The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-09-20
The -Anti-Monobolist.

and his accomplices! This country
does not want to go and measure
the capacity of the bank Of
England to hold this quantity
of gold or that quantity-to measure
the amount of circulation she can float
on this or that particular amount Of
stored-up gold. Do our people want
any gold pledge from our government!
Have they not strained to get hold Of
a currency ssredeemable" only in ev-
cry species of wealth the country con-
tains! Did you want suit Of clothes!
Why their stood the tailor begging to
''redeem' that greenback for you.
Did you want lands, Or houses, OF a
ship, or four-tandem turnout! You
had but to make your want known and
it was instantly supplied if you had
but the greenbacks! Did YOU want
gold, either to hoard away and Wor-
ship, or to travel away to Europe and
spend! There it was at its market
value, which, if all nations were wise.
would be very small value. AS 1t is,
you might have to pay five or ten per
cent for your "whistle.' Well, pay
it and don't bother the nation about
it. Don't keep up this incessant how
ling about gold. You hoarder or you
traveller are the soul parties interested
in this premium. Pay it and be done
with it, and s'let us have peace"
But that would not double the value
of the rich mans wealth. [ have ten
thousand a year. Make money scarce
and all things must stOop IN price;
stoop so low that [ can, instead OF the
worth of my ten thousand, clutch the
value of fifteen or twenty thousand.
And vet wouldn't that rich man be
better and happier with the legitimate
return for his ten thousand dollars!
See happy faces meeting him at every
turn of the street. Wouldn't that be
worth something! Wouldn't it be
better than to have every morning pa
per bringing him pitifulnews Of suffer
ing, and dangerous news of strikes'
| We have known such heterogeneous
hearted and Christian hearted men
whose moral and mental health was
strong enough to repeal the contaglon
of the day-covetOuSn A fell con
| tagion. A sin vainly warned against.
alike by religion and morality.
1t may be, in the providence of God,
that the republic will yet be saved
from the harpies that are consuming
her. 1t is hard to think that such a
grand promise" is to sink to the
earth unfulfilled. The period. the
men, the field! The period when out
of the ages of barbarism, mad orpres-
sion, and blind obedience man had
started up to a knowledge of himself,
of his proud equality. With that es-
tablished right, and with the printing
press and the steam engine at his back,
and with field embracing within it
nearly all the inhabltable climates OF
the globe, could Il greater promise be
given to the human family! Surely
we may hope that the All Mercifu]
will not desert us and leave that
promise unfulfilled! But let us re.
member that the
s'Omniscient Cause
Acts not by partial, but by general laws
| "He uses second means to work his ends"
We are his ''second means The
uprising of the starved ones is a par
of His second means" Let us Ell
courage and direct those starved ones
Teach them to besiege the ballot-boX
out of that small repository they cal
paacaful1v draw forth entire command