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

stands for the Republican party, and
who Constitutes the resiquum. or
sugaring off of that party land August
Belmont, who stands for the Demo
cratic party, are the great leaders of
the European commune in this cOun-
try, and their followers and adherents
are the communists. They represent
individuals, corporations and classes
in Europe and America, who have
absorbed most of the wealth of two
continents, but who never earned
dollar; who have obtained possession
OF. the real estate and personal prop
erty of the world by practical COM
munism and agrarianism; by fraudu
lent and forcible distribution of
property to themselves, which has
been earned by the working masses.
The means employed have been
standing armies; hereditary land
titles, exemptions from taxation;
royal grants; titles of nobility; mo-
nOpolies in trade; monopolies in man.
ufacturing; governmental subsidies;
untaxed Understanding bonds; con-
troll of the circulating medium ;usury;
corrupt legislation; unequal and un-
just exemption from taxation; debt.
1t there are two communists in this
shall be no more bonds issued to suck
up the earnings of labor for the ben
eft of those who s'toil not, neither do
they spin.' We are in favor Of
currency resting upon the credit of
the people. We agree that such
country men who are dangerous, men
who, above others, deserve to be
hung, or shOt,as traitors and enemies
of the republic, there can be no doubt
but John Sherman and August Bel
mont are the two men who should
first hang. If there are any German,
French, or English communists in
Europe who are enemies of human
society and of man, they are the rep
resentatives OF the house Of Roths-
child. ostensibly engaged in banking
in London. Paris, and Berlin, and not
the poor, working ,half-starved masses
OF men whose earnings are taken
by force or fraud and distributed to
these financial kings by the hundreds
of millions annually, although they
never earned and are not entitled tOa
dollar.
The money power and the political
power of the world, united in unholy
conspiracy, have been engaged for
centuries in rObbing the producers
of wealth, and distributing it under
the blood-reg flag of communism, to
the luxurious idlerS and titled aristo-
Gratis, who never earned, and are not
rightfully entitled to cent.
These are the men and classes who
are dangerous to society, and to civil
llzation, and not their poor victims,
who have been robbed and enslaved.
These blood-sucking and blood-letting
| communists are not confined to
Europe; they are organizing in this
country; they are represented by the
men named above, and by many 9TH
ers; they control the finances of this
country; they issue untaxed interest
| producing bonds; they have brought
the country to the verge of bankruptcy
by robber taxation, and to the borders
of revolution by their iniquities; they
have plundered thepeople by taxation,
which amounts almost TO confiscation.
The cry of communism against the
National Greenback and Labor party
is the cry of stop thief by the thief
| himself.
All the wealth of the world has been
earned by those who have done the
labor of the world This is self-evi-
dent. 1t is also quite as apparent that
the laborers of the world have owned
and enjoyed but very little of the
wealth or property of the world. This
wealth has been unjustly or forcibly
taken from the working classes by
the only dangerous and practical CON-
munists, the idle and scheming classes,
| that have always been curse and a
terror to the race.
There has been in our ranks some
confusion as to names. Happily this
confusion no longer exists. The name
National Greenback and Labor
! party" has now been almost univer-
sally adopted, and seems to be gene
rally the favorite name with the peo-
pie. In Texas. Missouri. Colorado,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, New
| Y ork. Illinois, and Maine. and other
States the name National Greenback
and Labor party seems to have been
adopted.
! There has been some distrust of
the Toledo Convention. 1t has been
charged that it was an attempt to set
a back fire by the Manhattan Club of
New York City, which is presided
over by the Mephistopheles of Amer
lean politics, who presides over that
club. If this attempt was made, it
failed. The men comprising the
Toledo Convention, with few excep-
tions, can never be captured or per.
manently Used to defeat their own
principles. There is no danger from
this quarter of any injury to our
cause, either from foes without, or
dupes within our ranks. As to the
charge that the party is secret or
ganizatiOn nothing more need be said
than that it is utterly baseless. We
may have men in our ranks who be-
long to secret societies, as what party
has not, but this is no concern of the
party. We have ne occasion to med
die with any mans individual affairs.
He has right to be Mason, an Odd
Fellow, Son of Temperance, or a
Nationalist. if he likes. As party,
we want his vote, but do not wish to
inquire into his religion or social re-
lations. The bugaboo that we are q
secret organization. like the charge
Of communism. exists only in the