Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United StatesHarrison, Benjamin
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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; United States -- Politics and government
The sunlight will not more surely shed its beams on us this morning
than this great tide of prosperity which has set in through this gas
belt in Indiana shall go on increasing until all these cities and
towns within its radius are full of busy men and humming machinery.
What does all this mean? It means employment for men. It means happy
and comfortable homes for an increasing population. It means an
increased home market for the products of your farm. It means that
the farmer will have a choice of crops, and will have consumers for
perishable products of his farm at his very door. It means, if you
preserve the order of your community, if this good county of Delaware
continues to maintain its reputation as a law-abiding, liberty-loving,
free-school-loving population [cheers], that you shall have a
prosperity--an increase of riches and of human comfort that we have
scarcely conceived.
And now, my friends, all over this, and above all this, and better
than it all, let us keep in mind those higher things that make our
country great. I do not forget that your good county sent to the war
of the Union, in the gallant regiments that went from this State, a
multitude of brave men to stand by the flag. [Cheers.] Some of them
are with you to-day. [Applause.] Now let that love of the flag be
still uppermost in your hearts. Nothing has pleased me more as I
passed through some of our Western States than to see that the school
children everywhere had the starry flag in their hands. [Cheers.] Let
it be so here and everywhere. Let them learn to love it, to know its
beauty, in order that when the time of peril comes they may be ready
to defend it. [Applause.] Now to these friends, I am most grateful for
your appreciative kindness, and if I shall be able, in the discharge
of high and difficult duties, to maintain the respect and confidence
of my fellow-citizens of Indiana, other things will take care of
themselves.
WINCHESTER, INDIANA, OCTOBER 13.
Winchester's greeting was of the most cordial character; a large share
of the population of Randolph County seemed to have turned out to do
the President honor. Among the prominent citizens participating were:
Leander J. Monks, Albert O. Marsh, Martin B. Miller, C. W. Moore, Dennis
Kelley, W. R. Way, W. E. Miller, T. F. Moorman, Albert Canfield, John
R. Engle, A. C. Beeson, E. L. Watson, Thos. S. Gordon, H. P. Kizer, J.
E. Watson, John T. Chenoweth, W. H. Reinheimer, B. Hawthorne, and B. W.
Simmons.
Gen. Thomas M. Browne, on behalf of the citizens, delivered an eloquent
address of welcome, and closed by introducing President Harrison, who
said:
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