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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
HOLE NO. 1875

on Monday evening, he called on Mr..
John C. Hamilton at his office. No.
Il2 East Third Street, St. Paul, yes
terday, for particulars. Mr.. Hamil-
ton is the north western agent of the
Red Line Transit company, and also
the agent of the Merchants Despatch
company for its east-bound foreign
business. In reply to inquiries the
reporter learned that twenty-four
thousand bushels of wheat, or sixty
carloads, were started on Monday
night from St. Paul to Liverpool d.
rect by the lines represented by him.
Since the first of January last, when
the preparations for this foreign ex-
portations of the productions of Mimi
esota were completed, this line has
carried 1S4, 1000 bushels of wheat, Tor
400 car loads) and $4,000 barrels Tor
$50 car loads) of flour destined for the
English market, through bills of lad
ing carrying the goods to Liverpool.
Two thousand barrels of flour from
Faribault, thousand barrels from
Red Wing, and five hundred barrel
lots (the smallest amount for which
Mr.. Hamilton is authorized to make
contracts) from other points, show
how rapidly this direct trade between
Minnesota and Europe is spreading.
Another fact was picked up yesterday
which will obviate the necessity of
strikes among coopers, and that is
flour to foreign markets is mostly
shipped in sacks instead of barrels.
The flour is packed in sacks contain
ing two hundred and eighty pounds,
the form of the sacks enabling closer
packing on shipboard and more cOnve-
nience in handling by the foreign par
ties. who are not used to rolling bar
rels around.
This new Department the transport
alton business promises to be of i'm
mense benefit to Minnesota, because
it enables it's farmers and miliers to
come into more immediate relations
with the consumer. and the profit OF
the middlemen will be saved to the
producer, while a single rate from st.
Paul to Liverpool will necessarily be
cheaper than if two or three contracts
had to be made in transit. There are
other advantages to be derived from
this trade, which are too obvious to
need Enumeration here.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

The hot water increases around the
devoted members Of the House who
voted as the Book Ring wanted them
to. and grows hotter every day. one
Mr.. Nc Broom of blue Earth county IS
busy explaining 10 his constituents
why he voted 10 make them pay 81. )
for book which Merrill WAS ready to
sell tor 90 cents. etc. AMI this broom
makes some Sirsspiag assertions to
Justify his action; but the Mankato
Rerisp seems 10 think he is loose in
the handle. and mildly remarks:
We publish on the first page of to-
days paper letter from Mr..
McBroom. explaining his action as a
! member of the legislature. in regard
/ to several measures OF State and local
| interests. 50 far rs his record on the
/ text book bill is concerned. We have
no criticism TO offer. Possibly his
constituents are satisfied with hi:
| course. but we think after the text
book bill has been fairly tried it vii
be difficult TO satisfy the people. tina
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

there were upon the train no less than
fifty-four persons bound for Fisher S
Landing alone. Everybody seemed
infested with land-craZe. The people
of Kandiyohi were very hopeful this
year, and believed they were not to
be disturbed this year by grasshop-
pers. Acting upon this impression
the rush for state seed wheat was be-
yond precedent. One man told Mr..
Lee that he started early on a recent
day for Willmar for his seed, but
found 100 teams ahead of him, and he
had to wait all day to catch his turn.
The whole of Kandiyohi county SEEM
ed to be undergoing this process of
being turned over. The farmers
were engaged in farming in e,ey di-
rection, even the women and children
being impressed into the service.
Mr.. Lee said he would not be at all
surprised if 6O.O00,O0 bushels Of
wheat were raised in this state this
wear
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

Mans inhumanity to man, says
the poet. "makes countless thousands
mourn. And here is a fresh and
awful illustration OF this great truth:
New revelations are daily made by
4 correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. who is investigating the
Ohio penitentiary. Il know of one
man, said an eX-oiiicial of the prison.
..who was worked and punished to
death in just eight days. Somehow
the contractor didn't like the man.
He was u tall, green-looking fellow.
and couldn do as much rs others had
done, and the contractor just said that
he was going 10 kill that fellow, and
he did Kill him in just eight days.
one ingenious method of torture is to
make il man sit upon chunk of ice
for fifteen minutes or more. until he
writhes and howls with agony. 1t is
evidently good thing that sunlight
is now streaming into the prison cells
all over the country.
In our own State it seems that
/ similar horrors have been enacted in
I the Insane Asylum at st Peter. \
/ legislative committee of Investigation
has been at woIk. and, if we are to
/ believe the testimony of witnesses
one man was brutally choaked t
death with a huge wooden plug. and
woman was boiled TO death in hot
water bath.
We might almost exelaim:-"Go6
protect us from our fellow mortals.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

1t is impossible to foretell with any
certainty the future of the European
complications. but we cannot resist
the conviction that they will result III
a war between England and Russia,
into which France. Italy, and Austria
will be drawn, sooner or later. on the
side of England. while Prussia will
sustain, in all probability, the auto
crat of the Sclavonic empire. 1t will
be a world shaking contest of which
no man can foresee the end; for there
will enter into it the labor problem
and the commune before the fight goes
very far.
In the meantime America can
peacefully develope her great resour
ces and take advantage Of the battles
of the tyrants.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

The editor of the Farbault Demo-
crat. and superintendent Of schools of
Rice county. though heretofore
strongly opposed 10 the text book bill.
now that it has become Il law, urges
that it be promptly carried into effect.
He requests the district clerks of that
county to send in their estimates of
the number of school books needed in
order that the children OF the res
pective districts may have the use Of
the books during the summer schools.
81 Pdui Dispatch.
Good The editor of the Fairbault
Democrat. like an honest man. bows
to the will of the people as expressed
through two Legislatures; and he has
no sympathy with the gang that At
tempted To bride MI. Brandt.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

Our old friend, II. II. Young, seems
to be in hot water in Red Wing. His
ways are not ways Of pleasantness nor
are his paths, paths of peace. He at
tempted to out-Herod Herod and to
out-J ennison Jennison as a devoted
Republican of the Ring-species, and
we fear that Jennison carries too many
guns for him. Some time since Jen-
nison gave this unique and metaphor
zeal description of Young's appear
ance at, a fancy dress ball at Red
Wing:
III. II. Y-g. GA woman')
Black Rep coat. lately turned, rather
gauzy, loose-fitting, full Of pockets,
said to have cost tailvr. Tor McLaren,
Taylor & McLaren,) $500 in 1875;
vest BIASED. much pulled down,
backs; narrow strait collar. con-
gress style; 1876 trousers, ''independ-
emit all-wool outside, party colored
lining, very large pockets, fashiona-
bic boots, tipped with black grow
| grain corns. narrow souls. bareskln
uppers. artificial plumes of print pa
per, very conspicuous.
Every word in this is sarcasm: it
is whitening.
And still the fight RACES. The last
number of the Red Wing Republican
shows that the contest threatens to
pass beyond the domain of argument
into the realms Of force. 1t says:
When Young sailed out of his Of
fee, cane in hand, about Christmas
time. threatening to put mark on
Frank Sterritt that he will carry as
long as he lives" he was in a tower
ing passion. But even then he was
discreet enough to search for his vic
tim on the back streets, where Ster.
rett has no occasion to walk, and
where. if he did meet him, there
wouldn't be light enough to recog-
nize him. And SO Sterrett escaped
When DR.. Stoltz made him the Of
fer of the best whipping ever an edi-
tor got in this state. if he would
come from behind his counter,-we
call the offer simply fair, because he
offered no more than Young deserved
y Young started as if To meet hi:
man. but his discretion showed hin
the stairs leading to the next story
and he preferred that to the story th'
Doctor was telling him.
We entertain no bitter feeling
: towards Young, although he has at
tackled rs many times without provo
cation, but we cannot but feel tina
the way Of the transgressor is indee'
hard. Young abandoned the ANTI
MoNoPoLrsTs and Greenbackers t
serve the idols Of Grantism an
Hayesism, and i. looks now as if hi
disqualification and self-degradatio
had been rewarded with more kick
than half-pence.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

The country is going to the 'demni
ton bow-wows" as fast rs it can, NOR.
ally as we'll as we'll as materially. In
Boston last year thare were only sir
;y.seren marriages and four hnadred
and Mirty-two divorces'' In one year
in Chic there were over 1000 di-
vorces, and the little state Of Connec-
ticut granted 5000 in six years.
In the meantime Bob 1ngersoll is
going around demonstrating that there
is no hell, so as to add fresh flavor to
the mess. Ii there isn't one beyond
the grave we are rapidly establishing
a very complete one on this side OF 1t.
In Philadelphia the other day a
wealthy merchant insured a poor fel.
lows life for sc, 900 and then hired a
man for $500 to kill him. with a ham.
mer, marked with the name of a par
ty on whom he intended to cast SuS
picion. And when the wounded man
lay at his house unconscious, with the
fatal wounds on his head bandaged up
his rich and sympathislng friend,
who had hired his murderer, went tc
see him, and in the absence Of his
family opened the bandases and
made the wounds bleed afresh SO as tC
be sure to kill him. The inferna
devil come hot out of hell would have
shrunk from such an act.
What kind of a breed of people are
they rsising up in those eastern
cities! Without virtue, morality
honesty. religion OF manhood, they
are in training for an empire. 1t i:
absurd to suppose that such stuff cal
maintain a republic.
The hope Of freedom rests with The
people of the great West. And the,
must look to it or bad laws will saI
their prosperity and destroy THEN
manhood.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

We are glad to learn that despite
the hard times, the circulation Of
that peculiar paper, the ANTI-MoNop-
oLIsT, has been steadily increasing.
1t has now one Of the largest lists OF
subscribers in the state, and we learn
that the Minnesota Farmers lnSur'
ance Association Of Minneapolis has
subscribed for sixteen thousand cop
les for their patrons and members,
for three months. This Will oiferon
of the best opportunities for adver-
Using in .he state.-St. PaulEfobe.
We are obliged to brother Hall foi
his kind words.
This extra addition Will give oppor
tunities for advertisers rarely pre-
Sented i'm Minnesota.
The ANTI-MoNoroLlST prospers
because we preach the truth. and
time confirms the Justice ofonr views
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

his controversies with three or four
of the ablest ministers of st. Paul,
Bishop Ireland can yet find time to
organize flourishing colonies and
found towns and cities throughout the
State of Minnesota. We learn that a
new colony has just been established
in Big Stone county. on the. western
border Of the state, some twenty
miles west of Morris, and about lis
miles from st. Paul. A finer tract Of
country for farming purposes could
not be desired. Over $50 homesteads
of 100 acres each have already been
taken. and a village henceforth to be
called Graceyille. after our Rt. Rev.
bishop. is rapidly springing up on the
shores or Lake Tokua. 4 church is
to be erected Immediately, where
mass will be celebrated once or twice
a month.
There is post office at Graceyille,
and Col. J. r. King, an agent of the
Catholic Colonization Bureau, has
just opened an office there for the
purpose Of furnishing colonists with
all necessary informatiOnin regard to
the selection of lands etc. Though
the colony is twenty miles from the
present railroad. a projected road will
probably soon be built, through the
centre of the colony. thus giving
colonists 4 market right at their
door. We wish the new colony and
village of Graceville "God-speed."
The p. Q. address of Col King, for
the present is ''Tokua, Big Stone
county, MINI.
The nearest depot to this colony is
Donnelly Station. Parties can here
purchase dry goods, groceries. lumber
breaking plows. etc.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

in trying to defeat that measure. he
and his colleagues acted for their best
interests.
Broom says he voted against the
bill because the representative of the
cities favored it. This would con-
stitute no reason even if true; but it
is not true. The representatives of
Minneapolis, Red Wing, Winona, st.
Cloud, Mankato, Owatonna, Wabasha,
Lake City, etc, were fierce against the
bill, although their constituents did
not come under it's ONeration.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
An honored friend in Faribault

An honored friend in Farlbault
writes us as to whether the party
name should be National, Greenback
of National-Greenback. Upon tins
point every man should exercise his
own judgement and taste. The
name is not Of 50 much consequence us
the principles and the organization.
We trust our friends VIII organize IN
every county for an earnest battle
this fail. The signs of the times are
auspicious in the highest degree. All
over the country the party is growing
with unexampled rapidity. Mlnneso-
ia must not he in the rear rank Of the
great army Of progress.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

Nowhere are the Nationals stronger
in number and enthusiasm than in
California. Their complete success in
Sacramento on Wednesday in connec-
ton with their victories elsewhere.
makes the National party the leading
political organization of the state
Exchange.
1t means simply that the labor
forces. the producing classes. whose
industry is at the bottom of all pros
perity and development, are for the
first time in the history of the nation,
uniting for appreciation. against
the non-produting, scheming, sordid,
selfish elements that have hitherto
controlled the politics of the nation.
If governments are instituted for the
benefit of the governed; if the end and
aim ola republic is the greatest good
to the greatest number; if the man
who produces wealth is of more value
to society than the man who simply
lives on it: then any political party
that seeks to promote the welfare and
improve the condition of the labor
boring people. by lawful and legiti
mate means. must be right.
In short there are only two alterna
tiveS for our country to pursue:-tC
lift mp the mass of the people or Il
put them down. the former course
is adopted the republic lives; if the
latter, it dies.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

Chicago Times.
Land-ownership is an essential ele-
ment Of good citizenship. And now.
after the era of savings banks which
have burst, of railway bonds which
have collapsed. of life insurance
frauds, and myriads Of other business
fallacies which were spawned of in
tlation and an irredeemable circula-
ting medium. it is a sensible and
gainful thing for American citizens
to buy aud till good lands. Three
generations hence and the transfers
of improved lands Will be as rare as
honest congressman are to-day. Real
estate. real estate will. at least. be
found to be in the United States. as
it is in Great Britain. the most salts
factory, safe and government-con-
trolling thing which citizen may
possess.
Very true. and precisely the doc.
trine we have been preaching fol
years. But the whole force of law
| has been bent to the plumber of the
owners of real estate. by high tariff.
high interest. high freights on pro
duce. high taxes, etc. until the great
! bulk of the land owners of the [ nitet
| States have been driven almost TO de
spair, and tax-eaters. usurers and
manufacturers have fiourished. W.
have sometimes wished for a league
of real estate owners As means o
defence against all the rest Of man
kind.
But We arc happy to see that a bet
ter day is a. hand The rights an'
claims OF the producing class are be
ginning to be understood. while thu
shams are exposed and the frauds 2.
ploded.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
ERE is some gossip about General

Here IS some gossip about General
Grant. 1t may be true of not.
4 strange fact has leaked out here
within the last few days, and that Is
that ~eligman, the unfortunate He
brew who WAS expelled from the
Grand Uuion hotel Saratoga. New
York. is paying eN-president Grant 5
expenses in Europe. The solution of
the mystery is that number of capt.
talists. principally Jews, have Grant
in training for the next presidential
contest, and it Was thought wise to
not only get him out Of the country,
but secure for him enough attention
abroad to keep him before the people
ut home. We are given only the lead
ng facts in this extraordinary affair
but are promised the details hereaft-
er.-l jashiR gton capital.
General Grant will return to this
country in the Fall He will take III
his residence in Washington on the
18th of March. 1881.
We have no doubt Grant would be
willing to be life incumbent of The
presidential chair. and we know thai
there are thousands who would 1T
Nad to see him crowned emperor
but the American people have hat
enough of Grant and his Whisley
Ring civil government.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

our delegation in Congress are max
ing had record on the Tariff ques-
ton Last week 4 vote WAS taken on
u motion to make tho tariff bill u spec
ial order on day named:it prevailed,
the vote standing ayes 49,, nays III.
And we are sorry to say er9V one 81
the Minnesota members, re- DuRReH,
Stswarf aad strait, roied ao' The
ayes were - Republicans ana ll5
Democrats; the nays were l. Demo
Gratis and % Republicans.
The Protective Tariff is simply a
scheme to give the east the monopoly
of supplying the markets OF the west
ut prices from % TO l2o per ct. above
the world 5 prices. We feed the cow
and they milk it.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

\ party of st Paul gentlemen re-
Gently went to kaniiyohi county TO
shoot ducks; they bagyed over one
hundred: AMI on their return home
they say TO the reporter of the st.
Paul GLOBE:
Mr. Davis said that the rnmber of
immigrants pouring along the main
line of the ST. Paul and Pacific is 40.
solutely marvellous. In going up. he
said. he could not obtain a seat, and
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
Among the most promising 0

Among the most promising Of
Bishop Ireland's Minnesota colonies
is that located in the beautiful county
of Bigstone. one of the garden spots
of the state. OF this colony the
Nortar sstern Chronicle says:
Il is astonishing how. in spite Of
and Liverpool is largely on the in
crease. ard it promises TO develope in
TO immense proportions 4 reporter
of the Pioneer Press, having heard
that an immense quantity Of wheat
had been shipped from s.. Paul on a
| through bill of lading to Liverpool,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
Anti = n & oolsojloll51.
q -
IGNATIUS DONNELL1 EDlToE

We are under many obligations TO
the st. Paul Dispatch for kind ana
friendly words in behalf Of the ANTI
MoNopoLIsT. Capt Castle makes the
Dispatch a lively and able Journal ana
he has lifted it out Of the servlle rut
of echoing the administration. Ills
course upon the silver question was
manly and able and events have PROV
ed its correctness.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

As the following article from the
Pi0aesr-Prsss will show. Minnesota is
entering upon new AMI very i'm
portant direct trade with Eng
land. This will save US the fleeing
which we have heretofore endured at
the hands OF the middlemen OF Chica-
go, Milwaukee and New York; and it
points to great possibilities in the fu.
ture:
The direct trade between st Pau
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1878-03-16
Fate Of The Convict Bill.

The following report from the
COMMITTEES on Pcnilen'inries ana
Prisons was received
"Mr. prcsident--Your Com
mittec on Pcnitcn,iarics aud Pris-
ons 10 whom was referred Senate
bill No. 81, AN act requiring a
portion of the convic.s OF the Ponl'
tentiary to be employed Oh works
Of Internal Improvement have
had tho Same c,f'idr considerations
aud instructed me to report Inc
same back with the recommends
ton that 1t do not pass.
Act "to regulate the salary o
Superintendent Of Education 10
Tho county Of Washington, an'
o,her counties in this State.s Sen
otc amendments concurrcd IN.
! (This bill increases the salary 9
our School Superintendent TO 800
per annum.) !.
Mr.. Baker introduced o bill !
amend section 6 Of an act to regt
Iate the compensation IN certal
ii - lax a
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1878-03-16

"a Joint Resolution to provide by |
} Constitutional Amendment, for |
Biennial Elections.
Resolved BY the Legislature of
the State Of Mississippi, two
thirda OF each house agreeing
thereto,) That the following
Amendment to the Constitution Of
the State AZ q substitute for sec
tion six aud seven, Of article four
Of said Constitution, be submitted
to the qualified electors Of the
State at the next general election
for adoption or rejection, namely !:
''Sec. s. The political year shall
begin on the first Monday in JAN
uary ; the legislature shall meet at
the seat Of government on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in
January, A. y. 1852, also on the
first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in January, 1883, and biennial
ly thereafter, unless sooner con
vened by tho Governor. The tim'
and place Of meeting may be alter
ed by law.
"Scc. Z. A general election, b
ballot, shall be held on the frs
Tuesday after the first Monday !
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1878-03-16

colored members of this House,
during the present session, aud we
avail ourselves Of this occasion to
express our grateful appreciation
ofthe able and impartial manner
in which he has discharged the
delicate and responsible duties Of
presiding officer Ofthis House.
Resolved, further, That we take
pleasure in saying that we have re-
ceivel nothing but kindness at the
hands Of each and every member
of this House, which we will hold
in everlasting remembrance, and
hope that the good feeling betweei
the white and colored races IN ouI
beloved State may be perpetual.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1878-03-16

CIRCUIT COURT.

CIRCUIT COURT.
h. r. TRlMBLE, sudss'
c. W. Clarke, Dits. A''oi"e!'
(,onhoma couMty-2d Monday Of
September and Marcll-'cont'''"c
! Bolivar county-ltl' Monday o.
September and erch-co'''inue
twelve days.
Washington couMty-2d Monday
OF October aud April-conti"ut
twoMty.fOur days.
Sunhowcr cOuMty-2d Monua!
or Noyomber and May-continu'
six days. x,a.. !
Ncyslnber aud Mny-continuc 81
issequcna connty-4tl Monda'
Of November and May-con'in"
twelve days.