The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-16
THE RloHr RING.

General Harrison Makes One Of His Chsr.
acteristic Speeches to His Henry County
Friends--IIo Believes I'm Cultivntine
Commercial Rotations with tho South
American states.
Henry County lies within what is his
torically known as tho Burnt District"
of Indiana, and was settled by Qualkcrs, to
which sect General Harrison's remarks ap-
piled. The Gcneralspoke on new subject
tho other day when no touched upon our
commercial relations with South America,
lines to the South and Central American
States. His response was as follows
Comradc Grose and my Henry County
friends: II we have here any discouraged
statesman who takes despondent view Of
the future Of the country, think he would
recover his hopefulness If he could
look once in a while into the face of an audi
ence like this. [Applause.l You come from
q county that has been O bulwark of Repub-
licanism since the party was organized.
You had an early element in your popula-
ton that has done much to promote your
material interests, and much more to
lift up those principles that relate to
the purity of tho home and to the freedom
Of men. [Applause.l Tho Friends, who
have been and are so large and influential
an element In your population, and in the
counties surrounding 1t, are people nota-
BILE fo- purity Of their homo life, for their
broad and loving sympathy with all men.
They were the carly enemies Of slavery;
and they have always naturally been the
strength of the Republican party in the COM
munity where they reside. [Applause.]
Your spokesman has expressed your con-
tinued interest in the party to which some
of you give tho confidence of your matured
powers, and some Of you the early devotion
of your youth. The Republican party has
accomplished for the country great work
in the brief period Of Its life. It preserved
the Nation by q wise, courageous and pa
triotic administration. What that means
for you and your posterity, what It means
for the world, no man can tell 1t would
have been q climax Of disaster for tho
world II this Government of the people had
perished. The one unsolved experiment Of
FREQ Government was at stake. We have
demonstrated the capacity Of the people
and citizen soldiery to maintain inviolato
the unity Of the Republic. [Applause.l
There remain now, fortunately, chiefly
economic questions to be thought Of and to
be settled. We refer to the great war, not
in any spirit of hostility to any section or
any class Of men, but only because we be-
lieve it to be good for the whole country
that loyalty and fidelity to tho flag should
be honored. [Great applause.l 1t was one
of the great triumphs Of the war; a particu-
lar in which our war was distinguished
from oil other wars Of history: that We
brought the vanquished into the same full,
equal citizenship under the law that we
maintained for ourselves. fApplause.1
In all the addresses which have been made
TO me there has been some reference to the
great question of the protection of our Ameri-
can industries. see it upon the banners
which you carry. Our party stands unequivo-
cally without evasion or qualification for the
doctrine that tho American market shall be
preserved for our American producers.
[Great applause.l We arc not attracted by
tho suggestion that we should surrender to
foreign producers the best market in the
world. Our sixty millions Of people are the
best buyers In the world [applausel, and
they are such because our worlfing-classc
receive the best wages. [Applauso.l But
we do not mean TO bo content with our own
market. We should seek to promote closer
and more friendly commercial relations with
the Central and South American States Zap
plausol and what is essential to that endl
Regular mails are the first condition
of commerce. The merchant must know
Wnen MS orotfsr VIII Dc rcCelVeu, uuu Wuen
his consignment will bo returned, or there
can be no trade between distant commune
ties. What we need, therefore, is the e3-
tablishment Of American steamship lines
between our ports and the ports Of Central
and South America. tApplause.l
Then 1t will no longer be necessary that
an American minister, commissioned to an
American State, shall take an English ship
to Liverpool to find another English ship to
carry him TO his destination. Applause.
We arc not to be frightened by the use OF
that ugly word "subsidy." Laughter
We should pay TO American steamship
lines liberal compensation for carrying
our mails instead of turning them over to
British tramp steamships. (Applause.]
We do not dosire to dominate these
neighboring governments, wod do not desire
to deal with them in any spirit of ag
gression. We dcslre those friendly, political
mental and commercial relations which
shall promote their interests equally with
ours. We should not longer forego these
commercial relations and advantages which
our geographical relation suggest and make
SO desirable. II you will excuse me from
further public speech will be glad to take
by the hand my Henry County friends
[Applausc.l