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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18

=, I1,1~f C',I1O
Majority against the amendment 1852
Only fourteen counties in the State vo-
ted in favor OF the amendment, and their
majorities in favor Of this means of pay
ing the State railroad debt are as follows:
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18
Iseconciline Race Troubles.

A meeting Of lot OF White and bla OK
and white citizens Of the region known as the
scene of the Ellenton riot last fall near Char
lesion was held on the 18th, with view to
restore peace and harmony. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted looking to the cessation
Of race troubles and to the dropping of pend
ing prosecutions in state and federal courts.
The promoters of the Liberian emigration
scheme claim to have enrolled the names of
$500 colored persons in the city and 10000 in
the State who consents to emigrate
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18

honext day by the chief Of police Of Lacrosse
and is now in jail, g. 's
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
WHOLE NO. III.

summer schools and now threatening
those of the coming winter.
If this is not urging the people to
nullify the law what is it,
And herein we would quote the fol-
lowing very significant Ebmarks of
Mayor Maxfeld, Of st. Paul, in de-
bate which occurred in the Board Of
County Commissioners of Ramsey
county. His closing sentence tells
the whole story:
The president of the board, put in
good word for the Merrill law. which,
he said, had already performed great
and beneficent work, in reducing the
price of school books to less than one
half the extortiOnate rates previously
charged land lower than had ever been
known in the state. The school book
publishers ring had robbed the people
for years of immense sums, but the
Merrill law had broken down the mo-
nopoly, and now books wore comparl-
lively cheap. There is an effort on
foot to get up prejudice against the
Merrill books, and if that law could
be repealed or rendered null and void,
the book publishers would again, no
doubt demand the former outrageous
prices for their books. The mayor
rather suspected that the book agents
were at the bottom of this opposition,
and he said they didn't work by argu-
ments alone, but when the occasion
demanded it, THEY DREW THEIR WEA-
Sell SKINS WITH ALACRITY. Laugh
| ter.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

committees or the votes of the House
or Senate The truth is that the ex-
penditure of every dollar received by
the Normal Schools from the State is
strictly accounted for, and itemized
bills are filed in the State Auditors
office and published in the report OF
the state Normal Board to the govern
or and by him submitted to the Legis-
lature. The people or their repre-
sentatives have the fullest informa-
ton as to how the money is used,
whether properly or economically or
otherwise.
But the trick consists in this:-An
ordinary appropriation cannot be
made until passed upon and approved
by each branch of the Legislature
The secret appropriations for the
Normal Schools, cannot be interfered
with except by the joint action OF
both houses, by an act to repeal the
act of last winter. In the meantime
the appropriation Of 100000 is not
voted upon at all. If one Legislature
can thus make law which ties up the
hands of all succeeding Legislatures
we had better abolish the Legislaturt
altogether.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

Out Of turmoil and agitation the
great party of the future is being
born. It has not yet crystalized into
one organization; nor is it even, as
yet, known by one name. But sooner
or later greenbackers,w ,workingmen,n ma
tionalists and breadWinners will all be
consolidated, and in 1880 they will
sweep the land. Here is an item Of
news
ALBANY. n. Y. Oct. 1O.-The
Breadwinners league held a conven-
ton here today. Charles Truax, of
New York, chairman. The platform
adopted reatfirms the Indianapolis
platform of 1876. and that Of the
Breadwinners league of 1877. The
following ticket was nominated: Sec
retary of state. John J. Junis; comp
troller, f. p. Elliot; attorney gener
al, f. Sharpe; treasurer, julius Kern
state engineer, Horatio Seymour, Jr
It is understood the Republicans vii
| take Mr. Hearns for treasurer on theil
ticket and the Breadwinners will take
Prenville Tremaine for attorney gen
eral on their ticket, thus persectins
the combination contemplated by th
Republicans and those opposed t.
Tammany Hall.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The st. Paul Dispatch, Republican
organ is fair enough to say:
Mr.. Banning's letter strikes an at
titude on the currency question that
will command many sympathizers. If
that was orthodox Democratic doc
tline-or if the people could be made
to believe that his election would
bring about the results he desires to
reach, he would be popular candl-
date.
Well; it is enough to know that Mr..
Banning is himself right. and will act
right il elected governor. Let us all
give him a chance to put his doctrines
in to practice.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The workingmen of New York
have united with the greenbackers;
they have nominated state ticket,
with General Spinner, ex-treasurer OF
the United States at its head. and
propose to poll a big vote. The Agi-
tator published at Buffalo n. \. is
their organ. new and very able pa
per. Here is a specimen of its talk
You are on the verge Of a great
Workers and producers-one
of the greatest strikes that has ever
been recorded.
| It is not merely strike for bread
or wages. but a strike for the main
tainance of your liberty and privileges
as citizens of this Republic; a strike
for the maintainance of popular right;
a strike for the maintainance of our
Democratic Republic, and strike at
the budding slavery which is now be-
ing nurtured in the land,
Other Republics have fallen before
the deamon Of treachery; other people
have been precipitated from the sun
ny hillside OF prosperity into the val
lev of distress; other nations Travelled
over the same road which we are on
They are, and have been, for years
suffering in the wilderness of distress
into which it had led them. Are WI
to continue and realize the same ex
periencese
Now, to stop the train which i
whirling us on our destructive course
a STRIKE is necessary-not strik
with the club, the bludgeon, or tn
sword, but great REvOLUTIONAR
BALLOT STRIKE.
This train which is whirling us t
e destruction. is engineered by job
Sherman. Leaders and members O
the Republican and Democratic part
} are the firemen, and the bankers an
: bondholders of this country and FL
rope are the directors of the road owe
which we are running-a road wit
!. golden rails which are besmeared wit
l the blood of suicides and innoceI
victims of monopoly--a road W
+ golden rails whose squeaking echo r
q verbrates the groans Of sufferir
down-trodden people.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

Every bit of this pretense ota great
desire to bring gold and greenbacksa at
par with each other is a sham. There
is not single whit of sincerity on
the part of the Resumptionists in this
whole outcry: because the way is open
now and always has been to accomplish
that object in three days time. All
that is necessary is to give the note
the same legal paying power the coin
has and the thing is accomplished
st. Louis Farmer.
The object is not to bring the green
backs to par but to increase the pur
chasing power of money at the ex
pense of all forms of human industry
What do the Shylocks of Wall stree
care about the national credit, tina
they should distress themselves abou
the discount on greenbacks. The pre-
tence is absurd.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The money article of the Chicago
Journal of Commerce and Price Cur
rent says
Next week will be the fourth anni-
versary of the September panic of
1873. Every season since, the entire
cOuntry-except a few grasshopper
districts-have been blessed with good
crops. good health and fair demand
for all our staple products and manu-
factures. SO that the balance of trade
with other countries has been con-
stantly increasing in our favor and
yet the profits of agriculture, manu-
factures, commerce and the carrying
trade have been so wonderfully small
that all classes have deemed the times
and all kinds of business greatly de-
pressed. Bankruptcies have been
numerous without precedent, enforc.
ed idleness has all the time been
increasing and defalcations among
men holding large trusts alarmingly
numerous. We have attributed thi:
state of things to the governmental
policy of depicting the national cur
rency. making corporations the custo
dians of national funds and irresponsi
BILE men the keepers of the people
savings.
This is sufficient answer to tn
pretence that our hard times wer
caused by poor crops, grasshoppers
etc.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The lie Sueur Sentinel tells of the
largest wheat yield yet. Here it is:
The most extraordinary crop of wheat
We have had reported in the state is
said to have been raished by Fred
Almich, in Tyrone township, who
from five acres of land has threshed
275 bushels of wheat, machine meas
ure, or 55 bushels per acre. The
statement comes we'll authenticated
and we cannot doubt it.
Won't somebody say something now
about the fields that averaged ten and
fifteen bushels per acre. and those
many thousands of acres that were
grasshoppered into barreness.
Every bit of Dragging like the
above is quoted in Chicago as an evi
dence that the price of wheat should
go down.
&THAr BABy.-The Rag Baby grew severa
inches and cut another tooth when it hear
dle news from Maine.-Wayne Co. Courier
But the eyes of the hard none,
men grew in size faster than TIN
haby.--and their mouths!
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4 significant circumstance in

\ significant circumstance in the
bullion reports by cable is the con-
stant flow of gold from the bank of
England to the United States. An
other large shipment of American ca
giles took place yesterday, and the
bank rate Of discount has been raised
to the unusual point of five per cent.
to check the drain. Simply as an in
dication of the success of Sherman S
policy of attracting and accommodating
gold. this circumstance is gratifying.
Pioneer Pdess.
What. in the name of all that is rea-
sonable, had Sherman's policy to do
with the flow of gold to the United
States! 1t was caused blythe English
demand for American wheat. Surely
Sherman had nothiug to do with that
But what kind of a financial policy
is that. the success of which depends
upon the action of the bank of Eng
land. If that great institution can al
any time prevent gold from coming te
the United States by raising it's rate
of discount, the business of the Uni
ted States, if it rests upon gold ba
sis, can at any time be thrown int
convulsions. Our prosperity as pee
pie will hang upon the action of TIL
Bank of England. Is that right!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
The Republicans of Faribault COT

The Republicans of Faribault coun-
try thus expressed their approval Of
some of the legislation of last winter:
RESOLVED That all regard with salts
faction, the action of the last legisla-
ture, whereby the rate Of interest
on money was restricted to twelve
per cent. under severe penalty; the
rate Oh unpaid taxes from "A per cent.
to Is; and the salaries of county officers
diminished so as to correspond more
nearly to the value Of the services re-
quired at their hands, believing these.
reforms to be in the interests of the
people and in accordance with the
genius of the party.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
THE SCHOOL BOOK LAW.

A writer in the Pioneer Press de-
fends Prof. d. c. John Of the Mankato
Normal School. and says
The Anti-Monopolist out in fnri-
Gus onslaught on Prof. John, of the,
Mankato Normal School, simply be 4
cause he dares to state his objections
to the school book law. The article is
headed s'Insolent' and well illustrated
its caption, for never was greater
piece of insOlence and falsehOOd per-
petrated in fewer words. Prof. John
is not going about the state advising
the people to disregard the text book
law; he is not advising them to buy
Monroe's readers, neither is he agent
for them.
Let us see! Prof. John was one Of
tine committee that made the famous
report to the Minnesota State Educa-
tional Association held at Mankato
Aug $3.50, 1877, and we are informed
that he wrote the report. Did that
report "advise the people to disregard
the text book law It says
County Commissioners will be slo w
to involve their treasures in project
which, III consequence of defects in
the law. must result in loss.
As clerks need not make out esti.
mates before the middle of next
March, and as county superintendent
can delay reports of any estimate {
sent them until the middle of April
advantage will be taken of this chance
for delay ina majority of our counties.
For these reasons our schools, the
coming winter, will be largely book
less. unless they determine to vindi
cate their right to books Of their own
choice. Members of our largest cOun
ties have already taken action Of thi.
kind. Other counties, disguised with
bookless waiting, will be likely to FIND
the same way Of deliverance from th'
i delay and privations suffered in th'
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The northeastern Chronicle. the
Catholic organ of the Northwest, now
edited. in a very able manner, by w.
l.. Kelly Esq. of st Paul, expresses its
financial faith thus
SOUND FINANCIAL PoLICY.--Polltl-
cal parties seem much worried about
the financial problem. Our plank is
simply, ''Good money, and plenty Of
it,
That is sound doctrine. There is no
better money than greenbacks; and
there is no reason in the world why
they should he destroyed by the gov
ernment.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

We have repeatedly charged that
the passage of the bill demonetizing
silver was accomplished secretly and
by fraud. The hard-money men have
denied it. But here is an admission
from Genl. Garfield, leader of the Re-
publicans of Ohio. that covers the
whole case;
Now: my friend put the categorical
question to me whether. at the time
the law passed. was aware of the ef.
feet that law would have. Perhans
ought to be ashamed to say that I
at that time being chairman of the
committee on appropriations, and hay
ling my hands over-full during all tha,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
4 SILLY ARGUMENT.

The hard-money organs are hard
driven to extract some rays of COM
fort from the miseries their policy
has brought upon the people; but it is
like extracting sunbeams from Gu
cumbers. The Pioneer Press said the
other day:
The result Of three or four years of depres-
sion and hard times, is the explosion of a
host of weak and fraudulent institutions and
it is serious question whether it wonld not
be for the ultimate benefit of the people if the
depression should continue a while longer,
or until all of them were driven to the wall
| The remark attributed to Andrew Jackson,
| that snobody failed who did not deserve to
| fail, +" needs to be qualified, but if applied to
recent corporate failures it is not far out OF
the way
| Now the fact is that the crisis is
carrying under the honest and vir.
tuous as we'll as the rascals. Only a
day or two before publishing the
above extract the Pioneer-P Press spoke
as follows:
The Chicago Tribune comes to the defenc,
of Mr.. John c. Haines, the president of thu
collapsed Fidelity savings bank, against th'
, virulent denunciaions of the Chicago Times
It says Mr. Haines has been resident of Chi
cago for thirty years and during that time ha
borne an honorable record for fidelity to ever,
trust and for honesty in all his dealings; tha
there is no trace Of dishonesty to be found il
the records Of his bank; that all the asset
shown by the bank are there that no secun
ties were stolen, and that there has been n
illegal or dishonest perversion Of funds; tha
J the failure of the bank is the result of error
in Judgment in making investments, mainl
from losning money on real estate which ha
within few years depeciated from 80 to Z
: per cent, and from the shrink2gein the valu
!. Of securities deemed good when accepted b
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

the bank;but that he made the same mistakes
in investing his own money; that he did
eyerythiny in his power when the rush Of the
savings bank panic came upon him to pay his
depositors, and that hen forced to close he
did all that an honorable man could do.
How can any credit business be
safely conducted in community
where property shrinks in a few
years from FIFTY TO SEyENTY-FIyE
PER CENT
And what is ito be thought Of a
policy which arrests material prosper
ity and growth and causes such a
shrinkage as that!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The Normal School professors un-
dertook TO nullify the school text
book law, and they have provoked
storm all over the state which will
probably next winter sweep two of
them out of existence. The st. Cloud
Journal Press comes to their defence
against an attack in the Benson Times,
1t says
Again, these schools. do not ssre-
ceive $4,000 each'' as is stated, the
st. st Cloud school getting but 50 900
and the Mankato sc0ool like amount.
It is further charged that these appro
priations are made without being sub
! mitted sto the scrutiny of Legialativ-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

Winona Herald: There is one good
result already grown out of the Mer-
rill school book bill. namely. it has
broken up gigantic school book ring
which hung like an incubus upon the
people of Minnesota
Yes; and the enlightened educators.
especially the Normal School profes-
sors, are s,hard at work to hang the in
cubus over the people again. Let us
sustain the Merrill law and abolish
two of the Normal Schools.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The Republicans papers will con-
tinue to not tell the truth. They say
Iowa has gone Republican by 10000
majority. 1t has done nothing of the
kind. The Republican party is in the
minority in Iowa; but it has plurali-
ty over the divided opposition. If
the Republicans can extract any con-
ISOLATION from that they are welcome
TO it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
STARTLING FIGUREJ

The communications referred to
in our last issue, under this heading,
are as follows:
The Co. Superintendent of Schools
in Olmsted county published the fol-
lowing notice in the Rochester Post:
The State School tax fund, men,
toned in the recent school tax and
book law, has reference to a fund
contemplated in a bill vetoed by the
governor. On account of this defect
in the law, our State Supt. at the
Teachers association held at Mankat.
in August, advised each County Supt
not to order book from the State cor
tractor, unless the County Commits
sioners make an appropriation to pay
! for the books. Heeding this advice,
| l have submitted the facts to our
County Commissioners, and they re-
fuse to make any appropriation for
this purpose. Therefore. no change
in our school books will be required
for the present. Changes in the text
and book law, will probably be made
by the next legislature. All additional
books needed in the schools, should be
obtained without further delay; and
trust that parents will see that their
children are properly supplied with
books for the fall and winter schools.
M. G. SPRING, Co. Supt.
/ Whereupon the booksellers of
} Rochester, the county seat Of Olmsted
county, at once came out in the
, county papers with the following no.
tice: !.
TO THE PATRONS OF THE SCHOOL BOOK
TRADE.
2 We the undersigned book sellers, OF
the city of Rochester. in considera
tion of the fact that rents, clerk hire
, insurance, taxes and host of Incl
dentals must be met and liquidatet
J. with the profits Of our business, hav,
= agreed upon the following schedule O
prices to take effect on and after Sat
urday, September 18th, 1877, for tn
/ books recently introduced into ou
e. city schools, viz:
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

Some of the Democratic newspapers
think they may spite us by not sup
porting Mr.. Banning. Politically 1T
will not advantage us single farth-
inc whether Mr.. Banning is elected
or defeated. We care nothing about
it. What we do care for is to build
up the greenback party. That's what
Mp are after.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18
TO SCHOOL DISTRICT CLERK


understand that D. D. Merrill, the con-
tractor named in the School textbook law,
has an agent in this county trying to induce
the clerks of our school districts to give him
orders for the monopoly books, but he has |
not called upon me. This is to inform the !
clerks that he is acting irregularly and con- !
trary to the law, which requires all orders to
April of each year, that they are under no
obligations to order the Merrill books through
anyone, and that they will gain nothing by
doing so either in the quality of books of
price, all things considered. The Merrill
books are no better than those already in use,
and, if introduced in a few schools, it would
be needless expenditure, and break up the
to maintain county uniformity for the inter
ests of our schools, and, to do so, all books
introduced should be regularly recommended
by properly constituted committee trust
you will all see the propriety of letting we'll
enough alone, and have nothing to do with
this clandestine agent or his books. Let us
act together as heretofore orderly and har
moniously, and wait for further instructions.
The books now in our schools will be fur
ni3hed to scholars on satisfactory terms by
our regular booksellers. Please read the ac
ton OF the Minnesota State Educational con-
vention sent you.
N. NJ. HoLBRooK, Supt.
Here is man, elected by the tax
payers of Mower county, who delibe.
rately tells the people Of the county
that they shall pay two prices for
their school books; that the law of the
State shall not be executed; and that
they can get their books con salts
factory terms of the regular book
Sellers
Really the argument is becoming
very strong for the abolition of the
whole system Of county superinten
dents. They have long been regarded
as useless and expensive excresence.
upon the public school system, ant
ysar after year there has been a de
, demand in the Legislature for thei
abolition. They have only been re
tanned through their own appeal t.
, members and senators to save them
1 But when. they take part with tn
School Book Ring in plundering tn
people, and help to set at nought
law of the State, the feeling in tn
r Legislature will be intensified.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

The Democrats of the Thirtieth
legislative district have nominated
Il. =. Crawford. of Elk River. for
senator, and Henry Rasicott. of Little
Fall. for representatives Pioneer
Press.
Very good nominations: especially
that of Mr.. Crawford. Heis an earn
est creenbacker and good man. and
deserves the support of every voter
in his district.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

time with work. never read the bill.
l took it upon the faith of q prominent
Democrat laughter and prominent
Republican, and / don't know that \
voted at all. There was no call Of the
ayes and noes, and nobody opposed
that bill that I know of,
Wasn't that a pretty way to pass the
most important bill of the century!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-18

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.-The state
central committee of the greenback
and united labor parties have agreed
to mite for the purpose of conducting
the present state campaign. ana De
known as the united greenback ana
labor state central committee.
So the work of consolidation goes
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