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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13
OUR TICKET.

On the 5th inst. the state central
committee Of the Independent Green
back party metat Mfnneapolis:sThere
was very full attendance, from the
principal counties of thesstate. While
the eonmitteeNa in session it receiv-
ed formal invitations from the Peo-
pies Party, then holding convention
in Pence's Opera House, to unite with
it. Upon consultation, it was de-
cided that the committee had no power
to merge its identity in any other
body, but tit was agreed that it
would appoint a committee Of confer
ence to meeta similar committee from
the Peoples Party, to see if they could
agree upon ticket satisfactory to both
organizations. This was done and the
result was, after some hours consider
alton of the subject, the adoption by
both parties Of the following ticket
for governor, Hon. William l.. Ban
ming of Ramsey county: for lieutenant
governor, Hon. William Meighen of
Fillmore county; for state treasurer,
Hon. Isaac Staples of Washington
county; for secretary of state, Hon.
A. f. Rice Of Kandiyohi county; for
railroad commissioncr. Hon. Ebene-
ger Ayers of Washington county; for
attorney general, 8. l.. Pierce Esq. of
Ramsey county.
We think we may safely say, that
this is the strongest ticket ever pre-
sented to the voters Of our State.
HoN. WILLIAM l.. BANNING is well
and fayorably known to the people of
Minnesota. As the man, who, by his
tireless energy and persistent determ-
ination, caused the construction Of the
Lake Superior railroad, he has added
not less than ten cents per bushel to
the market price Of every bushel Of
wheat now raised or hereafter to be
rdissd In Minnesota: :and i'll this way he
has put millions of dollars Of wealth
into the pockets of our people. Not a
railroad man himself. and without the
capital to build railroads, he went
from city to city, not only in this
country but on the other side of the
Atlantic presenting the great resour-
ces OF Minnesota to the attention of
the capitalists of the old and new
world until he had secured the neces.
sary means to construct this great out
let to Lake Superior. And now even
the roads tributary to Chicago and
Milwaukee, feeling the effect of the
competition Of this shorter line, ri0
Duluth to New York. are compelled
to charge less for the transportation OF
all commodities than they would 9th
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CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS.

Mr.. Merrill is doing we'll in the text
book matter. The works he will offer
will be first class. Some OF them are
the publications of d. Appleton 4 Co..
revised; and the Appletons publish
ONLY first class works. This is just
what Mr.. Merrill should do. but what
we feared he could not accomplish; and
now if his books are good. il they are
as good as any series. we do not hesl-
tate 10 say that it is the duty of every
officer of state. county, town or school
district who has any act to perform IN
relation thereto, to SO act as to faclll-
tate the success of the project to the
utmost. The independent school dis
tricts ought to use the books as soon
as Il change can be made without loss;
county superintendent and the State
Superintendent should aid i'll acquaint-
| ing communities with the merits OF
the new books and inducing 4 ready
compliance with the law. Some
amendments will be necessary in re-
gard to the method of supplying the
children with books. but it is enough
to know now that the cheap books will
also be good books.-Red Wing Repub-
hcan.
Very true: and yet desperate
effort is now being made to pack the
next legislature with man who will
repeal the law. in the interest of the
School Book Ring. One of the leading
representatives of that Ring has said
that they could afford to spend half a
million dollars rather than permit the
Merrill law to go into force. No doubt
of it. In three or four years they
would get their money back from the
people of Minnesota alone; while if the
Merrill law proves success other
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13
THE UNEMPLOYED.

The st. Paul Dispatch had an edito-
rial, the other day, in which it claim
ed that Hon. Geo. HI. Pendleton exag-
gerated the number Of unemployed
working men and women in the Uni
ted States, when he set the number,
in recent speech at three millions.
1t is of course difficult to arrive at
the exact number, but we do not think
Mr.. Pendleton has greatly overstated
the case. Here is one item
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
taking the latest report of the labor
statistics of Ohio, finds that there are
employed in that State $685. .287 persons
in agriculture against 1890 in trades
and transportation, l79,3o4 IN m; nu
factures and mining, and lO4,0l8 in
professional occupations. The unem.
ployed persons in the State are report
ed at 2l9,219.
If, in the state of Ohio, there are
nearly quarter Of a million unemploy.
ed persons it is not too much to believe
that there are two millions and three
quarters more in all the rest of the
Union. Ohio is an agricultural state,
a western state, and generally pros
porous state; and yet she has nearly
one person in ten Of her population
unemployed. If the idle workers in
the rest of the Union are to be estinNf
ted upon the same basis the t6tal
would approximate four px1lions.
Much of our country is worse off than
Ohio. while Il small part is better off.
We are inclined to think that Pen.
dleton' estimate was a reasonable one
Think of it three million workers
idle. IT we estimate that each OF
these have two persons dependent or
them for support, it would make q
grand total of nine millions without
the work with which to buy daily
bread. If each of these would pro
duce when employed one dollar pei
day here is three million Of prOduc
ton arrested, involving a loss to the
country of $4,000, 900 or nearly a bit
lion Il gear!
And all for whatl To make the
bondholders bond worth a few cents
more.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13

This issue is thus stated in Il recent
number of Pomeroy's Democrat. 1t
will bear careful perusal.
Over One-half of the coin in the
United States is silver. The entire
annual production of gold and silver
in the United States is not sufficient to
pay the interest on the public debt.
When the public debt was created,
the creditors or bondholders agreed
with the government to receive coin
gold or silver, or both-in payment
of interest.
In 1873 congress passed law de-
priving the government of the right
to use silver in payment of either
principal Or interest of the debt.
BY this act the country lost by one
stroke of the executive pen, over S20,-
100000 in the depreciation of silver
coin: cut off its most fruitful source of
interest revenue, and damaged to the
extent of $4,000, 900 annually one of
nation most important resources
Can any friend of the resumption
and decentralization financial policy of
the Republican party tell us why con-
gress enacted this suicidal law, and
why it is allowed to remain in force!
What benefit does the government
or the people derive from it. that war
rants its existence or justifies it's con-
tinuance!
Nothing at all.
Who. then. are benefited
No one but the foreign creditors of
the government or the people.
Silver was demonetiZed in Europe
because the Rothchilds found it incon-
venient to transport and handle their
vast interest accumulations in Il coin
so cumbersome rs silver.
Then when it has been demonetiZed
in Eupope its value deprecated % per
cent. and it WASH convenient for the
money kings to lose so much as they
would have to by taking our silver
coin at par.
The annual interest we pay our for
eign creditors amounts to something
over $500. 100000
Suppose we paid one half of this in
silver. our bondholders would lose
$50, ,Ooo, 900 annually.
They preferred that the American
peonle should lose it. so they spent
half million to bribe congress to rob
the people
1t was small sum compared with
| the vastness of the speculation. but it
was small minds and worthless souls
that it purchased.
We ask our present congress to re-
peal this act of treason and robbery,
| but are told that ''0ur government Is
bound to full its sacred piedges..to public
| creditors.
| When we know that these pledges
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13

WHAT is WEALTH.
Some hard-money advocate uniting
more.

Some hard-money advocate uniting
recently. says:
..Think of it q moment. If the
United States should increase in
wealth for fifty years as rapidly as be-
tween 1860 and 1870, we would be
worth more than all the rest of the
world combined; more than it would
bring if put up at auction on long
time and easy payments. Is it possi-
BILE for the United States, within the
life of man, to accumulate more
wealth than all the world has been
able to accumulate since Noah landed
from the ark! Yet this is precisely
to the conclusion the census Of 1870
leads. And that, too. when half the
country was ravaged by war, and
thousands of millions of dollars in
property wasted and destroyed. To
such false conclusions does imitation
and the attendant fever of specula-
ton lead. Following these years OF
imitation. war, speculation, extrava-
gance, waste, premature development,
excessive expansions of credit. finan-
cial kite-fying. and stock-gambling.
uldltS dlNd plOopEIits o. - A|etss NsA'
count have come years OF prOstratlon;
stagnation, business misery bankrupt
cy. loss and ruin.
We interpret this differently. The
increase Of wealth revealed by the
census of 1870. was real wealth, il
anything is real in this subiunary
world. It consisted of mills, fac'
tories. workshops houses. blast fur
naces. farms. towns. cities. territories
and states. It embraced new herds
of sheep, cattle, horses. hogs, etc.
millions of bushels of wheat, corn
potatoes oats, barley. rye. ETC., raised
on lands that had slept in desolatior
for millions Of years: it embraced
hundreds of thousands of men wht
had risen from poverty to become th'
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13

possessors of farms or workshops. If
all these things do not represent
wealth what is wealth! We had sup
posed that wealth was those things
necessary to the wants of the human
family, food, clothing, homes, means
of transportation, etc. And now we are
told that a period Of time which p. O.
duced all these things in a degree of
Superabundance such as was never
seen before in the history of the
world was really a period Of suffering
and ruin. We are asked to believe
that all these millions of Workingmen
who, during these years, enjoyed the
comforts of civilized life, were in an
inflated and unnatural condition, and
that now when they are homeless.
hopeless. and half starved. wandering
over the world looking for work. they
are in their normal and proper condi-
ton!
We do not believe anything of the
kind. We believe that the enormous
prosperity which followed the war
was due to the fact that for the first
time in the history of the world the cur
rency Of the land was adequate to the
demands of trade. And we think
that the men who for selfish purposes
arrested that extraordinary growth
committed the gravest possible crime
against mankind.
What our nation needs is:
!. An abundant currency, fully
equal to the necessities of business,
and increasing with the increase OF
commerce and production.
II. That this currency should be
issued by the nation itself, without
the Intervention Of any third parties
Ill That it should be full legal ten.
der for ALL debts, public and private
including duties onfmports.'
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Anti-' 'asNonol,olist. =
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IGNATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR.


Prof. Johns of the MankatO Normal
School. whose bread and butter is
drawn from the taxpayers of the
state. is going around the country ad-
vising teachers and school district
officers to pay no attention to the law
of the state in reference to the Mer-
rill school books, but to buy the Mon
roe series of readers, for which he is
probably agent.
Isn't the Normal School burden
growing a little heavier than the peo-
pie can bear! Isn't it time for a lit
tie more agitation OF this steal!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13
4 PICTURE FOR AN iRTIST

The st. Paul Dispatch has the fol-
lowing:
At the reception Of the Army of the
Tennessee at the fur grounds yester-
day, calls were made on Gen. Bel
knap, for speech; the General had
disappeared in the crowd. and after
waiting some time, Hon. w. S. King,
the spokesman oflthe occasion, grave
ly announced that the ''prisoner had
escaped" The speaker. the subject.
and the occasion combined to make
the odd remark hit hard on the audi
ence.
Mark Twain has written book
called The Gilded, Age" wherein
he represents the notorious Pomeroy
of Kansas, under the name Of Sena-
tor Dilworthy: and in the work Mark
draws many pictures illustrative of
our corrupt and degenerate age. But
it never entered the fertile brain Of
even the great humorist to imagine
such a scene as that depicted above.
Think of Bill King introducing ex.
Secretary Belknap to an admirine
Minnesota audience.!! Oh, ye gods
1t were picture for the pencil of IIo
garth
But when Bill supplements the
scene with the remark 1.-The prisoner
has escaped" the overtlowing laugh
ter is suspended and the audience car
only look at each other, lost in blanL
amazement.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-13

states will follow the example Of
Minnesota and their huge profits will
be destroyed forever. Hence it is
life and death struggle with them.
FOreWarned is fOreWarned and the
people should see that no man is elected
to the Legislature who is not sound on
the school book question.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
A Word to Reforming Men.


In late Moody temperance meeting,
Brother Sawyer, reformed man, gave his
experience. He said after conversion, he
went to work for an old tanner in Poughkeep-
sic for four dollars week, and had to pay
five dollars week for his board. He told
them that they must expect to reap good
many tares yet, after all the tares they had
been sowing. They might have no friends,
but they deserved to have none after the
wicked lives they had been leading. They
might have to work for twenty-five cents a
day, as one of their number had done. 81
glory in his nerve" He urged them not to
grumble; told them not to lie around the
rooms of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, but instead of praying for God to
take care OF them to go out and look for
work so as to take care of themselves. The
best way to find anything is to keep looking
for it. You have been at work tearing
down Gods kingdom ever so many years,
and you must not expect all these things to
be added unto you all in a minute but if
you have to go out and walk the streets all
night as Brother Brazier did, don't 90 back
to the devil and strong drink. You may
think you are far gone, but you still have
hope in Christ. One old woman was telling
her pastor that her hope was all gone.
What will you sell out for ?" he inquired
"Oh, not for all the world ~ she exclaimed.
She had better hope than she thought she
had. Now, give you this motto for this
year: Joshua il; Z, "Only be thou strong
and very courageous, that thou mayest OBJ
serve to do according to all the law which
Moses, my servant, commanded thee. Turn
not from it to the right hand or to the left
that thou mayest prosper whithersoever
thou goest."
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A Poor Excuse.

"But all who drink do not become drunk
ards" know that; but if fifty young men
begin to drink, some will assuredly be ruined
by it. Then there is a risk. Now we all
desire safety and security. Suppose you de-
sire to travel from New York to Chicago,
and there were two lines of road-one on
which there were accidents constantly &C.
curing, passengers killed and wounded, and
on the other, never since its opening had
there been a single accident. Which road
would you take? If you are sensible, and
regard your own welfare, you would take the
safe one. Suppose some one should tempt
you to take the risky road by telling you
how much more beautiful the cars were, and
what jolly company you would find on
board the train, you would say :" care not
so much for gaudy cars and jolly company
as for my safety want to be safe Now
il is your safety we seek when we urge you
10 abstain entirely from strong drink
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
COlOring Butter.

The repeated effort to popularize annatto,
under some form or other, as a coloring
for winter butter does not meet with all
the success deserved by the chemists and
Others interested in the annatto trade. 1t
astonishes us that some good dairymen,
however, recommend it as they do; but in
every instance where we have inquired into
it, it has appeared that they are men who
send their butter to market as soon as made.
In this case, if the dyestuff is mixed with
the salt, in moderate proportion, and care
fully worked in, tolerable approach is
made to a natural color. But let this butter
be kept for a month or so, and the red, which
is the predominant color in annatto, comes
TO the surface
There is no doubt that there is less
"trouble" in dying butter with annatto
than with carrot, and so in addition to those
whose product goes direct from the churn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
WeW advertisements.
WHAT HAS HAPPENEDq


What has happened here no lately,
with the bummers Of the town.
What's the reason they no longer
All their sense in whlskey drown7
What has caused the smiling faces
OF the mother, sister, child,
FILLED no more with fear Of rum 1end,
BY its touch no more denied?
IT'S the glorious temperance banner,
Long laid low now waving free,
Pointing brother, son and father,
To nobler destiny
Homes, 30 lately filled with trouble,
Now are Allied with hope and Joy;
All resulting from the iabors
OF that worker, Il. MoLLor.
Work away all willing workers,
Rich and poor In every statIoni
Morals habits, rum and whlskey,
All need thorough renovation.
And, when weary from your labors,
Seeking rest from anxious care,
Please remember that we're cleansing
Feathers, shoddy wool and hair,
At the store once known as Dewey's
On the street now known as State;
All we wish Just now Of you is
All your beds to renovate.
Come along, bring in your orders,
Or leave them at friend Chester Clark's;
Hen not tempt you with poor whiskey,
And knows our work. as well as Parks;
And 40 does scovlll, Chase and Roberts,
Bennett, washburn, Stone and Skinner;
They can tell our work Is well done
If they don't, then I'm sinner.
Don't delay, for time ia passing
Sign the pledge, and bring your beds
The pledge will keep your conscience easy.
Our Renovator II ease your heads.
RESovAroR.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
NentrgrdnrE
DROWNED.


Found floating in tie river7
You towed him in today
Yes, his habits were peculiar
ny husband, did you say2
My husband was as handsome,
wo,, ,,,,r,,a a., (, 5saa,,,,a,
nr ,aa ,,,,. = - - ,.',.o
remember | was married
Such long, long time ago,
fes-the lights and flowers and musicl
was happy then, know.
Such strange thing to be happy
with the wreath of orange b,ossons
In NV bair9 How conidubeg
But II was. Yes, remember
Clearly now-it was divine
All the pride and JOY OF loving
And of being loved were minel
And my Harry was so handsome
pu, this darn ,h,ng in ,he rlveri
What ia tbis2 Thsre. some,binq wronsi
Something wrong and something missing
All this happened long ago
on so long agol Such ages
Since my Harry loved me sol
why had almost forgotten
Whom mas, lover .,o,d hos,1o mo
AZ, n,,,, ,,.a,.o' a,,,, ,a,,,Ison,o h,vt
1t is pleasant, but can't think
What reminded me of him.
For those memories of old days
Had become so vague and dim.
Something brought to mind my Harry
No, mot dar,, ,,,,no t., ,,o r,,,or,
Nos,ch ,hos,t, ,h,rg "a ,hot,
Well, those happy days of loving
Could not last-they could not last
All that happiness speak Of
Ended ages In the past,
And my husband, my poor husband,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
This Book also contains MORE
THAN FIFTY PRESCRIPTIONS
for the above named and other dis
eases, each one worth more than
the price of the book.

Also another valuable medical treating exclusively
on MENTAL AND NERVOUS DISEASES more than
hundred royal octave pages twenty elegant engraving
bound in substantial muslin. Price only $780, Barely
enough to pay for printing.
"The book for young and middeaged men to read just
now the Science Of Life Self-PTesevaton. The
thor has returned from Europe in excellent health and
again the Chief Consulting Physician OF the Peabody Med
cal Institute, No. Bunnch street. Boston, Nass"Repub
ledR Journal
"The Science OF Life beyond all comparison the
extraordinary work Physiology published "Boiion
Herald.
Hope nestled In the bottom OF Pandora box and hope
plumes wings anew since the issuing Of these valuable
works. published by the Peabody Medical Institute which
teaching thousands how avoid the maades that sap
the citadel Of lfe"- Philadelphia Enquirer.
at should be read by the young the midde-aged, and
even the od."-Nep Tork Tribune
The frst and only Medal conferred upon any Med-
cal Man In this country recognition Of skill and pro-
fessonal services presented the author these
works. March 3st, 1876 The presentation noticed
the time Of It's by the Boston Press and the
leading journals throughout the country. This magnificent
Medal Ia of solid gold, with than hundred India
diamonds OF brllliancy.
Altogether, in its execution and the richness OF s
eras size this decidedly the most noticeable Medal
ever this country for any purpose whatever 1t Is
well worth the inspection OF Numsmatsts. 1t fairly
won and worthy bestowed "hassaehHsetfs Piou0hDan,
June sd, 1876.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

THERE is produced in the United States
each year about ninety-two million dollars
worth of distilled, malt and vinous liquors,
and about eight million dollars worth is i'm
ported. As we export little or none, the
consumption cannot be far from one hundred
million dollars. The value of tobacco in
its various forms produced in the country
is about seventy-two million dollars, of
which nearly twenty-eight million dollars are
exported, while some seven million dollars
are imported. This would make the CON
sumption about fifty-one million dollars
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
TnrRE is no kind of doubt but that drunk.

THERE IS no Kind OF doubt but that drunk-
enness is sin against the common veal
In 1879 select committee of Parliament
collected abundant statistics on this subject.
1t was they reported, proved before them
that drunkenness is the prolific parent of
crime, disease, and poverty that in some
jails as many AS seventy-dve per cent. of the
criminals attributed their condition directly
to drink and that at least twenty per cent
of the insanity recorded in Great Britain
was produced by the same cause.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

INTELLIGENT farmers should realize that
it takes less food to make the first hundred
pounds of pork than the second or the third ;
hence, instead of making scavenger of the
pig for the first eight or ten months and
then stufiing him with surplus of food for
the next few months, economy demands that
the animal be kept constantly growing from
his birth until maturity.