Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-27
TALKING TO NEW ENGLANDERs,
The Presidents Speeches on His Trip
Through Vermont

| Through Vermont
When the Presidents train arrived at Rich
mond, VT, yesterday a large crowd was found
in waiting. The President addressed the peo-
PIE from the platform Of the rear coach. He
| said:
| My fellow-citizens: 1t is little early in the
morning to begin the day by a round of speech
making, and yet cannot refrain from saving
to you how highly appreciate your morning
welcome. There is tho tonic of your fine
mountain air and the glory of your sunshine
in these cordial manifestations of your respect
and good will 1 hope no American citizen
will ever begrudge the President of the United
| States refreshment which comes from these &C.
casionai visits through the country, and from
| that draught OF good will which he receives
| he looks into the faces and takes the hands of
these good people, who have no interest in the
government other than that it should be honestly
administered for the general good. Washing
| ton is not always full of that kind of people.
We are more certain, perhaps, to find them in
the country. And yet no. one should complain
OF honest criticism, and perhaps fault finding
has its uses, for occasionally it must be well
| grounded and disclose to US errors we might
otherwise have failed to discover.
But, after all, the bracing of the good will of
| the people of this country is very essential to
those who, in the midst of great perplexity and
doubt, and under staggering responsibility. en-
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can do more than this, and look upon the
popular feature of our government, the readi
ness OF communication, the nearness and famil
larity Of access which the people have with all
pubic servants, as great safeguard to those
who may otherwise become separated from
| those impulses which are. after all, the truest,
the safest and the best. [Applause.l
have had great pleasure in passing through
your beautiful valley this morning 1 can most
| sincerely commend what see in these farms
| and thrifty homes. Vermont is mountain
state, and suppose because your horizon is u
| little high you are more frequently than we
who live on the plains compelled to look up.
| That may account for good many of the good
things which we discover III the New England
character.
| TALK AT WATERBURY.
At Waterbury. the next STOP, Gov. Page
boarded the train and welcomed the President
Mr.. Harrison alghted and made few remarks
| from the station platform, being introduced by
| ex-Gov. Dillingham;. The President spoke as
| follows:
My Friends: 1t is very pleasant to know that
| public officer may travel everywhere through
out this great land OF ours, and only those who
! have traversed it can understand how great it
| Is, and find always his sure defense and care in
| the good will and respect of the people who
surround him. If we bar out the irresponsible
peril except that he may be killed by the super
| abundant kindness Of the people. Laughter
and applause.l
There seems to be an impression that his
| strength and capacity for speech is unfaiing
| llaughter and that his arm is q hickory limb
but it is very kind of all these good people of
Vermont who have met me on these Journeys to
express so pleasantly, by your cheers and much
| more by your kindly faces the love and loyalty
| you have for those institutions with which the
suffrage Of the people has for the time being
connected me-
The New England character is one which has
been much written about-much discussed, and
think that even those who have found points
Tor sharpest criticism have, when they adopted
the Yankee method OF averages, concluded
that the influences emanating from Plymouth
Rock and diffusing themselves first through the
New Hampshire grants and then the western
| reserve of Ohio, and SO scattering and dssemi-
mating these seeds of intelligence and love of
liberty throughout the land have been good for
the whole country. The New England man is a
man with his eyes open everywhere.
have sometimes thought that the habit of
| attention, OF giving the whole mind to the bust
| development in New England agriculture The
man who holds aplow in stumpy stony field
learns the lesson that he had better give his
mind to the business in hand [laughterl,
otherwise the revenges and punishments for
| inattention are SO prompt and severe that he is
quickly called back from any mental wander
ings into which he may have fallen.
had occasion to say a moment ago that the
fact that the mountain regions of the world had
always furnished the bravest champions of lib
| erty and the most strenuous defenders of the
| faith were possibly owing to the fact that their
horizon was 50 high that if they looked at all
| they were compelled to look up. Laughter
| and applause.
My cOuntrymen. We have a great and happy
land people dwelling in happy homes, and
that is the origin of government, and there is
the essential of contented citizenship. As
long as we can preserve this independence and
self-respect, and that of comfort in the home
that makes II a pleasant abode when the DAYS
toll is ended, and that enables by the most care
full thrift the head of the household to lay by
for the family, and to tighten in some measure
the care and labor Of the children that are to
follow him, there can be no happier land than
ours. II we would perpetuate and secure that
which We have had handed down to u.s. and
which We have SO well preserved until this hour,
this is the essential thing. thank you for this
friendly greeting and beg you to accept my
slncerest good will
l can say nothing on public affairs Every
man called to public office is subject to the in
irmities that belong to our nature-the capacity
to make mistakes. lie can DO, if he is true, sure
Of ono thing-that In oil that he does he has it
in his mind to do the best he can for all the
people.
AN ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATURE.
When the train arrived at Montpelier the
President was escorted to the state house
Arriving there he was taken to the governors
room. From the governors room, at IL 80 |
the President was escorted into the hall of the
house OF representatives. where the legislature
of Vermont was gathered in joint assembly |
The members of the legislature remained stand
ing as the President entered and proceeded to
the rostrum OF the presiding officer, where Lieut..
Gov. Fletcher greeted him. Then. at the tap of
the gavel, the members of the legislature re-
sumed their seats. When quiet had been restored,
Lieut. Gov. Fletcher in few sentences intro
duced the President, who was greeted with ap-
plause. The President said:
Mr.. President and gentlemen of the legisla-
ture of Vermont: am grateful to you for this
cordial reception. l am glad to meet the
chosen representatives of the towns OF YER
mont IL we shall ever anywhere allow q
doubt TO settle into the minds of our people
whether the results of our elections are hon
cstly attained, whether sthe laws made are
framed by those who have been properly chosen
by the majority, then all sanction is Withdrawn
| from the law and all respect from the rulers,
who by false ballot are placed in public office
IApplause.l
am glad to congratulate you upon constitu-
encies intelligent, devoted and patriotic; that
the state Of Vermont and her sons in the couu-
Gil of the nation and OF. the blood stained bat
tie fields of the great war have borne them
| selves worthily. lApplause.] l am sure that
| we may EACH from this occasion, in the dis
| charge of public duty, draw some impulse to
| more perfect exercise OF our powers for the
| public good lApplause.]
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