The anti-monopolist., 1875-10-18
UTTERLY UNFAIR.

The admirers Of soft money tried to hold a
mass meeting at st. Paul the other night but
succeeded in getting only about fifty persons
together. OF course Ignatius Donnelly was
there, and as usual talked the most brilliant
nonsense" He thought il the government
would issue hundred millions of greenbacks
frequently 1t would revive all kinds of business
and the whole country would brosper. This
opinion. Mr. Donnelly informed his hearers,
came from study of the financial question
They could all know IS much as he did if they
would study. 1t is credit to st. Paul that
there are in It's limits only fifty persons willing
| to listen calmly to such babbling as this-Ne,o
York Tribune.
Now this is living comment based on
a lying report. We expect to be mis- rep
resented by the Pioneer-Press in its edi-
torial columns, but we did look for fair
treatment in its news columns. We did
not suppose it would permit its report
ers to misrepresent us and put words
into our mouth which we never uttered.
That kind OF forgery would make Soc
rates talk nolsense or Stebbins sense.
We never said that the government
greenbacks frequently" or anything like
it. We referred TO California, and said
that it had been claimed that that states
in its great prosperity, proved that
| stationary currency was the best. We
replied to this by showing that Califor-
MA did not have a stationary currency
that it had created 81. 900, 600, 900 of new
money since its first settlement :and that
even now every year about one hundred
millions OF new money, gold and silver,
was put into circulation through the
banks of San Francisco that this was
imitation Of the currency as much as if it
had been made with greenbacks instead
OF gold andlsilver. And then we asked:
Suppose the banks OF St Paul had
the power to add hundred millions of
greenbacks every year 10 the currency
Of Minnesota, would not Minnesota over
flow with prosperity rs California does
now p
And this is tortured into declara-
ton that we thought the United States
government ought 10 issue u hundred
millions OF grcenbacks frequently!
Now we appeal to Dave Blakely, for
be is not altogether bad: he illustrates
the truth Of Shakespeare's great maxim
tnat There is a soul Of goodness in
things evil we appeal to him to in
struct his reporters in the rudiments Of
the man who will mlsrepresent the ut
terances OF political opponent is little
better than the man who will forge
bank check. The latter simply steals
property the former robs q man Of that
which is dearer than propcrty,-.his
reputation.
There is settled purpose 10 nlisrepre-
sent everything, on the part Of these mo-
nopoly papers. ForiEstance, they claimed
that there were bat fifty adults and
tweutE-seven boys in that St. Paul meet
ing. If it be true that there were twen-
ty-seven boys in st. Paul who attended
a meeting to listen to dry discourses on
the currency question, then there is hope
for the rising generation. But we be-
leve the statemen. 10 be false. The
meeting j Il question hali-filled one Of the
largest halls 10 ST. Paul, and was twice
as large as the gathering Of beth the
old parties assembled week or two be-
tore to hear the debate between Messrs.
Jones and Wilson. Moreover here was
scarcely any previous notice Of il. The
Pioneer-gress studiously avoided any re-
ference 10 it; the Dispatch gaye an OBJ
scurc notice Of three or four line: no pos
tiers were pa up and only a lev band bills
were circulated after ) o'clock of the
dayioi the melting. Properly advertised
meeting could have been z item up that
would have filed the st. PauiOperaIiouse.
But even II il were true that the meeting
was smeE, does that prove that the
principles advocated were not correct?
The time was when Aati-s!avegy speak
ers were peited with rotten eggs. Did
that prove that slavery was right9