Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-09-28
Locomotives In Palestine.

The Democrat and Rec ister is troub-
led over the statement made in the
SENTINEL AND REPUBLICAN that Amer
icon locomotives have been bought
for railroads in the "Holy Land. &"
Now neighbor compose yourself and
don't make ugly faces at US, but
get yourself down to the study OF
the fact, how American manufaotur
ers find tpossible to go to Palestine
and BALD railroads and equip them
with American iron and cars and
locomotives in the face Of the cheap
material and cheap labor of the old
world. Yes just think Of it, faraway
America with her high priced labor
and her high priced material as YOU
call it, going into the Holy Land.
where labor aud material is low, and
there engaging in enterprises OF
money making, and all that the
result Of the tariff. Such things as
that is enough to set the political
teeth of the Democrat and Register
on edge, for it is like most Of other
leaders of the democracy q free
trade leader and such leaders are all
bltterly ly opposed to American loco
motives being sent anywhere out Of
the the United States under pro.
tectlve tariff system. But the demo.
crat and register fails to tell its
readers that if our manufacturing
establishments were not protected
by tariff law our workmen would
be as poor as workmen in England
and in the Holy LaEd, so poor in
deed that they can scarcely live with
any degree of comfort and so moor
that they have no ambition.
American workmen are protected
by republican tariff laws that keap
out the cheap wares and goods
which, II admitted, under free trade
laws would result in breaking down
the price of manufacturers wages
and prices of all shop made work
and that would in q great degrees
destroy the ambition of the peonIa
OF America for labor enterprises,
by the employment OF fast working
machinery the American people can
more than compete with the low
rate wages OF people of the old
world. Oar democratic brother
should not be surprised that Ameri-
can locomotives are in the Holly
Land. The American locomotive
backed by the American himself is
destined to go into every land IN
der the fostering care of republican
protective tariff and while it is draw
heavy loads over transportation lines
In foreign couatries the American IN
'he factories at home is happy, re
celVlng good wages at their trades
and the American faymCrs are fu3inp
better market for their pro 1uce in
furnishing the workmen in the shons
and factories with grain and all
Kinds of farm products. The demo
cratic policy of free trade that the
Democrat and Register is welded
to would knock off the protectiv.
torltt and that would reduce the
wages OF the men in the shops moro
than one half, and in many cases
cause the factories to close and the,
the psople employed in the work,
would be obliged to go to farming te
maks living on the farm and the work
OF hundreds OF thousand more people
on the farms would so increase The
Over production of grain and othsr
farm products that the prices would
go lower than they are now, ana
they are lower now than they should
be Tor tho general prosperity of the
farmer and I'll other people. The
Democrat and Register should b G
glad to hear of the American loco.
motive being sent to Palestine, and
it should not exert its influence tc