Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-11-07

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what has been done and amending
Deficiencies; by those who hold that
public works should be created by
private enterprise or let alone, and
by some who would have no efforts
made to increase wealth until all ex
listing liabilities are discharged-not-
withstanding that this enterprise
looks directly to an increase Of gov
ernmeht revenues, otherwise unar-
talnable, and on the largest scale. 1t
is opposed, too, by the Central Pa
citic interest, created almost without
return by government contributions,
and by some northern men who dis
like assisting southern recovery and
well-being.
One or two facts are evident and
incontestible The road as designed
is need and will be of vast benefit.
1t traverses an inaccessible country
of great dimensions and wealth-the
Cibola of the Montezuman dynasty
which yielded vast wealth from its
remote sources to Spanish cupidity.
The whole country viii benefit from
this wealth. It will also carry popu-
lation into new regions and build
States into opulence and power. I.
will enlarge the sale of cattle and
sheep and the wool crop. 1t will
create direct business with northern
Mexico and end Indian wars there.
1t viii attract new Pacific business,
and insure us that supremacy in those
waters we are seeking and must have
"a supremacy which. by further
shortening the distance between west
ern Europe, Australia and eastern
Asia, Will permanently secure that for
our ports and bottoms and manufac-
lures. 1t will satisfy the southern
do; furnishing them, as it does, with
such access 10 the Pacific and such
internal connection as the Kansas,
Union and Northern Pacific roads
give to superior regions at cost of
S92,066, 151 to the country, on which
50, 524,0 900 of interest has to be paid
annually. 1t Will end a monopoly
that is inexpedient and it will
achieve this with conditions that in
sure the government from loss-that
indeed, leave the country merely an
endorser of a thoroughly safe obliga-
ton, by means of which.it Will gain
great and permanent revenues.
II is under these conditions and for
such ends, with such precedents and
assurances, that the bill comes into
Congress for action. 1t viii not pass
without opposition; but We believe
that it viii pass. and that, after taking
INTO consideration all sectional, all
financial and business, and all con-
stitutional considerations. it should
pass, and that instantly. It can not
fail to stimulate many interests be-
yond those directly contemplated
that are mighty; and all of its ad-
vantages are by the conditions of the
bill secured from loss.
This "wednesday morning indicates the
election OF the entire Democratic ticket in
the State. The Democracy were the only
people who heartily entered into the work
yesterday. just what their majority will
foot up, il is impossible to tell. Their de-
spatches claim the Safe by 1900 to 10000
majority. The Republicans are sending no
dispatches. The Republicans were not in
a hurry to vote; they are not in a hurry to
get the returns.
Monday was a field day in Congress for
the Silver Dollar as a Legal Tender for all
debts public and private; also for the re-
peal OF the resumption act. Congress
seems to be in an imitation mood.