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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-06
A Review.

LONDON, Aug. 3O.-The Mark Lane En-
press, reviewing the grain markets and crop
reports Of the week, says: "The continu-
ance Of fine weather has enabled the farm
ers to secure large amount of produce in
fine condition. The more, however, that is
seen of the new crop the more complaints
are made of both quality and yield. This
is also the case in France, Holland, and
Hamburg. Prices in Great Britain are yet
unsettled The markets in several places
show decline of one and two shillings.
In France the reduction is about the same.
Flour at Paris has been steady, though
wheat has given away on account Of freer
offerings. A general average cf the mar
kets for the past week shows an advance of
Is, Sd, and it may yet be month before
peices will have found their level. AS a
rule, harvest prospects on the Continent are
good. The gathering Of the crops is going
on well, and prices have given way slightly
In Belgium, Holland, and Germany the pc.
tato crop has suffered much from rain and
the prevalence of disease
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MARKET REPORTS
St. Paul Markets.

September 4th, 1876.
Flour, xxx, 1926 to IS. 90; Xxx, S.. IS to
$500; Xxx, $500; Superlative, 800 to 81
Corn-Iowa on track in bulk, zoe to Tic; to
outside buyers 72cto free on outgoing trains.
in ears, CSC to 69c. Oats-New 45c
bulk lots ON track; old, 53c to 55c, in sacks.
Barey-tnere is considerable doing; No 2
deliveries of new by rail, b t the receipts by
team aae usually large No. 10 delivered
at the elevator; No. 2 LOS Butter-Some very
fine specimens of dairy packed, sold as high as
25c for tubs and jars;secOnd selections, consist
ing of first rate qualities Of table butter, IN
tubs and jars, ARE in excellent demand Is to 20c;
down; good, solid, straight color firkins, fresh
and sweet, 15c ito Is; streaked and mixed
l2c to Is; Cheese-continues steady, but not
particularly active, at 10 IA to i l-2 for good
to choice Minnesota factory. Eggs-the re-
ceipts are not equal to the wants Of the market,
and prices are very firm, and somewhat adj
vanced; selected sold yesterday at Is to ID 1-2c
for cases. a rev lots at IA to ID l-2c. The
market may be quoted strong and trusw orthy
or the mome"+ at Is to l3 l2c for really fresh.
Fruits-Apples arc in very fair request at 81 so
to 500 for selected Illinois and Missouri fruit,
in good condition. The receipts however are
not large, SO far. l. mons are firm at $1,000 to
IL 90 per tox. Peaches are scarcely quotable;;
Provisons-As the market remains active and
tons Mess pork Is in good demand, with not
very large stocks, at $2l.50 job lots tor small
lots at 500 CO. Hams are firm and act We al
Is 10 to l4c, for best qualities in canvass
shoulders, also in canvass, are quotable al
10 10 to lc; lard at lac in tierces, and Ia Is
to ,5c in kegs. Mess beef is dull at $lO.tt
Der Dbl
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It strOye to nav all obligations. such as CO.

1t strove to pay all Obligations, such as COM
pound Interest notes, seven tnirties, certificates
OF Indebtedness, and now three per cent GER
tifcates, prefering to pay foreigner six per cent
in gold to paying American holders Of those
certificates three per cent in paper, and to re-
the Secretary of the Treasurer is now doing
While calling in $50, 900, 900 of bonds for the
sinking fund he has issued Sl5, UOO,O 100 Of new
bonds, with the proceeds Of which he is con-
tracing greenbacks and purchasing silver with
which to buy up fractional currency when the
silver can ~ hoated. By this insane move
ment, authorized by the acts OF the last Con-
g--ss, he has within few weeks added seDenty
tice million dollars to the annual gold bearing
indebtedness Of the taxpayers Of this country,
AID this and more OF it the Forty-third Con-
gress authorized him to do. But as if to add
t. cruelties thus practiced upon the American
people, that Congress decreed that specie pay
ments shall he resumed on the first OF January,
1879. Thus the government admonishes men
OF enterprise and capital that II would be folly
III them to purchase any property or to en-
gage in the manufacture Of any commodity, as
the government has no gold worth speaking
OF on which to resume As the revenues are
not equal to the expenditures, no other mode Of
resumption can be practlced than to retire all
paper curren Y and leave the people without
any medium Of exchange. The result is tbs
the banks OF the country hold more green
backs, more national bank notes and more de-
posts than they ever held before. Already
more mills. furnaces, FORCES, factories and
workshops are idle than ever before, and Inort
honest laboring people are living in want and
despair than ever before in the history OF the
United States. Fools point to these deposit:
and say that money is abundant, and call my
self and others who agree with me So ~ cuiottes
and they intimate that we arr capable Of ths
most atrocions crimes that chara .terized the
French revolution. They had better pause b.
fore reducing the working people 10 the las
measure OF deep despair. There il no les.
property in this country than in 1856, but b,
the juggling Of the bullionis. and bondholdr
and their legislative creatures, it ha~ been
concentrated in fewer hands, and the work 0
plundering the masses still goes on, and the,
are beginning to understand how it is being
done Hon YIN. d. Kelly
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GREENFIELD, IND, Aug. %

The fine weather we have been enjoying
for some days past is having a tendency to
revive the dropping spirits of these who
felt, for time, during the recent wet wealth
er, that all was lost The farmers are busy
ing themselves in gathering in such rem
nants of their crops as are worth gathering
and making the best Of their bad prospects
for the future One told me he had just
finished hauling his fax crop to market.
He said he had rented twenty acres Of
ground and after paying the rent and pay
ing for the seed he had sixty-two cents re-
naming to compensate him for his labor.
The general impression that is being given
to the public. of late, through the newspa-
pers, is. that the damage is not nearly so
great as it was thought to be. The reason
IS this, that during the wet weather there
was a time when farmers thought they
would have scarcely anything left.
NOT WHEAT ENOUGH FOR BREAD AND SEED.
one of the best and most extensive farmers
in the country told me he did not think
there would be enough wheat in the country
for bread and seed. Many fine fields for
corn have been SO wet all the season that
the corn has never been plowed at all, some
not more than once. The grass and weeds
have outgrown the corn, and it will no, be
worth gathering Indianapolis San.
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New York Produce Market. Sept. 4th.

Cotton quiet and unchanged Flour quiet ;
prices generally without decided change; re-
ceipts $4,000 barrels; sales 900 Wheat
quiet and nominal!y unchanged receipts
il6, 900 la heels; sales "a, 900 at 81. 25G 80 for
No. Chicago 81 348l35 for No. Miwau-
kee; 81 4o0l. 10 for No. | spring: sl.4o9 !. 45
for winter red western and 81 Al for amber
ditto Rye dull. Corn dull and
declining: receipts $4,000 bushels; sales
$4,000 bushels at 7i97oc for steam
western mixed: 7797sc for sail do, and 79c
for yellow western. Barley quiet, Oats dull !;
receipts 81 900 bushels sales 81 1000 at 57959c
for old mixed western, and 5SQ6oo for old
white do Pork quiet at S2l.i0. Beef un-
changed. Cut meats, western, quiet. Lard
quiet at Is 7-i6c Tor steam and lac tor kettle
Whisky Sl.239. Sugar unchanged. Pet-o-
cum, crude. 5Sc; refined llS9l6Ac. Coal
firm, Leather firm. Wool steady.
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VALLEY CREEK, Sep. 3, 1876.
Ed. Anti Nonopolst:

| feel it my duty to drop you few lines
concerning the condition of our crops,
We are done harvesting, that is cutting.
but not stacking. and God only knows when
we will be able to do anything at this. 1t
has been raining now for nearly two weeks.
and there seems TO be no end 10 it, Very
few stacks have been put up. and the wheat
that is now in shocks is most all spoiled.
don't think that one bundle could be picked
out of ten acre lot but what has some
sprouts, more or less. About two-thirds of
the crop is only good for hog feed. Even
stocks which are not put up very good are
just as bad saw q man th-eshing to day,
and went to examine the stacks | found
that he would not have twenty bushels of
good sound whea, from the stack. | don,
know what people are going to do for bread
Wheat is not good, but believe spectators
and millers will have to buy or 60 without
it, and the next thing is what will the poor
farmers do How are they going to pay
their debts. after having worked the whole
year for this crop. they see it all going to
waste. 1t looks rather hard You have
no idea how discouraging it is to. day after
day. see your cops going to ruin. and can
do nothing but look On, without the power
10 save any OAE lana Is so 3W1uiiy wei.
almos. like swamp, we canno, plow, we
cannot 60 onto the land with a team
John Lowmann had a stack of barley
struck by lightning, and consumed by FIRE.
the other night. Strange as il may seem
the other stacks were spared They must
have been so wet that they could not catch
fire.
Speaking Of our wheat and bad WEATHER,
have seen letter from Niagara county.
New York, wherein they tell me of heavy
rains and all their grain is in the fild yet.
From the neighborhood Of St. Louis, No.,
heard to-day that the 1ood had taken away
| all the grain, and that the people were
wading in the water knee-deep, trying to
catch some bundles with pi,clforks. From
bingham. Illinois, also heard to-day that
the water had taken everything, and thai
in some places cattle were dying for want Of
food, IS the whole country is under water
| For my part am discouraged. do MOI
know what to do.
Yours truly.
| JOHN. VI. RIscE.
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Cincinnati Conference.

Ali interested in the labor and financial n
form movement, arr turning their attention to-
ward the Cincinnati Conference Of farmers,
mechanics and WORKERS Of all classes, which
will meet on the first Tuesday in September
next; It will BE- composed Of not less than five
hundred representative men and women ,desir-
Gus Of adopting the b-st plan Of operation for
securing purity Of government administration
and Justice to the industrial millions. It will
be one of the most important gatherings since
that which assembled in Philadelphia on the
18th day Of July, 1776- Let rs hope that the
result Of the Cincinnati deliberations may be
as glorious ~ those which led to our national
Independence. To Be personally. industrially
financially and commercially free, would b
CRATER even than political freedom. We want
new declaration Of independence. May the
Cincinnati Conference give it to the world.
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$40 A. M-Wheat opens at 81 IA for October;
now iirmer at Sl.l4& for October, and si.l4@
tor September.
Pork irmer, with liberal sales at
s2l for September; s26.S5 9o09O tor October,
and SSO5 the year Lard firm; sales a, l3c
cash ant 10 05 Tor October; 1870 bid the
year.
1910 r M.--Wheat firm at Sll4A cash;
Sll4H@ll4% for September and 81. l4@1. l4b
for October: No. sl.07; rejected 95hc. Corn
steady at 63s cash or September; 63hc for
October and 56sc the year !;
high mixed GA 965c. Oats steady with fair
demand at 50 y cash; 81 y gas &c Tor Septeu-
Der and Sane tor October. Barley irregular
and lower at Sill cash and September, and
Sl.07 for October; rejected 63965e. Whisky
quiet; no sales; generally held at Sl.l9.
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Weekly Letter Of Shredder, LindbIom & Co

MILWAUKEE, Aug. q, 1875.
No material change has taken place ic the
wheat market during the week Liverpool
quotations are Sod lower, and our market
receded p cents, but unfavorable weather
in Northern Iowa and Minnesota during tn e
last three days, together with tirmer feel
ing IN Liverpool, brought about a reaction,
and the decline was FULLY recovered. We
close with quotations the same Us last week,
while Liverpool is 3-6d lower and New York
&c. higher, owing, probably, to small arri-
walls from canal. The wet whether referred
to caught abb ut half of the wheat unprotec-
ted, and farmers have been considerably ex
ercised in regard to it. No damage of con-
sequence has been sustained, but q continu-
ance of wet weather would injure the quail
ty of one half OF the crop. The weather in
this State has been good, and the probabili-
ties indicate clear weather west of the Mis-
sissippi; SO We predict that the crop will be
secured in good condition. With proper
ers it ought to be out OF danger ere this.
The samples that have reached US are ex-
ceedingly beautiful; they approximate per-
lection, and the threshing machines demon
strate the yield fully up to the highest ex-
pectations. Receipts show marked in
crease during the las, two days, and they
will approximate 700, 900 bushels during the
coming week. There has been considerable
demand for new No. l, and several cargoe'
new No. have been bought by local opera
tors on speculation. Short sellers hav,
covered freely, and there are comparatively
few outstanding contracts. All quotation
are now for new grain, unless old is speci
fed.
We quote: No. hard, %; No. /, 1904
No. 2, l.l9a; No. 8, LII; S. o. Sept, 1.161
Barley has ruled weak early, but close,
higher for No. , under good speculativ
demand, while inferior grades are neglected
Our prediction that No ? barley would b
relatively scarce and high is being confirmed
and hence a disposition to cover sales.
We quote: No. 2, LOS; No. ., S. 0. Sept
LOG; No. 3, $3.50.
Oats are easy, with arrivals more tina
equal to the demand
Corn is lower, and the excitement in re
gard to damages by recent frosts has SUI
sided, and recent warm weather has revive
hopes of on abundant corn crop. The dam
age by frost, although extending over
large territory, is confined to low lands
while the bulk Of the corn is raised on prai
ries.
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lNDlsPuTABLE PROOFS THAT THE MIN
NESOTA WHEAT cTOP is PARTIALLY
RUINED BY THE RAINS.
Specimen Of the Sprouting Wheat. and De.
pressing News for All Classes.

pressing News for All Classes.
As intimated in the columns Of the Tn
6uas yesterday morning, there are now on
ly too many reasons TO fear that the warm
and heavy rains of the past week have al
ready seriously injured the magnificent
wheat crop of the State, and which, with a
few days more of favorable weather. would
have been placed beyond the reach. of all or
binary perils of the seasons. Fully appre-
ciating the danger, number of farmers
from different portions of the county were
interviewed yesterday. and the information
form for the enlightenment of the public. -
number with whom the reporter con-
versed. had not exam ned their wheat, and
were consequently unable to mention any
injurious effects. but they were neyerthe-
less firmly convinced that even if the skies
clear and warm weather continues, all ex-
posed wheat is liable to'sprout or otherwise
suffer injury either before or after its ap-
pearance in the markets Other farmers
trum certain districts of this or adiacen,
counties convey the gratifying information
that in their localities the major portion of
their grain has been securely stacked. but
an immense proportion Of the total crop Of
the State shows that no such wise and
timely precaution has been taken to guard
against the destructive encroachmenfs of
the prevailing moisture A large number
of farmers, hoping to avoid an unimportans
fraction Of expense in securing their grain,
had determined to thresh their grain di.
rectly from the feld-the grain being simp-
~ piled together in '.shocks' and left e1-
posed to the calamity which has now over
taken it, and from which there is NO longe,
probable room for escape.
| Owing to the warm and beautiful wea.he
in the early part of harvest, the plump Der.
~ was thoroughly hardened, and under tn,
existing meteorological conditions, the pro
cess of termination has been rapid and dis
astrcus- 1t is claimed by many intelli
gent farmers that exposed grain win some,
times soften in forty Height hours during
such warm rains and moisture as have pre-
vailed since Tuesday of last week, ans
more particularly when the berry is in sucl
admirable condition as is found this year 81
over the State of Minnesota.
i That the work Of termination has alread,
set in to depress the industry and trade o
the State there is no longer room to doub,
IS ample evidence was furnished yesterda
to prove the veritable existence Of the e
! niiy. Specimens Of sprouted whes
were brought and sent hithcr from expose
fields. which are already sprouted ard rem
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Highly mportant.-Eng!and will require an
unusually large amount Of Wheat

LONDON, Sept. 3.-The London Times in
its financial column says: There is in
creased frmness in the discount market.
Apart from other influence which may be
expected to cause greater demand for float
ing capital, as we get into the autumn,
more than usual attention is directed to the
requirements of the country in connection
with the grain trade. 1t is known that we
shall have to import an unusually large
quantity of wheat, and it is equally certain
that all mailing barley will have to come
from abroad"
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Money and StOC X =.

New YORK, September Mooney loaned at
Q Gold NAN Governments dull but strong:
State bonds dull and steady Stocks dull and
lower. Western Union 7Sh; Pacific Mail
Sc X Adams lhl y; Fargo n; American 50 u
United States Ask; New York Central lO4H
Erie l6A; preferred 25: Harlem
1341s; preferred 1870; Panama l3z; Union Pa
cific IS; Pittsburg 89z; Northwestern SO X
preferred 54X; Cleveland & Columbus 81
Rock Island lO7%; ST. Paul &c., preferred So
Wabash 6; prefer. ed 7; Fort Wayne 100; Ohio
& Mississippi 1917; Atlantic & Pacific Tele.
graph 1917; Burlington & Quincy III X; Sam
Joseph 22X.
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The -Anti-Monopo1ist.

dered comparatively worthless even und 2
the most favorable of future conditions.
Of course with the present information, it
Is impossible to say what proportion Of the
wheat of the Slate will eventually be placed
in the condition above described, but il is
safe to say that the loss already entailed by
the rainy period upon the agricultural m
terest of Minnesota must count up among
the millions, when those millions were
needed 10 lift the glorious young State
above all its embarrassments.-Minn
Tribune
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Imitation means reputation, according to
the Cincinnati Commercial, which is an ad
captandum way that paper has Of arguing that
the people who desire an expansion OF the
currency are disposed to repudlate the debts Of
the government 1t is not far statement Of
the case; bat very certain is it, that unless the
people are provided with a volume OF curren-
cy equal to their own relief, the obligations Of
the government are sooner or later likely to be
left IN thelurch. Men who are growing poorer
and poorer every day by reason Of false and
oppressive system of finance, must OF necessity
succumb to the pressure at last, and if repudia-
ton follows, it will not be difficult to fix thu
responsibility for it.-St Louis Times.
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7 The system under which, after twenty six
years OF suspension of specie payments, and
its postponement eleven times by act Of Par
lament, when it finally resumed the redemp-
ton Of its notes in coin in 1929, the Bank OF
England was again compelled to suspend spe-
Gle pay ments within two years 1925 after hav-
ing, like another blind Sampson, torn down
the pillars OF the temple, the commercial tenn
pie Of Great Britain, in the throes Of its strug
| gle to resume and maintain specie payments,
and surrounded itself with financial ruin and
devastation. 1t is to such system that a num-
Der OF worthy people III this country who have
not thoroughly examined the subject wish tc
return as the financial Canaan. --Er.
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Milwaukee Produce Market, Sept. 4.

9:35 A. M.-Wheat unsettled at $l.2:h for
hard; Silly for No. 1; sl.lsH for No 2;
sl.l6A tor September; and Sl.l5A for October.
Receipts $4,000 bushels; shipments 10000.
Liverpool Id better
1880 M-Wheat unsettled; No. sl.2lH;
No. Sl.l74; September sl.154; October
Sl.l4x; No. hard $l.234. Barley, No. 2,
Sl.10; September 81 Us.
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ZUxBRorA, Sep. 8, 1875

The loss to grain is immense in this re
gion on accoun: Of the excessive rains. II
cannot be less than from 10 to 20 per cent
Farmers are feeling blue. There has been
but little grain stacked in southern Good
hue. FARMER.
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A friend just from New York who has been
in that city several weeks. says in thirty years
experience he never say that city 50 dull as it
is now, and there are between the Battery and
Chambers street, one hundred and seventy five
stores to rent. Let specie contraction go on
and there will be twice that number vacant
within the ensuing twelve months. The bank
ers and press Of New York are bringing upon
the people Of the country degree Of distress
that has hitherto been Unparalleled in Ameri-
ca, and when the people come to understand
what has occasioned It. Heaven pity them
The shavers will deed to cry for relief from
popular Indignation. Chicago Industrial Age
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Cheap Beet Wanted.

A meeting was held to-day to discuss the
causes of the high price Of meat. A reso-
luton was adopted protesting agains the
importation of foreign cattle. An associa-
ton was formed to secure . supply Of live
cattle from the United States. to meet the
wants of the English market.-Loadoa, Aso-
a5
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ST. OLAF, OrTERTA1L Co. MINI. Aug. 25th

ST. ULAF, UTTERTAIL Co. MINI. Aug. 10Th
1875.
The weather is bad, rain most of the
time since $50 A. NJ. yesterday; but very
little grain stacked many not done cutting,
rained very hard for two or three hours
yesterday morning cloudy and dr;zzling
this morning, owing to a strong south
wind on Sunday and Monday the grain
shocks are in bad condition many being
down and others with the caps off.
Yours &C.,
A. W FIELD
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New York Bank Statement.

New YORK, Sept. 4.-Loans, increase S4e7,
400; specie, decrease 81, 534 800; legal ten
d-rs, increase S97,6 500; deposits, decrease
S2,S57 900; circulation, increase slO4, 4OO; re-
serve, decrease S ,022 1875.
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In relation to the crops of Livonia She'll
hurne 90. they are good, but noia large
yield. The corn is large and stout but viii
never mature ! think, owing to the cold
season, Yours.