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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20

A FINE DWELLING containing 10 rooms,
with ACRES OF LAND, on York Road, near
Govanstown, Alarge number offruit and shade
trees, good water and all necessary outbuildings.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20

AFINE CoTTAGEIN TOws0NToWN, with
rooms, excellent water.
Apply to HENRY L. BOWEN,
Real Estate Agent Towsontow
Anil If
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20

ALARM OF $50 ACRES at the head Of Dula-
ney's Valley. Fine Improvements.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-02-20

COTTING HAM, JR.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
RA1LROAD EXPEDITIONS.

A Howard Lake correspondent of the
Wright Co. Eagle thus alludes to cry
ing evil:
Business in this part OF the county is dull
and money very scarce. Farmers depend so
much on selling cord wood and stave bolts to
paw fer their railroad land and settle store
debts, that the small demand for either cord
wood or bolts causes hard times all around.
Messrs. Hill, Griggs & Co. have monopoly OF
| the wood trade, and, as matter OF course, pay
what they like, deduct enormously from the
right measurement, and establish rules of their
own against which men are powerless Wood
is dull in st. Paul and Minneapolis, but the
way in which men have to call twelve cords
ten and always submit to exactions Of this sort,
is simply shameful. If you make protest, you
can keep your wood to rot on the bank. Ex-
actly So The company have US just where
they want US. Farmers owe money and must
sell their wood; many have borrowed at Il
per cent interest and are compelled to TAXI
what they can get from the company. Wheth
er in the long run it will pay the St. p. &
Z. r. to impoverish the settlers; whether i
will pay to drive men to desperation and foro'
them to be dishonest; whether it will pay t.
make ther railroad Kissing and a by-vord
is a matter Tor themselves TO decide. At ali,
rate, we so tar agree with Mr. Donnelly tina
the railroads, rolling in ILL gotten wealth, hav
not half the right to ask for an extension c
time on their taxes as the settlers whom the
habitualy pluader.
An enlightened sclhshness would die
tate to the railroad companies that t
impoverish the people is to ''klll the COOS
that Jays the golden eggs" But too Of
ten the companies arc themselves the vic
Tins Of inside rings, who plumber bot
the people and the corporations.
, There is no necessary conflict betwee
the people and the roads, and the latte
should be amcnable to wise and just law
to prevent just such extortions as are d.
tailed above.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

Owing to dissa; sfaction N regard 10 wages,
SAYS the telegraph the Crescent City mills a;
Fall River, Mass have closed THIS is mild
ray OF .nnouncing strike This thing of
striking operatives has become so common
during the past eighteen months, that 'manv
will read tn s announcement without the least
emotion But the matter takes deep slgnih-
cane. when it is known tbs. OF these pariicu-
Tar operatives, oHe thoxsG nd .riu go to nd
for employment IN the mills Of that country.
This course is advised by the officers OF the
Union, and i taken fter due consideration
OF the rates Of ragss Of TIE t,co eoantries.--
Exchaage.
After fifteen years ofhigh tariff for the
ostensible purpose of increasing the rate
of wages for workmen above the level Of
the pauper labor of Europe; and thereby
promoting the settlement, growth anc
prosperity of the nation; ~e have the fore
going results.
Not onlv has immigration stopped bu
emigration has commenced, and our Ia
borers are flying across the Atlantic t.
free trade England and competition viii
pauper labor, rather than enjoy starva
ton. high-prices and liberty in America
But then they evidently don't kno,
what they are about; and few word
from Judge Kelley and Henry c. Care.
would convince them that it is better t
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

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 1t here
after. The rlsin g generation are not able to
live without labor, masters Of q dozen Ian
guages, possessors of all the accomplishments
who have learned little ofthis, and little OF
that, and little of the other, and who thought
to live, not in idleness, perhaps, but without
hard wOrk-as professional men, as contrlbu-
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 clamor for the incorporation Of countless
branches of study into the courses are te
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 attachment
against them or physicing the mer tina
plant them: and yet society insists tina
. there is 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
SENSIBLE.
The Winona Republican saws ::

The Winona Republican says:
In regard to our own law the clamor tor its
repeal is thus far confined to few newspapers
whose editors seem to be panic stricken by
the present dizziness OF trade, and raShly at
tribute the hard times and scarcity Of money
in the State wholly to the influence Of law
that has not been i'll operation five months. 1t
is the firm belief of nine-tenths Of the people
of Minnesota that competition alone cannot be
depended upon to regulate and equalize rates !;
that some kind of railroad law in respect to
fares and freights is necessary and that it is
not advisable to repeal the present law until a
fair trial has demonstrated its impracticability
True, every word of it.
To ascribe the hard times to the rail
| road law Of last winter is the sheerest
nonsense. You might just as we'll as
crbe them to Coggia's comet. The hare
times we're on us before the railroad Law
was passed, and will continue long aftel
it is repealed; and repealed it evidently
will be.
Prosperity will not return to Minneso
ia until it returns to the whole country
and it will not return to the whole coun
try until the tariff law is changed, S
that we will not be taxed every day {
our lives to support the manufacturers
New England and the miners Of Pennsy
vania.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
MORE REPUBLICAN FIDELITY.

Mr.. Dunnell is trying IN his official capacity
to reward the Winona Il st. Peter Railroad
Company Tor the vigorous support gwen nm
by that corporation last fall. 1t appears that
the title to u portion OF lands inuring to the
company on account OF its western extension
remains in the State OF Minnesota, aud several
attempts have teen made, i'll the last hours OF
the Legislature, TO obtain a transfer OF the
same to the company without protecting the
rights of settlers thereon. On Monday, OF last
week, Mr. Dunnell sought to come sharp
trick on the State by securing the passage hy
Congress of bill that would convey this land
direct to the company. He moved to suspend
the rules and bling the bill before the House,
cured this session, but thanks to the good sense
OF Congress, the motion was rejected, and the
matter remains to he disposed OF by the Legis.
lature-iust as it should be-where full justice
will I've done both the companies and the set
tlers.-MankGso Rsriev.
Will the people never get their eye:
openi
Will they never see that the Repubi
lican party Of this State, as at presen
managed and controlled, is simply . Rail
road party
Will they never perceive that all thei
finely-wordcd declarations against Mo
nopolies are to catch votes; and tina
when it comes to substantial work the
are superserviceable tools Of the yer.
Monopolies they denounce
low long, oh Lord, how long!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
TREE PLANTING.

We can look back to the time, years
ago, when the St. Paul papers contained
pictures of rows of little trees, with the
inscriptions, 'sthese are the trees Dom
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 explaining 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 acresiof 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
acknowledgement for the grasshoppers.
But we commenced this article to draw
attention to the following points made by
Hon. L. z. 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 less
ready money than it would cost to buy break.
ing blow surround his stockyard and building
, with wind break within i've years. that vii
protect him as enectually 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
D xpense than crop OF corn.
8. That ten acres, properly planted to timbe
!; and properly cultivated, will in five years sup
/ DIV fuel Tor family in great abundance an
e also FENCING for larm OF l6O ocres
# 4. That the most worthless lands of tn
v treeless regions, can, through the Intervention
of the Tree Planter, be sold for 500 per acr
within twenty years
: S. That the nett profits on quarter sectio
o of prairie properly prepared, planted and cul
q tivated vi h forest trees, will within ten yea
exceed by far the nett profits Of ten quartz
+ sections of wheat.
y, g. That single cottonwood seed, althoug
!, smaller than "a grain OF mustard seed" ca
n by intelligent cultivation, be developed into
cord of firewood within 20 years
7. That any young man Of strong ''muscul;
= development" and good "horse sense ca
r surely accomplish these results: providing
8 always, that he is not in too great haste to 6
rich, and
e 8. That the genuin, white willow. proper
handled, will increase faster than money at il
terest at four per cent. per Month, and that Il
first division of the st. Paul and Pacific rairOs
company is now prepared to furnish it to Sc
', tiers on their lines, delivered at any station {
d the prairie tee 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

THE ANTIQUITY OF Iron The Iron Age says
that wedge o. plate OF iron has been discov-
cred imbedded in the masonry of the great
pyramid. Il has b>eu great puzzle 10 those
VINO attributed the drst use OF Iron to date
no, much more than $500 years back, how
such sharp and we'll defined hieroglyphics
could have been cut on porphyry, granite and
the hardest stone As are found on the tomts,
temples and sarcophasi OF ancient Egypt. But
the piece OF iron found in the great pyramid
shows that this metal was produced and
wrought in the age of King Cheops, which is
placed BY some authorities As tar back Is aot
wears ago. The similarity OF carrier ,nscrip-
| tions on stone to those made in the time o
King Checrs suggests the supposition that iror
NAV have been in use more than SIX thousand
years ago.
The rapidly accumulating evidences
furnished by Investigations, geological
and archaeological. all tend to remove tn
period Of man occupancy OF the gioo'
farther and farther back into the reaim
of antiquity : and the work OF inves'iga
ton has only begun. Our age viii ye
be looked back upon pityingly as one
the dark ages Of science.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
A Coed Suggestion.

Cclman Rural contains the follow
ing sensible suggestion relative to the
changing Of seed
'Seed need not be brought from great
distance. but the transfer from one local.
ity to another, though but a few miles in.
tervcne between them, is often productive
Of the best results, not only by an IN
crease in the yield, but in quality Of the
product. A few bushels gained in this
way, on each acre Of ground grown,would
increase the aggregate yield Of the State
to several millions Of bushels. Now that
SO many Of the farmers are organized
into oranges. it is perfec city practical for
the secretary OF each local or county
grange to act for the members in each 10
cality. and effect such change Of seed ~
We propose, in the most economical man.
ner. In reference to the corn crop. It il
very desirable that the larger varieties
should be grown farther north than they
now are. and that the change involve ear
lier maturity also, 80 that the crop would
be sufficiently matured to withstand ths
early frosts without injury
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
FARMERS PAPERS.

The most cowardly thing in the world
is one of your so-called farmers papers.
1t dares not call its soul its own; it is
afraid to open its mouth lest it may offend
some Of the Bill Kings Of the day.
The "Turf, Field and Farm speaks
as follows Of this class Of papers =
The great majority OF our agricultural edi-
political economy, seem to think agriculture
Independent OF national politics, and that the
farmer should blindly stick to his pillow and
leave the legislation OF the country, which Is
quite as vital to his particular interests as are
the earlier and the latter rains, to the profess
sional politicians. Their papers never or rare
ly discuss the legislation Of the country in its
wound the political prejudices Of this or that
subscriber and so lose lis pitifnl subscription
OF two or three dollars, they cling to an un-
manly neutrality in politics fatal to the inter.
ests which they pretend to represent
and defend. As consequence theil
Journals restrict themselves to ringing the
changes on such patent and threadbare themes
as "The management of Manures," "Orcharc
Grass" "Fat Hogs" "The relative merits O
Chittagong and Shanghai Fowls, "To make
Hens lay" etc, 'etc., until each succeeding
volume is the counterpart Ct its predece sor
except in the dates.
Let us hope the Oranges will invoke eh
| POWERS of combination as accU for Legislation
as for agr,culturc, and that they will bring thu
farmers to the true dignity of their calling
and to sense Of their o,cn potcer, and $
rescue them from the fate of remaining foreve
sshewers of wood and drawers of WATER to IN
dustries and pursuits far superior to their owl
But this is not to be accomplished b.
telling them that they must not discus
politics. All their prosperity rests upo
the politics of the country. Neither vii
it be by preaching to them the virtues {
peasants. to adapt themselves to oppres
sor by the basest economies and to sui
init uncomplainingly to governmental il
| ;,c{,co
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
FROM the Platform adopt

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 =
Resolued, simh, 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
q out OF IlaC system. Illcot
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 ou'
politics must turn upon th'
questions Of the prcsen
and future, and not upon
those Of the settled an(
final past.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04

The Industrial Age, of Chicago, says
The working people have not been extrava-
CANT. They have not gone wild because OF
earned good wages, and, as rule, made good
use Of their accumulated capital. We most
emphatically deny that the industrial CLASSES sk
have had anything whatever to do with the
financial disasters which have fallen upon our
country. Wedeny that economy among the
industrial classes is the remedy tor our aifllc-
tions. Did these owlish philosophers ever
stop to think that it is the practice OF rigid
economy which stops the mill and puts out
the fire Of the forges If everybody wears the
same suit of clothes one year instead OF SIX
months, is it not plain enough to see that only
half Of the usual amount Of cloth is consumed!
This is exactly what has taken place Our Our
manufactures have been running upon snor,
time, or not At all, for no other reason under
heaven except that the people have been prac-
ticidg economy in dead earnest. It is, there
fore, plain enough to well-iniormed person u
that it is not our want Of economy that IS 81
fault
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
1.-THE CAPITOL OF DONNELLY.''

The Senate has passed bill to remove
the Capitol Of the State to kandlyohl
county and establish it at the city OF
ssDoSNE11Y.'' There is an attempt in
some quarters to represent this as joke
but we protest against any such construc
ton. 1t is sober and serious effort to
elevate the moral status Of the whole
State at oar erPense.
Even the iaundiced and bilious editor
of the Pioneer is compelled to admit this,
and says:
The proposition to name the site OF the pro-
posed new capital ''Donnelly," is touching
tribute to undeparted worth which we make
haste to commend. we coula cneer!uny zee
the capitol removed for the sake OF witnessing
this ante mortem tribute to the virtues of a
gentleman who is at once philanthroplst ana
q statesman 1t was doubtless this feature OF
the bill which made it so popular IN the SEN
ste. and secured its almost unanimous passage
If any man deserves monument Of THIS
commemorative character, Donnelly does.
Very we'll said, David; and true as
gospel. every word of it.
And what better name could then be
for the future great city Of the State
than Donnelly! Has not that name oc.
cupied three-fourths of all the editorial
space Of all the newspapers o. alinnesots
} for the past fifteen years. What woulc
Minnesota be without Donnelly! Al
arid and silent waste, like Tadmor IN TN
= Desert. Who would ever have heard
10. Wheelock or Dave Blakely If Their
q had been no Donnelly! How would An
drews ever have covered 'sthe escutcheo
Of the State with glory and boiled bean
: amid the diplomats Of the effete monal
ch;es of the old world, if there had bee
no Donnelly!
And it is said that Kandiyohi is
.showling Wilderness Let it how
: Call the Capitol ''Donnelly, and the
let loose all the "blzzards'' of the Rock
= Mountains on it's devoted front, and the
will affect it no more than three colun
editorial in the St. Paul Press wou
affect its great original.
Joke indeed! The eternal fitness
Z things suggested that name to the d
h tinguished statesman from kandiyo
who drew the immortal bill.
. Think of the Press and the Phone
n and Bill Kings Tribune beng publish
in the City eff Donnelly!H Think
l. the universal grin on the face OF natu
> when 10. Wheelock should be apo mt
postmaster of the city Of Donnelly!
u Let the bill be passed. Fiat justtt
~ ruat cGium which means.-call
Donnclly if it blsts Wheelock.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-04
WEIGHING GRAIN.

We tried to get bill through rcquir.
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 a
bill something like this, introduced by
MIR. Deuel., of Olmsted county:
4 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 Tor
transpor alton, and deliver the same amount
a. 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 $ a'e, engaged in the
| transportation OF grain, when requested, give
| receipt for the number OF bushels and
pounds OF grain delivered to them for trans
portation, and shall deliver the amount SO re-
ce:pted for to the cnnsignee thereof or to the
line or lines or common carrier with which they
may connect or to hich 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 re- use
10 give receipt as herein prov ided for, 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 so
ieceipted for to the csnsignee thereof or II the
common carrier to which such grain may be de-
ivered to BE- carried to the point OF deSti nation,
shall, in addition TO the civil liability Of such
common carrier for ali 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 g. This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after September LIST, 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 as they have no scales, it cannot b
; ascertained, and they will. therefore
lump it and receipt for so many bushels
more or bss and how can the shippe
enforce his right lie cannot himsel
tell how many bushels in the car; an
he cannot furnish platform scales at hi
D own expense to weigh car; and there
, nothing IN the law to compel the con-
: panv to erect scales. And hence th
wheat buyer, to protect himself, will con
: tinue to steal little By false weights o
s every load the farmer hauls in; and tn
= farmers will thus continue to pay t.
o in the shape Of shortage greater ths