The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-14
TRIP FROM EVANSVILLE.
Great Crowds and Enthusiasm All the
Way to JefersonviIle.

For the Saturday trip of ex-President
Harrison and party through southwestern
Indiana there was the loveliest autumn
weather, the chill and the rain having all
passed away before daylight After
breakfast at s o'clock. carriages were
taken for the Air Line station. where a
special train, gaily decorated with bunt-
Ing at the instance Of Receiver E. o. Hop
kins Of the road. was ready for the party.
Engine No. 13 was to pull the train, and
the date was the 18th. The engineer of the
train is the father of lad who was thir-
teen years old on this day. All these hoo
doos,'' any single one of which might it
self have been of effect, operated, when
thrown together to destroy baneful re-
sults--at least that is what the porter OF
the train said. although not exactly In
these words. The bright sun brought out
many people, who were unable to see the
eminent Indianian the night before
number were at the station at Evansville.
Boonville was the first place on the itln-
erary of the day. The people in this i'm
mediate part of the State had not before
had the opportunity of hearing Gen. Har-
rison. and they took advantage of the brief
stops to give him rousng reception. Sew
eral thousand crowded in on the train when
it slowed up at Boonville. cheering heartily
as the ex-President appeared on the rear
platform of the car. The points in his
remarks were often applauded. The train
was delayed a few minutes in leaving.
Boonvlle is the native heath of Hon. John
3. Cockrum, and all the neighbors wanted
to get twist at his hand before he slipped
through the town on the special After an
introduction to his audience by Hon. James
A. Hemingway, Republican candidate for
Congress in the First district. General Har-
rison spoke as follows:
Il congratulate you upon the improved
weather conditions we are having this
morning. The friends / had the pleasure OF
addressing yesterday were Standing in the
drip, but things are better to-day, and that
is the order of things-sunshine comes be-
morning in a country where there is about
us everything in soil, in climate and insti-
tutions to make men happy anu prosperous.
We come from varied pursuits in life. but
no man is distinguished from any other
man by any titles he can pass 20 his cLll-
dren. He may have been justice of the
peace, or a Representative in the Leglsla-
ture. or a Congressman, ol captain IN the
army, but these things die with him. our
children take up the work OF ilfe for then-
selves. The great glory of our American
institutions is that they give every man a
chance. They do not put any weights on
him.
IARlft AND
''They open the contests OF life broadly
for him and equip him for il by the pro-
visions which our common schools afford
for his education. Every man has to
make his own way, and l am glad 1T is so.
Some of these pioneers who hear me to-
day came into this region when it was Tn
settled. They felled the trees, or deadened
them. in order to let in a little sunshine
tt,o trcc
are gone and the stuTnps are out OF the
way and the children come into improved
heritage. We all like to give our boys and
girls q little better chance IN LIE than
we had ourselves. and. mostly; we ere able
to do it, These things iargeiy "opens ,e,Sl on
body must admit that the legislation OF
the national government upon several I'M
portant subjects has direct bearing upon
the prosperity of the people.
There can be no question in the Worl1
tn any man who will think that tariH
bill embracing several thousand articles,
all of the great staples of commerce and
of the mill, does affect TIE entire business
of the country. 1t may affect 1t fayorab.y
or unfavorably. Now my countrymeI, '., We
some of our Democratic friends are Try
ing to make 1t appear that they were not
so very good. and that times since nave
not been so very bad. You know whether
two years ago things were not really in
a highly prosperous condition in this coun-
try. and you know what we have gone
through since / think every man who Will
let his mind run over the question VIII see
that this whole years agitation OF the
tariff question has paralyzed American
trade and brought dismay and distress TO
all our communities.
What is this tariff question, after all?
1t is In its essence this question: whethsr wi thef
things we wear shall be made by American
hands in America, or whether we VIII so
frame our tariff that the things we wear
cto no m English
land or by German hands in Germany.
1 do not doubt at all that If we were to
reduce wages in the United States 10 the
same level that prevails in European
in &C Competing with them. but all these
workngmen with us are citizens; 1ens dney ny
our institutions rest. and we cannot afford
to have great class OF despairing men
lives Mno nHe and ~ die without any hope in their
hearts. If we are to have men, who IN time
of war. will bring their strong arms and
and Constitution, we must have population
that are living comfortably. We must have
homes, must have hope as an abiding
ssThese protective duties tend TO that end
/ do not say that the tariff is the only
thing that influences the price OF wheat or
the price of anything else. That would be
an exaggeration. The disadvantage the
farmer is under is that ne does not know
how many acres of wheat other farmers
what the foreign harvests will be. These
things affect. favorably or unfavorably, the
prices but the point / want 10 make is that
the farmer sells IS per cent of all the prod
uct of his farm here at home and that is
the market he wants TO look after. II the
men are getting good wages they live well.
1--WE may think a man will eat about as
much bread every year, anyway. In that
we are greatly mistaken. The past year
has shown how largely the buying power
OF our people has been reduced by reason
: of the fact that so many men were out
/ leave to you the thought this morning
that as farmers. as merchants, as work
men in these mines and factories that are
scattered through your country. we want
to preserve class Of workmen
fortably-enough TO lay by a little for
old age and TO give to the children a
little better chance than the father had.
If we can do that. nothing shake the
purpose OF this grand Republic we love.
It's people will be happy and contented.
and the land full OF prosperous homes"
LINCOLN-S OLD HOME.
The screeching OF mill whistles bid the
train a safe journey. and the next stop was
Lincoln City. This town was not on the
schedule. but as a telegram had been sent
ahead announcing the gathering OF a big
crowd II was decided to stop there for a
few minutes. The village is place OF con-
siderable historical interest. for Il was here
Abraham Lincoln lived from infancy TIL he
reached manhood. IN a little graveyard on
the brow of Hill within view OF the rail-
road station the martyred Presidents moth
er. Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Is buried. Capt
c.x,u.r yohnSon a venerable cerftlernan a.