The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-31
The Anti-Mon0poliSt.

LQelr turn OF are DOunu ~ ~ GuC AAO 0oG0
If the capitalists. What chance have
the laborers of being heard ana MS
wrongs laid before discriminating pub
licp None, like the working men 81 CHI.
caeo when they requested that the fund
known as the relief fund ($27O, OOO yet on
handy that was contributed by all the
benevolent people Of the world at the
time eff the ire should be expended by
the CITY on some Improvements, tnat
would give employment to the thousands
If idle laborers in the city, instead OF Pc
ING held by ring. They were branded
| by the press as a set OF communists ana
Jewelers." and when the late troubles
amongst the mine owners and their en-
ployees in Pennsylvania was reported oy
the press, how many papers made lalr
representation of the existing causes that
led to the strikes amongst the laDorers:
No mention made Of the plotting and
conspiracy of the capitalists to reduce the
laborer's wages and make him drudge
and a serf in this tree land. 1t is easy lor
a combination OF mine owners represent
ing 400 millions OF dollars 70 combine
and crush out any labor prganization,for
thew have powerful auxiliary in star
walton and the cries OF suffering wives
and children tor bread can not be illus
trated. But is there not danger in this
evil spreading? Ii this power can be eX-
ercised by ring in Pennsylvania why
can not similar rings be formed gin the
West to control the price OF the proceeds
OF the farmers labor, CHS crops?) Can't
this power be equally potent In the
West? Capital is seeking investment in
every town. Money brokers establish
ments, are to be found on every street
corner. The fictitious capital is fast alb
sorblng the real capital OF the country
and many IL county in our western states
are now owned by English capitalists
and German Jews, who hold mortgages
on four-fitths oft the real estate, and keep
the unfortunate debtors in position
worse than seris; for they are living and
acting as owners paying the taxes, and
keeping up the improvements, only to
surrender the whole, with the savings OF
a lifetime, whenever the greedy cred
itor sees proper to foreclose. The same
influences are potent in our courts. No
sane man will enter into q suit at the
present time expecting to secure his
case on its justice. No, the goddess is
blinded with tillet OF gold or green
backs.
But this is too long already, and l
have not had halt my say out.
The game to be played this fall is the
soldier dodge. The party in power
finds it the best card in the pack. That
is the role in this state. They have
saved the nation (without any help from
other sources they are therefore en-
titled to the possession OF the govern
nent for all time to come, mo matter what
crime they commit Thus loyalty is a
universal panacea for all complaints On
the same principle that if you assist to
out out fire that threatens to burn up
your neighbors house it gives you spe :
cial right to plumber him to all eternity.
The only means OF safety left the people
is thorough organization, and unity OF
action. The laboring interests are the
great paramount interests of the nation.
They can control the future destinies OF
OF our nation. Will they9 Let the in
dustrial classes answer; let them act IN
unison and our country is safe.
Yours,
SAMUEL SINNETT.
Massachusetts tondly hoped that it was
rid OF the Hon. Benjamin +. Butler. The
decent people Of the state are bitterly
ashamed of him. but these are not always
a majority, even in Massachusetts,. Al
was atoretime piteously said in the per-
verified language of the poet:
ar all tho cad words Of tongue or men,