Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-09

Life-Tura Night into Day-Facts
for Country Peopie-7he Salt Of the
Earth = Such Crowds = What the
Croud 1eaches-Hancock- The Cro,rd
Desired to DraU has Cariage-Ihe
Inauguration of Garfeid-Tae Pres
idents Speech Congress The Efforts
of the Democracy to Create Panic BY
Disturbing the Finance-7he Hayes
Veto Sares the Country from the Pur-
poses of the Dying Democratic Con
gresS.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 5, 1881.
Washington is political city. moth
ing more, nothing less. 1t is isolated
from all the great interests of the
Republic. 1t does not feel the
pulsations of trade. of commerce,
of industry. excepting as the office
holder buys from the shoplkeepers,
excepting as when the lobbyist
comes here to seek legislation for
trade. commerce, or industrial es-
tablishments. People here live off
Government, and if the capitol of
the nation were removed the place
would almost become silent
desert. The official class live well.
as do most of their dependents.
They have few hours of work, and
many hours Of leisure, and it is that
.fre-gilt - life that inpresses the
ignorant demagouge Congressman
when he comes here to such degree
that forthwith he springs to the CON
clusion that all the world can be made
to live prosperousiy on the same num-
Der OF working hours that are rem
dered by office-holders here, and
hence he turns what he is pleased to
call labor-reformer, and advocate
labor system that forbids the en-
ployment of men for work over six
to eight hours per day. Poor crea-
ture, He is out of his natural ele-
ment: he cannot see that the coun-
try would become bankrupt, and a
nation of beggars and tramps in less
than ten years, if the industry and
commerce of the country were run
that length of time on the hours that
Washington officials, and business
keep. They do not go to work till 8
or 10 o'clock in the morning, and quit
at or 4 O'Clock in the afternoon.
They turn night into day, retiring at
l to 3 o'clock in the morning. Don't
pronounce me super-critical. l have
nothing to say against private par
ties who pay their way honestly, who
live that way, or any other way that
they please, but / am talking about
the unbalanced people vino would try
to ruin a nation by such gilded way
of living. There are special times,
of course, such as the time of an in
auguration, receptions, and so forth,
when the regular everyday life must
of necessity be broken in on, but
such times are the exceptions and not
the rule in the affairs of everyday
life l write of these facts that you
country people may know the truth.
have been here long enough to be
with the fact that a small
of the salt of the earth,
Which is to preserve US all, is also
here. They are the elect, and live
Such CRoyDs.
amounting in the aggregate to seven
" thousand, as came down upon us
his week, are good for us; they teach |
Is Enthusiastically that Washington, in |
is isolated governmental state, is not |
;ee Republic, but that, after All, the
uss and glitter here, the real power
'ehind the throne is the people. The
,eople here to witness the ipaugura-
ion represented every phase OF life
n the Republic. Prominent men
With their handsome and virtuous
wives and daughters, from The various
owns and counties of the country
we're here in numbers sufficient, if
necessary. to manage honestly and
successfully a dozen Republics. The
vicious classes were here in numbers
sufficiently large to fill a penitentiary.
There are a number of the last named
class here in office who would be bet
ter served if they did duty in some
one OF the many prison houses in the
States. The facilities for travel will
always assemble a great crowd at
Washington upon change of admin
istration. Large as the crowd has
been it would have been much larger
if
HANCOCK
had been elected. The 100000 off
GERS that would have been retired by
him, and supplied by an eager, hun
gry Office seeking Democratic crowd.
would have brought fuzzy ten times
that number of aspirants here on in
auguration day. The General was
next to the President-elect the hon of
the occasion. When he came to the
city, on the 3rd, ten thousand people
We're at the station to huIrah and give
him a glorious send off into the CITY.
The Democracy are hero worship
pers to a certain extent, and they
manifested their hero love by propos-
ing to pull Hancoek's carriage by
hand. The carriage in which he sat
was sort of coach, closed carriage,
drawn by four horses, and if it had