The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12

Saturday:
THE PRESIDENTS REMARKS.
President Hayes then rose and step
ped to the front, his appearance being
greeted with long and continued APP
.planse. He said:
MY FRIENDS: Mr.. Lincoln, on some
occasion when he was required, on
when it was proper that he should ad-
dress an audience largely ladies, spoke
of his embarrassment in undertaking
to do it. He said he had never been
skilled in language Of compliment to
ladies, and feel somewhat as he must
have felt in attempting to make my
acknowledgment to those to whom /
I'm indebted for the qualification Of
being with you to-day, ! am not skill
ed have not studied the language of
mere acknowledgment and thanks upon
occasions like this. 1t occurred to me
coming as | was to the North west to
attend agricultural and mechanical
fairs, to meet the people who were
manly engaged in considering their
material interests, that [ might ner
haps say word or two that would be
interesting on the subject Of the
prospects of business and a return
to better times, and accordingly
[ gathered together a few facts and
few figures which / intended to use
and repeat at each of the places in
which I was called upon to address an
assembly, leaving to the moment to say
such other things as might seem proper
to say when called upon Oh occasions
like this; and here let me say this, that
sincerely and heartily | thank the
governor Of Minnesota and the
mayor of the city Of Minneapolis
and the president and officers Of this
association for the very friendly way
in which they have greeted me, and |
thank this whole audience for the
heartiness with which they have re-
ceiyed sentiments some which doubt
less they do not altogether agree with.
It is one of the fortunate things in
American public life that hatever
may be said currently in the angry
discussion Of political strife the Amer
lean people OF all parties seem to have
sagacity in discovering at last what
manner of man it is they are talking
about, and thinking about, and though
he may make ever SO many mistakes
if, upon the whole, they believe that
he is honest and patriotic, and means
we'll, they will treat him as you treat
me. Loud applause.l Of course We
all know that everybody in the United
States that knows anything knows q
good deal, and good deal that is
good and pleasant about the city OF
Minneapolis. Applause. We know
OF your energy, your rapid growth,
your prospects, and what you are
doing. To-day, passing around your
city viewing your beautiful homes,
viewing also it's wonderful manufac-
turing establishments establishments
so extensive and SO well fitted as to
take hold of the raw material which
we have seen growing in
( THE COLOSSAL WHEAT FIELDS
of the Northwest, passing through
these, saw and realized how it is that
one column of figures that | have re-
peated, and propose to repeat until
/ get back to Washington, how it is
that that column of figures stands SO
favorably to the United States as it
does. Applause / refer, as you will
ubCUl(b Duly COilJCCoULC. W tlC COAli JcSA4
son between what we send abroad and
what we receive from abroad, and
that column of figures tells us that
this last year we have sent to Europe,
Of agricultural products, breadstuffs,
and provisions, largely more than
ever before, and the opposite fact is
equally encouraging, and that is that
my wife and your wife and your
boys have been seized with fit OF
economy and are buying less of the
nonsense they take from abroad than
ever before. Loud applause. And SC
the result is that in this period of hard
times, when we need encouragement
we are having a state of trade more
honorable than ever known. Our ex
ports exceed our imports by s257,ooo,
1000. In three years before the panic
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