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VOLUME I.
Agent <* for tlir Anti-Monopolist.
Tl'e following named friends are kind
•enough to inform as that, they will represent
the Asti-Monopolist m their respective
localities, and solicit and receive subscrip
tions for us:
Rochester, Minn.—Wm. Elliott, R- W.
NorUifield, Minn.—George Bush, Alljert
Tripp.
St. Paul, Minn.—T. A. Lusk.
' Muineai>olis, Minn. —W. L. oas=ew.
Glencoe, Minn.-D. j. Petty ohn.
Hutchinson, Minn. —.’Oman Campoell.
Mankato, Mum—J. F. Wallace..
Castle Rock, Minn. —V. G. Van >-ljke,
James Quilliain. TT _
Farmington, Minn. —Andrew Wareop, Mr.
Works
Monticello, Minn.—Hon. Thoraao Melrose,
Thomas Smithson. ,
' Albion, Wright Co., Minr-I. K Howard.
Red Wing, Minn.-Mrs. M. 1. Washburn.
Rice ford, I i oust on Co , Minn.—Anthony
Beinatz, Martin Horalian.
Mount Pleasant, Muir.. —Hon. I .H. RahilU.
Hastings, Minn.-Phillip Eagan, bred.
K Lamberton, Redwood Co., Minn—Albert
Small. , , . ir
Willow Lake, Redwood Co., Minn.-W.
F. Smith.
Howard, Wright Co., Minn.—lf. Tanner.
Henderson, Minn. —Win. Carroll.
Lung Lake, Heimepin Co., Minn. —Isaac
A. Christlieb.
Cleveland, Lesuenr Co., Minn. William
Lancaster. „ ... ... . ,
Rosemount, Dakota Co , Minn. Michael
Comer. . „
Mendota, Dakota. Co.—Hon. J. L. I/ewt-. -
Faribault, Rice Co., Minn.—T. O’Grady.
Cokato, Wright Co. Minn.—Wm. lee.
Morris, Stevens Cc , Minn.—R. M. Rich
ardson. , ... , T ,
Grand Meadow, Mower 00., Minn. -L. h.
Pearce. , r . ,
Hl’uira, Olmsted Co.. Main.-James Laird.
Braincrd, Crow Wing Co., Minn.—Wm.
Murphy.
High Forest, Olmsted Co., Minn.— P. A.
Honeywell. „
Rose Creek, Mower Lo., Minn.-el. M. Ray,
K. N. Thompson.
Litchfield, Minn.—Wm. M. Campbell.
Houston, Houston Co., Minn.—Jno. Crane,
Hon. David Taylor.
Caledonia, Houston Co., Minn. Martin
Bohan, Richard Lovett.
Winnebago, Houston Co —Peter Dolan.
Money Creek, Houston Co., Minn. Hon.
Wm. Beals, John Hennessy.
Brownsville, Houston Co., Minn.—Michael
Ryan Tip. „ , , „ ,
Rnshford, Fillmore Co —John Maloney.
Aurora, Steele Co., Minn —Corydon King.
Fergus Falls, Minn. —Robert Miller.
Red Wing, Minn.—John M. Swanstrom.
Watertown, Carver Co., Minn.—Cuello
Merriinan. ....
Cottage drove—Hon.. A. McC 1 uskey.
liake City, Minn.—Robert. Terrell.
Austin, Mum. —F. A. Elder, K. C. Dorr,
W. H. Merrick, I. Ingmnndson.
Woodbury, WaeliingtonCo., Mini). Hon.
E. Ayres.
Affkctixu storv told by an lowa paper
“Pour-year-old boy asks his fatther to step
into the back yard to see a pet dog he had
found in an old dry-goods box. The lather
was surprised, on approaching the box, to
see the child run up and take hold of—not a
dog—but a large skunk the child had been
petting and playing with for several hours.
His skunkship seemed to enjoy the sport as
well as the boy, and would allow itself to l>e
fondled just like a kitten, without doing the
m-"an things that some peoples'* skunks do.”
Wc appeal to Senator Ramsey. Why
can’t he make Joseph behave himself
while wc “fondle” him? It would be
so pleasant to “discuss questions” with
Joseph, if he would restrain himself and
not resort to his real powers.
Our Enemies* «t Work.
The Industrial Age of Chicago, says:
If wc are not misinformed, there arc
spies on the track of Mr. Adams, Mr.
Kelly, Col. Smedley alul other workers
in the cause, who are paid by the mo
nopolies and by one of the old political
parties, (the Republican), to get some
point on them that will cause them to
lose the good will now felt for them by
the great mass of the people. And
when we consider the extent to which
!these efforts at detraction have been
it is wonderful that more has
not been accomplished.
§ One prominent gentleman in the Far
mers' Movement was hounded for over
fix weeks last fall by pimps and min
ions, at the expense of some of the llli
nois railroads. The sin of the gentle
man was that he had been active in the
Farmers’ Movement, and his name had
been mentioned in connection with some
■ office in the State Grange.
(>ne of the most mortifying features
•of all this is, that many of these efforts
to create discontent have been made
under the auspices, or with the aid of
some of the so-called agricultural jour
ials, who live off of. and draw their
ustcnancc from the farmers, [Like the
", armers ’ Union . of Minneapolis. — Ed.
Iprri-Moxoroi.isT.j
Inless the Age has been much mis
|vised, large sums of money have been
(ready sent to this city from the sea
card, and promised where it is thought
will do the most good to put down
je Farmers' Movement.
fi
t 1
I Thb master of the lowa National
irange, D. W. Adams, in a letter to the
Mirror , persistently declines
jeing a candidate for Congress. He
says: “My time is all occupied in a
work more agreeable, and I hope more
aseful than a political canvass.” Grand
Master Parsons of this State is not so
Susy, and therefore puts iu his spare
Inoments to good advantage in the polit*
leal line. He wants to go to Congress.
i-St. Paul Pioneer.
The Anti^»nopolist
Sipeajfc. to tlie Olrilciren or Israel, tlia/b They Go Forward.
Grange §|rpa:rtmmL
[From the Constitution of the National j
Orange.]
ThF. ULTIMATE OBJECT OF THIS ORGANIZA
TION IS FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND PRO
TECTION.
Human happiness is the acme of earthly
ambition. Individual happiness depends
upon GEN KRAI PROSPERITY.
From the address of the Master of the
National Grange, Master Adams of lowa, de
livered at the last National Grange meeting
at St. Louis, January, 1874:
“Article xii. also demands most serious
consideration to definitely decide what in
terpretation shall be put upon the word
“political.” Jam gratified that our members
are substantially a unit in the opinion that
the Order should not in any sense become a
political party. But at the same time, there
are questions most fundamentally affecting
our material interests wkzch can only be
reached through legislation. — lt seems im
perative that such questions should bk dis
| cussed in the Orange. Shall it be said that
| such questions were political in the meaning
lof the Constitution? The questions of
; TRANSPORTATION, TAXATION, FINANCE, COR-
I keption in public PLACES, were such as come
j home to the consciences and pockets of our
I members , and they wish to know whether
! they will be denied Jthe privilege of can
vassing them on the ground of politics.”
I To this suggestion the National
• Grange replied as follows in their
j NATIONAL PLATPORM.
I “We emphatically and sincerely assert the
; oft repeated truth taught in our organic law,
I that the Grange, National, State or Subor
j dinate, Is not a political or a party organiza
| tion. No Grange, is true to its obligations,
! can discuss political or religious questions,
j nor call political conventions, nor nominate
i candidates, nor even discuss their merits in
| its meetings.
Yet the principles we teach underlie all
| TRUE POLITICS, ALL TRUE STATESMANSHIP, and
j if properly carried out will tend to purify the
j whole political atmosphere of our country.
For we seek the greatest good to the greatest
i number.
TECTION
W'e must always bear in mind that no one,
by becoming a Patron of Husbandry, gives
up that inalienable right and duty which be
longs to every American citizen, to take a
proper interest in the politics of his country.”
“We propose meeting together, talking
together, and generally ACTING TOGETH
KR, for our mutual protection andadvance
ment.”
“We are opposed to any such spirit and
management of any corporation or enter
prise as tend to oppress tne people and rob
them of their just profits.”
“We are opposed to excessive salaries and
high rates ot interest.”
“Some Granger has left his pocket book
on our table. It looks as if it had been run
through a threshing machine in the heart of
the grasshopper country. It is out at bottom,
sides and top, and there is nary a cent in it.
— Farmers' Union."
Would it be proper for that Granger
to inquire whether the high tariff, the
exactions of railroads, extraordinary
local taxation and universal corruption,
had anything to do with bringing his
pocket book to that dilapidated con
dition? Or perhaps that pocket book is
typical of the condition of your cus
tomers, brother Aberncthy, when you
get through with them? Did you “go
through” that pocket book, and if so,
what did you do with the body of the
owner? Speak up, brother.
Hon. P. H. Rahtlxy, of Mount Pleas
ant, Wabashaw county,and the most ex
tensive farmer in that county, adminis
ters, in the Lake City Sentinel, the fol
lowing well-deserved rebuke to the ring
of politicians who run the Minneapolis
Grange P. of H.:
“I was appointed by the Lake City Grange
to attend a Council of the Patrons of Hus
bandry, held at Minneapolis last week. I
attended said Council and expected to learn
a great deal,in relation to our noble Order.
The Tribune man is no doubt in possession
of all the facts. If I were worthy to suggest
any line of prudence to the poiitical ring
leaders of Minneapolis, Winona, or else
where, I would tell them: First, never at
tempt to draw Grangers together for the
avowed purpose of denouncing
any of its honored members in good stand
ing, or for the purpose of satisfying some
political aspirant. Should any ot your ring
succeed in procuring the services of any- offi
cer of trust iu the Order, depend upon it,
some of the high privates will discover your
Same.”
The impudence of the Minneapolis
Ring, who got up a festival to advance
the interests of Bill King, and then
brought Pardons there to denounce us
for using the Grange for political pur
poses, “would create a laugh under the
ribs of death.”
“I WOULD VOTE POR TRE DEVIL IF HE
WAS REGULARLY NOMINATED OX THE REPUBLI
CAN TICKET.”
So spoke, last fall, the Master of the
State Grange, George I. Parsons, of
Winona.
The sentiment is a horrible one.
Help the devil to rule over the peo
ple if the necessities of the Republican
party required it!
Subordinate God and his children to
the arch-enemy of the world, if the Re
publican party demanded it!
Evlevate into opportunities for evil
the Father of liars, thieves, corruption-
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874.
ists, back-paysters, credit-mobilierisis.
aristocrat* and despots; if thereby the
Republican party could be kept in
power.
Give the people over to robbery and
ruin and the oppressions of Hell if the
Monopolists insisted on it.
Oh, worthy Master Parsons, no won
der you insist that the Granges
shall be dumb, like sheep before the
shearers, while you and yours set up.
the devil to rule over them.
No wonder you are opposed to the
Grangers discussing politics; they
might trample on such politics as yours.
“I would vote for the devil if he was
regularly nominated on the Republican
ticket.”
If that remark had been made by
some characterless shyster, who had
been kicked from State to State in a
fruitless search for office, and had at
last, for the sins of the people, turned
up in Minnesotasome coarse-grained,
low-souled, sordid, shameless adven
turer, we might pass it by; but ema
nating from the worshipful Master of
the State Grange of the Order of the
Patrons of Husbandry of Minnesota,
the case is different.
Patrons! We warn you. Your ene
mies are at work. It is determined
that your efforts for self-protection
shall come to naught. The robbers of
the people understand that they cannot
openly resist your numbers or your
power. But they can turn you
aside, scatter and divide you, by cor
rupting your leaders. They remember
what was said of old time, that “an
army of-asses led by a lion, was more
formidable than an army of lions led by
an ass.”
Be not betrayed. Benedict Arnold,
worked upon by an aristocratic, no
bilitv-loving wife, thought that he could
transfer the whole patriot people of
America, when he sold himself for
money, and the promise of an office to
the English Government. But the
goods were not delivered. Benedict got
his price, but the great Declaration of
Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities, Lib
erty, Justice and fair play, crystalized
into a mighty nation; and there is no
new Benedict who can now sell it out,
even though he lives in Winona and is
by a sad accident temporarily head of
the great order of Patrons of Husbandry
of Minnesota.
The Farmers 9 Union.
Two Grangers, P. H. McDermid and
James Hughes, of Nicollet county, write
the Farmers' Union to know whether
it is proper to discuss in the Grange the
speech and report of Senator Windom,
on the subject of eanal and lake naviga
tion, south and east, for the transporta
tion of the farmers’ crops, and they fur
ther ask these very significant ques
tions:
“Ist. What was the necessity for, and the
cause of the rapid progress of the Patrons of
Husbandly?
2d. Did polities have anything to do t eith
the present condition, of the farmer'
3d. Did railroad corporations, with their
wealth and influence, combine to control leg
islation for their men benefit , thereby estab
lishing channels of trade, by which they get
the right of way, in most cases giving wn&t
they please lor* the same; land enough to
build said roads, besides magnificent bonuses
and charging their own prices for taking onr
produce to market, and on what we require
in exchauge.’’
And the Union , or some Republican
office-holder of Minneapolis, speaking in
the name of the editor, replies:
“If through discussiou in the Grange,
public sentiment cun be aroused on the sub
ject of river and lake navigation, so as to
lead Congress to give us a canal irom the
Mississippi to the lakes and thence to the
ocean to move onr crops; or if National leg
islation can be secured on railroads through
the discussion of the evils in their manage
ment, then we should say that the Patrons
had not existed in vain.”
Mark how carefully this is guarded!
The Grange may discuss Mr. Windom’s
utterances; they nay indulge in any
amount of praise of that great and good
man. No danger of disrupting the
Grange by discussing Windom and his
views. But to discuss Donnelly and his
views, that were a gray horse of an
other color.
What if some Patron got np and said
that Windom was a demagogue; a rail
road man; an aristocrat by nature; that
he was trying to turn the people from
the question of the regulation of their
railroads to the consideration of the
question of digging the mud out of the
mouth of the Mississippi; and that his
whole speech and report were simply
intended to keep the Republican party
in power. Would that provoke discus
sion in the Grange? Hey? What say
you Master Parsons? Speak up.
en o
Then go a step further. The Union
says:
“If through discussion in the Grange
public sent imm t can be aroused on the
subject of river and lake navigation so
as to lead Congress to give us a canal
from the Mississippi to the lakes,” 4c.
See how humbly he approaches the
subject. He would not have us vote.
But we must form public opinion* and
then Congress, ex gratia, may be in
duced to “give us” something!
And this is addressed to freemen who
are Hie foundation of all law,the makers
of Congresses and Congressmen. Con
gressman' “give us” something! Let us
send Aberncthy down there to represent
us; let him present himself on his knees
with his hat in his hand, in the lobby
of Congress, and cry out:
“Oh great and mighty Congress!
august representative of divine power!
Behold me here on my knees. Our poor
abject Grangers of Minnesota having
abjured the right of suffrage and all the
other rights of free men, have sent me
here to beg that you will ‘give us’ some
thing. Bill King will vouch for my
loyalty! We will not vote; we will
simply arouse public sentiment.”
The people of Minnesota are not made
of that kind of stuff. They will demand
of Congress their ' rights; they will se
lect representatives to insist upon
those rights: and they will crush at the
ballot box every man and every politi
cal party that stands in their way.
They will not cry “give us,” —but they
will take; they will not simply “arouse
i public sentiment” and then let it evap
orate in wind; they will put it in
their ballots and they will make those
ballots rattle like bullets against the
ribs of their enemies.
But let us go a step farther. Says
the Union:
“Or national legislation can be se
cured on railroads, through the discus
sion of the evils in their management,”
&c.
Why national ? Because the
Grangers cannot discuss State legisla
tion without discussing the failure of
the Republican party of this State in
all the past years to protect their rights;
and when they get that far they might
just as well discuss the Anti-Monopoly
Address and Donnelly and the devil.
But “national!” That is good. That
is far off. That is Bariboolagah. You
can’t hurt anybody by discussing that;
but if you come nearer home then you
tread on some one’s corns and those
terrible Anti-Monopolists will have a
chance to be heard.
And this is just the distinction drawn
by the Union; for it says:
“Mr. Donnelly’s discussions, if con
fined to these questions would be un
objectionable.”
That is, if he talked about canals, and
national legislation, and Baribooalgah
and the moon, he would do no harm to
any one; “but this Anti-Monopoly Ad
dress is only a tirade against the Re
publican party of the State, with a
view to the organization of another, and
every speech of his tends in the same
direction.”
Aye, there’s the rub. He is hurting
the Republican party and therefore he
must be stopped.
Understand the issue then, farmers;
you can’t correct the evils you suffer
without hurting the Republican party,
and it is bettei that the Republican
party should live even though you all
perished. What are your poverty or
sufferings set in the scale against tha
salaries of the office-holders and the
juicy pap which flows from their pock
ets into the mouth of the Farmers'
Unioni
that this paper was established to de- j
ceive and betray you; and that it is ;
now doing its foul work? Every far- ;
mer in the State should spurn it out of
his house as he would a serpent; for it
is a serpent that would sting his chil
dren with the two great evils of the
human race —ignorance and poverty.
The Clvvea Hoot
The Farmers' Union in its issue of
.July 4th, definitely settles its own po
litical status. It quotes in a conspicu
ous way, without dissent, the following
from the Mankato Record, in relation
to Bill King:
“And this leads us to repeat the surprise
so often expressed by others, that his Con
gressional district his never insisted upon
his serving them as a member of Congress.
Bat we presume that the Colonel has been
too busy with Us eattfe and hia horses, his
Can anything be plainer then than
newspaper and stock farmhis labors, for
his ‘friends’ and his ‘fellow citizens,’ anil
‘his section of the Country.’
“Besides the advantages of having a mem
ber able and willing to serve a people, there
is a great deal in having one who ‘knows the
ropes,,’ and all the ins and outs of legislation.
So we live in hopes of yet seeing Col. King’s
‘constituency’ honor and benefit themselves
far more than they can him by electing him
to a seat in Congress.”
Now we have no objection in the
world to the Union supporting Bill
King for Congress; hut if it does, we
shall insist that it take off the mask of
non-partisanship, which it has been
wearing, and cease howling against in
troducing politics into the Grange.
As a Republican paper we shall know
just how to meet it. As a professedly
neutral paper, doing the dirty work of
the Republican party, it is more diffi
cult to encounter.
The politicians are more alarmed
about your hurting them than your
hurting the Grange. They lose no
chance to sneer at you; but don’t talk
politics or you'll hurt the grange.
BACKBONE.
When you see a fellow mortal
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the skirts of others,
Walking in their cast-off shoes,
Bowing low to wealth or favor,
With abject, uncovered head,
Ready to retract or waver,
Willing to be drove or led,
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow—
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone,
Than this—Backbone.
When you see a politician
Crawling through contracted holes
Begging for some fat position,
In the ring or at the polls,
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing stable, broad or sound,
: Destitute of pluck or ballast,
| Double-sided all around;
| Walk yourself with tinner bearing,
! Throw your moral shoulders back.
Show your spine has nerve and marrow—
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone,
Tiian this—Backbone.
Politics in the Orange.
In our judgment the Grange has no
right to talk politics as politics; uo
right to bold conventions or make nom
inations.
But it has, we think, a perfect right
to discuss questions of political econo
! my, such as the mode and degree of
} government revenue; the advantages or
I disadvantages of direct taxation as com*
, pa red with taxation by a duty on im
ports. It has a right to discuss all
questions as to the transportation of
the productions of the country; the
comparative advantages of water and
rail transportation; what lines of water
communication are most important to
Minnesota; how they can be obtained,
&c. It has also a right to discuss the
patent laws and how they can best be
improved ? ,How the postal laws affect
the intelligence of the country ? Wheth
j er the postal department should be sus
| tained by the general government as
! the war department is, and the mails
carried free ? And a hundred similar
questions.
These discussions should be conducted
in an impersonal, unpartisan and fra
ternal manner.
If these discussions lead Granges to
conclusions adverse to any political
party or parties, they can put those
conclusions into force outside of the
Grange, and can as private citizens en
ter into any political movements they
see fit. They certainly cannot be asked
to submit to injustice and injury to
save the feelings or promote the inter
ests of any political organization.
We would suggest that the Granges,
especially in the winter, get up debates
on the great questions we have referred
to; meeting not as Granges but with
their doors thrown open to all the pub
i lie; and having selected debators on the
; opposite sides of the question at issue.
| proceed to debate it. This course
s steadily pursued would make the formers
of Minnesota the most intelligent body
• of men on earth.
The following admirable letters ap
pear in a late number of the Farmer's
Union. Who shall say after reading
them that the Grangers of the State
are the set of ignorant clod-hoppers, the
Republican papers would have us be
lieve; or that the Rochester Post wlas
right when it intimated very broadly,
> that it was impossible'to be at the same
time scholar and gentleman, and a
farmer!
In breadth of thought and felicity of
MINNESOTA
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY. '
NUMBER 1.
expression, these letters are far above;
the average compositions of the “little
creatures whom God. in the depths of
hi*v inscrutable wisdom,” permits to
print the tax-lists and form public
opinion for the Republican party:
To the Editor of the Union:
It seems that the late efforts of Don
nelly to obtain a hearing for the ad
dress of the Anti-Monopoly Committee
through the Granges has provbked
lively discussion as to whether or not
the Grange movement has anything to
do with politics.
The organic law seems to settle the
matter one way, while unmistakable
facts seem to settle it the other way.
Last fall’s elections in Illinois, lowa,
Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota, in
all of which the Granges are the. 4nost
numerous, possessed rather too strong
a Grange hue to have been accidental,
and I think it must be admitted what
ever may be thought of the propriety
of political action, that the Granger*
have “gone and done it,” and are quite;
likely to do it again.
And why not? I suppose they are
sincere in their resolutions, passed
everywhere, against back-pay steals,
high taxes, high salaries, money rings,
transportation rings and the like, and.
they know that simply passing resolu
tions without further action, is like
dropping buckets into empty wells and
drawing nothing up, and that n >rms
were never yet “resoluted” into ex
istence, but are born of action. If we
have no more earnest purpose than to
amuse ourselves with songs and cere
monies and sentimentalities, wearing
regalia, carrying banners, and passing,
red-hot resolutions; if we are to amuse
ourselves with running a nice little
parlor machine while others run the
government, then I have mistaken the
import and animus of the Grange move
ment. Resolutions without action are
like wooden cannon, more for show than
service, while resolutions supplemented
by the ballot,
“Execute the freeman’s will
As lightning does the will of God.”
When the railroads combine to put
up freights to Milwaukee and Chicago
three cents per bushel on wheat, thus
taxing the wheat growers of Minnesota
sl)so,ooo on a single crop, as they did
last October, it would seem to be about
time for the only live organization of
farmers in our State to say that they
will resist and resent the extortion not
only % resolution, but by legislation,
and if these vital questions are not to
be discussed in the Grange, and the
effort is not to be made to obtain gov
ernmental relief and protection, then it.
would seem that our organization wa*
intended to be far less useful than or
namental. But these questions are u»
in the Grange and they will not “down”
at the bidding of our excellent Grand
Master, or any other man.
So long as no political test is required
for membership or fellowship in the
Grange, the spirit and the organic law
will be complied with, and “the letter
which killeth” may safely be ignored.
Take from the Grange the anti-inonop
oly sentiment and there would be *
body without blood; take from the
Grange the right to carry this senti
ment into action, and we have a body
with blood but no brains. If the Grange
may not contend politically against po
litical wrongs, then is the young Samp
son bound by the green withes of the
Phillistines. Lewis Porter.
Garden City, Minn., June 23, 1874.
Haskan, May 13tli, 1874.
To the Editor of the Union,:
*******
The growth of this Order has lieen in pro
portion to the wrong and injustice, rascality
and corruption that have afflicted the pro
ducing classes of this nation, and their or
ganization Is in self-defense of their God
given rights.
Doctors live upon the ignorance and mis
fortunes of the human race. If people knew
what the laws were that govern life, and
obeyed them, there would be no sickness or
disease.
Politicians are just as much interested in
keeping the people in ignorance of how they.
are governed, for then they can rob and rule
them as they please. Whoever endeavor*
to keep thepeople in ignorance is a public
enemy. Whoever enlightens them is their
friend.
The' Grangers of Hennepin county, at
least, are capable of judging of the merits of
any document that may be sent to them, no
matter from what source it may come. If
they are not; some one should be appointed
to take care of them.
I cannot believe that human nature is ao
degraded that people cannot tolerate any
difference of opinion, except upon the sub
ject of raising crops. For one, I have ever
claimed the right to think as I pleased upon
all subjects, ana I don’t propose to be fence*
in. GORDON JACKINS.
The Northwest is determined to have
an outlet at reasonable rates. Its in
habitants do not propose to allow pri
vate corporations to usurp the functions
of government and levy a rascally tarifl
on every bushel of wheat hr pound at
pork that is sent to the market. If ths
corporations had appreciated this fast
promptly and provided for concessions
at the right time, there would him
been no difficulty. The trouble With
them was that they had become purfb
proud. They despised the masses and
endeavored to boss things in
• style.— Chicags Fast am MftiL /%
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