Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-26


tories This Year That Cannot be Sue.
csssfuIIy Answered - Tho Facts Apply
to P.nnsyIvsnia - Well - Maine.
The closing speech Of the campaign in
Maine, where the returns show Republi-
can irajorit iter by many thousands
Yer , was made by Governor
lley, r. Ohio, and it is conceded
..-o to his matchless presentation Of the
i.sue is due in great measure the big ma
jority. The Maine speech of Majas Nc
Kinley fills six columns Of space. We
take from it and present here few of
the more forcible arguments presented,
which are as applicable in Pennsylvania
as in Maine. Among other things Gov
ernor Mckinley said:
The Democratic president and Democratic
congress have been running the government
for eighteen months. during which time little
else has been running. Industry has been
practically stopped. Labor has found little
employment, and when employed il has been
at greatly reduced wages. Both government
and people have been draining their reserves.
and both have been running in debt The gov
ernment has suffered in its revenues and the
people in their incomes. The total losses 10
the country in business, property and wages
are beyond human calculation. There has
wages; no contentment, brightness or hope
has any here appeared. Discomfort and dis
tress have been universal. The appeals to
charity have never been so numerous and in
cessant, their necessity everywhere so
manifest. Congress has dsa pponted the peO-
pie. trifed with the sacred trust confided to
il, e-cted distrust and disgust among their
constituents and impaired their enterprises
and investments In almost continuous ses-
sion for thirteen months. they have done
nothing but aggravate the situation. Pledged.
II platforms mean anything. to overthrow our
long continued policy of protection. they have
quarrcied and compromised, and. upon their
own testimony. have been compromised.
THE TARIFF LAW.
The result of their long wrangle is tariff
law with which nobody is satisfied. "a
law which TIE chairman Of the committee on
ways and means and almost the entire Dem
ocratic side Of the house condemned by a yea
and nay vote only few days before its pass
age. affirming their intention in the most sol
einn manner not To permit it to be enacted; n
law which was never approved By n ma jor-
ity Of either the house e." -:'ittg. ..ays and
means or the senate cOI'-It 80, uI zee who
were charged with the ""tiun 4 nd man
agcment of the bill; H. - - nch all factions
of the Democratic party agree is the work of u
monst rnus trust " hich Chairman Wilson con-
fcsscd ia the house. amid the applause of his
confe,. les. with deep chagrin and hunilia-
never received the q, liberate consideration of
the cOnfere i'c committee, and was not with
drawn b! nc senate only because of the
forced ana hurried action If the house in
cepting it 'lurer the threat Of the agents of the
trust that il vas that or nothing and in nil
h. probability nothing; n law which since
lis i,assage the majority of fhe senators have
rushed swiftly forward to denOunce and
condemn. alth.Us'I they responsible
for its passage: law of which the
hou-. Of representatives were so thor
oughly Ashamed that they had sooner
passed il than they made hot haste to seek its
immediate amendment by passing supple
mentary bills which put their taritfed sugar
coal. lead, iron and barhcd wire on the
free list under threat of still further similar
assaults on the much disturbed and distressed
industry of the country. utterly hcadlcsS Of hc
stupendcus ruin they lad already wrought :
a law which the president condemned before
its passage, and from W L:ch. when passed. he
withheld his approval; Il law which was char
acterizcd. Iefcre its passage. by the greatest
leader in the Democratic party. the scnio
senator from New York as IA violation of
Democratic pledges and principles. and
which was denounced by the official head of
the government as such act of party per
fidy and party dishOnor" that if the house
should at last concur in it. they would no,
dare to look the people of the country ia the
face and which the executive still condemns.
since their surrender, the very com
nunism of pcif.
A Fatal. MISTAKE.
Those who ;, .icvc that the present admin
istrari" Is'TIic the tariff question and
tax ,-sn..iin of politics and pub
lie hi.,r already discovered their
fe,a. ttr... Tor they find that even those
wnr de the law spurn ii as settlement
wher. the neutrality-suspicious. who projected
and carried il on-bolily declare either that it
is no settlement, OF. if anything, spurious
one.
After eighteen months useless agitation not
yet content with the vast ruin they have
wrought. they are still unwilling to Civ. the
business interests of the country any rest
relief. but continue and constantly renew the
threat of still other and more hurtful changes
in tariff schedule. Even the president
himself in his letter 10 Congressman Catch
ings. of Mississippi. says:
THE millions of our country men who have
fought bravely and well for tariff reform
not excepting this bilI-sIiould be cxhorted to
the struggle. boldly challenging u
open warfare and constantly guarding against
treschery and half heartedness in their
camp"
And who. while he permitted the bill to be-
come a law. lacking the moral courage to veto
II, yet boastingly announces:
Il take my place with the rank and file of
the Democratic party who believe in tariff
reform and who know " hat il is; who refuse
to accept the results embodied in this bill
the close of the war: who are not blinded to
the fact that the livery Of Democratic tariff
reform has been stolen and won in the service
Df Republican projections: and who have
marked the places where the deadly blight of
treason has blasted the councils of the brave
in their hour of night"
sTKpNG AND SANCTUARY.
Strong and -auCuinary words. these. and
new to Mr.. Cleveland 5 svocabulary-''trcGson''
and the CLOSE Of the war" War for and
against what: Traitors against whom and
W hat: War against the best and highest
interests of the people Of the CnitedSiatcs.
" hose chief executive. nevertheless. he is.
War against our industrial independence and
business prosperity. How blithely Ac sounds
he note Of battle. How confidently he again
ralls to arms every enemy to our industrial
system and challenges to open warfare the
friends of American prosperity nd American
labor. How scornfully he "nctcriZes M
traitors in his party eyc-y /. however
weak and hcsitating, boih .leress and
1ut. to the cause of Amer ri,si lection.
Even the active agents 10 the settlement
avow it settlement which does not settle
anything. They openly disclam it as such
and invite tie protcctionists of the country
~ again join issue with them On the dOci'i.i
of free trade against protection. which they
declared in their last national platform was a
fraud and robbery
THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
Apps: 20 ths voters Of the country for their
,uTr, -; hut even if the Democratic leaders
were -n:Isiicd with " hat they have done, be-
fore the settlement could lie accepted as final
and the country be set at rest the new law
must pass the review ii the people and be ap-
proved by them. II the country was disposed
TO accept II As final, and could permanently
adjust business to 1t. the party in power would
not have it They have SO declared with
holdncss and unanimity- This means. unfor-
a constant agitation until the 4th
day of March. 1895. at least, and for two oyears
longer after that unless the people in the con-
gre>siOnal elections this year make the house
Republican, in which event no further wreck
ing of our industries or Interference with the
people can occur during the admin
istTafiOn OF President Cleveland.
What will your verdict be: A Democratic
victory means further and longer steps in the
direction of free trade-decper cuts and more
deadly blows upon our Industrial life. A Re
publican victory-a Republican house-means
that during the closing half OF MI. .Clevelands