The morning call., 1894-10-13
Harrison Talks on the
Tariff.
WILSON AND THE FENCES.
What Would Be the Result of
Tearing Them Down
PROSPERITY TWO YEARS AGO
Has Been Followed by Business
Depression and All the Evils
of Bad Times.

INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 12.-Ex-President
Benjamin Harrison and party left over
the Vandalia Railroad to-day for Evans
vile. Ind.
The train was a special one and con-
sisted OF combination-car and parlor-
car, with vestbule platform on the rear.
This was given for the use of Mr.. Harri-
son and his party in lien of tie private car
OF President MeKeen. which is in the shop
for repairs. Mr.. Harrison went to the sta
| lion with his secretary, and the special
train arrived at Brazil a few minutes late,
having been DELAYED BY stops not on the
programme. Al Plainfield the train slack
ened speed and Mr.. Harrison bowed 10 the
crowd Of people. At Clayton 1000 people
gathered, amang them being many MEM
bers of the Seventh Indiana. Mr.. Harri-
sons old regiment. At Greencastle 5000
people gathered
TERRE HAUTE. Oct 12.-Fully 10000
people welcomed General Harrison to
Terre Ii ute. There was general disap-
pointment. as the open air meeting was
abandoned and the speaking was done in
the opera-house. which could not contain
one-fourth of the crowd. Harrison was
received with great enthusiasm.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Oct 12-Generel
Harrison spoke 10 1000 people in Evans
willie this evening. 1t was the concluding
address 10 series Of fourteen, beginning
early this morning at Clayton and ranging
down the State through Plainfield, Brazil,
Greencastle. Sullivan. Terra Haute, Vim
cennes and Princeton. The smallest gath
erng was at Plainfield. the largest at
Evansville, but the enthusiasm was as
great at the former place as at the latter.
When the train reached this city several
thousand people were found Drawing the
drizziing rain to greet the ex-President
Opposite the depot marching clubs from
this city and adjoining towns were 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 substance as follows:
My Fellow-citizens: I come to speak words
Of soberness and quielness. j come with a
personal contest with no man. l come wifi no
words of bitterness or criticism for any man In
public life. l come 10 spt ak to you OF inter
ests that are sill dear 10 me as citizen and
dear TO you, as they tonch your most vital con-
cerus. We have been living under the shadow
of tariff reform for nearly two years now. The
shadow is pretty deep. 1t has clouded eyery
home I'm the land. For years everybody has
talked about the tariff, but the talk at last
sremeu 10 wear out There seems to be an end
of IL. But there has in the last TWO years en-
tered into this discussion the most eloquent
and forcefnl speaker that ever addressed an
audience, an orator that has more power to
move men than any other. That orator is ex-
perience. lie has been talking for two years,
and l am much mistaken II he has not been
talking effectively. The Democrats have not
been able 10 put in law their views until within
the last two years. Before that time they exer-
cised themselves In platform decar atiOns and
in oIatory. But now we have come to time
when the country has endowed the Democratic
party with power 10 deal with this question.
For the first time there has been RESPONSE
biity IN the utIerauces and doings of the
Democratic party. There came time when
the Democratic party must stop making plat
forms and begin making laws. Just before
this radical change In our responsible Govern
ment, the country was 10 the highest state of
prosperity Our foreign trade was larger than
1t had ever been In the history OF this country
and the beauty OF il was that il was something
like s200.Oo0.O00 larger in exports than in i'm
ports. 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 pros
pered on his farm by casting the balance be-
tween the value OF what he brings TO town to
sell and tie value OF what he buys In town and
takes home.
That is not all. Everybody knows that
everybody was busy. Everybody 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 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 it In the shape
Of -four In the home OF the workingman. but il
has been SO cheap iha, IL has In some places
gone into the hog trough. said some years
ago that the American workiDgman had the
most favored lot OF any workingman In the
world, aud that this was evidenced by tile fact
that the gates OF Castle Garden always swung
inward to the workingmen seeking our shore
The workingman knows the land OF promise as
well as the swallow knows the land OF summer
l could not say that to-day, because the gates
of Castle Garden have been swinging outward
Now,wby came the present conditions about?
1t Is important TO know, because the party or
policy that brought it about carries fearful
weight OF respons visibility. In August, a year
ago, Congress assembled, and after dealing with
the Sherman bill, organized the Committee on
Ways and Means Of the House of Representa-
tives and charged it with the duty OF having a
sion. Instead OF getting bill speedily through,
the condition 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 according to the Judgment
OF Mr. Cleveland was so unequal In It's proyi-
sions. so unlike Democratic promises. SO full OF
"party periidy and dishonor," that lie would
not attach his name TO IL. If the country could
have known what the Democratic party would
likely do, all this uncertainty would have been
diminished. 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 they want to
break down the noes. That is what Mr.. Will
son told his English friends the other day.
Now, fences are for two purposes I was
raised on farm and have hao some expert
euce They are to keep things out or TO Keen
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 H.
What does tearing them down imply? That all
of the stock outside will get In TO our cattle ana
will share the range with them. l start out
with this proposition, that there Is not enough
grass on the range for the cattle that are out
there already. make this second proposition.
that the grass inside our fences must have been
better and the cattle slicker and better 10 bone
range. II we equalize these things and let
this wild horned and hungry stock from the
range into our belds we WON'T have as much