Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1891 — HARRISON’S OUTING. [ARTICLE]

HARRISON’S OUTING.

Magnificent "Welcome by the People of the South*The President's Speeches Received With’ Great Favor—Large Crowds Gather to Greet Him. 53 _ -I - JThe President’s voyage 1 ed to Memphis and Little Rock. On the 17th at Memphis [he said: • . • ■■■ T" My Fellow Citizens. The name of the city of Memphis was familiar to me in my early boyhood. Bom and reared upon one of the tributaries of the great river upon [which your city is located, these river] marts of commerce were the familiar trading posts of the farmers of the Ohio valley. [I well remember when on the shores of jmy father's farm the old Broadhorn was [loaded from the hay press and the com icrlb to market with the plantations along the lower Mississippi." I remember to have heard from him and the neighbors iwho constituted the crew of those pioneer 'crafts of river navigation, of the perils of great waters, of the snags and soyers iand caving banks of the lowe.r Mississippi. In those times these states were largely, [supplied with grain and forage from the northwestern states. Here you were giving.your attention to one or two great staple products for, which you found a large foreign market. I congratulate you thai the progress of events haa made you not! less agricultural, but has diversified your agriculture so that you are not now wholly] dependent upon those great staples for the income of your farm. It is a great thing hat you are now raising more wheat, more com, more hogs and cattle; that you ara now raising potatoes and watermelons anq cabbage. [Cheers.] The benefits of this diversification are very great and the change symbolizes more than we at first realize. This change means that we are now coming to understand that meannesi pannotbe predicated of any honest industry. I rejoice that you are adding to diversified agriculture, diversified manufac*' turing pursuits; that you are turning your thought to compressing and spin-! ning cotton as well as raising it. I know, ho reason why these cotton states that produce 75 per cent of the cotton of the world should not spin the greater portion, of it.- I know no reason why- they should not export it as raw material, rather than! (is a manufactured product, holding in their midst the profits of this transforma-l tion of the raw material to the finished! product. [Applause.l , I hope it may be so. I see evidences that the people are turning their attention to lew industries and are bringing into the nidst of these farming comm unities a large lopulation of artisans and laborers to consume at your own doors the product of rour farms. lam glad that a liberal government is making this great waterway to the sea safe and capable of an uninterrupted use. lam glad that it is here making the shores of your own city convenient and safe, and that it is opening north and south an uninterrupted and cheap transportation for the products of all these lands that lie along this great system of rivers. lam glad that it is bringing you In contact with ports of the gulf that look out with near and inviting aspect toward s great trade in South America that we shall soon possess. I am glad to believe that these great river towns will speedily exchange their burdens with American thlps at the mouth of the Mississippi to be transported to foreign ports under the flag of our country. _— This government of ours is a compact of the people to be governed by a majority. Expressing itself by lawful methods. fCneers[. Everything in this country is to be brought to the measure of the law. 1 propose no other rule either as an individual or a public officer. I can not in any degree let down this rule [Cries of “Nb, bo T ’ and cheers,] without violating my official duty. There must be no other supremacy than that of lawful majorities. Therefore, I think, while I realize and Sympathize with your difficulties, we must all come at last to this conclusion, that that the supremacy of the law is the one supremacy in thi9 country of ours. [Cheers.] Now. my fellow citizens, I thank you for this warm and magnificent demonstration of your respect, accepting cordially the expression of the chief of your city government that you are a sincere, earnest, patriotic, devo-' ted people. I beg to leave with each of you the suggestion that, each in his place, Shall do what he can to maintain social order and public peace; that the lines here and everywhere shall be between the welldisposed and the ill-disposed. At Little Rock the President spoke as follows: Governor Eagle and Fellow Citizens.— No voice is large enough to compass this immense throng, but my heart is large/ enough to receive all the gladnessjand loy of your great welcome here to-day. [Applause.] I thank you one and all for your presence, for tho kind words of greeting S'hich have been spoken by your governor. nd for these kind faces that are turned to me. in all this I see a great fraternity, in all this I feel new impulses to a better (discharge of every public and every pri«, vato duty. I can not but feel that in jthis brief contact with you to-day shall carry away a better knowledge of your state, its resources, its capabilities ana of the generous warm-heartedness of its We have a country whoso greatness this meeting evidences, for there are here assembled masses of independent men. The commonwealth rests ■upon the free suffrage of its citizens, and their devotion to tho constitution and tbe flag is the bulwark of its life. [Cheers, I We have agreed, I am sure, that we will do no more fighting among ourselves. [Cries oi “good, good, ’ and cheers.] I may say to you confidentially that Senator Jones and I agreed several years ago, after (Observing together the rifleopractice at Ft. (Snclling, that shooting had been reduced to such accuracy that war was too dangerous for either of us to engage in. [Laughter and cheers.] But, my friends, I cannot prolong this talk. Once already to-day in the dampness of this atmosphere I have attempted to speak, and therefore you will allow me to concludo by wishing for your State, for its Governor and all its public officers, for all its citizens without exception, high or humble, the blessings of social order, peace and prosperity, the frnit* of intelligence and piety, [Great cheering.] The President rested at Galveston Sunday. His welcome there Saturday was the warmest yet given him. Tho whole state of Texas semed desirous of doing him honor. His speech at Galveston was on the subject of subsidies as relating to out increased trade with other countries. President Hairiron and party reached California on the 2?d. They were met the State line by a delegation of distingi nished citizens, and Mn “*ip to Los Ang«i les was a continuous jvation. The part] was almos’ smotheied in flowers and fruit by the large crowds gathered at every sta tion. The demonstration at Los Angela was the largest and most enthusiastic ye gjvon.