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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07

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F1FTH--It is inconsistent with the
genius of popular government that any
spe~ies of private property should be
exempt from bearing its just share Of
the public burdens. Government bonds
and money should be taxed precisely
as other property, and a graduated in
come tax should be levied for the sup
port Of the Government and the pay
ment of its 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 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 enjoyments, and
saving them from premature decay and
death.
TENTH--The adoption of an Ameri-
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 a 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 statiSt:cs, 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.
THIRTEENTH-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.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
FACTS FOR III People.
Notes on DemonetZatlon-Opi opinions OF Prem
inent Men-Read and Ponder,


Money OF every Kind is an order Tor goods
An Inquiry THORNTON.
The friends of cold avoid debate because
discussion is fatal 10 their schemes.
C,mnuted in silver. th, bonds did NOT cost
their owners over ssv.nty-dye cents ON tha
dollar.
Coins ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS only when claim.
ed as n lesal rlqbt WAYS ana Means Of Pan.
ment-ColwE1L
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nahle 10 the STAFF and If no y;.l,,s To any other
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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
FACTS THAT CANNOT BE CONTROvFR-
TED.


TED.
There are some things that cannot
be disputed, as these:-It cannot be
disputed that when the war closed
money was plenty, times were pros
porous, and that there was general
activity in every department Of
industry. 1tcannot be disputed that
that happy condition continued until
it was arrested by the contraction Of
the currency. 1t cannot be disputed
that that contraction of the currency
made money scarce and dear, and
that the business Of the country de.
manded a halt. 1t cannot he disputed
that while contraction Of GrcenbackS
was stopped it was continued as to
those outside forms Of Treasury OBJ
legations which, though not currency
in the strict acceptaLion of the word,
were still used as such in the larger
transactions Of trade and financial ex-
change. 1t cannot be successfully
disputed that the panic Of 1873 was
the legitimate fruits of that continued
contraction. It cannot be disputed
that, after the passage of the Resump-
ton Act, the volume of currency
began to contract, the industries Of
the country became depressed, misery,
ruin, and bankruptcy became a mark
ed feature Of our social and financial
condition. and labor went sorrowing.
Nor can it be disputed that the Re-
publican party ID responsible for the
whole pernicious policy that has
wrought SO much evil in the land
the policy of contraction in order to
bring about resunption.-CincinHGft
EaguiTeT.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07

any theory which can be adduced by
bullionists. The Venetians by the
use Of their irredeemable lnScrip-
tions, achieved an enviable degree OF
prosperity and power, which they re-
tanned for cemeteries, and during this
whole time they never suffered once
from money panics, such as are felt in
England and the United States every
six to ten years. 1t is matter OF
surprise that other nations witness
ing the property of Venice, did not
initiate her example, but that is not
half so strange as the fact that the
people Of the United States having
experienced the great advantages OF
even partial legal tender paper money,
should blindly cling to the rotten and
disastrous specie basis system OF
banks of ISSUE"
One more fact, showing how paper
money can be made good as gold. and
we must conclude this article. Short
ly after the outbreak of the rebellion,
our government issued sixty millions
of full legal tender, receivable for all
dues, interest on the public debt and
duties on imports included, and this
issue of full legal tender never fell
below par with gold. The people of
this country owe over thirteen bill
lions of money and that which will
pay these debts, dollar for dollar, with
gold, must be to them just as good as
gold. That which will buy anything
wanted, or pay debt, is just as good
as gold, for gold could do no more
Clean IN. " Record.
ADENDA.
We add to the comments of our ex-
exchange few more very important
facts. The first is that Venice was a
Il very Industrious as well us wealthy
city; and industry and wealth always
go together. There was no time for
hundred of years when there was
stagnation in business. She had no
tramps; she had no idlers. None
stood on the corners Of the streets
because there was no man to hire
them. All found constant employ.
ment at remunerativewages. This ac-
counted for their great wealth.
And this accounts for the further
fact of the great morality Of her citi-
ZenS. She would shame our Ameri-
can civilization.
And another additional fact springs
from the two stated, and 1t is IA most
important one. THERE WERE NO
POOR PEOPLE IN VENICE: so the
history of that republic testifies.
For hundreds of years there wrs not
person that needed or received public
aid. All had a competence and were
able and willing to support their aged
or inGrm relations. And what was
true Of Venice the Greenback would
make true here.
TO recapitalate the facts; paper
currency may be made and sustained
for centuries always above par with
gold, though not based on any metal,
though not redeemable in gold or sill
yer, and limited only by the credit Of
the government. What Venice did
we can do.
She never suffered once from mon.
eY panics. The imitation of her paper
did not make it worthless, and no
contraction took place to make hard
times. What was true Of Venice we
may make true now.
She had no poor people. Let US
vote for the greenback, and SO Danish
poverty from the land. Like causes
| always produce like effects.-ED.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07

Did you ever know Of farmers. or
mechanics, or laborers employing lob.
byists to influence congress or the
legislators in thei. interest! Was
there ever congress or legislature
within seventeen years. that was not
besirged by lobbyists in the interest
Of capitalists and rnonopoiisisi Let
producers and workers now do their
lobbying In person At the polls!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-11-07
Anti 9;S22}loaopoli5t
THURSDAY. now, 1878

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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
The Gold Mines OF the South.

lPhlIadelpnla halfway World.l
1t has been well known for many
years that through Virginia, North
Carolina, and Georgia an auriferOus
belt extended and that individual
mining has been very profitable,
while for reasons which are beyond
explanation every attempt to work
under corporate management has
been a failure. The existence of
gold in great abundance in these
States is a fact as well known as the
existence of the cotton fields, but
the problem of getting it from the
ores economically is as yet unsOlved.
Within the present year we shall
probably know whether the gold in
the placers of Virginia and other
Southern States, and in the quartz
veins which supply the placers are
worth working or not. Earnest and
energetic efforts are now being made
in New York to develop this south
ern mining field, and it is probable
that before the year closes we shall
be able to announce that gold Oper-
atiOns at the South are very great
failure or a fair success. If the lat
ter report can be made made it will
be a very important fact to establish
in the world of finance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
WESTERN
Tobacco Inspection,
Erie Basin Stores, Brooklyn, n. Y.
office, IA COenties Slip, N. ".
J.P.& G. C. ROBINSON. PrOprietOrs.
E E%TSs 4. T A IHohAs' Inspectors.

On the I'd day of January, 1873, we opened
our large hre-prOof stores at Erie Basin,
Brooklyn, for the Inspection and Storage of
Western Tobacco, under the name of"West-
ern Tobacco Inspection" We have con-
tracted with MeSSrS. TOWNSEND A. & EWING
NJ. THOMAS, to perform the duties of Inspec-
tors, who are gentlemen well known to the
trade of New York and the West. From
the favorable recommendation concerning
them, we can promise their faithful atten-
ton to the inspection OF all Tobacco re-
ceived by us. We will store all Tobacco on
first floors prevention of Shrinkage.
For delivering to trucks, lighters or ships,
our facilities cannot be eXcelled, as our
Docks extend along the entire front of the
Stores (which are 400 feet long, on one side,
and across one end, with depth of water
sufficient for the largest ships to discharge
and receive their cargOeS, and are free from
obstruction by ice in winter. Our appli-
ances for extinguishing fire are such that We
Our experience as Warehousemen juStifieS
us in saying that all business intrUSted to us
will be discharged with such care as will
s1''- I'll ''' % So J. P. & G. c. ROBINSON.
n. B.-Bin your Tobacco: WESTERN
TOBACCO INSPECTION, Erie Basin Stores,
Brooklyn, n. Y, which will insure free de-
liveries from all Railroads to Stores.
We, the undersigned, cheerfully recon-
mend MeSSrS. TOWNSEND A. Il EWING NJ.
THOMAS, rs worthy gentlemen, and well
qualified for the position of Tobacco In
spectors. And the high commercial stand
ing of MeSSTS. j. Z. Il q. G. ROBINSON and of
their Warehouses, will afford every facility
requisite for the business:
Sawyer, Wallace & Geo. P. Nash,
Co., Ottinger & Bro,
Pollard, Pettus & Co. Joseph HirSch,
]. T. Murphy & Co., NJ. RAIDER & Son,
Robert l., Maitland kremelberg 4 Co.,
Il Co., ;. ). EdmonSton d.
Blalxemore, Mayo & Bro,
Co., NJ. Pappenheimer,
Fatman & Co., Drew 4 Dean,
d. ]. Garth, Son & +. w. TagenhOrst &
Co., Co,
ToeI Rose & Co., A II. Cardoza,
Keynes Bro. & Co., f. w. Dodd
ChaS Luling & Co, G. Reusens,
Kinnecut & Bill, ]. p. Quinn & Co.,
F. +. Owen, Fred. Fisher,
Hermann KOOp & j. a. PAUL.,
Co., Ernest Muller & Co.,
CARROT & Grinter, j :. Cans, Son & Co.,
]. H. Moore & Co., Robert Moore & Co.
Calling the attention Of our friends, and
the Tobacco trade generally, to the above
testimonial of Factors, Buyers and Brokers,
we take this opportunity of stating that we
will exert our best efforts to faithfully dis
charge our duties, and hope to merit and
receive a fair portion of your Tobocco.
The advantages of first floors for storage,
the well lighted Inspection Room, the great
facilities for receiving, delivering and ship
ping, together with the commercial stand
nected Ourselvesl, will commend itself to
your favorable consideration. And with
such advantages for business, We ask the
assistance of our friends.
Very respectfully,
TOWNSEND A. THOMAS,
EWING NJ. THOMAS.
Feb. %, lS7s-4w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
Thar Terrible Scourge.

Fever and ague,S and its congener, bilious
remittent, besides, affections OF the stomach,
liver and bowels, produced by miasmatic
air and water, are both eradicated and pre-
vented by the use of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, a purely vegetable elixir, Endorsed
by physicians, and more extensively used
as a remedy for the above class of disorders,
as well as for many others, than any medi-
cine of the age. a languid circulation, a
torpid state of the liver, a want of vital
stamina, are conditions peculiarly favorable
to m6l2rial diseases. They are, however
surely remedied by the great Preventative
which, by invigorating the system and
endOwing it with regularity as well as yigor,
provides ii with a resistant power which
enables ii to withstand disorders not only
OF malarial type, but 4 host of others TO
which feeble and ill-regulated systems are
subject. The RitterS are a safe as well as
searching eTadicant, and have widely super
seeded that dangerous drug, quinine which
palliates but does not eradicate malaria
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
DTSTRECT-TEN-
NESSEE CONFERENCES.
Cd Round Of Quarterly Meetings.

Springfield Sta, Jan, 26, q,
Port Royal and Salem station, at Salem,
Ashland City station, at Ashland City,
Feb. ?, s.
New Providence and Bethel station, at
Bethel, Feb. 8, 9, 10.
Feb. 8, 10.
Palmyra circuit, at Ebenezar, Feb. Is, IL.
Blooming Grove circuit, at lakewood,
Feb. p, y, "a. , -, 90 q,
saline circuit, at Hopewell, Feb. =, "A.
Cedar Hill circuit, at Cedar Hill, men. = O.
Antioch circuit, at Collinsvtlle, March .,
p Cheatham circuit, al Walton's Chapel,
Red River circuit at MARRIAGE, Mch. 16, IL.
Asbury circuit, at Grants Chapel, March
CIarksvslle station, March q, "A.
wELBoRN MOONEY, P. E.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
For Rent and Sale.

Owing to my physical inability to farm on
so large a scale as heretofore, l offer for rent
my farm, lying in District No. 4, on both
consisting of about 700 acres, 800 acres of
tillable land, 100 of which is sown in wheat.
The improvements consist of commodious
dwelling, two good cisterns, three barns,
stables-in fact, all necessary buildings. l
also offer for sale about 800 barrels of corn
for rent or sale a number of horses, mules,
hogs, cattle, wagons, reapers, farming imple
ments of all kinds; also two other tracts of
land, known as the Tillison and Reaves
tracts, which join, consisting of about 300
acres, more or less. ! have already en-
ployed q sufficient number of hands for the
present year, whose services l doubt not
could be secured.
Any person wishing to rent or purchase,
by calling on me at my residence, can be
shown over the premises, and have terms
made known. H. CORNELL.
Feb. '7S-2m,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to the estate of Chas
n. MeriwetheT, deceased, are hereby notified
that the Chancery Court has enjoined pay
ment to any one except myself as Executor.
and D. n. Kennedy, Trustee.
a. @. Goodlett is my authorized agent to
receive and receipt for all money due said
estate. February 49, 1878.
NJ. c. GOODLETT, Executor
of c. n. Meriwether, decd.
Feb, %, '7S-4W,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
GOOD FAMILY HORSE
ind ROcha7Cay for Sale.

have good Family Horse, Rnclzaway
and Harness for sale. The Rockaway and
harness are nearly as good as new. My fine
saddle horse, the best in America one i'm
ported Jersey COW, which will calf in a short
time, which / will sell cheap, as am over
stocked. Apply to VIM. II. TURNKEY,
Office Elephant Warehouse.
March ., lS7s-4w
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
LOCAL PAPER

it will devote a large portion of its space
towards furnishing to its readers the latest
items of interest. Its market reports will
be greatly improved by renewed exertions
of the publishers. The mechanical interests
of the city shall receive its heartiest support,
and the laboring man its warmeSt sympa-
thy. Its highest aim shall be to build up
the city of GAINESVILLE by stimulating the
citizens and encouraging an influx of popu-
latiOn. AS a County Paper ii will lend its
ablest endeavors towards battling for the
best interests of the people. The
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09

Ex-GOv. MOSES, of South Caro-
lima, is now in New York in utter
poverty. He robbed his wife and
mother of their valuable clothing
before leaving the South and is now
wanted by Sheriff Bowen, of Char
lesion, to answer the complaints of
his own household.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
RFNT-

FARM OF 200 ACRES opposite Clarks-
vile about 80 acres of bottom land in Guilt
walton. Apply to b. u. JOHNSON,
Agent for r. II. Parry.
January u IS7S-tf
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-03-09
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

will be under the charge of DIR. DANIEL F.
WRIGHT, an erudite scholar who in his
short editorial career has won encomiums
from the best critics Ofthe State. The editor
being perfectly cOnversant with the leading
points in State and National politics, will
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will, each week, make it of particular in
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