The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-27
4 CONSISTENT REFORNER.

is Stebbins. He has adroitly withdrawn
his attention ftom the great extravagan-
cies of his party in state and naticn and
concentrated it upon the wasteful ex-
pediture of the board of county commiss-
toner's of Dakota county. He has made
the heavens ring with his denunciations
While other men were talking about the
Credit Mobilier or Munich and Seeger,
SteI'. poured out ceaseless flow of elo-
quence upon the subject of "wood box"
which had cost a few dollars more than
Steb. thought it ought to. While other
men were reused to Indignation about
the Pacific Mail or the McIlrath defal-
cation, Stebs. voice was heard, loud
above the din. discoursing OF crooked
tlue in the court house, or tipstaye's
extra salary.
Steb. has been nothing if not an econ.
omist. He was determined to save the
dear people from any unnecessary out
lays. The Legislature. happily, was OF
the same frame of mind as Steb and so
it ordered that the publication of tax
sales should be let to the lowest bidder,
so as to get the work done tor the least
possible cost. Whereupon the relormer
st. b.-the economist, Steb.--the friend
of the eople, Steb.-the enemy OF wood
boxes and crooked flues and overpaid
| tipstayes, Steb. ,-proceeded to get up
corner and put up a job on the dear peo-
pie. by preventing that natural and
healthy competition which the law had
invoked for the protection of the tax
payers. Here is his confession in late
issue -
The Pennington Press has several times
taken occasion to refer to the fact that we were
DESTROYS Of uniting the printers Of this county
IN u combination and charging the minimum al
Lorcd by la,r for printing the delinquent tar
| Ltsf Jor !o731nd prior years. SUoH WAS THE
| FACT and we state that in a meeting Of the
printers held for the purpose Mr.. Emery re-
presented the Pennington Press, and he
was Ill favor Of charging thirteen cents per
description for printing the same list for which
he afterwards bid seven cents yer description
oh Steb! Steb. how could you do SOP
How could you make coordination"
to take hundreds of dollars on, of the
county! Oh shame, where is thy
blush? Why thi., is worse than wood
boxes and cooked tiues they never con-
,pired and combined to rob the people
But you, Steb- TO whom we looked for
protection. You
"Who should against the murderer shut the
door.
Not bear the knife yourself,''
to think that yen of alli men in
the whole world would 90 back
on US in that fashion, Oh Steb. YOU
have destroyed our faith in human nature.
And not content with pleading guilty
himself. Steb. turns states evidence
against that other patriot and economist
Emery. OF the Pennington Press. He says
Mr. Emery knew that it was a fair paving
Job at seven cents description, a nd vet he ,cas
,rtt!tng to fitch the county o.t II fire cents per
description.
Here's pretty pair of leaders for the
Peoples Party.
Steb. continues -
The !aw fixed fifteen cents Per descrpti on
for this printing, and the editor of the Gazette.
did no; propose TO 60 beyond that limit
Could anything be more generous
than that? Steb. did not propose to take
more than the law allowed. Honor
able man. Another IN his place would
have repeated The statute by an editorial
and have taken fifty cents per de scriDtion.
But Steb. sums up theiwhole case in
the following truthful and felici,ou.
language:
Putting II 4 Emery wants to, then. would
IT that honest Emery woald take thirteen cents
per description while scoundrel S,ebf,ins
would take fifteen for job upon Which ther.
Was a fair profit at seven cen pr description.
And the people will conclude that
these two republican editors are pref
ty pair of rogues. who tried to plum
der the people: and could not agree
simply because each wanted the whole
of the job and neither could trust the
other.