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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-07
harrington HaWk. Eve.

A great many men waiting and watch
ing and hoping President Hayes has not
made mistake in putting faith in South
ern Democrats, are wondering what is to
be done about the recent massacre in
Mississippi. If State government win
not protect its citizens, is il uneonstitu-
tional for the general government to do
it2
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DECORATION DAY.

l.. N. NJ, in Inter-Ocean.
a gain the day rolls round when maid and matrOn
Strew with flowers the honored graves of those
Who died a patriots death. And while the
falling tear
And solemn men recall the weary time when
these,
Once heroes, went so bravely forth to stem the
blood-red tide
That swept so far across our land, we still re-
joice
That they did not lay down their lives in vain.
But, harkl a mournful sound
From the far South falls on the ear,
IT'S the low wall of a stricken woman
Mourning for her family. For her bright boy
Murdered before her eyes. For her fair young
daughter, .-~a.
Laid away in her untimely grave,
Her white limbs married. Her once bright face
Bearing the marks of blows she took
To save her fathers hoary head.
And this in our fair land, where law and liberty
are one;
And there is no redress Can this be true.
And have, indeed, our heroes died in vain?
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-07

The Sioux City Journal says Hayes
had. more strength in the Cincinnati Con
vention than Blaine, but the editor don't
believe the assertion. Hayes real strength
therein consisted of about 70 votes, while
Blaine had 800; but out of spite the Nor
ton, Bristow and Conkling men threw
their votes for Hayes and nominated
him; then at last Conkllng did all he
could to defeat him at the polls. II
spite work is strength, then he had it.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-07
~ w. RICE,
John f. LACEY,

GEO. ". LAFFEhIf. ]. KELLY JOHNSON
/ AFFERTY 4 JOHNSON,
IL ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
OSkalOOSa, Iowa. Office over Mitch Wilson's
store, northwest corner of square. AZ
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1877-06-07
DECORATION DAY-1S77.
BY MRS. GEO. r. LEE.
From Des Moines Register.
We deoorate to-day.

BY MRS. GEO. R. LEE.
From Des Moines Register.
.-. We decorate, to-day, .ea ...
The graves of patriots by traitors slain,
Der each chilled breast beautiful boquet,
Symbolic leaves our fragrant wreath we lay
TO tell our love for those who bravely died
For what?
All! let us not in this poetic act
Forget, or lightly heed the bitter fact
That their LIES blood gave earth crimson STAIN
That grave far-reaching principles might hVe'
Though men were cleft in twain.
What valiant men were they,
Mown down in honor'd prime or youthful pride;
The South seemed like a tiger reused to prey
Upon its helpless victims; but at bay
They held it, conquered it, and let it live;
That kinsmen soon the wild thing would caress,
And pet it, till, with cat-like stealthiness,
Its re-gained powers would again be tried
Upon the gracious mother, for whose veal
Her sons so freely died.
We grace with loving care
Green graves, where their unconscious bodies
But are we sure their souls unconscious are2
Perchance in spirit life they, from afar,
Are cognizant of all the strange events;
Which we
Deplore so deeuly, that the dew of tears
Begems their laureIs after all these years,
While rebels threaten from us soon to wrest
By artifce and aid from policy"
Fruits won by wars harsh test.
~.
We need not feel to. day,
While weeping FER the graves of our true blue
One sentiment of hatred twaFd the gray
Who persisted likewise, and are cased in clay
Like them.
But near our dead, tits mete that we should feel
That living rebels may not with us seal
perfect peace, while they the scheme renew,
Which would have garnered untold ills for all,
But for our heroes true.
V.
Let us our debt repay,
And with hopes balm anoint each tribute
Which grateful sonls on cherished graves dis
play;
Pearls before swine we will not cast away,
Lest unappeased, they turn and rend us too.
Alas,
How swine-like seem the mobs which rule the
South!
Yet tiger-like, each hath a cruel mouth;
So let us not, conciliating, yield
One principle, maintained at fearful cost,
BY those who sleep beneath.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 20.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO MOTI
THE CROPS.

The hard-money men say some
is money enough in
the country. If you have a bushel of
wheat to sell you can always get the
price Of it.
True; but the demand even for
wheat is decreased by the inability of
the people to buy, and with the de-
crease of demand the prices fall.
But it seems that there are grave
apprehensions that there is not money
enough left in the country to move
the eastern crops. The Chicago Tri-
bune, the other day. Published in its
money-column, the following signifi-
cant article:
The impression is almost universal
among bankers that the loan market
will be active and stringent this fall.
The probabilities Of an extraordinary
grain movement are the basis for this
expectation, but the condition of the
reserves of the New York banks gives
it additional ground. The New York
banks hold. besides their own re-
serves, the reserves of the banks of
the interior cities. which in their
turn hold the reserves of the country
banks. When the crops begin to move
currency flows steadily outward from
New York to Chicago, Cincinnati,
st. Louis. Kansas City, and other
distributing points, and from them to
every wayside station in the great
grain producing states where the
farmers can sell their grain. There
is a limit to this movement. 1t must
not deplete the reserve the banks are
required to keep against their depOS-
it's. Last year the legal-tender aver
age fell from $5. .523. 400 to S34, ,975,-
100 between July %, and Dec. 30.
This caused the legal-tenders to drop
considerably below the requisite re-
serve, but the deficit was fortunately
made good by an increase in the spe-
Gle on hand from $40 ,285, 200 to S33,-
90 100. The New York banks now
lid but Sl6,043,O75 more legal-ten-
ders and specie than needed to make
good their reserves. Last year the
excess was SO, 1851 1926; the year be-
fore, S26.5O4.675. Evidently. if the
crop movement this year draws out
the same as last year. $24, ,548, 800, it
will compel the banks to call in loans
to the amount of millions, at the cost
of great stringency, unless the specie
accumulations mount up, as happen
ed last year.
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built for the accommodation Of his
swarming deputies.
A correspondent writing from In
dianapolis says:
''To get anything like correct
idea of the general distress is by at
tending the courts, including nation
al, state, county. township and city
courts. There are about fourteen
different courts and all of them
thronged with unwilling suitors. The
court rooms bear a striking resem-
blance to the draft commissioners Of
fee during the war. Then men were
stripped of their rights as citizens and
now they are stripped of their prop
erty. Seeing such an enormous
amount of litigation going on | asked
the clerk to give me statement Of
the business Of the courts. After
looking over the docket he said from
1864 to 1869 about 1000 new suits
were commenced each year; from go
to II about 1000 each year; from
II to '73 about 1900 each year; and
from '73 to II about 1000 each year.
OF 10000 new suits during the past
four years.
And Hayes says we must stake no
step backward;' and Shermansis hard
at work going forward.
The prospect is cheerful.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
COMMUNISTS.

Whenever Il man attempts to de-
fend his rights nowadays he is call
ed communist. When Il starving
pOpulace clamor for work or bread
they are called communists. They
would probably like little bread in
common. The communists Of Europe
want everything in common;--the
communists of America are enjoying
nothing in coinmOn--and plenty of it.
Even the farmers of the west are
set down Us communists. Jay Gonll's
organ says:
For years we have been cultivating
the spirit of communism in these
United States. The inflationists have
tried to rob creditors: the grangers
have tried to rob transporting cOmpa-
MES: the trades unions have tried to
rob men willing to work at lower rates.
We have sOWed the seed, and culti-
waited to maturity. and now we are
having harvest. No man can tell
how many millions it will cost us be-
fore that spirit which is at war with
all civilized society can be subdued.
~ y. Tribune.
Now the grangers thought that if
they owned farms and raised crops
their whole profits should not be tax
Ell from them by transportation COM
panies. They thought that the SOW
ereign people. in their legislative ca
pacity, had u right to regulate rail-
roads: and the supreme court of the
United States has since declared that
they vere right. Is that communism
The indianapolis Sun quotes the
foregoing from Jay Gould's organ and
adds:
This will be news to the grangers.
They were not aware that they were
communists: but as the Tribune says
so, that settles it, Perhaps the farm
ers didn't know before that they were
s'robbers" too. but it seems that they
are for the Tribune says so. As to
the greenback men the impression has
been very general amongst them that
the other fellow--the bondholders,
were the robbers. They have certain
ly had good reason to think SO. The
people have offered to pay the bond.
holders two dollars and half for
every dollar they got of them. but
that don't satisfy the demands of the
Shylocks. In addition to that they
want each one of those two dollars
and half to be four or five times as
valuable as the dollar that loaned to
the people. Because the people de-
mnr to this: then forsooth they are
Communists
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
THE CAUSE IN IOWA.

We predict that the next election
will show startling results in Iowa.
"A correspondent of The People, of
Des MOines, writes:
EDITOR OF THE PEOPLE:--Y our
package of papers and Carey's
speeches come duly to hand. l have
distributed and mailed every one Of
them. and | receive assurances every
day that they are doing wonderful
work. | saw a man a few days ago
that | sent one of your papers and
also one of Carey's speeches to, and
he came up behind me and put his
arms around me and said: ''Jeffries,
those papers that you sent me contain
Gods truth. I read them at Once,and
then started them around the neigh
borhood, and, says he, s'they convert
every man that reads them. l saw
our deputy sheriff, who lives up in a
northern township. l sent him some
of them, and he says that out of one
hundred voters the Independents will
get ninety. He did like the other
party, and he says that not single
man who reads Carey's speech, as far
Us he can find out, but is converted.
He says that they are convinced that
our only salvation is in the Indepen-
dent party. lie was Il democrat, but
says that he has voted the ticket for
the last time, us we cannot hope for
any relief through either of the old
parties.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
Anti- Nouopoll5t.
GNTICS DONNELLY. EDITOR


The bullionisos are growing scared.
The outbreaks Of their starving VIC
TINS are attracting too much attention
to their rascaIlities. And III their
distress they send up Macedonian
cry of distress to their old tool, Gene
raj Grant, and from the heart OF
Europe he responds. We quote:
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat pub
fishes the following extract OF letter
from Gen. Grant to Judge Long, an
intimate friend in st, Louis: Il hope
the State will not fall into any fnan-
cial fallacy such as currency imitation,
making silver a legal tender, or the
like, to bring about partial repudla-
ton and national disgrace. The letter
was dated at Lucerne. on the 18TH OF
July.
It Is says Grant, Il national disgrace
to use silver as money; and yet silver
was money ten thousand years before
Grant was born
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
MASSACHUSETTS,.

The report recently issued by the
commissioner of charities for the
commonwealth of Massachusetts,,
states that pauperism has increased
within their borders four hundred per
cent. within the past few years, and
that one out Of seven of the pOpula-
tion partook of charity during the
past year.
One out of seven! That beats Old
England. And pauperism has in
creased four hundred per cent! How
long can the republic stand such a
strain What is the ballot-bOX worth
in country where every seventh
man is II pauper
Webster said of Massachusetts, in
his day with becoming pride:-''there
she stands, look ut her v
Jay Gould can point to her to-day
and say:-.'See the fruits of the great
American. system! There they are y
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

Goods Reporter they voluntarily con-
fess that even under the working of
that same tariff ''prices have reached
a lower level than ever before! This
is particularly true 8fprinted calicos.
grey cloths. gingb1WAs eheviots,
brown and bleached n1sIins, cotton
hose underwear. both lnArino ;lnd
wool shawls. blankets. fancy cassi-
meres and coatings, dOeskins, Ken
itncky jeans, satinets. lettings etc.
/ Very true but how have prices
reached that lower level! By the
bankruptcy of manufacturers and the
starvation Of workingmen.
Your boasted protection has not
protected the American werkingman.
He can underseN the Englishman to-
day simply because he is reduced to
lower wages and greater poverty than
the so-called sspauper labor of Eu-
rope" With one in seven Of the
people of Massachusetts receiving
public charity she can beat England
where the proportion is one in ten.
That al there is of it.
How has the thing worked into this
shape!
Protection robbed the bulk of the
people to enrich few manufacturers.
This produced an unnatural develop
ment Of the manufacturing interest,
while all the rest of the population
mers being unable to buy. the man
ufacturers were compelled to shut
their mills, and the laborers starved.
Then came contraction to paralize
business and reduce all values, and
nQWWe have universal bankruptcy
|and bread riots.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
fEETTNG of TIE STA TIE COM
IUIT'TEE OF THE INDE-
PENDENT PARTY.

The members of the State Commit
tee of the Independent Greenback
Party, appointed at the State Conven-
ton held at Faribault, June Goth. are
requested to meet at the Nicollet
House in Minneapolis, on Wednesday
the 5th day of September next. at
O'Clock p. m. for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety ''of recalling
said State Convention or of naming a
state ticket. to be voted for this
fall" Each county in the state is en-
titled to one member of said commit
tee. and all counties not provided for
in the list prepared at iFaribault, are
requested to appoint u member to at
tend the meeting of the committee.
Al other persons. who are in SYM
pathy with our party and the cause of
reform in general are invited to meet
with us.
Dated August 18th. 1877.
EBENEzER AYRES.
Chairman Independent State Central
Committee.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
PENNSLTiNIi DEMOCRACY Y
SICK.

PntApELrHA, August IA strong pres
sure has been made upon Capt. McClelland,
chairman of the state committee to induce
him to postpone the Democratic state conven-
ton until the middle of September. Senator
Wallace. Speaker Randall. and number OF
other prominent leaders favor the suggestion
They are desirous that the convention should
meet under the most favorable circumstances
for dispassiona.c consideration of the issues OF
the day, and especially OF them and impor-
tant questions likely to be thrown into our
state and national politics by the labor dis
turbances throughout the country.
The storm is too big. Ii the De-
mocracy met in convention NOW, it
might have to say something against
resumption and contraction. and that
would not just suit the nabobs who
run the party; ana so they wisely
postpone the convention: and they
mutter like the fellow that was re.
fused admission into Noah's ark
well; l guess it amt going to be
much of Il shower after all
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23

sion for their consideration large
part of the entire list of the state text
books, and it is expected that they will
soon be able to take decided action
and the state text books be ready for
use in ample time for the fall and
winter schools.
Those who were eOMFersant with
the facts at the time tCH the law was
passed, will bear me Out when l say
that it was then expected that l would
be obliged to get many of my books
in manuscript form, have them ap-
proved and then published them.
This any onescan readily understand
would take considerable time. | am
under obligations ($25.O 900 bonds) to
have all the books prepared for SUBJ
mission to the commission by the first
of June. A. d. 1873. That | have
succeeded in arranging for excellent
books Without the necessity OF this
long time is a matter of congratula-
ton on the part OF all concerned.
That the people are anxious to have
the law in full operrtion and have the
uniform and cheap-priced textbooks
within their reach, | can readily
understand. lean appreciate the fact
that the people who have not been
informed of the amount of work and
time necessary to complete such an
important reformation and who were
anticipating immediate results, may
be somewhat impatient; but when
they come to realize that as soon as
the plan is in operation it will put an
end to the oft recurring school text
book question and work lasting
benefit to all: / am confident that they
will appreciate the effect and invoke
blessings rather than maledictions.
Respectfully yours,
ID. d. MERRILL,
State Textbook Contractor.
st. PAUL, August 9th, 1877.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
TIE GOLD BASIS.

Good reader do YOU know what 1.-The
gold basis means! Remember that
in little more than Il year you will be
down upon it,-down on the broad of
your back upon it.
Hear the Chicago Tribune. leadiug
republican organ of the northwest:
Under that act, (the resumption
act,) greenbacks will be retired, and
very rapidly too. The banks will not
wait until compelled to buy gold to
redeem their notes. but will begin to
withdraw them long before Jan. /.
1879; long before that date the (bank)
paper circulation will be retired: all
debts will be payable after Jan.
|. 1879, and the gold will command IA
large premium in other descriptions
OF property. and debts will be heavier
and harder to pay.
Isn't that Il pretty prospect! The
banks will withdraw their notes and
John Sherman will burn the green
backs. and you can pay your debts in
GOLD! And one dollar of gold will be
worth five dollars of real estate.
And this is the feast from which
Hayes says YOU must ''take no steps
backward
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
EVLDENCES OF THE CONSPIR-

Everywhere we see the evidences
1llat there is settled purpose to de-
prive the people of u free currency,
and throw the entire debt of the
country into interest bearing securi-
ties. The st. Louis Journal of 1gri-
culture says:
Within recent date ss3O0.0 900 of st
Louis warrants were performing every
necessary local function Of currency
yet at the command of the money
power they were taken up and con-
verted into interest bearing bonds.
Last winter a proposition was be-
fore the legislature to issue S25O,000
in treasury notes to take care Of a
floating debt of that amount. But the
money pover said no. You must issue
Understanding bOnds-and it was
done. And now we have about $780,
100000 of United States treasury
notes. performing the function of
money more perfectly than any ever
before possessed by the people, but the
money power says they must be called
in and burned and interest-bearing
bonds issued in their stead.
SO we see every municipality, every
state.and the nation itself are all run
solely in the interest Of the bondhOld-
ers, while the industries of every
name and description are wrecked and
lie stranded upon every hand.
The skilled mechanics, who have
been thrown out of employment by
the hundreds and thousands during
the past few years,and who have wan-
deredi from place to place seeking work
until they have become the despised
tramps. are now to be met by the
shotted muZzle and fixed bayonet.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
GOD.

The American labOrer must make
up his mind henceforth not to be SO
much better off than the European
labOrer. Men must be content to
work for less wages In this
way the workingman will be nearer
to that station of life to which it has
pleased God to call him.-N. y. World
National Democratic Organ.
This is modern Democracy
The knayeS crush the laboring men
Of the country into condition of un-
paralleled wretchedness and then lay
the blame on God
Was it God passed the resumption
act! Was it God arrested the coun-
try in the full tide of splendid pros
perity and proceeded to crush and
mangle and destroy it!
No; it was the devil, acting
through the Republican and Demo
cratic parties; it was the devil of hui
man greed and selfshness-the oldest
and worst devil that ever afflicted the
ldmlly or man.
1.-The workingman will be nearer to
that station of life to which it has
pleased God to call him.
NEARER to it," That means he
hasn't quite reached it yet. He is
out Of work, out of pocket, hopeless,
--half-fed and driven to violence and
crime: but he is nearer" that station
to which God has pleased to call him.
Is that station absolute starvation
II 50 the half million who have died
in India for want of food have reach
ed 1.-The station
Oh! horrible blasphemy. which
would thus lay the crimes and cruel
ties. OF man upon the shoulders of a
YTciful and loving God!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
PROTECTION.

The Chicago Journal Of Commerce,
IN earnest advocate Of protective
tariff, says:
Less than seven years ago many of
the free trade merchants of New
York were in the habit of exhibiting
to their customers English threads
and other goods marked with the
lowest prices at which. they affirmed
the goods could be afforded-Were it
not for the high protective duty i'm
posed In consequence Of this duty
they said they were compelled to
charge some 50 per cent more. But
what are these same merchants now
compelled to confess! Through the
United States Economist and Dry
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
CHEAP SCHOOL BOOKS.

We find the following interesting
communication in recent number of
the Pioneer-Press:
In answer to our friend Kirk of
Blue Earth county. through your col
umns. who represents the fact that
many people are impatient to have
the state text books within their reach
without unnecessary delay etc. / would
say that l have not delayed in the
performance of my part of the con-
tract. / have however. necessarily
been obliged to take more time than /
desired, but have already executed
what was contemplated when the law
was passed, so far as time is concern
ed. Ihave presented to the commits
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-08-23
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
ST. PArL. Mimi. Ang. q. 49,

ST. PAUL. Minn., Ang. q, 1877.
Editor Anti-MonOpoiisf:
The New York Timss in recent
number has the following timely ar
Gle. to which we invite the careful
attention Of your readers:
After all it is impossible to shake OF the i'm
preston that the ordinAry party lines cannot
Be drawn IN the struggle for the maintenance
of the public credit and for the overthrow Of
the Wetensiors put forward blythe advocates
ofsi1ver as az, Unlimited legal tender 1--we