The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-10-19
The .Antd-Monopolist.


with Astor and Vanderbilt, who could
themselves make ~ the deficiency. And
mark ye. the war power put every dollar
in the country at the disposal OF the Gov
eminent it it were needed. But there
was no need. no necessity, no excuse,
for going to Europe to peddle that frac-
ton of bonds.
Yes, there was necessity. Walker and
penny A per centage even on two
hundred and fifty millions would fill up
their pockets; and SO the one commits
stoned the other to cross over and enter
us in .'bondage" to the Dutch bankers.
That was Walkers work and Walkers
commission. The dealings with the
Threadneedle street of London were con-
Quoted, we believe, under the eye of
McCulloch himself However that may
be. this same Threadneedle has sewed US
pretty tightly.
Proceeding thus far did not seem of
much account, SO long as our obligations
were dischargeable in United States
money. But other objects were in view.
and this was merely the entering wedge.
With weak Congress, with few Peter
Coopers among them, it was not difficult
for the bondholders to get just whatever
they chose to ask fora reasonable con-
sideration. And SO their bargain was
supplemented-an ca post tacto bargain
was made with them-a crushing load OF
gold was put onto US to bow us into the
earth, though we could have danced the
saraband under q package Of ''green
backs"
Congress, to be sure, had right to
give this gold to those .'bond">erers. a
bargain is bargain the world over, and
when the bondage men bought Congress
sional votes and paid for them, they had
right to get them, and they did get
them. Why not?
But votes to that purpose would have
borne little fruit had it not been for other
votes that followed them. It is true, it
was an ugly business and might even be
dangerous to those votings that must fol>
low. 1t involved slight and dishonor
to the nation. To say that our own
money was not good enough for the beg.
carly fOreigners-we say ''beggarly"
for what they did lend US was beggarly
fraction-nor good enough tor them, but
quite good enough for ourselves. and so
we dishonored as we'll as plundered our
selves when we repudiated the green>
back. This never could have passed.
only the messengers, like the cutie fish,
threw out shower OF ink that darkcned
the whole subject.
And the retribution tell, quick and
heavy, upon us. The necessary necessity
that we thus created for gold put unnat>
ural life into il. II was now bound to 90
ahead. Up, up, up! till, for forty cents
oft our European task-masters could
bond us, every man, in the full sum OF a
golden dollar.
Here's what the politicians have
brought US to. Here's what the men,
now in the field for our votes, shave de-
termined to keep us tO-kecp US to their
bargain with Shylock, whilst they will
not even get a little more money to set
us to work that we might earn gold to
make good that ioul bargain of theirs.
We read OF the poor Islralites in Egypt,
when compelled to "make bricks with>
out an allowance OF straw" We see
them going up and down over the stub
BILE fields OF the country to pick a substi-
tute for the necessary straw thus with
held from them. But where are we to
get the substitute that will fill up the
place of money and enable us to make
those golden bricks demanded by the
masters that the Collective Rapacity in
Washington has set up over US?
And this eastern seaboard OF ours is
counted in as the main crutch that thi:
open fraud has to lean upon. That
crutch-what is there of its lash.
Toned and fitted in by the daily news.
mongers OF nearly il not all the seaboart
cities. Jack Carpenter finds his paper
full OF the special pleadings OF tn,
bought-up editors all in favor OF thu
hard PAN Ga hard pan sure enough,
and, OF the national honor" as they cal
it, when they are really speaking Of tn,
national disgrace. Well. Jack ..doesn'
see it, very clearly, 50 he goes to hi
neighbor John Smith, and takes lool
at his papers. There he finds the sam,
tone, sung, it may be, in higher treble
STILL not content, he goes to Bill Brick
} LAYER and takes look at his mornin,
mentor. 1t is the same tune over again
varied only Dy the skill Of the perform
ers. Poor Jack goes home and think
Of the adage. ''what everybody say
must be true,r and he makes his min
/ to vote willingly tor his own enslavemen
and degradation.
: But before they can produce this result
the daily newsmongers must luckily d.
/ another thing. They must bring ou
) | the cloyen boot into such a LIGHT that M
+ body can mistake the cleft in it. Nat
: ural stupidity might possibly account 70
> their painful labors to prop up this gres
/. financial wrong. But can their nsturs
stupidity, however gross, account for th
TACT that they shut out from their column
all discussion on the subject? Or is
3 mere chance that consigns to the waste
It basket all that their neighbors may sen
: in to them for publication? Does nc
T this fact bring very close home to ther
two things-one that they are under cor
e troll by their paymaster. and the o.he
q shav Enn~ vorr veil If liUht Il la n