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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.

We have introduced and secured the
passage Of a bill through the Senate
making two amendments to the Home
stead Law.
Under the present law any person is
entitled to eighty acres Of land outside
Of any incorporated city or village. or one
lot inside the limits Of the same. Hence
a farmer owning farm, not laid out In
city lots, but inside the corporate limits
of a city or village, has, to-day, practical.
w no homestead nhaterer. He cannot
claim eighty acres because he is inside
the limits of the town, he cannot claim a
city lot for he has none. Our bill amends
the law in this respect by giving the far
mcr his eighty acres Of farm land whether
the same i, withinor withoutthe limits Of
the city or village.
Again the present law gives home
stead of but one lot in city or village
whether the city contains 10000 inhabi
tants or 800. This is mAnifestly uneqna
and unfair. Our bill amends the present
law so that in cities Of les; than 5000 in
habitants citizen can have Homestead
Of not more than one-half of an acre
This will protect those who in our smalle
towns and villages have made garden .
two or three lots and placed their hous
in the middle Of it, perhaps on the boun
dary line of two lots. Under the prescn
law they could only hold one lot and tn
half Of the house thereon. There snoui'
certainly be some distinction drawn os
tween lot in st. Paul and lot IN Farm
ington.
We hope the House will pass this bill
We are coming upon dark times, and n
man knows how soon he may have
avail himself Of the humane protectlo
which the Homestead Law furnishes
him and his family.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

E. s. ConwAr. Superintendent Of Agen-
cies for W. w. Kimble, Of Chicago, paid
Us : visit the past week. As IS his Gus
tom he talked business he said he could
not stop anywhere without finding the
AETI-MoxoPoLlsr-and Of couse he must
advertise therein. He says his house
commenced business in Minnesota in
1858, and their sales IN 1874 were 1884,.
600. His advsrtisemsot viii b found II
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
FARMERS PAPERS.

The most cowardly thing IN the world
;s one If vonr so.called farmers papers.
% wv - J
1t dares not call It's soul It's own IL IS
afraid to open its mouth lest it may offend
p;u ~ 10.
some VI Tic Dill mugs VI VIC osy'
The ssI'urf, Field and Farm speaks
40 follows If this c,ass NJ naners
~. or..+ ,n.;or;tv ~ onr .ar;cn,tnr.; ed;.
tors, as if ignorant Of the first principles Of
political economy, seem 70 tmn. t Ill.,. the
iarmer should blindly stick to bis pillow and
leave the legislation OF the country, which i
ta e.r;e e aud the ,atter ra;ns to the nrofes
sional politicians. Their papers never or rare
aiscass Inc arcnItnre smd esr,nn t.
wound the nOlitical Dreiudiees Of this or tina,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
WEIGHING GRAIN.

We tried to get bill through requir-
ing railroad companies to establish scales
and weigh all grain by the carload. and
receipt for the same and account for the
amount so receipted for. But as usual
we failed. and the two houses passed =
bill something like this, introduced by
Mr.. Deuel., Of Olmsted county:
A Bill to require Common Carriers doing bust.
ness within this State, engaged in transPor-
tation Of grain, to give receipts, when re-
quested, for all grain received by them for
at the point Of destination or to connecting
lines, and imposing penalty.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the State Of
Minnesota:
Section l. That all common carriers doing
business within this s sc, engaged in the
transportation OF grain, when requested, give
q receipt for the number Of bushels and
pounds Of grain delivered to them for trans
portation, and shall deliver the amount 50 re-
ce:pted for to the consignee thereof Or to the
line or lines or common carrier with which they
may connect OF to which they may deliver the
same to be forwarded to the point OF destination.
Sec. 2. That any such common carrier, or the
agent OF such common carrier, who shall refuse
to give q receipt as herein provided Tor, shall
pay fine of not more than fifty dollars nor less
than ten dollars for each and every violation Of
| this act, to be recovered by any justice Of the
| peace and any such common carrier refusing
! or negIecting to deliver the amount of grain 80
leceipted for to the csnsignee thereof OF n the
common carrier to which such grain may be de-
livered to Be carried to the point OF destination,
shall in addition to the civil liability of such
common carrier for al loss or shrinkAge, be
subject to penalty Of not less than fifty dol
lars nor more. than one hundred dollars fol
each and every such refusal Or neglect 10 b
recovered before any justice Of the peace.
Sec. 3. This act shall take eject and Be In
force from and after September ist, 1875.
This reads well, but We fear it vii
amount to nothing. The railroads vii
offer to give ; receipt if the number o
bushels and pounds can be ascertained
but IS they have no scales, it cannot b
ascertained, and they win. therefore
lump it and receipt for 80 many bushels
'smore or less and how can the shippel
enforce his right He cannot himsel
tell hsw many bushels in the car; ant
he cannot furnish platform scales 1t hi
own expense to weigh car, and there
nothing IN the Law to compel the CON
pany to erect scales. And hence th
wheat buyer, to protect himself, win con
! tinue to steal little BY false weights d
J every load the farmer hauls in; and Il
! farmers viii thus continue to pay > e
| in the shape Of 'tshortags" greater ths
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

FROM the Platform adopt
ed February 10th, 1875, by
the members Of the Legis-
lature belonging to the Lib
eral Republican and Demo
cratic parties, in caucus as
sembled -
Resolved, sirth, That the
adoption Of the 18th, 10Th
and 10Th amendments to
the Federal Constitution
closed a great era in poll
tics. 1t marked the end for
ever of human slavery, and
| of the struggles that grew
\ out OF that system. 1nest
amendments have been &C.
copied in good faith by al
political organizations ano
the people of all sections
Hereafter all parties mus
stand upon them, and ou1
politics must turn upon the
questions Of the presen
and future, and not upol
those of the settled ant
final past.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
TREE PLANTING.

We can look back to the time. years
Ego, when the st. Paul papers contained
pictures Of rows of little trees, with the
ssthese are the trees Don
nelly proposes to plant on the prair'es.
It is unfortunate for man 20 be ahead
of his age, for when the age catches up
with him it is very apt to kick him for
not keeping in line.
But the age has caught up with US on
the the tree-planting question.
When we were driven out of Congress,
years ago, we we're pressing bill to COM
pei every homestead and presumption
settler in the prairie region to plant ten
or twenty acresf0f timber on his claim.
Had that bill passed, the whole grasshop-
per country would to-day be dotted with
groves Of trees, filled with insectiverous
birds, which would have kept the grass
hoppers in check. That bill alone would
have been worth more to our people than
our salary as Congressman would have
amounted to in hundred years. But
then they got Gen. Andrews, as Minister
to Stockholm, and that surely is an
equiyalent,-cvenfo for the grasshoppers
But we commenced this article to draw
attention to the following points made by
Hon. L. E. Hodges, commissioner Of tree
planting for the St. Paul & Pacific Rail
road Company:
| l. assert that the farmer on the bleakes
portion of our treeless regions, can with les
ready money than it would cost to buy break
ing blow surround his stockyard and building
protect him as efectually as though he was il
the middle Of the Big Woods.
2. Thata crop OF trees can be grown as sure
ly, and in proportion to its value, with far les
expense than crop Of corn.
5. That ten acres, properly planted to timbe
and properly cultivated, win in five years sur
ply fuel Tor family in great abundance, an
also tencing for farm ct i6O ocres.
L. That the most worthless lands OF til
, treeless regions, can, through the interventio
Of the Tree Planter, be sold for 500 per acl
within twenty years
s. That the nett profits on quarter sectiu
, of prairie, properly prepared, planted and Gu
. tivated wi h forest trees, will Within ten yea
!. exceed by far the nett profits of ten quarts
sections of wheat.
i. 6. That single cottonwood seed, althoue
smaller than "a grain OF mustard seed" ca
4 by intelligent cultivation, be developed into
cord of firewood within 20 years.
7. That any young man Of strong "muscul
development" and good "'orse sense, CT
r surely accomplish these results: providin
8 always, that he is not in too great haste to 6
rich, and
: 8. That the genuin. white willow. proper
handled. will increase faster than money at i
terest at four per cent. per month, and that 4
first division of the St. Paul and Pacific railro
company is now prepared to furnish it to 81
;, tiers on their lines, delivered at any station
d the prairie tree of transportation, at a cost
n fiom one to two dollars per thousand trees.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
CONCRATULATORY.

The long, hard. DR. airy winter is nearly
ever. Through it all the ASrl-MoxoP.
oL1sr has prospered. It is now on the
high road to great success.
We want our friends Everywhere ia
give it helping hand. Get up clubs
among your neighbors. Lend your copy
to those likely to subscribe. Talk about
1t TO your friends. Where y,u can afford
il. subscribe for an absent friend.
We propose to make it the paper Of thu
State.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

stay in country. where wages are 81 ;
day and it costs them to $3.50 to live;
rather than migrate to country where
wages are $3.50 day and it costs them
only 81 per day to live.
But if protection is to continue England
will have to pass laws for the protection
Of American emigrants, and furnishes in
creased ship-room for their Transports.
| ton.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

5.sa
We gave utterance to some sentiments
the other day on the subject Of education.
We are glad to find them confirmed in
the following from the Boston Herald:
The fact is our schools are being run on too
broad plan, and we shall suffer for it here
after. The rising generation are not able to
live without labor, masters of dozen IAN
guages, possessors of all the accomplishments
money can buy. There are too many men now
who have learned little ofthis, and little OF
to live, not in idleness, perhaps, but without
hard work professional men, as contribu.
tors to the press, or in some way which should
not involve manual labor and contact with
grease and dirt and smoke, and with men who
have not cultivated their aesthetic natures, and
whose chief aim IS to acquire an honest liveli-
hood. They are not so very much to blame.
either. Our school system is to blame, the
| men who manage it are to blame; the people
| who clanOr for the incorporation of countless
branches of study into the courses are to
blame.
| The great men Of mankind must depend
for their livelihood on physical labor
The professions are mere incidents.
Labor is honor. Parents are to blame
who insist on making race-horses out Of
draught-horses. Labor should assert its
own dignity and supremacy. Raising pc
tatoes is just as honorable an occupation
as selling them; issuing attachments
against them; or physicing the mer tina
plant them: and yet society insists tina
there is a wide distinction between tn
rank of the man who prescribes the purg
and the man who takes it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

Mn. MERRILL, Of Dakota county has
introduced bill giving ave years fer re-
demption of land sold for taxes instead
Of three, Is at present, and reducing the
interest on delinquent taxes from = to =
Ger cent. Good provisions both.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

Our old friend w. I. Lydiard. of Long
Lake, publishes in the Minneapolis Tn.
b,ns ! we'll written and able defense OF
Nov. Scctia and the Nova Scotians.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

another column. One by one the people
begin to see that if they want the masses
to know they have anything to sell they
must advertise in the ANrI-MoNoPoLrsr.
st is WE'LL
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

the total taxes they now pay to support
the State government; and the money
will 90 to enrich railroad and elevator
companies.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

A. H.TA1sEY is our general and travel
ing agent. Any favors extended to him
will be appreciated by US.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
IGNATIUS DONNELLY.

TIE ANr1-MoNoPoLlsT is published every
Thursday for circulation by newsmen and
mail.
Single subscription, One Year ....... 100
Single subscription, Six Months 1899. loo
Single subscription, Three Months 80. 81
In Clubs of five or more to one address ii
will be furnished at 81 so per year; or 81. W
tor six months. Address,
THE I-MONOPOL1ST,
No. II WABAsHAw ST., ST. Paul
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RATES OF ADVERTISING

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The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17

The new motor, not only as fact, but
as a useful and enormous addition to the
sum-totl of human happiness, is, it is
claimed, almost within the limits of real
izatlon. 1t is confidently predicted that,
within thirty days, train OF Pullman
cars will be drawn from Philadelphia to
New York without steam, electricity,
hot-air, or any other motive power.
This, indeed is substantial promise,
the basis of which can easily and soon
be examined. The new motor, as we
took occasion to explain some weeks ago,
was invented or discovered, by John
W. Kelley. Since our first statement
some new Developments have been made.
The whole matter, it appears, is in the
hands of a stock company, composed
chiefly of Philadelphia and New York
capitalists, who have paid in $3.50, 600,
and hold stock 70 nominal value of
81, 600, 600. They are perfectly sanguine
of the success of the enterprise, but are
not themselves in possession of Keeley's
secret. There is reason to fear, there
fore, that possibly the ingenious Kelley
may not be public benefactor after ali ::
and that the wonderful pressure of 1000
to $4,000 pounds which has been attain
ed through a machine of SO inches high,
"a long, and Is wide, will disappear alto
gether when used III an engine of any
large size.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17

SENATOR T. O. HowE-Last week
Hon. T. o. Howe spent day or two in
GAINESVILLE. The Gazette makes the fol-
lowing favorable and well deserved per-
sonal notice of his visit:
Yesterday. Senator Howe spent most
Of his time in looking through our man
ufacturing institutions. He gave the
cotton mill and the shoe factory special
attention, and was most agreeably sur
prised at the rapid strides GAINESVILLE Is
making in becoming a manufacturing
city. While here, the Senator was Wis
tied by large number of friends, at his
rooms at the Myers House. He has
gained the good Will and the mistaken
confidence of the party of which he is
so prominent, able and useful a member,
and it was q source of the deepest salts
faction that his party friends in James
vile, those who have stood by his side
for many years, in conflicts through
which he and his party have successfully
passed, had the opportunity of welcom-
ing him to the city. We do not forget
in this connection, that after the lament
ed Sumner had made his great, yet I'M
fortunate speech, against President
Grant, in the Senate, IN 1872, Senator
Howe saw fit to make a reply to the SER
ious charges, when Mr.. Sumner, with
all the dignity which a Senator could
command, rose and said: 'sMr. Presi-
dent, / still honor the Senator from
Wisconsin +; he is q gentleman of ability,
culture and honor, and I am proud to
say, an American Senator, in every
sense of the word" This was fitting
compliment from great man, TO a
worthy Senator.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17
Superintendent Public INSTRUCTION.
MADISON, June 1, 1875.

Mrs. Woodruff IS reported to have
said, not long since, that, when the
Beecher trial is over, the evidence will
just begin to come in. Recent develop
ments seem to confirm the sagacity of
this remark Since the evidence in the
case has been closed, there have been
several statements of considerable i'm
portance, some of which would not have
been admitted as evidence in the civil
suit, and -some of which are said to have
been unknown to Mr.. I-ilton's counsel.
First, there is a statement which remains
uncontradicted, that Mrs. TiIton con-
fessed adultery to Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ards, on her brother and sister-in-law, in
addition to the others named by Mr..
Tilton. Then came Mr.. Carpenters
statement In the New York Graphic,
which places Mr.. Beecher in the posi-
ton of having told two falsehoods, and
having confessed to Mr.. Carpenter by
Implication Now the New York Her
aid claims to have discovered the apoth-
ecary who sold Mr.. Beecher prussic acid
with which he intended to take his own
life, as Mrs. Moulton said. And it is
also said that Brooklyn upholsterer
could have given evidence of the most
direct bearing on the charge, concerning
what he saw while he was doing some
work in Mrs. Tilton's house. If there
is anything in all these statements, there
will be an opportunity to give them the
weight of evidence in the criminal pro-
ceedings against Tilton for scandal, for
which Mr.. Beecher had him indicted
Chicago Tribune.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17

The CABLE LA1D.-There was great
rejoicing in New York Thursday after
noon and evening, especially among
merchants and business men, and more
particularly the patrons of European
cable telegraph wires, over the receipt
of the welcome news of the success of a
new submarine line of the direct United
States Cable company. The first an
nouncement of this news was received
at the Office of the company in New
York, in dispatch from Torbay, N S..
stating that the direct United States cab
lie was completed this afternoon, and
communication was now established by
it between America and Ireland. This
telegram was received at about 3 o'clock
and was Immediately published here.
The bulletin boards of many of the news
papers, business exchanges and other
public places announced the news to the
public at once. Later news from Tor
bay conveyed information to the effect
that the cable was in splendid working
order, the signals from Ireland being
perfect. The new cable runs from Rye
Beach, n. H., to Ballinskellings Bay,
Ireland, which points are in connection
with all the first class land lines il. and
from the respective countries. The last
work of the company was to complete
gap off the American coast to buoy at
sea, $50 miles distant. Owing to the
prevalence of continuous heavy fog, this
finishing link has been greatly delayed.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-06-17
NOTICE OF SALE BY TRUSTEE.

Whereas, on the 25th day of October 1873 Killer
H. Jones and Amboena Jones, his wife, of the coun-
ty OF Adams and State of Illinois, did execute and
deliver TO John NJ. Earle, the Undersigned of the
county of Adams and state Illinois, a trust deed
wherein and whereby said Killer K. Jones, and Am
boena Jones, his wife, did sell and convey unto the
undersigned certain premises hereinafter described
situate in the city and county Of Manito-
woe and State o. Wisconsin, in for
certain purpose in said deed expressed to-
wit: For the purpose oil selling said premises and
paying the Union Bunk of Quincy State of Hi
nois, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars
end for other purposes which said deed trust con-
tanning power of sale in case of default being
naae os sald Jones IN the payment of certain sums
OF money, was duly recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds of Mantowoc County, Wisconsin
In book w of mortgages on page $3.50, 23l and 232
on the 25th dry of November, 1873 10 o'clock A. NJ
OF that day And whereas default has been made in
the payment of the of twenty-fi hundred dol
lars. with interest, amounting in the whole at the
date of the first publication of this notice to the
sum of two thousand nine hundred and ten dollars
and II cents according to the condition of certain
promissory note executed by said Killer K Jones on
tue LIST day of November, 1873 and PAYABLE to the
f" MON Bank of Quincy Adams County Illinois
eighteen months after the date thereof with interest
payable every SIX months at the per per
annum And whereas default has been made in the
payment of taxes, and the sum of six hundred and
seventy SIX dollars and Two cents is due and I'M
paid for taxes said premise; and whereas said
trustee, John NJ. Earle, the undersigned was aufh-
orlzed by the conditions OF said deed to sell the
premises conveyed by said deed and apply the pro-
ceeds of said role to the payment taxes unpaid on
said premises the costs of sale the charges of said
trusts, anc the payment of the amount said note
the balance ii any to said Killer K Jones
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given according &c
the provisions of said deed and conformaby to the
statute in such case made and provided that by VIZ
the of the power of sale contained such Deed of
Trust duly recorded Herewith aforesaid the said
trustee, John NJ Earle the undersigned will sell at
public auction, on the LIST day of July 1870 next at
10 O'Clock A NJ of that day. at the netth door of
the Court House in the CITY and County of Mantle.
voc, Wisconsin the following described premises
to-wit; Lot seven block hundred sixty four
ioi lot fonr ~ block one hundred and eighty QS0)
all lying and being in the city and County Of Man,
itowoc. JOHN VI. EARLE
Trnstee.
Datei atiMantowoc, Wisconsin, May Goth, 1875.
Don A. SHOVE Atty.