The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-03

gun. have a gun and men ready to FIRE
into and sink you.
Capt. Anthony. am on the high seas
and that flag (polnting to the stars and
stripes) protects me.
Stone. You have committed INSIDE
meanor against the laws OF the colony.
Yourflag will not protect you in that.
Anthony. Yes it will,
Stone. Will you let me board your
ship?
Anthony. No you shant.
Stone. Then your government will
be communicated with and you must
take the consequences.
r Anthony. AL right.
During this the men on the Catalpa
were under arms, ready to act on the de-
fensive.. Capt. Anthony had previously
at Freemantle, taken legal advice as to
the boundaries Of neutral water.
THE DANUBE VS.. THE MISSISSIPPI.
The Danube opens up Eastern Europe
to navigation, as well as the Mississippi
opens up Northern America. Why does
the population of Germany throng to
the valley OF the Mississippi-and hardly
one wretched tugboat in day ripples
the glossy flow of the Danube? Because
/ the nation through which the Miss
/ issippi flows is one nation OF many races
knitting all into one, in its obedience to
Gods command, by honoring all men
while the Danube flows among twenty
nations of twenty languages and twenty
faiths, always joining with each other.
and agreeing only in a policy which
keeps every peasant down to the druid
gerry to which he was born.
The great event in history which this
commentaries is a moral victory. 1t Is
no mans triumph, except as it is Gods.
By Gods great law OF selection, he
had sifted the best wheat OF Europe, to
make up the new America. The law OF
selection is this, that the lazy will not
cross the ocean, the towards are afraid
to cross it, those satisfied with federalism
and caste do not want to cross it. The
men of faith, the men Of enterprise, the
men OF adventure, the men who were
/ Observation-Disclosures make the seed-corn Of
Gods new empire. BY a law as certain
they are compelled to sweep away al
/ the rubbish OF teudal distinction. They
cannot help it. They mnst fal! back or
the veritics ofGod's simplest word. II,
hath made OF one blood all the nation:
of mankind" They hate to own it, bu
the new vocation compels them. "H'
that is the greatest among you shall b.
your servant" Ali feudal history goe
the other way, but the wilderness con.
firms the lessen. 'Honor all men.
But a new land, on the white paper o
it's unwritten charters, is forced to writ
down the law Ito give universal suffrage
universal education, equal rights TO tn
believer and the non-believer. 1t /
compelled to strike the shackles fror
the slave; it is compelled to give dig
nifty to every form OF industry. 1t vii
not be land Of peasants confined to tn
fields; it will not be a land OF gale
slaves chained to the oar; it will not b
land of mill operatives, or OF under
ground miners-men bound to Il postio
which they cannot leave. Let ever
man worship as he will, work as he vii.
90 where he will. To every man ther
is a homestead on the prairie; to ever
5 child there is book and schoo
l .Honor all men," This is land whic
!, seizes on the surprise of each new il
9 vention and works out a new triumph
y This is the land which makes the wi
/. derness rejoice and the desert blosso
e as the rose. The land whose mobiles al
4 from themselves, and their governo
. from the midst OF them.