The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-13

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 12.-The third
days session of the Farmers National
congress had two important features.
One was an address by General Harri-
son, and the other was the adoption of
a memorial TO congress.
General Harrison was in a very
happy mood, and when he arose to
speak he was greeted enthusiastically.
In part he said:
II came here to make an acknowl
edgement of the compliment you have
shown me by inviting me to appear be-
fore this congress. 1 suppose that poll
tics is barred, as this is an agricultural
meeting. l am not an agriculturist,
though born and reared on farm. My
education was paid for by the pro-
ceeds of corn and hogs. 1t is a custom
of the times for men of a particular oc-
cupation to associate themselves to-
gether to develop and cultivate mutual
interests. Such organizations are to be
encouraged, but we must not forget
that lawyers, farmers and laborers all
have interests and that no one class
should try to get the better of the other
classes. We are all rejoicing that you
are getting a little more for your wheat
and corn. though it is at the expense
of us who have to pay little more for
the lnlngS we consume
Then the general ventured a little
piece out into political waters.
FIGHTING AIR.
81 have no patience with those peo-
pie who are always fighting the air."
he said. He advised men who believed
that legislation is prejudicial to them
to go about a fight in systematic way
and not fight the air. It was plain
that the general was referring to a sit
uation in the recent campaign. He adj
vised that public sentiment be focused
on whatever question of unusual i'm
portance was brought before the peo-
pie, and that men go straight after
what they want.
Then he told of how a brakeman
came and sat down beside him in the
train one day recently, and told him
that he did not like the idea of this
thing of trying to array class against
class. This remark of the brakeman
of course pleased Mr.. Harrison.
Whatever they say about class in
this country, the great body of the
American people will work for truth
and right. When any men engaged in
a particular calling from high motives
associate themselves together and pur-
sue those high motives in their asso-
citation, only good can result. But we
should not be selfish in our purposes.
1 think I may say that if we were abb
solutely selfish in our purposes and
thought only of our own good, the good
of the class and of the individuals of
the class, we should find that good
most highly promoted by taking a
broad view Of things and by admitting
TO our deliberations the thought that
it is not possible for one class to be
highly prosperous while all other
classes are suffering; that there is an
interdependence in all our business and
social relations, and that this is highly
developed in a free government like
ours.
A BROAD VIEW.
I'm other words. in a broad sense,
we prosper together and we suffer to-
gether; we are interdependent. l think
sometimes the corceit of the farmer
has been unduly promoted when it has
been said that he is at the bottom of
everything, and that he belongs to an
independent class; that cities are not
much account and that farms are Gods
work and enduring. What would the
farm be without the town, and what
would the town be without the farm?
These cities furnish the population that
consumes the products of the farm and
the farm furnishes the substance of the
city. I heard friend say the other
day, Tt is the city for the country. and
the country for the city, and all for
the flag If there are abuses of any
kind of legislation, or in the business
of the country, let us fix the public eye
upon them until we have exposed the
evil, and then we can trust the coun-
try to make it right.
IF THERE ARE TRUSTS"
TT is mischevious to denounce
classes, and this thing and that If
there are trusts let US know it and
bring legislation to bear upon them,
and court DEGREES TO bear upon them;
and then we have accomplished some
thing. If any man will make it plain
to the American people that he is OPP
pressed, that he is not getting his
rights, then I undertake to say that