Show NATIONAL GRANGE prepares a memorial to congress sool wool men get a lift lirt general harrison prison makes an address and lapses into politics indianapolis ind nov 12 the third daya days cession ot of the farmer farmers national congress had bad two important f features ea tu res one was an address by gen general eral H harason arilson i and the other wee was the adoption ot of a ine memorial morial to congles Con gree gres general harrison was in a very hap hapy y mood and when he arose to speak be was greeted ti cally in part be eaid 1 I came here to make an edgemont ed gement of 0 the compliment ton have shown me by inviting me to appear be fore this congress I 1 suppose that poll ti ts ia Is barred as this is aa agricultural m mee im not an agriculturalist though tho I 1 ligh born and reared on a farm sly education ede eda catSon cation was war paid for by the proceeds of corn and hogs it is a custom of the time for men of a particular occupation to associate themselves together to develop and cultivate mutual inter esit such are to be en coe cora raged but we must not forget that la lawyers farmers and laborers all have ici Ide cresta rests and that no one class should try tri to get the better of the other classes cla ese we are all ciul that you are getting a little mom for your wheat and corn though it is at the expense of us ucho arho have to pay a little more tor the things we then the general ventured a little piece oat out into political water waters 1 41 I awve b ft ve no patience with those people wiep are re I 1 al iwaya ways fig fighting h ling too the air lie saad lie advised men luen who believe bat legislation is prejudicial to them W t go about a tight fight in a systematic way not the air it was plain that the General was referring to a it ia in tho recent camp campaign alga lie ile advised that t public be whatever question of 0 unusual tu port was brought before the people and that men go straight after what they want went then he told of bow how a came and eat sat down beside him in the L train lain ain one day recently and told bin hat that he did not like the idea of this thing of trying to array class against class this remark f the brakeman of course pleased general harrisom Harris tm whatever they esay ay about class in this country the creat body of he the american people will work for truth and right when auy any men engaged in a particular calling from high sno motives tives associate themselves together and pursue those high motives in their assoni aaion only go good goa A can but bat we should not be selfish in our purposes por poses I 1 think I 1 may ruay day that if we wore were absolutely selfish in our purposes and thought only of oar our own good the good of lim classes and end ol 01 the individual of the clase class we should find that good mott most highly promoted by taking a broad ier sew of things and by admitting to our deliberations the ot thought hought that it ie is oot poe eible for one class to be highly prosperous while all other classes are sulT ering that there is an in all our bue buil inese nese and fontal relations and that thi this ie is bighie developed in a free gavern meat like oars ours in other words ia in a broad seme we prosper together and we buur together we are ari the doncell of the farmer hav has been unduly promoted when it has been eaid said aliat he be ie is at the bottom of everything and that he bt belongs longs to aa an inde pendant clas clase that citi citizens are not much account and anti thai that barins are gods work and enduring what bauld the farm be without the town and would the town be without the farm these cities furnish the population that consume the 11 of the aarni arm and tho the 11 farm rai turn furni ibes thes the of the city I 1 beard heard a friend say the other lay day I 1 it ie is tho itty for fr the country and the country for the city and all fo for the fla ga ff if there are abuses abuse of any kind of legislation or in the business of country let us fix the public eye upon them until we have exposed the evil and then we can trust the country I 1 lo 10 0 make it right t it is mischievous to denounce classes clae eee and th this 8 4 thing and that if there are trust letus let us know it and brieg le legislation to bear upon them and court dekay as u f i i crees to bear upon them and hen then wo have accomplished something if any loan inan will make it t plain to the american people that he ie is oppressed that he be is not betting hie his rights then I 1 undertake to eay say that the american people will be on hie his side against whatever vermay may cp press him my sly is it you think there are wrings in th the a basia business ness condition or legislation legit lation bunt hunt them out and specify them head them up the public judgment and have faith in your fellow man for I 1 say to you tint that of the great body of the people an overwhelming whelm inc majority are in favor always of nd fair fairriest riese and it if you make that appeal to them they will res respond nond 1 I have rejoiced in all that has tended to make agriculture easier to give leia leis ure lor tor thought and reading tor for the cultivation of the intellect I 1 rejoice that the school housa house and the little churches are found in every country neighborhood I 1 rejoice in the belief that our people are patri patriotic oti and that never before in the history of our country was there it deeper and more universal jove of the starry banner and the constitution for which it stands A memorial to congress prepared by a specie special committee was read and adopted at the mopping session eee sion jitter after fter the memorial was read C M hogs of ohio moved that the paragraph asking that the duty upon wool as prayed for by the national wool growers association one yearmo wi and embodied in the memorial be strick stricken ea out and alsa that the time ot of holding imported wool in bond be extended thirty daye days the motion brought a wrathful reply from judge lawrence of ohio who charged that mr hogge hogga interess int fress were with the manufacturers rather than with the wool growers gr owera he charged charge 44 that the dingley bill discriminated in favor of the manufacturer and against the wool grower mr sir blogg in reply eaid raid that 95 per cent of the manufacturers were in sympathy with theamer the america icam wool growers and that the diacri ur 1 l aga ak bec ausef the faulty con condition altion in which they are sire put upon the market the memorial mea orial ask asks Con congress eress to 1 see to it that no trusts are organized that can extort exorbitant prices for farm products favors the protective tariff policy and aar a kr ilag io wool these changas in the dingley bill that the skirting clause of the act of 18 1896 shall aft ft be applicable tu the bill that the a therein that ft shall continua conti nud in operation until august 1 1898 1899 alkali be he struck oat out that the duties on woolen rags shod dy mingo minzo nocks flocks necks and other adulterants be made prohibitory that wool and woolen manufactures imported crider its provision shall not remain in bonded warehouses more fiant ithan enaya bays |