Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-09-03

Or, TO simplify 1t still more:
MASTERS,
SLAVES.
Now, this heartless, naughty and all
devouring party Bondholders, Rag BArons
pnd white workingmen's masters, is, in
the main, made up Of
Army and Navy Contractors.
Shoddy and National Banks.
High Tariff Sharks.
Big Bounty SWindlers.
Advocates Of Opp-essiBe Taxation.
Congressional Lobby Thieves,
Whisky Thieves.
Speculating Treasury Agents.
Gold Gamblers.
all represented in the National Debt. The
burthen of that debt is borne, and must
be borne by
The honest farmer.
The hard working day laborer.
The down troddcn meeha MIC.
The starving artizan.
The ill-paid clerk.
The dwellers in tenement houses,
We say the load which these Solasses, the
BONE and sINEw Of the land have had
placed upon their backs must be borne;
but we use the expression only in quail.
med sense II need not be borne Unless The
people hemSelVeS so wiU il.
what, then, are the ways and means of
emancipating ourselves from thAgl load p
What IL the nearest and surest cut 10 the
Workingman's assertion-we not mercy
say to mis- right Of self-ownsrsfip, but
even to his RIGHT To LIVE? ~
We unhesitatingly answer:
10 sweep from existence OF the approach
ing November election the thiafes and
plunderers' party which ia running Grant
for President. The thing can be doie 1--WE
are firmly persuaded, If the people-.sfhe
whole peopie-will but half try. The
time for making the trial, remember, is
now. The people must open their eyes to
that helpless and hopeless slavery which
is inevitably in store for them, if these
soulless RSg Barons aud their confederate
swindlers and thieves manage to obtain
another four years control Of the public
'exchequer.
II is one Of the tricks Of the Bondhold
ers to represent thai the Democratic party
is party of repudiators; bat the trick
is one too transparent toldeceive.. The
Democracy propose to repndiate nothing
hut what is dishonest and fraudulent on
its face, II is fraud upon the people,
and it is fraud upon the Constitution. 10
be having two different kinds Of money
gold for the government swindlers, and
rags nothing but rags, for the sons Of
poverty and toll. Tha .DoRaera6 abvcpSse
to do away with that unjust discrimina
ton, TO serve the government creditors all
alike, and 10 pay back the bondholders in
the same kind of money the government
was obliged 10 receive from them. When
the Black Republican orators, editors and
whippers-in declare that that is dishonest.
or that that is repudialiOn, tell them they
lie.
The labO-ing man to-day Is paying as
exorbitant prices for everything he con
sumes as he did the first year of the war,
and as long as the thieves and plunderers
party, now represented by Grant and
Colfax, are in power, he may rely upon it
things will be no better.
Just see hew it works, even under our
eyes and nose, right here on Manhatt tan
Island!
Brown stone fronts and marble palaces
on one line and nothing but
beastly, story tenement houses on the
other Where arc the substantial middle
class, so to speak-thst is, the men of
moderate means, who in the good old Dem
Ocratic gold and silver days used to live
in comfortable dwellings of their own Z
Gone / Literally crushed out Swallaw-
ed up by RAG BARoNs' PARTY, or drawn
into the embraces of the PARTY OF RAGS
Go whithersoever you will now, up town,
down town, across towu-.it is all the
same. On either hand, the PALACE or the
HovEL-the VERY RIoH and the MIsERA-
BLY, PooR-nothing besides
Now, in monaYohial countries, where
'Ghe divine right of kings to govern
wrong" is the rule, the people have to
bow their necks to the rule of the tyrO Mt
and the Oppress T. They oannot help
themselves. But here the people, If they
will, can be their own masters. They oan,
if they choose, put the tyrant An | the op-
pressor under their heel. The time is Al
hand when ii rests with them to say
whether they are prepared to exercise
that will, OF have ignubly made up their
minds 10 live on, in ana under the mean
est form of slavery that is, slavery to a
vulgar-minded aristocracy--to which q
government of demagogues as we are now
living unde.--even veutured TO set up.
Grant, remember, is the now official en-
bodiment Of these task masters. Doom
Grant 10 political death, and the entire
horde Of vampires and ghOuls that are
preying upon labor and the interest Of
labor die with him.
The defeat Of Grant ,is the first step to
the equalization of the public burthens.
If he is made President the rich will be
made richer and the poor poorer. That is
certain.
To defeat Grant is to do something TO-
bring back gold and silver currency,
and to reduce the cost Of subsistence to
point, which will enable poor man and
his family to live.
TO defeat Grant is to upset speculation, ,
eman oipate honest labor from the heartless
grip Of dishopest paper money oligarchy.
and restore the mechanic and workingman
10 the position he is entitled TO occupy in
society. Freeborn, white American citi-
zens cannot always he slaves. Are they
not entitled to emancipation, at least, as
much as the ignorant, debased, fetish
worshiping negro?
The defeat of Grant means lower rents
and higher wages.
Fewer taxes and cheaper bread.
A chance for the mechanic to educate
his children, and once more 10. buy his
wife new dress, 1sft sga
I:means all that, and o good deal more
besides m rql
II will compel the thieves and swindlers
10 take back seats. Il Ja3 aaa
1t will bring honest men and honest
labor again to the front.
II will stop the stealings at Washington.
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