The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-19
GREENBACK NOTES.

ways have his life insured. 1t gives
his wife's second husband start.
The Greenback organizations
throughout the United States now
number 5000, and are fast increasing.
The government despairing of beer
being reduced to three cents glass
has decided to call in the three cent
pieces.
''Mean weather this, volunteered
Filkins. Yes replied his wlfe's
second cousin, ''the days are rather
close.'f
A suspicious wife, on being asked
where her husband was, replied that
she was very much afraid he was
Missing.
Rasper, being told he looked seedy
and asked what business he was in.
replied: ''The hardware business;
look at my wardrobe .
Whenever young ladies learn so to
stick a pin in their apron string that
it won't scratch fellows wrist,
there will be more marriages.
At dinner of shoemakers, the
following toast was given-May we
have all the women in the country to
shoe, and all the men to boot.
Every law made by the Republican
party since Grant went into the White
House, has been for the rich and
against the poor. GEN. BUTLER.
Gen. Butler says, place on my mon
ument the words: ''Here lies the
ashes of the man who denounced the
Act Of 1869 (Which robbed the people)
as a swindle.
| Every Greenbacker hopes to see our
people delivered from the beggary
which infests every land of Europe,
and is, for the first time, becon ing
widespread in this country.-Calais
Me Times.
The 1905 "were never legal tenders
during their life. but were bonds
drawing semi-annual interest. Fri
bune.
On the back of a 100 note was an
inscription beginning as follows:
At maturity, convertible at the op-
ton of the holder into BONDS.
So, according to the financial writer
of the Tribune, the Government is
sued bonds convertible into BONDS.
Isn't this getting the thing down
pretty fine!
We boast of our increased exports
as an indication of returning prosperi-
ty, without rejecting that it is
forced to meet interest due on our
obligations held abroad, and because
the people are to poor to consume the
surplus. AS we'll take a sheriff's sale
of whole stock of goods in one day
as an indication that the mercantile
business is thriving.-N. Y. idr.
The agitation of the financial ques.
ton will not cease until the world
rises above the prejudice of a bar
barous materialism, and adopts a
coinage of the national credit as a
medium of exchange for the masses,
as well as indexes Of individual credit
for the wealthy few, as now prac-
ticed.-N. y. ADJ.
Now, just as long as we are kept too
poor to consume the usual quantity
of our own and foreign products, and
so long as raw material and raw pro.
ducts are kept at or below the cost of
production, we can undersell the world
pay our foreign tribute wholly in
products, keep our gold, and enjoy the
blessings of specie payment-provided
our own people don't want gold.-N.
y. Adr.
Resumption has cost more money
than the rebellion did.
1t has cost more pain and heart
aches.
1t has produced more moral deg
radiation.
1t has cost more crime, more
suicides and more misery than all
other causes combined.
1t has been Satan's right bower.
and Perdition' most efficient harvest.
N. y. Adr.
! Thousands of men and women starv-
ing to death all over the country. and
an Overproduction of corn in the cribs.
Thousands of women and children
ragged and barefooted, with an over
production of shoes and calico in the
stores and factories.
Factories. mills and mines idle, with
an overproduction of labor tramping
| for work.
Failure and bankruptcies multiply
ing in every State. for the want Of
money, while John Sherman had to be
prevented by law from burning up an
overproduction of greenbacks.-Pekin
Legal Ten der.
We recognize the fact, as stated by
an eminent French writer, that ssthe
finances are to the State what blood is
to the human body: if it circulates. it
carries along with it motion and life;
if it stops, paralysis and death super
vene." And. we will add. that if it
is drawn out of the arteries and veins
of our industrial system for the pur-
pose Of expectation; panic, revulsion,
bankruptcy and commercial prostra-
ton will quickly follow.
AS the animal system requires a
full supply of blood for the promotion
of the best conditions of health and
strength, SO our commercial and pro-
ductive channels must be well sup
piled with money. that business may
be transacted on a cash basis.-Sf.
Louis Journal of agriculture.
Secretary Sherman was asked If he
considered National bank notes to be
better as a form of currency than
govern ment legal-tenders! He an.
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