The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-12

SUPPRESS CIlc IISluS generations OI The
labOring classes.
If the Herald really wishes Grant
to be president to antagonize the
labor movements, we do not hesitate
to say that it is taking a very perilous
course. 1t attempts to array capital
lists and the interests of capital under
a strong Grant Government to Gust
the movements of the industrious
classes to improve their condition
must result disastrously.
General Grant is the lest man to
bring forward for the Presidency in
these times. He is instinctively
favorable to the same %aristocratic and
repressive policy toward the laboring
working classes of the north that he
has towards the south, and with this
state of things now arising, a conflict
under his government might come
which would either end in anarchy or
dictatorship"
A correspondent from Washington
says that the dispatches from London
announcing Adam Badeau as the
author of the Herald's interview with
Grant creates no surprise. 1t is d
part of a systematic attempt to bring
Grant again before the public and
force him upon the Republican party
as the next candidate for President.
Every effort has been made to keeI
the people talking about him. The
last interview was c%unningly con.
trived. Southern newspapers were
aflame by compliments to Lee. Stone
wall Jackson and Albert Sidney John
son. Surviving Confederate soldiers
were interested, and are still discuss
ing Grants estimate of the merits OF
their chieftains. Artful illusions to
Union Generals excited the curiosity
of the Union veterans.
Grants old ring friends are de-
lighted. They lounge around bal
rooms. club houses, and gambling
saloons, aglow with anticipation
Memories of the past are revived
Lips are smacked over future plums.
There is a busy hum among the post
traders and army contractors on the
frontier. The carpet-bagging buzzards
of the south extend their wings tC
catch the inspiring breeze, and the
ruby robbers of the navy department
wipe their fat chins, smiling with
satisfaction. All feel that there are
millions in it.
The scheme requires delicate polit
ical engineering. Money alone car
furnish the driving power. And that
money the knowing ones aver is to be
forthcoming. They point with pride
to Mackey's oriental reception OF
Grant in Paris. They say the silver
and railroad kings of Nevada and
California are alarmed. They fancy
that labor reforms will despoil them
of their wealth.
Mackey makes no secret of his fears
and Stanford. Croker, Hayward
Jones, Sharon find others are prepared
to follow his footsteps. With Grant
in the chair at the White House they
think their Accommodations would be
secured. No constitutional barrier
would stand in his way when his
friends were in danger. He has
frequently, used the army without
authority. and would not scruple to
do so again. In a conversation in
Virginia City last spring, Mackey is
reported to have said: Il will give q
million of dollars to secure Grant the
Republican nomination, and another
million to compass his election, anC
once in the White House, l will give
Il million to keep him there for life
He added that this might seen
strange talk, but he could put up the
money, knowing it to be a good i'll
vestment. A man ought to insur.
his house against fire. Grant is tn,
insurance company for the Pacific
railroad robbers. land grabbers, ant
m~anipulators of mineral lands. Ant
they are prepared to take large block,
of stock in him.
The sun says: Grant has beer
taking lessons of Bismarck and tn,
autocrats of the Old World how t,
deal with a people who, sufferin.
from want and oppression,are inclined
to be restive."
The worklngmen can now feel en-
couraged; their strength is ackuowl
edged, and the fight for power will b,
il bitter one. Let us keep cool. ce
ment u weak places; calmly poin
out the rottenness of the existing in
situations. the dishonesty of on,
statesmen, and the great need of
change. We need no labored argu
ments to prove our position. All tina
is necessary is to ask the workingmal
if he is satisfied with the existin:
order of things; if he can feed ant
clothe his family as we'll AS he did
few years ago; if his prospects lool
any brighter now than they did
year since; if, since the introduction
of gold and silver in place of tn,
greenbacks. he is able to save a littl,
more for a rainy day. or old age. thai
he did when the greenbacks wer,
the only money. These simple ques
tions will be readily answered by tn,
workingman; and when he is pointed
out the path to pursue to restore pros
perity. he will boldly deposit hi.
ballot for the men of his choice.
We have made up our minds wha
to do, whether we will allow this Re
public to drift into q despotism, O,
whether we will restore he Repuhli,
to its former simplicity. and purity
and these corrupt ofice-holders know
1t, and for that reason there will b,
music in the air.-People's Advocate
The National Greenback and Laboe
party have everything to gain By :,
I aggressive campaign. Agitation. dis
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