Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-16

machinery and by t. opening up of
the west by the railroads the ia mers
have again gotten ahead Of the de-
mand for grain TO such degree that
the price is down below what we be-
lieve is proftible work
} Now what shall we engage in to
make our farms more profitable is
the problem of the day? Diversity
our industry.
1t is probable that the next gener-
alton, the generation to which the
, boys and girls that are seated about
this platform belong, will convert
the hill tops in this valley into peach
groves, and the sloping farm land Iu-
to sheep ranches, and the fiat land
and rich places into tobacco patches,
rese v ng only as much for grain and
grass as will supply their families
with bread and feed for few horses
and cattle.
1t is not probable that we will go
back to the manufacture of whisky,
for there is strong moral sentiment
against the traffic that did not exist
in the days of the fathers.
1t will not do to destroy the cor
poratiohs, for that would not better
our affairs, for to uproot the corpor-
ations and turn the thousands and
hundreds of thousands of men with
their wives and mi lions of depen-
dent children out of the means of
support, would be to throw them
back onto the farms as grain raisers,
and that would decrease the number
Of grain consumers and increase the
number of grain producers and send
the price of grain away below what
it now is
Now we don't want to destoy the
corporations and the railroads but
we don't want them to become our
masters to destroy us financially.
We don want them to charge US
rs much to haul our produce to
Philadelphia and Baltimore and 9TH
er near by eastern markets as they
charge to haul it from the cheap
lands Of the west
We want Il difference between the
long aud short haul.
Is thew manage things now they
charge Us almost as much TO haul
Our grain and live stock to the east
"rn markets as they charge for the
same kind of things from the cheap
iands of the west, and that kind of
nrgement keeTs down the price of
grain and live stock that we raise on
o II high priced lands on which we
pay heavy taxes.
You can ship grain bv the quaint
ty from Chicago 10 Philadelphia or
New York for about Tets bushel
and You can't ship it from .M.fliin-
town to the same places for less.
We dru't want them TO discrimin-
ate and tear us to prices in that way
under the forms Of law, to build
themselves up.
They can do Us justice and do
what is right for the people of the
west, and make more money for
themselves by raising the freight
rates on the long haul from the west
to correspond with the freight rates
on the short haul
I We want home protection, we
want to protect our farms from the
low freight rates from the west.
Congress should pass law pro
tec'ing the farmers Of the east from
the cheap freight rates from the west
as it protects the manufacturers
from tie cheap labor rates of the
manufacturers of the old world.
Now 1 don't ~ ct to 10 r-isunder-
stood, l dou'6 want a single indivi-
dual to understand that I am against
the corporations, for such is not the
ca So, am IN favor of the railroads
and corporations they are a great
good, they are part and parcel Of
this glorious civilization that has
been buit up in America, in this day
and generation, but the discriminat-
ing management is not to thetbest
: interests of the agriculturalis's
We are not faithful to ourselves
and the great interests that are en-
trusted to Us of we fail to consider
these great questions.
We can talk about these questions
AMI compare notes as two neighbOrs
did about their wives Siid the one
my wife and me have lived together
40 years and we have never bad
/ fight" Oh. that's nothing said the
other, my wife and me have lived
lived together 40 years and we have
had fcurty thousand fights and are
good friends yet"
Now that's the way with us and
the coming generations who Will
agitate these great questions in an
intelligent way, forty years and
fight over them forty Thousand
times if need be, till the crudities
and wrongs have been corrected and
be good friends in the end with the
railroads making money and justice
done the people