St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-13
NATURAL GAS.
Gen. Harrison Refers to Its Dis,
covery in Indiana and Lets Some

Gen. Harrison Refers to Its Dis
covery in Indiana and Lets Some
oft Loose.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 12.-The fourth
and last delegation was from Benton
county. Mayor Denny introduced Capt.
Stfeight as spokesman for the visitors,
and in response to his address Gen.
Harrison said:
Iss.sCapt. Streight, Fellow Citizens and
Comrades: l am very grateful to you
FOR this visit, and for the cordial terms
IN which your spokesman has extended
to me the congratulations of my friends
of Benton county. We have men who
boast that they are coSmopOlitans,
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD.
VI prefer to say that am an American
citizen, and / freely confess that Amer
lean interests have the first place in my
regard. This is not at all Inconsistent
with the recognition of that comfy be-
tween nations which is necessary to the
peace of the world. 1t is not inconsist-
ent with that philanthropy which SYM
pathizes with human distress and ep-
preston the world around. We have
been especially favored as an apart ma
ton, separated from the conflicts, jeal-
ouSIes and intrigues of European courts,
with territory embracing every feature
OF climate and soil land resources capable
of supplying the wants of our people, of
developing whole home and gigantic
national growth, and of spreading
abroad, by their full establishment
here, the principles of human liberty
inconsistent with the philanthropy of
that broadcast teacher of human love,
that we should first have regard for
that family of which we are part.
Here in Indiana, the drill has disclosed
TO us the presence of ineXhaustible
quantities, i'll large area of our state,
OF that new fuel which has the facility
OF doing its own transportation, even
to the furnace door, and which leaves
no residuum to be carted away
when it has done it's work. This dis
covery has added an impulse to our
growth: Lit has attracted manufacturing
industries from other states. Many of
our towns have received, and this city.
we may hope, is yet to receive a great
impulse in the development of their
manufacturing industries by reason of
this discovery. 1t seems to me that
when this fuller development of
our manufacturing interests, the
building up of a home market for the
products OF our farms, which is sure to
produce here that which has been so
obvious elsewhere, great increase i'll
the value OF farms and farm products is
opening to us the pleasing prospect of a
rapid growth in wealth, we should be
slow to abandon that system of prOtec-
tive duties which looks to the promo
ton and development of American in
dustry and to the preservation of the
highest possible scale OF wages for
American workmen. The
DEVELOPMENT OF OUR COUNTRY
must be on those lines that benefit all
our people. Any development that
does not reach and beneficially affect all
our people is not to be desired, and
cannot be progressive or permanent.
Comrades, you still love the flag for
which we fought. You are preserved
in Gods providence to see the
wondrous results of the struggle
in which we were engaged-a re-
united country, constitution whose au-
thOrlty is no longer disputed, flag to
which all men bow. 1t has won respect
at home; it should be respected by all
the nations of the earth as the emblem
OF representative people desiring peace
with all men, but resolute in the deter
mlnation that the rights of all our citi-
ZenS the world around shall be faith
fully respected. thank you again for
this visit, and if it be your pleasure, and
your committee will so arrange, | will
be glad to take you by the hand"
A short time was spent in shaking
hands with the general and at the close
Of'the reception he left the hotel and re-
turned t0 his home