Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-08-20
Speech at Albany, N. Y, Before
Gov. Hill and Thousands.
PRESIDENT En- ROUTE TO MAINE.
A Discourse on the Money QuestIon-PIea
That the Dollars Issued BY the Gov
eminent should All Have an
Equal Value.


At Jersey City there was no demon
stration, but at Newburgh, n. Y, there
were 5000 people at the station. The
president appeared on the rear plat
form and made a speech of the charac-
ter so we'll known during his recent
western trip. A railroad man jumped
on the bumper of the car while the
train was going at considerable speed,
attracted the presidents attention by
touching him on the arm and then held
out his hand. Mr. Harrison shook it
heartily and then went inside.
At Kingston several hundred people
were at the depot and handshaking be-
gan Immediately. After keeping this
up for five minutes the president made
a brief speech.
At Sellirl1 the Albany citizens COM
mittee met the president, who reached
Albany shortly before o'clock. A
presidential salute greeted the party.
They were driven to the city hall
square, where thousands waited about
the platform on which were Mayor
Manning, Gov. 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 Gov. Hill well
coined the president on behalf of the
state. Mr.. Harrison replied at some
length. He first returned sincerest
thanks for the greetings and contin-
ued: 'The general government is
charged with certain great func-
tins in which the people have
a general interest. Among these IS
the duty of providing for our people
the money with which its business
transaction are conducted. There has
sometimes been in some regions of the
great west thought that New York,
being largely a creditor state, was dis
posed to be little hard with the debtor
communities of the great west; but, my
fellow citizens, narrow views ought not
to prevail with them or with you and
will not in the light of friendly dis
cussion. The law of commerce may
be selfshness, but the law of states
manship should be broader and more
liberal. Applause. do not intend
to enter upon any subject that can
excite division, but / do believe that
the general government is solemnly
charged with the duty of seeing
that the money issued by it was and is
everywhere maintained at par.
81 believe that 1 speak that which is
common thought of us all when I say
that when every dollar, whether paper
or coin, issued or stamped by the gen
eral government should always and
everywhere be as good as any other
dollar. [Applause. 1 am sure that we
would all shun that condition of things
into which many people of the past
have drifted and of which we have had
in one of the great South American
countries a recent example, the dis
tressed and hopeless condition into
which all business enterprises fall when
a nation issues an irredeemable or de-
preciated money. The necessities of a.
great war can excuse that 1 am one
of those that believe that these men
from your shops, these farmers remote
from money centers, have the largest
interest of all in the world in having
a dollar that is worth one hundred
cents every day in the year, and only
such. Applause. If by any chance
we fall into condition that one dollar
is not so good as another, venture the
assertion that that poorer dollar will
do its first errand in paying some poor
laborer for his work. Therefore, 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 just as much of that kind
as we can get. Applause.
Now, my fellow citizens, we have
this year a most abundant-yes, extra
ordinary grain crop All of the great
staples, which our people have been
yielded to the farmer in larger meas
ure than ever before. A leading agri-
cultural paper estimated that the prod
uct of our farms will be worth one bill
lion dollars more this year than ever
before, and it happens that just with
this great surplus in our barns we find
a scarcity in all the countries of Europe.
Russia has recently prohibited the ex-
port of rye because she needs her
crop to feed her own people. The
demands in France and in En-
gland and Germany will absorb ev-
cry bushel of the great surplus we shall
have after our people are fed and
whatever complaints there may have
been in the past, believe this year
will spread a smile of gladness over
the entire country. [Applause.] This
is our opportunity and l can not see
how 1t shall be possible but that these
exports Of grain, now reaching the
limit of the capacity of our railroads
and Of our ships, shall soon bring back
to us the lost gold we sent to Europe,
and more that we did not lose. APP
plause.1 was told by an officer of
the West Shore road that that road
alone was carrying 100000 bushels of
wheat every day into New York and
that It scarcely stopped an hour in the
elevator but was run Immediately
into the bottom of a steam vessel
that was to carry it abroad
This IS only an illustration of
what is going on As the result
of It our people must certainly be great
IL enriched Where there has been
complaint, where there has been pow
erty, there must come this year plenty,
for the gardens have loaded the table.
the orchards cannot bear the burdens
that hang upon their reddening limbs
and the granaries are not equal TO the
product of our fields We ought then
this day to be happy peoples we ought
to be grateful for these conditions and
careful everywhere to add to them
the virtues Of patience, frugality, love
Of order and, 70 crown all, great
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