The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-04-18
BOUND FOR TEXAS.
The President and Party Due at
Galveston To-Day.
A DIG RECEPTION AT LITTLE ROCK.

MFR. Harrison's Speech at BeIieview.
Iic Desires to Rest in Galveston
To-Morroy. and Asks That There
VIII bc No Demonstration for
That Day.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 17.--Yesterday
when tho train reached Belleview, a sta.
tion seven miles from this city, it was
boarded by a committee Of citizens from
Memphis, headed by Messrs. R. G.
Graves, William Fl. Moore and G.. @.
Matthews. A number of ladies accom-
panied the party and presented Mrs.
Harrison and the other ladies of the
presidents party with bouquets of La
France roses.
Mayor L. 9. Clapp and other munich
ral officers received the president and
iarty on their arrival in the city. A
large crowd, including the local militia,
Mere gathered at the station and cheered
tha president when he appeared on the
platform. The party were Immediately
assigned to the carriages which awaited
them and driven up Main street to the
Merchants Exchange, fronting on Court
aqunre, which was massed with people.
The president was escorted up the iron
steps and introduced to the assembled
crowd by Mayor Clapp, who welcomed
the president ON behalf of the city.
The Presidents Speech.
In responding to the welcoming speech,
fhe President said in part
CIrIzENs-The name of the city of Memphis
,~as familiar to me in my early boyhood. Born
and reared upon one of the tributaries of the
great river upon which your city islocated,
these river marts of commerce were the famil-
Jar trading posts Of the farmers of the Ohio
sAley. Iwell remember, when on the shores
VI fathers farm, the old Broad Horn" was
loaded froia the hay press and the corn crib
Go market with tho plantations all along the
fower Mississippi. remember TO have heard
ffoin him and the neighhors who constituted
Aus crew of those pioneer crafts of river nnvi-
Fation, OF the perlls of these great waters, of
ahe snags and caying banks Of the lower Mis-
fiaEippi.
IN those times these states were largely sup
Faied with grain and forage from the north
western states. Here you were giving your
attention TO one or two great staple products,
for which you found largo foreign market.
congratulate you that the progress of events
has made you not less agricultural, but has di-
sersfed your agriculture so that you are not
ksholly dependent upon these great staples for
khe income of your farms.
The Southern Products.
II Is great thing that you arc now raising
moro wheat, more corn, more hogs and cattle,
that you are now raising potatoes and water
tnolons ald cabbage The benefits of this di-
persihcation are very great, and the change
Symbolizes more than we at first realize. This
khnnge means that we arc now coming to un-
nnrstand that meanness cannot be predicated
kfany honest industry.
I rcjolcc that you are adding to Diversified
agriculture, diversified manufacturing pur-
ltits; that you are turning your thought to
fsmpressing and spinning cotton as well as
raising IL. know no reason why these cotton
states, that produce rs per cent. of the cotton
pr the world, should not spin the greater por-
s1on of II. know no reason why they should
Z Mxport il as raw material rather than us a
manufactured product, holding in their midst
fhp profits of this transformation OF the raw
bacterial to the finished product.
VI hope IL may be SO. / see evidence that the
,seople are turning their attention to new in
tnetfles, and arc bringing into the midst of
those farming communities large population
hf artisans and laboFers to consume at your
swn doors the products of your farms. am
s1nd that a liberal government is making this
great waterway to the sea safe and capable of
IN uninterrupted use.