Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-09-11
sIsoed then by the soldiers OF the Con-
kderste Army.

slsoed then BY the soldiers OF the Con-
federats Army.
fsEE TRADE PARTY.
For the same reason, the Denpofstic
party is Free Trade Party. 1t made
determined effort last winter, follow.
ing the lead of Committes of Ways
and Means appointed by a Democratic
Speaker from Peunsylvania, to pass the
Wood Tariff Bill, simed destructively
at the vitals of all the industries Of
our State. The bill would have driven
our worklngmen out of employment OF
reduced their wages to starvation point,
and would have succeeded, but for the
almost unbroken front presented against
it by the Republicans in Congress. An
analysis of the test vote upon the bill
is as follows:
For the bill, Northern Republicans. 9
o Southern 49,
{" =" Northern Democrats. 45
&" &" Southern I" ..... 69
Against the bill, y Northern Republicans. lO9
a. Sc Southern +" ..... !
Northern Democrats ..... Is
4" Southern ..... 3
The Democratic party in Pennsylva'
MA halted on this quesrion-its candi-
date for Governor avoiding the initial
vote in the Legislature-as did the
Democratic members Of Congress from
Pennsylvania, until the tbunders OF
popular sentiment, from Allegheny to
the Lehigh, drove them to faint re-
sistance to the bill. The Republican
party OF Pennsylvania, standing firmly
by the policy of Protection. is in ac-
cord with the party throughout :he
country.
THE CURRENCY.
Our present paper currency grew
out of the necessities Of the late war.
1t supplanted debased State currency,
which was the plague of commerce and
prolific sour,e of loss. Already prac
tically at par with gold, it is the best
currency We ever produced. In six
teen years scarcely ever has the chang
er of money in this country looked to
see from what bsuk the note be hand
led was issued. 1t matters nothing,
except to those interested in National
Banks, whether the bank currency is
retained or replaced BY grsenbacks, if
the latter can constitutlonally be sub
stituted. The credit of each is based
upon the National faith. To increase
this currency would simply decrease its
purchasing power. Its present volume
is equal to that before the pauic of
1873, while the price Of nearly every
article of consumption is so reduced
that dollar will purchase more than
at any period since the war.
To pay the National debt with ire
deemable promises to pay is repudia-
tion. The masses Of the people of
Pennsylvania are honest, and cannot
sanction reputation in any form. The
remedy for our present difficulties is to
be found only in patient adaptation
of ourselves to our surroundings. The
current of worldly affairs flows on irre-
sistibly; we cannot turn it back. We
are gradually but surely rising from
the slough of debt, incurred when it
was so easy to borrow, and as We
emerge from it We will 6ad our way
back to National prosperity.
EQUAL RIGHTS OF MEN.
The Republican party has always in
sisted upon the equal rights of men,
without regard to color, condition or
nationality 1t gave the right to man
hood, to labor, and to the proceeds of
labor, to four millions of down-rrodden
people, and can never agree to surren-
der the right of the humblest citizen
TO live unmolested under his own roof
tree, and to contract for his own labor
as he will. The founders of the CON-
monwealth, toiling people, handed it
down to their posterity with title
sancufied by struggle, suffering, aud
sacrifice, indestructible By any of the
wild yagaries of Socialism or Con-.
munism
The safety aud prosperity of this
State depend upon the maintenance of
the principles of the Republican party
1t ha, proven itself a trustworthy guar
dian of the interests Of both State and
Nation. Public security, public conf
dence, aud public honor are alike in
vOlved in the coming contest. The
voters Of the State will be found with
the party which has given strongest
evidence ofits ability to maintain them
all VI. S. QUAY,
Chairman Republican State COMMITTEE.