The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-09-14

who are interested in the grswthof this
western country 10 hide as far as posi-
/ ible the hirderances to Immigration.
| We all want 10 see the country settled
and improved, i aiid 4 however bad the
hoppers may be. il will be no worse for
those who may come in than for those
who have been here fighting them for
years. 49, 5 l# 4H8ts.
But the tune has come to tell the truth
! the whole truth and nothing but the
|truth. The pests are thriving and
spreading despite the parasites that are
reported rs destroying them, and they
bid fair, as the ANTI-MoNoPoLlsr has
already predicted, to spread all over the
country. We must measure the giant,
get his full dimensions and endeavor
fully to understand ihesmaenitude OF the
battle to be toug htwith him The54ues,
ton is not wletherswe.. shah not sarfen-
der the western prairie. but whether we
shall 'snrrender the Whole county The
enemy recognizes no boundary lines.
He will enter into no treaty. He will
lgive no quarter. This is not to be a
flight tor conquest merely but for exist.
cnce.
The hoppers have made greater and
wider depredations in 1876 than in any
/ previous year, and have deposited eggs
over much greater extent of country
than heretofore II is high time 1or
the government to hold council together !.
1t is time tor Congress to take hold Of
this matter. The government is spend
ing millions to exterminate Indians and
protect the frontier against their de.
predations. But the grasshoppers have
4 done more damage to the frontier in
one year than the Indians have in ten.
Let there be one grand cooperative eff
fort made for the destruction of toe pests.
The people and press Of every state in
1.-THE Union will only be consulting their
own interest by lending helping hand
| in the hour of need.
/ So far as can learn the hoppers have
deposited eggs in nearly every county
along the line oil the st. p IL p. K. K.
though perhaps not in such numbers as
to be formidable. In Grant comfy we
are not so much afraid Of the hoppers
we shall raise :,s we are of those that
may come to MS. Their favorite spot for
planting seed seems to be- on breaking
and as an immense amount of breaking.
was done this summer we are interested
IN the question OF now TO deal with the
hoppers on breaking. VIII those who
have had years Of experience let US
know what they have found to be the
best means of destroying them? Will
narrowing well this fall be OF any SER
vice? We want light or the subject. In
Otter Tai, Co. | am told they have laid
eggs in great quantities, also in Doug
las Co. They visited those places IN
greater numbers than in Grant. Many
OF the residents OF Otter Tail say the hop
pers deposited there two years ago, but
never hatched out in numbers sufficient
to do any harm. People in the hopper
districts do not lear them as people do
who have never had them.
This great west must not be abandon
ed to grasshoppers. 1t IS the only hope
of our country IN these times Of business
depression and financial quackery. Driv-
IN from the west where under heaven
I viii We go to better our condition?
( ''Ifto the city sped what waits rs
there? To see protusioa which we must
not share The west is the only outlet
for the starving population Of the eastern
states. With her factories al shut down
and her workmen nil unemployed and
her lanes and streets crowded with
"tramps," the country presents a spec
tacle OF bad management appalling to
behold. And the financia wiseacres
gravely inform Us, that this distress is all
the result OF production, Good
heavens Aud what is produce That
from which we get our living and our
wealth. Can it be that people:can be
so wealthy as 10 be driven into bans>
ruptcy? These people might IS we'll
telius that the hoppers are only Il bless
ing in Disguise. for they are helping rs
dispose OF our oyer-production. But
logic OF fools.
Mr.. Editor il requires neither prop.
! hot, nor the son of prophet. 10 see
the end of the present system OF the pol
itical management IN this country. As
certainty IS like causes produce like
effects, % surely will We By following in
the track OF ether nations ne reduced 70
their condition. A
People dream thai the hard times are
nsarly over. that business Will revive ;
wages VIII increase and we shall see
prosperity and happy times again. Ills
II dream that never can be realized un-
der the present system. Ii IS the genius
OF that system to bald up moneyed
laristccracy OF the one hand and pau
lper peasantry or the ether hand. The
grsa. collapse OF 1873 only FASTENED the
inevitable result
/ The poverty and distress or the work
ling classes have come 10 teach them the
lot thai must lss theirs ard their decend-
lants forever
| The err Oh 4 r. kings and merchan,
Ipriuces. OF grant monopoly and 4 pau
per peasaniry is At hard Prepare tor il
We lahonng millions, or vote Tor PErEs
lCsUrEg
ASTrLoPE.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY AGAIN.