The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-08
The Anti-Monopo1iSt.

Superior were divided among his fol-
lowers. That was their reward.
His neglect was, and is the contempt
uous neglect that now never pronoun-
ces his name.
A like alternative is now presented
to Rutherford B. Hayes. What does
he see! The lands of the country and
all control of the money of the country
passed, or passing, into the hands of
public sharpers; congress assuming to
deed away the real estate of the nation,
Of which they were and are mere tenn
porary stewards and guar iIdns; con-
spring with the six thousand banks,
miscalled ''national'' to give them the |
entire mastery; and the entire profits |
OF the circulating medium; steadily |
squeezing down the amount Of curren-
cy; killing off at one day both produc-
ton and consumption; deaf to the
cries Of distress, blind to it's flaming
signals, and SO, and in this condition
OF things, meeting in national conclave
with neither a word nor thought
about the nations distress. All their
paternal care the ironclads and the
army, and commission to show in
Europe not worth two pence in the
country, And, as if to mock the pub
lie distress, you call an extra session
to meet those grand objects. s'Not
entirely you will say: there are
cOnsuls and ambassadors to be APP
pointed. Polite, gentlemanly fellows
that we send over to coax and cajole
the mighty ones of Europe-to eat
them and drink them into good humOr
so that they may not come over here
and explode both our ourselves and
our reepublic.'' And those are the
things which must be attended to-
The people may lie about idle and the
lands may lie about waste. Not a
word, not a thought about them either
by r. B. Hayes or his extra session.
Why do you act thus! Why do you
begin civil service reform at the
wrong end! Why even did you in
augurate your really wise treatment
of the South! Why great in that one
thing and little in every other thing!
Why hold yourself up puzzle to the
nation!
Get out for an hour ortwo from the
atmosphere breathed forth upon you
by Sherman and Schurz and Evarts.
Go out into the fields and looks around
you on the earth and and above you
into the sky. Realize for how short a
time your power is confided to you.
Master the thought that six feet of
earth is, of this earth, your only last
ing inheritance. Know that there is
not want OF your nature, or of your
family, but could be sufficiently met
and supplied with a tenth part Of the
money you take from the nation.
Know, too, that ''dinner parties and
grand ceremonies, or Ostentation of
any kind, reflect no honor, but quite
the reverse, on this democratic re-
public. Those ostentations may be
necessary in mOnarchies to impress
the vulgar as we'll as to satiate the
impostors who get them up. In a
pure, simple, democratic republic,
which this, if it lives, must and will
be, they are entirely and utterly out
of place--instead of an honor re-
proach and a disgrace to the country.
Ii you had not made that brave politi-
cal inroad into the South never would
we have troubled You with word of
warning or advice. Men in power are
apt to forget themselves and assume
Il superiority sometimes fatal to them
selves. Not only on the slave ques-
ton. but also upon the land question,
did the magnates of the South hold
themselves superior to men who vain.
ly tried to otter them Il little of the
Wisdom they sorely needed. They re-
jected all such offers: they trod on
their course, ObStinately and blindly,
nnbelieving to the last that any dan
ger yawned before them: and they
woke up to a clear sense of their in
fatuation only when. after very dis.
locating tumble down, they found
themselves at the bottom of the preci
pice.
! You want to folm a new party
/ Plenty OF excellent materials lie ready
, to your hand. But, so far as we car
: Judge, you are stone blind and cannot
: see them. You look to the disrupted
leaders of the old parties and to your
l popularity in the South for the mate
: rlals OF the new combination. The
South VIII have youas a patron. never
: rs leader. and that you will quickly
5 find out. The old case-hardened party
leaders of either side will not affiliat,
: with you, for there is just as mucf
= honesty in you as will repel them, ant
Ieyen If they did their power in van
+ fishing away in the fire and smoke o
4 |recent contingencies. If you wan
Isuccess stand forth at the head of tn
f lgreat moral and mental revolt tina
a now spreads over and around an,
: across the whole country. Make
n wise disposition of the public land
n and the credit that can be based O.
It their improvements. Frown out O
D existence the 1900 bank leeches. Re
E store its money to the nation. an
h create of it just AS much as the peopl
e are ready to take and give you valu
IL for. Create plenty instead of poverty
e and standing peace instead of
" standing army. Rebuke the destro,
d ing tendencies of the diseased million
il aires, who. to grasp what is of no us
dF to them, would fill the land with til
n suffering which precedes anarchy an
ic leads in destruction. Your opport
80 nifty is great. Your path is clea
n Enllov If AWAY from tha nroo; ~;