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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

In 1859 we declared in an address at
Pennington that the great interest of
the United States was agriculture,
and that it had been subordinated to
the development of manufactures,
unjustly and ruinously; and our utter
ance was hailed rs high treason by
the Republican party and we were
forthwith read out of the organiza-
tion as traitor to the country.
But time is Il great teacher. In the
midst of her silent factories and tur-
bulent workmen even Massachusetts
begins to appreciate the truth. and
the Boston Journal says:
Agriculture is always to Il certain
extent substantial and reliable. Its
profits vary rs in other callings. but
the instances are rare indeed where
IL fails entirely to give the husband
man reasonable reward for his ef-
forts i'll the way of Il living, even if
the margin is small after that is
secured.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

Here are some very sensible views
from that clear-headed. able Welsh
man, Senator Jones of Nevada: and
they are the more remarkable as com.
ing from one of the largest owners of
gold and silver mines in the world:
Il regard the repeal of the resump-
tion law as infinitely more important
ant than the passage of the bill fsilyer
remonetization). As before stated.
nothing can secure lasting and ade-
quate prosperity for the people but
the repeal of that infamous measure.
and the issue of currency equal to
the handling of our annual produc-
tions. Then our prosperity viii be
limited only by the productive re-
sources of this great continent. and
the illimitable skin and enterprise Of
the American people. instead Of =
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

And now the Republicans are hap
py. The Democrats have reopened
the old sore of the south. The really
grea5 issues of finance and labor are
to be ignored, and the whole intellect
of the country is to be concentrated
on few paaishes III Louisiana and on
Mrs. Pinkston's sores.
The "bloody shirt" will be unfurled
in all its glory And all for what
To force Tilden again upon the
Democrat; and to lose the yeomanry
of the great west in an effort to hold
on to the servile, slippery tools of
monopoly in the decaying east.
Ch this is wisdom This is states
manship!
Is it any wonder the people demand
new party!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

Chase's Chronicle (Maine,) thus an
swers one of the arguments of the
the hard money men; the answer is
conclusive:
1t is urged that the specie basis
system is right because it is 5000
years old. Human slavery is 5000
years old. Away back in the dim
past the only weapon of defense
known to our ancestors was the war
club club. We have progressed in
that particular to the needle-gun.
Three thousand years ago a sample of
the navies of the world was naked
savage in the bottom of a dug-out.
We have progressed to the 1000 ton
steamship. Three thousaud wears
ago the philosophers said the earth was
fiat and stood still. The argument in
favor of this theory was clincher.
They said If the earth rolled over.
the people would drop off. When
Galileo demonstrated the true solor
system he was denounced rs a fool and
a lunatic. and made to retract the
truth by fire.
Is it tn he supposed that lour pnces-
tens 5000 years atio found the ne plus
ultra of financial systems for all com.
ing time. The problem of the hour
is to establish MONETARY system re-
tanning all the advantages of the old
system, and discarding all its disad.
vantages. The greenback was child
of necessity--born when coin and pa
per money redeemable in coin had
played out. 1t is the best money we
ever had. Now let us stop calling
hard names and put our heads togeth-
er and perfect it. If we but ~Sccep,
the logic of facts. we shall find sha,
we have been set ahead 100 years in
financial science since the greenback
was issued.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

S. 4. Mason. the committee Of the
National party in Pennsylvania for
Governor. is q Democrat, and is
spoken of as one of the most successful
lawyers in the State. He is also
spoken of as the father of the Green
back party in Western Pennsylvania,
and will, it is believed, have great in
fuence with the Greenback men OF
the State--I1ter Ocean.
The National party is bringing a
number Of new and able men to the
front all over the country, men who
are not mere party hacks, but who
have tn ability to realize the force
of events and the situation Of the
country
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

The Rev. DR.. De La Matyr of In
dianapolis, Methodist clergyman, is
arousing great attention, and no little
excitement, in that city, by preaching
in defence of the poor and oppressed.
We give an eXtaact from recent SER
mon which shows the kind of doctrine
he breaches:
Equality of individual rights God s
law. God is no respecter Of persons.
The constitution of our government
is founded upon this principle. 1t is
not a government of classes or castles.
but the same tendency to the exalta-
tlon OF the few at the expense and to
the detrement of the many is observed
here as in other countries in other
times, in both church and state. Our
government has but recently been sub
jected to agreat test, the seyerest ev-
er before applied and came out tri-
umphant. 1t is now entering upon
another test perhaps more trying than
the former. There has been a combi-
nation of circumstances which have
suppressed individual liberty and con-
centrated power to oppress in compar-
atively few hands. The manage.
ment of the finances since the war has
resulted in impov erishing the masses
and enriching the few. Capital is
power to oppress. The income fur
nished by money has been enormous,
while the income of labor. business
and property other than money has
dwindled to next to nothing. The re-.
suit is. that those who had money and
have handled it. have confiscated
all other capital. There is no ques-
tiOn but that five sixths of our popu-
latiOn are utterly penniless, and four
fifths have mortgaged all their future
labor. This condition presents fear
full problem for our statesmen.
There is always large class who. inn
poverished by dissipation. having
nothing to lose and no interest in the
well being of society, constitute dan.
gerous element that Is controlled only
by a large police force. That class
has been greatly enlarged by absorb
ing those who have been made beg
gars by the force of circumstances and
driven to bitterness and despair. The
utter and hopeless poverty forced up
on much larger class who have been
well-to-do has greatly weakened their
interest in the stability Of society.
Such is the attitude of very large
majority Of our people toward society
as embodied in onr civil government.
1t presents perilous crisis. 1t de-
mands most careful and wise manage
ment. The masses must have oppor.
tunity to accumulate homes and prop
erty, or the horrors of communism are
sure to be developed. There must BY
an escape for them from the tyranny
OF capital. or they will wage war upon
their oppressOrs. Such war would be
utter madnsss, but madness seizes
despairing masses.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

Here is an utteraEce of the Cincin-
natl Trade Last which every sensible
man will endorse:
There are more young American
men in the penitentaries in this coun.
trylearning trades than there are out
side OF them. The principal cause of
this is that we are educating our
young men for gentlemen-tryiny to
make lawyers, doctors preachers, and
clerks out of material that nature in.
tended for blacksmiths. bricklayers.
carpenters. tailors.O and other honest
''hewers of wood and drawers of
water" It's mistake. and a big
one, and to teach boys and girls that
to labor is disgraceful,a ,and to do MOTH
ing for living is more becoming the
society in which they hope to move
and be respected. Hang such society.
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)er acre: average price. $500. A sec.

per acre; average price, $500. A sec.
tlon one mile south of Marshall was
sold to K. NJ. Adison, OF Marshall,
for Sc, ,2S0; a section two miles north
OF Marshall was sold to c.. E Rice, of
Owatonna. for $5,40O; a section ad-
joining Nordland for SIS 300, to differ
ent parties.
BEAVER FALLS. May IA, 1S78.--
The sale of internal improvement and
school lands occurred here to-day.
About 10000 acres have been sold up
to this time. and the sale is now 60
ing on. Prices range from $3.50 to
$500 per acre. The bidding is sharp
and the rush immense.
BEAVER FALLS. May l5.-The state
auditor, o. P. Whitcomb, and the
county auditor. Eric Ericsson, sold
yesterday and to-day at public auc-
tion, Al 800 acres of internal improve
ment and state lands. The highest
price paid was $s14.25 per acre: the
average price obtained was 81 per
acre. The state auditor thought that
the lands were appraised too low, but
after the sale expressed himself we'll
satisfied with the prices obtained.
The crowd at the sale was simply i'm
mense and the competition very
sharp. Mr.. Whitcomb gave perfect
satisfaction by his manner of con-
Quoting the sale. He was accompa-
MED by Capt. Carver. of st. Paul.
L. II. and NJ. S. Kelly, of Owatonna,
bought 1920 acres at 1915 per acre.
NJ. X. Drew. of Winona; Mr.. Rath-
bone. of Hastings; Col. NJ. Donohue,
and Hans. Gronnerud, of this place;
ex-GOv. Mn. Z. Marshall. of st. Paul
and few others bought from half
to a section of land each. NJ. Heinen,
auditor of Dakota county, bought Sec
ton Q. town ia, range 36, for s3, $50.
Most of the sales were in small lots to
actual settlers.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

The other day General John NJ.
Binckley committed suicide at Mil
waukee. He had at one time been an
acting member of president Grants s
cabinet. and was one of the leading
politicians of the country. He was
an honest man and as such incurred
the hostility of the Whisky Ring:
and the result was they crushed him
out, robbing him of place, power,
wealth, wife and life. The terrible
story is thus told by corresDondeEt t
Of the Chicago Times:
When Andrew johnson became
president he called Geu. Binckley to
the position of assistant attorney
general Of the United States; the aged
Henry Stanbery being the cabinet
officer. After little the ill-health
OF the attorney general prevented his
performance of his official duties. and
Gen. Binckley became acting attorney
general and an acting member Of the
cabinet. 1t was while Gen. Binckley
held this important Office that he IN
Cured the enmity of prominent and
more successful politicians. who have
ever since followed him with uncop-
cealsd determination of revenge. It
was Gen. Buckley who discovered
the alleged plot Of politicians to create
a public belief that President johnson
was party to the assassination of
Lincoln.
This plot or alleged plot Gen.
Binckiey believed to be the work of
Ben Butler. Ashley and others equally
prominent The proof collected BY
Gen. Buckley is said to have con-
vinced President Johneun ana his
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30
now restricted by the scanty supply
of two unimpOrtant metals.

now restricted by the scanty supply
OF two unlmpOrtant metals.
We do not want the worlds mon
ey,' in other words, a money in COM
mon with other nations, subject to all
the fluctuations of foreign demand.
We want national currency that a
person going abroad will be compell-
ed to leave behind.
II he has greehbacks he will have
no difficulty in purchasing gold or sill
yer bullion at it's markst price tor use
IN such countries as still adhere to the
barbaric custom of taking nothing
else in exchange for value; and thus
our own money will never leave our
own shores, and our home industries
will not be left to the peril of every
foreign embroglio or financial ma
chination.
l am certrinly not an advocate for
metallic currency. have less OBJ.
lection to gold or silver as bullion
than l have to either as money. And
l would work harder to demonetize
both metals, were that the question
before the senate, than / have done to
remonetlze silver. But with the re-
sumption act still upon the statute
books, and the possibility that it's re-
quirements may be forced upon the
people in ten months from this time,
| cannot do less than put forth my
best efforts to wrest the silver dollar
from the cOdification bundle of "a,
where our enemies sought secretly to
bury it, and where for two years even
its grave was unknown, except by the
pirate who placed it there.
In case the terrible ordeal of re-
SUMPTION is forced upon the people,
the reconciliation of silver will miti-
gate the evil one-half, but the highest
good OF the country can only be gain
ed by driving both metals from their
position of arbitrary power.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

contest. Although the vote was six
hundred larger than ever before, the
National candidate for Mayor was
elected. and other nominees of the
same party were carried in. In other
places in the State the Nationals made
good showing. In California three
cities were captured by the Working
men, the new party making a clean
sweep. In the towns where the
Workingmen were defeated the old
parties combined against them, and
even then the Citizens ticket did not
make clean sweep. In these elec-
tions we see the discomfort of the
masses with the order of things i'm
posed by the old parties and the
dawn of a new era in our politics.
Before long one of the old parties
must give way to the National party,
which will contest for the supremacy
IN National affairs with the remaining
one. Shrewd political observers, who
do not lean toward the new movement.
are forced to acknowledge it's strength.
The Springfield Republican says:
"The times are very propitious for
the growth of such movement.
Neither ofthe old parties represents
anything; each is seeking to make the
coming campaign on issues which the
people have settled and put behind
them. This generation has never
seen time when party ties rested so
loosely, when so many Republicans
and Democrats felt comparative in
difference as to which party should
win. All the conditions are therefore
favorable for the rapid spread of the
new movement. Such tests as the
Spring elections have afforded give
grounds for the excepting that the
National party will be a very i'm
portant element in the Fall voting.
and IN some quarters hold the balance
OF power. Everybody in Michigan
was surprised at the sweep the new
party made in many parts Of the State
at the township elections a few weeks
ago. Still more unexpected is the
strength which the Greenback party
has attained down in Maine. Polling
only about 500 votes for Governor in
1875, they increased the number ten
fold last year, and many good judges
are ready to accept their leaders
claim that they will cast from 20, 900
to25 900 next September, throwing the
election Of Governor into the Ligisla-
ture. and endanger the election Of
Republican Congressman in two Of
the five districts. The
people are in no mood to 60 on fighting
campaigns over the constitutional
amendments or the frauds in Florida:
they want to see men in Congress who
will devote themselves to furthering
the development of the country's
future prosperity, instead of still
trading upon it's past misfortunes,
And if the Republican and democratic
leaders won't learn the lessons in any
other way let the National teach
them.
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The air is filled with ssstraws''
showing which way the wind blows.
Not an election occurs nowadays, no
matter how Insignificant it may be,
but some mention is made Of the
strength of the new party. A few
township elections were held in In
dianna, and California In the for.
mer State the Nationals carried the
city Of Terre Hauto after N excitinx
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30

1t is rotten to the core to-day, and
there are many men s sons and daugh-
ters who are now being educated to
play the parts of leading lady" and
walking gentleman in the great
drama of life who will come to poor
house or a penitentiary before they
have played their prrts and the
curtain drops. Go to work.
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An encouraging feature of the
times is the rapid increase in the
value of public lands. caused by the
great rush of settlement Here are
some items:
MARSHALL, Minn., May 16.-At
tho land sale here S, 400 acres were
sold. The highest price was $3.50
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30
Anti-Mol'opolist.
GNATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR.
And now Europe talks Of peace and
prepares for war.

Why does J ohm Sherman sell the new
ponds to syndicate at par, While tne
syndicate sells them to the people at
2 IL per ct. premium; thus pocketlng
millions, siml-y for standing between
che people and the peoples govern
nentt WhYl
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-09-02
By +. a. kerby, Auctioneer.

mo IS King street, Alexandria, Va
10y VIRTUE OF DEGREES OF TIL
ID Circuit Court of the: city of Alexandria,
Virginia, rendered at the November term. 1873,
and the May term, 1878 in the chsncory suit
of Fairfax against Thornton and others. the
undersigned, commissioners by said decree
thereto authorized, will proceed. on SATUK-
DAY, tho 10Th day OF September, 1878. at y
O'clock m. TO sell by public aution in front OF the
Market Building. Royal street, in the sad
city of Alexandria, Va, TRACT OF LAND,
in Fairfax county, Virginia, containing SIX
Thousand seven hundred and fifty -four (6.154)
acres, in the bill and proceedings mentioned,
being The residue of tho original purchase by
Thornton from Fairfax remaining unsold: The
Washington and Ohio Railroad Is located
through tho tract. A plat Of the property Will
be exhibited at tho time and place OF sale, and
the same offered in lots or as whole, as may
prove to the interest Of all parties concerned.
forms of Sale-Ten thousand dollars cash,
ana tho residue Of the purchase money to DO
payable in equal instslments at ono, two and
three years, respectively. with interest from the
stay OF sale, to be evidenced and secured by the
bonds Of tho purchaser, with good personal So
<urity tho commissioners to retain tho tittie 10
tsid land until tho purchaser shall have paid all
tf the purchase money. Convcyancing at tho
cost of The purchaser.
$. FERGUSON BEACH,
FRANCIS L.. SMITH, Jr.,
jyl3-2awts Oommrs Of Sale.
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RAILROADS.

1878 GREAT EAT; ,.,,i 1878
no THE NORTH, WEST s. SOUTHW ESII.
DOUBLE TRACK,
STEEL RAILS, SPLENDID seen ER1,
MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT.
June 10, 1878.
Trains leave Washington from depot OF Ball
TIMORE s. POTOMAC RAILROAD, cor
ner Of Sixth and B stl sets, ss follows;
and TAOS m. daily, with Palace Cars. Linn.
tied Express of Pullman Parlor Cars $40
m. daily, except Sunday For Philadelphia
and New York 100 pm. daily, except sun
dsy: for Philadelphia $50 p. m. daily: =,
For Pittsburg and the West 10. 10 s.m. daily, WILL
Psrlor Cars to Pittsburg; TAO p. m. dslIY
with Palace Car to Chicago.
For Canandaigus and the North, f.40 p IL
daily, except Saturday, with Palace Car to
Watkins. For Watkins, 1910 a. 10. daily,
~ LOCAL TRAINS.
For Alexandria G. 7, s, $40, 10 and II a.m., and
], ), 4.20. s, go and 7 pm. On Sunday at 9.lO
a. M, and and I p. m.
Trains ieave Alexandria for Washington, u, /,
500, 90, 10 and II a.H.,i, 3, 4.2O, 5, ~ ana
On Sunday at 500 and 10 g. H., and 20 pm.
THROUGH TRAIN FOR THE SOUTH, via
Qusntico and Richmond, will leave Ale1sn-
dra at $40 and 20 q. m. daily, and $50 y.
III. daily, except Sunday.
Tickets and information can be procured ut
principal railroad stations and ticket oticaz
Southeast. i. p. FARMER,
Gan'l. Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMSON
General Manager. je "a
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Alefau0rla Gaz&tte
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER2 ., 1878
[Selected.]
TO Little Willie, In Heaven.

10 LI1llC f11A1S, kA AAS<ssCAs
Sweetlv she sleeps, while the sngels watch
over her beautiful clay. On her fsir brow tne
dust of the grave is resting, and over the
soft, dark eyes the wayen lids are closed forever
Sweet baby, was earth too rough for such gen
tic one? Did Heaven WOO with such tenderness
that we could keep you ne longer?
A little dimpled, loving hand
Has softly dropped from oure.
A dove has reached the shining land,
And found tho olive bowers.
A little, happy, gladstone one
Has hushed its merry ringing.
A bird has cleft the starry blue,
And far beyond is singing.
A pair Of little, tired feet
Have ceased their restless treadlng
An angel DER the golden streets
Two snowy wings is spreading.
The mothers heart will ache with care
Whom chilish voices mingle,
TO know there is a tiny chair
Standing vacant by the ingle.
The father, too will miss his child
When by the hearth ne fingers,
And yesrn q weary, weary time
To clasp those folded fingers.
Bat when the night grows wild and darE,
And faith is drifting from US,
And up above our tossing bark
There CLEANS no bow Of promise;
a little dove, from realms above,
Will lift her wings Of whitene:si
And fly far Ger the olive shore
To boar us leaves OF brightness.
Oiled June 9. 1879
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III all. E3presR.

Mail. Southwark. connects, at Gordonyile,
with Ches. 81 Ohio +. r., for Staunton, White
Sulphur Springs and all the watering places on
that line and Eastward to Richmond and
South. At I.ynchburg, connects with Atlantic,
Miss. s. Ohio Il. T. through Southwest Virginia
to Nashville, Now Orleans, Memphis, Little
Rock and Texas-and at Danville, with Z. & D.
L. +. to South and Southwest.
Express Southwark connects at GordonVllle
to all points East and West on Ches. s. Ohio H.
H., and ut Uanville, with Richmond s. Dan
vile 4. h. Tor tho Caroiinss, George, Florida
and via Atlanta, TO New Orleans
For MANASSAS LINE leave Washington
6 35 q. m. and Alexandria : 90 q. H., daily,
except Sunday, arrive at Front Royal II 20 q. IN.
and at Strasburg ct II O0 noon, connecting
with the Valley Road to Orkney and Rawley
Springs, and all the limo, East and West. Leave
Strasburg 20 p. H., Front Royal 4 co p. M,
connecting at Manassas with North bound mail
train for Washington and North.
For I1iddlcburg daily connection al Plains
station.
For Uppervilo regular connection at Della
plano. "
For WATERMELON, lesvo Washington at
So a. n. Alexandria at CO a. m. Dolly.
All trains make good connections, at Wash.
ineton, to and from North and West.
New Orleans sleeper leaves Washington at
35 o. H., running through without change.
Through sleeper for Savannah Ga. leaves
Washington 9 IS y. M.
Through tickets sold at the lowest rates
iaT j. HI. BROADUS, g. T. a.
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,HINGTON & OHIO RAILROAD.

W
SPRING ARRANGEMENT, TWO TRAINS
DAILY except sunday BETW ZEN
ALEXANDRIA AND ROUND HILL.
Beginning May 18th, 1878.
I,eaye Washington al III am and % p. M.
and Alex andria at Is a. m. and 4 % p. H.; pass
Leesburg gcing westward, at IL 10 a. NJ, and
40 p. M, and arriyo ut bound Hill at y m.
and ~ p. IN. Leave Round Hill at 80 a. m.
and 1880 p. M; pass Leesburg, going eastward,
at e 20 a. III. and II y. H., and arrive 81 Alex.
andria OF S Is O. III. and 5l6 p. m. and ri
Washington st & 80 -. H. and $3.50 p. M.
Hs- Passengers from Washington will take
the Washington and Ohio cars at! he Baltimore
IL Potomac Railroad station st9 IL I'm and q. ~
PIN. xud 60 through to Round Hill without
change 81 catH.
Thee Is Am. train from Alexandria and l2.S 80
D. H. train from Ko~nd Hill connect at Round
H:l wish Harris Daily Line OF Coaches
for Snickersville: Berryville and Winchesier;
also with Reamar's Line of Coaches, which leave
Loesburg daily for Aldie and Middleburg.
Both trains westward, mako close connections.
ut Vienna with Sisson' Limo Of Stages for Fair
fax Court House.
Communication tick3d3, ? Has. per mile
Animal Tickets, 2aO.
l.. II. HAV VENEER,
my 4~.t General Ticket Agent