The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-13
His Big Blow at Evansville.

Evansville, Oct. 12-Ben Harrison spoke
to 1900 people in Evans hall this evening
1t was the concluding address in a series
OF fourteen, beginning early this afternoon
at Clayton, and ranging down the state
S ShrTG1gh Tainted LIANT Brazil Greencastle
Princeton. The smallest gathering was at
Plaintield, the largest at Evansville, out
the enthusiasm was as great at the former
place as at the latter.
Terre Haute turned out 10000 people to
greet the ex-president. When the train
reached this city several thousand peo-
pie were found Drawing the drilling rain
to greet the eX-preSident. Opposite the
depot marching clubs from this city and
adjoining towns We're drawn up in line
and the voices of 5000 people rang out in
hearty welcome. General Harrison was
in excellent form tonight, notwithstanding
his hard days work. He spoke in sub
MY Fellow Citizens:-I come to speak
words of soberness and quietness. L
come with personal contest with no
man. l come with no words of bitterness
or criticism for any man in public life.
l come to speak to you of interests that
are still dear to me as citizen and are
vital concerns. We have been living
under the shadow of tariff reform for
nearly two years now. The, shadow has
home in the land. For these years every
body has talked about the tariff, but the
talk at last seemed to wear out. Tnere
in the last two years entered into this
discussion the most eloquent and foreful
speaker that ever addressed an audience,
men than any other-that orator is eXper-
fence. He has been talking for two
years, and l am much mistaken If he has
Gratis have not been able to put in law
their views until within the last two
years. Before that time they exercised
themselves in platform declarations and in
I far~o tory n
time when the country has endowed the
Democratic party with power to deal with
this question; F9r the hrSf st. tune mere
and doings of the Democratic party.
There came time when the Democratic
party must stop making platforms and
ical change in our responsible govern
ment, the country was in the highest
state of prosperity. Our foreign trade was
larger than it had ever been in the, his.
tory of this country, and the beauty of
it was that it was something like $780,
0o0, 900 larger in exports than in imports.
You all realize what that means; 1t means
that we were selling abroad more than
we were buying from abroad. There is
not a farmer here who does not know
that he tests the question as to whether
he has prospered on his farm by casting
the balance between the value of what
he brings to town to sell and the value
of what he buys IN town and takes nome.
But This Was Not All.
''That is not all. Everybody knows that
everybody was busy Everybody knows
that every mill was running. The COM
forts of life as distributed among our
people were greater than ever before.
farmers became disconnected. Now wheat
has gone lower than ever before in the
memory of any farmer who hears me. 1t
has been hard to get enough OF 1t In the
shape of flour in the home of the work
man, but it has been so cheap that it has
in some places gone into the hog trough.
i ILL
workingnan mad the most favored lot Of
any workingman in the world, and that
this was evidenced by the fact that the
gates of Castle Garden always swing in
ward to the workingmen seeking our
shore. The workingman knows the land
of promise as well as the swallow knows
the land of sumner l could not IS say Say
Garden have been swinging outward.
Now why came the present condition
about? 1t is important to know, because
the party or policy that brought this about
carries a fearful weight Of responsibility.
In August a year ago, Congress assem-
bled, and after dealing with the Sherman
Lii. organized the committee of Ways
and Means of the House of Representa-
tives and charged it with the duty of
having tariff bill ready for action at
bill speedily through, the conditions of
uncertainty and distress was prolonged
through a whole year, and August of
1884 came around before our Democratic
friends had passed a bill And then they
passed bill, which, according to the
judgment of Mr.. Cleveland, was so I'M
equal in it's provisions. so unlike Demo-
cratic promises, so full of party perfdy
and dishonor that he would not attach
his name to it If the country could have
known what the Democratic party would
likely do all this uncertainty would have
been diminished, but the trouble about 1t
all was that there was no conference of
belief among them, and nobody could tell
what they. might do.
Benny's Experience as a Farmer.
'eThese gentlemen now tell you they
what Mr. Wilson told his English friends
the other day. Now fences are for two
purposes. L was raised on a farm and
have had some experience. They are to
keep things out or to keep them in-one
or the other. Fences around the corn
field are TO keep stock out, the fence
around the pasture field is to keep stock
in What does tearing them down imply?
That all of the stock outside will get
share the range with them. I start out
with this proposition, that there is not
enough grass on the range for the cattle
that are out there already. / make his
second proposition. that the grass inside
our fences must have been better and the
cattle slicker and better in bone and richer
in condition than those out on the range.
II we equalize these things and let this
wild horned and hungry stock from the
much grass for our own stock as we had
before. They talk to us about wanting
more foreign markets. In the tariff bill
Of 1890 we introduced a reciprocity policy
securing markets of enormous present
value to the farmer and manufacturers