The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-08

i've Oh the DOunlleS stolen from al
oppressed people. to build up a soul
less monopoly into aristocratic impu-
dence.
But. says the sanity Jay Gould
this moral excrescence. who is dis
grace to Williams: this leader of moral
ideas, who dictate where Horace
Greeley reasoned. and threatens by
the power OF money to overthrow the
power Of justice declares)--
The Financial Corporation Of
the East can act together at a sin
gle day 5 notice with such power
that no act of Congress can over
come or resist their decision.
Next comes the New York Times.
to declare that the Money Power is
getting restless. that its power is al
Ways. in danger in d popular Govern
ment like ours: that the people are
not able to pay the interest Capital
demands: that labor is to0 high; that
the farmers are too independent. and
the mechanic too much If 4 gentle
man. and, therefore. that Capital
must draw IN its funds, buy up the
lands, make Labor its slave. the
farmer its tenant. and the great mass
OF the population its dependents.
These are not the exact words u
the Times. but this is its exact mean-
ing. Its exact words. in which it
sums up its purpose. partly hiding and
partly disclosing its diabolical aim,
are as follows:
There seems to be but one rem
edv. and that is a slow one.and not
immediately effective. 10 reach
it both farmers and capitalists
need to be educated to do it, But
it seems TO he inevitable that Il
come about in course Of time. +
is a change of ownership Of the
soil. and the creation of a class OF
land owners on the one hand. and
tenant farmers on the other.
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To leave no question as to the pur-
pose or meaning OF the article the
Times further concludes:
something similar in both eases
to what has long existed. and now
exists in the older countries of Europe.
and similar. also. to a system that is
common in Californi
Labor crushed to slavery. Hope
wfested from life, 4 pauper future
iandlOrdism for the few, a tenant
slavery for the many-this. in brief
is the aim of the Money Power. To
this hipd of Christian philanthropy
Henry Ward Beecher has sold what
ever of decency he had in his soul
which, God knows, has been little
enough. Bread and water. according
to Plymouth Church Christianity, is
good enough for a man who has to
work. But Plymouth Church religion
knows no highway to Heaven but
through the pocket; it measures God
by gold, virtue by the price it costs.
Let US leave it on its own ragged
egged precIpice, with the glories of
its Tfiton-fringed nest-eggs as the
measure of its morality, on the one
hand, and its dollar-a-day Bread-and-
Water diet good enough for the la
horer, on the other, and if its money
bags can get to Heaven through this
road, why let Them
With Diyessin the pulpit Jay Gould
in the Tribune, to defy the power of
the People and hxnGuge Congress.
urging-taSe rich ID 1T "a the screws
to GRIND down Il IN md the Red.
shield Rqthschik pnt through
his high place in q &c of Demo
cratic faith, teliin ~ people they
must be conteHted u fate of
European Paupers, f up by the
Times, proelai6in he vitable |
fate or the farming ing pop
uiation to submissi( Milford. |
ism such as il exists In hfll, and
a Tenant-like snbjugati0A - pre-
walls in Ireland. Such is t4xSte to |
which the Titonized pulpit ana the
subsidized press, representing the /
Capital of the oudficfnfng ana HANK
Association aristecYa<y. hsgye pro /
for the american people.
1t is true. the Times says the rem
edy Is a slow one, bus Ut the same
moment it declares it to be inevitable.
And II Is inevitable ulheos the naeles
rise in full energy of their exlncan-
.rated power and strike the chains at |.
HE money changers forever from i
heir limbs. For. saws "a English l,
writer of great emlnence. the tenant II
aN ed. rent-rode slave of the English II
andlord is more enSlaved and tyran-
nZed over than ever was the mana
led negro OF the South un1or - n
lave whip of the slave driver. @
1ear by year the power. the monop-sl
ny. and the usurpatlons OF the XER~s
lsh landlord hNe increased. InI76oj
here were 10000 landlords, NuW Z
here are less than 10000; and 1,7uD II
ana princes own one-quarter of ~
Eng land. Ireland and Scotland. Thk1 Il
'oor pauperized slaves OF Rent exist n
y the million. 1t is to this seTfdom /
i Labor. of Land. of Homes and Of I'll
lope the rich pulpit puppits OF thoil
lch. and the subsidized press of the III
Bank Association arts
ocracy would subdue the voters of 4
he United States. II
There is a remedy for the masses. I
lake Rents IMPOSSIBLE. Goblet 4
as nohly declared that nature gives {
o every man a home in tho land uf =