The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-22
WHOLE NO. 215

State convention is said to be a mem
Der.
The editor of the National Labor
Tribune of Pittsburg makes Shupe
the following offer: 1--WE are willing
to subscribe for ten thousand copies
of the Advocate, provided the paper
be sent us imprinted in the bundles in
which it is received from the manu-
facturer, and that security be given
there shall be no sudden discontin-
uance after the Fall elections. If this
offer be accepted, we have sure
thing on saving $500 year on our
paper bills.
The editor of the Advocate shows
the cloven foot sooner than many ex-
pected. He pledged his delegation to
the support of the Syracuse plat
form and candidate land then fastened
to show to the world how much his
pledges are worth by attacking the
platform, and hurting at it the monOp-
oily press epithet, ''Repudiation.
This he has done in the two last num-
bers of the Advocate. Thus lie takes
the stand squarely and openly with
| the enemies of our movement.
The National Greenbackers are pre-.
pairing to make onslaught on Messrs-
| Hale and Frye, of Maine, ana the in
dications are that one of the hottest
fights of the campaign will be on that
part of the line. There is a large
Greenback and National elements in
both districts, which it is proposed to
nurse carefully. Voorhees, is going
down there. and probably Ewing.
Colonel Daniels, a well-knOwn Vir-
ginia Greenback stump speaker, has
arrived in Frye's district, and will
Immediately take the stump for Scion
Chase.
The National party is the party Of
the future of this country. 1t carries
elections every time voting has to be-
done. Nashville, Chattanooga. and
Memphis, Tennessee. have wheeled
into line and given an impetus to the
party all over the nation. Maine will
be in line before September, 1878. is
numbered with the months of the
past. Then the October and Novem-
Der states will join their notes of Ma
|
have gone before. Go forward in the
work of organizing the people into
the defense of the rights of humanity.
Success is certain in the near future.
|-Mdianapolis Sun.
An interesting programme. The
Terre Haute Express says that 1.-the
Treasury Department has SO arranged
our bond contracts that it will take
over seven thousand millions of dol
lars to pay the debt Of two thousand
millions. We have already paid the
debt once in interest. and those who
come after us are to be given the
privilege of paying it once in fifteen
years, leaving the principal yet to be
paid. That is the programmes; but
the National Greenback-Labo party
proposes to alter it considerably.
The party Of the republic-the edi-
tor Of the philadelphia Times, Colo
mel A. x. Mcclure, delivered an adj
dress 1T the Pennsylvania college re-
Gently. and here is q brief extract
from Tive know that the Repub-
licans have party, and that the Dem
ocrats have a party. but where is the
party Of the republic thas come,
but its coming has been SO sudden.
it's progress 50 brilliant, that the Col
onel is stunned and his vision dis
torted. BY and by he will recognize
what he is looking for, however.
"A currency based on nothing is
what the hard-panners. call the money
which we demand the government
Ill = H.
bonds; over two billions dollars worth
Of them are out. Ask bondhold er
what is their basis. 1.-THE credit,
honor. and resources Of the nation. :"
he will answer. And that all the
basis we want. If it's good enough
for two billions in bonds, who on
earth-except bondholder-can pre-
sent reason for its not being good
enough for two billion dollars
About the ballot.-In his Fourth Of
July speech at Newburyport, General
Butler warned workingmen against
strikes and violence as un-American,
and spoke Of the ballot as being quite
sufficient to redress. But the Wash
ington Capitol thinks the idea absurd
in the face Of the theft Of the presi-
dency and Of the multitude Of election
frauds perpetrated nnblushingly and
allowed to pass unrebuked. 1t
quotes as an instance the Baltimore
election following last apmer's
strikes. NO one questioned nat the
Labor party won at the polls, but
they lost in the count" The Capital
concludes thus:-..Nothing indicates
50 clearly the decay Of a people as the
tame submission to wrong. Violence
in righting an outrage is healthy, and
these political thimble-riggers should
be forced to reap what they have
sown. Then violated the ballot for
their ends. and we, for ours, will vio--
late their peace, under the well rec
ognized maxim Of Texas, which says
that the man who appeals to Judge
Lynch should be the last to complain.
| Of the tribunal"