Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-08-26


They can't support Bryan and his
revolutionary purposes.
OSE-FoURTH of the democratic state
ticket electors and Congressman at
large have resigned. They cannot
support Bryan and his revolutionary
platform. There are SO candidates
on the state ticket. OF that number
9 have already resigned and more
will follow. Chairman John Garman
has called the state convention to
meet at Harrisburg to fill the vacsn-
cies made by the nine designations,
and to change the platform, and
make it fit the revolutionary B:yan
platform. By tbs time Garman has
the state platform changed to fit the
Bryan platform half of the Pennsyl-
yenia democracy will havs stepped
out of his party.
No LESS than 800 cars are stand
ing idle on the middle division of the
Pennsylvania Raj road. Other div
isions report q similar condition
wall Strsst, Daily News" August s,
1896.
How is this, President Roberts, Is
1t not fact that your $500 ears are
idle because our people are idle, and
that our people ara idle because We
have Tariff in force that has admit
ted large quantities of foreign goods
made by foreign labor, and that the
enforced idlspess of our people has
checked their ability to buy goods,
hence there is 40 demand for your
1,S00 idle cars to haul goods to non-
consumers? - American Economist,
Aug. IA.
TEE other day silver man in Pat
terson stepped up to an acquaintance
and said; ~ understand you are a
gold man" THAT is true" replied
the second party. "Well, well," re-
piled the first party, II don't believe
God ever intended this country to be
gold country The second party
looked q second or two at the speak
er before answering, and then said:
THAT is sentiment that you are just
talking, and if you believe that, your
belief don't make it 50. but don't you
know, that Christ was betrayed by
the free use of silver, and Judas Is
cariot was silver bug, and don you
know that Christians all believe in
gold, and one of their most inspiring
hymns is the sweet song that relates
to the golden streets of the new
Jerusalem"
The Bryan people are trying to
make people believe that the free
coinage of silver will make money
Plentier and SO far many people fall
to catch the fact that everywhere out.
side of the United States silver is
rated at what it is worth, and not at
what it is stamped They don't
seem to catch the fact that the act
ual value of silver is one thing and its
stamp is another thing. The actual
value of silver now is 80 cents iI the
markets of the world, but it's stamp
value is s1.00 in the United States.
If the other nations of the world
would recognize the silver dollar at
one dollar instead of SO cents, it
would be all right to go on with the
free coinage of silver, but they will
not 30 recognizs it, and it is with the
greatest difficulty that the United
States Government has been able to
keep it par with gold. The govern
ment so far has been keeping the sill
yer dollar at its stamp value, but if
Bryan and his party get into power
and enact their free coinage of silver
views into law, there will be such
an over production of silver in the
United States, that government can
not keep tie silver dollar piece at par
with gold, and the silver dollar will
drop to so cent piece. and will cir
culate rs such, and how that drop of
ons-balf can make money plentier
has not been explained. There would
have to be another time as much sill
ver coined AS their is bow ia circula
tion before the shriakage from a dol
lar piece to fifty cent piece could
be made up. and long before that
Shriukage could be made up, the
larger part OF the six hundred mil
lions of gold in the country would
have been shipped to Europe and the
balance boarded and that would
shrink prices still further and the
shrinkage would have to be made up
and by the time they would have
enough silver coined to make up for
the depreciation of the dollar piece to