Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-21
CEN. tiARRISON'S IDEAS.

OGNs FIfNHnioOtN y tCGHos
The New York Sun lately published
extracts from Gen. Harrison's speeches
which show the sort of man he is. Here
are some of them:
From his speech in the Senate of Feb 20, 1921
l do not like the idea of compelling a
pensioner, when he comes to the govern
ment for his pension, to be put to the ne
cessity of exposing his poverty. and bas-
ing his claim upon his necessitous condi-
ton.
tFrom his speech Of Feb. "a, 1881
am not prepared TO pronounce any Of
fence objectionable or to say that the |
offence of drunkenness may not have ex-
tenuating circumstances.
ON THE RAILROAD PROBLEM.
From his speech OF April Is, 1897
Competing lines do not always COM
pete. The price of grain to the man
whose toll produces 1t, and to the con-
sumers in the East, has been and often |
still is arbitrarily fixed by convention
of half dozen men representing trunk
lines OF railroad. sas-,si5
ON THE SOUTH.
From his speech of April ls, 1921
face toward the sun, and will ere long
eclipse all of her ante-bellum achieve
ments in production. This result will
sooner and more surely be achieved by
self-reliant industry than by congression-
al bounties. | cannot accept the sug-
gestion that we should by law, out of pub
lie revenues, do something other or more
for any State or person that went into
the rebellion because of that fact, or be-
cause of the poverty that came not of
legal penalties, but of natural laws.
l have no faith in the permanent influ-
ence of appropriations to bind men to
| flag or a constitution. BILE
From his speech of April 81, 1921
When, for once, under the impulse of
good fellowship and good feeling, under
the stir of those sympathies which every
kind-hearted man feels, something is done
in the way of benefaction, it will come
back to trouble us.
ON POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS.
From his speech OF December 81, 1881
insist that it is common principle,
applicable as well to the service of the
United States and its employees as to the
service of corporations and individuals
and their employees, that when man
has once earned the salary stipulated by
law or fixed by contract, has earned it
by the stipulated hours of work, it is his,
absolutely his; and the principle sought
to be introduced here is that the govern
ment may follow that money into his
control and dictate the use of it to him.
The government of the United States
cannot prohibit any man from using
money that is his for any legitimate pur-
pose.
ON HIS OWN HABITS OF THOUGHT.
From his speech of February II, 1ss4.l
| am not one of those who usually at
tempt to cross bridge before l reach it.
ON VIRTUE.
from his speech OF February H. lss4l
l agree that men grow in virtue as they
grow in years.
ON EDUCATIONAL AID.
From his speech OF March 25, lss4I
One dollar voted by the people Of any
school district for the support of common
schools is worth $40 given out of the
treasury of the United States.
A PATHETIC Renaissance.
From his speech of March %, lss4.l
Some of the most pathetic sights have
ever witnessed in my life | saw when the
advancing armies of the Union were
brought i'm contact with the slave popula-
ton of the South. Aged cOlOred men,
slaves from their mothers womb, came
into our camp as into cities of refuge.
have seen old men past the meridian of
life, yes, we'll on toward its end, after a
hard days work in the company kitchen,
lying prone upon the ground before the
campfire, with spelling books in their
hands, painfully trying to fasten in their
memories the names and outlines of the
letters of the alphabet.
OUR LEGISLATION.
From his speech of February 2, 1851
Intelligent legislation of curative or
remedial character will always be direct
ed to the evils to be cured, and the intel
ligent legislator will also desire to have a
clear understanding of the evils which
are to be remedied before he drafts his
bill
ON THE UNION.
From his speech OF Dec. ls, 1885,.
Ihold, as have always held, to the
doctrine that State can neither break
into nor break out OF the Union.
A REASON FOR ADMITTING DAKOTA.
From his speech of Feb. 4, 1885.
As there were Is original States and
, Dakota will be 80, it will be so appropri'
in the centennial year of the constitution
J to multiply the - by three and show
that each grandmother has child by hel
knee.
ON THE NEGRO RACE.
} From his speech of March 3, 1886
am one of those who feel that the
colored race in the South since the wal
has been subjected to indignities, cruel
ties outrages and a repression of rights