The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-14
WHOLE NO. 1853


charge of the duties of their State.,'
This is truly an astonishing doctrine
to be preached in the leading news
paper of a state not yet out of it's
swaddling clothes. If the s'futilities
Of so-called education demoralize
the working classes, then our public
school system should be abolished and
education confined to the ssuppeF
classes while the great mass of the
people, "the working classes" are
consigned to impenetrable ignorance,
utterly untitled to exercise the duties
Of citizenship. And from this will
follow the necessity Establishing uni
versal suffrage and with it the repub-
lican form of government. and then
follows titled aristocracy and a king
or emperor, whose chief duty it shall
be to protect ssthe distinctive safe
guards of society," like Will Sidle
from being overthrown by bellicose
Kate Noonan's.
Press writer:
$50 then Kate Noonan is the taw-
dry, tragic, underdone specimen Of
Servant-galism as it is. Had she
Slnned with a partner of her own
grade the law might coerce amarriage
and make an ''hOnest woman of her..
But now the nOndescript criminal
stands before the public without the
sympathy of her kind, whose verdict
is, served her right, what could she
expect in going with such a select
man..
Think of that An honest man,
named Andrew Noonan, moves into
Wright county and goes to farming,
raising bread and meat for the people,
adding annually to the prosperity and
development of the State. Another
man, named Sidle, moves into Mime
apolis and goes to lending money, pro-
ducing nothing but living on the toll
Of others. The first, by his occupa-
ton, is ceenll1eed to an inferior
"grade," The otherby his occupation
becomes an aristocrat. Why? Simply
| because the first WOrks and the other
does not. And now the money-lender'
sou drugs and ruins the farmers
daughter, takes from her all that
makes her life worth having, and she
is sswithout the sympathy of her
kind" simply because she sinned with
SELECT man. not Of her sgrade.'
Good Lord ! And has it come to
this that, right here in Minnesota, a
leading newspaper can editorially adj
vOcate the doctrine that labor is dis
honorable; and consigns man and all
his family to an ''inferior grade" in
which they can properly be the spoil
of "select men, of the non-laboring
classes? If so we want more Kate
Noonans with their little pistols, and
more ''levelled safeguards Of society,""
How naturally we revert to an aris-
tocracy This writer in the p. P.
adds:
"In England, where servants are
born and trained in the same family
where the domestic organization is
unchanged for a generations good
servant is as much valued and respect
ed in her place as the highest func-
tionary in the land, besides receiving
legacies for fidelity and good conduct.
Read William Gifford's eloquent trib-
ute to Ann Davies, a worthy lamented
domestic; and it is as fine and touching
as Walter Savage LandOr's epitaph
on Lady Blessington. Here we have
left no margin for such pleasant pos
sibilities, and the literal truth is, we
have no servants,-even the very
name is Obsolete-and our "help" is
above or below excelling in the calling
which the old school sort Of people
would emphatically assert as their
only way of earring bread
| We remember, while in Congress,
hearing Shareholder eulogize slavery,
and defend the several castles and
grades of southern society, where
servants were ''born and trained in
the same family for generations, and
he INDUCED in a panegyric of his old
negro NANNY" in very much the
same terms in which William Clifford
praised Ann Davies; very mucn in
deed as sportsman would praise a
servicable dog or farmer an obedient
OK.
The article in the p. p. illustrates
that we would drift back rapidly to
the European condition Of society II
it were not for Tho y
I fluence of the JeffeI1 !.
have made us
proves further the
mans immortal MAJ
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