The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-05-04
WHOLE NO. 95.

Confederacy raised its army in tn face Of the
interested population.
Ans,ger: The Court Of Claims is a re-
publican institution its Judges are re-
pub!icans they hold office tor life. Can
you not trust them? And must there not
be some discretion somewhere Sup
pose Brother McKinstry had lived in
South Carolina or Louisiana in 1857
he might have been an intense loyalist
and a violent abolitionist; and vet his
house, barns. fences, cattle, horses, and
every thing he had might have been des-
troyed by United States troops. Would
he not, in that event. have Just claim
against the United States for the value of
his property? Would any civilized gov
eminent on earth deny such claim?
Mr.. McKinstry may reply. that a
Democratic administration could reor-
ganize acourt and let inrebel claims toan
unlimited extent and swamp the nation.
We do not believe it possible. 1t would
be an act Of party suicide, for the Demo-
cracy would know perfectly well that
the moment they did this they would
lose power forever; their party would
dissolve and disappear before the breath
may believe the Democrats of the north
to be enemies Of the Union and sympath.
isers with rebellion, but he can scarcely
believe that they are all fools. What
Democrat could be sent to Congress
from Minnesota who would commit
"hari-kari, in that fashion? And what
is true of Minnesota is true of the other
northern states.
i Mr. MIX
from the currency question and devotes
his attention to the :ariif. He SAYS
Mr.. Donnelly, in the above supposition,
leaves out very essential element Of the tariff
problem. He represents Mckinstry 4 Co. as
having complete monopoly OF the business of
selling merchandise i'll Rice county, in which
case the results he depicts might reasonably be
soon as it was seen that McKnstry 4 Co. were
making agood thing in selling goods under
40 per cent. tariff, there would be rush of en-
vious and aspiring capitalists to compete with
them in the profits Of selling goods; stores
would spring upat every cross roads, prices
under the effect Of keen competition, would go
down, profits would soon shrink to reason
I able margin, and, finally, fall below, as the
rush for what has become popularity known as
a sgood thing" invariably continues long after
the actual reality Of advantages has disappeared
and at last goods would come to b. sold lower
in Rice county than in other sections of the
STATE, the prices minus the duty being COM
pared.
: answer: Granted that all this is true,
and we would then ask Mr.. McKinstry
what benefit there is in system which
| creates temporary prosperity to be
followed by universal disaster (which in.
/, vites an extraordinary labor force from
) Europe and then sets them loose as
/ tramps to steal or beg; which fills the
/. land with poverty, Generalization and
# crime; with idle factories and crowded
i prisonso
a We have grown immensely as a ma
) ton since 1856 and New York, our great
T. commercial metropolis has grown prop
q ortonately, and yet to-day rea!-estatc is
It worth less in the city Of New York than
it was in 1861! This is the test Of
!. growth and prosperity What then has
g The high tariff yielded us?
RI We have been for fifteen years on
grand national drunk. We have filled
y the country with false s,imulants it has
: Deen wild with excitement and unnatural
- activity. Now the spree is over. II is
r. bloated, dcmoralized, blear-eyed. weak
st in the knees, ragged and penniless. It
8 has got back to lower condition than it
started from and McKinslry says that
: the drunk was development and tho
= spree progress.
VI. The tariff and resulting mechanical and
= agricultural prosperity had stimulated manu-
y featuring industry till there was al over pro-
!s duction Of goods, and the prices Of fabrics
IL have declined To alower point than prevailed
y on specie basis previous to the war.
~ AnsUer: II goods are sold lower than
\. they were before the war j, is because the
Il Ga -
"a Kinstrys low prices are based on sher.
: IFS sales and starving workmen.
!, Would it not have beea better to have
I; omitted the bigh-tariif- whiskey and lei
L. the country grow TO greatness after the
natural. gradual and old fashioned man
i. ncr3
r. VII. The remedy does not lie in further re.
ducton Of the tariff, as is proposed ~ the Con.
= Tolerate Democratic House, for this would still
u further dspress our manufacturing interests
or While at the same time dspriving our govern
e. ment Of the resources for paying it, debts
is Isl: possible to depress our manufact-
j. uring industries t. a lower point than
a. they have now reached? Milton says:
be And IN the lowest deep lower dep,
=. Still threatening 10 deycur M, opens wide,
r T,whch the he'll suffer seems heaven.'
ne But it Is impossible to conceive loves
ne deem into which the manufacturers Ol
D. thiscountry could fall. Mills costing 4
We million dollars have been sold for $780,.
o. 900: whole villages Of workmea 81
Ike on the brink or Starvation; Ameg1on
y; goods are now sold in Mancneso1e =
- lover prices than EDglisi, goods. -
H. paving transportation across the on
Talk about .'pauper labor A. -
on English wages better than no wAe1o T.
- zip LaborIng men are now wOIl
9p1tfor itty cents per day. - =
i eff1en are offering 1G0sul
w. klh0ix boar( u -
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