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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-22
rHB LIBERALS WILL PROTEST.

BERLIN, July 2l.--The Emperor William
will go to Babelsburg soon, but it is not de-
termined yet whether he will make his usual
visit to eastern or Teptiz. he has entirely
recovered from his wounds but is still very
feeble.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26
The Washburn Campaign.

We know that some very dishonest men
have been managing Mr.. Washburn's can
vass. and W. know that they have immense
necuniary interests at stake in his election
interests so great that they could well afford
to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have
n Congressman in Washington whom they
could rely on to protect them from exposure
and from the apprehended necessity OF being
called upon to answer for the frauds they
have committed, and by which they have
profited. Pioneer Press,
Washburu has no sympathy for nor fell
lowship with the great agricultural and la
boring class OF this district IL, Is national
banker. q member of the Minneapolis pine
land ring, and as the Pioneer Press says
will spend thousands oil dollars to secure his
election in order that the ring may avail it.
self of his services in Congress to cover up It'll
pine steals. -Litchfeld Independent.
We have interviewed a good many Repub-
licans ia this county in reference to then
views of Donnely and Washburn, and W.
find that W hi many OF them have some OBJ
jections to Donnelly they will generally
support him in preference to Washburn. -
Fergus Falls Advocate
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besmeared him in season and out of
season with Wnclean epithets, en-
ploying the fshmonger's vocabulary
of the vilest sort. The Pioneer.PreSs
leads of with, ''that pestiferous little
demagogue, Ignatius Donnelly.'
The Dispatch man, who never did
like an 1rishman, mot even that one
he met in the bank,) not to be out
done, chimes in in the following
classic (D style: GA vile BLACKBOARD
and disgusting .mudsquirter. And so
all over the district. and State for
that matter, the little dirt-slingers
join in the chorus. and while they are
one and all indulging in language Of
such shameless character that no
man Of self-respect could for mo-
ment stoop to notice; they are won
derfully exercised lest the campaign
on MI. Donnelly's part will not be
high toned tits to be hoped in the
future as in the past Of this campaign,
the Democratic party will have the
dignity and good taste, not to initiate
the wretched example set them by
''the party Of high moral IDEAS"
Thus far, Mr.. Donnelly, has served
his constituents in Minnesota more
gears than Mr.. Washhurn has
apeeks, and during that period he has
not been asleep but an active worker,
furnishing his opponents with a
record which they are invited to
criticise. If Republican readers are
ignorant of it, tell them what it is,
not what it is not. And remember
when you whine about him leaving
the Republican party that such things
are not now regarded as crime.
There was a time when membership
in the Republican party amounted to
something, but that is in the past.
Mr.. Donnelly has legislated in the
National and State Legislature. If
he has voted and worked against the
interest Of the people. surely you can
tell when and where. Do it, and
not stand off making faces, and using
indecent language. In conclusion, ii
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly. does not con-
duct and prosecute a more seemly
and respectable campaign on his part
than the Republican party have
opened on him, hope he may be de-
feated. r. P. C.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26
POLITICAL MEETINGS.

HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY
will address his fellow citizens as
follows:
Taylor's Falls, Falls, Friday, Sept.
81.
White Bear Lake. saturday, Sept
%.
Rush City, Monday, Sept. 30.
Duluth, Tuesday, Oct. l.
Pine City, Wednesday, Oct. 2.
Cottage Grove, Thursday, Oct. 3.
Long Lake Friday, Oct. 4.
Wayzata, Saturday, Oct. 5.
Dassel, Wednesday, Oct. 0.
The above meetings will be held in
the evening; speaking to commence
about 1870 o'clock. Friends of the
cause are requested to give the neces-
sary notice and arrange as to halls.
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The Anti-AGOn0polist
to come to these shores

to come to these shores!
Why is it that our railroads have to
go into the hands of receivers Why
is It that these wonders of the nine
teenth century have failed in their
onward march?
Why this breaking up of merchants
all over the land? Why do our bank.
ing-house go to the wall! And why
this dearth of enterprise. this
flood of tramps?
Above all. Why this crushing of
men who are bereft of means of sup
port-bereft' too by policy that
would bring a blush Of shame to the
face Of Satan? Why reduce these
millions to the awful condition, where
they must either steal bread, beg
bread or die by starvation!
A government that reduces it's
people and its business to such a con-
dition as this, by a monstrou5 policy,
and then talks lightly of the stricken
ones. or Furnishes them for idleness
imposed by such policy, will at last
find the hot judgments Of God poured
IN fury upon it for it's wickedness.
And venal press--fully subsidized
to the selfish interests of the favored
few: who leagued with the oppressor
to crush to death the poor and hum.
ble-have in this vile way, outraged
every principal of humanity.
Not one of the papers favoring re-
sumption by enactment of law-the
specie basses system-but what are
f1ippantly speaking Of the destitute,
and are cruel as the grave in their
abuse.
If such ''hounding dailies' with
their collars around their necks,
proving them the ''boughten dogs of
the gold bosses had even the man
hood OF Judas, when they look upon
the ruin they have aided in bringing
upon the country, they would 60
and hang themselves.
But lacking that. they bark on,
crlnglng supinely to their lordly
owners. Such are of a fungus growth
teachers destitute of human sympa-
thy. and lacking the element of
sterling honesty. They have no APP
probation of the grand words of the
Master--words which find response
In every good man. S heart-"The poor
We have always with YOU" These
journalistic jay-hawkers ely out:
Away with your tramps -
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HON. WILLIAM MEiCHEN.

At the Greenback mass convention
held at Austin on the 18th inst, Hon.
VIM. Meighen of Fillmore county re-
ceived the nomination for congress.
The nomination is most worthily be-
slowed. A man of sterling int gritty,
a staunch friend of the people, Mr..
Meighen is deservedly popular with
the masses, and will receive q hearty
support. He has several times rep
resented Fillmore county in the state
senate, and has gained considerable
nOtoriety as prominent opponent to
the payment of the old state railroad
bonds. 1t is said that his answering
firmness in this regard cost him his
seat in the contest in the legislature
two years ago. Had he consented to
support the measure which the bond
holders wished to have passed, he
would have been awarded the seat.
The Fillmore delegation at the Aus.
tin convention were enthusiastic in
their support of their candidate, and
promise him good majority in that
hitherto Republican stronghold. He
is thoroughly in accord with the party
on the currency question. He has
heretofore acted mainly with the Re.
publicans but is in no sense partisan,
and in the election two years ago was
run on an Independent ticket and re-
ceived the support of the Democrats
of his district. He is man whose
character is above reproach, and he
should receive the united support of
all who oppose the candidacy Of the
salary grabbler Dunnell-Rochester
Record and Union.
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TRAMPs.
BY Jesse Harper, Of Illinois.

The Inter- Ocean of Chicago talks
thus on this melancholy subject:
1.-THE Eastern newspapers are filed
with accounts of the grand army of
tramps which infest the country
After going into detail as to local
laws, it continues thus: sThe nation
that permits its industries to lie
PROSTATE until willing hands are
forced into idleness, is guilty Of a
great crime. In the name
of those much abused tramps, lately
Industrious artisans and laborers, we
repel the charge that they seek to
rob the community. We insist that
they have been driven to beggary by
the policy of contraction of the cur
rency, and kept in beggary by the
the threat of forced resumption. The
government that legislates so as to
crush out honest industry is unworthy
the name" There is much more of
the same tenor in the editorial of
which this is part and but for the
length of it we would give it in full.
1t states just what the Toledo
platform affirms. and what every fair
minded man must admit--that the
bad policy of the Government has
produced the tramp.
Shame on such policy! A country
like this, with cramps" is a sorrow.
full picture. Be assured that there is
a great national wrong at the back of
this state of affairs. 1t is not be-
cause the people of this grand repub-
lie are depraved. or have lost their
moral sense, that the country is full
of idle persons. The real cause is
found in the stoppage of the vast in
dustrial peIsuits of the country. This
drying up the fountains of industry
this killing off, SO to speak, of the
mighty productive interests-has
been brought about by the suicidal
policy of contraction.
We have the resources in this
country-in this Goshen-like land-to
supply food for half the population o.
the Globe. Yet, with all these means
such as God never before bestowed
upon a people-we find actual starva-
ton within our borders. Added to
this, we find over three millions OF
our population, whose daily bread
depends upon their daily toll. With
out work, in order to supply their
necessities. they must either beg or
steal. This is sad sight in a country
extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. and stretching as it does
I from the great forests of the north te
the sunny savannahs of the south-s
country in which the staples that &C
to make up the very best type of man
hood are raised in such abundance a
to turn the lines of the Iliad into a
verify. when applied to the soil OF
our favored land:
'Here the gods have poured their riches
/ store"
Why is it that the mills, where the
hum of myriad spindles were heard
bnt yesterday. are silent to-day!
Why is it that the blazing throat
OF the furnace has ceased to glow
Why has the pitchy smoke from its
lofty top vanished from sight!
Why has the sturdy plowman on
our virgin soil stopped turning the
fresh mold and ceased from extending
his farmi
Why is it that the mighty hive Of
skilledand unskilled labor has ceased
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26

Washburn and his friends will turn
loose the dogs of war in the third dis
trict and fight Dounelly until the end
of the campaign; but neither the Wash.
burn family nor the pine land ring
have money enough to buy w. d. a
seat in the 10th congress. With his
sarcastic tongue, ready wit and com.
plete knowledge Of the workings OF
the corrupt political machinery which
made Washburn'S nomination posi-
BILE, Donnelly will goad his adversary
to desperation and bury him out OF
sight in Wabnshd Co.
Sentinel.
As to how money should be redeem.
ed, the Olean N. " Record says
that "All that we claim has been am.
ply demonstrated by our present only
partial legal tender. We have been
doing business with it the past six
teen years. Have the people been re-
ceiving it all these years because they
expected it to be redeemed in gold
Have they ever asked the government
to redeem it, 1t has paid thousand.
of millions of debts. Did the credi
tors receive it because they expected
to get gold for It'll No. they received
it because it would in turn pay their
debts, as the sovereign power has 81
ordained. Does this not amply prov.
that it is law which makes money ant
gives it power to circulate
The government agreed to pay tn.
soldier Sl3 a month in gold. Tn.
/ pay was increased to SI6, but he wa
paid off in greenbacks worth 40 TO o.
cents on the dollar. The bond-holdel
bought his bonds (the greater part OF
them) in greenbacks at 40 cents or
the dollar, and by the acts Of 1869 and
1873, the bond was converted int
gold by change of contract. Til,
soldier was to have gold and received
deprecated paper. The bondholdel
was to have paper, the same as b,
bought with, and had it converted
into gold.
The Danbury man has theory tina
the man eating sharks OF Long Il
land are New York hzskmen throws
out Of business By the elevated road
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Washburn. the head of the pine
land. ring, is doomed.-St. Charles
Times.
And why not! The ring of machine
politicians who run the Republican
party conventions in the Third Dis
trict have nominated a man who was
not the real choice of the Republicans
of that district. but who secured his
nomination by the free use of money
and by joining hands with corrupt
party ring. Honest Republicans in
that district will be justified for once
in breaking away from party lines and
voting for Mr.. Donnelly, whose con-
sistent, manly course for years past in
support of the cause of the industrial
class is known and read of all men.
Pine land and party rings must give
way before the people!-Rochester Re.
cord and Union.
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On arriving at the Minnesota

State fair few days ago, the Pre-
sldent delivered one of his charac-
terlstich arrangues, promising good
times and explaining that it was
possible to pay the national debt
in coin within % years. But he
ded not explain how, if the plans
OF the national bankers were car
ried out, it would be paid to their
satisfaction, or how it could be
paid at all and continue the nation
al banks in existence. He did not
explain that our. monied class is
ready to be as generous as that of
England, an call the debt paid
after the whole amount had been
converted into Understanding
bonds, and that the bankers and
their organs have agreed to call
this process of humbugging "pay-
the debt "This kind OF payment"
is designed to afford permanent
investment at four or tour and a
half per cent for the hundreds Of
millions Of which the people have
been robbed. He did not explain
that what they call "debt" is
what the people call ''money,"
and that what the money power
calls "paying the debit means ex-
changing this money for interest
bearing bonds, and that this has
been going on for the past thirteen
years, resulting in an addition to
the bonded debt Of $685. OO,S79 ;
for the bonded debt has been in
creased since October 3lst 1896,
from SILL 3,769,612 to $685.
$40, 500 which the treasury state
ment issued the first of this month
shows. The increase is still going
on. It amounts to more than a
hundred millions for the past II
months. At this rate when all
the greenbacks have been burned
up and replaced with interest
bearing bonds for the bankers,
and bank notes based upon these
bonds for the people, we shall have
the debt all paid but the interest,
and that will DO larger than ever.
The syndicate secretary and his
creature Hayes, make a show of
reduced interest but they do not
explain that what the bankers
lose by a lower rate of interest
brought about through an increase
Of the nations bonded debt, they
more than make up by issuing to
the people their notes at higher
rates Of interest than are paid by
any national government. No, that
side of the picture lies very deep
in the shadow. Nice program
isn't it The people to allow the
syndicate secretary to begin and
continue ppecie payments as he
proposes to do, by purchasing
specie with further issues of bonds
henever necessary. Thisis what
Hayes calls q gratifying improve
ment. The next improvement
would be a dictator and a stand.
ing army to keep the surest foun.
dation of the bondbolders' finan
cial prosperity from crumbling tt
Troy Sentinel.
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ANOTHER CONVERSION TO GREEN
BACKISM.

The recent speeche of Hon. William
G. Goudy a member Of the National
Democratic committee, and formerly
hard money Democrat, at Chicago,
is furnishing the papers of that city
with themes for many labored articles
on the currency. Mr.. Goudy being a
candidate for the United States Sen
ate from Illinois, his opinions very
naturally attract good deal Of atten-
ton. Like Senator Thurman, he has
been a close observer of the condition
and financial management of the
country, and his experience has in
duced a change in his views that is
even mere radical than that of the
Ohio statesman.
Mr.. Goudy holds that The power
resides in the government to make
whatever form of money it shall
choose a legal tender for the payment
of debts, and that under that authori.
ty it ought tOprescribe that the green
backs shall be made legal tender.
1t is certainly reasonable to suppose
that if such power does not exist,
then the entire issue of greentacks is
illegal, and the treasury notes of no
value. To presume. however, that
the government has not that power,
is to presume that it is powerless in
times Of war or other emergencies to
defend itself by providing means for
carrying on that war or otherwise
protecting itself. Mr.. Cloudy makes
it very clear that, though not ex-
proccn1 in in hn
this power is implied, and can be ex-
ercised at the pleasure of the govern
ment under constitutional authority.
Such being the case he argues that
the government should give the out
standing treasury notes their full
legal tender value, making them re-
ceivable for all public debts. 1t
should also abolish the national bank
circulation and issue greenbacks in
its stead. He has no question what
ever but the law authorizing the
issue of the national bank notes is
unconstitutional and he points out
the reason for his belief in very clear
and convincing language.
To prove the fallacy of Mr.. Goudy' 3
arguments the Chicago organs of the
bank monopoly are laboring assiduous-
| ly. Bat instead of succeeding in their
enterprise they only afford fresh
arguments that can be used in their
support. They talk long and learned.
ly of the evils of "fiat money" and
accuse Mr.. Goudy of going back upon
the ancient principles of his party.
1t is very amusing to note with what
solicitude these papers guard 1.-THE
ancient principles of the Democratic
party" One would think that those
principles had been especially con
fined to their care, and that they en-
tertained for them a peculiar affection
They are Mortified if one of the old
line Democrats bursts his shell and
comes up abreast of the progressive
spirit of the age, and weep loudly
because of his desertion of time
honored principles. But notwith
standing their efforts the progressive
IDEAS of the present keep marching
on. and ere the snow flies will bf
adopted and empllatically endorsed
by large majority OF the people Of
the country.-.Sf. Paul Cube.
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AFRAID OF Mr.. poNNElLY.

To the Editor Of the Globe:
Elk RIAER, Sept. Is. lSaS.-11
there is any one thing more notice
able than another just now, it is the
anxiety displayed on the part of the
Republican press for the preservation
of the name and fame of the Demo.
cratic party. The nomination of Mr..
Donnelly, entirely unsolicited by him,
is not To their liking. The Repu bli.
can pr ess, ever since Mr.. Donnelly
ceased to act with that party, have
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26

The Government has more and b ct
ter credit than any man or combine
ton of men. or of corporations in
this country. 1t has more and better
credit than all of the bankers of the
country aggregated. Why should it
borrow credit, when it has SO much
credit of its own Why should it not
make profit ont of its credit, as cor
porations do out of their credit Why
should it not coin its credit into
money, as the hanks coin their credit
into money! Why should it not lend
its credit rather than borrow the
credit Of othersir
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26

The Inter Ocean utters signifi-
cant rebuke to the Republican lead
ers who have fallen into line as the
champions of Sherman's resumption
schemes. and says: 1--WE do not know
what effect this election may have in
the west, but if it shall bring to the
front more of the outspoken Republi.
can Greenbackers. and relegate to the
rear the disciples of the so-called
"honest-money league" it will exert
benefcent influence in the campaign
upon which we are but fairly en-.
tered"
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c.. p. CUTTER
KILL The IRAMPS.

"It is we'll to .elieve distress wherever
it exists, whether in city or country but the
best meal that can be given to regular tramp
is a leaden on and it should be supplied in
sufficient quantity to satisfy the most vora
cious appetite. IN. Y. Herald
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26

The cownfAll of the RoOan Empire
may be distinctly traced To her enor
nous public debt, an exorbitant taxa
tion absorbing al the surplus prod
ucts Of the ls1tion-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26
A Greenback club was ORGANIZED

A Greenback club was organized
at Anoka Friday evening Sept. 18th
with the following officers:
President-J. NJ. Douglass.
Vice President n. Small,
Treasurer-M. D. Lapham,
Secretary--C. 2. Cutter.
The meeting was large and enthu.
siastic. A motion to ratify con-
gressiOnal nomination was carried.
Anoka county will poll large vote
for the National Greenback Labor
party.
n D Cv-rrCD
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NATIONAL GREENBACK LABOH
PARTY COUNTY CONVEN-
TTON.

The National Greenback Labor
party of Rice county will meet in con-
vention at the court house in the city
of Faribault on Saturday the 18th day
of October, 1873 at eleven O'Clock A.
NJ, for the nomination of candidates
for the following offices viz: A sena-
tor for representative, county audi.
tor and county superintendent of
schools, and transact any other bust
ness coming before such convention.
The business cities and towns of
the county will be entitled to the
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-26
OUR VARIED CURRENCY.
Proves that the Government Stamps It's
Value,

Proves that the Government Stamps It's
Value.
We have now varied currency in
this country, which passes at the
same valuation, as fixed by the gov
eminent, though it's so-ca]led intrinsic
value is unlike in every case. To
please those who fix the gold dollar as
the proper basis, we will place that
first, and give the value in gold of
each of the other dollars, which can
buy as much labor, food, or anything
else that the gold dollar purchases:
The T, gold dollar 100 cetns
The Trade silver, 400 gr..... 99x cents.
The Daddy dollar, 4l2h gr...... 99X CEN s.
The Mexican, 4l7k or. ......a99 cents.
wo half dollars, Six gr. ...... 88H cents.
~ nlckelS, DC $500. IN cents.
33h nickels, lc.... -. 1890. l6x cents.
The Greenback.. 0 cents.
It will be observed here are eight
distinct kinds of money. which circu-
late Unfortunately in our country,
and the least valuable, intrinsically,
as compared with gold, buys just as
much as any of the others. We want
no better argument than the table
to explode all the fallacies of the bull
HOniStS.