The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-04
Parmsra Tan on Harrison.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. Z.-Delegations
from Fulton and Marshall counties,
numbering between seven hundred and
a thousand, called on General Har-
rison this afternoon. The visitors
were chiefly farmers from the vicinity
OF Plymouth and Rochester. The
weather continuing cool, outdoor re-
ceptiOnS in University park or else
where have been abandoned. The
delegations were accordingly escorted
to PfafflinS' hall. General Harrison
said in part:
1T is encouraging to hear that the
prosperous and intelligent farmers of
Marshal and Fulton counties have not
been misled by the attempts to separ-
ate the agricultural vote from the
vote of the shops. 1t has seemed to
me that the Mills bill was framed for
the purpose of driving from the pro-
lection column the agricultural voters.
Not by showing them favor, but the re-
verse, by placing agricultural products
on the free list, thus withdrawing
from the farmer the direct benefits he
is receiving from our tariff laws as at
fecting the products OF his labor,
hoping that the farmers might then be
relied upon to pull down the rest of the
structure. l am glad to believe that
we have in Indiana class of farmers
too intelligent to be caught by these
unfrieDdly and fallacious propositions
[Applause.]
1 have to-day visit from twenty or
more gentlemen who came from the
town of Tower in the most northern
part Of Minnesota, where within the last
four years there has been discovered
and developed q great deposit of iron
ore especially adapted to the manufae-
ture of steel: Within these four wears
since these mines were opened they
tell me that about million tons of ore
has been mined and sent to the fur
naces. They also mention the fact
that arrangements are already being
made to bring the block coal of Indiana
to the mouth of these iron mines that
the work of smelling may be done
there. This is good illustration of
interviewing of interests between
widely separated states of the union.
| fApplause.) a new market and larger
demand for Indiana coal.
The attempt is often made to create
| the impression that only particular
classes of workingmen are benefited
| by q protective tariff. There can be
nothing more untrue. The wages of
| all labor upon the farm, labor upon
our streets, has direct and essential
relation to the scale of wages that is
paid to skilled labor. Applause. J
One might as well say that you could
bring down the price of higher grade
of cotton cloth without affecting the
price of lower grades, as to say that
you can degrade the price of skilled
labor without degrading the wages
of unskilled labor Applause. ]
This attempt to classify the
schedule with men who are bene-
fitted by protective tariff is utterly
deceptive. (Applause.J The benefits
are felt by all classes of our people-bS
the farmers as well as by the workmeT
incur miIls-by the nan " ho works OF
the street as well as the skilled lahore
, who works in the mill, by the womeI
in the household and by the ehiIdreI
who are now in the schools and NIGH
: otherwise be in the mills. Applause.
? 1t is policy broad enough to embrac
3 | within the scope Of its beneGcent N
t | fiuence all our population. Applause
d I thank you for your visit and will b
: glad TO meet any Of you PERSONAL
d who desire to see me. Applause
n The visitors then filed by aud silOu
e hands with the general.
Col. d. S. Alexander, of BaGaioyRf