The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-23
The -Anti-A1onopo1ist..

! the many have come into the world ready
| saddled and bridled that the few may ride"
Here in the East, we seem to be rapidly de
Gliding this question in the affirmative.
The Patrons are, in many cases, wealthy,
| and have numbers # employees; but there
are few of them who, are not themselves
hard workers, and in the best sense produc-
| ers; therefore they naturally affiliate with
all other workers and anti-monopolists
Great are the things already accomplished.
Monopolies have been broken up; millions
of dollars have been saved from the clutches
of the middlemen, beautiful system of So
cial intercourse has been established, and
women have risen to an equality with men
in privilege and power as they never
have in any society before.
| NEW YORK THE HYDRA's HEAD.
| But the faith of maAy will wax weak,
unless in some way and continually, even in
their secluded prairie homes, Patrons are
brought face to face with the sternest facts
of the great battle that is in progress.
Here in New York, the very citidal of all
expressions and monopolies, the fight is
waged most fercely in some respects. For
| though we who have been able to hold our
ground in the terrible city form only an
advanced skirmish line" of the great in
dustrial army, we have sspost Of honor -
are ever s'under CALLING fire." and having
always in sight all the awful engines of war
of the enemy, and all the mighty captains
who work them, are able to keep the main
army of the people informed as to the plans
and resources of those with whom they are
contending.
| Several years ago, felt that must re
turn to nv native city, since this focus of
both light and darkness, good and evil,
mus. eventually be the great battlefield of
| the reople and their foes. For months
there was a cry in my heart like that of old:
WHO shall bring us into Edom +! who shall
bring us into the strong city," Finally,
though business attractions. were strongest
in the country, l came here IN 1868, and
have lived as general writer for the prin-
| cipa! periodicals.
| LABOR REFoEMERs NO LONGER LONELY
! said to friend lately, ''For 20 years |
have trodden the vine press almost alone,
have felt myself "a stranger and pilgrim
| in the earth But now | feel no longer
lonely. With 100000 Changers in the
country, and many strong papers represent
ing their doctrines, stand Though only
middle aged) like old Simeon when he took
| the Christ child in his arms, and thanked
| II eayen that the deliverer of the nations had
come into the world"
WALL STREET CRYING FOR MERCY.
have been ever full of forebodings, as
| in pas ing through Wall street have stud
| led the massive brains and the even majestic
faces of the kings of trade and Il lance,
against whom the Patrons have entered the
| lists. Not one in thousand of these strong
shrewd men has any true idea of the rights
of the people They have accepted the main
doctr mes of that well named "Dismal Sci :
| ence," with its .'Supply and Demand" and
OF her absurd doctrines. They believe that
| if n man is down it is his own fault and
they are only willing TO be little gods-help-
| ing the poor (who deserve misery out OF
their sheer magnanimous, uncovenanted
mercy. But last week some of them were
asking for mercy. Indeed you would have
thought it would be q mercy to break up
their whole system of business, had you
seen the agony on their faces when Duncan,
sherman & Co. closed their doors. | was
| in an office near there, and seeing the rush,
| in n moment was before that ponderous
portal. and saw why old merchants and
clerks and messenger boys were running to
and fro as if a new Chicago fire had started
Did YOU ever lift fat stone and see the
ants tearing around with whatever property
they could seize, and seeking q new place OF
safety for it? There you have the whole
story, As for the Stock and Gold Exchanges,
it was a Black Friday over again. could
1 l. has ho
former. There was one long yell OF frantic
youths. middle agel and white haired men,
who tossed their arms, and tried to unload
their stocks at any price. "Wes'ern Union
went down nine per cent. in three minutes,
and recovered itself in five more. But many
fortunes were lost in that brief space.
cREExBAcKs TRIUMPHANT.
The fight over the "equal rights currency"
wakes hot and furious. The arrogant bull
ionists are hauling in their horns . little.
ARE not so insufferabsy impudent. Thur
man rises to explain. and only shows himself
an insiucere trimmer, by asserting that the
Ohio currency plank is unimportant. Sher-
man. coolly ignoring the funding Of the in
terest-bearing Treasury Notes and other u.
s securities used rs currency by the people,
denies that there has been any serious con
traction But these artful dodgers cannot
longer deceive the people food Of ind'g
nation, greater than that now sweeping
doa the Western rivers, viii soon drive
them from power. Who are the real infia-
| tionisfs The Duncan and Sherman sort,
and bankers generally, who do all their bus
mess on three per cent. Of coin and curr~ n
cy, but only that the hundreds OF millions
of bonds, that are used as currency by all
heavy operators should be changed into le-
gal tenders, 80 that the poor rs well Is the
rich should have plentiful medium of ex-
| change and that these bills should be con-
versible into bonds bearing 5-65 interest.
On this .unimportant" plank William Allen
will be elected Governor of Ohio The hard
money n Y. San of August says that his
majority will be about $1,000; and - ali
the wise men say that IS goes Ohio in the
next presidential election, SO goes the whole
Democratic party and . large portion Of the
Republicans, we can begin to rejoice with
trembling, and determine to make such re
newed effort in what some call the ..revoii
of the Ora, gers against Wall street. - viii
ensure an oyerw ne iminr success and bring