Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-05-29

ests OF the people, through national
banks, tends to monopoly and cen,
trahzation, but in changing the sys.
tenn, uniformity of notes, security o,
the note-holder and protection of the
capital invested should be provided
for.
treasury notes issued in exchange
for bonds bearing low rate of inter.
est. is the best form in which the
credit of the government can be
gwen to paper currency.
Labor and capital have equal de.
mands upon and equal responsible.
ties to law. Commerce and mann.
factures should be encouraged, So
that steady employment and fair
wages may be yielded to labor, whilst
safety of investment and moderate
return for its use belong to capital.
Violence or breaches of order in sup
port of the real or supposed rights
Of either should be promptly sup
pressed by the strong arm of the law.
The Republican party, by It's legis-
iatlon In 1872, which reduced the
tariff upon bituminous coal from one
dollar twenty-five to seventy-five
cents per ton, and upon iron, steel,
wool, metals, paper, glass, leather
and all manufactures of each of them.
ten per cent, struck a fatal blow at
the industries and labor of Pennsyl-
vania
The public lands are the common
property of the people, and they
should not be sold to spectators nor
granted to railroad or other corpo-
rations, but should be reserved as
homesteads for actual settlers.
Our public debt should be held at
home. and the bonds representing it
ought to be of small dimensions, in
which the savings of the masses may
be safely invested
Thorough investigation into the
electoral frauds of 1876 should be
made, fraud should be exposed, truth
indicated and criminals punished.
But we oppose any attack upon the
Presidents title as dangerous to our
institutions and fruitless in its results.
The Republican party, controlling
the legislation of the State, has re-
fused to execute many of the reforms
of the new Constitution. Among
other things it has neglected and re
fused to compel the acceptance of all
of its provisions by the corporations
of the State; to prevent undue
and unreasonable discrimination in
charges for transportation for freight
and passengers, and without abate-
ment of drawback to any; to give to
ali equal means for transporting the
raw material of the State in such
and to such points as they
may prefer and to publish in good
faith monthly statements of where
the money of the people was kept.
The Republican party creates new
Offices and adds enormous perquisites
to others, and fills them with favor
ties, whose chief duty is to manage
its political machinery Its admins
tration of the State Government
grows more expensive with each year
Of its rule. Legislation has been di-
rected by Republican lobbyists, who
in turn manipulate and control the
nominations of the Republican party,
and its candidates are the creation of
a Junta, whose DEGREES are accepted
IS the irreversible mandates of abso-
lutte hereditary power. We denounceI
these methods, these measures and
these men as unworthy the support
Of an honest and free people, and
we invite ell, of every shade of polit-
cal opinion, to unite with us in de-
ivering the Commonwealth from
their hateful rule.