The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-16
VISITING BENJAMIN.
The General Receives the
Irish-Americans.
FEEDS THEM PRETTY WORDS
"A Big Reception Day With the Re-
publican Candidate for
Defeat.
Continued from Second Paae.l

General Harrison, in response said {:
"My friends of the Irish Americn Re
publican Club of Cook County Illinois.
You are Americans, Irish Americans
and, though you have given the con-
secrated loyalty of your honest hearts
to the flag Iof your adopted country,
you have not forgotten to love and
venerate the land of your birth.
What if sprig of green was
found upon the bloody jacket of that
Union soldier who lay dead on Mission
airy Ridge. This flag was his flag, and
the green only memory and an in
spiratiou. We, native, or Irish born,
join in the hope of the Republican Can
vention that Irish home rule. progress
ing under the leadership of Gladstone
and Parnell, may yet secure for ireland
that which, as Americans, we so much
value-local home rule. l am sure that
you will not faltar in this great civil
contest, which your spokesman has so
fittingly described. Who, If not an
Irish-American, is versed ia the sad
story of commercial ruin OF the island you
lover They should be instructed in the
beneficial influence of a protective
cans, should be able to appreciate the
friendly influences of a protective sys-
tenn upon their individual and upon
their own lives? Which of you has not
realized that not the lot of man only,
but the lot of woman has been made
softer and easier under its influence?
Contrast the American mother and
wife, burdened only with the cares of
motherhood and of the household, with
the position of the women Of the coun-
ties of the old world, where she is
loaded also with the drudgery of toll in
the field. l know that none more
than the Irishmen, VINO are charac-
terized by their Difference for women,
and whose women have so finely il
Illustrated that which is pure in the fe-
male character, will value this Illus
tration OF our good American system
of home life. There are nations across
the sea who are hungry for the Ameri-
can market. They are waiting with ex-
.pectation for the adoption of free
trade policy by the United States. The
English manufacturer is persuaded that
an increased market for English goods
in America is good for him, but L
think it will be impossible
to persuade the American producer
Or the American workingman that
it is good for them. 1t is an evil that
social order and national prosperity are
bound w in. 1 do not believe that a
Republic can live and prosper whose
wage earners do not receive enough to
make life comfortable, who do not have
some upward avenues of hope open
before them. When the wage earners
of a land lose hope, then the star goes
out. Social order is impossible, and
after that Anarchy or the Car. l
gratefully acknowledge the complement
of your call, and will be glad to take
each member of your club by the hand. u
At the conclusion of the reception the
visiting club marched to Tomlinson
Hall. where largely attended mass
meeting was held tonight. Ex-Gov-
-ernor Porter and several members OF
the visiting delegation spoke upon the
issues Of the campaign.