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

dIlO Nat1Onal BANK acts,
Second.-Making Greenbacks a full Legal
Tender and inter- changable with bonds bear
ing low rate of interest;
Third.-RigorOus laws regulating and con-
trolling moneyed corporations;
F"urth.-A thorough reform in the sCivil
Service;
Fifth. "A rigid economy in the expenditures
OF the Government, and strict accountability of
public officers,
Are invited to meet, in delegate convention,
at the city OF indianapolis, on Wednesday,
May IL, 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-
yious to the 10th of May, 1876, the number of
delegates to he double the number OF Represen-
tatlves 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 be a repre-
sentative, and full one
S. NJ. SMITH, Chairman,
i. Is. BUCHANAN, 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 VIII recur to this subject again.
We would renew the Recommendation
made in our last issue. that the people.
without distinction OF 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 sneerng mem.
Der of the Satanic press, The Chicago
Times, came out the other day with
this utterance:
The history OF every political community
teaches that reief from Tie oppression of gov
eimental tyranny whose effect on lnd yiduals
always takes The form OF eXtoltionate taxation.
can only be- obtained BY torcble resistance TO
the ktax gatherer. The course of government is
always the same. AT the outset, trugality and
economy constitute the rule OF public admins
tratlon. The prevailing tendency for
power to a.granize Itself appears in the grad
! ual multi pilcation Of objects OF expenditure.
ana The STEADY growth OF taxation, until cor
fuptou ana eXtravagance become the rule and
taxation Is felt as a burden greater than in
| dustry can bear. The preinonitory SYMPTOMS.
the low rumbllng of The approaching tornado
Of revolution, begin in the cutlery tor reform.
| but II Is not the nature OF the 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 in experdture
aud increase IN the burdens of taxation CON
tlnue, until the peoplr, drvento desperation.
risc IN rcroH and bury their opprcssors beneath
The broke fragments Of the political orange
ments they haUsbuiH up to forpurd the pur-
poses Of The government robbery.
Bot how will 1t be possible tobrine about su
a reform, BIZ any mode of what is implied by
the word reform 1t can not be brought about.
The only mode 10y which it will ever be done
is that OF revolution. Resistance to tn. I'M
bearable expressions by force is the only wax
which history has shown to be effective or
available. II is the course which oppressed
TAX payers have always found it necessary to
take IL Is the course which will be found
necessary by the victims OF tax-robbery in
Chicago
/ In this land Of law and order there
should be no necessity tor a resort To
violence and brute force; but there is
clearly necessity for political revolu.
ton, wide-sprcading and deep-reaching.
Let it commence with the people.
The national Democratic and Repub.
lean parties, taking the basis of the last
elections, stand to-day, about equal ia
numbers. The Republicans are Gun.
ningiy reviving the worst passions Of
our cruel civil war the starved corpsc
Of Andersonyiile are being dug up anc
paraded before the public gaze. Judg
g ing the future by the past these base az
peaes 10 sectional hate will be suificien
e 10 carry the presidential election, backe,
!, up as they will be by the capital of tn
/ country and the incaculablc corruption
: which it will beget. The re-nominatiol
n OF Grant might, of course, change al
this for the issue would then be no
!. between men or parties, but between
e republic and monarchy.