The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-09-03
TIE PRESIDENTS SPEECHES.


a freshness and fitness about his every
pubic utteran,e which IS nothing short
of the marvellous. No matter what the
occasion or character of his audience, he
has the wonderful faculty OF saving the
most opportune thing in the most de-
Ightful way. The speeches on his tour
through the South and West demon
strated the fact pretty thoroughly, but
hts trip through New York and New
England has emphasized 1t. The Min
neapolis Tribune has compiled few
brief extracts from his late speeches,
which are all admirable. The following
are few of them. which will well repay
perusal: At Whitehall, N. Y, the presi-
Dental train unexpectedly met a train
filled with members of the Washington
County Veteran Association on their
way to a reunion.
The president said: 1t is our habit in
the West, as it yours here, TO have these
annual meetings, and it is always
pleasure to me when can arrange to
meet with the comrades of my old regi-
ment or of my old brigade, or with the
veterans of any regiment or any state
who stood for the flag. lApplause.]
There is a pathetic side to all this. We
gather with diminished ranks from year
to year. We see repeated now that
which we saw as the great column
mo yed on in the campaign OF the war
a comrade dropping out, borne to the
hospital, followed to the graveyard yet
these soldier memories aud thoughts are
frightened by the glories which inspire
and attend all these gatherings of the
veterans of the war. We see the old flag
again, and / am glad to believe that
there has meyer been period in our his
tory when there was more love for it.
Applause.
At the state line Of Vermont address
ing an assembled multitude OF Yer
monters, he said:
When you found the stones too thick
to make agriculture profitable you COM
PEELED the rocks to yield you sustenance,
and these great marble industries have
become the center of wealthy and pros
perous communities. You are here, each
in his own place, the good ladies in that
supremely influential position-the Amer
lean home-and you, my countrymen. in
the shops and in the fields, are making
contributions to the prosperisy and glory
of this great nation.
At station bouquets of golden rod,
sweet peas and other flowers were
thrown at the president. Picking up
some of the golden rod he said:
1t is pleasant to think that in this
plant, sowed so lightly, diversified by
spreading over nearl ~ our wholecountry,
we have a type of the diversity ani vet
the oneness of our people; and am glad
to think that its golden hue typihes the
gladness and JOY and prosperity that is
all over our fields this happy year and |
trust in. all your homes. l thank you
for your pleasant greeting this morning
and bid you good bye. lCheers.l
At Middleburg this rhetorical gem was
dropped from the rear platform:
Kings may rule over an ignorant peo-
pie and by their iron will control and
hold them in subsection and in he quiet
ness of tyranny. But a free land rests
upon the intelligence of its people and
has no other safety than in well rounded
education and thorough moral training.
[Cries of Good, good" and applause.I
At Vergennes. after an apt reference to
local history and the short distance be-
tween station and speeches, the presi-
dent said: ss
am glad this morning to look into
the contented faces of another audience
of New England people. You were
greatly disparaged in the estimation of
some of our people before the civil war.
There had spread, unfortunately, over
the minds of our Southern. brethren the
impression that YOU wcre so much given
to money. to thrift and TO toll that your
hands had forgotten how TO fight. 1t
was most wholesome lesson when the
whole country learned again in the gal
liant charges and stubborn resistances of
the Vermont brigade that the old New
England spirit still lived; rhat Paul
Revere still rode the highways of New
England, and that the men OF Concord
and Lexington and Bennington still
plowed her fields, [Applause.l
At Montpelier the president spoke Of
the benefits to be derived from his trip
and paid graceful tribute to the New
England character in these words:
But, after all, the braei,g of the good
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essential to those who, i'll the midst of
of great perplexity and doubt and I'M
der staggering responsibility, endeavor,
as they sec the right, to do it. No man
can do more than this, and lock up
on this popular feature of our govern
ment, the readiness to communicate,
the nearness and familiarity of access
which the people have with all public
servants as great safeguard TO those
who might otherwise become separated
from those impulses which, after ali, are
the safest and best.I Applausel ] have
had great pleasure in passing through
your beautiful valley this morning.
Vermont is a mountain. state, and,
suppose. because your horizon is little
high. you are more frequently than we
who live on the plains, compelled to look
mp. That may account for a great
many of the good things which we dis
cover in the New England character.
thank you for your kindness. Applause.
At Waterbury, this further tribute to
New England character and the home:
have sometimes thought the habit OF
attention, of giving the whole mind to
the business in hand. had its very natu-
raj origin and development in New Eng
sand agriculture. The man who holds a
plow in stumpy or stony field learns
the lesson that he had better give his
mind to the business in band. Laughter. ]
Otherwise the revenge ard punishment
for intention are so prompt and severe
that he is quickly called back from any
mental wannerings into which he may
have fallen.
Standing in the presence of the mem
beers of the Vermont legislature, a
lengthy speech was delivered, of which
the following were the central thoughts
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