Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-05-11
PRESIDENT HARRLSON7S SPEECH
IN san FRANCISCO.

IN SIN FRANCISCO.
This is President Harrison's speech
at the Chamber of Commerce recep-
tom
When the queen of Sheba visited
the court of Solomon and saw its splen
dors she was compelled to testify that
half had not been told her. Undoubt
edly the emissaries of SOlOmon's
court who had penetrated to her dis
tant territory found themselves in a
like situation to that which attends
Californians when they travel East;
they are afraid too much to put to
test the credulity of their hearers, ,and,
as gentlemen of your state said to me,
it has resulted in prevailing indispo-
sition among CaIifornians not to tell
the truth out of California, not at all
because Californians are unfriendly
to the truth, but out of compassion
to their hearers. 1t has been, much
as 1 have heard of California, a bril-
liant disillusion to me and to those who
have journeyed with me, for half had
not been told of the productiveness
of your valleys of blossoming or
chards, of gardens laden with flowers.
We have seen and been entranced.
Our pathway has been strewn with
flowers We have been surprised
when we were in the region of or
chards and roses, to be suddenly pull
led up to the station and asked to ad
dress some remarks to a pyramid of
pig tin. Products of the mine, rare
and exceptional, have been added to
the products of the field, until the
impression has been made upon my
mind that if any new want should be
developed in craftsmanship, or any
vacancies in office, we have a safe res
ervoir that can be drawn upon ad lib
itum
But, my friends, sweeter than all
the incense of flowers, richer than all
the products of the mine has been the
gracious, unaffected, hearty kindness
with which the people of California
have everywhere received us. With
out division, without dissent, a sim
pie and yet magnificent American well
come. 1t is gratifying that it should
be So We may carry our campaigns,
to our conventions and Congresses,
discussions and divisions, but how
grand it is that we are a people who
bow reverently to a decision when it
is rendered, and who will follow the
flag always -everywhere-with abso-
lutte devotion of heart, without asking
what party may have given the lead
er in whose hands in is placed.
believe that we have come to
new epoch as a nation. There are
opening portals before us inviting us
to enter; opening portals to trade
and influence and prestige such as we
have never seen before. We will pur-
sue the paths ofpeace. We are not a
warlike nation. All our instincts, all
our history, is in lines of peace. Only
the intolerable aggression, only the
peril of our institutions or the flag can
thoroughly arouse us. With capabih-
ties for war on land and sea unexcelled
by any nation in the world, we are
SAA4IlC1 N1Ill 1ONC VI DOdCS- w z
would promote the peace of this hem
isphere by placing judiciously some
large guns about the Golden Gate,
simply for saluting purposes, and yet
they should be of the best modern
type. We should have on the sea
some good vessels.
We are making fine progress in the
construction of a navy. 1t is a source
of great qualification to me that, here
in San Francisco, the energy, enter
prise and courage of your citizens
have constructed a plant capable of
building the best modern ships.
saw with delight the magnificent
launch eff one of these new vessels. I
hope that you may so enlarge your
capabilities for construction that it will
not be necessary to send any naval
vessels around the Horn.
We want merchant ships I believe
we have come to a time when we
should choose whether we will con-
tinue to be participants in the
commerce of the world, or will now
vigorously, with the push and energy
which our people have shown in 9th
er lines of enterprise, claim our share
of the worlds commerce. I will not
enter into the discussion of the meth
DDS of which the postal bill of the last
session of Congress marks the begin
ming. l believe that, under the oper-
alton of the law to which 1 have re-
ferred, we shall be able to stimulate
ship building, to secure some new
lines of American steamships and to
increase the ports of call of those now
established.
1t will be my effort to do what may
done under the powers lodged in me
by law TO open and in increase trade
with the countries of Central and
South America
am thorough believer in the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal You
have pleased me so much that would
like shorter water communication be-
tween my state and yours. Inf1unces
and operations are now started that
viii complete / am sure, this stately
enterprise, but, my fellow citizens,
this is the fifth time this day that 1
have talked to gatherings of Califor-
MIA friends, and we have so much tax
ed the hospitality of San Francis
co in making our arrangements to
make this city the center of a whole
weeks sightseeing, that L do not
want TO add to your other burdens
the infliction of longer speech.
Right royalty have you welcomed
US, with all that is rich and prodigal
in provision and display, and with all
graciousness and friendliness l leave
my heart with you when / go.
The Nebraska Supreme Court has
laid down the law that an alien may
not be Governor of that State, and
furthermore that James Z. Boyd is
an alien and therefore cannot right
fully hold the office to which plural
ifV Of the of tho citizaY1c Of tho