Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-15

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cial freezing point. Everybody has
had the democratic financial shivers
the past year, and now the Cleveland
administration has got the shiyers
That's the only silver lining to the
dark industrial and financial clouds
that hang over the country. Thai
they too are shivering. They want
ed to lower the tariff rates, and thai
want brought On a fight among
themselves in Congress, and now
they are in a shivering fight.
II the protective tariff law that you
fellows passed could have been kept
in operation things would have gone
on all right, but just as soon as
Cleveland and his Congress got in,
down goes the business with McGin-
ty to the bottom of the business sea,
for don't you see how plain it is, the
business concerns would not go on
making and piling up all kinds Of
things at an expense of;millions when
Cleveland and his Congress said,
they would knock the protective tar
iff into a cooked hat, and that would
kill the business of the robber bar
ons, as they called the manufacturers
for when they would got the tariff
lowered the British goods would be
shipped into this country at prices
away below the price that it had cost
our people to make them. Don't you
see if you were making something
that you paid the labor on, to make
and cost you two cents yard, and l
would come from England where la
Dor is cheaper witt goods that cost
me only cent yard Don't you
see where that would send you. It's
plain you couldn't go it. Cleveland
and his party said we'll lower the
tariff and let the foreigners in with
their cheap goods and that threat
stopped the business for our people
were not going to carry on their bus
mess, paying good wages, and good
prices for material till Cleveland AMI
his party put down the bars for the
foreigners to bring i'll their goods
made on wages oae-half less, made OF
material one half cheaper That's
what's the matter, the business dried
up, prices went down, people drew
their deposits out of the banks and
you know what a monkey and a parrot
of time we have had financially
the past year. This Cleveland panic,
has cost the people of this country
more than all the tariff duties since
George Washington signed the first
protective tariff bill.
1 don't believe Cleveland under
stands the situation. 1t is certain
his party never could run the bust
ness Of MS country without running
it ;-.c .tc . hc'5 he I5s will they set
out Of the hole they are in now!
The men who ran the rio:ing
strikers did not understand the stu
alton.
Cleveland's ,1isun d er tan d n 6
brought a world of trouble on him
self, and the misunderstanding Of
the situation By the men whose
wages had to be reduced, made the
men lawless. They violated the
rights of other people, because it was
proposed to reduce their wages to
correspond with the proposed new
tariff wages rates, that President
Cleveland's Reform tariff Law would
put into operation, and when the
men rebelled against law and order,
and drove other men from work, des-
troyed other mems property, and
stopped travel, commerce and trade,
and set the courts at defiance. The
President called out the troops and
put down the rebellion against law
and o,der and upheld the right of
every man to work wherever he can
get work. Cleveland showed the
back bone of Old Andy that time.
It was we'll done. Done just MS O!G
Andy did it when the south attempt
ed to rebel in 1882 on the taritfques
ton. d. you know that if James
Buchanan had had the backbone Of
Cleveland and Old Andy, the South
would never have been allowed to
rebel in 1861, and slavery would yet
be in full force in the South aud q
bone of contention. for under the
Constitution it could not have been
touched till the Constitution could
have been amended in a CoDstitu
tional way, and it would have taken
several generations to get public
opinion strong enough to amend tae
Constitution SO as to abolish slavery.
Yon know love the memory of Old
Andy as a man loves the memory of
the girl he left behind him. I love
him for many good qualities He
threshed the British so nicely, who
were the first people to set them
selves up against our fore fathers
manufacturing goods here in Amer
lea Yes, it IS AS true as preaching,
that the Cleveland crowd and the
British are alike on the tariff. The
British would not allow the colonies
to manufacture goods. They want
ed to do the manufacturing and sell
the goods t. our forefathers. The
little manufacturing establishments
in Pennsylvania and other States,
were declared a nuisance by the
English Parliament. They wouldn't
allow hats to be made and sent from
one colony to another. The only
trade the British didn't interfere
with, was the slave trade. They
t helped to build up the slave trade,
, and to crush the manufacturer s
/ trade, and that is how the slave deal.
cr became free trader When the