The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-01
WHOLE NO. III

d NdtlOudl, GcncTdl. ana ne was
answered thus: "What is a Nationals'
Then the General told the reporter,
show you can tell National when
you see him. as follows: ssWhen
you see a man who thinks that the re-
lations of the parties as they at
present exist are not such as will
bring about the best results, that
man is NATIONAL. When you see a
man who believes that the financial
system of the country as at present
conducted is founded in error and
sure to produce mischief and sustain
the miseries which we now suffer,
that man is National. When you
meet one who looks upon the present
Government as failure as regards
the fundamental aim of government
to give the greatest comfort to the
greatest number, that man, too. is a
National. When you find man who
believes that every one has right to
his own at all risks and that nothing
can destroy that right, that man is
| National"
"But does it require new party or
combination or split or something to
fix mans right to his own? Does
not the law at present guarantee the
right of property!''
mo, the law does not guarantee a
mans right to his own. It does not
provide chat he shall not die beggar
in the street while another has
enough and more than enough.''
Are not the present laws equit-
able!''
"No, sir; they cannot be when un-
der them and by their administration
the condition of things we see every
day about us is brought about
''Then what do you propose to do?''
Correct abuses and give to eyery
one his own. Tax every man equally
according to his ability to pay for the
support of the commonwealth
without the aid of party organiza-
tion and machinery!"
ION, there is no need of that.
Party discipline is rather a drawback.
and l notice that when the people
want change they get it whether
the parties will it or no. The Ma
tlonals dlstrust both parties, because
they see in neither any chances of
permanent reform. The Democrats
are just as bad as the Republicans.
and there is no choice between them.
as the Nationals see it. The Ma
tional in one State is anti-Democrat
and in another anti-Repnblican, and
riding as one party or the other is in
power. He is opposed to wrong do
ing wherever it is.'
"Then, of course, you are Ma.
tional!'
Eyes, so far as that is l am. In
stances are not wanting of cases
where popular movements have gone
through without any party back Of
them. Consider the KnoY-N othings
how they rose to power, and swept
State after State, and yet they had
no ostensible central power of body
as we know a party. The Know 9TH
ings had no reason for being. They
set out with an erroneous view when
they proposed to oppose man on ac-
count of the accident of his birth.
They were tools and the Nationals
differ from them in having their be-
lief founded on right and justice-on
the rights OF man and true principles
OF political economy. The Know
Nothings died out of course, but the
Nationals must live and come out
victorious"
"How do you propose to treat the
question of the relations of labor and
capital!''
when capital is used to oppress
labor the oppression must cease"
"But does not the present law ~
'No sir; it does not. 1t is oppres-
sive, unjust, and altogether illogical.
It cannot stand"
i ''Do you propose then to equalize
: property possessions7'
1--WE propose that each shall have
his share, what is rightfnlly his, ac-
cording to the natural laws of God
and man. The Nationals insist that
no man shall suffer-"
..But if that suffering is imaginary
and mental :"
i ''Is starvation an imaginary ill
J one to be met by reference to law
books and closed factory doors %
But il the trouble is laziness',-
"Well, leave that for you to settle
how far laziness and ill-thrift shall
, be regulated by law and statute. /
. only know that when my shoe ID
: tight my toe protests, whether the
head feels all right or no, and that
toe will have its rights il the whole
body be affected in securing them.'
Its rights as toe -
"As part Of the body corporate,
, without drawing lines Of distinction =
4, "But where will your party princi-
pies stop :"
Pardon me-n0 party-Natiouals
pure and simple; an uprising Of the
: people, without coercion or manfpu-
: latiOn."
well. where do you suppose the
people of the National p-orsuasfon
. will stop In their reforms
"OnIy when wr0o3D now patouf
} shall b set right and the present fn.
eompetent parties SWEPT out of q.
! fstsnees"