The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-11-03
TALKING TO DRUMMERS.
4 BRIEF BUT TELLING SPEECH BY
GEN. HARRISON.
Nearly Three Thousand Commercial Trav-
cIers Call on the Republican Candidate,
Who Talks to Them Briefly on the Sub

Nearly Three Thousand Commercial Trav-
cIers Call on the Republican Candidate,
Who Talks to Them Briefly on the Sub
jet o. the Tariff
About 5000 commercial travellers recently
called on Gen. Harrison at indianapolis There
We're Introductory addresses. Gen. Harrison
was in good voice and spoke with great earnest
ness as follows:
Ny friends. as you know already, / believe
the commercial travellers have honored me by
calling on me in large delegations You have as
semDled to-day, not from single State or Ter
riJory, but from many States, upon the invita-
ton of your associates of this city, to show your
intelligent inter ST i'll the principles that are in
yolvei IN this campaign l do not need to re-
peat what have said on former occasions that
/ Il c1ly value the re 5pect and confidence of the
commercial travellers OF the United States
value it because / believe they give their adj
hercnce 10 the party whose candidate L am
upon intelligent Investigation and upon an
earnesJ conviction to what is good for the
co%ntry of which they are citizens. Who should
be able better than YOU TO know the commercial
and business needs of our country? You,
whose hand is every day upon the business
pulse of the people; you who travel the country
ways of commerce, and brought
in contact with the businessmen of tho
country not only i'll our great centers of com
mcrce but IN all the hamleis of the land? j be-
le'e may say for you that as a result of this
personal knowledge of our business needs you
hive concluded that the policy for Americans is
the policy OF protective tariff There are
do .Itless here many Iapresent ative6 of n eat
American manufacturing es.abi hmants and
NO should know better than they the prostrat-
Ing ELECTS upon the industries they represent (
tbs policy of II revenue tariff or the not mu n
di"ering policy of free trade2 Who sh juld know
better than you that if the discriminating duties
manufacturers to maintain n fair competition
with the manufacturers OF other count les, aud
at the same time to lay scale of living wages
( 10 the men AMI WON: who work for them IS
nr ken down that American competition with
I fo'"gn production becomes impossible, except
10y tue reduction OF the scale OF American wages
t. the level of the wages paid abroad2
Cettainly you do not need to be told that that
, sh1r or mill that has the smallest payroll in
: L portion to its production will take the mar
ka. Certainly you do not need to be told that
the wages now enjoyed by American work
men are greatly larger and the comforts they
ENJOY greatly more than those enjoyed by the
work ng people of any other land. Certainly
you do no. need to be told that if the American
Government, instead of patronizins home indus
tries buys its Blankets for the public service in
England that this is just that much less WORK
for American workmen to do
This is to me the beginning and the end of the
ta~iH question. Since l WIS old enough to have
opinions, or to utter them, l have held to the
doctrine that the true American policy was TINT
which should maintain not only living ratio of
wages, but one with margin for savings and
comfort for our workingmen
l believe that policy is essential to the pros
rerty aud possibly to the perpetuity of our Gov
eminent. The two propositions that stare
our working people and our whole country in the
face are these:
Competition with foreign countries without
/ adequate discriminating and favorinG duties
means lower wages to our working people. A
revenue tariff only, or progressive free trade
means larger importation Of foreign goods. and
{ that means less work in AIneric ., Let our
/ Democratic friends fairly meet these two indis-
putable conclusions. How do they do it? Bv en-
deavOring to perVert and poison the minds OF
our working people by utterly false and scandal
Gus campaign stories. Let me say in conclu-
sion that believe the managers of the Demo
cratic campaign greatly uuderes innate the in
telligence, the sense of decency and the love OF
fair play which prevails among our people. You
Will pardon further remarks. The evening is
drawing on, and many of you, am sure, have
been made uncomfortable by your muddy walk
; through the streets of our city. / cannot omit
however, TO thank my friends from Lafayette
/ FOR this beautiful flora tribute which thew have
placed at my side, an emblem of their profes.
sion. accept it gratefully. and very highly ap-
pre'iate II as mark of the confidence and
respect OF the intelligent body of my own fellow.
citizens of Indianapolis.