Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-10-10
HARRISON SPEAKS.
Short and Pointed Talk on the
Tariff Question.
A Loss WITHOUT COMPENSATION.

A LOSS WITHOUT geMPEHsAT1oN.
We Are At the Bottom OF the We'll, AMI
Might Get Out Even Now II There Was
Not Danger from Above, but the Dem.
ocrats Insist That If They Have Their
Way rhsy VIII Sink U. Deeper-rhs
Remedy is . Big Republican Victory
This Year.
In opening the campaign in Indiana as
president of a meeting at which the prin-
cipal speaker was Governor Mckinley, OF
Ohio, ex-President Harrison made short
speech that is full of good points. He said:
! my fellow citizens: the delightful
duty has been assigned to me by the state
central committee of the Republican party
Of Indiana to preside over this meeting. !
am to be its chairman, not its speaker.
and / congratulate you on that fact. ]
! notice in the audience here today with
great satisfaction, the presence of many
I of our older fellow citizens. The old men
are fond of talking Of the good old
times" but to the times to which they
looked back to with so much delight, the
covered the things that were hard and
brought out in the memory those things
that were sweet and pleasant. But the
I good old times which they have in mind,
/ however, are not good old times, but very
! young good times.
VERY YOUNG GOOD TINES
$50 young that only the unweaned
! babes have no memory of them. Only
! two years ago this country was not only
the most prosperous country in the world
for that it has been before-but it stood
upon the highest pinnacle of prosperity
; that it had ever before attained. This is
not the verdict of politicians; it is the YER
/ dict of the commercial reporter; it is the
! expressed opinion of those men who make
a profession of studying business condi
| tions. The last two years have been years
of distress and disaster.
! 1.-The great national losses, like those
of the civil war, have sometimes their
! adequate compensation. Great as was
the cost of the war for the Union we feel
that it was adequately compensated in the
added glory that was given to the flag
and in the added security that was given
| to our civil institutions and the unity of
! the nation. But the losses of the last two
I years have no such ompensating thought.
| There is no good to be gotten out of them
! Qaughtcr). except for guidance. They
! seem to have been of a retribu;ive nature,
| like the swamp into which traveller
has unwarily driven. that has no anchor
ating suggestion except as they teach him
| to keep on the foot hills and on the roads
| that are on the hill tops. We are told
that the rich were getting richer and the
poor poorer, and so to cure that imaginary
| ill our political opponents have brought
in n time when everybody is getting
| poorer.
81 think / remember to have heard onco
of an inscription upon tombstone that
ran something like this: L was well; I
| thought to be better: l took medicine and
here lie daughter and applause.) Our
Democratic friends have passed the tariff
| bill that is approved-so far as / can
learn-by six Democratic senators and by
nobody else. Uaughter.) We hear of n
little cotcrie of senators whose names /
could not mention, perhaps-for they have
not been well identified. but their number
has generally been fixed at round half
dozen-who. decided what the tariff bill
. should be and they are pleased with it
and nobody else.
CONDEMNED By ALL.
! Mr.. Cleveland has repudated il, and
has declared that it involves 'perfidy and
| dishonor,' that it was so shameful in its
| character and in the influences that pro-
| duced it that he would not even put his
name to it. All of the leading Democratic
papers i'll the country have condemned it
both of the old stalwart variety and of
| the mugw ump variety. The Democratic c
chairman of the ways and means commit
| tee had condemned it. and the entire Dem
/ Ocratic majority in the house of repre-
sentatives. Now that is great misfor-
I L.
cratic party was not able to evolve tariff
that that party would accept rs n settle
ment Of the tariff question. But it is not
accepted as a settlement. In the very ma
ture of things n bill thus passed and thus
, characterized cannot be settlement.
If we could have been told by our DEM
Ocratlc friends that We We're at the bottom
of the well, dark, damp and dismal rs it
| is, we would have begun to look up to see
whether we could not find a star of hope:
we would have begun to anoint our bruises
! and try to behold some scafold By which
, we might climb out. But we ar. told that
there are lower depths yet in store for US.
Aud so this country is to be held in q
state of SUSPENSE upon these questions.
1t can be ended in just one way. and that
! is by Overw helming Republican victories
in November.
! ASSURANCE IN VOTES.
when New York gives Levi p. Nor
| ton 1900 majority and Indiana her state
ticket 25. .OO0 and Illinois and those states
that have wavered fall again into line
and the next congress is Republican there
will be assurance that we have found the
| end of this disastrous condition. Cheers }
| ! think the Ohio Democrats, the other
| day, declared that all these disasters of
! which we speak came upon the country
under the Mckinley bill. Well, to be
sure. the Mckinley bill was law
until the a9th day, was it, of August,
when the German bill was passed,
but it was law only in name. 1t
had been arrested. We were listening
from day to day to prophecies that in two
weeks or three or four it would be re-
pealed. 1t was not a law in the sense
that any mercha 1T or manufactures
could act upon it. 1t was dead, in sub
stance, though alive on the statute books.
| Why sir, it would be just as reasonable
to complain of a man who had been
seized, handcuffed aud locked up in a cell
for not supporting his family as to COM
plain that the Mckinley bill did not give
prosperity during this period of suspense.
"And then we are told that under the
Mckinley bill the price of wool went
down-and that since it has been made
free it is going up; that sugar on the free
list was niger than sugar with n 40 per
| cent. duty, and al this, Notwithstanding
the old Democratic doctrine that duty has
! always added to the cost of domestic ar
| ticles."
| KEEP up the work and you will feel all
the better when the vote is counted and
you see the result partly due to your ef-
| forts.
| the FREE wOOL FALLACY
| With bat o,Ic dissenting vote, cast by q
Democrat. the Ohio Wool Growers as,o.