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N Anti-Monopoly Society, organized for the ollowing objects, would help, among other instrumentalities, to keep within bounds the spirit of greed, which is eating out the heart of the nation, and demoralizing every ramification of society.

The principles of Universal Justice to be the basis of this Society. Industry and integrity to be rewarded by securing a home, that should be inalienable, and as sacredly protected as life, from the clutching hand of avarice. Land Limitation and Homestead Exemption to be sought to be incorporated in our laws, the latter not as now allowed to be made a dead letter, by the preferred claim of speculators and monopolists.

Of course no millionaire or monopolist can be admitted to membership in this society; nor any man who does not adopt the prayer of Agur, "Give me neither poverty nor riches;" neither any man who would act under conditions as the following illustrates:

1. A man, who, being a member of a family of five brothers and sisters, is willing that the four should be kept incessantly at work, while he lives in idleness, and by