The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-03-14
WHAT JAMES E. EMERSON SAYS.

Inc DdnkeTS support TO Jne gov
eminent is like the support of the
hangman's rope to the wretched cul-
prit; it assists in choking out his life
Stop thief stop thief! cries the
pickpocket and burglar: so cry the Of
fetal thieves after picking the pockets
of the people, and robbing them of
their money.
The production of gold is less and
less every year, and more and more is
being used to the mechanical arts.
Population is on the increase in the
United States, at the rate of 100000
a year. AS civilization advances,
wants increase. How, then, is the one
! standard coin going to meet even the
necessities of trade
Oh. be honest says the bondhold-
er, and pay me IN gold for what | paid
for in paper worth forty or fifty cents
on the dollar. The first official act Of
Grant was to sign a bill to pay all the
go bonds III coin: now the people
must be honest. too. 1t wouldn't be
honest, you know, to pay it in silver
Silver has deprecated SO much. Do
| be honest, do
Reduction of tariff duties means re-
ductlon Of wages, and large importa-
lions offoreign goods. We took big
dose of free trade in 1892, and it oper-
| ated like an emetic. and vomited SlO.-
100000 out OF the treasury of Uncle
sam; and in in 1912 congress admins
tered a good dose of protective tariff,
and it acted like charm; restored
Brother Jonathan to perfect health,
but made Johnny Bull sick at the
stomach.
The call for more greenbacks will
call forth a ''howl from the Shylocks
! more hldeOuS than that which went
| up from their IMMEDIATE cousins who
were kicked out of the temple at Je-
ruSalem more than eighteen hundred
years ago. The people are making a
ScOurge of small cords for their backs.
| and when they attempt to apply them
more wild beast will be loosed. and
the peoples gladiatOrs must then
prove their valOr or cover before them
and be driven ingloriously to their
corners, and then be scourged by the
| people. But when the repeal of the
national bank charters comes up and
| the people assert their inalienable
| rights to issue their own money for
themselves. and through the treasury
distribute the profits arising from
such issue back to the people by les
SEEMING the burdens of taxation, then
| comes the final battle. and all the
wild animals will be lOosened hungry
| with rage. The gladiatOrs then must
| put on their best armOr to fight the
great battle Of civilization against the
gold beasts, and civilization must be
the victpr. by the eternal" the
one old United States bank was crush
ed. And ''by the eternal"-which
spirit still fingers in the American
character-must these two thousand
! United national banks be put down,
or the words of William Pitt, spoken
in the Parliament of England in 1901
when the old United States bank was
established, will come to pass: LET
the Americans go on with their bank
ing and their funding schemes. and
their liberties Will be mere phan.
! TOM
The bondholders policy is to force
resumption of specie payment. That
makes him free banker. still receiy-
ing interest on his bonds; then on his
bank notes, then to get the govern
ment to make its notes legal tender.
the same as the bank of England notes
are; then to keep the very least
amount of notes in circulation: force
the people to do business with notes
bearing interest: then. when the in
terest on tn. bonds. and interest on
the notes. and little or no tax to pay.
they and their posterity will. in a few
years own the property of the country,
rs do the nobility now in Europe
PufSburg Labor Tribune.