Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-02
GfliiS FROM HARRISON.
The Ex-President Furnishes
Some Interesting Food
for Thought.
TIE DEFENSE OF THE WEAK.
Jaiioiary the Body Intended to
Stand Between the Rich
and Poor.
FBEsEnF FIEAEJEAL QUESTION

! ''If tsic Law prr:srea There Were Tws
Kinds of bushels. One et Sixty Pounds
| OF wheat and One of Thirty Pounds o
whca.. Ni,.. Farmer Would Dei.vei
Wheat 3y :lie Sixty Pound BushcI."
| The spocch ct cs.- President, Harrison IL
| New YORK on last Thursday evening wa:
one OF tha s,rsat efforts Of the prcscnt cam
/ pnign. lis cold, clear cut reasoning np
Poals 10 NIL The speech has been pub
li-hei IN full IN the metropolitan journals
bat hero ~. few gems f.'on. it whic,
may be str.i;s;l with profit:
Tho courts are the Getenso OF the weak
The rich and powerful have other ro
sources, but the poor have not. Tee high
m!EGcd independent Judiciary that vii
hold to the line in questions bstwccr
wealth and labor. between the rich and
the poor, are the defense ard security ci
the defeIseiess.
You might jus. as well say that If We
bad two kinds Of bushels, If the Law
| shonld declare thGt sixty pounds Of wheat
vas "a bushcl aud thirty pounds of wheat
| WAS bushal-weil, what farmer would
deliver wao.t 81 the sixty pound measure
| If he had sold il by tho LnsLel?
4 party that cannot be split Is q public
menace. When the leaders OF a pGrty az.
scnb.ed in convention depart from it,
traditional principle and advocate doe
tr;ne5 Tint threaten the integrity OF tho
government, the socis. order of our com
munitics and the security and souEdness
of our finance IL ought to split and 1t dig
ni.ics itself when it docs split.
II l had nothing bat h gold dollar and
sugar is twenty pounis for a dollar viii
not give that gold siollGr for twenty pounds
of sugar. / viii take il around to n broker
and got two silver dollars..for 1t and &c.
twenty pounds OF sugar and have one 81
yer dcliar left. - 1t is, my friends. We
can. OF ourselves, with our own wisdom.
declare the value. We can coin silver
freely, but we cannot make sixteen OUNCES
Of silver equal 10 one ounce of gold unIcS,
il is. And it is not. unlc;s .hc merchants
take it ut that rg.;e. That is where all th!.;
thing comes In
If it could he known tonight that the
gallant soldier, tha. typical young Amer
lean, tina: distin s,iisnci and useful states
man, William Mckinley, of Ohio, would
certainly be elected president, how the
bears would take 10 cover on the stock ex-
change tomorrow. Ny fricnl5, as y
Republican, am proud OF many things
but can sum up as the highest satis-
faction I have had in the party and its
career that the expectations of Rcpubli-
cen success never did disturb business.
Take the men who have life insurance.
a man has p-ovidently taken out a policy
that his widow and children might not
corac 10 want when the bread winning
hand was stricken in DEATH can they
where the policy reads 5000 make il sl0,-
o03: Can the managers of these institu-
tons make 1t right with theinf No. This
policy coerces integrity. However honest
G president of "a savings bank may be,
however full of sympathy the president of
u lie association may be, he is compelled to
say "Ali the loans of this company are
dollars that were worth 10) cents, we are
now being paid in the reduced dollar, al
though the integrity revoits against 1t,
our honesty is coerceI and we must pay
the widow half
TIE Republican party fronts the de
rtructionist and trumpets its defiance 70
the enemies OF sound money. 1t will fight,
however, without covering any Of the
glorious rnottos and Inscriptions that arc
upon its banners. When tho house is on
fire-ano many OF our Democratic friends
believe that to be the present domestic sit
uation-the tenan: on the top floor ought
not to ask the tenant in the basement to
bury any OF his opinions before nc joins
the fire brigade, and cur Democratic
friends who realize as we realize tho gray
ity, the far reaching consequences OF this
campaign, ought not 10 ask the Rspubli-
can party TO reorganixe Itself to put aside
any OF the great principles that IL has ad-
yocated In order to win vote.
A disturbance which Is purely local
IA "a state is state affair. The president
cannot send troops or lend any aid unless
the legislature calls upon him for help, o.
the governor. if the legislature Is not In
session. But when law of the United
States is invaded and broken it is the
sworn duty of the president TO execute it,
and this convention arfaiSns the presi-
dent for doing what his oath compelled
him to.
Comrades of the great war for the
Union, sons OF those who went cut to
battle that the hag might no: lose its
lustre, Will We consent after these years
that that doctrine that was shot to death
IN the great war shall be revived and
made victorious in 4 civil campaign. But
this assault does not end there. The
supreme court of the United States and
the Federal lower courts are arraigned
because they used the familiar writ of
injunction to suppress violence to restrain
men from breaking the law, and that the
platform plainly means
In connection with this financial NAB
ter, do we all recognize how important Is