The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-29
4 FREE GOVERNMENT
The President on the War of the
Rebellion.
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
Judge Dillon Elected President-Ths Reform
Of the Criminal Glasses and the Best
Means Of Securing it,

RUTLAND, Vt, Aug. 2S.-The President
left Proctor for Rutland at II rs this morn
ing. Arriving there ne was met by a COM
mittee and escorted to Memorial hall where
a reception was held. A stand was erected
In front Of the building. The President
was introduced and made speech 10 the
large crowd assembled.
After the introduction Of the President
10 the throng he repeated, amid the laugh
ter OF the audience, the statement made in
other places that he feared the peoples
kindness to him would kill him. He briefly
went over the history OF the country up to
the wsr OF the rebellion, saying that he
thought that war was allowed to 20 on by
providence. God desired that the expert
ment OF free government should have
more perfect trial" said he ave will
never forget the great electric thrill and
shock which passed through the country
when the first gun was fired at Sumpter
Debate was closed, orators withdrawn and
a great wave OF determined patriotism
swept over the country. This wave was
not to be stayed in It's progress, until the
last ves.ige Of the rebellion had been swept
from the face of our beloved land.u
He then spoke of the part the usually
peaceful New England people took in the
war, saying that rebels who thought the
spirit of 1776 had been quenched found
AODlaua6.(
| Had they (the rebels) not been mistaken,
the war might thave been avoided, but IL
was so written IN the severe, but benevolent
purposes of God. There was a martyr Pres
ident, who was to affx his name to a dec
laration that would be as famous as that to
which your forefathers affixed their sigma
ture in 1716. Applause. We were to be
Ia truth IS as well as theory, free peo-
pie. Applause. There was no other
DQthwav n Characterization Than aIopnr tba
bloody track of armies, but guided by the
hand of power and wisdom that is above
US, our armies followed that path to the &C
| complishment Of that glorious result that
struck the shackels from four million
slaves" Great applause.
He then closed with greeting to the
] Grand Army men In the crowd.
Just as the President concluded his re-
marks, Rev. Dr. Norman Seaver presented
TO Mrs. Harrison, through the President,
| an oil painting representing a view of Kill
ington, near Rutland, the highest peak in
the Green mountain range. The President
in a few words thanked DIR. Seaver and the
board of trade on behalf of Mrs. Harrison
and expressed his regret that she was I'M
able to accompany him on his trip through
Vermont The party were then driven to
the residence of p. w. Clement for lunch
con, after which the special train returned
to Proctor where there will be a demon
! stration tonight.
The President addressed large throns
from the platform erected in front Of Sec
rotary Proctor's residence. In the throng
were about a thousand employees of ths
marble company. The President spoke Of
the friendly relations that he thought
should always exist between employer anc
employee. He thought the national policy
should be in the direction of giving work
men sufficient amount OF wages to enable
him to support his family in comfort. "Ws
hear a great deal about cheap things" hi
said, ''but things may be too cheap. They
are too cheap when the man who produces
them on a farm or in a factory does not ge
, out of them living wages with margin fol
old age and a dowry for the incidents tina
are 10 follow" Laughter and applause
fter his speech the President and part,
left for Rutland, where they take the trail
| for New York.