The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-22
ADVERTISING VANDALS,

ADVERTISING VANDALS.
For the last twelve years a species
Of human beings who sprung up who
Use the advertising columns OF news
papers as q means of speculation,
causing misery and want amongst
thousands Of their fellows. Notices
have appeared in the largest dailies
advertising for men wanted by the
thousands. when there was hardly a
man needed. Men have left steady
employment in the far east to answer
the want of some INSCRIPTIONS vii
Liam, whose only desire would seem to
be to see men starve. The true in
wardnesS Of the matter is the desire
Of these mountebanks to get large
concourse Of starving men around
them, and then hire one OF two for Il
mere song. In the city or Mlnneap-
oils men have sent throughout the
east brilliant articles of the great adj
vantage to labOring men.Such rs good
wages, steady work. cheap living etc.
Men have read and believed. thrown
up their situations and started for the
Eldorado. only to find mirage.
Then, without money and without
friends, hunger staring them in the
face, have they taken up the tramp,
tramp. determined on finding food, no
matter how obtained.
We desire to call the readers at
tention to a few which we know are
simply published for the cheapness of
labor:
Coopers anted-Ten good flour
l4,,.,...l Oh at
\ NSON.
Tie above has appeared III the Pho
neerPress Tor the past month. On
" ednesday or Thursday last two
cooperS from Oswego, \. Y, called
upon Arson in answer to the notice.
/ MS shop has had for the past TWO
years. more men engaged than was
possible to get decent pay. Their
wages have not averaged 81 per week
In that time, AMI yet this man wants
ten more good men. Perhaps he
thinks "A enough. 1t is needless to
add that the men from OSwego got no
work. have used all their surplus.
probably TO reach here. aad now are
tramps men whom the Tribune. in
its magnaEimity would send 10 the
workhouse for fifteen years.
But this is not an isolated case.
ilerea re more:
Nanted-2o0 Carpenters. Apply at
/ the Fair Ground. OF Taylor & Craig.
Fifth ST., near Fort.
Wanted $40 saw-mill hands. imme-
| diately. Dead beats need not apply.
st. Croix Lumber Co.
This is purely an American crime.
/ bat has been caught Up by the same
/ class OF shysters in Europeans witness
/ the following:
The North ana East Lancashire
Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers
! Association, Is Nicholas stree.
BURNLEY. June p. 1878.
! MesSrS. lnman X Co, Liverpool:
/ GENTS: | am now authorized by my
I committee to say that they are wiki
! ING TO find employment for Loco ope-
! ratlves. rs Il first installment, coming
/ through your line. These seeking
I employment must. of course. he bona
4 iise cotton operatives, and they may
I select any of the following localities:
! Preston. Blackburn. Burnley. Ac-
/ erlngton. Church. Darwen. Clitherve-
I I1rwood. Padham. or intervening
( districts.
/ {>ignedl
JOSHUA uAWkLINSON, Secretary.
Hanging is too good reward for
/ the preparation of such cruelty: the
/ the brutality of tramps with all It's
/ highly colored painting by an ariSto-
cratic press. is Incompatible. Ii men.
when they started on such journeys.
first armed themselves with weapons.
and a determination TO use them. 4
sop would be put 10 II. Under the
I l1W. at present. there is M redress.
men are arrested fer obtaining money
under ft.se pretensions. Yet labor.
the life Of the man almost. is hood
wiaked and robbed. and the Inv uls-
holds the robher. We raise our voice.
against it and are called blatharsAites
ana demagogues.
Those Or us who lived in Iinneap-
oils nine or ten years ago remem Der
how near the Hon. d. Morrison came
being thrown from the platform OF
his own mill lntss the river. b. men
who came here Ill the way from
Maine. IN answer 10 card of his,
setting forth the idea OF plenty nj
work AMI good pay. which MAS false.
History IS said To repeat itself. and
like transgressloas should produce
like consequences--Wo Workman MIN.
aeaposis.l