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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25
To the People of the United tat 8

Owing to the pressing demands fir IN
all parts of the country for the i'm
mediate organization of the National
party, the executive committee of the
National party of the United States
has adopted the following means of
action, out of which it is believed will
grow perfect and uniformed
organization Of the party in the diff
ferent states.
Upon the application of ten or more
voters who have organized council
of the National party in any locality,
and elected officers consisting of a
chief a vice chief. scribe and a
treasurer, and reported the state,
city and ward, in which it is organized
together with the names of the said
officers, the national committee will
issue to snch organization an engraved
charter emblematic of the principles
and objects of the National party. and
constitution and directions for the
organization and government ofthe
council. Each application must be
accompanied by the sum of one dollar.
This sum will cover the expense OF
issuing the charter, and will secure to
each council the privilege of obtaining
printed documents. badges, campaign
song books and other campaign goods
from the national committee at cost.
or rs near cost as practicable.
The national committee will also
issue charters to young mems councils
to consist of youths under age, upon
the same terms and with like
privileges to those granted to the
councils of voters. The object of the
formation of young mems councils i:
to inspire the youths Of the country
with realization of the great strug
gle upon which the nation has now
entered. and to educate them in the
vital questions of political economy
and good government.
1t is not the design Of the nationa
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

button of its products, and the requir-
ments Of business, fixing minimum
amount per capita Of the popu' ration as
near as may be, and otherwise regula-
ting its value by wise and equitable
provisions of law, so that the rate Of in
terest will secure to labor its Just re-
ward.
FIFTH 1T is inconsistent with the
genius Of popular government that any
species 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 it's 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 useless Offices should be
abolished, the most rigid economy fa-
vored in every branch of the public ser
vice, and severe punishment inflicted
upon public officers who betray the
trusts reposed in them.
NINTH-~As educated labor has de-
vised means for multiplying production
by inventions and discoveries, and as
their use requires the exercise of mind as
we'll 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 COM
petence, SO that overgrown fortunes and
extreme poverty will be seldom found
in our republic.
ELEVENTH Both national and state
governments should establish bureaus
of labor and industrial statistics, 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.
TH1RTEENrH-The importation Of
servile labor into the United States,
from China, is a problem of the most
serions Importance, and we recommend
legislation looking to its suppression.
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ton to him is, where will he get
to-morrow's dinner for himself and
child! But paper money that is re-
ceived at par for United States bonds,
and received at the United States
custom houses, will be as good as coin
in Europe.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

From the enormous load OF debt
Victor Emmanuel left behind him for
Hum to shoulder, it looks very much
as though the old man had been trying
his hand at running newspaper.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

Simpson, Of the Belfast Journal,
says:
How could the American pay his
bills at the Paris Exposition with the
queer money the Greenbackers pro-
pose to make %
What does the idle shoemaker care
about the American pleasure-seeker
in Europe! The moro important ques-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

In French the necessaries of life
mean pepper and salt. Give Pierre
ten pounds Of condiments and he can
make the hind leg Of . frog feed all
tho nick men In . regiment.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25
THE NATIONAL PARTY.
Platform of Principles, Adopted at Toledo,
Ohio, February ~, 1873.

Platform OF Principles, Adopted at Toledo,
Ohio, February ~, 1878.
WHEREAS, Throughout our entire
country the value of real estate is de-
preciated, industry paralized, trade de-
pressed, business incomes and wages
reduced, unparalleled distress inflicted
upon the poorer and middle ranks of
our people, the land filled with fraud,
embezzlement, bankruptcy, crime, suf-
fering, pauperism and starvation; and
WHEREAS, This state of things has
been brought about by legislation in
the interest of and dictated by money
lenders, bankers and bondholders; and
WHEREAS, While we recognize the
fact that the men in Congress con-
nected with the old political parties
have stood up manfully for the rights
of the people, and met the threats of
the money power and the ridicule of an
ignorant and subsidized press, yet
neither the Republican nor the pemo-
cratic party, in their national politics,
propose remedies for the existing evils;
and
WHEREAS, The Independent Green
back party and other associations, more
or less effective, have been unable hith-
erto to makea formidable opposition to
the old party organization; and
WHEREAS, The limiting of the legal
tender quality of greenbacks, the chang
ing of currency bonds into coin bonds
the demonstration of the silver dollar,
the excepting Of bonds from taxation,
the contraction of the circulating me-
dunn, the proposed forced resumption
Of specie payments, and the prodigal
waste of the public lands, were crimes
against the people, and, as far as posi-
bic, the result Of these criminal acts
must be counteracted by judicious leg
islation:
THEREFORE,, We assemble in nation
al convention and make declaration
of our principles, and invite all patri-
otto citizens to unite in an effort to Sc
cure financial reform and industrial
emancipation. The organization shall
be known as the s'National Party" and
under this name we will perfect, with
out delay, national, state and local as
sociations to secure the election to Of
fee Of such men only as will pledge
themselves to do all in their power to
establish these principles:
FrRsT-It is the exclusive function
of the government to coin and create
money and regulate its value. ALI
bank issues designed to circulate as
money should be suppressed. The cir.
culating medium, whether of metal OF
paper, shall be issued by the govern
ment, and made full legal tender for
all debts, duties and taxes In the United
States at its stamped value.
SECOND There shall be no privileged
class of creditors. Official salaries pen
sions bonds, and all other debts and OBJ
legations, public and private, shall b
discharged In the legal tsnder money o.
the United States, strictly according
to the stipulations of the laws under
which they were contracted
THrRp--Resolved, That the coinag'
of silver be placed On the same footing
as that # gold.
FouKrH-C Congress shall provid'
said money adequate to the full EN-
ployment Of labor, tie equitable disti
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

If John Sherman should take the
sc, OOO, 900 of gold he has boarded for
redemption day and pay $40, 900, 900 of
our bonds in England, it would III
crease the volume of money in Eng
land and raise prices. We should get
more gold for the beef, butter, bacon
and cotton that we send to England.
But if John keeps what he has got and
gets $7O,000,O0O more by next JAN,
he must draw from England's store
and cut-down the prices of our prod
ucts in England by shrinking the vol
ume of money in that country. Is it
good economy to shape our legislation
to cut-down the prices of our products
in England would stimulate produc.
ton here and draw the greenbacks
that are now boarded into circulation.
England and Germany are struggling
for gold to maintain gold basis. If
the United States enters the contest.
and John succeeds in boarding $780,
000, 900 in the Treasury, it must cut
down the prices of our products in
England and Germany, those coun.
tries that largely hold our bonds.
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POSTAGE.

We are compelled to prepay postage on
all papers sent out from our offlce. trlo1
70 January 1st, 1875, subscribers paid
twenty cents each at the local post ofhc =,
We now pay the postage for them: 1t
amounts to fifteen cents per annum. Ihose
who have not paid US are respectfully urged
remit at once.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

The failures of New York for
March are the heaviest yet, being an
inc ease of 81 per cent. over Februa
ry, and yet John Sherman says the re-
sumption act don't hurt anybody.
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compulsory labor laws are what
we need in this country to make good
times. "-Shylock. All right; it will
be live fun for us workingmen to en-
force them against yOu.-Er.
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REMlTTANCES.

Parties RENTING money are requested to d
rect it to Ignatius Donnelly, Box So4, 7. ~.
ST. Paul, Mimi, and to send ny dralt, cme et :,
sny other wav will Re at the risk Of the sender
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THURSDAY, APRIL l8. 1873

The Acknowledgements is published every
Thursday for circulation by newsmen and mali
Single Subscription, one year,, s1.oo
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In clubs of five or more to one address 1t will
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m0n'ns THE ANTI-MONOPOLIST,
No. 10 Wabasha St.. st. Paul.
ADVERTISING RATES.
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1.-The workingmen are lazy and
won't work. '-Shylock.
There 5000. 900 of them that can get
no work, thanks to your laws.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

Secretary McCulloch says, in his
report of 1865:
"After a careful survey of the
whole field, the Secretary is of the
opinion that specie payments may be
resumed and ought to be resumed as
early as the 1st Of July, 1885,
Ten years from the above financial
"opinion" of the Treasury was ut
tered Congress passed the specie
decree. to be enforced in 1879, which
would now be repealed if Presiden-
tial veto did not stand in the way.
The world moves.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

"The workingmen are poor because
they spend their money. "-Shyiock.
If they were as lucky as Shylock.
and had no taxes to pay. they could all
have beefsteak for breakfast.
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HOW TO klLLecockRl
The following story Is
he INGENUITY az EflfeOn 33

the ingenuity OF Edison, -
clan. The telegraph Of
was greatly infested
reaches. Mr.. Edison Il
zinc strips to the wall a
an eighth OF an inch, a. Uf W
positive and negative polls OF bat
terry alternatively to the strips. He
next sneared the walls above the
strips with mOlasses. The vermin
came mp. and as they stepped from
strip to strip they .'closed the cir
cult, received the electric shock and
dropped dead by scores. Water pals
put at the proper places received
their dead bodies as they fell.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

Rhode Island voted. Wednesday of
last week. and went Republican, as
usual. The Greenback vote was $50.
The new party is just beginning to
organize in Rhode Island, and the rag
baby will sway the state soon.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-25

1.-The first great cause of the hard
times is the trades-unions. oranges and
kindred societies. '-.Shvlock.
But Mr.. Frye says "over-produc-
tiOn' is the cause
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15

bama to make Republican speeches. This
calls out from the Selma (Ala.l Times the
following, addressed to Harelsen:
We know exactly what We are talking
about, and have weighed well every word
We here put in print. You are in danger,
you devil, and before you know 1t, will bite
yourself with snake. You cannot longer
90 over I'allSs county making incendlary
speeches To the Degrees, and using every
means in your power to create not and
b.codshed. In doing such acts You become a
pub ic enemy, and you are liable to be shot
down by any one. Now, while we Will not
advise any one Ia shoot you, We are free to
say that II you continue in your present
course, and II Is done, We shall shed no tears
over your demise. We understand that you
were supplied by the Radical Executive
ommiite- with funds to return To this dis
tr CT and whoop EN- up in the style We have
alluded TO. II this II -, you had better use
your uneNpendvd balance in getting away
from this county and section. Your incen-
diary speeches must be stopped some
how or somehow else. Do you understand
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Sweeg Syglsna ssaeRss
fl'hicapO Intrr.Dcea

Pretty. Yes. One can say a hearty
amen to that as they take peep into the
Chicago Natatorium, where forty OF the
feminine sex may be seen disporting them
selves in the soft green water Of Lake
Just then is heard tremendous splash,
nothing is to be seen, but 10 a moment up
crops through the waves. looking with her
golden hair and white skin like . great
water lily, handsome blonde. She has
jumpel distance of thirty five feet plump
into the water. and now she swims back
like duck, runs up the ladder and dives
down head first; up again in second,
hops over on her back and floats about for
. rest.
Starting from the steps, cutting the wat
er with long, graceful strokes, comes a
young married lady. scholar Of last sum-
mer. A pair Of beautiful arms, white and
hard with muscle, and perfect limbs, carry
her TO the center Of the tank, where swing
IL suspended from the ceiling. She climbs
into il and, starting it in motion, goes on
until the long ropes are in = horizontal
line. All are wondering what will come,
when up 60 her heels over her head, and
like ball she drops into the green water.
A splash, a silence, and here she is, an
aquatic Johnny jump-up, laughing and
breathless. Then she races through the
tank with two other profcients, and to the
uninitiated it looks somewhat like game
of leap-frog.
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BUrLERISn IN MAssACHUsErrs.


The political contest in Massachusetts,
this fall will no; be Republican and Dem
ocratic, but Butler and anti Butler. The
American Protestant says:
There seems TO be no doubt but that Gen.
eral Butler viii be candidate for Governor
this ys'r. Hi. friends are actively at work.
anc lean business. The following men
have been named as probable candidates for
State officers on the Butler ticket:
Benjamin F. Butler for Governor.
IL B. Sargent for Lieutenant Governor.
D.N.skiliings for Treasurer.
John E. Fitzgerald for Auditor
A J. Bailey for Attorney General
J. M. Buffum for Secretary Of State.
There is also movement among the But
Ter men to select his friends for Congress in
the different districts In the eighth dis.
trict the Hon. ]. W. Gambler, OF Brookline. ia
supported by his friends. In the seventh dis.
trict Gen. Sherman is the man. The Hon.
r. q. Usher, OF Lynn, In his strong friend
In the flfth district. General Cushing is con-
si1ered his candidate In opposition TO
George b. Loring. Judge Russell will be put
forth as standard-beare- I'm the fourth. In
the third district the Butler men will sup
port the Hon. Benjamin Dean. In the sew
enth district his friends are strongly opposed
TO Congressman Harris, and an active man
will be selected to defeat his election. There
Harris, and his nomination is doubtful. to
say the least. Congressman Norcross OF the
sixth district is considered a Butler man,
and Congressman Robinson OF the eleventh
Is credited with the same sentiments Both
flCSn men were in favor the reteutiop Of
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
THAT VETO MESSAGE.

That SabsaIsase % House Btll Ne.
SOL, and Govcrn0P Anshsny's vess
Message.
GLENDALE, Chase County, Kansas, |
August 9Th, 1878. !
EDITOR TINE:-I was reading this
morning the editorial in The TINES Of
yesterday, on the "veto Message" voted
for the bills last winter for the relief
of the people of both Leavenworth and
Douglas counties. voted to pass both bills
over the Governors veto. did it not be-
cause Chase county was in the same fx, Is
We owe but $40, OOO, and pay our just indebt-
edness and would be glad to buy some of our
own bonds at par. We have 81, zoo, 900
taxable property, $500 to each inhabitant,
three head of cattle to each inhabltan
and more horses than people. We pay the
lowest county tax of any county in the
State. Yet l voted with my eyes open for
both Of these bills voted TO pass them over
the Governors veto and would do 20 again.
In the first place, your bonds were sold for
forty cents ON the dollar. There Is no in
Justice done If the bondholdef gets his
money back and interest In the second
place the value Of everything else has
,hrunk from - per cent to IS per cent 3
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your aoiity 10 pay mas snrunk ~ per cent.
When these bonds were Issued you could
pay Si.Vo As easy as ~ cents now. neal es-
tate mas snfunk IN value; agricultural pro-
oncuons nave snrunk, the value OF labor
has shrunk, business has shrunk. l re-
peat your aoiiity To pay has shrunk from
Lat your ooigstions should shrink too.
1 nave sympathy with The deotor class
an honest basis, l w,s ready To give 1t.
But This was no' all had another, and
legal reason Tor voting ior these bulls. Inc
legitimate expenses OF the State had to he
provided ior; the current expenses oil your
county, city and township. had to De pro-
'iaeo ior. these were only suo-diVisions
OIL the state.
IL Is through your county and city Or
ganizations that the State performed Its
functions oil local governments. 1t Is the
bounden duty OF the State to see that these
iunciion..of local government are not inter
Tered WIN, not destroyed. ne Governor had
TO be paid; his son must De provided Tor
Current expenses OF the State, county,
township, and city must be paid, and these
local government. NUT not be bankrupted
or destroyed self protection l regarded as
the hrst duty OF the State, as we'll as the
individual. l thought 1t the duty OF the
Legislature topreserve,ine otate municipal
SUBDIVISIONS through whlcn the STATE per-
formed the functions oil local gov.
ernments. The Auditors report showed
Soo,oi9,'o Que the state from
isvanworth county on delinquent taxes;
WIN Slo,4o.o from douglas county,
iound your total tax levy IN 1870 wac
S2et ooo.oi' whilst that oil douglass was
90, .,i % III os- % ou h"aIuI
debt without inc CITY dso. to.a county
DEBT OF sVl, 30. inis, ~ Per cent
required a levy Oh over soo,VV annually.
WIN a taxable properly OF only s',VU'-
ooo, debt oil IL oil your entire taxable
property.
douglas county was In no pettei condi-
lion. Sne oSeo 'he Sta'e on oscN 'AAeS
Si3,4o.;o.. Her tax levy ior $50 was
slo9,ol2lS; county orders outstanding
not stated. bonaed deGt s'oo,OV:
win Guy ueot tnst wouid
increase IL 10 million, WIN taxable
property oil less than S6,0oo,OV. 1 reas-
oned, that II We allowed the local auth0ri-
Ties 10 levy ana Collect the taxes 10 pay this
interest, allowed the courts 10 enforce these
claims In iuii against these counties.
that we virtually destroyed their ability to
pay the sta1e revenues, destroyed theiI
aoiiity 10 pay current expenses, and would
virtually destroy the means the state had
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JOHN BRIGHT.

Las: Saturday, August 10, Mr.. John
Brist- the great Liberal member of the
Ergiish Parliament, completed the twenty
first car OF his connection with Birming-
har Is one of its representatives in Parlia-
neat. The event is to be commemorated
in 2 m ner worthy of the town. Says the
Firmir ism Post:
L ms axe place toward the close OF Sep
te,1 D. the beginning Of October, and it is
pro- hat the proceedings shall occupy
two On the first there will be public
Receipt Of Mr.. Bright, and q procession Will
then 90 rough the main streets of the town
70 BinskJ Hall. Here II is proposed that ad-
oresses shall be presented from Birmingham,
anu 'h'- representatives of Liberal organixa-
uonS throughout the country shall also have
tne OF 'tunity OF presenting addresses. The
fI's' .ae for the second day includes q
. wlih the Committee of the Six Hum
public dinner In the town hall I'm
ns. 1t In intended, further, that q
s% Of Ar. Bright shall be ersssed IN some
90 -euons place. and also that q prsasut..
Lion ---Aii oemads 10 Mr.. Bright himself ope