The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-31

dollar of 40 - grains, again to lmme
diately approximate. each to the
value of the other, that neither the
clamor of a purchased press. nor the
echoes from their mistaught follow
ers, will persuade you that remoneti-
zation of silver is prompted by desire
to pay Indebtedness in debased
coinage; but on the other hand, you
know that robbery of unequaled
audacity and magnitude was insti
gated, and is already partially accom-
plished, by those who, by a cunning
financial scheme, have doubled the
Indebtedness of the world and forced
the wretched victims of this legaliZed
spoliation to the verge of reputation
Doubtless you have remarked, as
straws shows the direction and force
of currents, the frantic appeals of the
organs of the capitalists. The New
York Tribune in recent editorial
article calls on President Hayes to
throw overheard his plans of civil
service reform, and all else, and give
all the force of the administration to
the defeat Of the silver bill.
Possibly you may have noticed
another straw in the PiOneer-Press OF
Saturday, Dec. 10Th. in which it is
stated that New York banks are
making black lists Of those Chicago
business men who favor the Bland
bill.-an infamous paragraph. but
worthy of the infamous cause it was
intended to promote,-a paragraph
having no possible meaning except as
menace to business men in Chicago
and elsewhere that their commercial
credit would be destroyed il they
dared give voice to their convictions.
/ have ventured to address this
communication to you, that our rep.
resentatives may know that from the
crushed industries of our country is
arising protest which will be heard.
The hope of our people is in congress.
President Hayes is apparently, by his
natural habits Of thought, in close
sympathy with the capitalist classes,
and admitting his probable honesty
he learns 50 slowly the lesson of the
time that while he is cropping his way
toward the knowledge of existing
facts. his country is being brankrupt-
ed, his countrymen by hundreds OF
thousands rapidly filling :. dishonest
graves, or dragging out the remnant
of dishonest lives, and his country.
women struggling yainly in the fierce
financial storm to live honestly and
purely. and failing to do this they are
dying, or worse. When the poor rob
the rich the stern moraliSt may not
condone the offense, and Robin Hood
robbing the rich with Il strong hand
and feeding the poor with Il liberal
hand, is not justified; but when the
rich, whether under forms of law and
by farseeing craft, or IN u more open
manner rob the poor, such robbery Is
abhorred by God and man. When
in sacred witt Nathan would set forth
before David the king, the especial
enormity of his crime, he showed him
that he had robbed a poor man OF his
all.
The present is the opportunity of
men in public life, and to those dull OF
hearing the stones of the street
already cry out: and if it shall be that
through the slowness of apprehension
of President Hayes. or the timldlty of
this congress. this wrong shall not be
righted. it will be found that although
the mills Of the people grind slowly
they grind exceedingly small.
Very RESPECTFULLY yours,
ELWOoD :. COR>ER.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi. Jan. |, 1878.
Wherever millions is used dollars
are intended.