The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-05-01
BANQUET SPEECHES.
Remarks Of Gen. larimer, &c. HIisg.
aud Cthcrs.

ara Vtncrss
1t WAS almost impossible night before last
to get accurate reports Of the response. We
published yesterday full and correct reports
Of speeches delivered BY Senator Ingalls,,
Gen. Miles and L. NJ. Goddard, and an out
line of remarks make by Others. To-day
We add the speeches Of Gen. VIM. Larimer
and Hon. J. C. Briggs. The former il re.
rponse to the Agricultural, and the latter in
reply to The Commercial toast
Mr.. Larimer stated that he had left hi.
plough in the furrow to pay his respects to
our new senator Ingalls,. He regretted tha,
he had not the language to speak for the
"a, O0O farmers Of Kansas. He reminded
the senator Of his having to represent the
farming interests that At present there was
great commo,ion amongst the farmers that
all interests except the farmers had their
prices for their wares, the lawyers and the
doctors, and all prosss- ions included; but If
he brought in load Of corn, oats or hay,
the prices for each we're fixed BY the buyer.
The fact il the farmers are down ts the bed
rock, and struggle was going on TO keep
the two ends together. The great causes
assigned by the farmers are railroad monOp-
oIies. The farmers, a. a general thing, are
not considered very sharp. but they can all
read, and know how railroads are built.
The projectors never put one dollar of their
own capital in them, except, perhaps, in the
preliminary organic ,tion., and the roads are
built BY land grants, and county, city and
township bonds. and foreign capital. The
main lines through Kansas and Nebraska.
in addition to the Government enforcement.
of the companies own bonds. The farmers
do not complain Of this. Their complaint is
the ex orbitant tariff on freight and passengers
exacied BY Western railroads generally. The
farmers Of Illinois aud Iowa and Kansas are
moving, organizations are going on rapidly,
to remedy, il possible. the existing evils.
When the farmers are prosperous the cities
and towns are alike prosperous. There Ii
no controversy bet ween the engines and the
rlow; had Kansas moe engines, all the bet
ter for the pillow. The speaker said that he
was trained in the school Of our late lament
ed Horace Greeley. who we'll defined the
true position Of producer and consumer.
He condemned the late Congress
sional steal for service, paid and receipted
for previously. This steal will not bear re-
peaiing. This is q point in the direction
which farmers are not alone in cOndemning.
The farmers do not complain Of the stamps
on the box of matches and medicine for the
babe, il honestly applied; but to have hon
orsble members of both houses Of Congres
thrust their long arms into the Treasury, il
more than they can peaceab'y submit 20. 1t
il hoped that the contemplated meeting Of
Western members Of both Houses Of Con-
Rress, at St Louis, will result in something
favorable to the e eat farming interest Of the
West.
COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.
In reply to the toast regarding the mei-
camille interests, Mr.. Briggs said:
Like the Celt who had his face painted
during his sleep and concluded that the
wrong passenger had been aroused to take m
early train, no l arm led to believe that the
worthy Judge has either made mistake in
his reading or his endeavorins to practice a
/ IKE. But now you zee have the floor by
This mistake, and as seldom make speeches
may AZ we'll occupy it.
/ cannot speak knowingly Of the retail
trade Of i.savenwOrth, but do believe that
mvre money has been expended here this
season TOR merchandise by consumers than
ever before, but perhaps the business has
been confined to fewer houses.
In regard 10 the jobbing trade can only
say that every jobbing house here is taxed
to its full capacity. to meet the trade that Is
supplied by our merchants.
NJ ekof .ns hot haI IN
employ a man. at a high salary, for Two
years, at Kansas City, to zee that our goods
were properly transferred, and would have
done this same in regard to AtchisOn if any
man could have been found to accept the
position, yet our trade is constantly incrcas-
ing.
The territory We would supply, we're our
railroads properly managed, would require
fifty times the capital TO meet it that lis now
in the jobbing trade:
We need cur railroads to be run according
to the terms of their charters, 30 az not to
against us. We need few
more to be built, 10 enable us to reach d.
rectly many paris of the country now only
reached by circuitous routes.
We successfully compete with any market
which we can meet on equal footing. Give
Va railroads, and We will occupy the entire
territory which nature has made tributary To
us.
This is not healthy place for merchants
who cit still and whine about dull times and
no trade; but every house that works with
a will; that il wide awake to the duty OF the
hour; that determines to overcome every
obstacle and to conquer every difficulty, no
matter how great, is making money, high
and helping to make what now
is the happiest place to live in in the West.
and the metropolis Of Kansas, the CONNER
rial center of the Missouri valley.
The A,chison Champion points out a
singular method of revenge in connection
with the la;e b,nGrpt in this ci'y, That