Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-20
GEN. HarrisOn,s yfsttorr.

Gens H0fr1sOm's VtsttOrDs
HE TALKED ABOUT PROTECTION TO DELEGATION YES
oNERS
Gen. Harrison received four delegations yester.
day. The veterans Of the 7th Indiana Cavalry
were introduced and shook hands with the General
and Mrs. Harrison. Gen. Harrison addressed the
delegation from IroQuois County, Ill, and La
Porte, Ind, as follows: "In previous campaigns
we nave not quite known where our adversartes
stood. Now we do know. Your democratic friends
say that protective tarIfY is robbery II you APP
prove by your votes the doctrine that protective
sentatives TO stop this public robbery and If they
are faithful they Will do it-not per cent OF IT,
but all OF IT, tApplause.l SO that i beg you all
10 recollect that you will vote this fall for or
against the principle OF protection. You are In
yited 10 least OF cneapneSS You are promised
ioreign,made goods at very low prices and dOmes-
TIC competing goods, any are made, at the same
low rates. But do not forget that the speeter OF
lower wages will attend the feast. Applause ]
Inevitably as certain the night follows the day
the adoption OF this policy means lower wages
Choose. then, but do not forget that this cheapen-
ing process may be pushed so far as TO involve the
happiness" tApplause.l
ABOUT THE sURPLus
sand now q word about the surplus in the
Treasury. Our democratic friends did not know
what else TO do with II, and so they have deposited
IL In certain national banks II a government
bond at the market premium is a good in yestmenr
Tor capitalist who Is free TO use his money as he
pleaSes, can 1t be bad finance for The (oyernment
having money that 1t cannot use In any other Way
70 use In buying up Its bonds? [Great applause
IL Is not whether we Will purposely raise money
10 buy our bonds at premlum-no one Wonld AL
wise tnat-Dut Will SO uSea surplus that we have
On nahn ana CANNOT lawfully pay out in any other
way. Do our democratic friends propose 10 give
the banks the free use OF IL until bonds mat1re
or do they propose TO reduce our annual Income
below our annual expenditure By a revision OF the
tarln until this surplus Is used and then revise
tne tarn again to restore the equilibrium"
Gen. Harrison subsequently addressed the snr
FVors OF the second and Ninth Indiana cavalry
PATHETIC TALK TO WAR PRISONERS
An indianapolis dispatch to the New York
Herald says that Gen Harrison was greatly at
fected by the address OF Gen. Powell, the spokes-
man for the delegates OF the National Association
OF Union ex-Prisoners OF War, who called on MIN
Tuesday night He addressed them as follows. ~
am always touched when meet either with those
VINO stood near about me in the service or those
who shared the general comradeship or the war.
IL seems 10 me that tue wild eXhilaraIiOD. which
In the earlier reunions We often saw Is very much
sooered as we come together now. have realized
In meeting with my own regiment this fall that &c
was time when we felt Lne touches or the ma
thetic. And yet there was glow or satisfaction
10 being together again and In thinking OF what
was and what is. The annals OF war Iail TO fur.
nlsh sa0der story than that OF the host OF Union
veterans who suffered wars greatest hardship
captivity. The story OF the rebel prison pens was
Que Oh grim horror. In the Held our enemies, al
ways brave, were generally also chivairic and
humane But the treatment OF the captured Union
soldiers surpassed In fiendish cruelty the worst
deeds OF the sayages II Is the black spot without
any inning OF silver or any touch or human nature
But you nave cause for congratulatiOn that YOU
nave been spared 10 glory and prosperity that your
services and suffering have brought to the nation,
~ en- must vivid imagination has drawn no picture
oi tne lull meaning TO our people and TO the world
or these simple words: we saved the Union Der.
peluateo Iree government and abolished slavery !"