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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-10
THE GREAT FRAUDS,
JACKSON.

When congress in its innocence on
the 18th of February. 1862. made an
exemption. refusing 10 receive Legal
tenders for duties. then WAS sown tn ,
dragons teeth we are harvesting
today. That fata' exemption was the
cause of large part OF our troubles.
1t emasculated the greenback. 1t
took away its chief power. 1t made
1t what ii should not and never would
b I'VE been. secondary to gold. 4 half
million dollars daily was required for
the custom-house operations. Here
was demand daily Tor gold. 1t WAS
enthroned AS grim monster. with ex-
tended jaws, daily and hourly de-
handing of its victims the precious
metal. 1t was new field for specu-
lators. They glori-d in it and when
merchants wanted the necessary gold
to pay their duties it was boarded
and locked up. ami it came 10 lie
bought and SOLD like sheep in the
shambles. Rings were formed anu it
rose soon from one to sixty pr cent.
premium over the greenback- just as
operators could force it up or down.
Greenbacks never fiuctliated-it was
gold that fluctuated. And it is liable
today to the same misfortune. and we
should not be surprised any day to see
the willy operators and capitalists de-
mand a higher premium for it.
There is but enc remedy: make the
greenbstck full legal tender and you
do away with the necessity of gold in
, Large portion Of our business.
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Hassan Correspondence.

Editor AHti--HohoPotiSf:
The government of the United
States uses three kinds of material to
make money--gold. silver and paper.
President, Hayes says that dollar
in gold or silver represents day S
work or a bushel of wheat, while a
paper dollar only costs one cent. He
and his party would make us believe
that it is the intrinsic value of the n a.
terial that makes its value and not the
stamp of the government. Now is
this true. or are they trying to fool
the people So far rs can under
stanu the matters. gold or silver
would be worth but very little if il
WAS not used as money. that ii is the
law and the stamp Of tie government
that makes val.e--that Il peace or
paper stamped by the government at
as a piece of gold provided the law
does not discriminate. in favor of gold !.
II the & ,vernment should declare that
paper. money should be legal tender
for everything. and that gold and sill
yer should not be legal tender for
anything, would not paper money be
worth the most. if this view of the
subject is true. There can be but one
object of the money power in dishon-
oring paper. money, that is that they
can control it when paper money is
no longer legal tender. The people
of the country are at the mercy of a
few men that own the gold. l. it pos
sible that the people of this district
are foolish enough to find themselves
in chainsi if not they should do their
utmost TO elect Mr.. Donnelly to con-
gress, he Will do his utmost to make
paper money legal tender for every
thing that gold is. Then If paper
money cannot hold its own with gold
we may believe something in the in
trinsic value humhug.
GORDON JACKINs.
CoANENT.-Make paper money the
only absolute and legal-tender money
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-10
TIE IN TIIED DEBA TE

In Bill Kings paper (Which means
the little end of the P.P.) of Oct. 7
Is the following:
WHY don't Washburn trot around
after Donnelly, and give the boys a
taste of his qualityi If the music
OF his ehquence would not wake the
echoes of the wildwoods; if he would
not set the prairies on fire. or do
anything of dangerous or diSorderly
character, he could still show his
PAGES and let the public see what sort
of animal they are betting on or
against. Trot him out.
The above is perhaps explained by
saying that the Third District Demo
cratic Committee, through their
chairman. Robert \. Smith, sent
letters addressed to Hon. ! Donnelly
and Hon. w. ID. Washburn. inviting
them TO joint discussions of the po-
ltieal issues between them. \ copy
was sent each, Sept. 30th. Donnelly
forthwith replied. accepting the offer
to make a joint canvass, but WASH
burn replies. saying be has made def
mite arrangements for his campaign,
and mutt decline the proposition for
q joint discussion.
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There is power" thai has the
surrogate in hand, and will not al
low him to make the settlement, till
the estate pays well for it!''
This is the difficulty, with tho use
Of gold and silver, as legal tender, or
means Of final and lawful settle
ment. of all 'balances in exchange"
and all debts and credits. The diff
Guilty is aggl awaited, and dishonesty is
subsidized, by a '.redeemable paper"
But a national legal tender. such as
we propose, can be put as much be-.
You'd the reach OF capricious and sud.
den imitation or contraction, in the
absolute quantity, as is gold or silver
that is, it Can be maue morally pos
sible to initiate or contract. in any
capricious and speculative way, the
legal tender of a nation.
This can be done simply by making
it a constitutional provision.
The fugacious and ever changing
conditions of gold and silver in our
markets whereby settlements are
postponed, or made possible by the
absence of the ''preciOus metals
when they are most wanted, all this
is done away with by one master
stroke-demonetize gold and silver,
and substitute Il national paper that
is Il perfect legal tender.
Fellow citizens, we are in the midst
of a Financial revolution the full
import of which very few, as yet,
fully understand.
But the main feature in this finan-
clal revolution is the adoption of
national legal tender, freed for the
first time and forever in the history
Of finance from any allegiance to gold
and silver-owing no repemption to.
those metals, but subject only to the
fundamental laws and constitutional
government Of the great nation that
issued it's credit in this permanent
form of money.
But why demonetize gold and sill
yer!
Because, when we have adopted
such legal tender us we propose. we
shall not need gold and silver for do.
nestle use. and this fact will stop the
coming of gold and silver and reduce
them, with Il diminished value, to
simple commodities for the foreign
trade.
Then. if we go abroad, we shall
have cheaper material to pay with.
If those abroad owe us they will not
have the power to disturb our values
and prices by thrusting their gold and
silver on us as IA legal tender. We can
take any commodity we please for our
pay.
We declare new independence;
but we shall have to fight for it. The
whole brood of ''money changers,
bankers, and gold syndicates" will be
''down OH us, as a people; but in our
integrity as a Union, and our re.
sources as nation, we can ''laugh
them to scorn.' CADMUS.
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over l4,OUO voters have enrolled
themselves in the Harrison county
wv. Va.) Greenback clubs.
In Penn township, Potter county Pa.
out of vote of 21S, the Greenback
back party have all but II enrolled ill
clubs.
The people want no bonds Of any
descri ption to draw money from their
pockets to pay interest. Pool your
issues.
Overproduction is not the cause of
the misery and distress among the peo-
pie. Il is over legislation and over
banking.
Republicans boast their fatherhood
of the greenbacks, and in the next
breath denounce their offspring as a
rag baby"
''The question of finances is of more
importance than all other issues now
before the people. and upon it most of
them hinge" True.
In 1864, when gold was selling at
2.S5 in greenbacks, the demand treasu-
ry notes were at par in gold, because
they were full legal tender
A few years ago it took fifty bushels
OF the farmers wheat to pay the farm
er's taxes, and now it takes one hun
dred and fifty. The bullionists con-
graduate the farmer because of it.
Contraction of the currency has
been followed by a contraction of the
ranks Of the Republican party. The
next part will be condemnation of it's
leaders. We are marching on.
Should not every laborer carefully
study that system of finance which
promises to save in his pocket hun
dred dollars of his hard earnings every
year, but which he is now compelled
to pay to the government in taxes?
Why were the first s7O,OOO,OOO de-
mand notes always at par with gold :?
Answer-Because they were allowed
to do the work of gold. Make the
the greenbacks a full regal tender, and
that minute they will be at par with
gold.
The national banks and the "Honest
Money" champions flooded the coun-
try with the trade dollars, and when
they got them we'll into circulation they
repudlated them, and are now receiving
them back at 80 cents Ho, honest
money!
Northampton County, Pa, has 5000
Greenbackers. North Carolina will
elect four Greenback Congressmen.--
An organized band of fifty speakers
are stumping Michigan. The Green
hackers of Missouri propose to elect
congressman in the 9th, Sth, 10th, and
18th districts.
Our effort must be to take the whole
question Of the currency, as Franklin
and Ricardo advised, into the States
hands. Never rest while any bank
has the right to issue bill. Never
rest till Congress supplies all our cur
rency, made of paper, and based on
the credit of the State. Never rest
till the Greenback, representing the
wealth of the nation, is legal tender
every where for all debts, thus freeing
us forever from rings and corners in
gold thus our second Declaration of
Independence make the first reality
and not sham. To this end trade
with no party. Stand willing to alb
sorb either. But hold obstinately the
helm in our own hands.
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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POLITICAL MEETINGS.

HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY
will address his fellow citizens as
follows:
Lac qui Parle, Friday, Oct. 11th.
Hancock, Saturday, Oct 18th.
Donnelly, Monday, Oct. l4th at !
p. NJ.
Herman, Monday, Oct. 14th, at 1876
Z. NJ.
GlenWood, Tuesday, Oct. Is.
The above meetings will be held in
the evening; speaking to commence
about 1880 o clock. Friends of the
cause are requested to give the neces.
sary notice and arrange as to halls.
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One kind of money for all kinds Q

One kind of money for all kinds Of
men.
The people have been robbed long
enough.
Why should the plovholder be a
slave to the bondholder?
A national system of finance i. de-
sired without metal basis.
The political hucks ers begin to re
the hand writing on the wall.
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We are springing to the call from the cas-
and from the west,
shouting the Greenlacks forever;
And We'll hurl the ohylook's bonds fr0rl tho
land we love the best,
Shouting tie Greenblcks forever.
CHoRUs:-
Greeiibacks forever; hurrah, boys hurrah:
Up with the Greenbacks, and down with
the bonds;
For Wen rally round the polls boys, rally
once again,
Shouting the Greenbacks forever
We viii. welcome to our number all the
loyal, true and brave,
Shouting the Green backs forever;
never yet b. slaves;
Shouting the Greenbacks forever.
We are coming we are coming great and
mighty throng,
shouting the Greenbacks forever;
From the iarins, and from the workshops.
thirty thousand voters strong,
Shouting the Green backs forever.
Well rally rourd our banner, boys, the !.
st ipes and stars unlured,
Shouting the Greenb.cks forever;
And vote against the Sbylocks we'll 60 before
the world,
Shouting the Grcenbacks forever.
A sturdy honest people from the prairies a
the west
Shouting the GreeBbacks forever;
Wen strange out the -hy locks and all that
bonded nest,
Shouting the Greenbacks forever.
For tie love We bear our freside and dead
and dear ONES gone,
Shouting the Gre.lbfcks forever:
Wen rote 10 save the Union, We who fought
to keep /; one,
Shouting the Greenbacks forever.
Wen be unit now boys and vote for Don.
nelly straight,
Shouting the Or-erlpcls forever:
And ven say 10 MIR Washburn guess you'd
letter wai',
Shouting the Greer backs forever.
70. Dcnnells IL true boys, h.'l make oux
propi-~ god,
Shouting The GresDi acks forever:
Well vote him into ccngr ~ boys let that b
understood,
Shouting the Grecnbacks forever.
Greentncks forever; hurrah boys. hLYrsh:
Up 18th the Greenbacks, down with tn
bonds;
For we'll rally round the polls boys. rnllv
nee q IN.
O6houting The 0rseuhacks fcrevee.
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STATE TICKET.
RAMSEY COUNTY NOMINATIONS

For Judge Of the District Court
Oscar Stephenson.
Judge Of Probate-Wm. L. Kelly.
Sherlff-,James Starkey.
Auditor s. Lee Davis.
CommissiOners-F. Knauft, GEN.
W. johnson.
Senator 23d district-Wm. L. Bann.
ing.
Senator Oath district--Wm. Crooks.
Representatives 23d district-T.
ReardOn, j. Manner.
Representatives Oath district-L.
u. Hodges, c. NJ. Mccarthy, Sylvanus
Madam.
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Correlly's Speech at Wayzata.

On Saturday night last Mr.. Don
nelly spoke at this place. which speech
the Pioneer Press of tuesday Oct. s
publishes in full. Thanks to the p.
p. it will be carefully read by the
subscribers OF that papers, and they
will get n little light on the momen-
tous subj CT of our finances.
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labor is starving and business every
where declining. Every intelligent
being knows that there is but one
cause for this deplorable condition OF
affairs. 1t comes from class legisla-
ton. The. money power has invaded
the halls Of legislation. corrupted the
so-called representatives of the people
and procured the enactment of the
system of legislation that is making
the rich richer and the poor poorer
Iovn National.
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HENNEPlN COUNTY CREENBACK NOM.
NATIONS,

For Auditor II. f. A. Drukham.
mer.
Register Of Deeds-A. F. Alkeny.
Sheriff e. A. Cramsie.
County Attornev-R. c.. Benson.
Coroner-Dr. l.. Damn.
Surveyor-A. II. Branch.
Senator-Hon. Eugene NJ. Wilson.
Representatives,. B. c. Dough.
erty, Minneapolis; F. A. Clark, Min.
neapolis; A. 7. Lane. Champlin.
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GOOD LORD. DELIVER US!


EDITOR ADVOCATE: Your answer
to my inquiry about the Indebtedness
OF our country, viz:
National, State, cities and
counties, railroads, canals,
as appears from the Con-
gressional Monetary Com
mission, amounts to $3.50. $500, OOo ,OOO
The two million OF state, ma
tIonal and saving banks and
insurance company's loans
and discounts are largely
Secured by farm mortgages,
We estimate at 49,. $780,. 1900. 900
cot the $50, 059 traders and
manufacturers on the books
OF Dun, Barlow & Co., in
1868, 8, % failed, with ave.,
age liabilities OF SCI, u2J; this
assumed to be all average,
the hJle wouldn't amount
to". .............. 1924 100000
From statistics we have, i'll con-
nectiOn with opinion OF eX-
perts, We assume that other
individual indebtedness
amout to $3.50. .... 3,0OO,@O 900
Total 49,. ...... $500. .S23, 1923 ,00U,O 900
The assessed value Of real estate in
the United States, in 1870, was about
IA 10 billions. Total Of all species OF
property stlmated t. be about 50 bill
Hons. Real estate, which is the
foundation of production that sus-
talns life, is the real property Of the
world. Now, please figure the inter-
est on So, 1923, 100000 at per cent
not 10, 20 and 81 per cent, which is
next decade: also the increase of pro-
ductlon at 2 l-2 per cent, which is
about the average, and see where we
will land at the end Of the next ten
years. Good Lord, deliver us
Interest is like Keno. The banker
who sits up in his mahogany and vel
vet chair takes 10 per cent from the
winner. Suppose ten men go IN with
500 each, VIZ, $1,000. Let them
continue to play; in Il short time the
banker takes all in the pot. Precisely
50 does Interest eat up the surplus
production. Money should not tiuc-
tuate any more than the yardstick,
half bushel, weights and measures;
ans would not we're it not for inter-
est. Money made a commodity is un
just. for 1t Expresses the producer.
Whenever capitalists move the full
crum, property and labor go down
just III the same proportlon--the
cause of hard times, palllcs and tinan-
cial revolutions. The history of mer-
chants and business men is enough to
discourage all. except money loaners.
Even angels would avoid the hell we
have upon earth.
The people who produce ought to
know enough to use their production
for their owl benefit. TO secure this
''happy end of lite, Il new monetar.
system is a necessity. Capitalists,
bankers and brokers should not be
consulted. Wall street should be cast
out OF the synagogue left out in the
cold. Let them h I'VE what they h ave
got; but build wall around it is high
as hedren and low as pcrdition, for the
the bulls and bears of our Sodon have
inaugurated legal gambling destruct
i've to human happiness. Trey are
too mean to go to He'll, unless they
give security for good behaviour.
The revolution about to be indugu-
rated to establish "A Just financial sys
tenn requires Ben. Butler to lead III
our national councils, rather than
governor of Massachusetts,; for bust
ness men and laborers must become
thieves or 60 to the poor-house.
GIBBS.
LYONS, Iowa, Sept. IL. 1878.
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CREENBsCK CAMPAIGN SONG.
We hope our friends will take this copy of
their paper to their club meetings and sing tho
following:
AIR" Battle cry of freedom"
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The Anti-AIonopolist.

Then you will have the best money
the sun ever shown on; honest money.
gentlemen-hOneSt money. to use
your claptrap words.-Hennepin
Co. Mirror.
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QUE COAGl 49, iONAL CANDI-
DATES.
Your cholce-Money, or Brains,
which:
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From statistics we have, III con-
nection with opinion Of ex-
perts, we assume that other
individual Indebtedness
amOut to
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

PANAMA advices state that the late
elections in Bogata, South America,
were accompanied by serious disorders.
The State Government wished to con-
troll the elections. They only estab-
ished four polling places in city of
SO, 900 inhabitants, and put those under
the control of their own people. The
adherents of the other party could not
get near the ballot-boxes to deposit
their votes. Confusion and disorder
naturally arose, as party spirit was very
much excited. The state troops posted
themselves in the towers Of the neigh
boring churches and fred upon the
crowd, killing one or two and wounding
several. This broke up the election.
and, as ali votes cast are in favor Of the
State Governments party, they have
fully succeeded in carrying the day, un-
less Congress should order new cleo
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

TIE gossip to the effect that King
Alphonso of Spain will marry Christine,
daughter of Duke de Montpensier, and
sister of the deceased Queen Mercedes,
assumes definite shape. The story was
told at one time that it was the Bourbon
plan to have Alphonso marry Christine
instead OF Mercedes, but he fell in love
with the latter. The French Bourbon
influence will favor the marriage now
contemplated, and the original pro-
gramme spoiled by susceptible young
hearts will be carried out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12
ONE of the most ancient BRIDGES in th

ONE of the most ancient bridges in the
world is that over the Main at Frankfort.
which Goethe called the only structure
of Importance in that city. It was
erected in 1912, on the site of much
earlier structure. It's immediate prede-
cessor, built in 1905, was almost entirely
destroyed during violent food, and
rebuilt by funds raised from the sale of
church indulgences. The building of
bridges was then considered religious
work, because they enabled pilgrims the
better to reach their destinations. It
was from the central arch of the bridge
that criminals were drowned, and hence,
too, the bodies of suicides were cast into
the river. The last execution by drown.
ing was in 1913.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

1T is a curious fact but nevertheless
it is true, that many dwellings, once the
homes of poets have been public houses
at one time or another. Burns native
cottage was house of this description;
the house in which Moore was born was
whisky shop, and Shelley's house at
Great MARROW was beer shop. Even
Coleridge's residence at Neither Stowey
became an ordinary beer house. A
house in which James Montgomery
lived for forty years at Sheffield was a
beer shop, and the birthplace of Kirke
White is now used as house for retail
ing intoxicating beverages.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

The Bureau of Statistics in Berlin
publishes a statement regarding the in.
crease Of population in Europe. En-.
gland, Belgium and Saxony showed an
enlargement from 1867 to 1875 Of from
10 to IL per cent. Denmark, Prussia,
Italy and Switzerland, from to 8 per
cent. but France only $500 per cent.
London, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen,
Brussels, Rotterdam, Bordeaux, Paler.
mo and Vienna showed increases be.
tween 1867 and 1871 ranging from s tc
10 per cent; Berlin, Frankfort, Han.
over, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Bremen,
from 80 to A per cent; and Odessa,
Breslau, Dresden, Hull, Antwerp, Leeds,
Glasgow and Hamburg, 20 to "a pei
cent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

THE remarkable monstrosity at Lake
port, N. Y, is George Albert Pape, a
boy of Is years, with big head on him.
It was so heavy that he could not walk
until he was years old, and now,
though he weighs but twenty eight
pounds, his head is twice as large as the
average size, measuring twenty eight
inches in circumference, and is still
growing. The boys eyes are inverted,
SO that he can only look up. This has
prevented him from learning biz letters,
but otherwise he is apt enough and is
perfectly healthy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

A SWISS engineer, of Zurich, has in
vented a road locomotive by which he
can travel over ordinary roads. He has
arrived at Bale. It has an engine of
twenty-five horse power; it can tow a
train of vehicles, and it can be converted
into steam engine capable of throwing
a stream of water to height of 100 feet.
After a short delay at Bale, the inventor
resumed his journey to Paris amid the
acclamations of crowd of enthusiastic
spectators.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12
FRUIT culture is making rapid pro

FRUIT culture is making rapid prog
ress in the United States. According
to recent official statements, the land ap-
propriated to this branch of industry is
1850, 900 acres. Upon this there -four
ish 100000 apple trees, %, 900, 900
pear trees. 1l2,27O,OOO peach trees, and
141, 200, 900 grave vines. The total value
of the fruit crop throughout the United
States is set down at $13S, 216, 700, an
amount equal to half the value of the
average wheat crop Of the country.
Toward that large sum apples are held
to contribute $50, 100000, pears $14,-
100000, peaches $46, 1876, 900, grapes,
$2,118, 1000, strawberries $5,OOO,O 900, and
other fruit $40, 482, 900.
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SOME one at Saratoga has been bur-
leoquing toney tandem-teams SO fash
ionable there, and this is the way he did
it: A common dirt-cart was equipped
with two seats and two-horse tandem.
In the front seat was the "iintleman at
large handling the ropes Or reins over
two crowbaits of horses, while on the
back seat facing backward were two
servants in comic livery, one of whom
had huge sunfower in a button hole.
They had tin-horn accompaniment and
went through Broadway.