The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
WHOLE NO. 80.


:. Second. d.-Making Greenbacks afull Legal
Tender and er-changable with bonds bear
ing low rate of interest;
Third.-Rigorous laws regulating and con-
trolling moneyed corporations;
Fourth.-A thorough reform in the SCivil
Service;
Flfth.-A rigid economy in the expenditures
Of the Government, and strict accountability of
public officers,
Are invited u meet, in delegate convention,
at the city of Indianapolis, on Wednesday,
May II, 1876, to put in nomination candidates
for the Offices of President and Vice President
OF the United States. The committee recon-
mend to the committees of the Several States
to call State conventions, for the purpose Of
appointing delegates to said convention, pre-
ylous to the 10th of May, 1876, the number Of
delegates to be double the number Of Represen-
tatives and Senators in Congress.
The committee further recommend, and
urge the committees of the several states to
take early action to fully organize their states
to the end that the convention may he repre-
sentative, and full one.
S. N. SMITH, Chairman,
i. B. BocHANAS, Secretary.
These principles are not held or avow-
ed by either of the great parties and vet
they are. in our Judgment, Of the first Inn
portance.
We will recur to this subject again.
We would renew the Recommendation
made in our last issue, that the people.
without distinction ol party, unite in the
formation OF clubs in each township to
advocate the principles above set forth.
Send. Us report OF the action taken and
Of the names OF those who sign the con-
stitution OF the club, and we will publish
them.
There is no question that the burdens
OF the people are becoming greater than
they can bear. Even that sneering mem. !.
Der OF the Satanic press, The Chicago
Times, came out the other day .swith
this utterance:
II The history OF every political community
teaches that relief from the oppression OF gov
ermental tyranny whose effect on indi viduals
always takes the form OF extortionate taxation.
can only be obtained by forcible resistance to
the ttax -gatherer. The course of government Is
always the same AT tho outset, frugality and
economy constitute the rule Of public admins
tration. The ever prevailing tendency for
power to asgrandize ltseif appears in the grad
! ual multiplication OF objects Of expenditure,
and the steady growth OF taxation, until cor
ruption and extravaganza become the rule. and
taxation is felt as a burden greater than in
dustry can bear The preinonltory symptoms,
ssA0 wv cumming VI Tie AHpIOdCulIlk LOrIl8OO
OF revolution, begin in the Outcry Tor reform
But 1t is not the nature Of tile governing. power
intoxicated by the handling OF vast sums of
other folks earnings, to heed these warnings
OF the coming revolution. Upon the plea Of
pubic necessity, extravaganza III expenditure
aud increase in the burdens Of taxation con-
nnue, until the people, driven 10 desperation
rise in rcroIt and bury their oppressors beneath
the broken Jragments Of the political aryange-
anents they hare bYlt up to. .forcard the DSr-
poses Of the gouernmcnt robbery.
Bot how will 1t bs possible tobrine aboutsu
reformy BY any mode of what is implied by
the word reform It can not be brought about.
The only mode by which it will ever be done
n Inat OF revolution; Resistance to the nm.
pearable expressions by force is the only wal
which history has shown to be efEactive OF
available. It Is the course which oppressed
TAX payers have always found u necessary K
take. II Is the course which will be fosin(
necessary by the victims Of tax-robbery il
Chicago"
/ In this land of law and order ther,
should be no necessity Tor q resort x
violence and brute force; but there Il
clearly necessity for political revolu
ton, wide-sprcading and deep-reaching
Let It commence with the people.
) The national Democratic and Repub
lican parties, taking the basis of the las
|, elections, stand to-day, about equal Il
numbers. The Republicans are Gun
. ningiy reyiving the worst passions o
: our cruel civil war the starved corpse
G OF Andersonviue are being dug up AM
b paraded before the public gaze. JudQ
ing the future BY the past these base al
pcaes 10 sectional hate will be sufficiel
e to carry the presidential election, backe
up as they will be by the capital of th
I country and the incaculablc corruption
) which it will beget. The re-nominatio
n Of Grant might, Of course, change q
= this for the issue would then be M
! between men or parties. but between
e republic and monarchy.