Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — ON HIS NATIVE HEATH. [ARTICLE]

ON HIS NATIVE HEATH.

Gen. Harrison Addresses the Ohio Commander? of the Loyal Legion, The Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion was in session at Cincinnati, Wednesday. Ex-President Harrison presided. After the installation of the officers-eleet Mr. Harrison spoke on army associations as follows: To most of the participants the wa l was an episode. They went into It oat of civil pursuits and came out of ttinto civil life. But in a greater degree than in any other army oars was moved by impulse to perform a duty, to save a country, to maintain a Constitution, to bear aloft without a stain tho banner that we lovei [Applause.] The episode Is over and the war is a memory, one in which no matter what our service, If honestly rendered, we cherish more than gold. To keen alive these honorable memories oil participation In a war that destroyed tbq cause, the only cause, for sectional division and strife in this country, is asaffi-. dent justification for the existence of the Loyal Legion and other army organlza-* tions. The opportunity to serve our country did hot end with the war. We have d life enlistment as citizens, to do oar date in the support of law. and order, ana right, and the preservation of good government. Let ns have free debate. Let every man propose and defend any reform or anything he v |hinks to be a reform, bnt let us never, as soldiers or citizens, undertake to carry any idea of reform save in methods that conform to law and order. (The expression was promptly applied to the Coxey movement by the audience, and greeted with long and continued applause.)