Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-26
Resolutions as Adopted by the
Republican state C0nven.
ti0n at Harrisburg. on the
18th inst.

ti0n at harrisburg. ON the
18th inst.
First. That the steady and large re-
ducrion of the State and national debts
since the Republicans have had con-
troll of the State and National Govern
ments, and the equally steady reduc-
tion in taxation, as well as the high
character for integrity and efficiency Of
the State and National administrations,
are the best possible evidences that the
Commonwealth and the country have
been we'll governed, aud that the peo.
pie have everything to hope and rotb-
ing to fear from the continuance of the
Republican party in power. the Dem-
ocratic party, as it exists to day, is the
same party IN aim, in principle, and in
purpose that it has always been. il
has never retractcd any part of the bad
record it made, both before and during
the war, and il has Fever recsnted any
of the multitude Of errors il has COM
mitted. L, i. the same party TO day
that it Was when it plunged this State
almost hopelessly into debt, and bur-
dened it With heavy load of taxation,
and the people, having driven it from
power on account OF its transEressions
and shortcomings, to restore it with its
numbeIless sins uurepeutei of, and un-
atoned for, would be an endorsement of
that which the people have 50 often and
50 thoroughly condemned.
Second. The Republicans Of Penn
sylvania having been the first to demand
q change in the constitution that would
abolish special legislation and all it,
attendant evils, aud the necessary leg
islation for the cali of 3 Constitutional
Convention fos that purpose having
emaastea froa them, We are justified
il rejoicing to day over the acsomp ish
uent of that great reform, and over ,he
delivery of the State from the evil oon-
sequences Of the old systeD.
Third The movement for the FORM
alton Of tbe new constitution having
been made and carried to completion
under its auspices, the task Of putting
into operation tho machinery Of the
new fundamental Law belongs TO it Of
right, and the duty it involves will be,
IS it has been, faithfully performed in it..
Fourth. lnasmuch a. great abuses
have grown up in :his State under our
present system of fee, as q eonpenss-
uOn for county officers, We demand such
legislation as will Substitute adequate
salaries for fees, and such as will allow
no more than a fair and just compen-
sation for services rendered.
Fifth. We look with pride and sat
isfsctiOn upon our common-school sys-
ten which has grown up under tie fos-
tering care Of the State, and as it is
now muni6ces,ly endowed by the annual
appropriation from the State, secured
to it by the new constitution. the State
is bound to see that all her children are
duly educated under it in the duties of
citizenship, that they may thereby be
come better able to enjoy and perpet-
uate our popular institutions.
S,rth. We recognize that as the true
policy of government, which shall bar
monize all the diversified interests aud
pursuits necessarily existing 10 a coun-
try of such vast extent as ours, aud IS
this can be done osly by directing leg
islation SO as to secure just proteerion
and reward to every branch of indus
try, We are In favor of giving precs-
dence to those measures which shall
recognize agricultural, mining, manu-
featuring, and mechanical pursuits, as
entitled to the amplest protection and
fullest development; of putting stop
to large grants of the public domain to
railroad corporations, and reserving i,
for settlement and cultivation Of i'm
proving the navigation of our great in
land rivers of securing cheap trans
portation and profitable markets for the
products of agricultural and manufac-
turing labor of encouraging such man
ufactures as shall bring the producer
and consumer il the neigLtorhood Of
each other, and thus to establish mutual
relations between them and those en-
gagged in commerce and the transporta
tion of property adjusting the rels-
tons between capital and labor in order
that they may receive just and equi-
table share OF the profits and Of hold
ing those in the possession of corporate
wealth and privileges IN strict conform
ity to the law, so that, through the CON-
bined influences, people of the varied
pursuits may be united together in the
common purpose of preserving the honor
Of the nation aud developing the I'M
mense resources Of every section Of the
Union, and Of advancing the social and
mutual prosperity of all its industrial
and laboring classes.
.Serenfh. The paralysis which has
fallen upon the manufacturing indus
try Of this country within the past year
is fresh evidence of the necessity Of
that protection to our manufacturing
interests for which the Republicans Of
Pennsylvania have always fought. The
reduction of the tariff, accompanied as
it was by largely increased lmportations,
not only helped to bring on the panic,
but bas rendered the recovery from it
more difficult as we'll as lameDtably
slow.
E,ghh. The attempt made just prior
to the adjournment of Congress to es
tablish free trade through the agency
of a reciprocity treaty with Canada de-
mands the severest condemnation. 1t
was an effort to accomplish, through
the treaty making power alone, that
which belongs properly, and By right,
to the popular branch of the Govern
ment, and to put redress out of the
peoples reach for twenty one years to
come. The control over the subject of
national revenue was placed by the
Constitution in the hands of the imme-
data Rnnraoantat g H. l.