The Iola register., 1891-04-24
SSlS.S5 per year
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.

We spoke briefly last week of the
readiness and felicity in speech-mak-
ing shown by President Harrison on
his trip through the South. We pre-
sent below, as fair samples, four
speeches that he made last Thursday.
If you think it no trick to make
speeches of this kind. imagine your
self in the Presidents place and sit
down and write out four speeches to
be delivered the same day before peo-
pie whom you never saw before, in
places you never visited before, and
in the teeth of preiudices and opinions
directly opposed to all those you en-
tertain.
The first speech was made on his
departure from Atlanta, after two or
three other speeches had already
been made at the same place:
"MY FELLOW CITIZENS:-In part
ing from you / desire to give public
expression of my appreciation of my
reception and enjoyment i'll my
brief visit to Atlanta. I saw this
city under circumstances of a very un-
favorable character. / did not think
then would like it although we were
making a great effort to get it..
Laughter / am glad after all these
years to see the great prosperity and
development that has come to you.
1 think I am able to understand some
of the influences that are at the hot
tom of it all and / am sure / look into
the faces of a community that, what
ever their differences may have been,
however they viewed the questions of
the war when it was upon US can have
but one thought now as to what is
best. We can all say with the Con-
federate soldier who carried gun for
what seemed to him to be right, that
the Lord knew better than any of US
what was best for the country and for
the world. You are thankful for
what He has wrought and chiefly for
the emancipation. 1t has opened up
to diversified industries these States
that were otherwise exclusively agri-
cultural and made it possible for you
not only TO raise cotton, but to spin
and weave it, and has made Georgia
such State as it could not have been
under the old conditions. am sure
We now have many common purposes,
and as God shall give US the power to
see the truth and the right, let US do
our duty and, while eXacting all our
rights, let US bravely and generously
give to every other man his equal
rights before the law" lCheers
He spoke next at Tallapoosa, where
a particular feature of welcome was a
great crowd of school children, and
said:
my FELLOW CITIZENS:-This
large assembly of people from this
new and energetic city is very pleas
ant and I thank you for the welcome
it implies. am glad to see that these
enterprises that are taking the ores
from the earth and adapting them to
the uses of civilization have not been
started unaccompanied by that more
important work of gathering the
children into the schools and instruct
ing them, that they in their turn may
be useful men and women. TAp-
plause.1
II am glad to greet these little ones
this morning; it is a cheerful sight
We are soon to lay down the work Of
life and responsibilities of citizenship;
these mothers are soon to quit the
ever-recuEring and never-ending work
of the home and give it into new
hands. 1t is of the utmost conse-
quence that these little ones be train
ed in mind and taught the fear of God
and a benevolent regard for their fel-
low men in order that their lives and
social relations may be peaceful and
happy. We are citizens of one coun-
ty, having one flag and one destiny.
We are starting on a new era of de-
velopment, and 1 hope this develop
ment is to be the promoting cause of
very perfect unification of our people.
Cheers. The development which is
coming to you in these regions of the
South is marvellous. In ten years you
increased your production of iron
about 800 per cent-nearly 1,250, 900 |
you have only begun to |
open these mines and to put these !
ores to the process of reduction Now
1 want to leave this thought with you
lin the old plantations of the South |
you got everything from somewhere |
Else; why not make it all yourselves?'
Cheers. /
At Admission he spoke as s.follows:
"FELLOw CITIZENs:-I very much
'egret that am able to make so little
eturp to you for this cordial mani