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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

, The Tramp nuisance grows great.
Ell. Conventions are being held In
different states to discuss the ques.
ton. AT a Social Science meeting at
Hartford. Conn., the other day, one
speaker said:
His impression was that they. 1.-THE
tramps) have increased tenfold. What
is the cause of this Are they in gen
eral thieves and dishonest What is
the condition Of society thathas caused
thisincreaSe Is it the hard times /!
He had the impression that many had
been forced to this life. He learned
that there are from 5000 to 10000
persons in Hartford, formerly laborers
who have now no means OF support.
This has lasted for two or three years.
The small savings soon slip away when
work ceases, He gave some instances
Of this, of persons willing to work, but
forced to beg. No doubt that once
having adopted this demoralizing
mode Of life, they pursued it from
choice. lie thought it the duty of So
ciety to furnish means OF employment
in seasons of distress.
The tramp is simply an express
ion Of the disease of contraction.
Nine-tenths Of them were formerly in
dustrious. honorable, workmen; and
viii be so again when prosperity
comes back to the nation.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

4 Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Journal of commerce thus al
ludes to one of the pests of the present
generatian;
We have had reason for boundless
contentment in Washington this week,
for besides the common blessing Of
congress, we have been favored with
the presence of a national convention
of pedagogues. and Bob Ingersoll; all
harbingers Of sweetness and light. ]
say pedagogues advisedly. for while
many of them aspire to be pedants,
few have sufficient learning for that
distinction. Our public schools, III so
far as they teach the poor boy OF girl
TO read, write. and compute, deserve
to be sustained, but as an asylum for
quaeks who have failed, or never dared
TO compete in those walks Of life
whore attributes of robust manliness
are required. the schools take preced-
ence even Of the National Treasury
Department. .Conceiying it to be the
duty of your correspondent I have at
tended some Of the meetings of the
National Convention of education, and
have always come away with disgust
as deep as that which q healthy man
feels after listening to Buncombe in
the House of Representatives. They
read interminable papers on school
discipline, methods of teaching, SUI
perintendence, courses of study, etc:
and then they have what is called a
discussion on the subject of the last
paper read. The papers, as rule, are
so hackneyed and pointless, that nc
editor could afford to publish them
and the discussionsare little more than
cant about moral suasion, aud mould
ing perfect men and women, Heaven
| pity these narrow schested. scant
Drained, slim-souled journeymen edu
Gators, and protect, as much as posi-
bic. the rising generation from thu
Influence Of such models and such
artists.
| We havea number Of these crea
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

A correspondent of Maine news
paper, the Portland Nesc Era, writing
from Skowhegan in that state, gives
the following interesting points:
The city is also celebrated as the
place where the Hon. James &. Blaine
made sickening exhibition of servil-
ity. When the greenbacks were first
issued the banks refused TO receive
them. Blaine heard ofitand came up
like roaring lion. He told the PEG
pie that all the gold and silver and
lands and houses and lives of this
country were behind the greenbacks.
That the greenback was the best mon
ey on earth. This is true, and Mr.,
Blaine deserves and receives the
thanks of the people for his noble Of
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

The great meeting OF $500 business
men, held in Chicago the other day,
passed a series of ringing resolutions
in favor of the RECOMMENDATION of sill
yer, of which this is a sample;
Resolved, That the demonetization Of
the silver coinage of the United States
was change in our monetary system
so grave and radical in it's character,
and so vitality affecting the commercial
interests and rights of the people. es-
pecially those of the debtor class, that
it ought not to have bean ventured
upon, even under circumstances the
most favorable, until after 81 full thor
ongh and exhaustive discussion of its
merits before the people and the cover
scheme by which this most important
measure was precipitated upon the
country without one word Of discuss
ion either in congress or out, and the
obstinate persistence with which the
scheme is still prosecuted in q time of
unparalleled business prostration and
disaster, and with forced resumption
of specie payments in Immediate
prospect, discloses reckless disregard
of public welfare on the part of its
members which merits our seyerest
censure and condemnation.
And they wound up us follows:
Resolred, That we will resist the con-
Summation of this wrong by all honora-
BILE means within our power. We call
upon both houses Ut congress to insist
upon the repeal of the demonetizing
act and the restoration of the silver
dollar TO its rightful place in our cur
rency, and if the president shall, by
use of negative, succeed in deafeat-
ing the bill, then we call on congress
to append a similar repeating clause to
the general appropriation bill and
stand by it to the last; with the full
confidence that the people will assur-
edly stand by them.
The Pioneer-Press says this means
revolution. OF course it does. But
isn't revolution better than ruin.
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/ Aa newspapers are opening up
4 7Alrt in lively style; ii is thunder
q all around She. sky. The Rush
jty Post says:
fsver since the. passage Of the late
acol book laws j.. b. has apparently
2ila what he could do to break up
81 law, he LAS apparently been in
4ffe ted vita the school book ring,
III may be he has part of that 5000,
taer propose to spend to make 1t
or We. SO they can swindle the
y 4 while longer. When the
examiners, appointed to ex-
the new books furnished by
errill. ofwhieh he was mem
ct to pass their jHagement upon
,oks. he voted against receiving
when in fact the books Were
i than the law required, if any
2. Il looks as if his vote had been
lhased in that. diredtion. The
nee OF the board could not see II
lat light. however. and voted te
Give the books. d. Burtls a hoary
yled old religious ass, and isnot iii
@each n country school common
1se.
she .ANTI-MoSopoLIsT, being {
s crate paper. would hardly have
dressed itselfinthe strong language
the concluding paragraph of The
.Aave extract; but nevertheless if {
ai was mad, mad all over,-ht
ssilt, we think, properly use some
expressions as the foregoing.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
WHOLE i NO

darkness covers the majestic scene ~ !,
This world is all 4 teetir,c show. 3;s 4
For man. Illusion given; NH ,ss.
rhe smiles OF JOY, the tears of woe. Sas II ~ S
Deceltful SHINE, deceitful flow ID n sTs 4xs III
There's nothing trusbut Stebhins..s, 13a
Teddy blew out the candle ansl
claimed: nm RI 8Ssa 3sss;
Out, out, brief candle. ", q s5ja III VI
STEPS but a walking actor, 4 poor III fefs z
hat struts and frets his hour Mrofi The ri
; a then Is seen no more, He IA M n sgs
!. lold w an IDIOT, full If sonnd ana iQry
Signiiying thing. q ss s z 4
s TOO true. To-day too true'' sobbsd I;
Steb. And Teddy,
" hen am forgotten, as Il shall "
And seepin dulhcoid marble, \ ssss sy
place over me this epitaph:
Put away his listlebresches sSs ss
he will never need them here :ss 5As@x
He ~ mas crossed the heavenly ditches
lie Wall climb the golden stair = 49,
- No, no." said Teddy that won 4
do:-you are not in a condition to
climb STAIRS Or cfass. bitches. You II
want something more peaceful forS
ana epltaph. How would this do! ss
Sacred % the memory Of CHRisroPHkK Il
COLUMBUS S7EBB1Ns N
ROTTEN BUT NOT FoRGorrRF.
This stone is erected by his distin&
guished partner,
IRVING TOD b,
DAKOTA COUNTY'S FAVOR.
TIE SOM IN
Celebrated for all the virtues that cail
adorn Che soul and al the great ~
ness that can dignif !
mankind. sS
..That'll 10. To-day said Steb.
THAT Il do but be Sure to 4et ii
name in somewhere on the stone. &
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK..
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stThe learned blacksmith 4 Eth

b 1.-THE learned blacksmith, "a
Burritt, has been publishing some
sensible remaaks recently, from
which we extract the following
Thirty years fago labor was safely
and happily distributed in this c0un-
try, Itwas the pre-corp oration period
Of our industrial history. Our manu-
features and CONNIE cree were conduct
ed BY private firms of two Or three
individuals well trained f0rthe busi~
ness who gave to it the whole coIiSeilS
Hted force of their interest I'll ts(1Elik
|:1 nnDerieMe1t WllO were gan64kIl u Ags Y
[[itsfrst. ia the lno1nsng and last AZ J
night, always accessible to their en-
| plOyees, and personally responsible
and responsive to them. Under, this
private-irm regime labor was freely u
modified and equally distributed
among all the industrial occupations.
Capital and labor moved ON hand I'M
hand. IN peace and healthy prosperity
But the reg inc Of incor ratedcapi tal,
operated III large companies Of absen-
tee, invisible or inaccessible stock
holders, changed all this even condi-S
ton Of Industry. We now had an
incorporated company of twenty or i
thirty shareholders. These could sell.
| their stock in 4 coal mine or a steam
engine factory to tailors, hatters, and
fancy goods dealers, thus increasing
the constituency of the corporation
until the president hardly knew who
| or how many were it's members, ex
cept on dividend days"
Mr., Burritt seems to think that the
working classes are being driven OUT
Of the country to the wilderness by
the power of corporations. He says:
ssThere is still great deal fIanf
between the Mississippi and the Rocky
Mountains that wehave not yet given
to railway companies. It is scarcely 4
Fifteen hundred miles from what you
i call your own door. Go and hunt up
a boypestsad. in these wide regions and
:! it shall DE yours. We make yolta free
gifIss it. You should be grateful for
such q generous offer. 1T isall we can
do for you; it Is FALL You ought to ask.
No, we cannot give or lend you money
to help you to reach the offered home
steadVor TO build afut upon it. Don't
tell US aboat that; ifpwe gave millions
upon millions of the best acres Of the
public domain to the great railway
companies, and Endorsed their bonds
for millions upon millions of dollars.
that's got nothing to do with it4,
These great corporations have inter-
ests we are bound to respect and guar
antee. Yes; it ssall very well for
i Canada to pay the passage money for
4 1000 Mennonites from Southern Rus.;
STA to settle in Manitoba, and to loan.
money to the Icelanders on the same
styles of spoke-shaves or pairing
knives. and even if the validity of
these patents could be admitted ~
reference to this point, the court
could find no evidence that the defend.
ant, McMarray. has infringed them
by using the knife ofcompla inarIt abnt
1 on the contrary, the proof shows tl3aS
he used q different knife enti hi
Some fellow will next xppl a ~ " "
patent on baking bread ]. 81 fof| 6oxiir1i:
II tomatoes il their own jjufce
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

nd now it is reported that the
adard Oil Company Of cleveland
y, proposes to buy up all oil land
secure q monopoly OF the refining
a This oppressive monopoly is
either one o. the ontgrowths OF our
system Of labor and money.
aus it goes. Some fellows willyc5
t patent on air aud water.
G snead q constitutional amend
nsgt making All combinations against
The pnpiic welfare criminal conspira-
cjeS.
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Fon Du Lac lWis.) Journot


aksasa very broad view Of the future
4 lie Independent party. It says;
ise term Greenback was happily
asfn toindicate u specific object and
IL snaI a warfare againsta long, sin
~Tl OPPRESSION false and fraudulent
vs Seem Of finance. The popular strike
20 eslr0y it ana institute anew and
lust system is SO vigorous it cannot be
saved Like the heroic Bnnaparte it
snuA. conquer a whole Europe Of Ty-
Faanv. The very fitness Of events
-eeoasthe early demise Of the Green
,aes party. LIS first victory gained
csAens the way for the next in order.
ND bolitionism die when Mason and
xoas line WAS torn ups One step
10 another TIL an army throttled
yary. The financial II form which
lAboring people have entered up
sveeps wide like the Atlantic TO
farthestc shores OF the continent.
have entered upon an enterprise
az shapes the civilization Of the flu
IRE, affecting the governments Of the
world. This tremendous wave of re-
aen must roll on TIL the last. vestige
il i monied aristocracy is swept from
ark4 81
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
The Scale inspectors Ditto
Steb. Meets with an Accident,
The Irish and Anglo-Saxon IRE
pressible Conflict.
Cousin Fred. takes a New De-
parture.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.

Gentlemen shouted the pffn
man with the ramrod back, "the usury
! law is robbery. That's what it is.
Money should be left free to regulate
| itself. After the debtors are all wip-
ed out. and there are no more who
! want to borrow, money will become
cheap. Money isa commodity like
wheat or beef.
sIf that's 80. said Judge Sullivan,
| sswhy don't the government let any
man make as much money as he pleas
es-iust as he is permitted to raise as
much wheat or beef as he pleases z
Why havn't I the right to issue my
printed due bills to all who choose to
take them.
s.Because the law says you shall not;
and that even the states can't emit
bills Of credit" replied Ramrod.
.sPrecisely,' replied the Judge,
ssthen that proves that money is not q
commodity, like beef or wheat, but an
artificial measure Of value. established
by law; and that the law Of demand
and supply, Which governs comnlodi-
ties. does not apply to 1t. =
''But if you enact ,2aealP said
Ramrod, ..youTiff drive capital out
of the state
s.To what state Will it go where it
can get more than twelve per cent I.
Answer that =
'sUsury laws replied Ramrod,
'sare communism, agrarlanlsm, dla-
sm;-they represent the siluri-
an, ,eocene, eorboniferous, carniyer-
Gus, hyperbolican era in human
development, as l have shown in my
famous lectures on geology!' r Great
applause and laughter.j
81 can't answer that argument 4
said the Judge. (Renewed laughter
While this debate had been in pro-
gress the usurers were busy rushing
| around the room, dragging men into
corners, whispering them in the ears,
and grasping hands with them mystic
riously. The result was that when
| the resolution came to vote 1t went
down by an overwhelming majority.
! Judge Sullivan looked astounded.
He stood for a few minutes with his
mouth open, before he summoned en-
ergE enough to offer his third resolu.
ton.
| .sResolred: That we are in favor OF
such legislation as will secure the
| farmers honest weights and fail
grades for their productions
more communism. said Ramrod
More Donnellyism" growled Char.
ley Baker.
"a speech from our Dan y shouted
the weak minded one.
ssHumbug, growled Steb., who
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

lures in Minnesota; they are usually
preachers; asanctimonious, preten,
tious, pharasaical pack, who will
whine and shuttle in the path of reform,
and spend a week over the construction
of some magnificent sentence, written
by some man who knew nothing of
grammar
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03
J. AsstI- 's;sqo'lopolist.
TATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR.

looks more ana more as if The Re-
ehlican party was bound to split into
" great factions:-tlie Hayes men
1850 the nti-Hayes men. Nothing can
mt tais unless Hayes abandons
ne distinctive features Of his civil
ice and southern policy, ana
lenders Internationally to tonk-
Nlai-la liz
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The Usury Law Voted Down.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31

Paint.-We call special attention to the
advertisement of 9 p. Knight, of No 90 w
Lombard street, Baltimore, on the third page
of to-day s issue of the SENTINEL Mr.. Knight
informs us it has been seven years since he
FIRST introduced his pain, in our county, since
which time he has sold several Thousand gal
Ions, and in no case has it failed TO give sat
sfaclion He has also furnished the paint for
large num1er of tue newest and most ele-
CANT buildings of Baltimore. A few of which
we mention: The new Amcricaa building
corner Baltimore aud South streets, the two
elegant buildings adjoining each other on
Baltimore street above Charles street occupied
respectively by Armstrong Gator & Co, the
the largest millinery house in the United
States and Hurst, Purnell & Co., the largest
dry good house in Baltimore, and many
others. Sample cards Of coiors of this beaui-
full paint is furnished gratis on application
by mail or otherwise. may 3l-3mn
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31
Whitley shing The following is sen


us by prominent and experienced farmer:
''As this is the season of the year for white
washing, | will state to the fruit growers and
other readers of your valuable paper that from
long aud thorough experience ] have found
common white-wash with a considerable guam
tity Of salt, say two quarts TO peck OF lime,
added while Stacking, a most excellent wash
for fruit-trees, fences, buildings and roofs.
have seen in print the embarrassing o.
trees condemned, and the theory for such con-
demnation was that it closed the pores of the
bark and injured instead of benefttng them
But sometimes nice theories are knocked into
''pi' By practice, and this is one of the cases,
as by it have found it to clean the trunks
and limbs of trees from all moss and insects,
making them thrifty, and by its whteness re-
fleeing the rays of the hot sun upon their
trunks during the summer, by which, when
exposed, they are greatly injured or killed and
leave the trunks beautiful and glossy during
the fall and winter. 1t is decidedly the best
wash for trees have ever tried, but the salt
in it must not be forgotten.
Few persons, think, fully realize the value
of lime as a preserver of wood. The fact is
none will rot while covered with it, aad even
after its whteness is gone, the surface Of wood
is much hardened and improved for a time and
keeps all moss from roofs and saves them.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31
gotal aud gersonal.
Condensed Locals.

Condensed Locals.
Talamasmico lectured at Gaithersburg on last
Tuesday.
Francis Miller Esq, OF this county, was
published as the orator at Antietam on yes
terday at tie decoration of graves.
On Tuesday last John D. Henderson and
Mamie Falvey, both of Great Falls obtained
marriage license at Washington, D. G.
Miss Alice Grady, of this county, daughter
of VIM. Grady, Esq, was married to Mr.. B.
c. Hicks, of Prince Georges county, al Lau-
REL last week.
Hon. Montgomery Blair gave brilliant en-
tertainment in Washington last week. The
guests included many notables, among whom
were Representative Kmmel and wife.
JOS A. fancy, Clerk to the Commissioners,
publishes in this issue notice to all persons
holding jurors or State witnesses certificates
to file them with him.
Jno. E. Kendall & Son, of Washington, are
prepared TO furnish all kinds of Hard DWARF
material used by carpenters, wheelwrights and
Blacksmiths at the very lowest prices. Read
their card and give them call.
Mr.. Roht c. Lee. who was for a long time
stationed in Rockville as engineer upon the
Metropolitan Branch, has received appoint.
ment in Minnesota under Gen. Rosser of the
Government Civil Engineer Department.
S. A. Pugh, whose trial we announced last
week as in progress in Washington, was, after
a vain effort for q new trial, sentenced or
Saturday to pay fine of $500 and to siA
months Imprisonment.
The festival on Tuesday night was we'll at
tended. Thirty-six dollars more for the new
church. Mrs Jane G. Bays, at whose resi-
dence the affair came off, will please accept oui
thanks for bounliful supply of pound cake
&c, kindly sent to this Office.
On the 22nd instant james Snowden had
his store with its contents burned at Noun
Zion, near Unity, in this county. This is til,
second time that some incendiary has sci fir
to the store, the first time the fire was dscov
cred and extnguished.
The credit OF preparing and directing thu
concert at Boyd's on the evening of May 18Th
belongs to Mr.. Windsor, of Clarksburg, Prof
Story only assisted at the organ, and would b.
happy TO be able to give such an excellent en-
tertainment on short preparation. The abov,
statement of facts we are desired to make.
The report of the Washington Board o
Health shows terrible increase of the deatl
rate among negroes. Ia Rockville during III,
last Winter the number o. deaths among thu
colored population has been far in excess o
any other year. Most of these have been frou
consumption which undoubtedly was induced
by their way of living and the scantness will
which they clolhe themselves.
A mortgage deed has beer placed on file il
the recorders office Of the District of Colum
hia by which the Chesapeake and Ohio Cana
Company grant all the company's propert,
along the line of the canal, together with III
tolls, revenues snd franchise of the company
TO George L. Brown, Jr., james Sloan ant
Lloyd Lowhdcs Jr., trustees, TO secure $500,
600 of bonds These bonds are designed t,
cover the expenses Of repairs after the freshet
few months since, as authorized by th
Legislature Of Maryland .-Balto. San,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31
LYNDON FARM.
SAMMY SPRING, April 18th, 1873.

SANDY SPRING, April 18th, 1873
1t has been my misfortune TO spend a
considerable amount Of money in trying
to get Mower which was in all respects
satisfactory. After using several ma
chimes and seeing several others at work,
| came across the Champion Haymaker,
was SO much pleased with its simplicity,
almost noiseless motion, easy drops, &C.,
that determined to purchase one, which
| used the past season in heavy grass,
and can say with an easy conscience that
| believe it is the nearest to perfect Of
any Mower in the market.
Yours &c,
CHAS. G.. PORTER.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31

Festiyal.-There win be a festival held
by the ladies in the vicinity of Emory church,
10 commence on Saturday next, June LIST, at 3
O'Clock p. NJ. Emory is little south Of
Mechanicsville, and as the festival is given for
the benefit Of the church, most cordial invi-
tation is extended TO the public, and large
and liberal patronage desired and confidently
expected. Every delicacy Of the season to
suit taste and tempt the appetite will be
served, just as The the ladies Of that commu-
nifty know how TO 90 it,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31
mg- Instead of filing our column with

Ng- Instead Of filing our column with tes-
timonials we will state that hundreds Of these
Mowers and Reapers and Rakes are in use IN
Montgomery county, the owners Of which can
be seen and a practical knowledge of their
merits and durability had in a mnch better
way than by reading testimonials; they are
in the hands of the most practical farmers of
this county, and in any part Of it, See your
neighbor who uses the Buckye before buying
any machine, and oy all means send 10 US for
Circulars
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31

Sheep have sheared this season SO
sheep which averaged 6 pounds head. When
Sandy Spring comes up to this, | will have a
flock of 100, which VIII average s pounds a
head. "MEADow HAIL.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-05-31

Race.-The trotting race, mile heats,
best three in five, between Frank H. aud
"Belevew" on Saturday last was won by
the former horse easily in three successive
heats. Time 2:59, BAL and 800. The rain
caused slow track and small attendance.
The event was very nninteresling.