Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-20

duced the Indebtedness that was incurred
to put down the rebellion. 1t kept up the
public credit under the most persistent
efforts to crush il, and to-day the bonds of
the Government sell everywhere in the
money markets of the world.
1t is useless to suppose that if man is
dishonest in his private, or home affairs that
he will be honest if he be elected to office.
If We measure the South by that standard
what becomes of it7 The South has been
dishonest in two-thirds of her home trans
actions, in canals and railroads, having re-
pudiated fully two-thirds of such obliga-
tions. Put them into possession of the
General Government, and what wild schemes
for the Reputation Of the National obliga-
tions will they not startf They charged
the panic of 1873 on the Republican party,
when in truth it was the collapse from the
imitation of the effort to break up the Union.
Tilden denounced the finance of the gov
ernment, and they took up with him. They
do not now talk much about retrenchment
and reform. The Golden Club is their right
hand power now; it furnishes much Of their
corruption fund. With it as their ally for
free trade, and Hancock as their candidate,
they expect to win.
B. +. Schweier was introduced by the
president of the club, and said in substance !:
Mr.. President and fellow-citizens One
of the most romantic incidents found in the
every day life of the founder Of great
people is related in the Bible. You remem-
Der how il is related that youth jourueyed
in the country of the East, and how he came
to a well, around which were three fiocks
OF sheep, one tioch of which was in charge
ing of Jacob and Rachel, one of the most
important meetings that ever took place be-
tween man and woman. With them it was
.siove at first sight" When Rachel learned
that the pleasant youth in her presence was
her cousin she sent a speedy messenger to
her father, who came, and escorted Jacob
to his house. The youth tarried there one
month, and then Laban said to Jacob, "
would like to have you stay with us" and
they fell to bargaining as to what Jacob
would have TO live with his uncle. Said
Jacob, 81 would like to have Rachel to wed
They talked it over, and il was agreed that
Jacob should work for Labsn seren years
for Rachel, and that was the first free labor
contract that have any knowledge of. 1t
took place thirty-six hundred years ago.
of the marriage, some one resurrected an
old custom or law, that provided that the
youngest aughter should not marry before
the eldest. But nothing daunted, Jacob
said-for he was no exception to the rule
that love laughs at all barriers,-" Well, l
will work seven years more for Rachel"
How strange that the seven years that
Jacob contracted voluntarily TO labor, should
be the number of years that the men who
founded this Republic contracted TO labor
to secure themselves homes and a govern
ment such as suited their views of govern
ment.
You remember, Mr. President, that in
1920 colony of forty-two men, who were
dissatisfied with the established church OF
England and Europe; who were dissatisfied
with the social system that surrounded them /;
who claimed that the common rights were
denied them, appointed committee 10 ad-
dress or petition King James of Great Brit
ain TO give them charter, such as had been
given the Virginia coloDists, TO come TO
America. King James said, "No, l will
not grant you charter. You are cap
tious set of fellows. You belong to the
people who have been disturbing my realm
on the question or religion, etc. The best
that can do is to say that you can go, and
that will not disturb yeu." How discour-
aging that answer must have been. But
nothing daunted they turned their efforts
toward certain capitalists. They called on
the men of means and stated their desire TO
90 to the woods Of America. "What viii
you give us,D said the capitalists, " if we
ship you to America 2" "Giye you," they
replied swe have no money, but We will
work for you; We will go TO America and
work ,eren years and divide the proceeds
with you if you will ship US across to that
country - and that was the number o:
years that Jacob and Laban had agreed
upon. The for;y-two colonists and the cap
italists signed and sealed the contract; the
ship Mayfiower brought the colonists to this
country and landed them on Plymouth
Rock December 20, 1920, and thus this Re-
public was founded on the cornerstone Of
free labor. 1t is a well-known historical
fact that for years after that, many colo
nists who came 10 the Northern colonies,
soi,,, their service, or bargained with ship
ca,sa;ns On. owners to serve or labor for a
specified term of years in payment for their
passage to this couniry. There are families
in Juniata whose first American ancestor
paid his passage money in labor. Such col
onists were called redemptioners. 1t was
the free labor men who established the Re-
public which We all claim to render such
allegiance to.
At first the colonists were compelled to
send to Europe for all their clothing, for
hoes, shovels, and all kinds of implements
to work with; but people with the honest,
resolut purpose that they possessed would
not be long in want for such articles. They
soon began to build up manufacturing es-
adjustments Of their own; they made hoes,
shovels, and all kinds of implements such
as they needed. They were rapidly becom-
ing independent of Great Britain in the
manufacture of such articles as they needed.
In one hundred and thirty years after the
laying of the cornerstone of the Republic
in 1850, the English Parliament passed an
act that was directed to break up the manu-
featuring interests of the colonies. The aci
forbade the manufacture of pig and bar
iron, and steel; it forbade the setting up OF
the loom, and it went so far as to restric!
the manufacture of hats, and did not allow
the employment of more than two appren-