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

More and more the European market
becomes dependent on the American
farmers for food.
We quote:
"Here is already an increase OF 23 1-2
millions of pounds ofspork exported, or
an equivalent of III 500 hogs already
taken cut of the stock that has come in
over what was taken out by the expor-
tation of last year. We can readily see
that if business continues at this rate.
there is little chance for Overcrowding 8
the market, or any little excuse tor any
panicky feeling. Of these products the
West Indies has already taken $3.50 bbls.
pork, Great Britain 1000 bbls. the Brit
| ish Colonies $500 bbls. These are the
great customers for this product. OF
lard. the Continent has been the chief
buyer. s 1~2 millions of pounds going
there. while Great Britain has taken
1>2 millions, of pounds. OF cut meats
| Great Britain takes the lions share, OF
25,248, $40 lbs, and the continent 5.21S,>
| 815 lbs. These facts show that the pork
trade of this year is carried on in a very
different spirit from what it was las
year. Every one will remember thai
there was general attempt to corner
the feeders, and force prices OF hog!
down while there was an attempt to holt
the prices of the products of the hog up.
The result was most unsatisfactor.
. trade, and a general want OF confidence.
, The parties who cornered the hardest go
, the most severely nipped, and the who'll
business broke through before spring
The pork trade was too large for tev
; speculating companies ! to handle, an
while they went out to shear they com
back very thoroughly shorn. This yea
business is taking its legitimate course
The export trade does not feel that 1t
! shut out by extreme rates and that the
. are being .'beat out OF their money.
= Trade is free from the incubus, and tn
. result is promise OF the pork feeder
getting all that their hogs are wort
e with ready demand. The packers al
n promised steady brisk business, M
4 rushing in Chicago one week and shu
r. ting down the next, to compel lowe
prices. That is the difference"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11

The high qualities OF our Minnesota
wheat are becoming every day more
and more appreciated.
The Annual Review of the Trade OF
Chicago for the Tribune says:
1.-The wheat grown in Minnesota has
been found by English rsillers to be best
suited to their W ants, giving the greatest
proportion of strength in mixing with
other wheats; and English importers
therefore prefer that wheat, often paying g
liberal premium for it, as compared
with that grown further South. For this
reason Milwaukee has always received q
liberal run of orders, which generally
kept that market above Chicago, for
nominally the same grades, as the bulk
OF the receipts in that city are drawn
from Minnesota. This has tended to draw
to that market wheat from sections tar
ther south, which would otherwise be
tributary TO Chicago. Since the Fulton
elevator tn this city was set apart tor the
reception Of the Minnesota grown wheat
we have received . fair proportion of i,
here. In 1875, aud the first half OF las1
wear. it constituted about one~third o
our total receipts of wheat, and gene.
orally commanded q good premium.
The State of Minnesota yielded but {
small harvest in 1876, and has marketed
comparatively little wheat, for which
reason our receipts have been light re
Gently, and promise to be small durinf
the remainder of the present crop year.
In the first halt of 1866 the premium
on No. ranged from 2 to &c per bushel
In July the premium nearly vanished
under falling of in the demand, =
eastern buyers became afraid OF the CON
dition. In August it again commando,
: preference, which rose to 5 to &c, an,
then diminished 70 70 Sc, and scarcel,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11

The following admirable letter speaks
for itself. It is worthy Of the great and
good old man whose name is the syn
onym OF craftsmanship and philau-
thropy.
New YORK, Dec. l, 1876.
Hon. Moses w. Field, Dear Sir:
I desire to thank yon for yonr very
kind note in regard to the issue Of
campaign which in some respects has
disappointed the. friends Of financial
reform. The people do not seem to be
prepared sufficiently for this reform to
lay aside the trammels Of their party.
False issues, under such political
slang as the bloody shirt, and the color
line,' engendered fror. the passions aris>
ing from the civil war; and not yet sub
sided, have misled the people and blinded
them to their own interests and the true
issues of the day. Bnt we have the sat-
isfaction of knowing that every effort we
have made in this direction has given
light and conviction to the people, which
sooner or later must result in financial
reform. That mischevious fallacy Of
bank credit on paper and specie pay
ments as the only redemption OF paper
money, must be put down. and IN their
place substituted national credit ndfull
legal tenders, made receivable for all
forms of taxes, duties and debts.
The government can always redeem
it's notes by taxes, which are value re-
ceived tor value given. The amount Of
currency per capita actually found IN
circulation at the close of the war will
determine the volume Of currency. The
maximum and minimum of currency be-
lag thus determined the interconvertible
| bond always ready to redeem excess and
advance supplies, and fix in value at
an equitable rate Of Interest, will do the
rest, and give US self-regulating unfuc'
tuating and just financial system. which
neither monopolies nor corporations can
subvert, and worth to this country an1
the world, more than all the gold dis
covered on the American continent.
These are nv opinions expressed il
brief, and think cannot be too Otter
repeated in the ears Of this people. to-
they make for their peace and prosper
ity more tllan Aavthing else that can
present be brought to our notice.
l desire to assure you Of Tiny gratetu
recognition Of your services IN the grea
cause of financial reform, and to tende
! you my hearty personal thanks.
Yours very truly,
PETER COOPER.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11

to 1-2 in October. The preference was
greater during the last two months. not
because of European demand, but tor
the reason that Minnesota wheat has re-
Gently grown in favor with the interior
millers in the winter wheat region
(Michican and Ohio, as they find a bet
ter market for its product prepared by
the. patent process.
Nature has done great deal for Min
nesota. It's people would be prosperous
enough if the plunderers did not strip
them of the fruits of their industry as fast
as they accumulated.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
4 HANDSOME SPEECH.

Gov. Tilden is not favorite OF ours,
and we believe him to be radically
wrong on the financial issues. but we
cannot forbear endorsing the clearness,
beauty and force OF his recent speech in
withdrawing from the office OF Governor
Its sentiments must meet the approval
of men of all parties:
Gov. Tilden made q speech OF con-
graduation. during which he spoke of
the aims of his administration, namely:
to recall the government of the State to
the pure condition OF a generation ago !;
to remove the fungus growths which, in
evil times, had overspread its admins
tration and legislation; to tighten the
intolerable burdens upon the people to
improve the institutions and laws; to
systematically call into civil service,
whether by appointment or direction
men of higher ideals of official life, oi
better training and more equal culture,
thus utilizing class inferior in the arts
of political competition. but superior in
capacity for public usefulness. Those
obiests had been pursued through stormy
conflicts with selfish interests and fixed
habits. Our support was an unfalterine
trust in the people. If the prospect ol
real reform could be made visible. Our
inspiration was belief that nothing
worth saving conld be lost. if only oul
work did not fail. Applause. Ths
scrutiny OF all candid men may safely
be challenged as to what hes been al.
ready accomplished; wasteful and cor.
rupt systems destroyed; State taxation
reduced one half; new remedies for off
cial maladministration enacted; the
management OF public works and prison.
reorganized dandcommissions preliminar1
| to other reforms instituted. These ar,
valuable results. but there are others evel
more important. The standard of off
! cial conduct has been elevated, and WITT
it the ideas, motives and influence
which surround official life as with q
atmosphere. The public suspicion Q
legislative venalty Is disappearing, an.
the lobbies are disbanded. The Chic
Executive and the administrative trust
of the State have been committed to gen
tlemen who are eminent, not only TO
j personal probity, but for capacity an,
ideals of official duty and . genuine re
form in civil service has been realized
i which could not be the product of an,
mere system or any nero Legislation
/ without the effective co-operation Of th
/ men conducting the actual administrs
iicn.s
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
THE RESULTS OF WAR.

The Indianapolis Sun takes comfort TO
itself as follows:
..The chances for war in this country
are improving. A conflict OF arms :, Is 5
not impossible Such conflict woulo
soon send government bonds below pal
in gold and what paper currency is IN
existence would seek investment IN rea
estate as method Of salvation to the
present holders. Real estate prices
Tonld he better and currency would cir
culate little. so the calamity OF wa
would not be an unmixed evil"
Both parties would initiate the curren
ey, but the trouble is it would be unde
circumstances that would make the cur
rency OF little value to anybody.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
EXPORTING OUR CURRENCY.


4 Mr.. McAdam has written a work on
the financial issues of the day, which the
Hard Moner editors are endorsing in the
highest terms. Here is one Of its posts
tions:
"In other chapters Mr.. McAdam shows
that it is impossible toidetermine by any
process Of calculation just how much
money country wants; the quantity
will regulate itself under the law Of sup
ply and demand, unless it is driven out
of use by forced paper currency. It
follows that the talk about the advan-
tages Of "non-exportable currency" Is
bosh. Exportability is necessary in or
der that tha supply may always be reg
ulated by the law Of supply and demand,
and that the exchanges of commodities
among different countries may be main
tained in healthy condition, Money is
exported or imported for the same rea-
son that wheat or cotton is exported or
mported-because there is an excess in
one country, and deficiency in another,
Where it Is excessive it is cheap, and
where it is deficient it is dear. 1t is sent
therefore from countries where it is too
abundant until the excess is drawn of,
and its value rises until it will no longer
pay to export it. The notion that Other
countries have the power to drain away
all our metallic money is childish. For
eign countries have no more power te
drain away our specie than they have (
drain away our wheat or our iron. y
we have surplus they will take it, ane
we shall be gamers thereby. just as w
are gamers when they take our surplus
wheat. and cotton, and provisions, ant
give us ID exchange other c0mmoditie!
with which we are inadequatelY sup
piled. We can get and keep all the gol'
we need by simply taking our paper on
OF the way. and making room for : th
gold" 4a
To this we reply.
That this country has always hA
paper currenco of some kind aud alway
will have, It's absurd to say that if v
withdraw our currency gold would flo
in to take its place. During the las
| year our paper money has been reduce
| about sec, 900. 900. According to Mt
Adam gold should have rushed in to Il
tame Of S6O, ,OOO, 900. How has the fas
been? Our exports Of coin and bullid
dnring that time amounted to So, sos
GIL, while our imports Of gold and silv'
amounted to 81, 5,59O.889. Thus viii
I've were reducing our paper currenl
Isixty millions, we we're decreasing .,
lcoih fcurrsncy and bullion thirty-f,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
THE NEW SPEAKER

We congratulate the House upon the
election of Hon. J. L, Gibbs, OF Freeborn
county, as speaker: He is an aole,
clear-headed man, and his sympathies are
upon the side OF the people on every
issue. The fact of defeating so popular
a presiding officer as Mr.. Hall, OF MIN
neapolis, adds to the force OF the honor
conferred upon him.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
THE SCARCITY OF MONEY.

the following significant article:
"A gentleman of this State, says the
indianapolis Sun, whose business as q
money lender and banker for years,
give him peculiar facilities for knowing
the financial situation Of the West, stated
during the week that in his opinion
there is not money enough ,d!a in several
Indiana, to pay the interest due on mort
gage notes to eastern capitalists. If all
the cash in the rural districts were
scraped together and shipped east, the
over due inerest would not be dis
charged. This may not be true. but j,
ID not far out ofthe way: The very bread
and meat the people are eating does moi
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

We devote great part Of our paper
rthis week to the message OF Governor
Pillsbury. 1t is and able and Interesting
document, and furnishes an admlraole
/. resume of the condition Of the State.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
millions, or about hundred million
dellars Of reduction in one year!!
Is it any wonder that times are hard?
In 1875 our exports and imports Of
coin and bullion compared as follows:
Exports s.o'as1'ooee1n ,o'ns1' zen
Imports 1870 ,voO

Imports ,ooo
Loss
If we have lost eeighty eight million
dollars Of our coin and bullion in two
years when will we have enough to carry
on the business of the tcountrY?
There is no justice in Mr.. McAdam's
comparison ofmoney with wheat OF IRON.
If we send out wheat we receive some
other commodity which is Of equal value
to US. But the place Of money cannot be
supplied by any other article: Wines
silks, Jewels, or fruits cannot be used ito
carry on trade with. When our money
disappears our prosperity disappears 5
with it, although we may be living IN
the midst Of dry goods. food and every
thing else but money. The Uuited
States are as rich to-day in coal. iron,
wool. cotton and the illimitable capacity
Of the earth to produce food. as they were
five years ago, but our prosperity i gone
and our laborers are starving.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
Anti- Nullppohst.
lcNATlUS DONNELLY Editor.

AN INTERESTING SPEECH.
We will publish in our next issue the
able address of Hon. +. Ayres, late
State Lecturer of the State Grange.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-11
PETER COOPER.

The following admirable letter speaks
for itself. It is worthy Of the great and
good old man whose name is the syn
onym OF craftsmanship and philau-
thropy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27

"A few years ago q gentleman peram-
bulated the lanes and by-wsys of this
county in the glorious cause of Gre
faum." His speeches were a compound
of denunciation of the old parties-Re.
publican aud Democratic-and praise of
. perfectly pure party-reform. He
claimed that old issues had passed away.
The old Democratic party was dead the
issues upon which it had been founded
and the opposition to it raised, had
ceased to exist; and that henceforth no
Democratic party could rise to the sur
face. The Reform party had absorbed
its good, and the Republican party its
bad elements. With great zeal he la
bored; with great earnestness he argued,
and never would he admit the posi-
bility hat he could be mistaken. To
day he is the nominee of the party he
declared buried beyond the hope of a
The silver-tongued organ
will have an opportunity of explaining
to the dear people how pleasant it is to
be attached to q corpse that died several
years ago. And when the ballots are
counted next month, T. s. Slower, the
Republican nominee for County Clerk,
will bury that gentleman 50 deep that
he will never again be heard from.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
-"We do not remember q Convention

eve do not remember Q Convention
ever held in the County until the last
one, at which some declaration Of princi-
Piles was not adopted" Now, Bub.. don't
forget 80 easily. You kaos0 to the con-
trsry. You are too we'll posted; too
wise too important, to allow yourself to
be caught on 80 small . hook as- the
above. You aim to make the 1. S. "a
paper devoted to fair discussion" etc.
Try little harder. Don't get quite 90
many mistakes (!) in the immaculate Or
gan. In fact, let Jim run the machine.
He is not quite 10 we'll known, but he is
no much better posted in Allen County
politics. Better promote him again.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27

Special BARGAINS in Dry
Goods at o. P. North
rNp g. Co.'S. Cash Dry
Goods House:
100 Ladies' Felt Skirts
at so cents apiece.
10 Doz Linen Hand
ke1chiefs at 10 c apiece.
so DOz Bed Comforts
at $40 apiece.
10 Dozen Mems Fur
Hats $z.25 apiece
go Pairs Silk Suspcn-
de1's $l.75 per pair.
so pairs Mems Buck
Gloves rs c pair.
so yds Beaver Cloth,
SO. so per yard. M
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
PERSONAL MENTION.

PERSONAL MENTION. ia
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N. Woollomes have
been visiting friends in lola this week.
Mrs. f. B. Campbell, Of Baxter
Springs, is making . visit to friends in
lola, this week.
They do say that Aeers will substi-
tute mineral water for the usual cleo.
pioneering argument this fall.
Mrs. w. w. Scott Of Hyperion,
Kansas, has been visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Colborn, this weak.
Mr.. Warner finally succeeded in
purchasing the Cochrane property, and
Mr.. Bassstt will move upon the place in
the spring.
MIR. A. A. Munger has bought out
q butcher shop At Girard, and will re-
move 70 that place. Mr.. n. leaves many
friends in lola.
DIR. DeMoss was mp to Topeka last
week attending meeting Of the State
Grand Lodge A. F. and A. II. He rep
resented Iola Lodge and the Eastern
Star Chapter Of this place. =
Mr.. E. G. Dustan, agent for the In
dependent series of school books has
been in lola ON business for the last two
or three weeks. Mr.. d. is . pleasant
gentleman to meet, and il introducing .
valuable series Of books. 4ls9
1t would seem that A. J. Hankins is
the man who takes the most premiums
on hogh Can't our Poland China men
get away with his Berkshire hogs at the
fair next week? just look at his show
ing at the Falls fair, in our local columns
this week. ~. ~ -. 2
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
HOW 1T is DONE.

The first object in life with the Amer
ican people is to get rich" the second,
how to- regain good health. The first
can be obtained by energy, honesty and
saving; the second, (good healthy by US
ing GREENS AUGUST FLOWER. Should
you be Respondent sufferer from any of
the effects of Dyspepsia, Liver Com.
plaint, Indigestion, &C., such as Sick
Headache, Palpitation of the Heart,
Sour Stomach, Habitual Costiveness,
Dizziness of the Head, Nervous Prostra-
ton, Low Spirits, &c, you need not suf
fer another day. Two doses Of AUGUsT
FLOWER will relieve you at once. Sam
pie Bottles 10 cents. Regular size, rs
cents. Positively sold by all first-class
Druggists in the u. 8.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
The officers of the fair offer 4 pre-.

The officers of the fair offer . pre-.
MUM Of twenty-five dollars for the best
and largest display made by any person at
the fair next week. Some family will
60 in and make big wages for one days
work. The old gentleman will bring
his hogs, cattle and farm products; the
old lody will take her fine clothes, quilts
and spreads the boys will bring in their
pet calves, lambs and pigs; the girls
their pet chickens, pigeons. and birds:
and altogether they will bring in their
rare and radiant articles, and ct the
close of the fair 90 home and figure out
just what they will buy with. their pre-
MUM money. ~,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
WEST SIDE OF RIVER.
October q. 1877.

.. ,sr.-4,Ff October %, 1877.
How nice to have the sun shine
once more after an eclipse Of one week.
The moon also has grown to full size since
last seen. So it is; all nature seems to
60 on whether tho fair does or not.
Now that the fair has been put of
for the second time, We hope we will
have nice weather and . good time gen.
orally, and the fair prove . success. We
think good way to kill . fair is this !:
For instance. you raise q medium crop
of wheat. and hardly that, and you take
some Of the best Of it 10 the fair, poor -
it is, and you are aware that your neigh
Dor raised the same year the poorest
wheat you ever saw to b called wheat,
but when the time comes, be goes around
to the neighboring fairs and takes the
first premium, and it is noissd through
the papers and othsswise, and At the
same time you know that he did not
raise that wheat this year, and are not
sure that he raised it at all We think
the premiums are offered for this years
productions, and that they must be en-.
tered by the person growing them. ii'' !.
Fall wheat is growing finely, and .
large breadth has been sown, eonsider.
ing the scarcity of,eed wheat We will
mention just . few that We have heard
from: B. G. Jones, so acres; jas. Rey-
nolds. IS; H. L. Reagan. 80; A. g.
Jones, 50; ]. B. Lawyer, 60. There are
others that We have NOT been able to
learn what amount they have sown.
Corn gathering will b in order
- soon - it dries or 10 zoea
We are afraid that the buckwheat
cake crop has been injured some By the
late rains. 7s.-i- y. Z tssf !.
Mr.. Tovnsend il running his mo-
lasses factory on full time, and cannot
work the cane near - fast - it comes in.
We have seen some Of his syruPs and
pronounce it A No. l. ass -
The young msa Of Lihsrty have or
ganised Z base ball club. ~ -,
"A party went ont squirrel hunting
from Mr.. lawyers, and killed seventeen
squirrels and . coon.
More anon, 49,, OccAs1osAI-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27
SAVE THE NUnHINs.

Every ear and every nubbin of our
generous Kansas corn crop of one hun.
dred million bushels this year ought to
be saved. We may. not have such q
wonderful yield three years in succession
as We have had. Corn will bring . fair
price before another crop il gathered.
Parsons Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27

We cannot too strongly impress
upon every Republican the importance
of standing up to the county ticket. We
must let personal differences be laid
aside, or deal the Republican party
blow from which it will not soon recover.
Stand firm, regardless of what Demo
cratic emissaries may say or do. and in
future primaries attend to your likes and
dislikes Is may seem best. Don't give
up your principles for personal reasons.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-10-27

Poor "Philo"i Dismissed from the
important position of Chairman Of the
Democratic Central Committee, 20 long
held in the past. he is now only allowed
the privilege of writing for the organ.
The letter, however, had to be submitted
to the new chief, and the acerbities all
chiseled ont before appearing in print.
A renegade Republican placed in his
old position, he is now only ''second
violin" and in that capacity, must be
very careful what he says. Poor "Philo r.
Poor Jim.