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Too Late.

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Us very V.t, 'us very line,
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such muclrs a, poet maht weave
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but zone tis lAstv Mhicli nltuv It ilue
know this velvet covered chair
Is Nnndruu. SOFT and easy.
but what ri comfort tHu share
drown curpuisnt ami Nncr1N'
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when lite wasireah and breezy
Bnt w-Ncll now Eve learned TO doubt
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A chair that's easy iol thu goutl
woodeock ami turtle quail on toast.
These tlungs OF ieastins SAVIOR.
Ana Vet the game, the iish, ana roast
Have lost fur me the flavor
could have rchshed these things once,
Had fortune smiled With laYor,
nut nov, with daiLiies spread in sight
with all the palate can delight,
I've lost the sauce Of appetite
Because drive my coach and four.
The glfls are pr lud To meet me,
They come uuhddun to my door,
And with Kiss they greet me
They throw their arms about my me- K
Yes thlts The way they treat mr.
Tut passion flames are all unknown,
The lips TO kiss are mine. Own
The nectar VI the kiss has nOwnl
And so sin my sherry wine.
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Sad Thought, itdoth inspire
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13

LONDON, June 6.-Bullion in the
bank of England last week decreased
f202. 900. Proportion of bank Of Eng
land reserve to liability, 81 SIS per
cent.
Observe that There is about one
dollar in specie to three dollars in
bank bills in the great Bank of Eng
land.
Everybody knows that if rush is
made on the bank, Parliament will
suspend specie payments. That has
been done many times in the past
And yet England clings to the hard
money delusion. and the people cheer
fully take the Bank Of England notes
because they know that the honor and
resources of Great Britain are behind
them.
Why would not the same argument
apply to the greenbacks
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13

Hon. II. l., Gordon, Of MINNEAPOLIS.
formerly of the st. Cloud Land Office.
sails into some of our congressional
delegation for being false to the in
terests of the settlers along the line
of the railroad from Sank Rapids to
Bralnerd. There is quite discussion
IN the papers upol the subject. The
Pioneer Press defends the congress
men. Here are some of Gordon 5
utterances as to Major Strait.
Some time before this. Stewart told
me that the railroad folks had rot
Major Strait to fight the bill. and that
he strait would probably do his best
to beat it for the company. Sure
enough. when appeared before the
committee. there was Major Strait.
t.'lnadvertently." he now SAYS. like
the Irishman who watched his
wife with a crowbar) and he fought
that bill for the relief of three hun
bred poor families in his own Miuneso-
ia but outside of his own district
the best he knew now-fought the
bill of his own personal and particn.
lar friend DR.. Stewart; and this same
Major Strait now comes to the rescue
OF the Doctor. and says according TO
Pausanias that ''Gordon's manner
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There is great deal of discussion

There is a great deal Of discussion
going on nowadays as to which of
the old parties will make or lose
most by the growth of the National
Greenback party. We give a couple
of contradictory views on this cues.
ton:
But it the Democrats of Michigan
would undertake to keep up their
party organization, and adopt a plat.
form that would prevent the Nation
al Greenbackers from capturing the
state. their existence would have
been in vain.-Cincinnoti Enquirer.
Right there we differ with our able
contemporary. Michigan has been a
decided radical state for decade. bv
from twenty to thirty thousand majsr-
ity. The Democrats have no more
show of carrying the state than John
Sherman has of heaven. While we
want the Democracy to keep up their
organization. we would be glad to see
them poll i. solid vote for the Nation.
al Greenback ticket, if by Sc doing
the state can be secured from the
hands OF the radical party. AS be-
tween the two parties, radical and
Democrat, the prejudice of the peo-
pie would make it, for this genera
ton, a radical state beyond the hope
of change. The greenback element.
distinct from the puritanical spirit
which actuateS majority of her peo-
pie. may overcome this prejudice so
far as to vote for currency reform.
while they would neverl vote the
Democratic ticket. Besides. that.
the state organ of the democracy, the
Detroit Free Press, is a full hedged
hard money lunatic Of the most pro.
nounced kim. Thus, if Michigan is
ever redeemed from radicalism. and
the prejudice which the present gem
GRAFTON has imbued against the Dem
ocratic party it must be done by an
organization, such as that known as
the National Greenback party. which
is. in fact controlled, really. By Dem
ocratic principles. This same work
of regeneration is going on in Hi
nois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, dyed-in-
the-wool radical state, that never
would be redeemed from the curse of
radicalism. because of the inherent
dislike which has been instilled into
them for years. And then, again. a
rose by any other name would smell
as sweet, and Democratic principles
instllled into the people of these
G0dfOrsaken states. under the name
of National Greenbacks for few
years would not interfere with their
final redemption. by being brought
into the fold of the democratic church.
For these reasons. and for the sue
cess of true Democracy, we say. God
speed the National Greenback party
of Michigan.-Mnncie (Md.) Courier
Democrat.
Our friends may possess their souls
in patience. The National Greenback
proposes to live on and grow regard
less of the effects its development
may have on any other organizati on.
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The master Of the State Grange p

The master OF the State Grange p
OF IL. OF Missouri thus writes to the
st Louis Journal and Farmer, touch
ing a piece of financial rascality by
some of the men who have been
shrieking most vigorously about the
plighted faith Of the nation:
Score ten for the national banks. as
a clear gain on the Mexican silver
dollar. Some of whom brought car
loads of this coin into the country,
that cost them from ninety-two to
ninety-fOur cents on the dollar, and
paying it out over their own counters,
with their own hands, for one hun
dred cents OIL the dollar. and as soon
as it become we'll distributed among
the laboring classes of the country,
these same money sharks discovered
that it is not worth a hundred cents
on the dollar, consequently they es-
tabliShed it's value as banking medi-
um OF currency, at ninety cents on the
dollar, and at that rate it is now re-
ceived and paid out. by business
houses generally.
Is this Mexican silver dollar worth
less to-day than it was last January,
when it was brought here. Nt was
worth no more then, than it iYto-day.
and it's real worth to-day. is just what
it Was then, there is no change in it's
real value.
The facts are, the Mexican silver
dollar is worth ten cents less than the
American silver dollar, and this was
the case when it was brought here,
and it was brought here because it
could be bought at its real value, and
paid out at the value of the american
dollar, hence a net profit of from four
to ten cents on the dollar was realized
in the transaction. We repeat that
just as soon as it was paid out, and
became we'll distributed among the
people, banks refused to take it at
any more than its real value, NINETY
cents on the dollar. and as a natural
consequence, all business men had
to do the same. They cannot allow
more for this dollar, than the amount
allowed them at the banks.
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Eli Perkins, who is writing up
glowing accounts of the growing
crops for the benefit of the wheat
spectators, makes this admission in a
recent letter to Il Chicago paper:
1t is now safe to say that the frost
danger is past, and that rust and wet
weather in harvest time are the only
calamitieS that can overtake the great
wheat crop.
In southern Illinois. Kansas. and
Kentucky, there are frequent instan-
ces of rust. but | have heard OF none
in the Northwest.
Farmers should remember that
every time they indulge in Dragging
about their crops thoy furnish m
argument to beat down the price
of their crops.
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\ valued friend and leading citizen
OF Dakota county writes us enGuiring
the names of the Greenback Con
gressional Committee of the Second
District. and adds:
The skies are looking bright. II
Will he utterly impossible for Il hard.
money man. let him be straight or
crooked. 10 get to congress from this
district this fall. live in a section
OF Dakota county where it has been
nearly all republican hitherto. and |
do not know of man that wants any
more bankers IN congress To vote
away the people rights. notice the
Pioneer Press calls the Greenback
element in congress Hog anu Uomi-
ney. All right. Let them call
names: that proves nothing. The old
parties ara erumbling to pieces while
the Greenbackers are multiplying on
every hand.
Our correspondent further suggests
that 1.-THE Greenhackers ought TO hold
meetings in all parts of the state dur
ing the month of June and talk finance
before harvest time
This IS an excellent suggestion.
There is no reason in the world WHY
the Greenbach party should not be rs
strong in Minnesota rs it is in Wis
consin. 1t was started in this state
by MeS>rs. Gore. Ayers, Page. Elliot.
etc. long before any movement was
made in Wisconsin.
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and admissions before the committee
killed the bill

and admissions before the committee
killed the bill.
[ am thankful there are some men
who are not members of congress.
Neither Major Strait nor ANYBODY
else asked me the questions ..Mr.
Gordon, would not your bill, if it be-
came a law, allow any squatter found
on the land, even though he had al.
ready exhausted his rights under the
homestead and presumption acts, to
come in and claim patent for his
lands - AS stated by Major Strait.
according to Pausanias, and if Major
Strait or any other man says so he
states what is palpably false.
The bill itself before and after
amendment provided for the protec-
ton only Of persons entitled to the
benefit OF the homestead and pre-emp-
ton law. and none other, as any man
can see who will refer to a printed
copy of the bill H. r. 1895, Dec. Z.
1871 Hence, if Major Strait had
asked such question, the bill itself
would have answered him on the spot.
The fact is, Major Strait strenuous
ly took the position that the settlers
were mere squatters on the railroad
lands without any right whatever, and
that the company, having built the
road, had thereby earned the lands,
and without forfeiture having been
declared by congress, and therefore
had vested rights to allof these lands.
and could not and ought not to be de-
prived of them. That was Major
Straits argument, and that was the
question he put to me, and 1 gave NV
opinion and asked the committee to
take the opinion of Atty. Gen, Mar
BILE. which they did, and it agreed
with mine.
Major Strait worked hard to kill his
friends bill and to help crush out
about two hundred poor families,
many OF whom had lived from ten to
fifteen years on these lands, and had
invested their all in Improvements on
the soil. l will untertake to say that
IT these poor settlers had been voters
in Major Straits district, he would
not have done !lopenly] what he did
in this case. No. sir; his district is
too close, and if DR.. Stewart runs
again this fall, he'll find the Third
district mighty close.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-13

General George l.. Becker of st.
PAUL has sold his large farm near
Norris, 22OO acres, 1000 acres of
which are in crop, for $50, 900 cash, to
gentlemen from New York. This
would make the price of the land it.
self about $1,000 per acre. \ very
good price for 50 large purchase
and especially where the purchase
money is paid i'll cash.
. This is another of the signs which
indicate the rapid rise in the value of
Minnesota wheat lands, especially in
Stevens county.
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The total acreage of wheat in
Minnesota. this year. is estimated at
:, 100000. At twenty bushels per
acre. which is large average Weld
there would be 45.00o.0D0 bushels
raised.-.St. PouI tri.sje.
Minnesota will not yield twenty
bushels Of wheat per acre this year.
The chinch bugs are thick in the
southeastern part of the state. and in
the timbered region the wheat is al.
ready lying flat in many places from
excessive rain.
Our average annual shipment of
wheat from the United States 10 En-.
rope is about 9o.000,00o bushels.
The talk we hear about Minnesota
producing 100000 or $1,000. 900
bushels this year is all nonsense. If
it were true it would send wheat
down to fifty cents per bushels.
In fact although it may appear like
blasphemy and fiat treason we dom
believe Minnesota produced 40 900 900
bushels last year, nor IS 900 900.
We quote the following from the
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| OF the four and half per cent. bonds.
which provides that the syndicate was
to pay IL per cent. premium and &C
crued interest. it's payments to be
made in gold or its equivalent, the
| syndicate being allowed one-half per
cent. commission for taking the bonds
and returning their proceeds to the
treasury, without any other expense
to the government. Until all the
@oo,OOO.OUU contracted for was taken,
the syndicate sold the bonds at lOl IA
gold and accrued interest. Having
concluded its contract with the gov
eminent. the syndicate then advanced
the market price of the bonds to 1922
-, as it had Il right to do-the same
us any other hOlder.-,St Puuk Dis
patch.
Nevertheless it appears the syndi
cate possessed a monopoly of the hand
ling OF the bonds, and made | IA per
cent, out Of the transactions; that is
they made the difference between
lOl II and lO2 -, which upon the
$40 100000 amounted to 1925, OOO-a
very pretty perjury. And what right
had they to stand between the people
ana the government and plumber
both Why were not the bonds sold
directly to the people It has been
proved that even a four per cent. bond
will sell readily; how much more read
lily should Alp per ct. bond have
sold
The whole thing looks like steel
with sherman finger in the pie.
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last issue OF that very reliable paper
the Mortified Journal.

laSC issue OF That very reliable paper
the Mortified Journal.
When doctors and wise observers
disagree who shall decide! Mr.. A.
I. BarrOws went into the country
last Thursday and on his return made
this statement to us: Il have never
seen the crops look so promising at
this time of the year as they do now. =
The next day MIR. C. c.. Stetson was
in our office and we repeated to him
Mr.. Barrows' statement, to which he
replied: Il think he is mistaken, -
and went on to discriminate. Wheat
fields under the shadow of timber and
OIL new land would justify Mr.. Bar
rows statement, but our old lands
have become spindling, till they were
revived by the recent reins which
gave them an impetus. Mr.. Stetson
does not expect SO good crops as we
had last year.
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Anti- Ss(ouopo|ist.
INATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR
In consequence OF the rapid III

In consequence Of the rapid in
ease of our business we have
emoved the office Of THE ANTI-MO-
oPOLIsT from the Sd floor Of No. 10
1abasha street to the second floor
{ No. Is East Third street. This
lange brings us upon the main bust
ess thoroughfare of st. Paul, be-
.des giving us more room for the
transaction of business.
We will be glad to see all our Old
riendS at our new office.
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No wonder the people groan u

W "oHuoi ZIG people STOdn unu6f
the excessive burdens of taxation.
Even in the little item Of putting a
glaze on paper hundreds Of thousands
of dollars are stolen. Read this:
WASHINGTON, May 3I.-The COM
mittee on expenditures in the treas
ury department., in acknowledging
OF the affairs of the bureau of engrav.
ing and printing, having looked into
the expenditures from 1870 to 1875 on
the secret process whereby the paper
wherein greenbacks were printed and
sized and said to be made waterproof.
Mr.. Glover furnishes the following
statement of the expenditures by the
bureau for this purpose taken from
the books of that concern:
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The exports Of agricultural pro
lucts for 1877 were as follows:
3reaG stilfYs LIZ hich includa oil

The total exports during the year
were SOL ,6S2,366. The products of
agriculture furnished. therefore.
more than two-thirds of the whole of
our foreign exports. This is fair
test of the relative Importance of the
agricultural interest as compared with
other national industries. When wa
compare the proportionate demands
made by other industries upon the
government for recognition and as
sistance with those afforded to agri-
culture, a very c4spicuous inequality
is apparent TO the disadvantage of the
latter. Farmers are permitted to
get along as they can without help.
and in spite of some hindrances.
while other industrial classes clamor
for help and get it. If we add to the
above figures the vast amount of in.
land traffic supplied by agriculture.
the comparison would be more in it's
favor IN one and its sadyantape in
that pointed out.
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<.tf =
OF this about $3.50. 900 was received
by John NJ. Williams, family con-
nection and former partner of the
then chief of the bureau. George B.
McCartee. The sizing was made of
animal glue, salt. CASTLE soap, alum.
white wax. paraffine and water. cost.
ing about tive cents a gallon, and is
charged on the books of the bureau at
seventy-two to ninety-five cents
gallon. The material was furnished
by Williams and cost SIS. 900 or less.
so that the profit which his former
partner allowed him secretly to obtain
was about SD. 900, or over fifteen
hundred per cent. While this was
going on 1T was stoutly maintained
that the bureau was in possession of a
valuable secret. which was protected
by patent. and which no one must
be allowed to know or test. AS this
would enable others to compete with
the bureau. The custom of allowing
visitors to view the operations of the
concern was even discontinued. till at
last the banking and currency com.
mittee advised that the value of the
process be tested BY commission of
scientific experts. This commission.
after an extensive examination. re-
ported that the process was extremely
worthless. Beside the $3.50. 900 paid
to Williams for his interest. and for
a process which he admitted after.
ward was not protected by patent.
the bureau spent 500, 900 for labor
on applying the process for which
there was no need. The committee
IN appropriations. while Garfield was
chairman. do not seem to have in.
CURED INTO the nature of this expendi-
tnre, and reported appropriations
covering the fraud to the extent Of
nearly $4,000. Mr.. Glover saws the
bureau has for years spent over mil.
lion ofdollars annually without prop.
eriy accounting for the money and
without proper responsibility, and
that not dollar should hereafter be
appropriated to it unless the price of
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WHOLE NO. 2o5.

d. Twice therein is fixed by law and
unless the estimates are presented in
1ull detail. He denounces the whole
transaction with Williams as an ont.
rageous swindle,and says it is amazing
that it should have continued so Ionr
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Ii the editor of the Anti-Monopo-
list will refer 10 the morning papers
OF April 23, he will find in them a full
copy of Secretary Sherman's contract
with the New York syndicate for sale
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That very able journal Chases
Chronicle, of Maine, has these sensi-
hle utterances on the labor question:

mat very able journal Chases
Chronicle, of Maine, has these sensi-
bic utterances on the labor question::
some 100000 operatives are on a
strike in England. They struck
against a reduction of wages, and
after some days of idleness, and
several unsuccessful attempts at
reconciliation. they commenced
rioting. pillaging and burning. They
had a collision with the military.
and several were killed. In England
they have gold basis, specie re-
SUMPTION and all the beauties of
hard money financial policy. Yet
women work III the mines in Wales
for ID cents day. men work in the
mills for 40 cents day. They live in
novels and dress in rags. are
uneducated. and when crowded into a
strike are Us unmanageable as beasts.
In gold basis England the masses
are semi-paupers. and they have
strikes, riots. and pillaging. In paper
money France they have no such
trouble. the people are generally
prosperous and contented, their debt
is fast being reduced. and France is
daily gaining in power and i'm
portance. Now we here are travelling
toward resumption. Each year as
we draw nearer to that pit times
grow harder. we have had strikes and
riots. and to-day millions of men are
unable to find work at any price.
Now which of these two nations,
England and France. do the people of
OF this country choose to follow. Do
they wish to he crowded where the
laborers of England are to-day. OF will
you rival France in wealth and pros
perity. The choice is before YOU.
OH can have resumption and riots.
or the people can rule themselves. rid
themselves of rings, and be truly
independent. Shall it he riots or
shall it be prosperity Your ballots
must decide this question.
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\ correspondent of the Nouer
County Repubiican has these very
sensible words. every one of which
we heartily endorse:
PILOT MOUND. MINI.
May -. 1873.
DEAR SIR: | see YOU put forward
the name OF William Meighen for
congress in place Of Dunnell. agree
with all YOU say against the school
book salary grabbing man. and in all
that You say In favor of Mr.. Meirhan.
Nh. Neighen has lived in this county
over twenty years and has been many
times elected TO the state legislature.
ana has always acted honestly for the
people. and independent of rings. and
think he would do the same /. con.
greSS. and that is more than our rem.
resentatlves have done: they have all
acted for their own interest and the
interest ot rings. | have been in the
state twenty-five years and have
known Mr.. Meighen ever since. and
have watched his course in the leris
lature and never found any fault with
1t. nor have ever heard
any one find fault with
him. unless he was an office seeker or
4 member of some ring to rob the
people. such persons don't like him.
on might have added that he agrees
with Peter Cooper on financial ques-
tions-that he is strong greenhach.
er. We have had lawyers in congress
anu lawyer governors good while.
ana the country is threatened with
tramps and mobS. would it not he =
good way 10 change and elect inteIll-
gent and honest farmers 10 those
offices. believe Peter Cooper knows
more than ali the lawyers in congress.
Of what is needed 10 make the Amer.
lean people happy.
a GEEENBACK-REP.-F ARMEE.
by all means let the Greenbacksrs
OF the First Congressional District
nominate honest William Meighen
for congress.