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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

nation. take the liberty of sending
you few ''scissorings which / Sc.
lect, as / think them suitable for the
columns of your paper.
The intent Of the great mass of the
people, and the principles you have
advocated, have the satisfaction of
knowing, are gaining ground steadily
and the true principles of finance, is
evidenced by the late action of con-
gresS,-forced upon it by the Green
back agitation. In spite of the sneers
of a subsidized press, the pens of hire
ling writer's and the pencil of Mast,
really that despised Rag Baby has
shown 1.-The mettle Of his pasture
and has bacomeian infal.t Hercules land
l think ere long his iron grasp will
throttle monopolies, and choke Off
the parasites who have hitherto fat
tened on the vitals OF the industrial
classes and scoined their blood to
idruchmas' '-ifi l should Judge from
the action Of congress in it's legisla-
ton during the last session. l was
surprised to find in late paper how
few men belonging to the agricultural
and industrial classes are in congress.
| think the people will hereafter look
out more for men whose interests are
identical with and bound up with
those Of the industrial classes, and not
send so many of those professional
politicians, mere political Tree
Lances. whose only aim is public
plumber. and who are ready to sell
themselves to the highest bidder,
whose professions of patriotism and
form are but ''box ct prosterea nihil"
and who have made the present dis
astrOus state of things possible in
this once prosperous land. a land rich
in the resources of the field. the for
est. the ocean, the mine. and an ener-
getic and industrious population.
My sympathies are with the work
ingmen of America. | have been a
farmer all my life, | am no politician.
and now with the weight Of - years
on my shoulders, leave these duties
OF active life to my boys. and am sim
ply ga looker.on in Vienna: when /
nave felt a temptation ''to take a hand
IN the discussion | have prudentlv
retralned, and left the field clear for
younger men and ADLER pens to occupy.
Believe me, yours truly,
WM. i. LYDIARD.
We trust our honored friend will
send us many selections and write us
whenever the spirit moves him, EDI-
TOR TI-MONOPOLIST.
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Condition Of the Crops in Kandiyohi County.

NOiiu'tiOh 0! the SrOpS IN kandlyoni county.
HARRISON, Kandiyohi Co., Mimi. }
July II, 1878.
Editor AnA-Monopoiist:
Thinking you would like to hear
from this county about crop prospects
i write you.
We have had a remarkable growing
season. l never saw such growth
OF straw OF grain stool out as it has
this season. l counted thirty heads
on one stool. Farmers have been es-
tlmatlng their crops to yield from .
TO 80 bushels to the acre until recent
~. Owing to heavy rains and very
hot, sultry weather. the grain has
come down badly; rust has struck the
leaves and stalks, and the grain APP
pears to be ripening prematurelv
without filling well. We think Is
bushels to the acre a good average
with prospect Of its being of poor
quality. Corn was badly pulled by
the black birds. 1t is a very Door
crop. Potatoes promised we'll at one
time. but are now being destroyed by
the Colorado bug. There will be
enough raised for home CONSUMPTION.
Harvest hands are scarce and are
asking from SO to $3.50 per day.
Very respectfully,
l.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

The platforms adopted by the Ohio and New
York National conventions are twins in con-
tent as well as in time, and both SO resemble
other natural products of the union of dishon
esty and ignorance that makes up the Green
back movement as scarcely to call for separate
comment from national point of view. The
operations OF these gentlemen have, however.
certain local interest to the people who live
in tie regions unhappiy visited by them.
from the tact that they control good many
votes and promise to play an announcement
from such forebodings in Minnesota. Pho
neer-Press.
Hold on, brother Wheelock!
Don, you crow until you are out Of
the woods.
There will be fun in Minnesota this
fall.
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The It. Paul Giobt. Dem remarks
OF the platform adopted by the Dem
ocrats Of the First Congressional Dis
trict Of Minnesota:
The platform adopted has the right ring
about 1t is superior to that adopted bv the
Democrats ol the Second District and i one
upon which every opponent Of the Repub j.
can dynasty can stand There is no occasion
to. division Of forces upon such platform.
What a pity the Democratic bank
ers OF the Second District did not go
down 10 owatonna and prevent their
hretheren of the First District from
adopting a Greenback platform. They
could have pointed them 10 their own
noble example, where they took the
Ohio platform and cut out one-half OF
X. 10 wit all that referred to the
financial question.
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met General Garfield in the parlor OF the
hotel after the Presidential reception to-mish,
and had just started 20 interview him on the
political situation hv asking w hat he tn ugh,
would he the result OF the election in Ohio
this fall. and had received this response.
We'll, this National party is the Y 4 OF this
campaign, the unknown quantity that NAV
determine the result. and until | know W hS.
that quantity Is, and from whence il will OBJ
tain lis strength, canuo, answer your aue>-
ton Newark, Ohio, Special to Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Indeed Then the National party
is already the pivotal point on which
the politics OF the country hinge.
Well, that is an Improvement over
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1t is refreshing after so much indis-
criminate abuse of these poor men
known as ''tramps' to find an item like
this III the Lake City Sentinel
Al least 900 men from abroad have found
employment III the harvest fields III this Vi
entity since Saturday morning. Most OF them
are orderly and seem to be hard working
men. Everybody is paying good wages
The fault is not with American
workmen, it is in the cruel financial
laws that have sent them trampng
over the land begging in vain for
work and resorting 10 crime to avoid
starvation.
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a KIND Letter from an Old Friend. The
Creenoack Party Growing in hennepin
County
Lone LANE. Hennepin Co..
Tuly Orb 1873

Lone LANE. Hennepin Co..
July 9th. 1878.
Editor An.i-Noaopoiisi:
AS like the stand ttrue to the title
OF Your paper You take on the side
of the toilers of our nation. the crea-
tors of its wealth. the stamina of our
people, and the solid pedestal on
which the noble column of our nation
al freedom rests. and on whose pros
perity. and moral and intellectual
elevation depends the stability of our
institutions and the perpetuity of our
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The western Democrats are throwing them
selves III body into the arms OF the Labor
GreenDack party. VIII the eastern Demo
Gratis follow their example They will if they
Barnum has sent an agent to Mime
sofa to secure the leaders of the Dem
ocracy of the Second Congressional
district. They prefer defeat under
the lead of the bankers to success
under the lead Of the Greenbackers
Barnum offers a hundred dollars
apiece for jim Green, Duffy, Pierce
and John Norrish. They are to be
put in cages in a side show, and the
admission will be % cents.
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"The Democrats will have q hard time. =
says the Cincinnati Gazette, ''to get up any
excitement on the currency question this
year As the issue of the Gazette. from
which this remark is taken. contains only
four and halt columns OF financial discus
sion, we should judge that it don t regard the
question otany importance.-St Paul Globe
A pretty good comment on the Pho
neerPreSS, which declares the Green
hackers amount to nothing. and then
occupies half its space in attempts to
refute their doctrines.
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CREeNBACKS AND LABOR

In looking over the National Green
back presidential timber, we do not
see any better material than that ris-
ing young man, Ben Butler.-7 TIRE
Hdufc ErpresS.
In his speech ut the Inauguration
of the National observation-disclosures
campaign in Philadelphia. Henry
Carey Baird said that while Secretary
sherman Processes to have reduced
the public debt some $500 .0no 900, he
has In reality increased ii S69. 0ll .00n.
He held that Sherman idea was to
get this country down 10 the condi-
ton that now prevails in India
In the course OF an article on Flat
Money, the Colorado Greenbacker
says that ..Money. to be money at all.
must have for its security basis of
credit of perfect and absolute secur-
ity. and the most valuable thing most
unhuctuating and the most stable
things. must be real property of the
whole people as represented by their
government. and that its extent of
redemption be equal to the wealth
likely to be for sale in the nation.
The Indiana Woman Suffrage As
ISOLATION adopted this as part OF their
platform:-''The permanency of our
liberal form of government depends.
not upon standing army or the en-
forcement of rigorous laws. put upon
the voluntary contribution of pure and
enlightened minds to the promotion
of individual right and public justice.
The acknowledgements Labor move
msnt asserts this truth which has
heen lost sight of in our politics for
some time past.
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THEY BIND TIP TOP.

STERLING, Kansas. June 9, 1878.
E. M. Deane, President: All of
the Harvest rs and Binders have
started working first rate, and
bind tip top. | have bound wheat
that stood waist high, and as thick
as hair on a dog, right along, with
out trouble. That Tension and
Compressor Arm are success.
Yours truly,
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p Two years ago Donnelly ran for congress in
the Second district, and now the Democrats
talk of running him in the Third district
|" hat handy man to have around Why
not run him in the First and Second districts
TOO this year. Spread him all over the State
de Is broad enough III the widest part to
stamp NJ {, on him three or four times ST.
Peter Tribune
Well breadth is good thing any
how. Better that than those cadav-
erous chaps that could be II ed as
wedges to split logs with There's
Irving Todd-you couldn't print his
own name on his widest part in
miniOR type.
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j. Fl. Williams.
HOW is THIS FOR LIGHT DRAFT

STERLING, Kansas, June 8, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Dear
Sir: | purchased one Of your Har-
vesters and Binders ofC. w. Boyer
and am well pleased with its work.
| have tried several kinds of ma
chimes, but this runs as easyiwith
Binder as any other without. | am
doing my work right along. with
pair OF ponies. weighing about $50
pounds. David Orr.
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lgnatluS Donnelly has turned up again IL,
IS red hot Greenbacker now "A DAYS. and
tried without success to get the Democrat,
congressional convention in the Second Min
neSota district To take Grceuback candidate
and platform. Springfield Mass kepubli-
On.
one would think from the fore
going that we had just Joined the
Greenbaek party-while in fact we
were enc Of the fathers Of the move
ment.
1t IS true we tried without success
TO get the Democratic convention of
the Second District to take a Green
back candidate and PLATFORM, and
before the campaign is over all honest
Democrats will regret that we failed
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

The st. Louis Republican OF Wednesday
morning gives complete list of the fatal cases
OF sunstrokc IN that city during the previous
week--a CHASTITY total oil one hundred and
torty-five. The fatalities of Wednesday and
Thursday will add nearly forty to the list.
Nearly two hundred deaths from
sunstroke in nine days.
Give lis Minnesota and all her s'bliz-
yards IL preference to such a eli
mate
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I he STATE OF THE CROPS IN DODGE
COUNTY.
ELLINGTON, DODGE Co.. Mimi, !
July 22d, 1873. !

cul --o. 1CtC' y
TO tie Editor Anfi-Monopolist
| will state the prospect Of crops in
this neighborhoOd. Wheat is not
half a crop; it is struck with blight:
Oats have very heavy straw but will
be very light yield. Barley all cut
but SO bleached as to be fit for feed
only; potatoes good; corn prospect
good; hay good; but what is cut
damaged SO it will not all be stacked
Harvest will begin in day or two.
1t has been hot since the 4th: then
the prospect was good but it is almost
gone now. The berry will be shrunk-
EN- very much, and a good deal of
blight. The prospect is not very en-
conraging to farmers at present. If
the prospect was as good as the papers
say to wit: thirty to forty bushels
per acre we might be glad; but to get
only 10 bushels IA to Is the amount
claimed) that too of poor quality.
wont look so big.
If the papers would let the farmers
alone, it would be better for them. it
helps put down the prices
L. f. G..
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lUNATIC LABCRERS.

New YORK. July PA Wilkes
barre letter in the Tribune, gives
the conversation of gentleman en-
gagged in manufacturing business
in one of the northern counties of
Pennsylvania. He says the chances
are we shall have much more serious
trouble within the next two months
than that which came upon us SO I'M
expectedly last summer. Prepare
tons are being made for simultane-
Gus strike all over the country, on
railroads, at the mines, in many of
the largest manufacturing establish
ments, and nothing but the utmost
vigilance on the part of the State
authorities and such preparations as
will make it possible to crush out
such a movement instantly. will pre-
vent one of the worst calamities that
has ever befallen the country. The
18th of June had been actually fixed
for the strike. and the outbrake would
certainly have taken place then. or
soon after, but for preparations made
by Governor Hartranft. when he
called out the militia and made ar
rangemehts to obtain uniforms and
equipments for them at Frankfort
arsenal
Those who were to have arranged
the strike. called committee meet
ing in Philadelphia and voted to
postpone the attack to the 18th If
August. when. it was hoped, the
country might be taken by surprise
\ Chicago representative of the
strikers, on his way to New YORK.
stopped over at Hornellsville and
said to his friends they ought to take
the property of the rich. and they
ought to especially break open the
banks. take all the money and divide.
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DID NOT MISS A BUNDLE.

ST. LOUIS, No, May Both, 1878.
St Paul Harvester Works: Have
Just received the following from
Breeze, Ills: The Binder works all
right. Cut three (3) acres; did not
miss bundle. Sold four CA
machines on the ground. Signed,
j. G. Rue. ID. S. Sheppard.
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THIS BREEZE WILL SWEEP OVER
THE ENTIRE NORTHWEST.

BREEsE, Illinois, June lst, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works :
Started two ~ machines to-day.
Eleven (11) sold. Binders are com
plete. Indications are this Breeze
will sweep over the whole North
west. r. G. Moore.
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Within the last two months 100 Greenback
papers have been started in the United States
The people OF this country are attacking the
the United States, England and Germany
with the same spirit they attacked slavery -
Exchange.
Yes; and through the same dark
sea of abuse and Misrepresentation
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01

The Greenbackers of the Seventh
district of Wisconsin have nominated
e. p. Parker for Congress.
The Greenbackers of the Sixth
Wisconsin district nominated p. a.
Griffith for Congress at Oshkosh
yesterday.
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HYDE PARK, Mass, July 24.-The Repub-
HcanS OF the Third district nominated Gen
Grant for congress.
BY all means let Grant be elected
from one district of Massachusetts,
and Butler from another and then let
Old Ben settle up accounts with him.
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CUT DOWN GRAIN.

AVA, Illinois, May 2Sth, 1873.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Have
cut five (5) acres of grain, short
and thin, on the ground nothing
broke. Will give it a better test
tomorrow in wheat.
r. G.. Moore.
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PURCHASED IT AFTER SEEING
ALL THE REST WORK.

ZEANDALE, Riley Co., Kansas, I
June 5, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: This
is to certify that, after seeing the
Marsh, Buckeye, Adams & French,
and St. Paul Harvester and Self
Binder at work, | prefer the St.
Paul, and have purchased one
from your agent, E. b. Purcell,a and
consider it one of the Simplest,
most Durable and Lightest Draft
Machines, and am satisfied that the
slx-foot st. Paul runs as light as.
the fve-foot Marsh
John w. Mccormick.
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year or two ago when no word Of
ridicule was too strong to describe
the despised "rag-baby'' and "the
paper-nOney lunatics."
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SHALL A CRSENBACk STATE CONVEN
TON BE CAllEU2

TO The Editor Init Nonopolisf.
| noticed in late issue of your paper
call from brother Aver. chairman
of the Greenhack State Central Com
mlttee, for the views of the mem
bers OF the committee on the follow
ing points: LIST. Shall state Conven-
ton be called to nominate candidates.
End. If SO where, and at what time.
To the first question ! answer YES.
for the Greenback interest is too great
TO let pass without giving the people
an opportunity 10 express their views
At the ballot box. / think the old
parties will be astonshed at the
wonderful growth of the Gree nback
party in our State. The old parties
have held their Congressional Dis
trict Convention in this the End Dis
trict. and made nominations. They
may think it very sharp 10 call con
venticns 1t a time of year when but
very few Of our farmers could attend.
but who cares. did not expect any
thing from either in the interest OF
labor. but after harvest the farmers
Will put a candidate in the field that
will clean them both out.
-nd. The time the 9TH OF >eptem-
Der. IL o clock \. ~. the place. the
Amphitheatre at the I. Paul Driving
Park
Truly yours.
e.. {. CuANBERLrN
y. b. One third of our wheat crop
lost by blight and rust. Say to the
farmers cut and shock the wheat as
soon as poSSiblp If the stray Is rrean
put on caps. then stack in good shape
and let stand ~ least one month.
q. {. c.
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AM SATISFIED.

Cowley Co., Kansas, June /.
AZ. i. kenner, Esq, Kansas City:
Dear Sir: | started my st. Paul
Binder to-day. Am satisfied.
Marion Flanagan
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BINDERS WORKING PERFECTLY.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 3lst, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Ma
chimes at Highland all sold; will
need as many more. Binders
working perfectly in all sections,
The Ava Binder has run success
fully all the week.
r e Moore
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DID EXCELLENT WORK.

SHERMAN, Texas May l6, 1878.
Z. N. Deane, Esq, President St.
Paul Harvester Works: Dear Sir:
| take pleasure in stating that your
Edward Harvester and st. Paul
Binder did excellent work on Iny
farm
Yours very truly,
Jesse p. Loring
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TWO HORSES HANDLED II WITH
OUT DIFFICULTY.

OUT DIFFICULTY.
ZEANDALE, Riley Co., Kansas
June 5, 1878.
This Is to certify that / have
used my team Of two horses on the
st. Paul Harvester and Self-Binder
slx-foot cut, and can handle it all
day without difficulty.
G. w. Uptegrove.
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1t is truly the King of the Harvest Field.
CUT WITH THE WIND BLOW
ING A HURRICANE.

DALLAS, Texas, May 6, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Cut
five (5 acres green heavy wheat
IN the afternoon. Wind blowing
a hurricane. Binder works sure
every time. E. NJ. Deane.
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CUT HEAVY GREEN WHEAT.

ST. LOUIS. May 10th, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Gut
heavy green wheat to day. Binder
worked well.
D. S. Sheppard.
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BINDER IS WORKING WELL.

SPARTA, H., May 31st, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Bind
er ii working well
NJ. f. Foster.
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HANG OUT YOUR BANNER.

DALLAS, Texas, May 9, 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Both
Binders worked splendidly. No
difference. Hang out your ban
ner. Shake e. Nj Deane.
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BINDER WORKED FINE-SOLD
FIVE ON THE GROUND.

KANSAS CRY, June 9th, 1878.
st. Paul Harvester Works: Bind.
er at Holden worked fine. Five
(5) sold; will close out car load.
Competitors dare not come in.
r. G Moore.
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DOES WELL ENOUGH FOR ANY
BODY.
Cowley Co., Kansas June 2.
i. b. Kenner, Esq, Kansas City:
Dear Sir: think the Binder does
well enough for anybody.
NJ. Hamilton.
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REcA1ctTRATl0NS.
GNATIUS DONNELLY, Editor.

THURSDAY AUGUST 1873.
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BINDER WORKS SPLENDID.

SPARTA, ILL.,, June 1st. 1878.
St. Paul Harvester Works: Bind :
n works splendid.
M. 4. Foster.
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X. c. Moore.
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into their pocket, but the treasury

into their pocket, but the treasury
paid out nearly a hundred mi lions
more to put up their value still higher
1t there is any other record of legis-
lation and administration in the
direct interest of a special class like
this, it has escaped our notice.
After these frank admissions, we
would like to have the Sun explain
why it is now opposing the Greenback
PARTY. which is the only political Or
ganization in favor of Fighting the
wrongs named as far as it is possible!
Shall the plumber rest in the pockets
of the bnndholders? Must the masses
sit down under the burdens imposed
by ring Of capitalists and bear them
without murmur! The Democrats
Of the past defend the frauds perpe.
trated by the bondholders with the
same zeal as the Republicans. Why
then should men who believe in hon
est dealing and justice to labor sup
port either party! Will the Sun tell!
VIII any man venture to give reason
for such suicidal course on the part
of the masses! The Greenback party
IS fast becoming recognized as the
champion Of honesty and the bitter
foe OF fraud and that is what gives it
strength wherever honest men
abound. Huren Union.