The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10

Another straw FROM lnuihna-Ine CONNER
cial Travellers OF that State Visit Garfield.
MENTOR, O., Sept. J-At IL 80 to-day
party of Commercial travellers from In
diana, with their wives, numbering in
all ninety-five persons, came in special
cars to Mentor and called at Gen. Gar
fields house to pay their respects. 1t
was very intelligent company, repre-
senting every leading branch of CONNER
cial business. They assembled on the
lawn in front of the house, when the
general appeared at the door, and Mr..
G. c. Webster was introduced, and de-
livered on behalf of his associates the
following address.
THE address, 9Ha yLau,
Gen. Garfield, have been delegated
by these friends who haye journed far 10
see you to say word of explanation of
our presence here. Let me express the
hope that you will not consider US tres
| passers. We do not come here as the
followers of any particular political par.
| ty, nor do we come to testify for your
services to the cOuntFy-we do not call
on our own accounts that would be
| both presumptuouS and needless, for we
believe that not only the. living
nation but the nations yet hABoff
will testify 10 these things, but we come
as commercial men representing many
business interests in the state of Indiana
Many of US are yet young men, having
but fairly begun the great battle of life
and we are here to-day to pay our re
spects to you as one who, by his owl
efforts, has raised himself from the poo
and lowly boy to the proudest position
in the land, and one in the history o
whose life we recognize many grand les
sons for ourselves and a constant source
of encouragement to the thousands o
young men in the land who, beset by ad
verse circumstances, are struggling
against these circumstances up out O
the depths of poverty towards a bette
manhood. AS Americans we do not bt
lieve the Almighty creates one man be-
ter or greater than another, but we d
believe and know shat men are born VIII
, take their destiny in the hollow of thei
own hands, and, with Gods aid, pursu
the right, and shape that destiny to grea
ends, and as such one we greet you t.
= day. And now, with your permission,
A will introduce the commercial traveller
of indianapolis, their wives and swee
hearts.
7 GEN. GARFIELD Responded AS FOLLOWS
Mr.. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen
can hardly say that you have taken m
by surprise, for l was informed som
i days ago that party of commercis
!, gentlemen from Indiana would call upo
; me to-day, but am very pleasantly SUI
prised at the large number of ladies an
gentlemen who have honored me b
!, this visit, ] have listened with deep in
= terest to the address of your chairman
z and / give you one and all my thank
for the compliment which this visit in
plies. Your chairman informs me ths
q you represent nearly all the leadin
r branches of commercial industry in th
state of Indiana, and some of the neigl
. boring states. Few of our people vi
r derstand how vast are the enterprise
/ represented by our internal trade. A
a mosteVery form. of human labor col
tributes It's products to the trade til;
3 fills our thoroughfares and supplies gu
a communities with the necessities {
life, and are all moved by the gres
handspring of labor. Permit me t
illustrate its magical powers. Eighty
/ four years ago company of forty-tw
f surveyors landed at the mouth of Coz
q neaut creek, little stream thu
:. marks the boundary between Pennsy
u vania and Ohio. They landed on th
} 4th day of July, 1896, and commence
L their work by celebrating Off natien,
a independence. There are many now lii
ing who were boys in their teens tVl6e
this company of surveyors began thei
/ work. At that time, from the Pennsy
vania line to Detroit, hardly a smoke a
cended from d white mans cabin. TIL
Western reserve was an unbroken wi
f derness. Three millions of acres ha
q Just been purchased from the state
i, Connecticut for forty cents an acre. II
day the Western reserve furnishes happ
and comfortable homes to more tina
e three fourths of a million of intelliger
u
ments, the state of Indiana was itself a
unbroken wilderness, but is now gre;
s and prosperous community. Thousand
r Of miles beyond yon prairies, wilde
nesSes and mountain slopes smile wit
peace and prosperity and the attendai
: blessings of civilization. What hi
n wrought this wonderful transformation
= The magic power of human labo
Through manifold struggles and danger
though sufferings and blood, these bles
r ings have been secured to US, and
trust will be continued 20 our children
r children (Applause)
= / venture TO notice another fact EN
n cry stroke of the axe, every blow of I'll
g hammer, every turnrof a wheel, ever
! purchase and every sale; In short, eyel
effort of labor is measured by the stan
y arb OF value dxed and declared by n
eaOhot lo"- SOESAotOaAAC yOu - Cou
3 mercial men that your government hs
9 at last restored to its people the anciel
standard of value, and has made it poss
BILE for our people everywhere to secul
the blessings which bountiful harEes
e and prosperous times have brought then
by placing our national finances G
the solid basis of specie value
n This fact forms no inconsiderabl
Il part of the security with which Il
# great business transactions of Il
nation are carried on and you as its repr
sentatives as well as the laborers of Il
It land are sharers of these benefits and tn
II security. Applause Ladies and gentl
" men, accept my most cordial thanks Fl
= your visit welcome you To my hon
Z and to the kind greeting of my fam
II ly. tApplause
The company WAS then introduced
the general and 70 his wife and mothe
- FhsV we're cordially and pleasantly I
: ceiyed- They stralled through the Q
charas and grounds. and before takiE
; their leave glee club, which they h1
se extemporised on the way, sang sever