Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1888 — An Old Saying of Gen. W. H. Harrison. [ARTICLE]

An Old Saying of Gen. W. H. Harrison.

The story is told of William Henry Harrison, that having suffered much from depredations in his garden and orchard, the gardener urged him to get a dog to protect his fruit. But the president said. "There is a better way; we must get a Sunday school teacher to look after those boys.” How often we meet policy in the management of human affairs! We expect to protect ourselves by brutal measures, by closed fences, or higher walls; when the only true and lasting safety consists in the diffusion of those rational and moral principles which transform men into self-respecting and self-governing beings. The solid wall, the bull-dog, and the combination lock may keep the thief out of private premises, or m the public prison—for a while; at least until he can giisou the dog or overcome the barrier. ut none of these things converts the thief or lessens his numbers. Only the early inculcation of justice, and a trainipg in tlie sense of human brotherhood cart do that. ’ ■ , It seems imiiossible for Harper's Weekly to describe the Republican platform fairly or accurately It now says that "The*platform does not propose free whisky as an independent measure,” but "the declaration is that the national taxes on whisky should be repealed rattier than that any protective taxes uuoh the most necessary articles should be diminished,” The platform says nothing of the kirhl. The phrase used is "The surrender df any part of our protective system. “This is very different. It is possible to diminish the tax upon some articles without surrendering arty part of our protective system. There is sugar, for instance, which is certainly one of "the most necessary articles.’' The Republicans in the house voted solidy to cut the tax down one-half, and the Democrats voted solidly the other way. The Women’s National Republican committee, under the lead of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of lowa, has issued a circular to the wonlen of the United States advocating the exertion of their influenfe in Bdialf df the Republican ticket. The women of this OOUHtry evidently are determined that the borne shall not be pauperised by English ffM trade,—BuD MtoSftpnm.