Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09

DEMOCRACY.
Is the Party to be Trusted?

Is the Party to be Trusted
Corrupt, UnprincipIed, and Foe to
American Industries.
Guilty Of Treason Dishonesty and Repu-
diation-A Friend to Rebel Claims
and Foreign Pauper Labor
and SpecuIstors.
Tnereis nothing nobler or erander within The
4 range OF human capabilities than forgiveness
and forgeuuiness of injuries. There is no surer
mark OF goodness and even greatness than this
indicates In individuals, and in almost all cases
what is wise and noble in Individual action Is the
same with parties or governments. Upon every
citizen OF this Commonwealth, however, rests
4 a responsibility; every voter has q duty TO per-
form. He owes IL TO himself. TO those who have
4 gone before, but much more to those who will
| come after and inherit the good or evil which he
transmits. Therefore, forgiveness aud forget
! fulness OF injuries which purely concern our
selves must not be confounded with those
| in which have only passing and
| transitory interest. Ii the Democratic
party is ever permitted 10 return TO power,
| It will be effeciea by the combination Of
| two things. The people will forgive and forget
4 the wickedness and the evils Democracy has
| wrought and remember only The repros ch which
| Few prominent Republican traitors 10 their party
have brought upon the country. II seems al
most superfluous 10 go over the long list OF
| crimes against law and order, against human
rights and liberty, against tine true interests Of
America. which the Democratic party has
been guilty Of On every hand are evidences of
their recklessness, of their treason, OF their
treachery and betrayal of American industry.
| Almost within the memory OF the youngest voter
who will go TO the polls on the 9Th OF Novem-
| Der is the treason and perfdy of the last Demo-
| cratic national administration, The Ternem-
brasce OF the weak aud eowardIy subterfuges Of
the Chief Executive, and the active and bold con-
nivanee and aid OF his subordinates In armiDg
rebels and plunging the nation into ciuseless
| war, which blliowed the south all over with
| graves, desolaiing million happy homes and
| burdeniDg unborn generations with debt. He
| Will remember how during those bitter and
| terrible years OF struggle. OF doubt aud despon-
| dency, when the only refuge on earth for the
| oppressed and suffering OF all natious hung on
the very verge of destruction, this party cast Ills
1 lnuuenct win lFdllDtss now llOst WIN lidOsu
their all upon the altar OF their country We're
reviled and scofied al, and how the memories OF
the slain have been hesped with obloquy and
the brave survivors traduced and sanderei.
| There is not, even in that party, a degiee
Of impudence daring enough 10 deny or defend
| these charges. They are too infamous for even
| the most INSCRIPTIONS and intense pariIsans 10
Justify. When The blessed angel Of peace came
| once more TO our distracted land, and the rebel
| armies were allowed 10 surrender on terms so
| liberal as 10 melt the south TO tears, and were
| invited once more TO resume their places in the
| great family, we all remember how this party
opposed every step Of reconciliation that should
secure TO the coloreI man the rights guaranteed
l oy the Constitution aud laws, and every Priuci-
| pie upon which our Republic is founded how,
| froIa hanging these InoGensive people 10 lamp
posts aud burning their school houses in New
York TO ku-kluxism in the south. heir never
ceasing diabolism OF thirty years continued, re-
kindling the bitter fires OF sectional hate, caste
and treason in the breasts OF lhe bai and dan
gerous element OF the country, and dispelling
IN a great measure the auspicious s!.ns OF peace
| and unity that followed the homeward- march
| Of our armies.
HAS THE PARTY CHASGED?
| But they tell US this Il the ''blOOdy shirt
that these issues are past; they plead guilty and
ask thai these things be buried in fOrsetfulness.
| They declare that new questions have arisen,
and new leaders stepped 20 the front; and In this
! they declared truly. From cringiug before the
slave power of the south, rankly prosecuting
aud defaming the sacred cause Of liberty and its
defenders, they proStratef themselves before
| the heroes OF the struggle when success was
| assured; adopting Republican principles and
taking for their Standard bearer The most invet-
Ffi.s. So,
doctrine, demonstrating the same feeling FOR
their own dignity and sense OF honor mat they
had for the welfare Of the country. But the
| people are seldom wrong In their opinions; in
their sentiments they are never mistaken wnen
correctly informed. The graves were TOO new;
| the wounds too fresh the empty sleeves too nu-
merous: the walls and suGerlngs OF the widows
and orphans too distinct; the burdens OF taxa
tlon too heavy; and never was there such an
emphasis placed upon a fact as the popular ver-
diet of 1872 stamped upon Democratic treason
and hypocrisy.
II generosity and charity could lead US 10 for
get our duty as American citizens and defend
ers OF the rights and privileges bequeathei TO us
so far as to trust Democracy again with power
on their professions, their acts would dispel the
iuclination so long as we retained one spark OF
honor, or there remained one particle OF juig-
now for The people 10 consider is, In a measure,
a new one. But there is a right and an honor
able side and a wrong and dShonorable one.
Where is this Democratic party? II IS IntTig-
uing TO temporarily supply the vices and relieve
the distress OF the people, which IL has been the
prime cause ofproiucing, at the expense OF our
national honor, dealing out promises a liber-
ally as a drunken landlord does his poison, and
with the same destructive effect
Ithas no principles Of Integrity. lays no claim
10 consistency. and It's platforms are con-
sIruc,ed to read one way ia Ohio. another way
In Massachusetts, another way In South Caro-
lima, and still another way in Pennsylvania.
Its membership embraces The couuterfeiiers,
thieves, rioters and all that is vile in our social
system. There have been a few leaders, like
Samuel ]. Tilden, who. laying In n moderate
stock of reputation, have assumed TO provide
for the future necessities OF character for their
party. But IN every instance this modest re-
serve OF virtue has been the termassnt chas-
rity OF a selfish prude who prosecntes one lover
/ for rape while she soicits the lewd embraces of
h another.
4 THE STRONGEST REASON FOR ITS DEFEAT.
But there is one reason more powerful than
all Others which presents itself 10 the thought
fnl mind to deter any laborlng man, mechanic,
manufacturer or tradesman I'm the State OF
/ Pennsylvania from assisting to reestablish the
/ Democratic party in power. Through all It's
/ twisting and turning its pandering TO sordd
and base motives, and its cringing TO power, the
Z Democratic party has been the consistent
enemy 10 the commercial and manufacturing
industries of the nation. II has never failed 10
[ be the tool of foreign Powers todestroy Ameri-
can enterprise Under Its rule of the country,
/ Liverpool was of more importance 10 the
/ United States than any of our own great cities.
I and profited more oy the labor and products of
our land. Since il has released its bod upon our
! government - notwithstanding the enormous
burdens we nave hai TO bear-we have no; only
developed the resources of the country for our
I own use. but American coal, and iron, beef
and manufactured goods find ready market In
Z the cities of tie old world, while our wheat and
I grain fields have become important factors in
the existence of the population OF Europe.
: This never could have been accomplished under
I the pernicious ruleof free-trade Democracy.
/ The language of truth is simple and easily
| understood. 1t is the misfortune, perhaps, OF
( the Democratic party TO have been originally
the cause of every reproach and distress that has
I attended our government, and Democracy is en-
titled 10 the credit of inventing numerous
/ schemes and quGck remedies for our Ills. But 10
I behooves US 10 look carefully before we depart
/ from lines Enthusiastically correct. II is crafty
ing TO note the signs OF the times and TO real re
! that there is a moment of difficulty and danger
I at which fattery and faisehooi can no longer
deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be
misled. The anxiety among the common people
| TO know the exact truth. and the general and
I orou-fpc opDractatfop eyerywhera n the folly