force. Crime
would be impossible, and knowledge
| universal.
But if the extraordinary phenomena,
which certainly accompany spiritualism,
are emanations from the material side
Of nature; outgivings from the unex-
plored laboratory of natural forces, then
we would find the pretended spirits
know just as much as we did, and no
more.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

GEO. W. PAGE, Jr., writes us from
Pine Island, enclosing list of subscrib-
ers:) "Your paper is appreciated here
and suits our folks exactly. 1t makes
some of them squirm and wiggle with
wonderful agility, but they cannot
twist out Of the truthsit utters."
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

We are under many obligations to
Hon. E. St. Julien Cox OF ST. Peter.
In one hour he raised us club of thir-
ty-six subscribers in that city.
We would say to our friends in other
localities, in the language of Holy Writ:
$50 thou and do likewise
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

The Tribune Chicago reports up.
wards of eighty newspapers now sup,
porting the Independent Reform Move
ment in Illinois.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06

MANY thanks to our energetic friend.
Bishop Gordon of Redwood Falls, for a
very large list of subscribers in that
locality.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24
A Christmas story.

Every one is narrating Christmas
stories about this time, so we take our
turn ut the mill. 1t is all about Mr.
aud Mrs Shaw, of Biddeford, Maine.
1t is cold at Biddeford, with the
thermometer pretty well down in the
minors, and the chamber floors of a
morning are like ice to the unstock-
inged feet. Aware of this fact,
Samuel Shaw awOke one morning
from a dream of peace, and observ-
ing through the window the rosy fin
gers of Aurora creaping up on the
eastern sky, he spoke sharply with
his mouth: "Susan, get up and
build the fire" Get up and build it
yourself, ducky," said Susan, draw
ing her night cap down under the
covers. "Seeyoudamnedfirst," said
Samuel, with touching emphasis, to
which Susan replied only with an in
dignant snore.
Morning furrowed the sky with
plow of pearl, then paled in silver
light, then turned all Dame to the
rising sun; and still the wife and
husband slept upon their snowy pill
lows. The slanting rays of after
noon shot their golden lances into
the western window, crept slowly over
the spOtless cOverlid, and lit as with
a crown OF glory the struggling locks
of the fair but obstinate Susan.
Then night threw round its shadowy
mantle and pinned it with star,
while down through the open shut
ters looked the wild face of the won
dering moon. Naught was heard
but the signing of the wind amid the
tree tops-naught seen bnt the pale
smile of the moonlight, the dark blue
of the midnight sky, and the cold
CLEAN of the far-Off pittiless stars.
Then Susan stirred softly in her
downy nest, and whispered with
gentle accent, Samuel are you
awake?" There was no answer but
the steGtOrious breathing Of the
sleeping spouse, and the whistle of
the wind among the trees. Susan
arose quickly, stepped lightly on to
the floor, and disappeared like
ghost vanishing in the gloom. Ten
later she crawled into bed
again, and lay still till morning.
AS the sunlight peeped once more
into the Eastern window, Susan
shook Samue's shoulder, and muir
INJURED gently in his ear, aren't you
hungry, Sammy Hungry ELL"
said Samuel, 81 got outside of dish
D cold beans just afore you lit out
Tor the cupboard last night" {
Sadly and submissively Susan {
;rept out of bed and kindled the
ire.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24
One of the Stories with which
Mr.. Beeeher Lightens Up his


From his last Sunday evenings talk.l
Some men think / tend too much
to liberalism. am not monk. L
am not medievalist. To me
Christianity is sweetness, hope, good
news. Oh. good news! Religion is
love to God-love with head up and
heart open, love with the confidence
of children. My thought of religion
is that soul shall come all a bios
som, bloom, rejoice, radiate. GotO
church and be sOcial-nOt as ghosts.
Ask about the neighbOr and the
family. Come smiling, come cheer
full, come with good feelings. One
of the effects of the church is to
make Sunday Il social day, as it
should be, in the family. | remem-
ber very well when | walked up on
Sunday morning once, and my
brother Charles lay in the trundle
bed near by me. l began to make
rabbits out of the cotton in the bed
quilt, and the thought flashed across
me that it was Sunday. 'Charles,"
| said, Its Sunday We ducked
down under the coyerIid and blanket,
and expected to be struck dead.
Shut up a child like ] was-mercu-
rial, nervous, changeable-in house
on Sunday, oh, how gloomy! look
ed at the flies, ate gingerbread and
cake, tried to read a book | never
could understand. My father was
too busy to attend to children, ana
my second mother was good but Sc
we're, and my Sunday was the gloom
lest dav of all the week. How L
watched for the sun to go down. l
stood by the large dining room win
dow and watched the great red orb de-
,cend, and it never seemed to be so
azy as on that day, and when its
ylimmer was gone l jumped and
.ried, Sundays gone! Sundays
zone! Sundays goner'
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24

have helped it, | hung with sucI
homage on his words and so plainly
showed that | felt honored by his no.
tice. He told me the names of dim
capes and shadowy islands as we gil
ded by them in the solemnity of the
night, under the winking stars, and
by and by got to talking about him
SELF He seemed over-sentimental
for man whose salary was six dol
lars a week-or rather he might
have seemed so to an older person
than l. But / drank IN his words
hungrily, and with faith that might
have moved mountains lift had been
applied iudiciously. What was it
to me that he was soiled and seedy
and fragrant with gin2 What was
it to me that his grammar was bad,
his construction worse. and his pro-
family so void of art that it was an
element of weakness rather than
strength in his conversation? He
was a wronged man, a man who had
seen trouble, and that was enough for
me. As he meIlowed into his plain
tive history his tears dripped upon
the lantern in his lap, and | cried too
from sympathy. He said he was the
son of an English nobleman-either
an Earl or an Alderman, he could
not remember which, but believed he
was both; his father, the nobleman,
loved him, but his mother hated him
from the cradle; and so while he was
still Il little hoy he was sent to zone
of them old ancient colleges"-he
couldn't remember which; and by
and by his father died, and his mo-
ther seized the property and ''shook"
him, as he phrased it. After his mo-
ther shook him, members of the no.
bilitv with whom he was acquainted
used their influence to get him the
position of ''loblolly boy in u Ship"
and from that point my watchman
threw Off all tramnels of date and
locality, aad braached out into
narrative that briStled all along with
incredible adventures; q narrative
that was so reeking with bloodshed
and SO crammed with hair breadth |
escapes, and the most engaging and |
unconscious personal villainies, that
| sat speechlesS, enjoying, shudder-
ing, wondering, worshipping.
1t was sore blight to find out af-
that he was low. vulgar, ig-
Gorant, sentimental, half-wittcd hum
bug, an ultraveled native of the
wildS of Illinois, who had absorbed
wildcat literature and appropriated
It's marvels, until i'll time he had wO-
ven olls and eadS of the IN .Ss into
his yarn, and thea gone on telling it
70 lledglings like me, until he had
,Omc to believe it himself.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24
The Sea-FOg.

Upon the cliff IS steep edge | stand;
The moaning sea hear;
But gray mists hang O'er sea and land
The mists that sailors fear.
The lichened rocks, the MOSES red,
With silver drops are sOwn;
Each crimson fogglove hangs its head
Amid the old gray stone.
The fearful rock within the bay,
Where gallant ships go down,
Shows but a faint white line of spray,
A glimmering mass of brown.
A broken boat, spot of black,
Is tossed on sullen waves,
Their crests all dark with rifted wrack,
The spoil of ocean caves.
Now sails my love on sea to-day;
Heaven shield his boat from harm.
Heaven keep him from the dangerous
bay
Till winds and waves be calm.
Oh. would he sat beside our stove,
Where mother turns her wheel;
| know too soon, for you, my love,
What wives of sailors feel.
Oh, that within the wOod-fire's glow,
He told US tales of yOre,
Of perils over long ago,
And ventures come TO shore.
His hand belike is on the helm;
The fog has hid the foam;
The surf that shall his boat O'erwhelm,
He thinks the beach at home.
He sees a lamp amid the dark,
He thinks our pane light;
And haply on the storm-bOand bark,
lie founders in the night.
Now God be with you; he who gave
Our constant love and truth;
your oar may dip the wave,
You bear the hearts of bOth.
storm and mist, God keep my
love,
That | may hear once more
Your boat upon the shingleI cove,
Your step upon the shore.
chambers Journal.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24

A YOUNG lady entered bookstore
and confidently said to the assistant,
81 want My Father" The man
looked astonished. "What did you
saw you wanted, ma'amP "'My
Father'.' II don't know him, ma'am !;
we don't keep fathers on ice here; !;
this isn't home for decayed old
gents, nor an inebriate asylum said
the assistant. at appears to be a
lunatic asylum, and you're a first
class inmate; wliat-I want, sir, is a
novel called My Father" Now this
young man colors up and coughs and
walks away in silence when any of
his fellow yonng men say anything
about ..father."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24

AT meeting in Indiana, the other
day, a speaker named Long respond
ed to a loud call, and took the stand.
But big, strapping fellow persisted
in crying out in stentorian voice.
0Lono, Longr' This caused a little
confusion; but, after some difficulty
in making himself heard, the Presi-
dent succeeded in stating that Mr..
Long, the gentleman honored by the
cali, was now addressing them. "Oh,
he be DID," replied the fellow;
she's the little skeezicks that told me
to call for Long" This brought
down the house.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24
Marriages of 1s41.
Jacob Harley and Rebecea White. 27th,
]. c. McAllister, j. p.
JUNE.

Jacob Harley and Rebecca White. 27th,
]. c. McAllister, j. p.
JUNE.
Thomas Parkerson aud Susannsh Low,
9Th, Francis Guthrie, m. g.
July.
Henry Shaner and Rebecca McMillin,
lst, Hiram Wilcox, j. p.
Joseph Akin and Jane Mcdaniel,
llth, Levi Mcdaniel, j. p.
John Martt and Elizabeth Fowler,
18th, George Chapman, j. p.
John Dean and Mary Waugh, same
day, James Williams, j p.
Charles Wood and Nancy wolfenbar-
ger, 18th, Daniel C. Tapping, Elder f.
W. b. c.
David w. Barnes and Nancy Ham,
aSth, J. c. PoSock, j. p.
AUGUST.
George l.. Wickline and Levicy Wright,
lst, II. Neal, j. p.
Richard II. Jones and Sarah Jones,
18th, Robert Williams, M. e. WeIeh
C. m.
John Graham and Lucinda Jmnes,
18th, Jacob Blazer, j. p.
Cleophas Emo aud Nancy Lawless,
18th, David Pinney, j. D.
jeremiah Coats aud Nancy Denny,
Goth, Hiram II. Howe, m. q.
Royal Topping and Caroline Steel,
23l, John Rickett, j. p.
Harrison Wooley AMI Francis Boygs,
same day, \. Mcleod, j. p.
Edwin +. Spires and Martha Colwell.
26th, Wilcox officiating.
Henry Slater aud Cynth. Ann john
son, same day, Joseph n. Thierry, j. p.
SEPTEMBER
William Clever and Jane McNeal, 9Th,
Pollock officiating.
John McNeal and Sarah Ann King,
Sth, William Mckinley, j. p.
John Cherington aud Lydia waldell,
9th, Ira Eddy, p. III. e. G.
James ). Montgomery and Sarah
Waddell, same day and same minister.
Andrew Watts and Mary Ann ThOmp-
son, 18th, z. CherringtOn, j. p.
james Thompson aud Elizabeth At
keson, 18th, George Northup, j. p.
Elisha Scott and Elizabeth Fraser,
10th, c. l.. Guthrie, j. p.
Alexander Stevens and Sabrina Per-
kins, l7th, Abraham Edwards, m. Q.
Samuel Fulton and Nancy Malaby,
10Th, Cherington officiating.
John Bailey and Elizabeth johnson,
20th, Phillip Nation, III. g. IN. e. C.
Thomas Jefferson KOuter and Melvina
Gardner, 23l. same minister
Ami w. Swanson aud Martha d. Kerr,
same dag, Rieitett officiating. .--s
james Lambert aud Rebecca Ann
BashOre, same day, Pinney OSici4ting.
John Smith AMI Susalnah Chabbott,
same day, Mcleod officiating.
OMITTED.
Wesley Graves and Rebecca Shoe
maker, Sept. lst, 1910. McAllister Offici-
lting.
Martin Sprague and Mary HOlcOmb,
sept. 3 I, 1910, same minister.
Thomas Sims and Barbara Davis, Oct.
9TH, 1910, Pollock officiating.
Richard Rlmbo and Hannah Faulk-
nor Dap 18th 1SlO Sarna iustica
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24

A MAN was seen coming out of
Texas newspaper office with one eye
gouged out, and his nose spread all
over his face like piece of raw beef,
and one of his ears chawed off. To
a policeman who interviewed him, he
replied: Il didn't like an article
that 'peared in the paper last week,
an | went in ter see the man who
writ it. He war thar, stranger"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-12-24

How are you to-dayw said friend
to queer and querulous old lady.
swell, ! dew, and dew, and keep
dewin' and tryIn' to dew, and can't
dew-and how do yoa dewy'
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-07-12
Our MethodiStS.

We should like to know whether tn
Methodists of this city are excommunicate'
from the general Wesleyan fold or ar
simply more bigoted than elsewhere. I
they can be considered as in any degre'
represented by the New Orleans Christa,
ASvoeate, they are not in very open sym
pathy with the Methodists Conference
lately held at Louisville. That body was
very pronounced on the subject of non.
religious education. The bishops in q
body made an address reprobating goddess
schools and favoring denon,inational ones.
Afterwards com mittee on that subject
reported just as strongly, and all these
proceedings were published in full in the
said Adrocate.
But the Adroeats is no advocate for any
such doctrine as that. 1t must think that
those bishops and parsons and laymen were
not posted; that they didn't know what
they were about. We infer this, not from
any positive enunciation to that effect,
but from the discreet silence Of that jour
nall 1t religiously abstains from mention
ing the subject at all.
SooCiNAAoS ed0 PVA SSdSO Va tAO NUCS0
ton, the novelty of the position taken by
the Conference, and the very determined
attitude of the bishops and the whole as
sembly, the Advocate cannot blink the
matter as one not demanding immediate
attention. There is an evident want of
cordial sympathy with the Conference on
that point by our neIghbor. 1t is not for
rs to accuse that neighbor of contumacy,
but we suspect it very strongly thereof.
And yet the Conference was not of the
N. E. Church North, as might be supposed,
but of the "South" branch of it. Why
does tho Adrocate recalcitrate2
Well, it must be hard on any paper to
come out and be right on question, when
it has been persistently wrong on it for SO
many years. This would be stretch of
humility that We cannot expect in the
premises. After all, it may not be bigo-
cry but, simply, pride.