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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-29
TIE DELItQTENT TAX LIST.

The more the people Of St. Paul un>
derstand the fragrant outrage inflicted
upon them by th-ir board Of county COM
sioners. in the recent letting. of the
delinquent tax list, the more indignant
they become. A Ring has had control
Of st. Panl for 50 many years that, like
Boss Tweed. they are really 10 ask The
people; We'll. what are you going 10
do aboutii?- For years they have run
things to suit themselves. until taxation
has become literally confscasi0a. The
multitude labor and struggle to fattcn .
few knaves. who "toil not. neither do
they spin. and yet Solomon in all his
glory was not arraved like one Of these. =
With an iron-clad tax law. cunniDyly
devised to wrench from the citizen his
property without hope of recovery they
continue 10 pile the taxes upon the
groaaing people
In the midst OF the financial crisis now
upon the country, when the universal
demand is for retrenchment and econo-
my, the time came for letting the print
ing of the delinquent tax list Two bids
were put in. The ST. Paul Dispatch
offered to print the list for FIFTEEN CENTS
description; we offered to do it Tor
EIGHT CENTS. The law said that Il
should BE- lst 10 The loEest bidder. We
were the lowest bidder. But instead OF
giving as the work, they gave it to the
Dispatch, achich had asked kke hiqhes,
price pcyDsittsd By InU-
| On what pretence was thiss These
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IN ANSWER

Mr.. Donnelly is opposed to iTilien now, but
i'll 1875 he spoke true words Of him follows:
New York Is developing some able, broad
minded, Democratic statesmen, Senator ker-
nan is one; Gov :'rideu is another
1t the policy OF the Democratic party III that
State is directed i'll the spirit of their wise coun
sells, it will be immensely strengthened in all
parts of the Union. But If they follow an IL
liberal and narrow minded policy; and if,
above all, they propose to ignore Or insult the
masses OF new men who have alone turned
their defeats into victories, they will soon lind
themselves without allies.
Can Mr.. Donnelly put his hand on his heart
and ignore his utterances OF lS,5.--Na nketo
Taios.
No; but Mr. Donnelly knows more OF
Gov. Tilden in 1876 than he did in 1875.
He has seen him lend his moral aid. il
not his material assistance, to the defeat
Of the Democracy OF Ohio last fall. be-
cause they did not adopt 4 Wall Street.
platform. He has seen him try. through
his former organ. the New York World.
to torce hardmoney doctrines down the
threats OF the Democracy OF the West
and make them the servile instruments
to carry out Republican scheme OF con-
traction which the Republican party it.
self dared not endorse in its national
convention. lie has seen him corrupt
ing the Democratic party ofthis country
by buying up editors through an adver-
Using agency; thus inaugurating the
very arts which we condemn in the Re-
publican party.
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THE CARPET BlGGERS.

Fred. Douglas made an incendary
appeal at the Cincinnati Convention the
other day for distribution of property
TO the black men Of the south Not sat.
isiied with their enjoying all the rights
possessed by the white people. he argues
that each OF then should have farm
given to them, and this too when four
million white working men of the north
are without employment and almost
without food He refers to the fact that
the Car OF Russia endowed the liberated
serts with land rs \ reason why this
nation should do rs mnch for the ne
groes OF the south; and he claimed that
the whites We're destroying the negroes
wherever they had the power.
We do not believe this latter state
ment, but il there is any foundation tor
it. however slight. the whole power OF
the general government should be ex-
ercised for their protection.
But there is one state in the south
where the negroes. and their allies. the
carpet baggers. have y large majority
OF the votes and are in full possession Of
the government; we reier 10 the state OF
South Carolina. Let Us see how mat
tiers work there. We quote from re-
cent number Of the Charleston News =
The Judge of the court Of common pleas nj
Barnwell. South Carolina, had to bring bust
hess 10 \ sudden halt last week to saw. coloreti
jurors from starvation. They said they had
been without food the whole day, and could
get neither money nor credit. The kind
hearted Judge proceeded to give them the fol-
lowing crumbs OF comfort"
Under the circumstances will be eompell-
Ell TO discharge YOU. for / cannot keep Won
here II \ starving condition. Bat YOU seq IL
what 4 condition you have brought the couu-
try. You are not without blame, for the men
in Office. responsible for the stoppage Of court
were put there by your vote. Here we are in
the month OF May; there is no money to paw
your judge. TO pay Jurors, TO supper. the pris-
oners III jail. or pay the other expenses ct the
county. lou colored voters are responsible fol
this thing: for by Your votes the had men whf
have brought about this .alnen.ah.e state O.
affairs were elected"
In other words. the state is pluckec
so clear that the Very functions of gov
eminent are suspended.
Would Fred. Douglas like this kline
of thing to spread over the entire south:
II the government gave each OF the ne.
groes OF South Carolina a farm and :
pair OF mules. how long would it b.
before they would be sold out for unpai,
/ taxeso
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their present rates are the same as in
1878. We know that in Minnesota the
rates on the Winona & st. Peter rail-
road, for instance, have never risen to
the standard Of the pre-granger times.
And why are their rates reasonable?
Because political grangerism" taught
them that there was a power in the
land which it was not safe for them to
provoke power which could I'M
make laws and Legislatures and courts.
Does any sensible man suppose that
the extorton Of the past would have
ceased if the people bad submitted like
dumb cattleo Not bit ct it,
The people do not desire to crush the
corporations, but they will not permit
the corporations to crush them: and
whenever they attempt it political rev.
olution, like that of 1878, will sweep the
land again.
The two parties to the great contro-
versy have learned to mutually respect
each other; and they are now regarding
each other with friendly but walchfuI
eyes.
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IN EXPL INITIDN.

We stated in our last issue that Mr.
William Welsh. one of the county COM
missioners of Ramsey county, had the
honor of being subscriber to the ANTI
MONOPLIsT We were mistaken. 1t was
another gentleman OF similar name. Mr..
Welsh informs us that he never sub
scribed for the ANTI .MONOPoIIST in
tact that ME never subscribed tor uty
newspaper published in St. Paul, except
theNorthwese rn nronicle.
We are glad TO learn that Mr.. Welsh
does not read the Pioneer Press Tribune
or the Dispatch. Those papers would
simply obscure that luminous breadth OF
thought which Mr.. Welsh brings to the
intelligent discharge OF his duties as =
member OF the county board. We apol.
ogize to Mr.. Welsh for inadvertently
charging him with reading even the
ANTl-MoNorOLIsT.
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THE TRUE UOCYHI Ne.

With us of the south, the controlling con
sideration is not one OF sections, Dut Of the
whole country; for the union is cenented III
the blood OF brave men, and welded together
by the result Of . tremendous war, and what
ever we may have wished in the past,w know
that the fate OF the north and the south, ofthe
east and the west, is to be a common one, aud
that any disaster to our institutions must effect
equally and alike the people OF each and every
one of the states Selma {Ala.) argus.
That is the right spirit. On that
foundation we can build 4 great, united,
prosperous brotherhood, speaking the
same language, filled with the same
sentiments. honoring the same flag and
worshipping the same God. This will
give us IL nation, peaceful, harmonious
and invincible.
Let US all work together to that end.
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to-day that there is such thing as witch
craft; or that God permits one OF his
basest and meanest creatures to cast ar
evil eye upon and aifiict unto death the
innocent and virtuous. Old women
with black cats are never seen astride Of
brooms, nowadays, riding to the moon
to attend witch conventions where the
devil presidcs as moderator. We read
Tam O'Shanter's description of how,
"Cofins stood round like open presses,
And showed the dead in their last dresses,
And by some devilish wltchcraft slight
Each in his cold had held light!"
Or we sec the witches in Macbeth
mixing their abominable stew OF frogs.
toads, bats, and such trumpcry; and we
laugh at the whole thing as somethin 9
superbly ridiculous. But there was !,
time when Shakespeare's audience:
looked at these wierd preparations with
open-eyed horror and unquestioning be-
lief, even as Mabeth did,
"When tina this fell of hair
Did rouse and stir as life We're init
1t is believed that during the era of the
witch prosecutions, to wit, the sixteenth
century, hundreds OF thousands of hui
man beings, generally old and
treindless women, persisted at the stake
or by drowning In three months, in
l515, five hundred witches were burned
in Geneva. In Lorraine nine hundred
were burned between 1880 and 1895
and it is believed that more than 100, 900
persisted in Germany. 1t is estimated
that 50 900 were burned to death in En-
gland, and over 100, 900 in France, while
even our own New England sacrificed
thirty unhappy souls in the same mad
frenzy of persecution. The insanity was
not confined to any one race or any par
ticular religion.
It's q sad commentary on the human
mind to read the history OF these perse-
cutions. Thousands OF reputable wit
nesses testified to acts OF wltchcrait, and
in many cases the accused plead guilty
to the most improbable actlOns:-inter-
views with the devil, flights to other
planets, committed by in
carnations, etc. And yet just SO soon as
public intelligence had progressed TAI
enough to declare the whole thing de>
fusion, witches, wizards and al
disappeared into thin air and have never
visited the earth since unless it be among
the halt-civilized negroes OF the south.
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THE DE.NOCRITIC CONTENTION.

As we 90 to press the st. Louis con-
vention is battling over the platform. 1t
tavors repeal OF the Resumption Act and
declares tor specie payments. There IS
y minority report made by Ewing Of
Ohio in favor OF receiving greenbacks
for duties on imports.
II. z. Hall telegraphs that Iilden will
have 40 votes on the first ballot with 81
more necessary to nominate. The Hen
bricks men are bitter against 1ilden.
There was much bad blood In the COM
mlttee, Voorhees, ard Ewing leading the
oreenback men. No nomination prOba-
BILE to-day. Platform resolves against
importation of Chinese coolies.
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VERY tNt'.iiR.

Political Sranyerls.m Is on its las. legs in
Wisconsin, II not entirely extinct Colonel
Calkins, OF Milwaukee, IN letter 10 The
Chicago Times, refers to the wonderful rsvolu.
ton in public sentiment; since TAYLOR was
whirled into the sovernorsh,p on the granger
cyclone. All through the STATE, m complaints
are now heard aSains. the railroad tariff. either
for freight or passengers, which have been
restored at the same mark whsd = they were in
1878. when the great movement aSalns. rail-
road ex;or;ious commenced which ended in the
Potter law. Tha, restriction was subsequently
repealed i'll all is parts, and the railroad COM
pAnies Acre resumed tina. control over their
own business which they may riSh;sally calm,
and no complaint IS made against them by any
intsrst. occupation, " class OF people in tile
ssate.-Picsssr- Press Tri1a.e
And why is no complaint made agains S,
Them? Simply because their rates are
reasonable For We do no, believe that
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-29

essSos AAuAA5 AOuSA-SAOu OVtT law ana
decencv, pretended that they had never
heard ofour paper before! paper whose
name is household word over the entire
northwest; and that it was not paper
OF general circulation" Do they not
know that it is read in every county and
in almost every village of Minnesot a?
But they claim that it has no genera. cir
culation in St. Paul. Our ST. Paul list,
which we publish elsewhere, is suffi-
cient answer to this. But the law does
not require that the paper to which the
list is given should have general circu-
lation in the county IN which the proper.
ty is situated; for many counties have
no newspapers; and yet they have to
publish their list somewhere. In fact. the
whole publication is an idle form. Every
man who has not paid his taxes kuovs he
has not paid them. He requires no news
paper to tell him so.
The Ring deemed it necessary to quiet
the Dispatch. They thought WE were
not to be feared, and so they trampled
the law under their feet. They may find
they have made a mistake.
Now they say, that the several hun
dred dollars difference between the two
bidswill be paid by the delinquent tax
payers and not by the county. But the
county will have to pay it in the first in
stance and wait for years to be rcim-
bursed. And it right when man is
Sc unfortunate as not to be able to paw
his taxes to violate the law so as to COM
pei him to pay bonus to any newspa-
per? Are the holders Of real estate a
species of criminals who should be per-
secuted and plundered for the benefit of
pack Of shabby local politicians Is
poverty crime and the office holders OF
this country a privileged aristocracye
And such an aristocracy! While there
are one or two decent men in the crowd,
some Of the!rcst have shamelessIy and
publicly worked to reduce their own
taxes; others are VIGOROUSLY ION the
make; !" others are about as fit to con-
duct public affairs as one OF Bill Kings
bulls is to teach in the State University.
And these creatures rule us out, and say
that the ANTI MoNoroIIsr is not "a pa
per Of general circulation;" and that
they never heard OF it before; forgetting
that,
Motto know US argues themselves unknown. !"
lfthey suppe Sc that they can dclib-
erately violate a law which was passed
in the interest of economy. take from
5000 to $1,000 out Of the pockets of the
people. and insult US into the bargain,
they have made q grave mistake. The
people have got their eyes open.
Isit not time, good people of st. Paul,
10 silence the howls and cries Of party.
and 60 in and elect citizens ticket,
composed Of the best men OF both par
ties. and thus break up this insolent
Tammany Of the Northwest, which now
rules and robs youo
I Wepropose to do our part toward that
end.
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4 PAPER or GENERAL CIRCTLA.
TION.

TION.
While the ANTI-MoNoPoLIsr is not
local publication. and breaches doctrines
not generally por,lar in the cities, we
nevertheless, as the following list Of
subscribers will show. have general
circulation even in the hide-bound CITY
Of st. Paul, q list too that is steadily in
cr.asing.
ANTr-NoNOPOLIsT SUBSCRIBERS IN ST.
PAUL.
Chas- Crashaw.
Frank lockwood
IN Libby
Peter Tiernay
Phillip Crowley
o Ncsaughtoa
John Morry
Jos SILK
Rcubin Freeman
Kennedy & Hudner
Jno. Swain
J. II. Bryant
Tnos. Bower
$. l.. pirece
n q y. ii NAfnef
D. w. Ingersoll Co.
P. r. Pagan
d. G.. Greonisaf
u. O'HallorAn
Gov. c. r. Davis
Col Alien
T. u. 3. Porter
l. b. Waite < 90
Northwestern Chronicle
Hon James Smith
W. l. McGrAth
r. r. AMI G. Shandrew
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HITCH BURNING.

we came across some curious statistics
the other day in reference to the mum.
Der of persons who. three centuries ago.
were burned in Europe and this country
TOR witchcratt. No sane person believes
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to settle up large and fertile region Of
our state:
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
LlrcHFIELD, Mimi, June 20, 1876.
Ri. Rev John Ireland, st. Paul:
Rt. Rev Sir:-In reply to the inquiry Of
Major Thompson Of the 10Th inst, would state
that the entries in Swift county, since January
list, are asjfolows:
Homesteads III Swift county .... -. 80. 33l
Timber culture entries in the district. $3.50. 1862
Pre-elnption filings. ...... 20S
Total. ...... ...... ..... FOL
Homesteads in the district -. ..... ~ GA
Timber culture entries in the district 49,. 30 |
Presumption nlings in the district ... 4O2
Total -. -. -. -. ..... ...... -. 3l7
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UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, }
LITCHFIELD, Mimi, June 20, 1876. {

Some Of the entries in Swift county have
been made by others than your people, while
many of your people have made entries in
Stevens and Chippewa counties. | should
judge that over 800 entries have been made by
your colony on government land in this dis
trict.
In this connection allow me to bear testi-
mony to the intelligence; integrity, and good
order always manifested by your colonists in
all their business relations with this office.
can now call to mind no instance in which
one under the influence OF liquor has been in
this Office. Cases OF profanity are extremely
rare; in no instance have we had trouble or
contention. with any one. They model
colonists. know this opinion to BE- shared by
all who come in contact with them.
Respectfully yours,
J. {. BRApEN, Register.
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TIE SWIFT COUNTY COLON

The following letter will be read with
interest. 1t shows that the labors of
Bishop Ireland have materially assisted
to settle up large and fertile region OF
our state:
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WHOLE NO. 1913.


Gen. j. W. Bishop
T. F. McQuillan Co.
w. Dixie
non. Jho >. Prlnce
- = ullnlan
nan : Mch'nney
Jonn uraee
JOS. Lareau
,. L. Davis
onan'oei u commerce
o. laui business College
zen ". A.uorman
- heny
~ az olyAe SCo.
An'e'ioan mouse
o. aui Tyre FOUNDRY
Chas. :. Bryant
Samuel Potter
NJ. F. Kennedy
Hon. J. II. Stewart
John Mathies
S. NJ Flint
j. n Rodgers
u;stor;,l soc;etv
Peter Hal,
John Nininoer
Hon. A. Edgert,n
Gen. John T. Averin
J.G Donnelly
f. Rhodes
J. T. Porter
Right Rev. Jno Ireland
Allen X. Pruden
f. J. Hodgson
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-09-18
Political Notes.

A vote was taken at Corning on the $50
A. NJ. train from Buffalo, on the Erie Rail-
way, Sept. 19, and it resulted as follows ::
Hayes and Wheeler, 2Os; Tilden and Hem
bricks, 9S. The preference Of legal voters
only was asked.
The soldiers are all right everywhere.
Votes were taken at the reunions of two
Connecticut regiments last week. Results:
Hayes, 115; Tilden, IL; Cooper, 8; declined
to vote, II.
Col. M. P. Nolan, lifelong Democrat
and prominent lawyer, of Dayton, Ohio,
has declared for Hayes. He would have
remained silent, he says, but there is too
much at stake.
The great reunion of Union Veterans in
Indianapolis is to be held on Wednesday.
Tired of waiting for the Governor to
speak, the Tilden papers are making exper-
iments of their own in explaining that un
fortunate income tax business. The trouble
is no two explanations agree, and none of
them cover the case.
1t would win a good many votes Tor Til
den and Hendricks if the Democrats could
manage to squelch campaign charge as
quickly as the Republicans do. About II
hours is the average time Republican
scandal has to live, while charge against
the Democrats lives on indefinitely. Peo-
pie are settling down to the belief that the
reason OF the different mode of treatment
is because on one side the stories can he
denied and on the other they cannot.-N
Y Tf.i1Jll7l5
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-09-18
THIRD EDITION.
The storm at New Castle.

ITS VIOLENCE UNPRECEDENTED-DAMA TO
sHIPPING-THI.EE LAPoRTED WRECKS
LOSS OF COAL, &c.
Special to the Commercial.
New CASTLE, DEL, Sept. 1--we have
passed through one of the most terrific
storms within the recollection of our old
est inhabitants. Beginning on Saturday
night with an easterly wind, accompanied
with heavy ram, which as time passed on
increased in volume,i it was yesterday after
noon that it reached the climax. The dam
age is very heavy and at this writing i'm
possible to be estimated. The coal wharf
of s. Truss was overhowed and some 200
tons Of coal washed into the river. q. Gem
mill will lose about rs tons and w. 81. JEFF
ferson IL Co. about 100 tons.
James Shaw, owner Of the Triton cetton
mills, had $50 tons of coal washed off the
railroad wharf, and it will all be lost.
The trees along the streets are badly
broken, and some streets are almost inn
passable from the debris. A large linden
at the corner of Water and Delaware SITS.
was overturned, also one on Delaware near
Market. The dikes In the eastern portion
Of the city are broken and the marshes are
overfowed with water. The railroad of
Morris, Tasker & Co. having been washed
away, caused the overflow Of the marshes
in the western part of the city.
The schooner Cobb, with 100 bushels of
wheat aboard, is 3 complete loss. Two
three.masted schooners were driven ashore
and are now high and dry.
The sluiceway on the farm of Elmer W.
Clark was entirely washed out and the bank
carried away. The sluice at the glebe farm
was destroyed, and the old Potter's field
burying ground had several feet washed
away, exposing coffins, skulls, and bones
innumerable.
Mr.. S. P. Truss's loss, including coal
washed away, grain damaged in store-house,
&c., is not less than $4,000.
The Easements of many houses were
flooded, the tide coming up into Water
street. George Gray, Esq, had three feet
of water in his dining room. The yards of
Mrs. E. Truss, Mr.. Leckler, Capt. Robin
son, John d. Cannon and Miss Blount were
damaged, and the bulkhead of the wharf Of
S. NJ Couper was washed up and thrown
| into them.
Rev. c. Spencers yacht was landed ~
Cannon & Robinson's yard.
A truck boat from New Jersey lost her
deck-load of apples and sweet potatoes.
The schooner Cobb dragged her anchor
and went ashore on the piling at Tasker's
below the gas-house. The Captain had his
three little children on board, with nurse,
but as soon as the ship struck, brave men
dashed into thesturbulent waters, and car
ried them through terrific swell of water,
| safely to shore. the schooner is valued by
the captain at $14O0; no insurance. She
had about 100 bushels Of wheat on board
for W. q. Jefferson & Co. 1t is insured.
A three masted schooner is ashore on
Taylor Dickson's farm.
The greatest destruction is the breaking
of the railroad bank of the Delaware Iron
Co. Although 80 feet deep the wash is
from 800 to 400 feet wide, and will cost from
$4,000 to $40, ,OO0 it is estimated, to repair
it. The bank at Hamburg is also cut in two
| places.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-09-18
Prospects in the south.

Special Dispatch TO the Boston Advertiser.
WAsHINGToN, Sept. 14.-Secretary Chan
dler says that, after looking the field over
closely, he is of opinion that the republi-
cans can, with proper effort, carry the
States of Maryland, West Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisi-
ana, of the southern States, and the nation
alcommittee have determined to begin an
active campaign in those States Immediate
ly,after the October elections in Ohio and
Indiana. Mr.. Chandler says he has organ
lied brigade of twelve Onion ex-major-
generals, headed by General Banks, and all
strong and eloquent speakers, to 60 into
the South and talk truth and reason to the
southern people. He believes that such a
canvass will revive the spirits of the white
and black Republicans, and cause them to
turn out at election and vote their senti-
ments without fear of assassination. Mr..
Chandler speaks enthusiastically of General
Banks's course, and says it is the desire of
all the members of the National Committee
that he shall receive the regular nomination
in the fifth district.