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

lament and twelve of the fourteen Cabinet
Ministers Of the English government. Last
year they sent the secretary of the club, Mr..
Potter, to this country to gather statistics
as to the manufacturing and farming inter-
ests of this country. He did his work faith
fully. On his return home be employed
able writer's to write articles, that have been
printed to try and convince the American
farmers that it is to their interest to secure
the election of free trade President and a
free trade Congress. Only few days ago
a whole car load of Potter's free trade arti-
cles passed over the railroad west for dis.
tribution in the west, where they will be
used as Hancock campaign documents.
The Democratic platform and the Golden
Club are one on the object of free trade.
The South, the Democratic Party and the
Golden Club are all one on the question of
manufacture. When the articles sent over
by the Golden Club are sifted, the great
argument that they make is that the farmers
of America number seren millions, and that
on an average they buy 500 worth of goods
that are manufactured in England, and tina.
if this country would pass free trade law,
such as the Democratic platform advocates,
instead of costing them $500, it would cost
them only Sl60 for the same amour; of
goods, and that they would save $40 per
year IN each farmers household. What an
argument to present to the American peo-
pie. Suppose that the Democratic party
comes into power and adopts the free trade
laws that the Golden Club are helping them
to argue for, the manufacturing establish
ments of this country would have to do enc
of two things-they would have to close
their doors and send the millions that get
employment from them adrift, to make
their living as best they can; they would
be compelled to go TO agriculture for a
living, and that addition to The agricultural
producers, and that number taken from the
consumers would glut the market with agri-
cultural products to such degree that one
| hundred dollars would be lost where forty
dollars would be saved on the cheap goods.
A large portion of the population Of Phih-
delphia would have to leave the city, and
so with all the manufacturing towns, and
that would cut in on the demand for the
butter and eggs and other articles of farm
/ products on which more than $40 per year
on an average is made. The manufacturing
I ~ b.. IaI aln
their doors, or they would have to reduce
the wages Of their men to the wages paid
by European manufacturers. Such as con-
template reducing the wages, instead OF
closing their manufacturing establishments
in tn. event of the election of Hancock and
Democratic Congress, have declared that
/ if the Democracy are successful in Novem-
ber they will, in less than a month, reduce
the wages of all their men thirty PEI cent.
If the Republic. this government, would
dare TO treat Eng and as England has treated
this government, through her Golden Club,
We would have a war on our hands in less
than six months, or our government would
have to apologize. If one hundred Con-
gressmen and nearly all of the cabinet Off
GERS of the Hayes administration would dare
to do such an impudent thing as to organize
into club, thereby giving il an official ap-
pearance, and have documents printed and
sent throughout England, to disturb the
labor of the country, TO advocate the abo-
lition Of the House of Lords, to inclte the
Irish, to advocate the dethronement OF the
Queen and the election Of a popular gov
eminent, our government would have a war
on hand Immediately or would be COMPEL
ed to apologize.
While the Golden Club is helping the
Democracy to the extent of its power, the
Democracy are shouting
329-CREDIr MoBILIER.
They hope TO win men by that cry of mis-
representation What is 1921 1t is the
sum Of money that General Garfield Dor.
rowed from Oakes Ames. Garfield needed
that amount of money to pay for some ma
terial that he used in the building of a
house. The Democracy say that it was in.
terest money on Credit Mobilier stock. II
is true that Congress passed a resolution OF
censure because of Credit MObilier, but
since that time it has been discovered that
| the resolution was a mistake and that Con-
gress got scared at the shout of the Dem
ocracy that there was something wrong
about the Credit Mobilier. After the wal
the Democracy grubbed around and picked
up every little thing to criticise, and in that
way they have secured a number of follow
ers and held their own people to certain
extent. They shouted Credit Mobilier and
got up suspicion on it. Credit Mobiliel
is a construct ton company, and when the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, which had
land grant endorsements, and government en-
dorsement, got frightened with its undertak
ing to build road to the Pacific because il
encountered the desert on this side of tn,
/ Rocsy mountains. 1t stopped operations
where the fertile lands ended, and its stock
was not worth much more than the stock OF
the Selnsgrove and North branch Railroad
Company. When the Union Pacinc Kali
road Company failed to build the roaG
Cakes Ames, most successful business
man, connected himself with the Credit Mo-
bilier construction company, and said that
he could build the incompleted GO odd
miles across the desert to connect with the
road in from California. No one but those
who knew of his business capacity believed
him to be able TO complete the road. But
said he, "I must have SIT, 100000 In
stock and bonds of the road. 1 ask fol
no money, but if the company will give that
amount of stock and bonds will build the
road. will take all the risk, and if ge,
through, it will be a nice thing for Inc if
fail, it will be my great misfortune. If
get through, the stock and the bonds viii
go to par at once, for the road will pay
The Government transportation alone vii
be a great item." The company took hin
at his word. He got the stock and bonds