The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-19
The

The Greenback-Labor movement il
Albany is peculiarly fortunate-mor'
so than in any other city in tht
country-in having two daily news
papers advocates, The Evening Pos
ievening) and the Workingmen's Ad
vocate (morning). The latter is tn,
newer of the two. and advocates the
Syracuse platform ably and earnestly.
AS for the Post, while we do not
know that it stands on that platform,
we do know that it has done and is
doing good work for the Greenback
cause.
The bondholders' organs declare
that the proposition to tax the bonds
is really against the interest Of the
producing classes and for the benefit
of the bondholders. If this be SO
asks the Peoples Defender, Albion,
N. Y. ''Why do the b%ondholders
fight the proposition? Are they in
the habit of looking out for the
interest of the w%orkingman and let
ting their W go by default. out of
pure love Who eyer saw an instance
of the kind! The workingmen are
not fools, if the bondholders do think
they are"
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, one of the
most astute politicians in Pennsylva-
mia, has been travelling through that
State and writes to his paper, the
Times, that the Greenback- Labor
fever ''is strong and steadily growing
as 1t runs its course, and further,
that 1t is not the laboring class
waiting to be employed that has
vitaliZed the Greenback- Labor men
into Il formidable party. 1t is the
agricultural class the men who are
their W employers and who own
their WI lands, from whom the new
organization gathers its most en-
thuSlaStic and stubborn SUPPORT"
Scion Chase who is running for
Congress against Frye in the Second
District sums up the probable result
OF the election next Monday as fol-
lows: 1.-THE Greenbackers will prob
ably carry Maine in September, and
control the next Senate by five major
ity. Somerset, An~droscoggin, Frank
lin. Oxford, York, Knox, Waldo,
P~lscataquis and PenobscOt are sure to
go Greenback." Scion could have
safely added ArOostook county to the
above list where Madigan is sure to
be elected to the Senate.-Bangor
Commercial.
While Mr.. Sherman told with much
self-complacency how nearly he had
approached resumption. and how we'll
he was prepared for it, he failed to
calculate and tell the cost of his
achievement. Had he told the truth
and Informed his Ohio audience that
he was now paying Il largely increased
interest on the public debt, and that
he had drawn tens of millions from
the frightened business of the coun-
try to fortify himself for resumption.
he would have told the truth and
nothing but the truth.-PhiIudeLphia
Times.
Mr.. James NJ. Deviue gives as the
results of observations in Vermont.
the opinion that if men of prominence
like Mr.. Barlow would force the is.
sue of National finances into politics
in each of the Congressional districts
in that State, that it could he carried
for Greenbacks by an overwhelming
majority. He states that he found
among the farmers many who were
we'll versed in the subject of National
finance, and the general common
sense of the people in the State is
such that the issue need only be
fairly presented to make Vermont
M of the foremost States in our
cauSe.-Boston Standard.
The National Socialist thinks we
should be careful about the loose say
ing God ordained 1t goes on TO
say: The fact is, everything is God
ordained until found to be otherwise.
1t is q convenient saying; and poten-
tial only with the feeble. Before all
such sayings. in glorious contradic.
ton. flames the living text:-"God is
no respecter of persons" Never
lose sight of that text. 1t is the
sheet anchor OF our social being. Let
1t be with you in the morning and
when you lie down at night: in season
and out of season your companion,-a
cherished promise of better things
General Butler spoke to a great
crowd in Great Darlington. Mass.
last night. A suspension of specie
payments. he said. came abont every
ten years from 1919 TO 1857. When
ever other countries wanted our gold
they got it. and we suspended. living
on the remedy, paper. Why not live
on 1t all the timet Then he recalled
how he protested against making the
interest on bonds payable in gold,
and hoped that on his monument
would be written, Here lies the man
who stood up against the infamous
swindle of 1862" The hard times
are the outgrowth of taxes and usurv.
1t makes no difference whetherpeos.e
pay it in State or county tax. or from
which pocket the tax came from.
The Sacramento Bee saws that |
public opinion in the United States
is now running toward currency re-
form. snd that. too, despite the fact
that all the leading presses, pulpits.
statesmen and orators opposed ii in
its infancy. while most of than h,t- !