The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-13
WE WERE PROSPEROUS seroRe.
Wheat Was Cheap i'm 1892. but Now
Farmers Feed II to the Hogs.
Get Bread-Deme ecrats Wanted For
eign Trade and Passed havemeyer
Lev, whisn Destroys Market We Had

Ind. The train Was a special. and con-
sisted of com bin alton car and parior
car with vestibused platform on the rear.
This was given for the use of Mr.. Har-
rison aud his party in lieu OF the pri-
vate car Of President Mekeen. which il in
the shop for repsirs. Gen. Harrison ar
rived az the station accompanied by his
secretary. The special train arrived at
Brazil few minutes late, having been de-
layed by stops not on the programme.
At Pia.nheld the train slackened speed
and DIR. Harrison bowed to the crowd Of
peopt~. At Clayton ]. 900 people gathered.
aas0nx them being many members of the
ssvsnth Indiana. Gen. Harrison's old
regiment At GreeneastIe 1000 people
ga<bred
EVANSVILLE. Ind, Oct l2-Gen. Harri-
con spoke TO 1900 people in Evansville to-
night. It was the concluding address in
series OF fourteen, beginning early this
morning at Clayton and ranging down the
state through Piainiield. Brazil, Green
castle. Sullivan. Terre Haute. yincennes
and Princeton. The smaIles. gathering
was at Plalnfieid. the largest ~ Evans
vile. but the enthusiasm was as great at
the former place IS at the latter. Terre
Haute turned out 10000 people to greet
the ex-pres.dent.
When the train reached this city several
thousand people were found Drawing the
drizzling rain to greet him. Opposite the
depot marching clubs from this city and
adjoining towns were drawn I'D in line.
and the voices OF 5000 people rang out in
hearty welcome. Gen. Harrison was in
excellent form tonight. notwithstanding
his hard days work. He spoke In sub
stance as follows:
MY Teliosr Citizens. l come TO speak
words Of soberness and quetness. | come
with personal contest with no man.
come with no words of bitterness or
criticism for any man in pubic life.
l come to speak TO you OF interests that
are stili dear to me as a citizen and
dear to you. as they touch your most
vital concerns. We have been living
under the shadow of tariff reform
for nearly two yesrs now. The shadow
Is pretty deep. II has clouded every
home in the land. For these years
everybody has talked about the tariff, but
the talk at last seemed 10 wear out. There
seems to be an end of it. But there has.
in the last year. entered into this discus
sion the most ELOQUENT and torceful
speaker that ever addressed an audience,
an orator who has more power TO move
men than any other-that orator Is Ex-
perience. He has been talking for two
years and etfectually. The Democrats 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 oratory. But
now We have como TO time when the
country has endowed the Democratic
party with power to deal with this ques-
tion. For the tirst time there has been a
l.. .tA
and doings of the Democratic party. There
came a time when the Democratic party
must stop making platforms aud begin
making laws.I
sJust before this radical change in our
responsible government the country was
in the highest state OF prosperity. Our
foreign trade sas larger thai. II had ever
been in the history OF this country, and
the beauty OF IL was that IL was something
like So, ,00o.0oo larger in exports than
in imports You all reaiiza what that
meanA 1t 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 ques-
ton as TO whether he has prospered on hts
farm by casting the balance between the
value of what he brings 10 town 10 sell
and the value of what he buys in town and
taxes home. That Is not all. Everybody
knows that everybody was busy. Every
body knows that every mill was run
ming. The comforts OF life. as distributed
among our people, were greater than ever
before Bat wheat was low. and some of
our farmers became dissatisfied Now
wheat has gone lower than ever before in
the memory of any farmer who hears me-
IL has heen hard 10 get enough of IL, in
the shape of -four, in the home of the
workingnan, but IL has been so cheap that
IL has in soTne places gone into the hog
trough.
Il said some years ago that the Ameri-
can woFkingman had the most favored lot
Of any Sorkingman In the world and
that this was evidenced by the fact that
the gates OF Castle Garden always swung
inward 10 the worklngmen seeking our
shore. The workingman knows the land
ot promise as well as the swallow knows
the land OF summer. | could not sag that
today, because the gates of Castle Gar
den have been swinging outward. New
Why came the presenf condition aboute
IL Is important To know. because the party
or policy that brought u about carries .
fearful weight OF responsibility. la Ag-
gust, y wear aso, congress assembled. and
after dealing with the sherman bigs. or
ganszed the committee OF says aud means
II the house OF representatives. and
charged il with lie duty Of having tariff
hill ready for action az she regular session.
Iustead Of getting blI speedily through.
the condition 81 uncertainty and distress
was prolonged FhEosgh whole
wear. and August OF isqa came
around before eur Democratic friends
had passed the bill. And then they
passed bsa Nhieh. according TO the
judgment OF Mr. Cleveland. as 50 unequal
an is provisions. 50 unlike Democratic
promises, 50 fall OF party persiay aaa
dishonoF that he would no. attach his
name 10 is. IL the country could have
known shat tie Democratic party ~oula
nksly DO. az this uncertainty would hate
been diminished. bat Eae fr0ub,e about II
al sas tAat there vas no eoherencs of be-
lief Amens them aad nobody could tell
wha4 taey ml gat DO
waaf 10 brrak down the fences; that Il
olhsr Ssy. S0w fences are tor tao par-
had xonse expSffeacs. Iaey are u keen
the other. Tie fercs Aroand tue corn
nsld - 80 keep stock cat. the fence
arouna the pasture uelG . 80 keep
stock III. What does teariax
them ao@n impsy7 That al a.
tie stock oatsiae VII set ia 10 our cattle
saa ala share the range wish ttaa.
start ont vita shts rgoposlissn that there
i naE enough grass on tAs range far tae
rattle that are oat shsre already make
this second proposition shat the grass in
slsse oar feRees mast have hsen better. ana
.hs cattle sliekes &nd letter in bone and
richer ~ condition tasa ihoze on the
range IL ws s1G@4a2e these sAsngz. aaa