Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-30
Calamity Makers. .

CLEVELAND aud his Congress are
the business calamity makers. The
platform of his party declared against
a protective tariff. It denounced the
present banking system indirectly,
and indirectly declared against pen
sions. Of course such a program as
that alarmed the country. Said the
manufacturers, if the tariff is to be
reduced, we dare not go on with our
works. for if we do Cleveland and his
Congress will reduce the tariff and
We will be caught with stock on
hand that we manufactured a. high
wages rate, and now you bring into
the country from Europe under Cleve-
lands low tariff laws a large stock of
goods that are sold below what our
goods cost us, and that will break us
financially, we must stop work to
save ourselves from the impending
wreck, aud that Is how the factories
came to shut down. Again the threat
ened change in the banking system
caused the people to think that if
there is to be a change in the bank
ing system they had better draw
their deposits, and they began to
draw the money that is honestly
theirs, and that shut off the revenues
of the banks, and shut eff the power
of the banks to loan money, and when
the banks had no money to loan new
enterprises came to a stand still for
want of money and dealers and ship
pers Of all kinds of grain and pro-
duce failed to secure money to en-
gage in their accustomed business,
and thus the Cleveland calamity max
ers affected the whole country, and
the end is not yet for they have not
once within the six months of the
present Cleveland rule intimated
that they have given up their pur
pose to uproot tie present binking
system and protective tariff.
The mechanical inventions have
progressed with rapid strides since
the Centennial. Then there were no
electric lights, no electric cars, no tel
ephone, no photograph and many
other mechanical appliances, but with
all the multiplicity of inventions no
new road to thinking, learning, to
moralizing, sermonizing, speech
making, singing &c, has been discov-
cred.
CALAMITY riders Cleveland and Car
Isle of the South have been in the
saddle riding only six months, and
in that time hundreds Of banks have
suspended, hundreds of pensions
have been stopped, hundreds of man
ufacturing establishments have been
closed and hundreds of thousands of
men thrown out of employment, and
the manufacturing production of the
country SO reduced that the railroads
have side-tracked thousands of cars,
having nothing to haul in them, and
still the calamity makers hold high
carnival at Washington.
The times will get better by and
by. The old stock of goods that is
on hand will have been consumed,
and new things of every kind will
have to be made to take the place of
the o!d worn out goods, and men will
have to be employed to manufabture
what will be needed. The only cloud
on the bright horizon of the future,
is the attitude of the Cleveland ad-
ministration. Il proposes to strike
of the tariff. If that is done our
manufacturers will have to start their
works by paying greatly reduced
wages aad greatly reduced prices for
everything. The Cleveland Admin
istratiOn if left go will bring Ameri-
can industrial affairs to leyel with
European industrial affairs.