The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-19
SPLENDID OTATIONS
rendered to Gen. Harrison by
Thousands Of Visitors.
ONE OF HIS BEST SPEECHES.
He Talks About the Surplus aud
Uses Convincing illustration Of
the Point He MaItcs-Truiy bic
is"A Growing Candidate"

was one OF General Harrison's busiest
days. He passed the morning at his
desk. In the afternoon and evening he
received and addressed three visiting
delegations. The first delegation to ar
rive came from Danvillc and other points
in Vermillion county, ILL.,, numbering
about 1900. General Harrison received
them at University Park. W.R. Jewell,
editor OF the Danville Nelrs, acted as
spokesman for the visitors. General
Harrison in responsesaid:
"If some one were to ask to-day, What
is the matter with the United States?'
Laughter, and cries of She's all right.
l am sure we should hear some Demo-
cratic friend respond, Its people are
oppressed andimpoverished by tariff tax
alion. [Laughter.l
Ordinarily our people can be trusted
to know when they are taxed but this
DemoCrrtiG friend will tell gs that the
tariff tax Is 80 inslduous that our people
pay it without knowing it. That is
very unhappy condition, indeed. But
his difficulties are all surmounted when
he has convinced his hearers that Gus
tom duty is tax, Tor history does not
rpl well with his statement that our
people have been impoverished by our
tarilr system. Another answer to your
question will be perhapsthat there isnaw
a great surplus in the treasury-he will
probably not state the figures, for there
seems to be painful uncertainty about
that. have sometimes thought that
this surplus was held. chiefly to be talked
about. The laws provide a use for it
that would speedily place 1t in clrcuIa-
tiqn. Ifa business man finds an accu.
muiated surplus that he does not need
in his business, that stands as u bank
balance and draws no interest, and he
has obligations outstanding to mature
in the future, he will make ready choice
between leaving his balance in the bank
and using it to take up his obligations.
[ApplauSe.l
But in olr national finances the other
choice has been made and this surplus
remains in the National banks without
interest, while our bonds, which, under
the law, might be retired by the use OF
it, continue to draw interest,"
OTHER VISITORS.
The delegations from Louisville aRd
Coyington, KY, about 800 In number,
arrived at A o'clock and were received at
University Park. Their enthusiasm ran
very high. A. F. Wilson, OF Louisville,
spoke briefly on behalf OF the Kentuck-
ians, to which General Harrison made
pleasant response.
The last visitors OF the day to call
upon General and Mrs. Harrison were
the hundred or more delegates in at
tendance upon the annual meeting OF
the national assembly of Union ey.pris-
oners OF war. Every man had under
gone imprisonment at Andesonville,
Libby, or some Of the less noted South
ern prisons. The veterans arrived at
the Harrison residence at 6'o'cIock and
were informally received by Gen
eral Harrison. After shaking hands
and exchanging greetings they gath
cred around General Harrison,
and Gen. w. II. Powell, OF Iowa, nd
dressed him briefly and touGhinglyl re-
ierring to the periIs and hardships they
had survived. General Harrison was
greatly affected by the words OF the
spokesman and the presence OF the
Veterans grouped silently and so closely
about him. So manifest were his emo
tions it seemed he scarcely dared trust
himself to speak and paused after a few
words as II to control his feelings.
The General then in low CONVERSE
tioaal end sympathetic voice, said: ~
am always touched when meet either
with those who stood near about me in
the service or those who shared the
general comradeship Of war. It seems
to me that the wild exhileration which
in earlier reunions we often see is very
much sobered as We come together
now."
"In the field our enemies, always
brave, were generally also chivalric and
humane. But the treatment OF the cap
tured Union soldiers surpassed in hend-
ish cruelty.the best achievements OF the
savage. It's the black spot without any
lining Of silver or any touch OF human
nature. But you have cause for con;
graduation that you have been spared
TO glory in the prosperity that your SER
vices and sufTorings have brought to the
nation."