The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-29
VERMONT TOUR ENDS.
The President Speaks at Rut-
land and Proctor.
CHEAP WAGES AND CHEAP MEN.
General William Wells, the Drug MAN.
ufacturcr, TO Succeed Proctor -
Secretary OF War.

RUTLAND. Vt, Aug. 2s.-The president
left Proctor for Rutland at lis this morn
ing. After arriving here he was met by a
committee and escorted to Memorial hall,
where q reception was held. A stand had
been erected in front of the building. The
president was introduced and made
speech to the large crowd assembled.
After the introduction Of the president to
the throng he repeated, amid the laughter
of the audience, his statement made in
other places that be feared the peoples
kindness to him would kill him.
He briefly went over the history of the
country up TO the war Of the rebellion,
saving he thought that the war
was allowed to go on by Providence. "God
desired that the experiment Of free goY-
eminent should have more perfect trial, !"
said he. I'VE will never forget the great
electric thrill and shock which passed
through the country when the first gun
was fired at Sumter. The debates were
closed, the orators Withdrawn, and q
great wave of determined patriotism
swept over the country. This wave was
not to be stayed in its progress until the
last vestige of rebellion had been swept
from the face of our beloved land"
He then spoke of the part the usually
peaceful New England people took in the
war, saving that the rebels, who thought
the spirit of l776 had been quenched, found
themselves greatly mistaken. Applause
Had they 1.-THE rebels) not been mistaken
the war might have been avoided, but it
was SO written in the severe but benevo-
lent purposes of God. There was to be a
martyr president who was TO affix his name
to declaration that would be as
famous as that to which your fathers
affixed their signatures in 1776. ZAP
plause.l We were to be IN truth as well
as theory a free people. Applause
There was no other pathway to emanci-
patton than along the bloody track of
armies. but guided by the hand of power
and wisdom that is above us and over US,
our armies followed that path to the
accomplishment of that glorious result
that struck the shackles from 1900, 900
slaves. [Great applause.l He then closed
with greeting to the Grand Army men
in the crowd.
Just as the president concluded his re-
marks Rev. DIR. Norman Seaman, on be-
half of the Board of Trade, presented Mrs.
Harrison, through him, with an oil paint
ing representing view of Killington, the
highest peak in the Green mountains
The president returned thanks in few
words on behalf of Mrs. Harrison, express
sing regret that she had been Unable to
accompany him on the trip. After
luncheon at the residence of P. w. Glenn
ent. the presidential party returned to
Proctor.
PROCTOR, Aug. 2S.-The president tonight
addressed large throng from platform
erected in front of Secretary Proctor's resi-
dence. In the throng were about 1000
employees of the marble company. The
president spoke of the friendly relations
that he thought should always exist be-
tween employer and employee. He thought
the national policy should be in the direc-
ton of giving the workman sufficient wages
TO enable him to support his family in
comfort.
1--WE hear greal about cheap things"
he said, "but things may be too cheap
They are too cheap when the man who
produces them ON the farm or in the gar
den or in the factory does not get out of
them living wages with a margin for old
age and for a dowry for the incidents that
are to follow" daughter and applause. ]
After the speech the president and
party left for Rutland, where they will
take the train for New York.