Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-07-24

THE lumber trade languishes
There is no more in the business an,
when prices are talked of they are g.
low that men who operate are dis
couraged. and men who have lumbe
on the stump feel it has deprecated
and then they groan and fall back OF
the cause, which is found in the Dem
ocratic Reform Congress. One O
the formest champions in Congress
against the Democratic free lumber
movement was Senator Quay. 81.
strove early and late to head off ths
Democratic lumber wrecking move
ment. Tho thanks he is getting from
some of his party is found in the
Hastings movement against Quay.
II makes 40 difference to some
people what a man does for them OF
for their church or for their party
Just as soon as he is not in accord
with some ambitious plan of theirs,
they raise the knife to knife him.
Senator Q1ay has been g life long
Republican, doing his best to tide
along its noble principles. But now
that he is not in accord with the city
contract, traction and lobby combine
and Hastings ambition, they want to
put him down. Don't loan yourself
TO such an unworthy movement
Uriah Shuman is the Quay delegate.
North Sterrett is the Gilkeson, Mar
tin, Magee, Hastings combine dele
gate.
THE city contractors, traction coun-
Gil manipulators and Legislative lobby
combine having roped the Governor
into their coils are making an excuse
that they are against Qlay because
he dii not favor the apportionment
bill that they had arranged for the
benefit of the cities They make
that their excuse to give themselves
something to hide behind to fight
from and cover up their work of rails
ing the salaries and multiplying the
Offices. Every factory inspector, and
Laif of them are of no more use than
the fifth wheel to wagon, and the
other half could do all the work and
not work half the time on their sal
sry OF fifteen hundred dollars and
five hundred dollars extra Tor ex
penses, up to Gilkeson, Chairman on
his salary Of six thousand dollars n
yeer, are al out full in cry to down
Quay. Their Hastings pap makes
them bold
WHEN VIM. Penn established a
Government of Religious tolerance
in Pennsylvania, thousands of Qua
kers. Mennonites, Presbyterians and
Lutherans and other religious sects
came into the State to enjoy the com
mon rights that Penn proclaimed
throughout the civilized world.
Some wore this and some wore that
kind of dress, but true liberty pre-
vailed for everyone except the vicious
class of people and that class of peo-
pie was small in those days, for they
wers not at homo IN Quaker, Men |
nonnito and Presbyterian atmosphere.
Everyone had true liberty except for
the commission Of crime. Penn him
self spent a large part of his time
among the people whom he helped
to homo and religious liberty. There
was 10 oae to question the cut of his
clothes or the cat of the clothes of
any other people in the State when
they appeared As religious worship.
ers or when they appeared in the
school room as echool teachers. The
fathers of that Cay would have con-
sidered such question as the relig-
ioas garb bill, FL insult, and looked
upon the quest IS one in tho in
terest nj kingci .ft from which they
had escaped from Europe to Amer.
ics. During tie period of one hun
dred years and Laore the spirit of re-
lig:t rs toleration prevailed in this
goodly Commonwealth and no man
was prescribed On account of dress
indicating UNCONVENTIONAL faith, from
being teacher, preacher or laylnsn.
But this year 1895 stands forth as
the year of blunders, and sadly to re-
late it falls to Republican admins
tration to commit the worse than
biunder Of passing all act of Lsgisla-
ture to prescribe man on account of
his religious dress II the people of
peculiar dress had acted Extensively
in manner or speech against other
people there would have been some
excuse to curb them, but there are
no people in the world less offensive
in .heir manner and speech than the
bunker, Monnonnite, Quaker, Ay-
mish, &c. Wherever they are, they
ars the very salt of the earth, and
yet with these facts clearly in view,
Governor Hastings signed religious
clothes or garb bill, q law that makes
If n peuslty to engage in teaching IN
the common schools clothed in a suit
that by its cuts reveals to what relig.
ious sect the owner belongs. The
bill or law as it has become under
Governor Hasting' S signature, forbids
anyone having the garb of Dunker,
Mennonite, Quaker, Aymish or any
other religious garb people from
teaching in the public schools.
There are fifty thousand Dunksrs in
Pennsylvania who almost to a man
were for Hastings, but from this time
out what can be done to ever again get
them into line for the Governor, is
not known. If they could determine
the big salary Chairman GIlkeson's
political fate, they would dispose of
him quickly, for he is she man who
the Governor is now making such a
h9ht for, to re-elect Chairman Of the
State Committee. What folly to
pass the religious garb law. Yes, it
was worse than folly. 1t will not do