The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-01

that these are the largest animal re
mains ever resurrected; and the teeth
tusks. and structure Of the head an
jaws prove Enthusiastically that it wa
Of the carnivorous class.-Cdrthdg
(Mo.) Patriot.
THE COMING STRUGGLE WITH TIL
MONEY POWER.
The national bankers association il
New York, at their late convention
passed the following resolution, whicl
points directly to the scheme adopted
by that body to obtain control Of al
the circulating medium of the coun
try.
Resolred-That a committee ap
pointed by this convention to memoir
ialiZe congress to pass an act author
iZing the general government to sci
the new four per centum bonds at pal
in currency and guaranteeing nationa
banks investing in these securities
that they should be allowed under the
law, to issue in circulating the PAL
value of these securities.
| Now if congress can be bribed into
passing such bill, the national banks
will retain every greenback that
comes over their counters and with
them buy the four per cent bonds,
and then issue their own notes, and in
very few months every dollar in
greenbacks now afloat in the country
will be thus sent to Washington, and
destroyed, and between three and four
hundred millions added to the nation
al debt, with gold interest for thirty
years, amounting to $432, 100000, and
then the original sum Of $3.50, 900
will still be unpaid!
Men Of America, are you prepared
for such an infection as this! If SO,
vote for one of the old parties!
When the war closed in 1865, so
many persons had been at work for
the government, that the amount due
them and for which they held green
backs, and other certificates. aggrega-
ted two thousand million dollars, upon
this money the business of the country
was transacted, but the spirit of avar-
ice and greed was abroad in the land,
and the government began to fund
these obligations, that is, to convert
the non-interest bearing debt into one
bearing interest, taking the money
out of business and paying greater
amount of interest than capital could
legitimately earn in trade and manu-
featuring. Those who had money, us
a rule, placed it i'll government securi-
ties, thus leaving labor out of employ
ment, without however diminishing
taxation which was greatly increased,
although the bondholders themselves
were exempt. This was contraction
of the currency, and it went on until
in 1873, twelve hundred millions of
the peoples money had been destroy
ed, and the financial crash of that
year came, and as. the process has
been going on from that day to this,
our country with all it's energy and
and elasticity has not re-
covered, and will not. and cannot I'M
til congress brings relief in the form
of legislation in the interests of the
people.
The people of this country are fore
warned that the banks are working to
secure the sole privilege of issuing
paper money, which no civilized
country can do without, and of course
having the exclusive control of the
currency, they will conspire together
to charge their own price for it's use.
The whole subject involved is one
Of dollars and cents:
1t is admitted that the people of
This country require hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in paper money to
their businss. and the simple
question is, whether the government
BY virtue of the power vested in it by
he constitution shall coin and issue
he money founded upon gold and sill
yer and everything else in the country
# value. or whether this privilege
which is worth at least seventy mill
ions year shall be delegated to set /
II soulless banking corporations and |
giving them a premium in addition for |
he privilege of exacting tribute |
rom all kinds of business, while they |
ire exempt fro II taxation. The prop
)Sltlon is too monstrous ever to have /
seen the light in this last quarter of /
he nineteenth century. but it is re-
,arded with little concern by the par
lzen press, and for ought either party
. AAA w W PAONOHl IL tilcSc COuttul pll-
Die Wall street vampires. will buy the
,ill through congress, as they have
several others. Those who appreciate
he situation. and see the distress al
eady wrought. and hear the wall of
lgony that goes up from our stricken
and, should sound the tocsin. and
harm those who have not vet awak-
ned to sense of the danger of the
otal destruction of the capital of the
ountry itself, which must totter to
is fall, when its foundation, labor. is
destroyed. Those who have lived in
he hope that their old party could
ave them, must now abandon that
elusion.
SEYMOUR ON SILVER.
UTICA, Oct. S.-Gov. Seymour was
sked to express his views ON the
liver question. He invited your
correspondent to walk with him. and
was while walking through the
leasant streets of Utica that he
alked freely on subject which now