The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-19
The -Anti-AGonopoliSt.

with Astor and Vanderbilt, who could
! themselves make " the deficiency. And
| mark yel the war power put every dollar
| in the country at the disposal of the Gov
eminent it it were needed. But there
was no need. no necessity. no excuse,
for going to Europe to peddle that frac-
| ton of bonds.
Yes, there was necessity. Walker and
McCulloch wanted to make an .'honest
penny" A per centage even on two
hundred and fifty millions would fill up
their pockets; and so the one commits
stoned the other to cross over and enter
Us in ''bondage" to the Dutch bankers.
That was Walkers work and Walkers
commission. The dealings with the
Threadneedle street of London were con-
Quoted, we believe, under the eye Of
McCulloch himself. However that may
pretty tightly.
Proceeding thus far did not seem Of
much account,so long as our obligations
were dischargeable in United States
money. But other objects were in view,
and this was merely the entering wedge.
With weak Congress, with few Peter
Coopers among them, it was not difficult
for the bondholders to get just whatever
they chose to ask fora reasonable con-
sideration. And so their bargain was
supplemented-an CO post .tacto bargain
was made with them-a crushing load OF
gold was put onto US to bow us into the
earth, though we could have danced the
saraba1ed under package OF green
backs"
Congress, to be sure. had right to
give this gold to those ''bond'' >erers. A
bargain is bargain the world over, and
when the bondage men bought Congress
sional votes and paid for them, they had
a right to get them, and they did get
them. Why not?
But votes to that purpose would have
borne little fruit had it not been for other
votes that followed them. 1t is true, it
was an ugly business and might even be
dangerous to those votings that must iol~
low. 1t involved a slight and a dishonor
to the nation. To say that our own
money was not good enough for the beg.
carly torelgners-we say "beggarlyn
for what they did lend US was beggarly
iracton-nor good enough tor them, but
quite good enough for ourselves, and so
we dishonored as we'll as plundered our
selves when we repudlated the greens
back. This never could have passed.
only the messengers, like the cutie fish,
threw out Il shower OF ink that darkcned
the whole subject.
And the retribution tell, quick and
heavy, upon US. The necessary necessity
that we thus created tor gel put unnat>
Al ia int !, II
ahead. Up, up, up till, for forty cents
Oft our European task-masters could
bond US, every man, in the iull sum OF a
golden dollar.
Here's what the politicians have
brought US to. Here's what the men,
now in the field for our votes, have de-
termined to keep us to-heep US to their
bargain with Shylock, whilst they will
not even get little more money to set
US to work that we might earn gold to
make good that tout bargain of theirs.
We read OF the poor Islrnltes in Egypt,
when compelled to make bricks wlth>
out an allowance OF straw We see
them going up and down over the STUB
Die fields OF the country to pick i substl-
tute for the necessary straw thus with
held from them. But where are we to
get the substitute that will fill up the
place of money and enable US to make
those golden bricks demanded by the
masters that the Collective Rapaclty in
/ Washington has set up over u.s.
And this eastern seaboard OF ours is
counted in as the main crutch that this
open fraud has TO lean upon That
cru,ch-what is there OF it's FASH
Toned and fitted in by the daily news
mongers OF nearly il not all the seaboard
cities. Jack Carpenter finds his paper
+ full o. the special pleadings OF the
/ bought-up editors all in favor oil the
hard pan Ca hard pan sure enough
and. OF the national honor as they cal
it, when they are really speaking OF the
national disgrace. Well. Jack doesn't
see Il very clearly, SO he goes TO hi:
neighbor John Smith. and takes look
at his papers. There he finds the samt
tone, sung, It may be. in a higher treble
Still not content. he goes to Bill Brick
LAYER and takes a look 1t bis morning
mentor. 1t is the same tune over again
varied only by the skill Of the perform
ers. Poor Jack goes home and think.
OF the adage, what everybody say.
to vote willingly Tor his own enslayemen
and degradation.
But before they can produce this resul
the daily newsmongers must luckily d,
another thing. They mus. bring on,
the cloyen boot into such light that no
body can mistake the cleft in it. Nat
ural stupidity might possibly account 70
their painful labors to prop up this grea
financial wrong. But can their natura
stupidity, however gross. account for tn
FAC, that they shut out from their column
all discussion on the subject? Or is
mere chance that consigBs to the waste
I basket AL that their neighbors may sen,
in to them for publication, Does no
r this fact bring very close home to then
two things-one that they are under con
e troll by their paymaster. and the o.he
e they know very we'll if light is let in i
will act ike a charge of glycerine an
1 blow them SKY highs Irish World