Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-10
Mr.. HARRISON IN COLORADO
Ex-President Delivers Speech
to Trinidad Citizens.
Tarin and Silver His Subject-A Story
About an Iowa Judge Defines
His Position on the silver
Question.


His Position on the Silver
Question.
. TRINIDAD, Colo, March l.-Ex-Presi
, dent Harrison was met at the depot here
by committee headed 10y the mayor and
fully 1000 people. After being serenaded
by the band. Mr. Harrison was intro
duced TO the crowd and delivered the
following speech; "My Friends / am
very much surprised. and being human
am very much gratitied to see so many
of YOU today and to feel that the passing
through your city of private citizen,
whose occupation Just now is that of a
school teacher, should have excited SO
much interest as TO have brought you
ont here to see me. Several of these
gentlemen who came upon the car have
suggested themes for a speech. | think
they all agreed that | ought TO talk
about the tariff. This is very trouble.
some question. remember when was q
boy at school we had the tariff up for de-
bate in our literary society. and gentle.
man. who afterwards became promi
ncnt Judge in Iowa. began his speech by
saving that there had been great deal
said about the tariff. but he thought he
had it in a nutshell and inst at that time
his modesty and embarrassment were
such that he broke down altogether and
closed his speech right there without
cracking that nut. and il seems to be un.
cracfed to this day.
blankets aud the Wool Market.
But my friends the question is simply
this: That those who believe in q pro.
tective tariff have the opinion that the
American interests ought 60 be protected
by American legislation. Cheers. That
is the theory upol which all congresses
and parliaments legislate in the old
country, and we think this is the Ameri
can policy. Now, it is very noticeable
that all through our great centers OF pop.
ulation free traders and p,otectionists
alike are all urging city councils and
boards Of county commissioners either to
vote money TO devote TO the relief OF the
poor and unemployed or 10 secure them
some kind of public work, in order that
men may earn their daily bread (Cries
OF that is right Now if that is right
ii is also right for congress so to frame
our tariff legislation as 10 bring the most
work TO this country that is possible. 1t
is very clear that the blankets we need
cannot be made here and in England
both. They will all be made here or all
there, or part here and part there, and
the larger the number of blankets we
have to make, the larger the market we
will have for wool, and the more work
we will have for our American work.
men.
"You have another interest out here
which you have asserted with good
deal of vehemence and determination,
and that is the silver question. Now, |
say to you today what ! sail when |
was president and what | have always
believed, that larger use of silver for
money and free coinage Of silver upon a
basis to be agreed upon that would main.
tain its parity with gold was good for the
whole world. l do not believe that we
could run free coinage ourselves, while
the European governments We're pursu-
ing the policy they have been pursuing
with silver. But, my fellow citizens.
there are clear indications now in En-
gland and in Germany that they are
feeling the effects of scarcity Of gold
and its prostrating effects upon their in
dustries. believe these two great coun-
tries are nearer right today than they
have been for the past 90 years They
are all considering favorably the ques.
tion OF larger and freer use of silver
rs money metal. and bimetallism has
gained strength in England. That ener.
getic and virile young emperor Of Ger
many is himself considering the question
of bimetallism.
II do not think that these countries are
coming to the next silver conference as 4
COY maiden. waiting for us TO make ths
advances, holding back, but will come
with greater readiness than in any
recent years, and will agree with us
upon a basis for a larger use of silver as
money. would have been glad if this
could have been accomplished while |
was at Washington. said to one OF
your senators then that if could bring
about the free use Of silver upon basis
that in my Judgment would maintain its
parity as money. would rather signal
IL my administration by that act than
by any other that know Of. ICheers.
Legislation "a Sort OF Compromise.
"And now, a great lesson we have all
to learn is that 1t is not possible for every
man in this country to have his way.
All our legislation is sort Of comprom-
Use; it is the adjusting of the interests be-
tween men and between states upon broad
and liberal lines and those lines we will
all find. and presently through the teach
ing Of this hard schoolmaster, experience,
We will come out of the slough of despond
and stand again upon the rocks.
II thank you for your kindness in
listening to this speech that did not in.
tend to make. Possibly ] may be sorry
for having to make it. Those present
cried 'Never). | have spoken with
frankness end with that interest in pub
lie affairs that / take now as private
citizen. said to our people at Indiana
polls the other day that did not believe
an expresident had TO be a political deaf
mute. / think he ought to know a little
more than he did before he went into the
Office and that, if anything, he ought to
have larger interest in the country and
a more friendly feeling for the people
Oieomargarine Law Unconstitutional.
MINNEAPOLIS, March Judge Smith
handed down decision declaring that
the law passed at the last session of the
Legislature requiring all oleomargarina
offered for sale to be tinted pink is un.