The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-22
A Talk TO FARMERS.
Gen. Harrison Speaks to Over
Two Thousand of Them.
HOME MARKET FOR FARMERS
Is Provided by Protective Tariff;
Some Very Telling Points by the
Republican Candidate = The
Ohio Veterans Visit Him.

INDIANAPoLIs, ISD., Sept. 2l.-Gen
eral Harrison received two delegations
to-day, one from Winchester and the
other towns in Randolph county, Ind.
composed largely Of farmers, number
ing over $500. The second delegation
came from Dayton, O., and numbered
25O, including tiity-three veterans o
1910, escorted by fine band.
General Harrison received the delega'
tions jointly. General Stone, Of Ran,
dolph county, and Colonel John G. Low,
OF Dayton, were the spokesmen on be-
half OF the visitors. General Harrison
said:
My ONO AND INDIANA FRIENDs:-The
magnitude and the cordiality Of this
demonstration is very gratifying. That
these representatives OF the state OF my
nativity, and these, my neighbors in
this state OF my early adoption, should
unite this morning in giving this evi-
dence of their respect and confidence, is
especially pleasing. do remember
Ohio, the state OF my birth and Of my
boyhood, with affection and veneration.
/ take pride in her great history, the
illustrious men she furnished TO lead
our armies and the army OF the brave
boys who bore the knapsack and the
gun for the Union. take pride in her
pure and ndillustriousmGn. . -
-. ,,ry non ,.,u,,png
Guarded as your early settlers were,
and us those OF Ohio were by that sword
Of liberty, which was placed at your
gates by the ordinance OF 1857; stimu-
lated as YOU have been in the suggest
ions OF that great ordinance in favor of
morality and education, you have in
your rural homes one OF the best com
munities in the world. Applause. You
do not forget, farmers though you are,
that ninety-fve per cent OF the product
OF your farms is consumed ut home, and
you are too wise to put that in peril in
greedy search after foreign trade.
[Great applause.l You will otsacrilice
these great industries that have ere
ated in our country consuming class for
your product. [AppIause.l ! do not
think thatthcre is any doubt what tariff
policy England would wish us to adopt,
and yet some say that England is trem-
bling lest we should adopt Free Trade
[laughter] and rob her OF her markets,
that she now enjoys. Renewed laugh
ter. The story Of our colonial days,
when England, with selfish and insatiate
avariCe, laid her repressive hand upon
all, furnishes the first object lesson she
gave us. Another was given when
THE LIFE OF THIS NATION,
the child OF England, as she had been
wont 10 call us, speaking the mother
tongue, having many institutions in
herited from her-was imperiled. The
Golfer of Free Trade by the Coniederacy,
so touched the commercial greed OF Eng
land, that she forgot the ties OF blood,
and went to the verge OF war with us,
to advance the cause OF the rebel gov
ernment. [Applause.] But what Eng
land wants, or what any other country
wants is not very important-certainly
not conclusive. What is best for us
and for our people should be the decisive
question. Applause.
At the conclusion OF the speeCh-mak-
ing Gen. Harrison came down from the
platform and for over an hour shook
hands with the pushing crowd.