The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
Detroit to South Bend-A Speech on the Re-
sponsibilities of Young Men.

Detroit to South Bend-A Speech on the Re-
sponsibilities of Young Men.
To the Western Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND Oct. 16-A delegation from In
diana consisting of Gen George B. Williams,
representing the Republican State committee, of
which he is MEMBER Hon. Glen Studebaker
and Mr. Joseph D. Oliver, of South Bend, went
to Detroit to meet Mr.. Blaine, and returned with
him. John G. New, the chairman of the Repub-
lican committee, was unable to go to Detroit
but will join the party at South Bend Sunday
General Fremont left the party at Detroit.
Mr. Blaine left Detroit at $50 this morning by
special train the Michigan Central railway
This is the last day of his tour in Michigan, and
he will spend Sunday here
The first stop this morning was at Ann Arbor,
where the most remarkable scene of the trip
occurred There was very large crowd around
the depot but the students of the University of
Michigan seemed to have taken possession of the
place, and, when Mr. Blaine appeared, their
cheering and yelling were so hearty and so loud
and so long continued, that they seemed likely
to occupy the whole time that the train could
remain at Ann Arbor. All attempts of local
committeeman to get hearing were utter fail
| ureS, DuU Wn6n MT. Blame SUfeUcneQ OUT MS
hand, indicating that he was about to speak the
| noise Immediately subsided. When quiet was
| restored, Mr.. Blaine said:
During the war we used to hear much about
the rebel yell Laughter. 1t was said to inspire
great vigor and determination, but it seems to
me that the young men who have done me the
| honor to appear here to-day could have terrified
| the whole army of Lee Laughter and cheers. |
But am glad to witness it and to hear it, for it
| implies the enthusiasm and the strength of
youth, and from the youth of the country the
| Republican party is constantly recruited. Wild
| cheering What we lose from desertion, and
disappointment and dissatisfaction on the part
of the elders is far more than made up, yea, ten
fold over, by the young men of the country, who
| are just coming into action. Great cheer
| ing. Not only is that a proposition which
holds coed for young men of all classes
| but we have very remarkable proportion of the
educated young men of the country. | wish to
leave with these young collegians problem in
relation to one of the great industrial issues of
the time-a problem which will confront them in
their future career--and that is to find out why
so many college youths who are free-traders at
| twenty become protectionsts at forty. Laugh
ter and cheers l think the answer will be
found in the fact that at forty they have taken
| their degrees In the university OF experience
which after ALL is much wider and much more
valuable than the university OF theory. [Cheers |
Our college boys taught was myself taught
when l was college boy, the doctrine of free
trade, but the United States stands as a
perpetual and irrefutable argument and
| example of the value in new country,
of the doctrine of protection. Enthusiastic and
prolonged cheering l am glad to meet you,
rot merely as those who are interested in DO
litcal campaign, but as young men who are the
pride and hope of the country. In dealing with
the great problems of the future in this marvel
Gus experiment of people governing themselves
by free and universal suffrage, nothing can
avail except our educated and constantly cor
rected public opinion. Cheers. l wish to i'm
press upon every man who has the advantage of
| a university education, that he is every day
more and more placed in debt to his country,
and that just in proportion as he progresses in
| knowledge and wisdom, just in that proportion
! will he be expected to pay back,
in patriotic labor, the country which
has matured him. [Cries of Good,
Good, and cheers.] I congratulate you on
being born to such great opportunities, to har-
vest that is ripe for the reaper, into field that is
| continually expanding. By the time you have
your degrees, you will go forth to the battle of
life in a great Nation of sixty millions of free
men, You will go forth, each of you, with just
as good chance in life any other man has,
| and you go with the added opportunities which
| education gives. / commend to you your
responsibilities, for the responsibilities of an
educated American are higher, and deeper, and
broader, and greater than those of an educated
man in any other land, and just in proportion as
| your opportunities are greater will you be held
to account in this life and in the life which is to
come" lGreat and prolonged cheering
There was an immense gathering at jackson
| When Mr.. Blaine stepped out the fat-car
which served as o speakers stand he stepped
into the presence of more than 20 900 people. He
was received with the usual enthusiastic
demonstrations. In responding, he called atten-
ton to the Importance of the tariff as the leading
issue in the campaign.
At Marshall there was a smaller but equally
enthusiastic crowd. At each place, after Mr.
Blaine had spoken he Acknowledgement Alger
the Republican candidate for Governor, who
was warmly received and made a few remarks
Kalamazoo was reached at a little before
o'clock. Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Alger left the train
and went up to the park, where they spoke very
briefly to large audience
At a little past o'clock the train arrived
at South Bend. The city was thronged, the work
shops and many of the business houses were
closed, and the day was devoted to politics. In
the forenoon there had been great trades pro
cession, and the afternoon to be devoted to
the Blaine reception and the evening to torch
| light procession. Mr.. Blaine was escorted
of Plumed Knights, and there was a continu-
Gus line of decorated houses and contin-
uous crowd along the whole route 1t
was about $50 when the procession reached the
| stand erected near the courthouse The two
| Michigan senators, Messrs. Conger and Palmer,
were first introduced After they had given
| some account of the tour through Michigan,
Hon. Marvin Campbell, the president of the day,
! introduced Mr.. Blaine, who was enthusiastically
cheered When order was restored he spoke at
some length on the tariff as the great issue in
the campaign, arguing that the maintenance of
| the protective policy of far greater i'm
portance to the workmen than to any other class
| in the community. In the same connection he
warned the workngmen that the labor unions
would be powerful to protect them against the
competition of the cheap labor of the world if
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