The record-union., 1894-10-13
Special to the REcoRD-UxIox.

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vile this evening. 1t was the conclud-
ing address in series of fourteen Begin
nlng early this morning at Clayton and
ranging down the State through Plain
HELD, Brazil, GreencaStle, Sullivan, Terre
Haute, Nincennes and Princeton. The
smallest gathering was at PIainfield, the
largest at Evansville, but 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 thou
SAND citizens were found Drawing the
drilling rain to meet the ex-President.
Opposite the depot marching clubs from
this city and adjoining towns were drawn
up Ia line, and the voices OF 5000 people
rang out in hearty welcome. General
Harrison was i'll excellent form tonight.
notwithstanding his hard days work.
he spoke in substance as follows:
My fellow-citizens: l come to speak
words OF soberness and quietness. [ come
with personal contest with no man. /
come with no words of bitterness or criti-
clsm lor any man In public life. | come
10 speak to you of intel ests that are still
dear To me as a citizen and dear to YOU as
tney Louch your most vital concerns. We
have been living under The shadow of
tariff reform for nearly two years now,
The shadow is pretty deep. 1t has clouded
every home in the land. For these years
everybody has talked about the tariff, but
the talk at least seemed to wear out,
There seems to be an end of it. But there
has In the last year entered into this dis
cuSslon the most eloquent and torceful
speaker that ever addressed an audience,
an orator who has more powor to move
men than any other-that orator is ex-
perience He has been talking for two
Years, and am much mistaken if Ae has
not been talking effectively. The Demo
Gratis have not been able to put in law
their views in the last two years; before
that time they exercised themselves in
platform declarations and in Oratory.
But now we have come To a time when
the country has endowed the Democrats
with power to deal with this question.
'For the first time there has been re-
sponsibility in the utterances and doings
of the Democratic party. There came
time when the Democratic party must
stop making platforms and begin making
laws. Just before this radical change in
our responsible Government the country
was in the highest state of prosperity
Our foreign trade was larger than 1t had
ever been in the history of this country,
a.. y 3gauty of il was that 1t was some
thing like $500, 100000 more in exports
| than in imports. You all realize what that
means: it means that we were selling
abroad more than we were buying from
abroad There is not a single farmer
| here who does not know that he tests the
question as to whether he has prospered
| on his farm by casting the balance be-
| tween the value OF what he brings to
! town to sell and the value of what he
| BUYS in town and takes home.
''rhat is not all. Everybody knows
| hTS L.,
| knows that every mill was running. The
comforts of life as distributed among our
| people were greater than ever before.
| But wheat was low and some of our
| farmers became ediscontented. 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
| shane of flour in the home of the work.
| invman, but it has been so cheap that it
| has gone into the hog trough. l said
some years ago that the American work
| ingman had the most favored lot of any
| workingman in the world, and this was
evidenced by the fact that the gates of
| Castle Garden always swung inward to
| the workingman seeking our shore. The
| workingman knows the land of promise
as we'll as the swallow knows the land of
summer. l could not say that to-day be-
cause the gates of Castle Garden have
| been swinging outward. Now why came
portaut to know because the party or
policy that brought 1t about carries a
fearful weight of responsibility.
"In August a year ago Congress as
sembled, aud, after dealing with the
Sherman bill. organized the Committee
of Ways and Means Of the House of Rep
resentaLives, and charged it with the
duty of having a tariff bill ready for
action at the regular session. Instead of
getting bill speedily through, the con-
ditions of uncertainty and distress was
prolonged through a whole year, and
August of 1894 came around before our
Democratic friends had passed a bill.
And then they passed bill which, ac-
cording to the judgment of Mr.. Cleve-
! land, was so unequal in its provisions, so
| unlike Democratic promises, so full OF
| party perfidiy and dishonor, that he
would not attach his name to it. If the
country could haYe known what the
! Democratic party would likely do, all
| this uncertainty would have been di-
minished; but the trouble about it all
was that there was no conference of belief
| among them, and nobody could tell
what they might do.
| ''TheSe gentlemen now tell you thew
want to break down the fences, that is
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 cornfield
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 in to
| our cattle and will share the range with
| them. / start out with this proposition
that there Is not enough grass on the
range for the cattle that are cut there al
ready. l make this second proposition.
that the grass inside our fences must have
| been better, aud the cattle slicker and
! better in bone and richer in condition
than those from the range. If we equal
ize these things, and let this wild horde
and hungry stock from the range into our
/ fields, we won't have as much grass for
/ our own stock as we had before.
''They talk to US about wanting that for
| eign market. In the tariff bill of 1890 we
| introduced reciprocity policy securing
| markets or enormous present value to
the farmers and manufacturers of this
country. The Democratic party in its
mad desire for tariff reform and for what
they call increased foreign trade has
struck down every one of these reciproc-
| ity treaties. What is the result? Spain
has done as we might have expected-im-
posed the old duty on flour to Cuba.
| When Logansport firm here III Indiana
sent 900 barrels of flour to New York
the other day for Cuba the commission
merchants in New York sent back word
! they could not send it and that it would