The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-20
The Anti-M0nopO1iSt.

''internatiOnaliStS'' or sscOmmunistS''
when workingmen begin to work for
themselves and cease to work for the
capitalists exclusively. Let working
men be true to themselves, be faithful
to the National Greenback and Labor
party. and these puerile ISLANDERS can
do them no harm.
The organization of the party in the
State of Illinois is the immediate
work Of your committee. To this end
let clubs be organized in every town
ship, ward, and school district of the
State, without delay. The chairman
of the Executive Committee will fur
nish constitutions and directions for
organizing on application. If char
ters are desired, application can be
made to M. NJ. Pomeroy, Chicago. or
S. M. Smith. Kewaunee. ILL.,, or D. B.
Sturgeon, Ohio, as applicants prefer.
Mr.. POmerOy has up to this date
issued charters for about AIS clubs in
Illinois, and over $500 in the United
States. It is for each club to decide
for itself how it will organize, and
what charter it will have.
We recognize no close communion;
but all must be allowed the largest
liberty. We must concede honest
motives to all, and encourage all to
get to the front in their own way;
but to get there and begin to make
their influence felt as soon as posi-
BILE. If a man is good National
Greenback and Labor man this is
enough, no matter how he became so;
what his previous condition of servi-
tude may have been; or what sort of
uniform he wears; providing he gets
to the polls in time, and votes the
National Greenback and Labor ticket.
No matter in what school he was
educated, providing his lesson has
been we'll learned.
The hard times still continue. The
financial condition of the country is
| well known to all-it can be felt, but
not described. Property continues to
shrink;contraction, by the destruction
of the greenback, is still going on; the
expansion of the bonded debt through
the thieving syndicate still continues;
taxation, direct and Indirect, is in
creasing; bankruptcies are multiply
ing: the working classes are rapidly
growing poorer, and the idle rich are
growing richer; the Republican party
has shaped financial legislation for
sixteen years, and it is to be held re-
Sponsible for the result. 1t remains,
in view Of the ruin it has wrought.
wholly Indifferent to the distress of
the country, and has proposed no
measure of relief. A reckless strife
for office prevails. Congress is abb
sorbed in jobbery and incipient revo-
lutionary schemes, without an appar-
ept thought or care for the sore
distress of the people. The present,
as we'll as the preceding administra-
tien, represents the interests Of
foreign capitalists, instead Of the
people, to whom it is responsible, and
whose interests it is bound by oath
and honor to serve. The republic
seems to be drifting rapidly on to rev.
olution and ruin.
If the nation is to be saved, it must
| be by the patriotic lab0rers of the
| National Greenback Labor party, and
| by its rapid advance to the control of
the government. Such work as lies
before us ought to inspire every
patriot to the most unselfish and ener-
getic efforts.
Your committee proposes to do its
full duty, and expects every National
Greenback and Labor man in the
State to do his duty in the pending
campaign-to the end that the State
ticket nominated at Springfield may
be triumphantly elected, and the
party, in the State and nation, estab-
lished in powor; the conspirators at
the head of affairs deposed; the nation
restored to prosperity, and the repub-
lie saved from the impending dangers
| which so seriously threaten its integ-
rity.
There is everything to encourage
us in this State. The people have
been thoroughly aroused to tho con-
dition of affairs. The Democratic
party have been compelled to coun-
terfeit our platform and principles.
1t is divided hopelessly-one end hard
money, the other greenbacks-with
an impossible gulf between irrecon-
cilable divisions of the party. Tho
Republicans are substantially in the
same fix. They will be compelled. as
at their last State Convention, to
counterfeit our platform. But the
counterfeit will not pass for the gen.
uine coin, as it did then. They are
likely to be forced to adopt our can
didates, as well as our principles, or
suffer defeat. The leaders begin to
tremble, and to cast about for some
shift by which success may be
snatched from impending disaster.
In this condition of political par
ties, the course of every wise man is
clear. namely. join our party land help
the cause that deserves success.
Stand upon the genuine, and not upon
the counterfeit, platform. Remember,
that the Democratic and Republican
pretentions to greenback and labor
principles are insincere and hypocrit-
ical. Their platforms in all the
Eastern States are sincerely hard
money and untaxed interest bonds;
in the West, insincerely greenbacks
and payment of bonds.
Every honest man viii scorn such
insincerity, and act with the National
Greenback and Labor party, which is
sincere, and which deserves success.
and. appealing to the people with
rectitude and confidence, win achieve
success A. J. GROVER,
Chairman Of the Executive Commit
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