The anti-monopolist., 1875-09-13

The very best means of getting univer-
sally true reports, as prominent Grange
paper suggests, lis the Grange itself. The
could not apply, itself to bet
ter work than to collect and disseminate in
formation upon this all important subject
of crops and prices. nhe subordinate
oranges furnish just the machinery needed;
if each grange was to report mcnthly to
the National Grange the condition Of the
crops in its vicinity, the National Grange
could send circulars at once to all the SUBJ
ORNATE oranges, summarizing these re-
ports. Grangers are now at the mercy of
the spectators, and lose millions through
their ignorance. This work alone would
give the organization new and enduring
hold upon the affections of the agricultural
community"
There is only one drawback to this excel
lent plan. Farmers are about equally bal
anced between desire to get good price
by crying ''short CROP and indisposition to
depreciate property in their section by ac-
knowledging crop failures, from any cause.
But if they cannot trust each other, bound
together as they are by sacred ties and COM
mon interest, whom can they trust?
BETTER .ADJouRN SINE DIE"
So the Hon. Matt Carpenter will appear as
the leading council for Siney, the President
of the Pennsylvania Miners Association The
Hon. John Hinchcliffe has also signifed his
willingness to aid in the defense. Good for
them. After making a mouthful OF Bill
Tweed, the Hon. Matt is going down to COB
BILE Gowen Parish, and through them stop
the intensely respectable millionaire philan-
throphists of Philadelphia and New York,
and the heavy British capitalists who own
tne mines. There is often rough brutal
work among the miners but as far as can
hear, Siney is a square honest man. | no
tice to-day that some poor children OF this
city are to have an airing, on the excursion
boat at the expense Of the coal operators
A cool piece of work. To take the sting
out of the fact that they are not going to
give the millions of the Eastern States a
ch cap warming next winter, they give q
couple of thousand children cheap cooling
this summer. All, what discreet philan-
thropists.
THE BULLION sHREIKERS.
And now for the currency question. The
ball is fairly opened. Besides the fusilade
of the .shonest currency" editors, we have
a pompous array of old. p!atitudes from
Reverdy johnson, and Col. Grosvenor has
started out in Ohio in dead earnest Il will
say that for him) He Is gbing from town to
town. like Paul, with tears" beseeching
men in Thurmans stead, to be reconciled
Specie Basis Ijudge from the reports OF
his speeches, that as q weepest and wailest
and holwest and gnasher Of teeth he is second
only to Brother Sherman.
Again, the World has had an .'unanswer-
Il.b h,,0N nnrt md IN
three columns about John Laws paper
money, has again laid out that poor rag
baby stiff and stark The Sun acknowi-
edges that Law was prodigious genius, and
tries to frighten off s'our fellows" by say
ing that none of them could hold candle
to him A brief reply to its argumen,
would be this: Scientific money, like the
steam engine, could not be developed in
one experiment. Laws was brillint t
tempt; and in many respects tull Of promise
But it was 100 years ago, lasted but foul
years, was not really founded upon the
wealth and faith and institutions of France
but largely upon imaginary Louisiana golt
mines and foreign trade and was subject t.
the caprice of the Regent of France, VIII,
deprecated the paper by edict when he saw
fit.
PASTE THIS OVER THE MANTLEPIECE.
When any one wants to nail the lie tha
there has been no essential decrease of tn
currency, here is the nail to do it with. Befor
the funding business was begun by congress
the following was the list of paper money
nearly every item, embracing many notes 0
small denominations, that were freely cur
ent as money among the masses, and a.
were universally used by merchants
Greenbacks and fractional cur
rency S454, ,0OO, 90
State and National Bank Notes o5O,0OO, 90
Five per cent Legal Tenders 33, 900, 90
Three per cent Certificates ofin-
, debtedness 5000, 90
Temporary certificates $4,000, ,OO
Seven Thirty Treasury Notes $50, 600, ,00
. Compound Interest Notes 173, 900, ,O0
Total 1895, ,ooo, 90
CURRENCY SUNpRIES.
, Among the smaller tricks of the govern
ment bullionist, to make people think ths
resumption is sure to come, is the accumu
lation at the sub treasures, and a gres
: show of putting in additional beams to hol
the immense weight. l saw this shallow a,
tifce in operation at our New York sub trea.
ury lately, men were poking beams in,
Tue CeilAE AuO uVW CUuleS tDlS from Dos
r ton: adams Express Company is daily d.
y livering at Boston, silver coin BY the to
e from California, Nevada and Philadelphi
J, mints. Supervising Architec, Potter, has d
i rected additional and heavier iron beams
: be placed under the station upon which th
h vaults rests s.Why viii the heather rag,
d and princes misgive vain thing" So Ion
b as we are debtor nation, Europe can tai
e our bullion basis from under US whenevs
she prefers that to bonds and produce.
y But Europe has her own troubles.
$, great mercantile agency here says: ..Thel
e is some satifaction in knowing that countri,
re unblessed with paper money, an excessi,
at tariff and enormous railroad expansions Al
= showing even more marked signs of di
tress than have been evinced here. II
III liabilities of parties who have failed
se London. Leeds ana Manchester, Englan
IN alone. within the last 80 days, foot up Il
Is enormous amount of one hundred milli,
III dollars, being IS per cent greater than I
We the failures in the United States for 8
Sc months
S. Mr.. Winder, one of the ablest fnancie