The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-05-04
WHOLE NO. IS.

Confederacy raised its army in tn face of the
all prevailing loyalty Of the Southern claim
interested population.
1ns,oer: The Court Of Claims is a re-
publican institution its Judges are re-
pubicans they hold Office tor life. Can
you not trust them? And must there not
be some discretion somewhere Sup
pose Brother McKinstry had lived in
South Carolina or Louisiana ia 1861 -
he might have been an intense loyalist
and a violent aboltionist; and vet his
house. barns, fences, cattle, horses, and
every thing he had might have been des-
troyed by United States troops. Would
he not, i'll that event. have Il Just claim
against the United States for the value of
his property? Would any civilized gov
eminent on earth deny such claim?
Mr.. Mckinstry may reply, that 4
Democratic administration could reor-
ganize acourt and let inrebel claims toan
Unlimited extent and swamp the nation.
We do not believe it possible. Ii would
be an act Of party suicide, tor the Demo-
cracy would know perfectly well that
the moment they did this they would
| lose power forever; their party would
dissolve and disappear before the breath
OF popular eAecration. Mr.. Mckinstry
may believe the Democrats Of the north
to be enemies OF the Union and sympath.
isers with rebellion, but he can scarcely
believe that they are all fools. What
| Democrat could be sent to Congress
from Minnesota who would commit
.'hari-kari, in that fashion? And what
is true of Minnesota is true of the other
northern states.
| V. Mr. McKinstry then turns away
from the currency question and duvotes
his attention to the tariff. H. saws
Mr.. Donn-lly, in the above supposiion,
leaves out a very essential element OF the tariff
problem He represents Mckinstry x Go. as
having complete monopoly OF the business of
selling merchandise in Rice county, in which
case the results he depicts might reasonably be
, antic patet. But who does not know that as
soon as il was seen that Mckinstry x Co. were
making agood thing III selling goods under a
40 per cent. tariff, there would be a rush of en-
vious and aspiring capitalists to compete with
them II the profits Of selling goods; stores
would spring upat every crcss- roads, prices
under the effect OF keen competition, would 20
down, profits would soon shrink to a reason-
I able margin, and, finally, fail below, the
rush for hat has become popularity known as
good thing" invariably continues long after
the actual reality OF advantages has disappeared
and at last goods would come to b. sold lower
. in Rice county than III other sections OF the
Sta.e the prices minus the duty being COM
: pared
! 1nswer. Granted that All this is true,
: and we would then ask Mr. Mck;nstry
! what benefit there is in u system which
i creates a temporary prosperity to be
followed by universal disaster; (which in.
i vites an extraordinary labor force from
! Europe and then sets them loose AS
!, tr.lmps 10 steal or beg; which fills the
!. land with poverty, naturalization and
il crime; with idle factories and crowded
i prson>2
a We havc grown mman-clY Is a ma
/, ton since l536 and New York, our great
T. commercial metropolis has grown prop
d orti0nately, and vet To day real-e.tate is
ii was iii 1856 I. This il the test Of
!. growth and prosperity What then has
u The high tariff yicl4eluso
i We have been for fifteen years On a
rand national drunk. We have filled
y thr country with false -,imuIants il has
!. ueen wild with excitement and unnatural
n se,i ity. Vow the spree is over. II is
n .,.oated dcmoral.zed, blear-eyed weak
= in The knees. ragged and pennilcss. 1t
= h.. rot back ID 4 lover condition than it
started from; and McKnstry says that
{ the drunk WI. development and the
- spree progress.
. VI The tafii. and resulting mechanical and
= agricultural prosperity had stimulated manu-
" featuring .1au-try tilt there was over pro
i dnctoa II goods, -ni now the prices Of fabric:
III haze declined b lower fon. than prevailed
or on specie basis previous n the
do Aasuer: II goods are sold lower thar
they were before the war it is because thi