Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-11-07

PklsrDTS CLEVELAND has appoint
ed sni set apart the 29th day of
November as day of Thanksgiving
and prayer.
AFTER twenty years of trying to
get along without hanging bad peo-
pie, Switzerland has re-enacted the
hang.ng law.
ON the 1st of November the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company declared
q semi annual dividend of % per
cent. il cash, making S per cent. for
the year.
THE holding up OF railroad trains
and the robbing cf the express cars
and passengers has become 50 fire
.uent that the people are becoming
uneasy about travelling in passenger
cars at night. Just what the rene.
dy will be for the outrages is not in
sight, but the remedy will come by
and by. The Americans will settle
the train robbery question in time.
If the Legislature of Pennsylvania
or the Legislature of any Of the States
of the United States, should pass a
compulsory raligioas law to give the
power OF the State to board Of eId-
G. or deacons of any particular de-
Aominatlon 70 enter the family and
t...se the children from the control of
PARENTS for religious and moral in.
struction, the people would take to
arms TO prevent the despotic inter
ference with their individual and
family rights, and yet we sit quietly,
Ehiie men are urging the enactment
Of compulsory education laws. Com
pulsory education enactments in
time will prove themselves despotic
as compulsory religious laws, have
been and the reason people in highly
enlightened countries, will not per-
NIT the enactment of compulsory re
ligious laws is this, the world has ex-
perienced what q despotism compul-
sorry religion leads to. Compulsory
education will lead to the same des-
potism.
MECHANICAL inventions haveichapg
ed every phase Of American life with
in tue past 35 years, and the chang
cd condition has produced general
i"TIiry of what's the matter 2
within the next so years the change
will be more marked than in the past
so. The farms used to be each q |
little government, producing almost
everything that was required for the
malntainance cf the farmers family |
and their work people. 1t is differ !
ent Low. The farmers no longer |
get their fuel from the farms; they |
no longer raise fax and wool and |
spin il, and have it woven in goods |
by tie home weaver, aud made into |
clothes by tie home tailor; they no |
longer have the hides of their cattle
tanned by the home tanner, and
made into shoes by the homa shoe
maker; thy no longer furnish their
own light from tallow and lard rails
nd on the farms. These changes
rava come so gradually, that the
no. Of Us have not noticed them,
-uo. we are asking, whats the matter?
v q f catch On to the fact, that
IN ''tLiLiOlio Ei'S ClhlSS'l. tttu
the f,rmer of to-day is not tine farm
er OF 80 years ago. Now he buys
his fuel, lis clothes, his shoes, his
sugar and lnolassus which he used to |
get from maple trees and hives Of |
bees. He used TO haul his goods to
market Now he ships it by rail,
and Iii these things take away The
revenues of his farm without adding
A penny TO the inc ,me of the prop
erty. Greater changes are yet to
come As people multiply in mum
bers, landed estates and cattle
ranges will decrease in siz, till they
Will be shrunken to such diminutive
proportions Il hat cattle, hogs and
eAe"1> aud horses. can no longer be
raised in great numbers, and then
the American people will cease to be
meat eating nation. That day will
be il the distant future, but ii is
coming. When that condition Of af-
fairs arrives, the psopie who live IN
il, Will look back to these times and
wonder, as we row do over the past.