Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-02-21

Larpelau rocks, UaillSll bleln
from their country, or imprison
them for life in Che mbst con-
venient penitentiary.
These bondhoIders have such
immunities and privileges as
are enjoyed by no otller peo-
pie in any free country. They
enjoy the monopoly of bank
ing, controlling the markets
and creating q stringsncy in
the money market # their
pleasure, and buyingAnp the
most product We propet press
ed to trust aud sherifFs sales
by their own direct manage
ment and connivance, buy up
the Courts, Legislatures, press
es, the pulpit, and the able
leaders of the opposition, at
will. Having the entire con.
troll Of the money in the q pun.
try, they use their power to
corrupt every thing and every
body that stands in their way,
and this power will remain, no
difference what party assn N es
power asserting to this finan,
cial system. The system must
be entirely changed before the
administration can be different.
Neither Pendleton, Thur.
man, Hendricks, Hancock, or
any democrat can administer a
corrupt system purely. With
such a system neither Charles
O'Connor, nor William Allen,
certainly two of the purest and
ablest men of the country,
could be trusted. The system
must be changed to remedy
the evil
But when you turn the priv.
ileges of the bondholders to
the condition of the newly
made serfs-the producing
classes-the picture is startling
and horrible. The entire la
boring classes are, to a large
extent, homeless, living from
hand to mouth, aud RETAINING
from marriage through fear Of
being unable to support fami-
lies finding the greatest diff
Guilty in sustaining, much less
in giving to their families a
liberal education.
The tariff on their food and
raiment, and the other sources
Of taxation absorbed by this
enormous system of indebted
ness, makes life a burden.
This anomalous and criminal
condition of things obtains that
the entire earnings Of the coun'
try may be handed over to the
bondholder, and the men who
earn it live in penury and
want. Gould slavery do worse?
All of the social evils result
from the extravaganza and
luxury Of these pri vileged or
ders, who. after satiating their
appetites with each other,
prey upon the virtue of those
driven by want and abandoned
to shame. Thieves and en-
bezzlers are created in the at
tempt to raise their condition
from plebeian to patrician; and
believe their calling respecta,
BILE in q government where
public robbery is the basis Of
the administration.
But among the poor the
love of money has not been en-.
tirely quenched, and the des-
perate, no longer able to live
by labor, placing the power Of
muscle against the power Noi
money, turn sneak thieves, bur.
glars and highway robbers,
risking their own lives, which
suffering has made irksome, to
steal from Others in violation
of law, which they, in turn,
had stolen according tolaw.
With such a system the pull
pit is a mere plaything which
overlooks, when it does not
pander to, the crimes of this
privileged class, Who would
be silly enough 10 expect self
denial among this order
Beecher makes it proftably by
joking them. The laboring
classes with keen common sense,
observing the hypocrisy and
cant of this daubing with un-
tempered mortar, grow weary
and disgusted, and seek pleas