Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-06

cd even to the sugar which was pro.
duced from maple trees. All kinds
Of tradesmen settled at convenient
distances among The land owners
biacksmiths. coopers, shoe-makers
clock makers. furniture makers. dis
! tilJers, hat rnakers, furnace and forge
men, grain cycle and grain cradeI
makers. The iron makers sold theil
iron to the blacksmiths and the,
made tools, implements an1 all the
hardware that was then reonired
Now corporations furnish almos. ev.
erything in the way of iron things
and the occupation of the blacksmith
IS almost entirely gone, except to
shoe horses, and the smith 10 longer
makes horse shoes and nails. Tbs
carpenter now buys almost every.
thing, sas5, doore, worked flooring,
and if he CHOOSES morticed frame.
work, and all he has to do is to put
the honse together. The farmer
slaughtered his own cattle; the locsl
tanner tanned tins hides; the local
shoemaker made the shoes. Now he
buys bis shoes ready made. The
fleece from his sheep snd the fax
from his farm was spun into vnrn ty
his family and woven into cloth for
clothing and bed clothing, &c, by the
local weaver. Now he buys his
clothing ready made The SEWN o
used TO be done with a penny needle.
Now it ID done by an expensive coop
Grafton sewing machine. The scythe
and grain scyc!e and cradel have Civ
en- away to the corporation grass
mower and grain binder. The grain
threshiog by tramping horses and by
has given way to expepsivs
stecm-tnreshing machinery furnished
by corporations. Every farmer was
his own transportation line. He had
MS large wagon on which he hau'ed
grain To Phiiedelphia, Baltimore and
New York. Now be pays 3 corpora
ton to haul his grain. So it is with
himself. When Le goss to distance
be pays corporation to haul him in
h1e cars, ard if be travels about
home it must be 10 tine buggy or car
riage, made by q syndicate or corpor
alton, instead OF travelling on horse
raised On his farm or afoot. All the
wilderness of machinery 1 have men
toned and many other things not
Gent;oae3 are made by trust, ana
corporations that hayo taken the &C.
from the people alongside
of the farms, and the people are row
employed by trusts AID corpora ions
and institutions instead CT running
tine business themselves. Even the
horse trade IS broken up By trusts
and corporations that are making
and using machinery The farmer
used to have stable full of colts and
every year sell horse or two ct
prof able price. Now the more colts
and horses he has, the poorer he is,
for they cat all the oats and corn
that he raises. The mechanical in
yentious bave taken the places of the
horses, :ro'iy cars, BICYCLES and horse
Leas e,sriages, huve jp rooted the
torse raising business and has effect
cd Ire price OF corn sud oats, for
since hundreds Of thousands of horses
are no longer used there is just that
much less:.oats and corn needed, and
that makes enough of a surplus of
that kind Of grain to lower the pric5
Of oats and corn. So you see We are
changing cur system OF government
so quietly tdat the most OF us don's
see 1T. We ali feel that something
that cid rot used to be is going on,
bu; few OF US know that we are
caanging from government of in
diyiduals 10 a government OF institu
ticrs and trusts. The railroad and
steamships and telegraph corpora
ton have drawn as it were the ends
OF the earth almost together. BY
the telegraph prices can be made aud
sent to any cline within the time cf
a few minutes and by railroad and
steamships ths products of all c.imes
can be centered wherever wanted.
How that knocks our prices of grain
Grain that is raised ~ men in InuIa,
who work With clout around thsir
ioirs Tor two and three csrts q day
and board themselves, can BE- brought
into competition with the grain rails
ed By Intelligent Americans. Tbs
same is true with the grain raised in
Australia and South America. In
those countries they are going to
raise American corn with the same
cGeap labor Several hundred thou.
sand bushels Of American seed corn
mas been shipped this fall to India.
The same thing is going on with the
of cotton and wooden
goods. British manufacturers are tax
ing their plants from England to In
lila where the bes: of skilled workmer
Ii the making of such goods can be had
Tor eight Cents and sixteen cents a
lay. and thsy board themselves.
Within the Esx: half century the
busiest British corporation men and
manufacturers viii be centered in IN
:ia, unless the coming generation Of
should fail to size up in
business with thsir fathers of to day.
From India with railroads and steam
ships, they will control the price OF
he markets of the world. I wish old
WAS here to ses the change
wish lie could be with ur 70 point
'ut remedy for this grinding com
that is coming upon us