Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-10-25

ct TO NIL the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Josiah II. Adams
Mr.. Adams was unfortunate in
having his name associated with
confidence swindling corporations
He said he did not know the ma
ture of the schemes when he con.
sented to the use of his name as an
officer of the concern. The discOv.
cry of his name among the prOmOt-
ers of questionable business enter
prises was great surprise. The
republican party is strong in
its integrity and if law is
ever passed to prevent the wat
cred stock concerns from swindling
the people, it will be the republi-
can party that will have to pass
such law. The quicker such a
law is passed the better. There
are thousands of confidence swim
ding corporations launched every
year that have not one single hon
est breath, the whole purpose OF
the organization is for the prOmOt-
ers to float their worthless paper
promises long enough to sell their
bonds and stocks, pocket the mon
ey and let the worthless thing drop.
Rally to the support of the republi-
can party. 1t is the first party
move that has ever been made to
start an uproOting process of the
dishonest business methods that
prevail to such an alarming extent
among those engaged in corpora
tiOn work. Corporations are not
all dishonest. There are honest
and capable corporations, hence so
many frauds. The frauds point to
the honest ones as proof of the
good that is in such things.
Several battles have been fought
between the British and Beers in
south Africa ggitnin t t week.
The British have been victorious
1t is folly for the Beers to contest
with the British. The English are
too strong for them. 1t was folly
for the Beers to start the war. 1t
is true that fifty years ago the
Beers, then a small colony, started
from Cape Colony with all their
effects on wagons, and drove inland
. 200 miles and settled on a beau
tiful and fertile unsettled plain. A
few ridges run through the plain.
1t was just the kind of land they
were in search of, where they could
easily engage in agriculture and
cattle raising. They were happy
there in the pursuit of their favor
ite calling for the period of gen
Grafton, when alas for their chosen
occupation, gold was discovered in
a ledge of rocks that extended east
and west a distance of thirty miles.
The rocks dip southwark at an
angle of - degrees under the plain.
The gold bearing seams are 8 inches
to Is feet thick and contain so to
$40 Il ton. That is half to an
ounce of gold distributed through
a ton of rock. They say the gold
is quite evenly distributed through
the rock. 1t costs $6 ton to get
the gold out of the rock. There
are sixty mineing companies most
Iy British. The dividends of the
companies range from Is per cent.
to over 600 per cent. Well, it is
the gold that has created the trOu-
BILE. The British entered the cOun-
try, leased and bought property,
engaged in mining and every other
kind of business that pays there;
they built factories, railroads,
towns, and became the largest
property owners in BOerland, they
paw three fourth of the taxes OF
BOerland, but with all that the
Beers will not permit them to par
ticipate in the affairs CT govern
ment and that has caused the trOu-
BILE. With such state of affairs
il is not difficult to understand the
mistake and folly of the Beers.
Men of large property interests are
not going to have their rights
trampled upon in that way. The
Beers Go not see that they have
everything to lose and nothing tt
gain by the war they have started
1t is pigheadness that crops out ir
more places than in Boerland
They are making war on the Eng
lisI who came among them, bought
their property, paid for it, keep il
ND, and pay the great bulk of thu
taxes which pay for the public pri
yileges that the Beers themselves
enioy. 1t is the same old story IL
a new setting, of the doless anC
shiftless and lazy incompetent peo
Mo donouncinp the energetic anC