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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06
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Z We want our paper to be read in every
horse in Minnesota.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06

From the platform adopted Febeuary 10,
1875, by the membera of the Legisla-
ture belonging to the Liberal Republi-
can and Democratic parties, in caucus
assembled:
Resolved, sixth. That the adoption, o.
the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth
amendments to the Federal Constitution
closed great era IN politics. 1t marked
the end forever Of human slavery and OF
the struggles that grea out Of that sys-
tenn. Those amendments haze been &C.
cepted in good faith by all political or.
CARNATIONS and the people Of all sec.
tioms. Hereafter all parties mast stand
upon them and Our politics must turn
upon the questions Of the present and
future and not upon those Of the settled
and final past.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06
VILLAINOUS.

A lot Of fellows in Chicago solemnly re-
solved, on the basis Of certain obscure fig-
uring, upon still more obscure prophecies,
that the world should, ought to and must
come to an end on the 10Th Of April last.
And then, fearing that there might be
some mistake in their calculations, they
went to praying with 'sforty -parson pow
en- that the Lord would be accomme-
dating enough to make the general catas-
tropbe correspond with their calculations;
and they went at it in this way:
May we not believe Thy worif Oh. our
God, for Thine own words sake, defer not, for
with the promise that Jesus shall come again,
shall awake" and Daniel stand IN his lot at the
end OF thy days, we have received the solemn
charge to spreach the word" ., my God, let
not those be PIT to shame who hear thy word
and sacrifice all for Christ. Oh, my Lord,
what more can we do; have we not borne the
cross, despised the shame, and. against all the
Thy truth2 Oh, my Lord, zoe hnmbly ask for
the lfllmcnt Of Thy s0ord, that, at Thine osOn
appointed time, on the 14th of the first month Qf
this gear, that Thou soouldst return again for
the salvation OF Thy people, who have follow
ed Thee in all OF Thine appointed ways, and
walked the path that Jesus trod, and to Thy
blessed name shall be all the praise. Amen.
Now. this is simply villainous Here
are thousands of us not by any means
prepared for an universal burst up Of til .
habitable GLOBE crops to SOW and
taxes to pay and notes to meet,-and here
these fellows are petitioning the Lord to
bring the heavens down about our ears in
one tremendous uproar, simply because
they don't want to be laughed at as set
Of inconsequential, absurd and ridiculous
/ fools
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06
TYPHOID FEVER.

DR.. Hampton Of Paris has lately issued .
pamphlet containing history OF several re-
markable cures Of typheid fever. The doctor
regards the disease as sort OF paralysis az
phyxia of all the vital functions, occasioned |
by breathing poisonous atmosphere, emanat-
other morbid source. BY his experiments he |
h as practically demonstrated that great advan-
tape is to be derived from the use Of open air
in treating the fever. Moreover he declares
that there is absolute immunity from conta-
gion in the open air. The cures which he re-
Do IS are ascribed mainly to the free admission
of out door air to the patients bedroom. He
argues that the patient cannot suffer from the
application of this remedy. either in danger
from other diseases, OF from temperature of the
atmosphere. If the patient is kept warm in
bed by artificial means the Tree breathing of
natural animal heat. In typhus lever, COM
plications of all kinds, Of the lungs or other
organ simply render the access OF fresh air
more urgent and essential. It also enables the
patient to take stimulants more easily when
necessary .-Ezchange.
The errors of the past almost make us
doubt the science of the present. If all
those who were indicated into their
graves could rise up one would think Ga.
briefs trumpet had sounded the general
resurrection.
How many in the old time when suffer
ing from diseases of debility were bled and
purged and starved to death? How
many when raging with fever, were al
lowed to die bowling for a drink of cold
water? How many. PROSTATE from blood
poisons, were shut up in rooms, the win
dows stuffed with cotton, and forced to
perish in the midst of their own foul ef-
| huvias
There are two great remedial agents.
sleep and idleness. Health is vigor, and
vigor is like money at interest;-let it
alone and it will accumulate. II you are
breaking down, stop all drains on the sys-
tenn and rest, and the interest will soon
pile up, and you can resume business
again.
In the age of reptiles, the age Of
swamps, the carboniferous period, the air
was still too foul for the lungs and livers
of the mammalia; and good dead OF
that old poison was not solidifed into
coal, but still infests the earth, manifest.
ing itself in ievers, agues and bilious de.
rangements. These prepare the way and
leave the system open for other diseases.
The great remedy is quinine. Cromwell.
it is said, died of asue while piles of Peru
Wan bark lay in the warehouses Of Eng
land but the physicians knew not how
to use it A few pills of quinine might
have kept him alive for twenty years and
permanently changed the dynasty Of
England and the history of mankind
And many a man, nowadays, breaks
down into dyspepsia, kidney disease, con
sumption or insanity, who might be saved
for years of usefulness by few grains Of
that marvellous drug. For diseases are
like men they always pounce on fel
low when he is down. Always keep
} yourself, as Steerforth says, Eat you,
be- ST."
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06
REDUCTION OF RAILROAD RATES.
The Pionear Press SAYS:

1t is beginning to be conceded by many
prominent railroad men that the new system
of "small profits and quick sales," imposed
upon all the great railroad lines by the war
like competition OF the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
way, will pay after all, particularly so far as
passengers are concerned. The B. 0. COM
pany processes itself entirely satisfied with the
fares and the other trunk lines find that the
new rates-of SIS from Chicago to New York
instead of $40 so results in largely increased
traffic that instead OF running comDarah ely
empty cars they are now running nearly full
cars and that the actual cash income from
passenger train is really larger than before 1t
is very possible that the active sixpence will
to the slow shilling, that raih cad men will
hereafter consider It to their interest to encour
age people to travel and not q few there are
OF railroad experts who predict that the old
rates of passenger fare will never b. restored,
but, ON the contrary, that the roads will pre-
fer to fill their cars at cheap rates, rather than
to haul empty cars at practically no rates.
This is the very doctrine we have
preached for years! This is one of the
justifcatiods of legislation to contro.
railroads. The greed of the corporation
oftentimes defeats itself. We have
always argued that if cheap rates were
imposed on the transportation Of wheat
it would increase the prosperity of the
people and the production Of wheat; and
these in turn would increase the amount
of travel and the amount Of wheat to be
transported; while the people would i'm
port more goods, groceries, Injuries, &C.,
and the railroads would have the trans
portation of them; and the prosperity
Of those here would cause immigration
from abroad; and the railroads would make
money carrying the immigrants and their
effects, and the next year carrying back
their productions. Alprosperous people
will make prosperous railroads; an i'm
poverished people will make bankrupt
railroads.
Lock at California, With fourteen car
loads Of immigrants going in every day
While here immigration has almost ceas-
ed Whyi Because those here are not
prosperous And why We have . bet.
ter soil and more of it; and more reliable
seasons than they have in California. In
what then has California the advantage
She is on the sea-coast, and can ship her
productions to all parts Of the world q
low figures; while We are buried in the
heart Of continent and utterly ct the
metcy Of the railroads. And ne are teld
/ that the railroads are our masters and be
! yond legislative control.
| But then We have the Morse lav!!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-06
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.
The Faribault Republican says:


Now, Donnely has insisted that the low
prices the farmers of the West were receiving
Tor their wheat was due, not to over produce
ton. but to the oppression of the railroads and
transportation companies.
Not at all. We insisted that, as gen.
eral thing, farmers we're overcharged on
transportation by the railroad companies.
We did not insist that the present low
price Of wheat was due to that cause.
But we did believe that the farmers were
the victims Of gigantic ring to depress
the price Of wheat by systematic lying.
In Europe they exaggerated our supply
of wheat. In this country they exagger.
ated the European supply. For instance,
the Milwaukee Journal of Commerce
says:
There is now in Liverpool q circular ema-
mating from this city, Milwaukee, estimating
the available surplus of wheat at 55, 900 600
of bushels The facts are that there are not
$4,000 900 to go for ward, and at present prices
there will not be lO,Oo0,o0O.
Here, then, is palpable lie, to the ex-
tent of forty million bushels.
Then we had another lie, published in
our own leading papers, that Minnesota
had 100000 ready to ship-while in
fact VIC did rot have 100000. Here
was another ten million lie.
Then we are told that England is liter.
ally overnowing with wheat. The Mil
waukee Journal Of Commerce says:
The dealers and millers both in this coun-
try and in England are running from hand to
mouth: shorter than ever before, and ar. in a
measure short of the ordinary supply of both
wheat and flour.
The available stock Of wheat, compared
vith former wears. is exceedingly sman, and
the statements of the visible supply are calcUA
lated to mislead in fact, we have seen no
statement Of the situation not colored by pre-
iudice, or vitiated by ignorance.
The Chicago Inter Ocean quotes re-
merits from 400 towns in the Northwest
and sums up thus:
In Missouri ,rheat and oats are badly eaten
b. erasshoppers, and fears are entertained that
IN the large breadth planted the grain VIII DC
destroyed by them. -.
In Wisconsin, winter wheat is slightly in
iured, spring wheat is now being sown; frult
3 somewhat injured.
IN the State OF Indiana srhect has been badly
3ni.ved by the cold ,reat.er Rye and barley
vill also be short crops. Oats will not yield
1 more than hal, crop. Fruit will be almost
Il total failure. Corn planting is delayed on 30
1 count Of the frost
\ In Kansas the season has been favorable,
The large areas Of wheat and oats sown are in
Il 0ne condition.
In Nebrask. the prospects for all grain and
y fruits are flattering.
n minnesota the season is backward Th<
j average breadth Of spring wheat IS sowu. Win
~ wheat is uniniured.
II IOWA little more than the average
u .monnt Of spring wheat Is sown, and viii
s~;eid we'll "A little winter wheat Is sown. and
M vas uniniured. Oats and barley are bad.
IN injured. Fruit will not be more than A.
average crop
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In Illinois the prospects for winter wheat are
USUALLY sown there .ciH not be orer half . crop.
MANY wheat fields are being plowed tor corns
Spring wheat is also damaged; likewise oats,
barley and rye. Fruits generally are de-
stroyed.
And yet the price of wheat does not
rise in Liverpool. Why! They are
waiting for those 100000 bushels from
Minnesota, and those 100000 bushels
ready to ship from Milwaukee! Here
are 10000, 900 bushels, (more than Eng
lands entire importation in any one year
from the United Statcs,) Of which So
100000 bushels exiet only in the corrupt
imaginations of pack Of lying knaves.
II the world only knew the real facts
wheat would rise at once, and millions be
added to the wealth of the Northwest.
We wish we were Grand Master of the
Patrons Of Husbandry of the United
States for just one year! We would have
reliable tables as to crops from the whole
world, and newspaper that would be re-
garded as an authority in every grain mar
ket in the world. And we would bring
such pressure to bear, through public
opinion and the ballot-box, as would eve
ry where lead to laws declaring comblna'
tons to affect or disturb prices criminal
conspiracies, punishable with impriscn'
ment.
Take, for instance, the great light sup
ply of the people of this country, petro'
leum. Nature has poured it forth in such
lavish abundance that the poorest of the
poor can afford to have al
the light they want. But the
conspirators are at work. They
are disguised to think that the common
people should have any one thing in thu
world at low prices. We quote:
II is stated that from 1872 when the ole
South Improvement Company was abolished
the ref.iers who were instrumental in forming
the combination have been endeavoring t
to co ltrolDthe pro due ion and p ice of petrc
leum. Their efforts have been strenuous, ant
they have succeeded in forming combination
which embraces ninety per cent. OF the refiner
of this country. They expect to control tn
remaining ten per cent before the end OF mex
month 1t is tnen expected that the new com
bination will go into effect. A stock compan.
has been organized, the Standard Oil Compan,
of Cleveland and New York City, the princi
pal promoters OF the South improvement
Company being the head and front of the nev
combination.
Now see how forty million people stan'
still, utterly helpless, while this boil
ring. right under their very noses, pro
ceeds to form a combination to put vi
the price of petroleum to just such figure
as its greed may dictate!
If law and government amount to any
thing they should protect the reopl
from such conspiracies.
II, at common law. it is an indictabl
offence, crime, for two or more to com
bine to despoil an individual, why shout
it not be a greater crime to combine t
rob whole people! If not, why not!
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In short they are oil whited sepnlchres
and full Of dead farmers bones.
REBUILDING THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY

PARTY.
Hon. Andrew Herman, United States
Senator from New York, was SER
enaded at WateItown on the 10Th ult.,
and made speech in which he said:
| trust we are going to rebuild that party
ed the affairs of the nation. / trust they will
make an administration for the beneht VI the
entire people, and bring back the old ways Of
the republic; bring the people OF each State
into peaceful relations with the general gov
eminent, SO that all citizens OF our common
country, whether black or white, shall enjoy
equal aud exact freedom before the law. They
are al citizens now, and we in New York are
glad OF it. We are CAD to be able to say that
every man in this Ucion shall have equal jus
tee and equal rights, and desire that all shall
be prosperous. Let us always remember that il
we are to have pure administration Of affairs
at the federal cap tai, we must have purity in
the State governments. TIE desire for re orm
and yetrenchment is universal, and let us hope
that it will find fruition in the reinauguration
Of purity in the affairs of the national govern
ment. AL reforms should commence at home.
First, an honest municipal government. then
honest county and State governments, and Of
| necessity an honest national government will
be the result.
New York is developing some able
broad-minded, Democratic statesmen
Senator Herman is one; Gov. Tilden i
another.
If the policy Of the Democratic party
in that State is directed in the spirit Of
their wise counsels, it will be immensely
strengthened in all parts of the Union
But if they follow an illiberal and narrow
minded policy; and if, above all, they pro
pose TO ignore or insult the masses 0
new men who have alone turned thei
defeats into victories, they will soon fins
| themselves without allies.
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THE NECESSITY FOR RETRENC H
MENT.

MENIs
The founders Of this nation boosted that
they had invented the simplest and least
expensive government in the world; and
for half century their boast was well
founded.
We have always claimed that the gov
eminent of Great Britain, with its royal
family, its titled pensioners. its immense
civil list, its aristocracy and its cstab-
ished church, was exceedingly expensive.
And so it is. But let us compare the
present cost Of our government and that
Of the government Of Great Britain1
The annual expenses Of Great Britain
in 1874 were 1871, $4,000.
The annual expenses of the United
States in 1874 were S283,238, 700.
The army Of Great Britain numbers
10000 officers and men.
The army Of the United States num-
beers $4,000 officers and. men.
It costs Eve hundred dollars pear head
per year to support the army Of England.
It costs over seventeen hundred dollars
per head per year to support the army Of
the United States.
England is reducing her taxes. The
United States is increasing her taxes
From 1852 to 1874 England reduced her
taxes slOo, 100000. At the last session
Congress made large increase in our
taxes.
England is an old, small, densely crowd
ed country, with expensive colonies in al
parts Of the world, and hundreds Of mil.
lions of people in India subject to her gov
eminent. The United States is young,
growing nation, inhabiting ha:f CONT
nent, and with no foreign colonies to sup
port or defend. And yet the total cost
Of supporting England. royal family, col
onics, and all, is but 800, 600, 900 more
than the total cost of the government Of
the United States.
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SIGNIFICANT AND REmARk.
ABLE STATEMENT.

A London correspondent Of The Scots
man, the leading newspaper of Scotland.
and one of the most careful and reliable
journals in Great Britain. said, the other
day.
"The number of Americans permanently
residing in London has largely increased dur
ing the past year, and is still increasing. II Is
probable that there are more Americans here
than in Paris; but they are not congregat~d,
as they are there, in one colony--they are scat
tered all about the West, the West-centre, the
Southwest and the Northwest districts. They
do not seem to court esch others society, but
prefer that oftheir English friends; and. most
strange Of all, they no longer boast OF the
superiority OF American institutions.
am told that these voluntary exiles enter
tain gloomy views concerning the future OF
their country. They cherish dark sssPicions
Of President Grant, and grepely kint that he
sriu proclaim himself dictator ere long. If one
reproaches them for deserving their country on
the approach ofa rev olution, they say in choice
American, that Patriotism is played out, and
that in this age every one must first take care
OF himself. 1t is curiously interesting to hear
OF the republic. The most of them look upon
the republic ~ doomed, president Grant,
they say, SIS determined to rule - long as he
lives He has narrow mind but an indomitA-
bic will. He is wonderfully self-reliant, tenac-
ious and obstinat e. II. il resolved to Re re-
elected in 1876. II necessary, he will put the
whole South under martial law, and count
himself in upon returns manufactured to Or
der. He has risen to his present position from
the lowest obscurity: he has faith in his in
vincible success; he cherishes ambitions like
those of Napoleon These are the things
which one hears in American circlesin London
that is to say, when your American is in 2
frank and communicative mood l don't
know how correct these representations are
| but it is certain one no longer hears from
Americans that bombastc Dragging which, In
former times, marked their conversation
They have swung around to the other extreme,
and are now IS respondent IS they used to b
exultant"
We do not vouch for the correctness Of
these statements; but We give them foz
what they are worth. One thing is Ger
tain, no amount Of pressure has thus la
been able to force Grant to say that he Il
net candidate for reelection.
We are much mistaken if he does moi
mean mischief.
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FARMERs, PAPERs;

The Spirit u Kassas complains that one OF
the agricultural papers in thas etate i lighting
the Changes. The Age can scarcely point %
An agricultural paper that i not opposed 70 the
Industrial movement They want the tar
mers to pay high freight and passage hres 70
the railroads., and pay from ten +, fifteen Per
cent interest on any money t-ey wish %
bCzrow.-Is1sstvial Age.
True; the ordinary farmers paper .
one Of the most useless things in the
world. It concentrates the attention Of
the agricultural community upon hen
lice, sheep-scab and manures; while the
laws Of the land are plundering them to
ruin It industriously plugs up the
spicket and the air-holes while the bung-
hole is wide open and the substance q
the people running to waste i pays
1.-THE Of mint and anise and sumnin' and
omits the weightier matters Ct the nv
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THE FUTURE.

Judge Davis, Of the Supreme Court, day or
Grant not only wished Ia third term" but
that he would get the nomination next year
from his partly This shows that il cannot Be
the ssmere mOonshine" of some Of the Repuoil-
can papers, for Judge Davis i . keen observer,
and this Is his deliberate judgment-k<-
cAssge
Yes; and million dollars viii be spent
to control the Democracy. and make
them arrogan'ly refuse al alliances, and
nominate ticket that Grant can whip
We tremble for. our country when We
consider the rascal;ty Of some and the
folly Of many.
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THE rHuRD TENN.

KOeCiaI 0lROHtCn. AOflI $50. 70 t0e
49,
fnnaoe'Pni. '"'e', says
the Administration will henceforth b one Q
relsnusss P1oscIPon q ~, ~ n ,sag o1;cp snd
smhit;on Of the President. including the third
an r. f..meron in pennsvlr.n;a. edted by his
s nr;rsse secretsrr Who 4 nsid b. the Govern
rnent have Ied ~ in the vork az hunting
dn-n Rl.;ne Hsvlev phe,ns Potter. Dawes
sn1 ali thnse vho al not hoE ahiectIy to the
third tenn nroersm.re Il i oncrlv decla.ed
- ,ho.. 10 sn..L nv the frrsidenf- fhat
there shall be no more distractions Of the party
y the ncependens 'nas .nsy n sn.l and n 3 3
treated = outside the pale Of party favor. Nor