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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

And the gold on hand to accomplish
this redemption is accumulating with
a rapidity which is the most crafty
ing feature in the last exhibit. The
coin in the treaaury has increased
from $40, l37 ,4lS year ago to $slO6.-
O63,505 on the first Of January, or in
cluding coin certificates to Sl39, SIS,
405 Pioneer Press.
This is the way the Pioneer Press
proves that the government is ready
to resume specie payments.
The 233 ,0O0,O 900 of coin certificates
are quoted, as assets. when they sim
ply represent the amount deposited
with the government, and which the
government has agreed to pay. In
stead of being added to the coin on
hand they should be deducted from it
According TO the =. p. if a mar
owes 500, 900 on demand and has
$50. 900 on hand to meet it, then he is
worth $l5O,O00!!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

The unutterable shallowness of the
arguments Of the hard-money men is
illustrated in tho following, which we
clip from the Pioneer Press:
Speaking Of the million acres of land
in Minnesota. bought. pre-emptied or
taken under the homestead act since
the labor excitement last summer. the
milwaukee, Sentinel thinks the labor
question has been mostly relieved OF
its narrowing distress hv the unpre.
cedented rush Of city labor t. the
country.
Think Of that! The starving men
in the cities have taken mp those mil
lions acres this fall and are now land
owners. living on their own wheat and
plucking their own apples!!.
This confounded ass does not seem
to know that land on the frontier i.
mainly ftaken up by western men
farmers: and that the man who open.
up new lands can look for no returI
for n year and half. II the starvin.
laborers OF the cities were all locates
in the wilderness they would rerisl
before they could raise potato. Ye
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10
this is the kind Of sophistry which
satisfies the average voter!!

Here is an interview held in New
York, between newspaper cores
pond, mt and President Hayes. Its
admissions are significant:
Correspondence feel called upon to
say, Mr.. President, that perhaps MANY
of those business men with whom you
consult, not wishing to show any
signs Of weakness, do not rightly
represent to you the extreme depres-
sion in business. / have seen within
a week many business firms. Gaff,
Fleischman Co., of New York, tell
me they are doing no business, and
a. T. Stewart & Co. are making little
or no profits, and cutting down the
number Of their employees.
President Hayes-I am aware that
business has become very much de-
pressed during the last sixty days, and
deeply regret that such is the fact.
Correspondent-There must be
some relief soon, or the country aciN go
into bankruptcy. The people look for
relief, Mr.. President, in the remone-
tization of the silver dollar.
It seems to us that the country is
''going into bankruptcy at a Gold
smith Maid pace already. 1t can t
go much faster, unless it travels by
steam.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

Sumner did not have Il very high
opinion Of Grant. Some of his letters
to Gerritt Smith have recently come
to light, in which he say:
The more reflect on the question
the more ! am distressed for the
country and the Republican party at
the idea OF Grants reconciliation.
We could better have lost one of his
bloody victories. His rule for the
second term would be the imperialism
Of seltishness and vindictiveness-
without moral sense, without ideas,
without knowledge.
think you will admit that he is the
lowest president. whether inte .lectual
ly or morally. we have ever had.
Undoubtedly he is the richest since
Washington. although he was very
poor at the beginning of the war.
Summers prophecy AS to Grant:
second term was realized. 1t very
nearly destroyed the Republican par
ty.
His declaration rs to Grants grea
wealth is confirmed by the English
newspapers which assert that he i
worth ten millions of dollars. He i:
travelling in Europe like an emperor
His pardon of the men who stole
ten millions of dollars of the revenu,
from the manufacture of whiskey. i
one of the strangest and saddest thing
in our history. Many poor wretcl
is now at work in the state penetenti
airy for stealing an ovefcoat or lie,
of mutton, while the men who stol
millions are turned loose by the yer
government ,hey stole il from. afte
spending a few weeks in Jail.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10


We are now paying interest on
about forty million dollars of new
natioanl bonds, issued to buy silver
bullion, to make into coin, to take
the place Of the fractional currency
which cost lis nothing. And now the
silver coin is worth less than paper
money, because it is demonetized
and the Bullionists propose to keep it
so. Thus we pay $4,000. 900 of addition.
aI ta.res annually to enjoy the luxury
OF an inferior currency! and the men
who brought this state OF things on
us now refuse to take the silver. We
quote from the telgraphic dispatches,
Of Friday last:
Many Of the savings banks in this
city decline to receive silver among
the deposits. On Saturday, in several
instances. tho Seamen's savings in
stitution refused to receive silver
dollars in a deposit "a large as $50.
saying that they could not get rid OF
them.
Another effect Of the silver crsze
The new York Central and Hudson
River Railroad company refuse to
take more than y dollar in silver as
payment for freight.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

1t is beginning to be generally under
stood that the eastern newspapers,
especially those of New York, are
the abject instruments of the Money
Power. Representative Phillips of
Kansas, said the other day in Congress:
"But yesterday New York paper
called Il member of this body an idiot,
because he made really eloquent
speech in defence Of the people against
the aggresSiOns of capital. So those
papers of Eastern commercial centers
abuse the champions of the people.
Four men in New York, who have
made or control great fortunes, much
of which has been gained by oblique
transactions and watering stocks,
have got possession Of papers that
grew into power because they were
the organs of the weak and oppressed,
and are fast loosing their honor and
renOwn by becoming the tools of
avaricious capital. How the ghost OF
Horace Greeley would agonize if he
visited the establishment ne founded
for he conld not find anything Of the
ancient Tribune from the basement tt
the tall tower. Once it uttered q
giant s voice from Maine to California
for it was the champion of the
laboring-man. Eainly shall it strive
to cover with its dead lions skin the
betrayal of the people. Those mem
bers who are misrepresented and
abused have one consolation: in doing
the work of their masters these paper.
have ceased to be metropolitan"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

rupC means we WOuIu llOt ZOE one
moment imply; but the great wealth
of the country understands the
necessity of courting government
officials; of appealing in the strongest
manner to their prejudices, and OF
exciting their fears over any PROPOSE
ton that looks towards an escape from
the ownership of Wall street.
Men who make money are supposed
to be good inanciers. and such men
crowd about the administration, and
with the prestige Of successful money
getters, excite apprrehensions, and
predict disaster for any financial
course which their judgment does not
approve. AS their judgment is largely
swayed by personal interests. the
result is small encouragement to those
outside of the golden circle. to whom
their policy means bankruptcy and
ruin.
The Inter Ocean is no coaker, and
it has no desire to see any financial
scheme adopted by the government
which is not in the stricteSt sense
honorable and practicable. We
would much dislike to see this ques-
tion become sectional one, but we
say frankly to the Eastern people, and
to the Presidentand his advisers, that
the West willnot consent much longer
to a policy which means its impover'
ishment.
A contest of this character will not
be sought by the West, but, if the
fight is forced upon it, it will accept
the necessity, and right its wrongs by
the preponderating force of numbers.
For two years the cry has gone up
that we were on the eve Of prosperous
times. We were to have them when
this law or that in the interest of
bags was passed. We were to
have them when the Presidential
election was over. We were to have
them when the Presidential election
was settled. We were to have them
when the South was conciliated. But
still the wrecking process goes on,
with no prospect of a termination.
The failure of the German National
Bank of this city is a fair illustration
Of the folly Of that financial course
which destroys confidence and shrinks
values until suspension becomes
necessary. A million dollars has
been drawn out of that bank. not
because there was need for the cur.
rency, but simply because the general
shrinkage of property and assets
excited the fears of depositors that
their money would he no longer safe.
The panic of 1873 has settled dOwr
into permanent suspicion and distrust
and all this is bred and encouraged by
the course of tae government.
The multitudes Of people withou,
work, the throng of weary, hungry
hopeless men and woman who have
looked forward to better times unit
despair has overtaken them, make ;
mute but pitiful protest against this
grinding policy, an appeal that ough
to touch and soften hearts of stone
Still the grinding work goes on
commanded by those who ought to b.
the first to aid in lifting these cloud
of distress that have so long obscuret
the sun of prosperity.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10
Letter 10 New York Trihune.

Your Washington correspondent in
the Tribune of this morning SAYS:
"Ex-Senator Norton. and NJ. $. Will
kinson. of Minnesota. used to be in
the habit Of saying, on the stump. that
the whole state of Minnesota did not
pay rs much money on account of in
come tax as one man in the city Of
New York-A. r. Stewart" l send
you an extract from aspeech made by
me in Portland, Maine, August %.
1853. as follows:
One merchant in the city of New
York, Mr.. 4. +. Stewart, paid more
tax on the income for 1855 than was
paid by the people of ten states and
four territories, and more than was
paid by either one OF seventeen other
states. He paid $4,000 more than
was paid by all the people of New
Hampshire, and $4,000 more than
was paid by the people of Maine. and
half as much as was paid on incomes
in Michigan. In this Second congress.
ional district of Maine the amount OF
income tax for the year 1855 was only
SO. .026. n. little less than one-third
of the tax paid by Mr.. W. B. Astor on
| income for 1855.
| much for income tax. Any PARTY
that votes to reinstate the income ta,
in this country will he driven to the
wall, and ought To be.
/ JAMES 4. BRIGGS.
We don't see how this Statement
proves the closing conclusion.
If 4. T. Stewort had more incom,
than all the people of New Hampshir,
he derived more benefit from the pro
lection afforded to life and propert,
by the government than all the peo
pie of New Hampshire. and he ough
to pay for it. Is not this the princi
pie of taxations The man who ha
nothing pays nothing; the man VIII
has q ten thousand dollar farm pay
ten times as much taxes as a man VII,
has . one thousand dollar farm. AM
Why not! But as it is possible 70
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

The Rev. r. X. Beecher. brother OF
the Rev. Henry Ward, is doing some
thing to redeem the family from gen.
eral contempt. He is an earnest Green.
backer. and the other day expressed
himself as follows:
..Surely the step is not Il long one
from Il currency using ninety-nine
per cent. confidence and one per cent.
of actual gold to a currency that shall
be cent. per cent. confidence and dis
miss gold to the bargarain limbo
where it belongs, with wampum.
sharks teeth, beads, beside, and cow
ries.'
Herein there is good deal for re.
Election.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

ito put all their wealth in inter-
est-bearing securities. easily hidden
from the assessor, it seems reasonable
that they should pay taxes on their
incomes. Otherwise they escape
their proper share Of the burdens Of
government. Any other policy tends
to induce men to avoid the ownership
of real property, and this is an injury
to the whole nation.
Moreover A may own farm worth
nominally, SIS 900: he may owe mort
gage upon it to B Of IS, 900; and the
entire proceeds of the farm may be
consumed annually in paying the in
terest on that mortgage, leaving moth
ing to A. Yet under our law 4 pays
all the taxes on that farm; and in nine
cases out Of ten, B escapes all tax on
the mortgage which really represents
all the value there is in the farm. If
A has a turn Of luck las by inheriting
a fortune, or otherwise,) which ena-
bles him to get out Of debt to b, he is
very apt, if shrewd man, to sell out
his farm and lend out all his money at
high interest. and then live on the Ia
Dor OF his fellow men. The result is
that no one desires to buy farms and
every one desires to sell them ;and the
debtor class, with all the burdens Of
government to bear, degenerates into
a kind Of serfs. toiling night and day
to support a class who produce nothing
and do nothing, well fed drones in the
in the hive Of humanity.
Again; while the census shows that
the average earnings OF labor in the
United States do not exceed three
percent per annum in currency on the
principal invested, the people are pay
ing from five to six per cent per an
mum in gold on vast amount of ma
tional bonds; and the men who re-
ceive that interest are not required to
pay one cent of taxes. Thus the gov
ernment becomes vast machine to
compel millions Of men to toll from
years end to years end to support q
few men in idleness. The true end OF
human government, the greatest good
for the greatest number, is subverted
and the laws are perverted to produce
the e'greatest good to the smallest mum
ber of the people.
! This is precisely the condition o1
things that existed in France prior to
the great revolution; society was di-
vided into three classes. the nobility,
the clergy and the common people
The two former owned all the proper
ty and m ade all the laws the people
stepped in poverty and wretchedness
paid all the taxes. At last the dos
became too strong, and outraged hu
man nature broke forth in rebel
lion the most bloody and the mos
salutary in history. If to-day Franc
is great and prosperous she owes i
TO that revolution, which smashed {,
flinders the ancient forms OF Gun
ningly constructed injustice and CAV,
the masses Of men . chance, for foo,
and ra:ment and comfort and pros
perity.
| 1t is simply question in this coun
try whether the privileged classc
will be wise in time, or whether the
will drive the laborers to such e,
trmities of suffering that civilizatio
and christianity will disappear an
the original savage break forth.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10
Anti- M(uaopolist.
IGNATIUS DONNELLY. EDITOR.
Thos. Quayle and Andrew Friend

Thos. Quayle and Andrew Friend
have been indicted, charged with
keeping false loaded weights Of 800
and 500 pounds in their mill at Gar
den City, Blue Earth county. The Man.
kato Review. says they both pleaded
mot guilty" and the cas- was contin-
ued to next term with permission to
withdraw plea and demur, ii so advis-
ed.
Another proof of the necessity for a
thorough system of scale inspectors.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10
THE BUNGTOWN LETTER s
L Irrepressible Conflict Con.
tinued.
lie Dues Manificent Gift.
The Champions Selected.
Ascertaining the Line Between
Wind and Water.
lie Dues Manificent Gift.
The Champions Selected.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK j

CONTINUED FROM LAST wEEK.l
Now. Mr.. Editor. you must not
suppose that while Steb. and Toddy
were comforting their disconsolate
souls with sweet extracts from the
great poets, the convention was idle.
Such was far from being the case. In
fact. the dialogue between those two
great men, which have just narrated,
was rather in the nature Of an inter.
lude. : sort Of by-play. You viii
sometime see on the stage TRAGEDY
roaring before the foot lights, while
love md melancholy act their 9entle
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-10

This is a very significant editorial.
from that leading Republican journal.
the later. Ocean OF Chicago. 1t will
bear careful perusal:
1t seems fatality that no matter
who are called to the chief places in
the government they are sure to be
captured by the Eastern money
dealers.
That this capture is effected by cor.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16
The Craze for Bookkeeping.

We give below a few extracts from an
article publishedin the Toronto (Canada)
Monetary Times, under the above cap,
ton, which our farmer readers should
mark well and impress its truth upon
| the minds of their sons.
For many years past it has been evil
| dent enough to prudent men that in this
| country the number of storekeepers WAS
out of all proportion to the business to be
| proftabIy done. A failure list, repre-
senting in 1876 twenty millions Of CAPT
tai, does not seem to have convinced
people that shopkeeping, as at present
carried on, is a losing business ,or the
treat majority of those engaged in it.
Too many country stores, too many
wholesale warehouses, and too much
bank accommodation to importers, has
wrought a great deal of evil which man.
TESTS itself in insOlvent estates and bank
rupt stocks.
The trade naturally tributary to any
business center, is so divided among the
numerous shopkeepers, or in part alb.
sorbed by the grangers, who are con-
stantly making purchases in towns and
cities outside. that there is, even with a
moderate profit on ones goods, but little
money to be made in the business,
scarcely indeed, a fair living lor each, if
the trade we're equally distributed.
A correspondent in one of the counties
south of London writes to us very sen.
sibly upon the lamentable ignorance
which prevails among those out o: trade
in regard to the laborious duties and
worrying responsibility $ of business
men. "This ignorance" he says, "is
being constantly transferred into the
ranks OF trade itself, and never
fails to bear its legitimate fruit. Com.
Portable farmers sell or mortgage
the good property on which they
and their families have lived for
years in comparative ease, and with a few
thousand dollars proceeds they dash into
trade in the village or town, and in a
year or two lose every cent, and become
village drudges or paupers for the sue.
ceeding years of their lives. Men seem
to think no apprenticeship, or expert.
ence, or special knowledge is required To
start a store in town; and yet they might
see, " tnty WOuiu, mat IOr the last
twenty, thirty, or forty years, only one
or two men in the hundred has succee dsd
in making money, while rarely has one
failed Of success on the farm. Every
village hs, twice as many struggling tor
its trade as can live; and failures are of
weekly occurrence, but, like the fallen
in battle, their places are at ence
filled by men ready to share their
fate. The tendency to crowd
into towns has huddled up in
them more than a fourth of our popula.
tjon."
The picture here drawn Il unfortunately
too true. From more than one quarter
comes testimony to its truth. Leading
Journals continue to emphasize the plenty
which a recent harvest has thrown into
the lap Of the husbandman and some Of
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-05-16

In California and elsewhere the useful
ness Of horns on cattle in a domesticated
state j. being urged by some writer's
Mr.. William Clark, now Of Denver, Col
oraio, hat formerly OF Wayne county
New York, bred II herd of hornless cattle
while residing in the latter locality, and
IL quite enthusiastic on the subject. He
p edirts that the time will come when al
domestic cattle will be reared without
horns. Hi- herd was bred from horned
cows an hornlesA bulls. He claims the
10 10 wing merits for " critters" Of the
new pattern
|. Hons were given to cattle to be
used in ii shting to enable them todefend
them elves against dangerous enemiep.
For this purpose they are Of value upon
wild cattle. Domestic cattle have no
valuab e use Tor them.
2 The horns upon domestic cattle are
used mostly in goring and injuring each
other. All injuries to animals are paid
tor in their di tinguished growth, or
dininiNhel II III, or increased amount o
food consumed.
3. llprAS are II mere dead weight upon
the heads Of cattle, and the EXPENSE OF
carrying them about and warming and
supplying their waste is paid tor in the
food consumed or the dimished weight Of
the animal.