Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-07-12
Letter from an Old Jacksonian Demo.
crat Of Greenwood Township.
NEAR SEVEN STAR TAVERN,

| ny DeGT ny EdHOT:-Ins seven Stars
again twinkle as in merry days of yore.
The management now is better than at any
time since live in s'this neck of timber -
The present landlord of these seven lum-
inares is q man OF French extraction, a
gentleman and scholar. you don't be-
lieve me, come down and tast him for YOUR
self. Our meeting this evening has mt bsen
large one. Some OF the good Old JACK
sonian Democrats have been called to their
reward in the beautiful home beyond the
Valley Of the Shadow Of Death where they
are waving palms OF victory, and wearing
crowns of glory. Oh, but | wish that We
had an Andy Jackeon at Washington in the
Presidential chair to wear pllns of victo ry
and wear crown Of glory. Th5 pIl m that
Cleveland wears is the palm of general dis
appointment, and the crown, instead of a
crown of glory is 4 crown Of business de-
preston. He compares with Old Hickory
about as much as a sparrow compIres with
the American ELgle. II CIevelInl had the
track for the Presidency this fall, ksu be
; licked at least four hundred in Juni.ts, aud
so proportionately over the whole country.
! Andy was a soldier, every inch of him.
/ Cleveland hasn't even the sympath tic in.
stinct of soldier, but he wlsels into line
under the crack Of the old slave-holder's
whip TO ob the boys in blua OF y, pen -ipa
/ hat yOu fellows legiSlated for them. Many
an old veteran groaus when he thinks OF the
nistSae he made when he voted for Cleye-
land. Since his election times have grown
go uncertain and shaky and hard that tho
boys are almost afraid to court or look at
the girls for looking and courting b.Csts
love, and love induces the boys 10 pop
the question to which the girl nearly
every time says, yes. Bu; the Cleveland
times have got sn hard that the bows and
girls are afraid to y-t married. Old Hick-
ory wouldn't scare 'hat way, but it isn't
every boy and girl tIIt has the ANDY Jack
son SAND to hustle ior living through thick
aud thin. They ought to pattern after the
saiDted Andy. While on my way home,
from the Stars, pondering on the Cleveland
hard times, l heard young fellow who was
coming in from seeing his girl, sing:
When left she turned up her face,
knew she was thinking of the matri-
monial race,
So wo think alike, so say I, SO say
Bad luck TO tho fates that bring sorrow,
Wen mot marry till day after to m orrow,
AlAs, she said, 60 say l, so say /.
Giugle silver, giugo, gingle gold,
Wen not be prosperous tall they jingle
as of Old,
Then wen marry and merry be,
Like Old Hickory Of Tennessee.
The singer didn't see me. anil had TO
say TO myself: ''he's poet and a budding
safe dnancier and expresses correct un-
derstandiug Of the gold snd silver question
whsn he says:
"Gingle silver gingle, gngle gold,
Wen not be prosperous TILL they jingle |
as Of Old"
Old Andy knew that silver and gold were
welded at the first dawn of civilized bust /
ness and can never b, divorced while civil
lied business exists among ths chiIdren of
men. 1t WAS money and legal tender in
the day Of the great God fearing and Col
serving COW boy Abraham. He paid for the
grave lot of his wife Sarah in silver. May
be yOu think Aoraham's day wasn't much
OF day for business. tell you half doz- !
ell OF the biggest cowboys in America
bunched, are not as big as he He had |
hundreds Of men employed TO herd the cat.
Tie and sheep, camels. horses AMI mules /
that he raised for the markets of the great
and highly civilized ltions of his day AMI /
gen ration, aud the only things they didn't
have il his lime was soms of our machin !
cry, and if wing machinery, Is 4 cause, in |
your mind for ruling out silver as money
and piEching prices TO gold rates as re- !
deeming money, you arc hari NJ for q !
cause.
O'd Andy knew that there never was
geld enough in the world to conductits bus /,
iAess. 5incs his day tho population and !,
the business of the world has multiplied /
many times and the amount of silver and |
gold has increased bat has not kept pace
with tho people ani ths business, but the
Indebtedness has been p!el up mountain
bgh on paper.
Old Hickory, if he could be raised from
the dead would call this paper age, and
he would tell you that when you come to
settle that paper ind cbtedness thers is only
gold and silver enough to pay a few cents
on the dollar, and if you strike out silver as
money and make the payments in gold,
where are the people to get the god from,
to pay the gold demand boadsi
That's the milk IN the coco lnut and don t
you forget it. Where is the gold to come
from to pay the untold billions o gold de-
mand bonds? There are only about three
thousand million gold dollars among civil
lied nations to Ply with, and that is the
reason the price Of gold is now double what
1t was some years ago. II the free coinage
of silver is not rec 'ta5!ished, goli will go
up times, tin IS, yes, there is no telling
how many times higher than it is now, then
will come the greatest panic the civilized
world has ever witnessed. London is the
head center of the financial woTld her net
work of bankers run throughout all civilIz.
ed creation, and in ono way or other in
hu2nce the banks Of all nations, and they
all dance tc the gold bug music from Lon
don.
In 1870 Germany Over-rdn France, and
enthroned herself in Paris. Prostr ate bleed
ing and humiliated France raised her voice
and cried ont for quarters. "What W ill you
take said France and release your grip, and
move from our territory. Hah, said Ger
many, '.I'll take the states Of Lorraine and