The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-07

by suspension or temporary repu.
diation. but we cannot circumnavigate
the globe with it. This latter We have
undertaken to do, and the craft is go.
ing to pieces. We believe that all
sensible men, who have no personal
politics to push, lave arrived at tie
conclusion that there is to be no per.
manent revival of business until our
monetary system has been placed upon
the GOLD basis. If Gen. Grant, stand
by his declared policy ola speedy re-
turn to specie payments, can rally IN
fluencc enough to carry this policy INTO
enactment, then the people want him
for a third term; otherwise they want
somebody else who can do what ne has
failed to do.
az one member suffers, all the other
members suffer with it, This DECLARE
ton of the Bible was never better illus
trated than in the result to the condi.
ton of things at the South. The civil
war has retired into history, but through
all the weary years that have followed
it, the South has failed to get upon It's
legs again. 1t has been cursed by car
net. baggers, who, yoked to the negro
element, have pitted themselves against
the resident intelligence, and kept those
States in a constant broil. Taxation
has been murderous, and corruption
the rule; and no matter how sound our
! financial policy may become, 1t Will not
! cure all our ills until the South is at
peace, her industry thoroughly and
benefcently reorgaxized, the mercenary
scoundrels, who have fattcned on her
troubles, expelled by force Of public
opinion. and the political elements
Of the section reconciled to each other
So long as there exists in the South
well-recognized and powerful class OF
men, whose interest it is to keep zap
the dissensions between the two races,
+ there can be no peace. The President
that the people want is one who can
devise and execute policy that will
harmonize the South, and restore t.
health and soundness that vast sector
Of our common country which is nov
diseased, and which seriously affects
the remainder. If General Grant
.. policy in the past and present tends t.
this restoration,-and he has had lonl
= and fair trial,-then the people wan
him for a third term: otherwise
they do not want him. AM
= if the men who seek 70
. places in the National Legislature ar
y men who appreciate the situation, an
: are determined that the South shal
: have peace and prosperity, we wan
r them otherwise we do not want them
A sound financial policy, fair dealin
among all classes, and toward all set
+ tions--thcse are all that arc needed t
- restore to our nation its prosperity
\ Who will give us these!
y The country is suffering for lack
= true craftsmanship. The men in p'
:. itical life most talked of to-day al
:, politicians and partisans-men entirel
II \, unable to grasp the principles OF GOO
- government, and intent only on pusl
: ing their schemes for personal aggra
go dizement and party supremacy. The
III are not the men to give what VIC nee
- and what we must have before Il
" country can arrive at a peaceful pro
perity. Our laws are party measure
or party compromises our policy IS
medley of make-shifts and inexpet
s. ents; our wisdom shows itself in result
p. to be folly, and our craftsmanship
OF chicanery. ii i third term of OH
mt could, by any possibility, mean ter
e, of direct DRIFT toward sound inanci
n basis. toward the uprooting Of CORFU
e. ton in high places. toward the d
er struction of political rings, toward Il
n. substitution of statesmen for dem
al gogues in the National Legislature, t
IT, ward the harmony Of the political el
We ments in the South and the banishme
= of it's manifold causes Of confusion al
'g- complaint, then the people are reat
er. for . third term Of Grant, or Of any M
nd in place under him. What the Peep
er- want is the thing. The man is not
nc the slightest consequence to anybod
st. but himself and his dependents a
mt friendship. J. G. Holland. in Scri
m. ner's for January.