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

the land. INTEREST and RENT are
the two weapons of Capital, and they
have starved, brutalized land enslaved
more men than all the wars of the
world. Chalmers, like Beecher. was
the advocate of a splendid aristoc-
racy. England's pauperism is the
result. But Chalmers was never SO
debased as to consign the poor to
bread and water. The Times. OF
London, is the known outspoken adj
vocate of the landed aristocracy OF
England, but it never descended to
the degrading infamy OF making
American freemen land slaves to
money-bag combination OF upstart
land-grabbers.
To-day there exists law III the
United States giving to every head OF
a family in the whole broad land a
farm of 160 acres-a home, an inherl-
lance, a country; and if the young
men of the land do not assert their
rights. and become land owners III
stead of land tenants, they themselves
are to blame. Benjamin f. Butler
has introduced bin i'll Congress to
advance $500, 900. 600 OF Greenbacks,
as the Sovereign Money OF the Sover-
eign People, to these heads OF fami-
lies. to enable them to get settled in
comfort and in productive power. and
if this bill, or something equivalent
to it, does not pass, it will be because
the masses prefer to be the pauper-
lied slaves to bondholding aristoc-
racy. If the Laboring men unite
with the Geeenback men and vote,
they have the power in their own
hands. II they vote to protect them
selves they Will be landowners with
homes, with independence.
And this great step. which VIII
make all but self-satistied, lazy, willing
vagabonds, owners of the soil. proprl-
etors of land, monarchs OF home,
and render low wages and forced
pauperism impossible, can be accom-
plished without fraud. without lnJus-
tice to any one, and with untold
blessings to untold millions by simply
carrying out the Greenback and Labor
policy advocated by the Irish World.
| We are now paying 500, 900, 900 an
nually in interest to Bondholders on
bonds now due. Pay off the bonds in
Greenbacks. That stops the interest.
That saves 500, 100000 every year.
That gives to the people a currency
the nation demands. a currency IN
dustry requires: currency business
production. prosperity, and equality
make necessary for proper wages. for
proper valuations of property. That
kills the tyrant Debt. 1t strangleS the
eating devourer Interest. -Four years
of the interest we are now paying for
| the benefit of no one but bondhOlderS
would give farms, with houses, with
all the implements for farming, horses,
cattle, crops, to $50, 1888 heads OF fam
lilies, or to population of 1866, sos,
now paying for interest to enslave u.s.;
for interest to enable the Bank Ass0-
citation to say to the country:-''That
the financial corporations of the East
can act together at a single days no.
tice with such power that no act OF
Congress can overcome or resist it"
for interest which makes the Red
Shield organ. The World declare that
the American laborer must become
the pauperized dependent Of Capital;
for interest which puts the brass into
the face of the New York Times to
proclaim that the lands of the United
States must inevitably go into the
hands of few landlords who are to
lord it over an enslaved tenantry,
crushed, down.trodden, dependent
hirelings.
Sooner than such state should
come to pass, may earth. sea, and air,
man and all his works, time and all its
achievements. plunge into the night
of eternal desolation!!
Pay off the bonds in Greenbacks;
stop all interest; give us the Sovereign
Money of the Sovereign People for
the People: lands for homesteads; aid
to get on to the lands; a schoolhouse
|everywhere; a bank nowhere. and the
educated, disenthralled, and free peo-
pie of the United States need have no
fear of Henry Ward Beecher, either
- priest, or nest-hider. of Belmont's
pauperized labor, of the Times with
its landed aristocracy, of money VAIN
pires to rack-rent and rack-rent an
enslaved people.
Vote and have farms, vote and have
homes. vote and have all the imple-
ments to secure crops and comforts,
vote to kill interest; vote and burn the
|bOnde; vote and have Greenback
surroncy adequate to all legitimate
demands, as Sovereign a the nation,
inaestructible as the People. The
TE is the weapon of the freeman.
the club of Hercules. Use it!
STEPHEN ID. DILLAYE.