Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-09-21

gressional District-Jackson Gallia,
Lawrence, and Scioto being the
links, and Vinton and Adams the
hooks--is now without Hooks. What
does the hooking party propose to
do with those four links without
Hooks? si ua1.
Here is what J. N. Hook of Ad-
ans said when he resigned the
Craftsmanship of the Central Com
mittee:
n am opposed to thepresent high
protective tariff on iron, because it
enriches the manufacturers at the
expense of the many, without fur
nishing the government any mate.
rial revenue. l am also opposed to
the present tariff on salt for the same
reason. | am also opposed to the
present high tariff on manufactured
articles in general for the same rea-
son. On examination of the tariff
law passed by the last Congress, it
will be found that many of the ar
ticles produced solely in other coun-
tries, and having little or no compe-
tition with our productions at home,
have been stricken from the ist,and
20 free Of duties-on other articles
produced entirely abroad has been
great y reduced and manufacturing
monopolies of the country protected
by monopoly amounting almost to
an entire prohibition of the foreign
trade. These things, in my judg-
ment, ought not to be; and hence l
earnestly and honestly dissent from
the action of our late Convention.
If our country was out of debt, 1
should be in favor of free trade. AS
it is not, ] am for such tariff as will
produce the greatest amount ofrev-
enue to be fairly and impartially
adjusted without any view to the
protection of any one business or
interest, above another.
II believe that the $40 bonds
should be paid in the currency by
which they were purchased-green,
backs; the holders would then re-
ceive more than twice their money
back; enough in all conscience. We
cannot afford to pay so much for f.
deity. The national banks are a
NAV upon our body polite, harass-
ing our people and eating out their
substance-they should at once be
abolished. Think you this will be
done so long as you keep in Con-
gress the present or other national
bank officers and stockholders No,
never; they will keep their feet up
on your necks until they have suck
ed the last drop of blood from their
victims. These vampires can well
afford to tell us "the government is
running smoothly on, be quiet, hold
still, endorse us, yield to our supe-
rior wisdom, and all will be we'll"
Trust not this syren song; it is the
enchantment of the serpent that
leadeth to death.
II cannot particularize in this
brief card, but will further say, that
the last Congress has lavishly and
corruptly given to the railroad rings,
land enough to make three large
States and unnecessarily expended
M ore than $72, 100000. 1 am oppos-
ed to the immigration of Chinese
laborers, because their slavish sub
servicncy must soon break down the
free labor system ofour people, and
a vassalage as dreadful as
African slavery itself. In short, l
am opposed, not to secrecy, but to
secret political rings; not to a tariff,
but to a tariff ring; not to whisky,
but to the whisky ring; not TO gold,
but to the gold ring; not to rail
roads, but to the railroad ring; not
to officers, but to the Office ring; not
to Republican armies, but the Grand
Army of the Republic.
J. N. HOOK"