The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-02-14

1uc WlScttCICS WIN PAOPASS~ S~
the workingmen's party movement
would prove ephemeral-that 1t would
have disappeared altogether by the
next campaign-have probably dis
covered their mistake this time. The
movement has gained spirit and
strength everywhere and is continuing
to gam. In Memphis the other day
the workingmen's candidate Tor
Mayor polled 1910 votes. All the
conservative elements were united
against the new element, and the
union triumphed. In Alameda county
CAL, last week, the wOrkingmen cleo
ted their candidate for Senator by 600
majority. These and other results
show that far from being non est by
the next campaign the new party
movement will be very near the ''top
of the heap There is nothing
ephemeral about it, Messers. Wis
eacreS.
The vote on Congressman Southland s
bill to pay the duties on imports in
Greenbacks, shows that the latter
have majority of the House in their
favor. On motion to suspend the
rules. in order to pass the bill at once,
the vote stood 154 to SO. Landers and
Phelps, of Connecticut were the only
New England members who voted
for the bill, and Cox and G. W. Pat
terson were alone among the New
Workers on the same side. OF the
Pennsylvania delegation only Messrs.
Clymer, Mackey, Wright, Turney,
Campbell and Bayne voted for the bill.
Judge Kelley was absent. Eleven of
the Ohio representatives voted for and
nine against it. Texas, Arkansas,
Kansas, West Virginia, Newbraska
and Colorado were solid in the affirm
alive; and Main, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Rhode Island, Minnesota,
oregon, and Nevada were solid the
Othey way.
Chase's Chronicle writes from an
agricultural standpoint thus: Ear
mers are selling good cows for $l5 a
piece. 1t takes three cows to pay the
farmer taxes where it took one before
the war. Is it any wonder that the
windows of the farm houses are
boarded up and the fields are growing
up to bushes What encouragement
is there for boy to stay on II farm
and raise cows for SIS apiece! Is
there an over production OF COWS when
so many children are crying for milk !
Beecher says bread and water makes a
good wholesome diet for the working
man, and his children who have been
to take their evening
meal of bread and milk must now be
with bread and water.
Thousands of families who have put
butter on their bread, now use lard.
Is this economy, that takes milk from
children and butter from the tables of
the poor, going to make us all rich!
1t has cut down the price of cows to
SIS apiece, but it has not cut down
taxes"
The following from the People of
deserved the attention and
of the prospective plat
form makers of the National Conven-
ton: The labor question has been
ignored by all conventions called to
act on the financial question, or if
alluded to at all, it was done in a
general way. The fault was the rank
and file have allowed these conven-
tions to be monopOliZed by more
financial theorists, who, though
fighting for correct financial theories,
altogether forgot that the labor ques.
Plenty of government money at low
interest was their cry, and they made
their platform accordingly. The labor
element has been ut fault for standing
back and allowing this to go on. 1t is
now time to take hand in conven-
ton proceedings. Labor should be, at
least. heard if not rule the delibera-
tions. The platform to be proclaimed
at Toledo should grasp the labor ques-
ton and at least enunciate the prin-
ciples which should be established to
hasten its just solution"
The Cincinnati Enquirer is surprised
that men should be SO ignorant as to
the cause of the hard times when the
facts in the case are 50 plain and easily
understood. 1t says: I'm September,
1865, we learn from official sources
that the volume of circulating medium
was S57 per head of our entire pop
ulation, and that in 1877 the circula-
ton was less than SIS per head. Why
look elsewhere for reasons for the
bankruptcy and ruin of our people !
Values had been adjusted, property
purchased. enterprises undertaken.
debts contracted upon a basis of So
per capita. with reduction of three
fourths of the circulating medium
must not all debtors be crushed. their
property be sacrificed ana employees
he driven into idlenessl The drones
in the hive of human society that live
upon the interest of their accumula-
tons grow rich upon the wrecked
fortunes of the Industrious and enter.
prising. If the fnll volume of money
was restored and bonds of an equal
amount were cancelled hundreds OF
thousands of business men who are
trembling upon the brink OF bank.
ruptcynd 4 dishonor would he saved.
Leasing exclaims. Woman is the
masterpiece of the universe" Bour-
don says. The pearl is the image OF
purity. but woman is purer than the
pearl." Thackerv writes, IL good
woman is the lovliest flower that
blooms under heaven" Balzac says,
Even the errors of woman spring
from her faith in the good. Vol
taire declares. ..All the reasoning OF