Wichita eagle., 1888-08-05

rations. but are recognized by. the law t.
the uniform decisions Of tn,
courts as having public relation,
where we shall see legislation in the direc-
tion of providing some suitable tribunal o.
! arbitration for the settlement of differences
between railroad men and the companies
that engage their services. Great applausel
| do not believe that in these disectiOns
and that have not time to suggest, re-
forms will reward themselves with justics
TO the companies and with Justice to the
men they employ. Because, my friends,
do not doubt. aud l hope you will never
allow yourselves to doubt that the great
mass of our people on all vacations and
calling love justice and right, and aats
oppression. tApplausel.
The laboring men of this land may safely
trust every just reform in which they are
interested to public discussion and TO logic
OF reason; they may surely hope, upon
these lines which are open TO you by the
ballot box, to accomplish under our Amer
lean institutions all those rights, things
you have conceived as necessary to your
high success and well being. Do not allow
yourself To doubt for one minute the
friendly sentiment of the great masses OF
our people Make your appeal wisely, and
calmly and boldly for every reform you de-
sire 10 that sentiment or Justice which
pefEaueS our American PUBIC.
You come tonight from one of our most
beautiful Indiana cities. 1t was situated
on the Wabash in the expectation that
that stream would furnish tine channel OF
communication with the outside world.
But the Wabash is not tributary today
to the commerce of the outside world. In
the railroads that span ii are the great ar
terieS of your commerce They have
largely suppressed the water communica-
ton that was deemed SO important in the
first settlement, and perhaps was so deci-
sive in the location OF your city. Terre
Haute IS conspicuous tor Its industries
smoke of your factories goes up night and
day. The farms about your city have be-
come gardens, and the cordial and har-
moniOus relations between the railroad
shop and the factory and the farms that
lie about nave conspicuous illustration
with you. You have found that that
policy which built these shops which
maintains them, which secures the largest
output yearly from the factories which
gives employment to the largest number
of men is the best thing, not only for the
railroads that do the transportation, bat
for the working men who find steady
employment at good wages and
for the farmers who supply their
needs. [AppIause.l You Will not
willing be led to believe that any
policy that would check the progress ana
The prosperity OF these enterprises is
good for you or for the community
IN which you live. Applause and
cries of mo never"l 1t viii be hard to
convince such an intelligent body OF work
ingmen that policy which would trans
fer from this country to any other the
work that might be done here is good for
them. [Applause.l 1t can easily be
demonstrated that our revenue laws
were so adjusted that the imports
from Great Britain should be
doubled that it would be good for the
workingmen of England, but / think it
would be hard to demonstrate that it
would be good for the worhingmen Of
America. [Applause,l There is wise
selfishness; il begins at home and he who
has tle care of his own family first in the
community III which he lives and Cf the
nation of which he is citizen is wise
in his generation. No, my friends,
have been daily talking. | used TO be
thought by my friends TO be a reticent
man. [Laughterl. ! fear that | am max
ing an impression that | am garrulous,
ferries of mo. no, and yet when friends
such as you take the trouble You have to-
night to visit me | feel that owe it to you
to say something. Now thanking
you for this rooster, which will
it is challenged, that this visit
tonight has been from genuine railroad
men. Applause. venture to invite my
Terre Haute friends to enter my house. /
will ask the citizens of Indianapolis, the
escort club of my own home, railroad
friends who have done 80 much to make
your coming here tonight pleasant, to
refrain themselves and allow me TO greet
the visitors.