The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-24
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ieii OF the house, lit was not the fall
that hurt HINT was stonn;no ca
quick In the midst of great pros
perIty the imperial governments eff
iectually wiped out the silver money
OIL the realm, the money of the neo-
PIE ana the result was there. as il
mas been here and in England. con-
traction. business PARALYSIS hanlx-
ruptcy and starvation. France IN
the contrary, paid out her Thousand
million dollars in geld, and issned
9ooo'ooo,ooO III national currency. to
take It's place; and the result has been
d magnificent career Of prosperitv
Inc demonetiZed silver of Prussia
England, etc. flowed into France. and
the conquered nation now rolls IN
wealth, while the conquerine nation
groans in poverty. Thus the crnnino
u Anew shylocks, who sought to in
crease the value Of money by declaring
us quantity, has reversed the splendid
Vrlan phs OF the Teutonic armies. and
restored France in few years To a
higher position than that from which
she tell at Sedan.
Again, the Pioaesr- Press SAYS:
In referring to this fact, the Proyi-
Qence Journal, which has ALWAYS ad.
Vocated a protective tariff for this
country. remarks:
While it is not easy to say when.
and just how far protection is adyan-
tageous, 1t IS perfectly sure that pro-
hlbltory duties will not.for any length
Oh tllne, overcome the natural and
inevitable laws Of trade. Extrava
gance, unduly high prices for labor
ana living, the idea that government
- 10 and will furnish cheap money.
speculation and unthrift, win sooner
or later bring d nation, as ii will the
individual, to bankruptcy. 1t il not
III a revision OF the tariff. SO much an
IL IL III che renewal ofeconomy in life.
ana caution in trade land the stopping
u war expenses, that Germany must
una revival OF prosperity
rms talk about economy is well
enough, but il must be remembered
that economy is always practiced at
the expense Of somebody else. The
great mass Of mankind have little or
nothing~to economist with: their
dssy>s work pays for their days life
RI they cnrtail at al. it is at the ex-
pense Of health and life.
But suppose A. h. to be wealthy
man, clothed IN purple and fine linen
and faring sumptuously every day.
The times grow hard a. u. reads
the z. r. and concludes that tie must
economist. lie has six servants
lie dismisses four Of chem. How are
these four to liye2 What becomes Of
The trade they furnished ID mechan-
les and merchants !
And 4. b. has been iii the habit OF
buying six or eight suits of clothes i'm
. year. lie economises BY wearing
his old clothes. What il the result
| The tailors. the cloth makers, the
cloth sellers, tie halter, the boot
maker, al suffer. A. B's wife wears
her old clothes and her old bonnets
and the result is that the half-fed
sewing women must Ell and wear less
the half-fed mill hands that work in
LII silk and cotton and WOODEN must
! pinch their poor starved bellies still
| smaller, the merchants can i sell his
goods and goes into bankruptcy; he,
| in turn, dismisses his servants 10
swell the great army of the nnem-
ployed; the jails and poor houses are
crowded the taxpayers are oppressed
to support them; they economist in
turn, and the result Of all Is that no
one thriyes but the monev-lenders
and the office holders.
/ WHEN THE RICH MAN ECONOMISTS.
TIE POOR NAN 5TARvEs.
| 10 be sure, eventually a country
will recover. just as the patient s0me-
times RECEIVERS from typhoid fever, d
poor. white. shaking. helpless wretch.
Those Of the people who couldn't
stand the starving-out process have
fled the land, or persisted OF the innn-
merable diseases bred Of poverty. or
| they have fallen into the criminal
class and have disappeared into the
iaiis ; while the cunning few have
gathered into their hands the wealth
| OF the many: and then human inr7re