The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-11-18
HARRISON TO FARMERS.
The Ex-President Gives Them Some Praoti-
cal Advice

Ex-President Harrison addressed the
National Farmers Congress at Indianap-
oils last Thursday. Opening with an ev-
ident reference to the recent campaign,
in which he spoke of his dislike for men
who were continually "beating the air."
he continued
"When any men engaged in a particu-
Ter calling. from high motives, associate
themselves together and pursue those
high motives in their association, only
good can result. But we should not be
selfish in our purposes. | think l may
say that if we were absolutely selfish in
our purposes and thought only of our
own good, the good of the class and of
the individual of the class, we should
find that good most highly promoted by
taking broad view of things and by adj
| mitting 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 interde-
| pendence in all our business aud social
relations, and that this is highly develop
ed in n free government like ours. In
other words, in broad sense, we pros
per together, and we suffer together; we
are interdependent. / think sometimes
the concert of the farmer has been undnIy
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 of much account and that
farms are Gods work, and enduring.
What would the farm be without the
town, and what would the town be with
population that consume the products of
the farm, and the farm furnishes the sub
sistence of the city.
''As heard friend say the other day: |
1t is the city for the country, and the |
country for the city, and all for the flag |
''If there are abuses of any kind in leg |
islation 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 country to make it |
right. 1t is mischievous to denounce |
classes, and this thing and that. If there |
are trusts, let us known it, and bring /
legislation TO bear upon them, and court |
have accomplished something. If any
man will make it plain TO the American
people that he is oppressed, that he is not
getting his rights, then | undertrke to
say to you that the American people will
be on his side. against whatever may op-
press him. My thought is, if you think
there are wrongs and grievances in the
business condition or in the legislation,
hunt them out and specify them. hold
them up To the public judgment and have
faith in your fellow man. For | say TO
you that the great body of the people,
an overwhelming majority. are III :avor
always Of justice and fairness. and if you
make that appeal TO them they will re-
spond.
~ have rejoiced in all that has tended
to make agriculture easier, to give leisure
for thought and reading, for the cultiva-
ton of the intellect. / rejoice that the
school house and the little church are
found in every country neighborhOod.
rejoice in the belief that our people are
patriotic and that never before in the
history of our country was there deeper
and more universal love of the Starry
Banner aud the Constitution for which it
stands"
a memorial to Congress was adopted
II asks Congress to see To it that no trusts
are organized that can extort exorbitant
prices for farm products, and favors the
protective tariff policy