Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-05
a Nabob at One End and a Tramp
at the Other,

dred years and find a rich ancestry.
Ninety-nine per cent. of the nabob
class, as Mr.. Dill calls them, had poor
people for their ancestors, and many
indeed had an ancestry in that class
of people known as tramps. The
great Distinguishing feature of the
civilization of the Northern States is
that all the channels, or avenues to
business, religion, pleasure and Office are
open alike to all, and that is the rea
son that so many poor people get rich
and are rabobs, as Mr.. Dill says !;
and that is the reason that Mr.. Dill
is a candidate for nabob office; for,
certainly, by his own standard, any
Office that pays a salary of ten thou
sand dollars a year is nabob Office.
The would be Governor has not stated
Just which end he favors, whether
that of the .Nabob or that of the
Tramp but if his actions may be
taken as a standard to Judge by, and
the common saying is that actions
speak louder than words, which, if
they do, he must be after seeking to
be a .NdbOJ, for how could man be
in love with the Tramp end and seek
the .Na5Ob end with a ten thousand
dollar salary 1t is not exactly the
fair thing to put in a bid for the
tramp fraterity, and the Commune, by
slapping the nabobs in the face, by
saying the Republicans made You
nabobs, and to the tramps say the
Republicans made you tramps- No,
that is not quite the fair thing, when
it is considered that Mr.. Dill is the
son of tramping preacher. But
with all its unfairness it would not
look so bad if he would not want to
get $4,000 Office. 1t looks very
much as if he has desire to quit the
tramps and turn nabob. If it is true,
what he said, that the result of Re
publican policy g rs nabo6 at one end
of society, and tramp at the otter," he
is kicking the ladder by which he was
redeemed from roaming life to
permanent place of residence, with
the right to turn politician and ma
nipulate himself into the State Senate,
and from there form a combination
to manipulate his way into the Office
of Governor of this Commonwealth.
1t is true that the Republican party
maintained, and does still maintain,
that all men are born free under The law,
that every man shall have the right
to engage in whatever he may please
Under the law, and that there shall
be no barrier to honest advancement,
or to honest or dishonest decline.
Under the operations of such sys-
TEN bank presidents, railroad presi-
dents and rich men have been made,
and changed from poor people to
nabobs. Certainly Mr.. Dill can
not escape the operations Of his own
doctrine, and when it is applied to
the Dills it has operated most admir-
ably unless it is misfortune to be a
State Senator. and candidate for |
Governor at salary of ten thousand |
dollars.
But a man who struggles to be
Governor of a great Commonwealth /
should be better read in the history |
of his country than to tell it to the
world that the Republican party is
the author of the system Of goreyn-
ment that gives to every man an op-
portunity to DO business, to preach,
practice law, acquire property, be a
tramp, or run for Office. The man
who makes such charge is an ignor
ant man, or a man with unfair mo
tives. Mr.. Dill ought to know that
the system that he denounced was
the system of government that the
Puritan, the German and the Scotch
Irishman inaugurated by the Declara-
ion of Independence in 1776. The
watch word of the Revolution was
that ALI men are born free and equal
Mr. Dill did not get back far enough
With his history. He forgot to go
back to the time when Ben Franklin
tramped through the streets of Phil
adelphia with Lis bread in his hands.
There we're many nabobs then in the
which did not concern
Just so that he had chance
with other people. Dill has never
had discernment enough to see the
naboh George Washington in coach
and four, and Ben Franklin walking
the streets of Philadelphia as a tramp
looking for work. and eating his
bread as he YEARLY tIudged along.
Dill is falling out with the wrong
people. He is really fighting with
George Washington and Ben Frank
in, and others of their day. He ought ,
o have lived when Franklin, Adams,
Jefferson and Washington lived, for /
hey are she men who started the
ystem that Mr.. Dill complains OF. !
What would they have thought of {
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