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


Garfield took the oath of office, on
the east portico of the Capitol build
ing, IN the presence of 25.Oue people
that We're massed in the open space
in front OF the building. His aged
mother was present in plain dress
and Quakerish bonnet, as was also
his wife. After the ceremony he
turned and kissed both his mother
and his wife. If there was ever such
a pleasant scene enacted, as the new
ly created ruler on coronation day.
or Inauguration day greeting his
mother and wife at the close of the
governmental ceremony with a kiss,
l cannot point to the record that re-
lates it. His inaugural
SPEECH
was an able one, and characteristic
of the checkered life from the cabin
in the woods to the palace of the na
ton of fifty millions of free people. 1t
was brief review of the struggles of
this people in the 100 years past, and
a brief foreshadowing of the posi-
bilities of the Republic to come. The
difficulties of the Southern situation
as surrounded by the prejudice and
ignorance of that section was men
toned, and the remedy, as pointed
out by the President, is education
He renewed his adherence to hard
money. and indirectly. but emphatl-
cally. pronounced himself as on the
side of ex-President Hayes as against
a re-funding scheme that viii with
draw the present national money.
- The farmers OF the United States
afford homes and employment for
more than one-half our people and
furnish much the larger part of all
our exports. THE interests Of ag-
riculture deserve more attention from
government than they have yet re
ceived-" Opposition to polygamy is
pronounced, and the Monroe doc
trine is plainly enough announced so
as to tell the people across the water
that the present administration will
not suffer great deal of intermed
ding with affairs on the American
continent As to civil service, the
President expressed the belief that it
cannot .be placed on satisfactory
basis until it is regulated by law.
CONGRESS
was not as thoroughly absorbed by
the Inauguration as many a former
one was absorbed by change of ad-
ministration, for the reason that the
re funding scheme of the Democracy
was put upon its passage at its close.
The Democratic Congress that re-
tired yesterday came in upon the
panic wave that rolled over the coun-
try in 1873. The first Congressional
elections that followed the panic were
in favor of the Democracy, and it
took the people SIX years to learn
that the teachings OF Democratic
demagogues, that the Republican
party was the cause of the panic, was
not true. When the people realized
that they had been deceived they re-
elected a Republican Congress. The
scheme of the leaders of the Democ-
racy to precipitate another panic was
nearly accomplished when they passed
the re-funding bill, and had it not
been for the timely veto of ex Presi-
dent Hayes the country would be on
the road to a panic at the rate of the
of a million of money per
day. The withdrawal of half mil
lion or a million of money from cir
culation from this time on till Sep
tember, would have produced first
class panic such as might have pre-
rared sSre way for the election of the
lext Democratic Congress, just as
he election of a Democratic Con
yress followed the panic of 1873.
The Democracy are now loud III their |
of Hayes because he |
vetoed the re-funding bill. They say |
it would have been such a saving to
refund at per cent. So it would
be, if that were the naked truth,
but the truth is, that the men who !
had the money and held largely of
the bonds that the 3 per cent. bonds
proposed to replace plainly informed
the government, as it was their duty
to do, that they would not have the
new bonds. The National banks in
formed the government that they
would not do business on three per
cent. bonds. 1t was their duty to
give such information. They pro
claimed their purpose to withdraw
the circulation, which they have
right to do. With such purposes
clearly expressed by the banks, and
other moneyed men, and with the de
fects of the bill, in not providing to
meet such shrinkage in the currency
as would follow its passage, Mr. Hayes
did the wisest thing in all his life, for
the country, in vetoing the bill, and
In tIass way saving the country from
a money panic, wnich was the pm-
pose of the dying Democratic Con-
orecs IN create