The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-19
HARRISON AND HILL
The President Welcomed to the
Empire State.
THE MONEY QUESTION DISCUSSED
The Farmers Have the Largest Interest in
Having Dollar That is Worth One Hun
dred Cents Every Day in the Year.

ALBANY, Aug. lS.-klngston was reached
on schedule time Here several hundred
people were present. After shaking hands
Tor five minutes, the President made a
brief speech. The train reached Albany
before o'clock. A presidential salute
greeted the party. They were driven TO
the city hall, where thousands waited
about the platform, Oh which were seated
Mayor Manning, Governor Hill and the
state officers. The President received an
ovation as he approached the front Of the
platform. Mayor Manning then welcomed
the President on behalf of the city, after
which Governor Hill welcomed the Presi-
dent on behalf of the state, saying, in part
''Ihe citizens of the Empire state receive
you with profound respect and greet you
with the greatest of pleasure on this oc-
cas1on; not only because you are the
honored chief magistrate of the nation, but
because of their appreciation of your high
character and eminent public service.
They are delighted that you have seen fit
to honor US with your presence to-day
They recall with interest your many pa
srlotlc speeches during your recent me-
morable trip IN the south and west, and
their desire to see and listen to you has
been intensltied.'
President Harrison replied Governor
Hill, Mr.. Mayor and Fellow Citizens: l
receive with graat qualification the very
cordial expressions which have fallen from
the lips OF his excellency, the governor of
this great state, and his honor, the mayor
of this great municipality tits very graf
flying to me to be thus assured that as
American citizens, as public officers, ad-
mlnlsterlng each different function in
connection with the government of the ma
ton, state and municipality, we, in COM
mon with this great body of citizens, whose
servants We all are, have that common love
for our institutions and that common re-
spect for those who by appointed constitu-
tlonal methods have been chosen to admin
lister them. On such occasions as this they
entirely obliterates all differences and
bring US together in the great and en-
during brotherhood of American citizens.
CHEERS.
You have concentrated here great
wealth and great producing capacity for
increased wealth, great financial institu-
lions that reach out in their influences and
effects over the whole land. The general
government is charged with certain func-
tions in which the people have a general
interest. Among these, is the duty of pro-
v1ding for our people money with which
its business transactions are conducted
There has sometimes been in some regions
OF the great west a thought that NewYor
being largely a creditor state, was disposed
to be little hard with the debtor commun-
tiles of the great west, but narrow views
ought not to prevail with them or with
you, and will not in the light of friendly
discussion. The law of commerce NAV
be seltishness, but the law of
craftsmanship should be broader
and more liberal. [Applausel. don't in
tend to enter upon any subject that can
excite division, but ] do believe the gen
eral government is solemnly charged with
the duty of seeing that the money issued
by it is always and everywhere maintained
at par Applausel. | believe L speak
that which Is the common thought of all
when L say every dollar, paper or coin,
issued or stamped by the general govern
ment, should always and everywhere be
as good as any other dollar, TApplause.
Pm sure we would all shun that condition
OF things into which many peoples of the
past have drifted, and of which we have
had in proof great South American coun-
tries recent example. The distressed and
hopeless condition into which all business
enterprises TALL when nation issues ire
deemable or deprecated money, the necessi-
ties OF great war can excuse that. | am
one that believes these men from vour
shops, tnese farmers, remote from the
money centres, have the largest interest of
all the people in the world in having a do,
lar that is worth one hundred cents every
day in the year and only such. Applause.
Ii by any chance we should fall into con-
dition where one dollar Is not so good as
another, | venture the assertion that the
poorer dollar will do its first errand in paw
ing some poor laborer for his work. There
fore, in the conduct Of our public affairs |
feel pledged for one that all the influences
Of the government should be on the side of
giving the people only good money and lust
as much of that kind as we can get ZAP
plause. We have this year a most
abundant, yes, an extraordinary grain
crop" President Harrison then re-
ferred to the recent Russian ukase
and the scarcity of grain in France and
England, saying that all this country's sur
plus would find a ready market abroad and
that not only would the gold heretofore de-
parted be returned, but bring with it much
in addition of its kind. After drawing the
conclusion that the Americans should be
happy people with such prospects in view,
he urges upon them the necessity for ex
ercising the virtues of patience, frugalitv.
love of order and to crown all, a great
patriotism and devotion to the constitution
and law. Prolonged applause greeted the
close of his address, which was renewed as
the train left the city.