The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-02
PENNYPACKER'S SPEECH
What the Republican Leader in His
Centre Hall Speech.
FEW HINTS TO Ex-oov. PArTlsok

w otdte anu NNtion OutitEeo-SCmc
Facts For the "Man With the Hoe"
Great Crowds Listen.
Following is the speech in full Of
Judge Pennypacker, delivered at Gen.
tre Hall, on the opening Of the pres.
ent campaign:
"Some time ago was the president
judge Of one of the courts of common
pleas in Philadelphia, but that situa.
ton has disappeared, and now | have
no other vocation in life than that of
a farmer.
las the owner of farm in Mont
gomery county and of another in Ches.
ter county. to that extent at least l
may claim to have community Of in.
terest with you and place in \this
large assemblage.
II also appear before you as the
candidate of the Republican party for
the Office of governor of this grand
and exceptionally great common
wealth, and l know of no class in the
community who are more vitality in
terested in the maintenance and fur
therance of those principles and the
support of that party which has
brought about the present prosperous
condition Of affairs than the owner of
and workers upon the farm.
"The only way to judge of parties
and Of men is by their fruits and not
by their promises alone.
"For 60 years prior to 1861 the DEM
ocratic party had control of the affairs
of this state and in the main those of
the country. 1t was the same state,
with the same glorious early men,
ories, the same wealth which the Lord
had given to it in its deposits OF iron,
coal and oil. the same beautiful
streams and green meadows for the
pasture OF cattle which have made
Lancaster county the richest agricul-
tural county in America and the same
industrious and God-fearing people
that we have now anxious and willing
to turn the soil with labor that they
might be gladdened with the returns
or harvest
DEMOCRATIC DEBT $4O,OOO,OCO
"From 1887 to 1912. under the op-
Grafton of the antitariff legislation Of
1888, a cow and calf sold in the
spring of the year for IS, and corn and
potatoes only brought in the market
121a cents bushel. In 1857 railway
company in Philadelphia advertised
for 25O men at 60 cents a day wages,
and there were 5000 applicants. When
the Democratic party surrendered con-
troll of the state in 1861 there was a
state debt of over $4O,OOO,OOO.
"To meet the exigencies of that debt
and the necessities of the state gov
ernment taxes were imposed not only
upon farm land and hcrses and cattle,
but upon all trades and occupations.
The only real disgrace which the his
tory Of Pennsylvania discloses was
when, under Democratic management,
in 1S43. there was temporary repu-
diation Of the state debt.
"Durng the 40 years in which the
Republican party has conducted our
state affairs that debt has been re-
duced at the rate of a million dollars
year, until at the present time it
practically no longer exists. The tax
alton of the farmers land and herds
of cattle for the purposes of the state
have been brought to an end, and the
revenues necessary for the annual
expenditure have been imposed upon
the corporations. There are in the
treasury over s12,OO0,000.
PATTISON SHOULD ANSWER.
"The distinguished gentleman who
leads the opposition said in his speech
at Reading the other day that taxation
is unequal and that greater proper
tion of the burden ought to be laid
upon personal property. If he means
by that suggestion that a greater bur-
den ought to be imposed upon horses
and cattle, corn and wheat, it would
be a return to the old order Of things,
and not an advance. If he means that
a greater burden ought to be imposed
upon the earnings of corporations, it
is certain that the principle was dis.
covered and applied not by the Demo-
cratic but by the Republican party.
"The reason for the taxation of land
is historical rather than logical. II
you were to read the Commentaries
of Coke upon Littleton you would find
that the whole law at that time was
devoted to questions arising out of the
ownership of real estate. At the time
Of the settlement Of Pennsylvania
there we're no other investments than
those in land. and even in the days Of
our grandfathers an increase in indi.
vidual wealth meant an accumulation
of one farm after another and per-
chance mill.
The leaders OF the Republican party
were the first to get away from the