The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-08

ing another negro in cold blood. He
had been sentenced by the district
court to the penitentiary, but obtain
ed new trial. The verdict Of the
| coroner's jury was that said parties
came to their death by hanging, and
that the same was done by parties
unknown.
The names Of men hanged last
night are p. Philips, Henry Atkins.
James Beatty and Tom Ross.
The bloody shirt" cuts no figure
in the campaign this year. The ragged
shirt is the one that is coming to the
front.
| GENERAL CLINGMAN who headed the
North Carolina delegation to the St.
Louis Democratic Convention, has an
| nounced his adhesion to the Greenback
party. He says there are 10000 vot-
ers in North Carolina for the new par,
tv, and that the whole South is ripe for
the movement.
THE National bankers are in favor.
of that system of finance which per-
mits privileged few to live on the in
terest of what they owe. Sift down
the hard money policy and this is what
it amounts to. The idea is to float
shinplaster currency having nothing
but individual credit to back it, upon
which the issuers can draw comfort
able pension.
HERE is mysterious extract from an
editorial in the New York Tribune Of
Tuesday. cit is melancholy thought
that this country, barely century
away from the achievement Of its In
dependence, should be in doubt whether
to tread the bloody path by which
France marched to an empire"
Does Jay Gould think of investing
that million dollars to make Grant
emperor?
Mr.. E. II. Gillette said in his recent
speech at Des Moines, Iowa:-.'A
three cent stamp. as far as it goes, is
as good and perfect an illustration Of
money as anything we have. You
never saw it quoted for anything less
than three cents, nor is it worth less
than three cents. ask you, hards
money friends. why don't you make
that three cent stamp out of some
thing that has intrinsic value! 1t is
as reasonable that you should do it as
it is that you should make dollar
out of a substance Of an intrinsic
value. Every reason applies to the
one that applies to the other
The hardware papers seem to regret
very much that the Syracuse Conven-
ton did not end i'll an open row. All
their efforts in this direction failed
, The New York correspondents put
words i'll the mouths of delegates and
, attendants that were never uttered in
order to create discord and i'll feeling,
but in this instance the "power of the
press was signal failure. There was
no fighting, no split; but hearty &C
ceptance of the work performed and a
. dissemination on the part Of the dele
t gates to return home and do all in their
power to push on the revolution.
: LET us hope that the bill passed by
the House, in New Hampshire, con
corning tramps will become law. Any
, act of beggary or vagrancy by any per-
: son not resident Of the State will Sc
: cure THE accused a residence in the State
prison at hard labor for fifteen months.
Every State in the Union should follow
suit in passing such law. The effect
would be to give a tremendous impetus
: to industry. Provision would have to
! be made for the accommodation of two
2 or three million tramps at once and con-
: sequently Jail building would be brisk.
9 All tramps who stood in awe Of the
law could lay down by the roadway
6 6 and starve. This is great country.
The National Government legislates
hordes of tramps into existence and
, then the various States legislates them
into Jail for not conveniently starving
d to death. This is humane, of course
for it would be sad commentary on
our Christian teachings to allow these
e unfortunate victims Of a rapacious
money power to starve. In all serious
!. ness, we will remark that such laws AZ
I the one proposed in New Hampshire
! will never cure the tramp evil. If il
5 only goes into effect in New Hampshire
e that State will get rid of the wander.
!. ing Migrants, but they will infict them.
+ selves upon another State. If all the
States adopt such a measure then oui
State Prison facilities will have to be
0 enormously increased and we will be-
l gin the manufacture Of criminals On an
extensive scale. An honest man wan.
f dering In search Of work once confined
: in prison will lose all hope and sink
! lower and lower He will become an
outcast. All professional tramps should
be severely dealt with, but it il difficult
: to weed them out Of the great horde OF
2 ldlers that arr, fraycrxin0 tho cr,,rt-.v