The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-12-20

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iation and the Interchange Of duty
and affection between the entire peo-
ple must not be branded as "the
worst enemy the country ever had
except slavery" without at least
passing protest from me as one VINO
loves the Union, the whole Union,
and believes it now to be indlvlSlble,
and destined to endure
through all time. It was the ''rag
baby" that saved this Union, that
enabled you, Mr.. Speaker, Mr.. Rice,
of Ohio, in the chair to go forth at
the head of your column to lay one OF
your limbs upon a distant field. Gold,
the coward, had fled the country.
The s'rag baby" stepped forward and
gave you and your men arms, ammu-
milton. food, medical care, and trans
portation. It watched over you in
the hospital and brought back the
manly spirit in the mutiliated patriot
form.
Now, sir, when peace has returned
that which served us SO well IN the
war is not deserving of the contempt
that is being heaped upon it while the
people by millions cry from their colo
hearthsides, from their hungry homes,
for the privilege of toiling, and ask
us to maintain familiar medium OF
exchange whereby capital and enter
prise may pay labor for its work:
why shall we not heed their prayer {!
The nations credit will not suffer.
That which gave US credit or
twenty seven hundred millions or dol
lars is certainly enough to sustain the
two thousand millions we yet owe.
THE sHERIFF's HARVEST
Land. as Mr.. Shuckers has shown us.
sold in England for nominal prices
during the approach to resumption.
| hold in my hand the Philadelphia
Times of November 5. 1t says:
ga great sneriff's sale, the largest
ever held in the county. to take place
to-day
Yes, sir, and, thank God,the largest
that ever took place in Philadelphia
"To-day, at four o'clock. in the new
Quarter Sessions Court House, Sheriff
Wright will sell under the hammer
the largest number Of properties OF
unfortunate debtors ever exposed at
one sale in this county. There are
four hundred and thirty-nlne wits
on the list, embracing in all over
fifteen hundred different properties.
About seventy-five of those are sales
to be made on foreclosed mortgages
of building associations for money
advanced mostly on the small houses
of the laboring classes.
[ have heard gentlemen say: ''They
who have rashly specialized ought to
be wiped out and the currency ought
to be made more valuable" Sir, the
owners of these seventy-five homes
have not been rash spectators. They
characterize my native city which |
have had the honor long to represent
here. They are working people; they
train their children mainly to mechan-
ical pursuits. They had, with their
sons and daughters, learned how much
they could earn month and how
much, after living comfortably. they
could set apart rs savings. These
savings they put into stock in build
ing associations. And | say here. as
have often said elsewhere, that the
building association is, in normal
times, the best savings institution |
have ever known and one calculated
to make the best citizens OF poor peo-
pie. These working-people have gone
on paying until all the family lost
employment or all but one or two
whose earnings were necessary to
support the household. Unable to
pay their monthly installments, their
homes. often paid for within two or
three hundred dollars, sometimes
within 500. are being disposed OF to
the ''wrecker,' to quote from the
gentleman from Georgia who spoke
yesterday, Mr.. Fulton;l the wreckeI
who stands by and sees the ship
stranded and her crew struggling in
the surging waters. in the hope that
the cargo may he picked up and pur
chased by him for nominal price.
SHERMAN sBULL-HEADED POLICY.
Speaking of the process taken te
bring about resumption Judge Kelley
said:
We have gone at it bull-headed and
determined to do it whether we car
or not. and have thus effectually dis
abled ourselves, deprived ourselves OF
power. i'm ooverished our people, di
minished the revenues of the govern
ment. and put ourselves in a position
that. though the country deserved
the glowing eulogy bestowed upon i
by my friend from Iowa, Mr.. Price.
although the crops have been UMPIRE
cedented as described by the gentle
man from New York Mr.. Townsend
yesterday. although the year, thank:
to heneficent Providence. has been no
only blessed in its crops but in it:
seasons and has scarcely brought q
wintry day in this region.ye millions
of our people in the midst of tn
Astounding crops are homeless and
hungry. With the largest crop o
cotton ever produced. they are naked
or in rags. Proud three years ago o
their homes, in my city. of which
have often boosted. they now-crouch
ing as too many Of them are. two O.
more families in little house-thanl
God that December approaches ant
lout-door relief can he administered t.
American citizens by the guardian
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