Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-17

INDIANAPOLIS, September 16th.-A COM
pany of Missouri veterans, under command
OF Captain Brant, Of Kansas City, called On
General Harrison this morning.
Shortly afterward delegation from New
Albany numbering 1000, called to pay
their respects to the General. In reply 10
the spokesman of the delegation General
Harrison made a short speech, in which ne
said:
II have heard it said that some leaders
ia the Democratic party thought that the
reduction proposed by the Mills bill aud
the further reduction which some are can
did enough to admit they contemplate, will
stimulate American production by opening
foreign markets and that the interests of
our Indiana manufacturing establishments
would thus be promoted; but those who
advance this argument. also say it will not
do to progress TOO rapidly in the direction
OF free trade; that we must go slow, be-
cause our protected industries cannot stand
too rapid an advance and it would not De
safe. Now, my countrymen, if this plan
of revenue reform is to be promotive of
our manufac uring interests, why go slow?
Why not open the gates wide and les us
have the promised good all at once? Is II
that the philosophers think the cup of
prosperity will be so sweet and full that
our laboriGg people cannot be allowed 20
drink it at one draught? No, my county
men, this statement implies what these
gentlemen know to be true, that the eject
of the proposed legislation would be dimin-
ished production and diminished wages,
and that they desire that you shall have an
opportunity to get used to it."
CHICAGO IRIsH-AMERIcANs.
About 4 o'clock this afternoon train ar
rived bringing 800 members of the Irish
American Republican Club from Chicago.
The members were met at the depot by the
local Irish organization, and escorted to the
Dennison Hotel. On account of the rain
the march to General Hsrrison's residence
was abandoned, and the reception took
place in the hotel. AS General Harrison
appeared OF the stairway escorted by the
local Irish club, he was rendered an ova-
ton, which concluded with the familiar
response, He's all right" John f. Boggs
acted rs spokesman.
THE GENERALS RESPONSE.
General Harrison, in response, said
My friends Of the Irish American Re-
publican Club Of Cook county, H.: You
are Americans - Irish Americans = and
though you have given the concentrated
loyalty of your hearts to the flag Of your
adopted country, you have not forgotten 10
love and yenerate the land of your birth.
What if sprig of green was found upon
the bloody jacket of Union soldier who
lay dead on Missionary Ridge. The flag he
died for was his flag, and the green was
only q memory and an inspiration. We
natives or Irish born join with the RepGb-
lican Convention in the hope that the
cause of Irish home rule, progressing n
der the leadership of Gladstone and Par
nell, may yet secure for Ireland that which,
as Americans, we SO much value, local
home rule.
Il ana sure that you will not falter IL this
great civil contest which your Spokesman
has so titingly described. Who, if not the
Irish American, versed in the sad storE Of
the commercial ruin of the island they
love, should be instructed in the benefcent
influence of a protective tariff? Who if
not the Irish American, should be able 70
appreciate the friendly influences of pro
tective system npon their individual and
upon their home lives? Which of you hss
not realized that not the lot of man only
but the lot of woman has been made sssg
aud easier under its influence? CoD;rsls.
the American mother ard wife burdenel
only with the cares OF motherhood and the
household, with the condition OF y women IN
many Of the countries of the Old Wo-iG.
where she is loaded also with the GrudgeTy
in the field. [ knew that none more thaa
the Irishmen, who are characterized by
their Difference for women, and whose WO-
men have so finely illustrated that which
is pare in the female character, will value
this illustration of the good effects our
American system upon home lie.