The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-29

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This is certainly ! striking contrast.
Here tue land buried in deep snow. there
the markets well supplied with new pota-
toes, green peas, and ali the early vege-
tables, with now and then . lot Of ripe
strawberries. just for : novelty.
But cold is not the only discomfort.
California has her miseries in summer
time. When Minnesota is glorious with
wild luxuriance Of verdure, with emerald
pastures, With waving crops, California
will be dry, parched and dusty desert.
We found the other day in : California
magazine prayer for Rain, = which in
dicated in piteous manner the evils
they suffer from drouth. We quote !
verse or two:
Godl give us rainl to thee our hearts are cry
This suRplioation breathes in mournfnl
To Thee the earth in drouth and ruin lying,
From dust and blight pleads Tor the stsyvisg
The feeble pulses Of the springs are dying;
nthirst, anu doubt, and dread, men, beasts
and birds
Are uttering one common prayer for s'rainr'
God OF the tempests! shall they plead in
The blast Of Autumn browns the brow Of
The freshest freshest leaf is turning crisp and sere,
No succulence the withered pastures bring,
No moisture bears the arid atmosphere;
Around the mountain tops no vap0rs cling,
), No misty morn, no descy sve IL here;
To Thee the pleading plant from hill and
Cries through the parohing air, ''aod, give US
rain!"
The weary oxen on the dry road languish;
! The poor dumb ass that on the thistle leeds
Finds even that athirst, and hunts in anguish
~, a scanty fare amid the dying weeds;
The smitten life Of nature pants and bleeds;
} Branch, Leaf and blossom, grasses, fruit and
! Through b brown decadenoe plead with Thee
: tor rain.
: From out the North the parching wind is
i breathing
. Oh, .farxacs-dry its hot and perchi.g air:
t Earth tsrssd to dust, shrub, tree and hill Is
breathing,
And floats il strangling nimbss sverv0asrs
8 Lakes turn to pools beneath the sunlight
e seething,
And streams have died before his cloudless
6 glare;
) The stiaing Dir threats pestilence and pain,
!. And struggling lite cries gaspingly for rain.
!, This is different picture from the
Z green peas and strawberries in February!
{ Intense heat is Is uncomfortable Is in.
!, tense cold, and > great deal more debili-
y tating. The superiority Of northern
! races over southern is due to the fact
= that whatever hardens the muscles har.
n dens the brain fibre, and whatever re.
d lakes the body rclaxes the brain. Hence
i history is the record Of successive waves
Of hardy mortimer in Europe. in China
= = in Mexico, in Egypt, and in India, over.
to whelming the debilitated races Of eli
e mates where they have their green pea
1. and strawberries in February.
r, This is world Of compensations
!. If We could And = ceun
N try that combined the winters
e Of Santa Barbara with the summers .
% Minnesota, We might al migrate thither
But. g It is, We had better take IN occa
T. sional .sblizzard" in the winter than thos
= summer drouths when
= ssRath turned 10 dust. shrub, tree and hin
l. wreathing,
n And floats in strangling nimbus everywhere.
he Cold can be fenced out with war;
y buildings and thick clothing, but hea
~ can not and even the s'blizzard" carrie
Is. no malaria on it's wings TO debilitate i
oe victims. And the frost and snow cTyl
=: tallize in the muscles and nerves Of th
y. people in N energy SUFFICIENT to overcom
! : I'll the discomforts Of winter.
m Minnesota will yet, from her big
D.. table-land, dictate policies and opinion
he to all the weaker States south and sas
e Here will be developed the most intells
- tual race,--the master race --of the col
yet tinent.
m BEGIN the work then; read, thin
IN study; educate your children; Gil yo'
~ houses with books and newspapers; for
- circulating libraries; organize debatii
,n- societies: remember that the most impO
tant institution in the lsnd il the ball
IRE box: and that the grsndest day y 9
nj catalogue,--gre even than the 4sh
July,-is Election Day.
i've c000.
M. The baltimore and Ohio railroad eompa
- snnounces dividend Of Per cent. for
~ mn year which ended March 31st, On I
-. stock Of the main stem, payable Lay IT. -
i dividend of s per cent for G1e hall yeoe a
ing the 9ist ulfim0 On the sock Of S9e ~