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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-17
The Anti-MOnop0liSt.

button of its products, and the requir-
ments Of business, fixing a minimum
amount per capita of the popu' alton as
near as may be, and otherwise regula-
ting its value by wise and equitable
provisions Of laws that the rate of in
terest will secure to labor it's just re-
ward.
FIFTH--I is inconsistent with the
genius of popular government that any
species of private property should be
exempt from bearing its just share of
the public burdens. Government bonds
ana money should be taxed precisely
as other property, and graduated in
come tax should be levied for the sup
port Of the Government and the pay
ment of it's debts.
SIXTH-Public lands are the COM
mon property Of the whole people, and
should not be sold to spectators nor
granted to railroads or other corpora
tons, but should be donated to actual
settlers, in limited quantities.
SEvENTH-The government should
by general enactments, encourage the
development of our agricultural, min
eral, mechanical, manufacturing, and
commercial resources, to the end that
labor may be fully and proftably en-
ployed, but no monopolies should be
legalized.
EIGHTH-All useless offices should be
abolished, the most rigid economy ia
vored in every branch of the public ser
vice, and severe punishment inflicted
upon public officers who betray the
trusts reposed In them.
NTH AS educated labor has de-
vised means for multiplying production
by inventions and discoveries, and as
their use requires the exercise of mind as
well as body, such legislation should be
had that the number Of hours of daily
toll will be reduced, giving to the work
ing classes more leisure for improve
ment and their several enloyments. and
saving them from premature decay and
DEATH
TENTH-The adoption OF an Amerl-
can monetary system, as proposed here
in. will harmonic all differences in re-
gard to tariff and federal taxation, re-
duce and equalize the cost of transpor-
tation by land and water, distribute
equitably the joint earnings Of capital
and labor, and secure to the producers
of wealth the result Of their labor and
skill, and muster out of service the vast
army of idlers who, under the existing
system, grow rich upon the earnings OF
others, that every man and woman
may, by their own efforts secure COM
petence, SO that overgrown fortunes and
extreme poverty will be seldom found
in our republic.
ELEVENTH Both national aud state
governments should establish bureaus
of labor and industrial statistics, cloth
ed with the power Of gathering and
publishing the same.
TwELFTH-That the contract system
of employing labor IN our prisons and
reformatory institutions works great in
Justice to our mechanics and artisans,
and should be protected.
THIRTEESTH-The importation of
servile labor into the United States.
from China, is problem of the most
serions Importance, and we recommend
legislation looking to its suppression.
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TUE NiION1L PARTY.
Platform CT Principles. dopted at Toedo.A
Ohlo. February p, 1873.

Platform Of Principles, dopted at ToIedo.A
Ohio. February %, 1878.
WHEHEAs, Throughout our entire
country the value of real estate is de-
preciated, industry paralized, trade de-
pressed, business incomes and wages
reduced, unparalleled distress inflicted
upon the poorer and middle ranks of
our people, the land filled with fraud,
embezzlement, bankruptcy, crime, suf-
terlng, pauperism and starvation; and
WHEREAS, This state Of things has
been brought about by legislation in
the interest of aud dictated by money
lenders, bankers and bondholders: and
WHEREAS, While we recognize the
fact that the men IN Congress con-
nected with The old political parties
have stood up manfully for the rights
of the people, and met the threats of
the money power and the ridicule of an
ignorant and subsidized press, yet
neither the Republican nor the emo
cratic party, in their national politics,
propose remedies for the existing evils;
and
WHEREAS. The Independent Green
back party and other associations, more
or less effective. have been unable hith-
erto to makea formidable opposition to
the old party organizations: and
WHEREAS, The limiting of the legal
tender quality of gleenbacks, the chang
ing of currency bonds into coin bonds
the demonstration of the silver dollar,
the excepting of bonds from taxation.
the contraction Of the circulating me-
dunn, the proposed forced resumption
of specie payments, and the prodigal
waste of the public lands. were crimes
against the people, and. as far as posi-
BILE. the result of these criminal acts
must be counteracted by Judicic us leg
islation:
THEREFORE. We assemble in nation
al convention and make a declaration
of our principles. and invite all patri-
otto citizens To unite IN an effort TO Sc
cure financial reform and industrial
emancipation. The organization shall
be known as the National Party" and
under this name We will perfect. with
out DELAY. national, state and local as
sociatlons TO secure the election to of
fee of such men oulv as will pledge
themselves to do all IN their power to
establish these principles:
FIRsT-It is the exclusive function
of the government TO coin and create
money and regulate its value All
bank issues designed to circulate as
money should be suppressed. The cir
culating medium. whether Of metal or
paper. shall be issued by the govern
ment. and made full legal tender for
all debts. duties and taxes In the United
States at its stamped value.
SECOND There shall De no privileged
class of creditors. official salaries pen
sions bonds, anu all other debts and OBJ
legations, public and private. shall be
discharged IN the legal tender money of
the United States. strictly according
to the stipulations of the laws under
which they were contracted
Resolved. That the coinage
of silver be placed on the same footing
as that of gold.
FOURTH Congress shall provide
said money adequate to the full en-
ploymeut Of labor, the equitable distri-
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-05
Confirming Hayes. Tile.

When the Republicans were claiming Flo
rina for Hayes in 1876 the electoral vote of
that State rested on Archer precinct, Alachua
county, which both sides alleged to be in
their favor The Democrats claimed large
majority, but the Republicans showed that
vote stood Al Democratic TO 145 Republican
The Democrats maintained the majority to be
theirs, and pronounced the Republican figures
fraudulent. The official returns from that
same precinct this year give the Democrats
A to the Republicans 146, which looks very
much to unprejndiced eyes like confirmation
OF the claim OF the Republicans in 1876, and
settles beyond question the right to count that
State for Hayes.
1t is now settled that Rsbee, the Republi'
can Congressman from Florida has been re.
elected, as the Courts have ordered certificate
to issue from the Board of Canvassers for
him. No doubt, however, Democratic con.
test will be made for the seat and Demo.
cratic House will vote Bisbee out, as they will
Orth of Indiana and Hazleton of Wisconsin
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-05

DURING the last year, the output of coal in
the British Islands amounted, it is stated, to
162,0OO,000 tons. In regard to the popular
notion that by such prodigious mining opera.
tions great part of the crust of the earth is
becoming used up, and that if the soil that
has thus been dug out of the mines were piled
up it would make quite a mountain range,
the following figures are presented: A cubic
mile is equal to 147, 900 cubic feet, and,
allowing twenty nine and a half cubic feet of
coal in the solid to weigh ton, the result is
just five billion tons of coal in one cubic
mile-this being, in fact, greater weight
than all that has yet been raised in the British
Islands; and, according to the most reliable
statistics, the end of the present year will just
complete the first mile of cubic coal, exclu.
sive of waste, in mining If, therefore, this
mineral fuel had been stored in mountain
heaps on the surface, instead of being buried
in the bowels of the earth, a very small noun.
tain range indeed would have been equivalent
to all the coal fields available to man in the
whole earlh
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Notification Again.

The Democratic press both North and
South has begun to talk of executive inter
ference in South Carolina in a tone of defiant
and triumphant insolence. "Let Mr.. Hayes
execute such laws as he finds on the statute
books" cries one organ of the red shirt and
the shot gun; ''but if they are not sufficient,
not bit of help shall he get from Congress u
'.No more amnesty for offenders against State
laws" exclaims one of the Southern journals;
''give the Radical rascals dose of civil pro.
cess" ''lf our State authorities back down
now," says correspondent of the Charles
ton News and Courier, land fail to push the
law upon every criminal of that desperate
party, we have misled the colored Democracy
when we guaranteed them protection"C)
The "Radical rascals," as our readers under.
stand, are all the black or white Republicans
who have given evidence before United States
Commissioners of fraud or violence in the
election-men who have been clubbed for
their political opinions, or who have witness.
ed tie stuffing of ballot boxes and the falsifi-
cation of the count; and the method of "push
ing the law" against them is to arrest and
punish them by the State courts for alleged
perjury in their testimony before a Federal
tribunal.
The case Of the Rev. Mr.. Pinckney is a
good illustration of this manner of ''giving
Radical rascals dose of civil process" Mr.
Pinckney was one of the witnesses who gave
evidence respecting the election outrages at
Kingstree. For this he was charged with
perjury and thrown into prison; and the
Charleston News and Courier, in reporting
the arrest, remarks that "the appearance of
his classical facial formation through the Jail
bars will probably act as warning TO others
OF his ilk that tney will no more be allowed to
swear Democrats into trouble unquestioned.'
OF another witness, against whom warrant
is out, the correspondence of the same papf
says, "He will yet be caught or made to eave
the country" Similar action has been taken
in all parts of the State; and now the Red
Shirt Democracy is going so far as to arrest
the United States Commissioners also, on the
most frivolous and indecent pretexts, when.
ever they attempt to enforce the election
laws. One Commissioner, for instance, who
was Judge Of Probate, was attacked by
mob while he was taking testimony, and
obliged to flee for his life. That was enough.
The chivalry caused him to be sent to Jail for
not keeping his office open!
The new scheme of notification is now
made plain In every instance where the
United States attempts to put in force the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-05

| Federal statutes intended to protect the purity
| step in, lock up the witnesses, and if possible
imprison the Commissioners. This defiance
! of the National authority has not even the
color of State law to excuse it. The Demo.
cratit State judges have decided that person
cannot be held to answer in the State courts
for perjury committed in PROCEEDINGS before
the Federal conrts. But it is convenient now
to ignore all previous decisions, as well %
common justice and propriety; and the wit
nesses are promptly run off or locked up be-
fore their evidence has been put to the test.
As the News and Courier observes, "They
will no more be allowed to swear Democrats
into trouble unqueStioned" We presume thst
the witnesses will take the hint Most of
them are probably poor negroes, who have not
the means of defending themselves against
such outrageous proceedings, and they will
not go to Jail for the privilege of telling the
truth. Their mouths are effectually closed.
When the cases are called in the Federal
courts, the prose cution will fail for want of
testimony; the ''bull -dozer'' and ''kiss..oker"
will go free; and the innocent will be punish.
ed for swearing Democrats into trouble"
Whether there is any penalty for this sys'
tematic obstruction of the courts is a question
which, we have no doubt, the law officers of
the Administration have carefully considered.
But the wrong has already been done, and so
far as the pending cases are concerned it.
seems to be without remedy. 1t remains,
however, for the people of the United States
to say whether they will sustain party
which lives by such practices, and whether
they will submit to be ruled by Congressman
-perchance by Prssidents-thrust into office
by such revolutionary methods-TNew York
Tribune
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New Series-VO1. 1S-No O ~

This they do, and more in explanation than
apology say ave had to do it or we should
have been beaten"
And this is the latest form of South Caro-
lima notification, not openly United States
law, but secretly and indirectly by the nulli-
ficatiOn Of votes cast under the sanctions and
guarantees of those laws. There's a very
strong impression at the North that this is not
gooi thing to encourage or even to counte'
nance by silence and inaction. The Southern
Democracy, encouraged by the sympathy of
the Northern wing of the party, made an
unprOvokcd and aggressive war to extend and
these colorcd men were held. 1t was one of
the results of that struggle that the blacks
were given first their freedom and then the
ballot with which to defend it. For two
ference this extinction of the negro vote by
violence and fraud: first, because it is in
effect reversal of one of the chief results of
war: and second, because the purpose in it Of
tne party ueledteu III the wal Is Ohly tOO
plain to strengthen itself by violence, fraud,
treachery and deceit, so as to be able to resume
control of the Government it failed to destroy.
The instinct of danger, united with the
honorable obligation to see that the Nations
wards are not left defenceless, will compel
the North to tale cognizance of the frauds
and crimes which the South Carolina Demo
the frivolous plea that they chad to do it or
be beaten. There is one man in So. Carolina
who ought either to pe able to offer scme
better excuse than this, or to make public his
condemnation of the outrages Shall we hear
from Wade Hampton? Is it his excuse too
that 1--WE had to do it?"-TN Y. Tribune
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Scientific Reliance on Soap.

Philapelphia Press.
DIR. Richardson lectured recently in
this city on the germ theory of disease.
He acknowledge his obligation to Tyn-
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THE British forces, in advancing to-
ward Afghanistan, found the fort at
Kakka had been abandoned and plum
dered by the neighboring tribes. The
Afgbans in the retreat have be- n
plundered of everything by the tribes
that formerly sided with the Ameer,
but are now furnishing supplies to the
troops. Jellalabad has been evacuated
by the Afghans, who are flying to-
wards Cabul. All the nomad tribes
that formerly acted as the Ameer's al
lies have submitted to the British, in
cluding Mahmonds. So far, the sue
cess of the British is but repeating the
events OF forty years ago, when the
"invading army of the Indus" captured
Cabul, Candahar, Gheezni and other
places in AfghanisIan ami held pos
session for three years. 1t is to be
hoped the present expedition will be
spared repetition of the massacres
that attended the retreat from Afghan
istsn in 1912, when out Of 26,00U troops
and camp followers, including women
and children, only one European, DR..
Dryden, an army surgeon, and few
Sepoys reached Jellslabad alive.
All the efforts of the Vatican to
ameliOrate the condition OF the Roman
Catholics in Poland are stated to have
been unsuccessful. 1t is believed that
the Pope will make final and direct
appeal to the Gar, and should this
prove fruitless, his Holiness will issue
an Encyclicsl letter denOuncing the
conduct of Russia to the Catholic
world.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
i87S-79.

First Saturday OF December, st Clairsville.
Second Saturday OF January, Barnesville.
Third saturday OF February, st ClairsYille.
First Saturday OF March. Bridgeport.
Third saturday OF March, 81 Clairsville.
Second saturday OF April, Belmont.
Second Saturday Gf May, Rellaire
First Saturday OF June,f Morristown.
Fourth Saturday OF June. 81 Clairsvllle-
At close of Institnse in Martins Ferry =
Examinations begin a. go'clock, AN.
PIomptness is expected. u
Testimonials OF character are needed II ap-
Dlfcant Is not known to the Board, and certfn-
Gates of success In teaching are allowed their
due weight. fCHAs. R. SHREvE,
Ex. Board. r. ALExANDER,
J. M. YARNELL.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1877.

Belmont Lodge, No. l6, r & A. NJ. meets ev-
~ wednesday night on or preceding the fuD
moon. JAMES b--h1AN, W. u.
JESSE b. MEYER, Secy. .. s..
st. Clairsytlie Chapter. No. IL Royal Arch
hasons. meets list Friday night each month.
GEO. p. BUMGAkSER, h. 2.
JESSIE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
Belmont Council K. and s. NJ, meets on the
eco nd tuesday nj ght OF every month.
II. L. BJMGARNER, u. NJ.
ID. BAILY, Rec.
Hope Commandery No. .25 of knights Temp
Is ~ ,,ets 1n the nrst Tuesday night OF every
AIOuLn. L. W. CAhhCLl4, L. =.
Z. ID. BAILEY. Rec.
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ry. 1t was the first resolution of the
kind ever offered in national eonven'
ton, but it was in advance of its time;
the Convention qusrreled, and a por.
ton of it, with outside additions, went
over to Buffalo, nominated Martin Van
BUren, stole my anti-sIsvery thunder,
and made it a part of the proceedings
of the Convention"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-05

Dropping Japan, conversation touch
ed upon various subjects relative to
American politics.
"You were one of the original Abo'
litionsts, believe" said the reporter.
Il was a Whig AbOlitiOnisi,' answer
ed Mr.. Bingham.
"In 1S4S l was delegate to the Phil.
adelphia Convention, which nomina'
ted Zachary Taylor. Theirs 1 introdu'
ced resolution in favor of confining
slavery to existing limits, and in oppo
sition to its extension into free terrific
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