Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09
OUR PRINCIPLES.
THE REPUBLICAN LABOR PARTY.
What Investigation Proves-That Republi-
canism Is the Only Safety for the Work
ingmen of the Country.

This continent was colonized by Iaborers.
This country was hewn out from a Wilderness;
improved, organized. and has been directed, as
IL still is. by laborers. There are no hereditary
titIes-there are few great fortunes to transfer
any one from the ranks of useful Industry to
those of unproductive leisure; and where an
exception occurs IL is cured In a generation.
The Republican party was organized of, by, and
in the defence and assistance of labor. 1t liber-
ated millions of laborers its very FIRST act,
and secured their freedom. At the same time IL
grappled the great question of providing all
labor with employment, and making that re-
munerative and steadily greater and more
lucrative, and providing IL with knowledge.
Composed of, working with and for, and sus-
tained by labor, and directed by a system whose
operations and end consider labor In such
complete and high sort was never the case
anywhere before, the Republican party, by the
thoroughness of its principles as much as by Its
eminent deeds, has the right to be viewed as the
most perfect and only labor organization in the
country. II is great and deserving for patriot
Ism, philanthropy, financial ability, military
valor; but all these have been designed and used
to give the State such completeness in every
welfare and happiness.
because a few individuals, inoriinately anxious
TO occupy places for which they are not quail
fed, have assumed TO be the laborers OF the
State and 10 direct and prescribe tor all labor.
They are arrayed elsewhere. but they are here.
Some of their complaints and some of their in
teuttons correct. Some of each are perni-
cious, and their views could not be carried out
in the manner they propose without a conflict
with other interests, and the interests of others
deserving equal recognition with their own,
nor without loss 10 the harmony of the whole
community. On the other hand the doctrines
Of the Republican Labor party have not only
been confirmed by Investigation, but also by
trial. They are operating in and improving the
south. They are building up the Pacific coast
as well as the Interior, the north and the east.
They are sending our products over the world,
resaining our bonds, bringing back gold, slim
ulatlng our industries, and leave comparatively
few unemployed where lately hundreds of thou
sands wanted work. They hurt no one, but
help all.
Those who would promote labor, directly and
efficiently, should cast their votes for the Repub-
lican party. Others viii disappoint them. this,
never. Others will fail from ignorance of prin
ciples, or OF their subject or their application,
or from having overlooked related facts. This
carries a perfected theory In ascer;ained meth
DDS, and overlooks nothing either In contem-
piation or effect. II wars with no race or cali
ing. 1t cannot injure If 1t should not benefit.
But the benefit is a known product of the agent,
and Its comprehensiveness and duration add to
the nrst and sufficient reason. Plainly. the Re-
publicsn-Labor party should have the earnest
help of every wise man anxious for the highest
gond