The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14
FINDS THE PLACE
WHERE THE DEh OCRATS WANT TO
GO so VERY BADLY.
Harrison Tells Them That the McKin-
ley Bill Found Them The Foreign
Market Which so Much Exercises
Them-How it Has Been Lost
and Why.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13.-Bsnjamin Har
rison returned to indianapolis this even
ing from his campaigning tour through
Southern Indiana His last speech, which
was the twentieth of the trip and the thir.
teenth of the day, was at Edinburg, and
his voice rang out az clearly as when he
spoke first on yesterday. At one or two
places In the extreme southern part of the
state the greater part of his audiences were
Democrats. but they listened with respect
aud interest. The children with their
flowers and flags and old veterans of the
late war with the grand army veterans
formed a conspicuous feature of every
gathering. At Boouville where the BOOM
ng of a cannon announced his arrival. he
said:
"There can be DO question in the world
to any man who will think, that this tar
If bill, embracing several thousand arti-
cirs all of which are great staples of COM
merce and of the mill, does affect the en-
tire-business of the country. IL may affect
fnvorably or unfavorably. Now, my coun-
trymen, we bad, two years, ago good times
know some of our Democratic friends are
trying to make it appear that they were
not so very good and that times since have
not been so very bad.
You know whether two years ago
things were In a highly prosperous condi-
ton in this country and you know what
it has gone through since. Thee very
men, if they will let their minds run over
the question, will see that those whole
yenr's agitation of the tariff question, this
proclamation that duties We're to be called
down all along the line, this uncertainty
That was inject ed into every business pur-
suit, that these have been the things that
parslyZed American trade and brought
dISfr IN MI
muuifies.
At Lincoln City, the burial place of the
mother of Abraham Lincoln, a brief stop
was made and he responded to the calls for
speech.
At the manufacturing town of New
Albany "A great crowd met him at the sta
ton and escorted him 10 the stand where
be spoke for forty minutes.
The Democrats have been talking a
good deal about getting tie markets. of the
world" he said. ''Where are their mark
cts? Are they in Africa? Well, Africa
does not offer per capita anything like as
HI attractive "A market rs America. Here
we clothe ourselves all over and they don't
there. [Laughter.l England has had for
Yeers African possessions, and they are
Low greali ~ extended.
This thing yes her and those other
nations great advantages In the COM
merce of the world over the United States
we nave never ndl "A cOtOnlZiug IOlicy
and pr, badly never will have one. Indeed
we have been so narrow In our views upon
this question that We could not even take
III The Sandwich Islands when her people
asked for II. L am only making he point
low hat these colonial possessions have
been established with "a view of extending
English. German, French and Italian trade
and that they secure To the nations that
have established them a great advantage
over he United States
Now, rhere was part of the world
where this selfish policy which The great
commercial nations OF Europe have pur-
sued in utter disregard of the rights of the
natives, pusEing their trade on the point
of the bayouet, has not been put into
effect-onr part of the earth upon which
they have not been permitted to lay their
hands.
The Monroe doctrine, expressed with
quietness ami yet, but with courage and
adhered to in orr American diplomacy
slI &C the time of its PRONUNCIATION has
preserved these >tates of Central and South
America from European aggression.
The prople II tbese countries are friendly
to us. They stood in good relation to us
geographically, and we ought TO have had
their trade, and my friends, bv the rec-
prociiy provision in the Mckinley bill, We
had made start.
cit was simple start. Here were the
markets OF the world that We not only
con id GEL hut we had got; we had OBJ
taiued them with ut iHflic ing any injury
on he American workman. the Amer can
tanner, or the American maL ulIcl urer
ana L blink The American people should
call TO account the party that so wanjonly
and u~elrssly abandoned hem"
AT J-ffersonyille, SEQ sburg, Seymour
ana other towns along the I. j. VI. & L.
short stops and short speeches We're