Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1879-09-27
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1879.
0facial Paper ofthe County and Village
PRESIDENT HAYES AT DETROIT.

PRESIDENT HAYES AT DETROIT.
From the Detroit Post and Tribune
we take the address of Ex-Governor Bag
ley on behalf of the business men of De-
troit welcoming the President to that
city, and the Presidents response to the
same, the reception being held in Whit
ney's opera house.
EX-GOVERNOR BAGLEY'S ADDRESS.
Mr.. PRESIDENT-It gives me very
great pleasure on behalf of the business
men, the manufacturers and the mer-
chants of this city, to welcome you here.
Applause. i cannot tell you how keen
1y we appreciate the honor you have
done Detroit and the state of Michigan
In giving us your presence on this Occa-
sion. We feel that although the Chief
Magistrate of the Union, coming as you
do from the neighbOring State of Ohio,
so close to us, you are therefore little
nearer and little closer to us Michigan
people than to the rest of the country.
[Applause.l We feel, too, Mr.. President,
and very keenly, that your administra-
tiOn has done for the business, for the
commercial interests, for the prOsperi-
ty of the country, all that the most
ardent citizen, the most loyal lover of
our institutions could ask. IGreat APP
plause.] We feel that you and your as
sOciates have given peace and quite, and
that these dawnings of prosperity, these
Frightening times, we owe to the fideli-
ty and security and safety of good gov
eminent. [Applause.] So feeling Mr..
President, it gives me very great pleas
ure, in behalf of the business men, of
the solid interests, of the commerce and
manufacturers of Detroit, to welcome
you to this city and to this state. [Great
applause. ia.
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT HAYES.
The President rose and came forward
to the platform and was greeted with
thunders of applause that shook the
whole house and for a time prevented
his speaking. When the tumult of greet
ing had subsidized he spoke as follows:
BUSINESS MEN AND MY FRIENDS OF DE-
TROIT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-It is a
very great satisfaction to nae to visit at
this time body composed of the bust
mes men and manufacturers of so impOr-
tant city as Detroit. [Applause.1 The
time Is auspicuOuS. Yesterday the NOR
ming was gloomy; what an added glory
to the brightness and beauty of the af-
ternO0n the gloom of the morning gave.
[Great applause.] We have now passed
through the five or six years of depres-
sion and embarrassment and distsess
and bankruptcy. We have reached the
period again, as we hope and believe,
when the reviving of prosperity is to ex-
tend to every part of the country, to its
every interest and every important in
dustry. And quite sure am that this
enterprising and unusually solid city of
Detroit Applause is to have its full share
in the blessings, advantages, and bene-
Tits OF the good time upon which we are
entering. [Applause.] Imay not, and
l ought not to detain you with discus
sion of any of the mOOted questions as to
this time coming. But if / speak at all
must speak my sentiments; l must
speak my opinions. [Applause.l And
it is one Of the glorious things about
this free country and the free institu-
tiOnS which we enjoy that right-minded
men, when they hear sentiments with
which they are not in accord, if respect
PICOChtCus tuCy dlc uOSDlldDlt 10
them; they consider them Applause. I
And now but single word, single
suggestion, and it is this: I am sure we
all see that to an extent unknown before
the great products of this country, the
productions OF our agriculture, the pro-
auctions of our manufacturers, are
seeking and finding Ia market abroad.
Applause. L do not wish here or any
where to oyerstate or eXaggerate the i'm
portance OF this foreign trade, this for
elgn commerce, or the Importance of
that participation which we now are be-
ginning to have in the business of the
world. lApplause.] But it is fact to
be considered carefully that hereafter
our products OF agriculture and. manu-
facture are to be sold everywhere in the
the world [applause], in all important
commercial transactions they are to be
considered, to be regarded. Applause
And we as Americans, business men and
public men, in all our measures, i'm all
our conduct, are to remember this. Now,
all commerce and business are carried
on by certain means, by certain
instrumentalities, of which the chief is
the currency of the country. [Great ap-
plaase. And without debate, without
question, without talking about single
standard, or double standard, or paper
money based on coin, or any of these
mOOted questions, l wish merely to make
for all men this one suggestion: That
If we are to take our full share in the
business of the world hereafter, we
should see to it that that instrumental
ty of the commerce of the country, our
currency, be based upon principles &C
knOwledged by all the world. Long
continued applause.l
The race of the Pacific railroads to the
western coast is likely to become spirit
ed. The Northern Pacific is being push
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