Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-09

Down goes the silver dellar if Bryan
is elected. Vote the republican
ticket and help keep the silver dollar
to 100 cent dollar.
THE three states of Minnesota
North Dakota and South Dskots
have raised this year 108,0OO,00C
bushels of wheat, which IS almost
half enough to bread the people ol
the United States. That wheat is
shipped to the sesboard at rates very
little higher than it costs to ship
wheat from Juniata county to Phila-
delphia. Is it any wonder that wheat
IS low.
A GOVERNMENT cant &c cun without
an income. The late democratic con-
gress cut down the nstional income
and msds hard times for US all, and
they want to cut down the value of
silver by Al over Issue of silver,
which will cut down the income Of
every man who makes dollar, it will
cut hfty cents off every silver dollar
that msn makes. 1t is a nice state
Of affairs that we have come too
when tho tariff has been reduced and
thereby Gu. the revenues OF govern
ment SO low that the income is insuf-
fcient to pay the everyday expenses
of government.
The one head Bryan ticket with
its two tailed Watson and Sewall ap-
pendage, and the Palmer and Buck
ner ticket, both claim Thomas JET
ferson as their political father. They
are nice twins. What would their
pop think of them. Wonder what
pap Jefferson would think of his hope
full boy Bryan going about the coun
try posing as the champion of free
labor when his pap was the owner of
AS slaves and forty thousand acres
cfland. There seems to be a won-
derful dissimilarity between the dead
ancestor aad the twin Palmer and
Bryan. If pap was right the boys
are fakes or if the twins are right,
Jefferson was wrong. It matters not
which horn of the diiimma they take,
their Jeffersonian claim is SO conflict
ing that it is only good to arouse
laughter over their pretensions.
Four years ago Bryan was travel
ing through the country telling of
the good times the people would en-
Joy by the adoption of q reduced
tariff. The tariff was reduced. Be-
hold the result, the country is full Of
men out of work, and agricultural
products are lower than people Of
this generation have ever known.
Now Bryan is on his travels, this
time he is the nominee OF what the
Jefferson democrats call the bastard
wing Of the democracy, and the chief
text to cover greater evils is free sill
yer. Again he promises better times
if they will vote for him. But it is
said child once burnt breads the
fire, and so it will be with the people
this fall. They were burnt three
years ago. and will not be burnt at
the coming election.
IT is only three years ago that the
democratic party was blaming the
hard times on the republicans for the
purchase OF S4, 100000 worth Of sill
Yer money. They said it is the pur-
chase of that much silver every
month, that is ths cause of the hard
times, and President Cleveland was
induced to call an extra session of
Congress to repeal the republican
purchasing law. But as the purchas
ing law was not what allied the coun-
try Of course the times did not i'm
prove. Now tae democrats are shout
ing for what they condemned three
years ago onl y '.more so, for instead
of only $4,000, 900, they want all the
silver coined that it is possible to find
to coin. 1t is the low tariff bill that
has made the times hard. The dom.
ocrstic Wilson tariff bill has thrown
tens of thousands Of men out of en-
pioyment, and they being out of
work are no longer consumers of the
products of the farms. Instead of
being consumers, buyers, they are
raising as much as they can from the
soil to support themselves and fami-
lies, and that lessons the price of
farm products. In that way the dem
ocretic low-tariff is a two-edged |
sword, cutting down the employees
in the factories, and cutting down |
TIE prices of the products of the
farms