The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-09

| assets, 500, 900; Adams & McWade,
Mount Plearant, Westmoreland roun-
| ty, $50. 900; Thomas Porter; Highland,
Clarion county, 49,, 900; George Self
er, Erie, 5000; George Stewart,
Allegheny, 1927 200; George J.. Sher-
man, of Jameston, N. Y, doing busi-
ness at Bradford, Mexican county,
$262, 900; Thomas Broderick, Wilkes.
barre, $263 900; !Eugene Underhill e.
Co., Bradford, $4,000. The firm
will pay 40 per cent; james M. Kin
ports, Hollidaysburg, $25, 1000; Frank
w. Anderson, Titusville, $68.O00.
There were thirty petitions in all.
During the month of April 265 Pc
titions in bankruptcy, aggregating an
Indebtedness of $13, ,O72, ,4O3, were filed
in Chicago.
On Tuesday. April 30th. there were
"a new cases of bankruptcy in Chica-
go.
The Pioneer Press says:
The bankrupt law is still in force,
but will not be much longer, if we
may j1dge frem the daily lists of in
solvents. 1t looks as if everybody in
tended to wipe out all past transac.
tions and open a new set of books.
In the meantime every one of these
failures throws some employed person
out of work, to swell the great mass
of seething discomfort found every
where in our country. 1t is hard for
men to starve to death in the midst of
pleLty; and it is doubly hard for them
to understand why there should be
such suffering in land for which the
bounty of God has done so much.
The air is full of rumors of great or
ganizations Of the unemployed, who
have armed themselves with rifles and
muskets for some concerted outbreak
Of mob violence; we quote:
Dialogue between Deputy Superin.
tendent Dixon and reporter of the
Chicago Post: Il am satisfied that the
communists here are armed and orea-
nized for trouble" What do they
propose to do?" "To force their
views and rights at the point of the
bayonet.", .'How many are armed in
the city, do you think!" "About
2.OOO." "Who are their leaders I"
''Some of them you know, hut the
most violent and revolutionary are
French communists" .When will
the contemplated attack be made! :"
''No one can tell exactly. 1t may be
In a couple of weeks" "Have you
any idea where!" "In the business
portion Of the city, it is said" In
the opinion Of the deputy super;n.
tendent, the slightest motion on the
commune would be signal for hos
tilities. during which thousands of
vagrants would flock to the city and
plunder and destroy without limit.
The communists of Cincinnati
have assumed Threatening attitude,
and An outbreak is feared during the
summer. The party has three thous.
and men enrolled in the city, and
large numbers Of them are already or.
ganized into military companies which
meet secretly AMI drill, and rs rapidly
as possible are being provided with
arms. 1t is understood the object is
that avowed by all communists, an at
tack upon capital, and the enforce
ment of the socialistic party doctrines.
There is much excitement in Cincin-
natti upon the subject, and as in Chi
cago and other places, these prepara-
tiOns are believed to be almost certain
to result in hostile collisions and
bloodshed.
The same reports come from New
York. st. Louis, Philadelphia and
other great cities.
While every man who knows the
value Of order and society, must ear.
nestly condemn these movements,
our bitter denunciations must be re.
served for the short-sighted and self.
ish men whose greedy efforts to in
crease the value Of their money sc.
curities has plunged the country into
these incalculable calamities; and for
the shallowhnd corrupt politicians Of
the Hayes and Sherman stripe who,
for Office or plunder, have carried out
the behests Of Wall street.