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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

That wise old rat. Thurlow Weed !.
can smell the coming tempest farther
off than any other of the old rats Of
the country. Here is what he said
the other day to Hsrald roHorter:
"A new party movement growing
out of such causes. Mr.. Weed con-
tinued. was inevitable. and the na-
tional or labor party owes its exis-
tence to the proyocations OF capital
lists. 1t is the result of a concerted
policy TO portect capital at the expense
Of labor. During the last fifteen or
eighteen years labor has been onerous-
" taxed. while capital was exempt.
This exemption OF the capitalists has
especially applied TO the owners of
government bonds the reason given
for exempting them at the outset
being 10 induce capital TO invest.
Never was any hope more futile.
Capitalists refused to buy bonds until
gold was so high that the bonds which
bear interest at par could be had for
fifty per cent of their present value.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

There IS every prospect that the
Greenback state convention to be
held at Minneapolis, Will be one OF
the largest held in the state for years.
At last Minnesota is waking up.
There will be music in the air vet
Litchf,id Independent.
In this connection we desire to
warn the Greenbackers of the Sd dis.
trict that there are indications that
". u. Washburn's friends will try to
pack the Greenback congressional
convention AMI control its action.
See that every county is represen-
ted by the right kind Of men.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29
GENERAL BUTLER ON LABOR.

General Rntler yesterday visited
the office Of the Advocate at No. 237
Pearl street. New York The estab-
llshmentis a ten hours workshop, but
as General Butler said he had known
operative in the factory Of Lis own
city Of Lowell to work for fourteen
hours day. he did not seem to con
slider the fact rs oppressive. As he
stood in front Of the press by the side
of Walter shupe, editor of the Advo-
cate the type settlers, pressmen. engi-
neers and folders crowded around the
Massachusetts statesman. and some
one proposed three cheers for General
Butler. The cheers had the effect Of
drawing several passers by into the
press room thus swelling the audi
ence that finally insisted upon a
speech. Mr.. shupe had a type box
inverted in the middle Of the room.
and the press was stopped. Standing
on the box facing group Of girls
and holding his hat and cane in his
left hand. General Butler said that
the condition Of men of enterprise
nowadays IS not TO be envied BY
the worklngmen who earn and draw
regular wages. The capitalist whose
money is in untaxedboads is the drone
10 be condemned. The General said
be had been accused Of being largely
interested in bonds He wished he
was. The non-taxation Of the bonds
comes back upon the people. Men of
enterprise in New York are letting
their substance and profits slide away
from them because they listen to the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

We clip the following from the
Uorkman, the organ Of the laboring
men of the state. 1t is a just rebuke
of narrow race-bigotry:
The laborers who subsisted on DO
tatoeS and dwelt in Il hut III Ireland
has Il varied ana substantial diet in
America. and home that is Il pal
ace to the one he left behind him.
And this man. lifted so much above
his native surroundings, with SO many
comforts and privileges and opportu-
mites never dreamed Of in the land of
his birth, IS Just the one TO foment
discord and strife because he cannot
have princely living in the country OF
Is adoption.-Niln. Trlbune.
The above is from the envenomed
pen of Dave Blakely. Irish1nen who
read it should remember the abortion
who wrote it. His name IS Dave
Blakely; he edits the MINNEAPOLIS
Tribune, and must write Just such
stuff or hunt up another Job. And
such men are the paid mouth pieces
of the only daily paper published in
VIZ ApNtiA - NlAO AApA III " 81. IL ElIN
Of A. 900 people, a city where five out
Of six are of workingmen. two out OF
three fire foreigners. and fully one
third of the foreigners are Irishmen.
Still, with all that. the party who pays
for and orders such sentiments is try
ing to get the workingmen to aid in
sending their man to congress. Their
organ is unable to hide therac preju-
dice and Accommodating bigotry t.
viii crop out. They might "a
David. 20 little slow on the
until after election The nao
love OF patriotism and hatred of
ranny. which is Assacteristic of
lrishmen. IS a ss-..1ment which
obtuse intellect. tc- blind preiudf
the hide bound bigotry of p. Blak(
cannot eXtinguish or compreh en
Dave particularly points to the Iril
IN the above; but foreigner BIZ ad
other name smells just As odoroas 4
HAS hostrils. especially if they are.id
dependent and happen TO suages
some ideas that are out of the reach
or his perception.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

That malicious sheet. the Fari.
bault Democrat. published some time
since statement that at the Shake
pee Democratic convention we oppos-
ed the nomination of Major Barton
and induced the Wahasha delegation
TO cast their votes for Mr. Poehier.
This statement is utterly without
foundation. We told all who spoke
TO us on the subject. at Shakopee.
that there was no hope of defeating
Strait in the I'd district. except bv 4
thorough union of the Greenbackers
and Democrats. that this union could
not be effected upon Mr.. Poehler BE-.
cause Of his pronounced hard money
views. but that we thought il might
be brought about with either Major
Barton or Mr.. Lienau as the candi.
date, and that if either of these gem
tleman was nominated we would do
our best to have the Greenbackers en-.
dorse him.
We will give the Democrat five
hundred dollars if it will produce a
single respectable delegate who will
declare that we ever advised him +,
vote for Poehler. Why should we
urge Poehler's nomination and vet
refuse TO support him The lie is a
lie on its face.
We should have noticed it sooner
but for an absence for month mast
in the harvest field.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

We would ask attention to the call.
published in another column. for a
Greenback Congressional Convention
in the Ist Minnesota district. The
signatures show that great numbers
OF Republicans are breaking away
from their party and entering the new
party. TIA good man and good speak
er IS nominated a vigorous canvass
viii defeat Dunnel.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

suffering the dimunition of forty mil
lions of capital which was employed
IN productive industry. And the
fraud practiced on the people by
forcing on them unasked, these coins
OF less weight and value than they
represent. ought to consign the Re-
publican party to eternal oblivion.
Will You. reader, make yourself a
party to such loss, damage. and fraud,
by your vote. injuriug and ,demoral-
lzlng both yourself and the whole
country! RI.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

We would ask the attention of our
readers residing in the Il Congress
sional District, 70 the call for con-
vention to nominate u Greenback
candidate in that district.
Let there be fun representation
of the counties in the district and
steps taken to iuaugurate lively and
vigorous campaign.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

Let any one read Miss Corson' $
book and then calculate that on an
average 100000 families spend 81 a
week on living where by management
anu forethought So would amply suf
nee. The addition to the NATIONAL
wealth IN year that would be made
were a wise economy the rule would
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29
be over $4,000. 900.

~ O'CA +p-.OOO.OOO.
10 which the indianapolis Sun hap
PLY replies:
The Evening News clips this and
reproduces it under the caption ''How
to add to the nations wealth. Will
this editor please demonstrate how
the nations wealth can be increased
by any such process If \ spends on
3 tive dollars. is the nation any poor
er! If A keeps the money in his
pocket is the nation any richer! If
SO then If everybody would cease al
together to spend money and adopt
the lives CT hermits or savages, the
nation would become amazingly rich
such is the tomfoolery palmed off on
the people for hard money wisdom.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29

aster to the body polite.
The National Greenback party
therefore invite every lover of his
country to rally to the standard Of
freedom with a full delegation from
each county.
The following number Of delegates
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the new, bright, and beautiful.
Vow the place of this fractional
currency Is supplied BY subsidiary
silver coins, no more convenient IN
Use than the old currency, and of less
Intrinsic value than they represent
AMI to the damage Of the people bv
over three million dollars annually
Va lose the interest on the bonds
which were paid for the gold bes;dss
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29
apportioned:

By order of the Committee.
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by order OF the committee
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0Of dtIC tdIIJIUdIt. IOIOneI
/. is also a Green0acker. and
|r inclined to withdraw in
lrlow, as he desires to see
Pneyltes routed. Leading
n the district favor this
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-12
Gods Love.

Suppose a meadow in which a million
daisies open their bosoms all at one time to
the sun. On one of them, while it is yet a
bud, little stone has fallen. At once
crushed aud overshadowed, it still struggles
bravely against all odds to expand its petals
like the rest. For many days this effort is
continued without success. The tiny stone
Ga mighty rock to the tiny ilower) squats on
its breast, and will not admit single sun.
beam. At length the fower-stalk, having
gathered strength by its constant exertion,
acquires force enough to overbalance the
weight and toss the intruder off. Up springs
the daisy with bound; and in an instant
another foweret is added to the vast multi
tude which in that meadow drink their fill
of sunlight. The sun in the heaven is not
incommoded by the additional demand,
The newcomer receives into its open cup
as many sunbeams as it would have received
although no other flower had grown in all
the meadow-in all the earth. Thus the
sun, finite though it be, helps us to under
stand the absolute infnitude of its Maker.
When an immortal being, long crushed and
turned away by a load of sin, at length,
through the power Of a new spiritual life,
throws off the burden, and opens with a
bound TO receive Heavenly Fathers long
offered but rejected love, the giver is not
impoverished by the new demand upon his
kindness. Although a thousand millions
should arise and go to the Father, each
would receive as much of that Fathers
love as if he alone of all fallen creatures
had come back reconcied to God.-Wh
| liam ArnOt
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MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. 1878.

to float. But did man ever become any
thing in Gods universe by Aoating2 ] say
frankly that the ideas OF truth and duty
must shine out clearly in your life If il is to
have any fervor in it, If you are to succeed
in business and in winning the respect of
your fellow-men. Every young man ought
not TO act on what others tell him 50 much
as on his natural instincts of truth and duty.
The times are not helpful to make you what
you would be. The point TO be looked after
is what root principles you have, how much
conscience you have, how much sense of
Gods Enclosed, unerring eye you have, how
strong feeling you have that under any
circumstances you must do what you know
to be right. Character is more than money!
more than friends, more than opportunity.
God is behind character, and God speaks to
us in and through character. Character
means that you have convictions of truth
and duty, that you have unbending, I'M
fiinching integrity. 1t means that down in
you somewhere there is power which pre-
vents you from consciously doing a wrong
act. And, in the last analysis, what can be
truly called character is always founded
upon belief in the living God, and grows
in strength as mans soul grows in Gods
service. Lives are strong then, because
Gods strength is put into them. They are
fruitful when God and duty are behind
them. If they are unfruitful it is usually
because they have not been rightly begun.
Rev. julius II. Ward.
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Birds Then and Now.

Then, twenty years ago, robins, wrens,
cat-birds and humming-birds, and indeed,
the whole summer flock, were certainly more
numerous than they are to-day. Some OBJ
servers believe that the number of summer
birds has diminished more than half. The
same species are still with us, but how long
will they remain, when every year we note,
perhaps, half-a-dozen on the same lawns
where they were formerly counted by the
score Now, you may sit on garden-bench
long summer morning, and very possibly
not see more than one oriole, one bluebird
one greenlet, one yellow-bird. Even the
robins come hopping about the garden-walks
by two and three, instead of the dozen who
were formerly in sight at the same moment
And the humming-birds are very perceptibly
less in numbers. One has TO watch for them
now in the summer twilight presently you
shall see little ruby-throat lowering about
the honeysuckles; and perhaps half an hour
later his wife, little green.breast, may come
for asip of sweets. But that is ALL Rarely,
indeed do you see four or five quivering,
darting, flashing about among the blossoms
at the same moment as one often saw them
in past years. The gregarious birds, too
the purple finches, the wax-wings, the red
wings-are only seen in small parties COM
Pared TO the flocks that visited us twenty
years ago.
And winter tells the same story. Not
that the regular winter birds are so much
less numerous than they were-probably
there is little change among the sober snow
birds, the merry chickadees, or the winter
sparrows. These will probably gather about
our doors in January in much the same
groups and small flocks that we saw here
formerly. The wood-peckers and the blue
jays are less numerous, however. The crows
seem to hold their own, and in mild weather
come Tapping out of their favorite haunts
in the woods, to take look at the village.
But winter offers a mode of guessing at the
number of the summer population, which is a
pretty fair test, so far as the tree-builders are
concerned. When the leaves fall in Novem-
Der, the nests are revealed, and after snow
has fallen, and each nest takes tiny white
dome, they become still more conspicuous
The Indian tribes count their people by so
many lodges or tepees in the same way,
during the autumn and winter months, we
may count the tree-building flock of the
previous summer by their nests. And these
tree-builders are probably fair proportion
of the whole summer flock, including those
who build among the bushes or on the
ground. 1t has often been a winter amuse-
ment of the writer, when walking through
the village-streets, to count the birds'-nests
in the different trees in sight. The trees are
all familiar friends, and the nests of differ
ent kinds add no little to their interest.
But, alas every four or five winters one OBJ
serves the number of nests diminishing
Appleton'S Journal.
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A Triiling Preacher.

A clergyman once preached very awak-
ening sermon. A young man in the con
gregation was much impressed, and finding
that the clergyman was TO walk some dis
tance home, joined him, in the hope of hav-
ing some conversation as to how TO be saved.
The clergyman was walking with several
others, and instead Of conversation turning
on religious matters, it was light, and even
indecorous, Some years afterwards the
clergyman was called 10 see a dying man in
an inn. As he entered the room, the dying
man started. Sir" said he, ." / have heard
you preach" "Thank God for that" But
Sir" continued the man,""I have heard
you talk, and your talking has ruined my
soul. Sir, do you remember the day heard
you preach That sermon brought convc,
tion to my heart. But | sought converse
tion with you, and walked home with you,
hoping to hear something about my souls
peace but you d-trihed-trihed. Yes
you did, and | went home, believing thai
you knew all the solemn things you said il
the morning were lies. For years | was al
infdel but now-now ! am dying-I an
one no longer. But am not saved but
will meet aud accuse you before the bar o.
God" And SO the man died.-Selected
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The Power of Immortal Hope.

He must be an unobservant man who can
persuade himself that the belief in immor.
tality has lost its hold on live minds and
he must be stubbornly opiniated man who
has persuaded himself that either philosophy
or science pronounces finally against it.
The thinkers who stand up for it, who main.
tain it on grounds of pure reason, are as en-
nent as the thinkers who reject it, and they
are far more numerous. The men of science
who earnestly defend it are in every respect
the peers of its antagonists. At the bar of
reason both sides plead. The case is not
closed, nor is it likely to be. Setting aside
the evidences presented by ID" Spiritualism, "
and confessing the insufiiciency of the ar.
guments commonly adduced by philosophy
and religion, the case is not abandoned by
the masters of intellect. The children Of
the heart give no sign of a disposition to
surrender their faith. The conscience still
prophesies the soul aspires and so it will
be until the ancient petition shall be an
swered, "May thy Kingdom come May
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
%. B. rockingham.
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The Easiest Way.

Don't live single hour of your life with.
out doing exactly what is to be done in it,
and go straight through it from beginning
to end. Work, play, study, whatey er it is
take hold at once and finish it up squarely
and cleanly, and then attend to the next
thing, without letting any moments drop out
between. 1t is wonderful to see how many
hours prompt people contrive to make of a
day; it is as if they picked up the moments
that the dawdlers lost. And if ever you find
yourself where you have so many things
pressing upon you that you hardly know
how to begin, take hold of the very first one
that comes to hand, and you will find the
rest all fall into file and follow after like a
company of well-drilled soldiers; and though
work may be hard to meet when it charges
in squad it is easily vanquished if you can
bring it into line. You may have often seen
the anecdote of the man who was asked how
he accomplished so much work in life. "My
father taught me-" was his reply, when |
had anything to do to go and do it," This
is the secret-the magic word, "now."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-06-12
Plant Happy Memories.

To live Alright in the days of early life
will go far towards making age happy for
the conduct Of to-day is the root of the mem.
ories of tomorrow. We can compute this
again from what we already know of life.
In youth, as we all remember, hope was our
guide, anticipation and expectation were
the animating sentiments; the mind looked
constantly forward, plans and purposes were
its chief activity. In mature years, as most
of us know realization takes the place of
hope; the mind concerns itself more with
now. Clearly they must be, as years accu-
mulate, gradual tuning of the mind to-.
wards the past; memory will become the
chosen companicn we shall live more and
more in what we recollect Youth dwells
in the future manhood in the present age
in the past. To ponder upon former years
enters into the heart-life OF age just as does
the hope and prospect of years to come into
that of youth. Each person is forming that
element for his age by his life now. The
hasty words, the foolish deeds, the neglect
and omissions, the transgressions of to-day,
are the seeds for many notifications and
sorrows to grow rank in the white.haired
years. Whatever is wise, right, generous,
self-sacriicing, honorable in the life of to-
day is planV which will ripen thick with
peaceful and pleasant memories in the days
when memory is the chief factor in happiness.
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" Only Trines."

When tempted to scorn the little duties
of our calling, let us think of such sayings
as the following One day visitor at
Michael Angeles studio remarked to that
great artist, who had been describing GER
tain little finishing touches lately given
to statue, But these are only trihes."
Z" 1t may be So" replied the sculptor, but
recollect that trifles make perfection, and
perfection is no triAe." In the same spirit
the great painter Poussin accounted for his
reputation in these words, 4" Because have
neglected nothing" 1t is related of Man
chester manufacturer that on retiring from
business, he purchased an estate from cer-
tain nobleman. The arrangement was that
he should have the house with all its furni-
ture just as it stood. On taking possession,
however, he found that a cabinet which was
in the inventory had been removed, and, on
applying TO the former owner about it, the
latter said, Well, certainly did order it
TO be removed, but hardly thought you
would have cared for SO trifing matter in
so large purchase" "My lord" was the
reply, if / had not all my life attended to
tritles, ! should not have been able to pur-
chase this estate; and excuse me for saying
so, perhaps if your lordship had cared more
about triiles you might not have had occa-
sion to sell IT,"
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The Trinity.

Either Christ was and is what he pro-
fessed to be, equal with the Father as
touching his Godhead," or he must be de-
servedly ranked with the most impious and
execrabe of all human characters. If Christ
were not very and eternal God, Christianity
would be the most refined system of idola-
try, and consequently the most exquisitely
dangerous religion under heaven. Nothing
short OF trinity in unity could justify the
commission which our blessed Lord gave to
his apostles and the intercessors to baptize
in the name, or into the knowledge and wor-
ship, of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost. If the Son of God were
not God the Son, if the Spirit of God We're
not God the Spirit, the administration of
baptism in their name would be an act of
the highest profaneness and idolatry. The
doctrine, therefore, of trinity of persons
in the unity of divine nature, is a doctrine
of express revelation-a doctrine of the ut
most consequence, and which lies at the
very root and foundation of the Christian
system. Give up this and you give up all.
The whole Christianity is but an empty
name without it.-Topiddy.