The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04

strongest chain-the chain with
which educated authority had chained
humanity down to the ignorance of
servitude and obedience broken,
and
THE NEW LIGHT.
streamed through into the hearts and
intellects of man. 1858 followed;
then, for nearly a century, bold men
wrote. thrones trembled, Feudalism
began to find it's foundations tremb-
ling under it's oligarchical tyrannies.
In every mind progress, which was
always battling to be heard, was ridi-
culing the outrages of power. Mind
was fighting for humanity, but war
wild, bloody, desolating war, over
spread the world. True enough, the
soldier began to feel himself a man,
began to think and ask himself what
he was fighting for. The word liber-
ty and the dream of rights was heard
by day and filed the nights, All Eu-
repe was in commotion. The Ameri-
can colonies rebelled. Man began to
dare, and all cOnquests are the fruit
Of daring. Montesquien proclaimed
the laws of justice. Diderot preached
it. Beaumachais predicted that it
would soon be realized. Rousseau
declared the CAPABILITIES which should
govern it. Condorcet premaditated
the rules of civil action to make it
practical. The Adamses and Frank
Inns, and Otises discussed it. Jeffer-
son proclaimed it's advent. Washing
ton battled for it, won it, and reigned
over it's victories, under the sublime
declaration as the corner stone of it's
edifice-
''THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED
EQUAL;
they are endowed with certain ina
lienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Until this grandest of human
declarations were heralded as the
apocalypse of liberty, through which
the British colonies in America had
dedicated their lives. their fortunes.
and their honor to found a govern
ment, where free and independent
states should secure the blessings of
civilized liberty, there bad been no
such thing as a financial policy for the
people. They were the mere F9z
Urbis-the mere dregs of the city
Of the Latin World. They were the
mob, the herd, the multitude, the
swine, as Burke designated them.
They were the Sans Coulotte of the
Bourbons. They had masters What
had they to do with money! They
were feuds, subjects, labOrers. What
right had they to talk about finances
They were not represented, they did
not vote, and money was alone the
concern of those who voted, rcigned,
ruled and governed. 1915 cut the cable,
1889 followed. The first step was in
the New World. The spirit Of free.
dom came from its forests. us free as
it's rivers, us daring as its cataracts.
1t had nothing to do with finance as
q question. 1t was the old arbitrary
divine right Of kings to tax which
made the colonies aside from the tax.
Money had nothing to do with it. II
was the elemental principle of our
independence which led to our rebel.
lion against England. 1893 was the
child of 1915. But it had grown bold;
light had flashed in radient streams
of humanized progress, from York.
town, as the reyerberating echoes OF
its victories rolled on the waves OF
the ocean to illuminate France. Her
heroes had been our heroes: and as
the shout of welcome greeted Lafay
cite and ROchOmbeau, and their
brothers in the battle for liberty, as
they returned to their homes. there
was not a cottage or palace, from the
Northern Sea to the Mediterranean
which did not echo in glorious re-
frain
| GOD AND LIBERTY
Man was on his onward march, anG
every hilltop and valley of France
was ablaze with the watchwOrd, Lib
erty Her people had worked, and
toiled, and borne the yoke of a tyran
ny and suffering rs mere suffering
dependents of royalty till humanity
could bear no more. They had never
had anything to do with money bu,
to slave and starve to get enough t.
pay their taxes, and covies and feuda
exaction. Its policy, its creation. it:
management, its distribution and it:
circulation had been dead letter t,
them. That was managed by thu
king, the nobility. their feudal lords
They earned and saved if they coule
but they had no more to do with con
trolling or regulating the issue o
money than the heather Chinee.
or the idols of Stamboul. But Jul,
18th. 1882. they made up their mind.
they would have something to d,
with it. Their thoughts rushed int,
the whirlwind of action. The Bastil,
; fell; liberty was proclaimed. TIL,
revolution became transformation
1t was a bloody battle. but it Olsen
thralled a nation. 1t was night o
: storm, in seas of human blood, bu
: the aurora which followed has illumi
mated the world. There was no tinan
! ces IN 1t. il was in defiance of finan
ces. The nobility had the money
| and the nobility fled. The revolution
: had TO make money of its own. /,
one sense it was poor stuff. but i
. broke the letters of 500 years of rova
! tyranny and aristocratic rule. and. 4
! an instrument, it was
| SUBLIME WITH GRADFTr.