Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-09-15

ooN hhNOh hOiI uc.lftIeu Speecn
at the opening OF the State Fair. The
North .amerscsn reports the speech,
portion of which is here reproduced.
The Governor said:
"a hasty view of the varied pro-
ducts of the men who own the soil of
Pennsylvania, as here displayed, gives
one genuine surprise. A closer scru-
tiny of these, in connection with all the
machinery aud devices of the related
pursuits, will give us new sense of the
power Of the farmer, the dignity of his
calling, the financial value of his prop
erty and Its products-the brains as
we'll as the muscle involved in his call
ing. This exhibit is not the result of
visionary experiments, but is establish
ed only by long and laborious industry
and costly processes. 1t does not need
any official patting on the back. The
results themselves, here illustrated, are
its sufficient eommendation. See for
moment what under!ies this display.
1t is not alone in these grains, these
luscious fruits, these beautiful flowers
and these lsbor-saving implements.
You have ransacked the world for herds
for horses, cattle and sheep. You
have studied the value of "blood," and
it still continues to "tell," and the per-
sistence of {" breeds ~ which for
..speet," which for beef, which for
milk, which for wool, and which for
mutton-chops. You have been COM
PEELED to learn the habits of animal
life and the laws Of vegetable physI-
ology. You have been driven to study
the nature Of soils aud the chemistry Of
fertilizers. You have had to make
headway against disease and parasites
against rust and weevil, and frosts-
against the potato bug and pleuro pneu-
monia You are chemists, and doctors,
and botanist,. You must daily learn
the price Of cheese in London-must
know the quantity of wheat in Mime
sofa aud Odessa. You must keep track
Of the herders of the millions of cattle
from the plains of Texas to the Red
River of the north. You are no longer
workers isolated in your farms, nor the
victims of the ups and downs of local
markets and spectators. The agricul-
tural products of the world are aggre-
gated by telegraph. 1t is already
known that our crop of wheat this year
will be 50o,000,0O0 bushels, of which
200, ,000, 900 is surplus, and this We hope
to sell abroad and get our pay In cash.
1t Is better that cheap freights will en-
able US to do this than that this vast
surplus should remain here 10 break
down the price of all the balance. We
shall have more than / 500, ,000, 900
bushels of corn, much of which, In the
form of beef, pork and ham, We shall
likewise hope to sell in Europe"
After paying compliment to some
of the more noted manufacturing estab-
li.hments of Philadelphia, he passed on
to say few words to the Pennsylvania
farmers, who constitute third of her
population. In this he was most happy
and felici.ous. He said:
THAT third Of the people Of Penn
sylvania who are upon their farms are
she best off, the most happy and the
most independent third OF all our pop
ulation best off il the value of their
lands. which, if high, are high because
they viii bring their price in the mar
ket; best Of in steady compensating
returns for their labor free from the
commercial disasters of other callings !;
free from the mental worry of other
pursuits, and vastly more free than any
class from the visitatlons of the Sher-
If. There are gentlemen who constant
ly bewoan the farmers situation the
high prices of land, which constitute
bis capital in trade the low prices Of
some of the products grown in the west,
and the low rates of freights at which
the sailroads deliver them at our sea-
board and thence By ships to the con
sumers in Europe But, sir, the Penn
sylvania farmer is still the master of
the situation. The Pennsylvania far
mer must, as he can, adapt his pro-
duets to the never failing market which
our great cities, towns and mining and
manufacturing centres everywhere give
hiD-grest food consuming communi-
ties like Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Scran-
ton, Heading and Harrisburg. Here
he is without competitor. He has a
monopoly IN all perishable articles of
food, and these form the great bulk OF
what We eat-frults, vegetables, milk,
and the long list of good things of which
i'll this temperate zone We make our
daily DILL of fare. You can have no
quarrel with these towns and cities
which furnish your customers, and
which in turn make the clothes you
wear. the carpets you tread, the stoves
which warm your houses, and mine the
coal which fires them, which make your
bedstesds and sausage-cuiters, your
garden hoes and school books, your bar
ness and your fruit cans"