The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-02-22
Ex-PREsIpENT HARRISON.
Ills Address to the Lincoln League Clubs
 at Indianapolis.


 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 14-The representatives of Lincoln League clubs of Indiana, after the business meeting met in mass convention in Tomlinson hall Invitations had been sent to ex-Speaker Reed, Gov. McKin- ley, of Ohio, ex-President Harrison and many other prominent republicans.
 The president of the Indiana Lincoln League having briefly introduced MT. Harrison, the latter said:
 MT. President Ladies and Gentlemen: There are some who hold that an ex-president should be . deaf mute but this am inclined to doubt A man who has been honored by his fellow citizens with the highest place In gov ernment ought not to have less interest in all things that concern the prosperity and happi- ness Of the people or the glories of this great country than he had before he took office
 The present state Of the country is not one Of prosperity We, as nation, were recently pro- porous but this was not due to any one man It was the result of Q definite policy adopted and put into force The present dis tress we are now enjoying" is not due to any one man, but is due to the threat that this old established policy is to be reversed and new one instituted That is the cause of the trouble
 am not one of the ancient landmarks, but my memory runs back to the days when such men as Thomas A. Hendricks and Joseph E. Mcdonald were the leading spirits in the Indi. ana democracy and the exponents of the party's principles in the state Often have heard my late lamented friend, Mir. Mcdonald, expound the principles of the democratic party He often and often said that one of the most im- portant principles of the democra tic patryn this state was that the national revenue of this great government of ours should be raised by customs duties levied upon such articles as not to harm the interests of the laboring man or the agricultural classes. These were the words of the great Mcdonald Had the Wilson Dill been constructed upon 0 principle such as this, there would have been no harm done and our national calamity would have been averted.
 But there has come new gospel new creed has been adopted by the democratic par ty, and they have now promulgated theory which resorts to extraordinary and outrageous systems Of taxation. They want to revive the iniquitous direct taxation as the means of rais. ing the revenues of the national government. They want to tear down the grand system of customs duties by which our factories were reared and our advanced prosperity acquired and maintained
 I used to hear much of war taxes. They were onerous in the extreme, for they searched out every means, fair or foul, by which to i'll the vaults of the national government and searched out every possible source of revenue, while the tax gatherer laid hands on all. But as soon as the country was relieved from the distress and exigencies of the war these taxes were stopped.
 I remember while in the senate of voting to repeal the stamp duties on patent med icines and perfumery, the last of the odious direct taxation And now those who cry out against these very same war taxes want us to return 10 this same burdensome system that never was intended 10 be used except fin time of war They hold that the revenues of the government by means of customs duties must be reduced at the expense of the Ameri- can factories, American workmeu and Ameri. can farmers, to be substituted by this same old and discarded war method
 IL is a republican principle that all legisla- ton should have for it's prime object the crea- tion of work for and the protection of the comfort and prosperity of the laboring man The national government is bound by the same duties as the city council or the board of county commi >sioners, and this duty must be fulfilled strictly in order that American mills may keep alive the fires in their furnaces