Chapter XIX: Part 19

The reasons given by the President for not making a speech certainly
apply to those who are in your programme to follow him. I cannot,
however, leave the platform without thanking you for that share of the
welcome that falls to us who attended. There is a chill in the air,
but there is no lack of warmth in the cordial greeting that you have
given to us who, though we felt ourselves to be strangers among you,
have found ourselves to be among friends. I have been trying to find
out since the census report was announced what the reason was that
Philadelphia had fallen behind. [Laughter and applause.] It is all
very plain to me now. This city set on a hill I shall put down in my
book as Philadelphia Junior. [Applause.] You have the family likeness.
I recognize some of you by name, and I do not wonder that you have
settled in this beautiful spot, so rich in its resources, where you
discovered everything that we have in Pennsylvania except one thing,
and I expect you will find that before long, and I am sure that I hope
that you will find the anthracite coal stored away somewhere in your
hills. I know if you undertake to find it you will do it. [Applause.]
You need no better illustration than the choir over yonder, that
could not be stopped even to allow the President to speak. [Applause
and laughter.] I shall carry away from here a story that I am afraid
they will call a California story, but I will get your Mayor to give
me a certificate that I was perfectly sober--that there was nothing
but water. [Applause and laughter.] And I shall try to recommend
what I have seen in this wild West, where people have their splendid
schools, their many churches, their refined homes, and where there is
such a hearty welcome for all that come in their midst. For my part
of the work at Washington I have already given you evidence that the
Post-office Department was thinking of the Pacific coast. I shall
do the best that I can as a business man for this splendid business
people that you have in your city and for the many more that are to
come; that all the facilities of the mail--quickening it, increasing
it--shall be given to you; that you shall not say that your Government
does not give you all the assistance in building up your great
enterprises and swelling the prosperity of all this coast. I say
good-by to you and give you a heart full of good wishes. [Continued
applause.]

PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.

It was 10 P.M. when the train stopped at Puyallup, where a goodly crowd awaited the visitors. The President shook hands with several score, and in response to calls for a speech said:

_My Fellow-citizens_--I am very glad to see you to-night, but I am
sure you will excuse me from speaking when you remember that I have
been out in the rain all day at Tacoma and Seattle, and have had to
talk several times. I am glad to see you, and appreciate the friendly
interest you manifest in coming out here to-night in such great
numbers to greet us with such kindliness. I have known for a long time
of the great hop industry of this region, and I am glad to know that
it has proven profitable. The question of the Puyallup reservation was
one of the last which was brought officially to my attention before
leaving, and I expect it will be one of the first I shall take up on
my return. Good-night and good-by.

CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON, MAY 6.

A great crowd greeted the President with cannon and bonfires on his arrival at Chehalis at 10:30 at night. The Committee of Reception consisted of Mayor Milet, who delivered an address of welcome; Judge Ashman, an old comrade of the President's at Resaca; and J. F. Sachs, an early pioneer, who presented the President a native hawthorn cane.

Responding to greetings the President said:

_My Friends_--I am very much obliged to you for this midnight
reception. We passed you this morning without stopping, and regretted
it when we saw the number who had collected here. We gladly yielded
to your request to stop to-night in order to show our appreciation of
your kindness. It is very pleasant for me to see those people who have
no interest in politics except for good government. [Cheers.]

CASCADE LOCKS, OREGON, MAY 7.

The first stop on the morning of the 7th was at Cascade Locks, where several hundred people gave an early morning greeting to the President, who responded briefly, saying:

_My Friends_--I am very much obliged to you for your kindly
greeting, and, as we stop only a few moments, I can only express my
sincere thanks for your presence.

HOOD RIVER STATION, OREGON, MAY 7.

At Hood River Station the President shook hands with a number and addressed the gathering as follows:

_My Friends_--It is very pleasant to see you this morning, and to
come out into the sunshine after two or three days of chilly rain. I
have been talking so much, and so much in the dampness, that my voice
is not very good; but my heart is always fresh and open to these
receptions. I thank you very sincerely for your friendliness and wish
for you all, and especially for these little ones, every happiness in
life. [Cheers.]

THE DALLES, OREGON, MAY 7.

After traversing the famous gorge of the Columbia River the presidential train at 11 o'clock emerged within view of the city of The Dalles, where an enthusiastic welcome was extended the Chief Executive. The Committee of Reception consisted of Mayor Moody, D. M. French, Dr. William Shackelford, J. A. Varney, R. F. Gibson, Robert Mays, H. M. Beall, John McCaul, J. P. McInerry, M. T. Nolan, George Ruch, and the following prominent ladies of the city: Mrs. T. S. Lang, Mrs. N. B. Sinnott, Mrs. A. M. Williams, Mrs E. M. Wilson, Mrs. S. French, Mrs. S. Brooks, Mrs. Geo. Liebe, Mrs. Charles Hilton, and Mrs. J. Patterson. Many old soldiers and a large number of school children were present.

Mayor Moody, in behalf of the city, welcomed the President, who responded as follows:

_My Friends_--I have spoken at all times of the night and all
hours of the day, and under conditions much less auspicious than
those around us this morning. We have here a bright sunshine and a
bracing air, and everything in nature adds to the gladness of this
demonstration which you have made in our honor. I most sincerely thank
you for this evidence of your friendliness. I assure you that it is
very pleasant, and I cannot but believe that it is very useful for
those who are charged with public duties at Washington occasionally to
move about a little and look into the faces of the plain, patriotic
people of the country. Most of the people who come to see me at
Washington want something, and as the provision made by law is not
adequate to meet all these wants there is very apt to be a great
deal of discontent; but when we get out among the great masses of
the people, among those who are doing the work of the farm, of the
shop, and of the office, who have a patriotic pride in their country
and its institutions, and are kindly disposed, charitable in their
judgments, and who have no other interests than that the laws shall be
faithfully executed and the whole interest of the people faithfully
looked after, we find great refreshment in their presence. I am sure
we have such an audience here this morning. You will not expect of any
officer that he will altogether avoid mistakes; you have a right to
expect a conscientious, courageous fidelity to public duty. I quite
sympathize with the suggestion of your Mayor, that it is one of the
proper Government functions to improve and to open to safe navigation
the great waterways of our country. The Government of the United
States has reserved to itself the exclusive control of all navigable
inland waters, and that being so, it is, of course, incumbent upon
the Government to see that the people have the best possible use of
them. They are important, as they furnish cheap transportation, and
touch points that are often, either for economy or natural reasons,
inaccessible to railway traffic. I thank you again for your interest
and bid you a kindly farewell. If no ill happens to you that I do not
wish, and all the good comes to you that I do wish in your behalf,
your lives will be full of pleasantness and peace. [Enthusiastic
cheers.]

PENDLETON, OREGON, MAY 7.

After leaving The Dalles the presidential party encountered a sand storm. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon they arrived at the beautiful city of Pendleton and were greeted by a large crowd, including several hundred Umatilla Indians, led by Chiefs Peo and Ten-a-ow-itz. Chief Peo made an address and said:

I am glad to greet the great father. Indian and white man are now
one family, friendly, and I give you the hand of welcome for my
people. You represent one race, I another, but we are all of one
Government, and between red man and white there should no longer be
war. My people want only peace. In behalf of my tribe I say welcome,
President.

The Committee of Reception comprised Mayor J. H. Raley, Judge J. A. Fee, J. M. Leezer, Senator Matlock, Capt. A. L. Ewing, T. C. Taylor, W. D. Fletcher, S. Rothchild, T. F. Rourke, R. Alexander, Lot Livermore, Benj. S. Burroughs, H. L. Marston, T. G. Hailey, W. D. Hansford, F. W. Vincent, Mrs. M. B. Clopton, Mrs. T. C. Taylor, and Mesdames Fee, De Spain, and Fletcher. Mayor Raley made an address of welcome.

The President replied:

_My Fellow-citizens_--Among all the surprises that have greeted us
on our journey I do not remember any that burst upon us with more
suddenness than this beautiful sight that you have arranged for our
welcome here. Travelling for some hours through a sparsely settled
region, I did not at all anticipate that so large an assemblage could
be gathered here. I am glad to read in your faces a full confirmation
of the Mayor's words of welcome. You have a pride in the common
heritage of Government which our fathers organized for us. You honor
the flag which floats about us here. It is pleasant to meet here,
scattered over these plains of the West, so many veterans of the great
Civil War, men who came out of the army poor as they went into it,
men who did not serve their country for reward, but out of a loving
fealty to its flag and to their Government; men who asked no questions
about pay, but went with loyal hearts to battle, determined that the
flag should be maintained in its supremacy from sea to sea; men who,
returning safely from the vicissitudes of the camp and the march and
from the perils of battle, have been ever since giving their brave
endeavors to open this new country, to increase its prosperity, and
by honorable labor to make comfortable homes for themselves and their
children. I greet you to-day, comrades, with a loving heart. God grant
that these later days--for years are increasing with us all--may be
full of sunshine, full of the respect of your neighbors, full of
prosperity, and crowned at last with the full blessing of immortality.

To these little ones now enjoying the beneficent provisions which
your State has made for their care and education I give the most
affectionate greeting. The children of this land are the light and
the life of our households. They are in the family what the blossoms
are in the orchard and garden. May they appreciate the blessings they
enjoy, and when they come to mature years and take up the unfinished
labors of their fathers, may they hold aloft the flag which their
fathers followed to battle and maintain all those things that conduce
to decent and orderly communities and to the purity of the home. To
these pioneers who have under discouragements and great difficulties
sought these Western homes and opened the way for civilization I give
my greeting, and to all I give the assurance that these distant States
are not forgotten by us who are, for the time, chosen to administer
public office at Washington. We take you all into our consideration,
our confidence, and our affection. I believe there is a great
community of interest that touches all our States. I believe that our
legislation should be as broad as our territory, should not be for
classes, but should be always in the interest of all our people. And
now, thanking you for this most interesting and cordial welcome, I bid
you good-by. [Cheers].

LE GRANDE, OREGON, MAY 7.

The President had an enthusiastic reception at Le Grande from several thousand residents. The city was beautifully illuminated in honor of the visit. The Committee of Reception consisted of Hon. J. H. Slater, E. S. McComas, M. F. Honan, and R. E. Bryan. Mayor C. H. Finn made the welcoming address.

The President responded:

_My Fellow-citizens_--It is very gratifying to see this vast
assembly here to-night, and I regret that our arrival was not in
the daylight, that we might have a better view of this city and its
surroundings, as well as of these prosperous and happy people who are
assembled here to-night. We have travelled many thousands of miles
on this journey, and it has been one continued succession of happy
greetings. We have passed through the land of flowers, and they have
strewn our pathway with them. We have come now to this north land
where the flowers are not so abundant, but where the welcome and
heartiness of the people is quite as manifest and quite as sincere.
I rejoice to have had the opportunity to see portions of the State
of Oregon which I had not previously visited. Your industries and
products are so varied that working together, supplying the wants of
different communities by the productions of each, it must be that you
shall grow in population, and that the rewards of your labor shall be
full and rich. But above all these material things in which you show
the country the resources of your people, I rejoice that social order,
education, good morals, and all those things that tend to promote
the human happiness, the peace of your communities, and the glory of
your State, are also here thought of and promoted. [Cheers.] We are
citizens of one great country, and I do not believe there is a nation
in the world where there is a more perfect unification of heart and
purpose than in the United States of America. I do not believe there
is anywhere any people more earnestly in love with their institutions
and with the flag that symbolizes them, more in love with peace and
peaceful industries, and yet stronger in their defence of the truth
and of the right. [Cheers.] I beg again to thank your citizens of this
city and of the surrounding country for this gracious and hospitable
welcome. [Cheers.]

BAKER CITY, OREGON, MAY 7.

The closing event of the long day was the reception at Baker City at 11:30 P.M. Fifteen hundred people were present and the town was illuminated. The Reception Committee was Mayor S. B. McCord, Hon. R. S. Anderson, and Geo. H. Tracy. Joe Hooker Post, G. A. R., Fred K. Ernst, Commander, was present.

Responding to Mr. Anderson's welcoming address President Harrison said:

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--It is very pleasing, so late at
night, to be greeted on our arrival here by this large audience and
by these hearty cheers. We thank you very sincerely for this evidence
of your friendly interest, and beg to assure you in return that not
only as public officers, but as citizens with you of this great
country, we are in hearty sympathy with all your pursuits and plans
and hopes in this distant State. I have heard before of its beauty
and the fertility and productiveness of its wheat fields and of the
rich mines which are found in this vicinity. Situated as you are, the
great question with you must be one of transportation, one of getting
the products of your field, the surplus of your agricultural products,
to a market. I hope you appreciate all the advantages in this regard
which the development of these Pacific cities is giving. Every great
manufacturing establishment that is built there produces and increases
population, and makes additional and nearer market for the products
of your fields. I hope the day is not far distant when the completion
of the Nicaragua Canal will make a shorter way to the Atlantic
seaboard States and much shorter and cheaper communication with a
European market. I am glad to be assured--indeed, I do not need the
assurance--that here in Oregon, as in the Central and Eastern States,
we are one people, loyal and united in the love for the flag which
some of these comrades aided to be victorious in the great war, and
that you are thoroughly in love with our American institutions. I am
glad to assure you that, so far as I am concerned, I know no sections
in this country. I desire to promote those measures which shall always
be for the interests of all classes, and which shall diffuse the
benefits of our institutions equally and fairly among all the States
and among all our people. [Cheers.]

BOISE CITY, IDAHO, MAY 8.

Boise City, the capital of Idaho, was reached at 7 o'clock the morning of the 8th, where a stop of two hours was made. The following committee of distinguished officials and citizens received the President: His Excellency Gov. N. B. Willey and official staff, comprising Col. E. J. Curtis, Col. J. A. Torrance, Lieutenant-Colonel Casswell, and Maj. Geo. F. Hinton; Senator Geo. L. Shoup, Hon. James A. Pinney, Mayor of Boise City; R. Z. Johnson, President Board of Trade; John Lemp, Charles A. Clark, E. R. Leonard, C. W. Moore, J. W. Daniels, Calvin Cobb, A. J. Glorieaux, Nathan Falk, Peter Sonna, A. R. Andola, J. H. Richards, Hon. S. W. Moody, Capt. C. C. Stevenson, and Capt. D. W. Figgins.

The President was escorted to the Capitol grounds by Phil. Sheridan Post, G. A. R., D. F. Baker Commander, A. C. Bellus, Senior Vice-Commander, N. F. Kimball, Junior Vice-Commander. The parade was in charge of Maj. H. E. Noyes, of the Fourth Cavalry, and was one of the most creditable demonstrations witnessed on the trip. The local militia and more than 1,000 school children participated. Every veteran and each scholar carried a flag, which elicited from President Harrison a beautiful tribute to the national symbol.

After the review Governor Willey and Mayor Pinney formally welcomed the President, who responded as follows:

_My Friends_--This is instructive and inspiring to us all as
American citizens. It is my great pleasure to stand for a little while
this morning in the political Capitol of this fresh and new State.
I had great satisfaction in taking an official part in admitting
Idaho to the Union of States. I believed that it was possessed of a
population and resources and capable of a development that fairly
entitled her to take her place among the States of the American Union.
You are starting now upon a career of development which I hope and
believe will be uninterrupted. Your great mineral resources, now being
rapidly developed, have already brought you great wealth. Undoubtedly
these are to continue to be a source of enrichment and prosperity to
your State, but I do not forget that we must look at last for that
paramount and enduring prosperity and increase which our States should
have to a development of their agricultural resources. You will, of
course, as you have done, carefully guard and secure your political
institutions. You will organize them upon a basis of economy, and yet
of liberal progress. You will take care that only so much revenue
is taken from the people as is necessary to the proper public
expenditure. [Applause.]

I am glad to see that this banner of liberty, this flag of our
fathers, this flag that these--my comrades here present--defended
with honor and brought home with victory from the bloody strife of
the Civil War, is held in honor and estimation among you. [Great
applause.] Every man should take off his hat when the starry flag
moves by. It symbolizes a free republic; it symbolizes a Nation; not
an aggregation of States, but one compact, solid Government in all
its relations to the nations of the earth. [Applause.] Let us always
hold it in honor. I am glad to see that it floats not only over your
political Capitol, but over the school-houses of your State; the
children should be taught in the primary schools to know its story
and to love it. To these young children, entering by the beneficent
and early provision of your State into the advantages of that great
characteristic American institution--the common school--I give my
greeting this morning. May every good attend them in life, and as the
cares of life come on to take the place of the joys of childhood, God
grant that, instructed in mind and heart in those things that are high
and good, they may bear with honor the responsibility which you will
soon lay down.

To these comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, survivors
of the great war, upon whom the years are making their impression,
I do not doubt that these who stand by me have borne an honorable
part among your fellow-citizens in the development of the resources
of this, their adopted State. Not long will we tarry; but, my
comrades, the story of what you have done is undying, and I doubt
not this morning that the satisfaction of having had some small part
in redeeming this Nation and preserving its integrity will fill
your hearts with gladness, even under adverse conditions of life.
A grateful Nation honors you. Every community should give you its
respect, and I can only add to-day a comrade's greeting and a hearty
God bless you all! [Cheers.]

POCATELLO, IDAHO, MAY 8.

A great crowd, including several hundred Indians, greeted the President's arrival at Pocatello the night of the 8th. The Committee of Reception consisted of Frederick K. Walker, A. B. Bean, A. F. Caldwell, John S. Baker, O. L. Cleveland, R. J. Hayes, E. C. Hasey, George Dash, Frank Ramsey, J. J. Guheen, H. G. Guynn, and L. A. West. A large delegation from Blackfoot was represented on the committee by Hon. F. W. Beane, Col. J. W. Jones, and F. W. Vogler.

Chairman Savidge of the committee delivered the welcoming address and introduced the President, who said:

_Fellow-citizens_--In 1881, that sad summer when General Garfield
lay so long in agony and the people suffered so long in painful
suspense, I passed up the Utah and Northern Narrow Gauge Railroad
through this place--if it was a place then--to Montana on a visit.
The country through which we have passed is therefore not unfamiliar
to me. I have known of its natural conditions, and I have seen
its capabilities when brought under the stimulating influence of
irrigation. I have had, during my term in the Senate, as Chairman of
the Committee on Territories of that body, to give a good deal of
attention to the condition and needs of our Territories. My sympathy
and interest have always gone out to those who, leaving the settled
and populous parts of our country, have pushed the frontiers of
civilization farther and farther to the westward until they have met
the Pacific Ocean and the setting sun. Pioneers have always been
enterprising people. If they had not been they would have remained at
home; they endured great hardships and perils in opening these great
mines of minerals which show in your State, and in bringing into
subjection these wild plains and making them blossom like gardens.
To all such here I would do honor, and you should do honor, for they
were heroes in the struggle for the subjugation of an untamed country
to the uses of man. I am glad to see that you have here so many happy
and prosperous people. I rejoice at the increase of your population,
and am glad to notice that with this development in population and in
material wealth you are giving attention to those social virtues--to
education and those influences which sanctify the home, make social
order secure, and honor and glorify the institutions of our common
country. [Cheers.]

I am glad, not only for the sake of the white man, but of the red
man, that these two extensive and useless reservations are being
reduced by allotment to the Indians for farms, which they are expected
to cultivate and thereby to earn their own living [cheers], that the
unneeded lands shall furnish homes for those who need homes. [Cheers.]

And now, fellow-citizens, extending to such comrades of the Grand
Army of the Republic as I see scattered about through this audience my
most cordial greeting as a comrade, to these children and these ladies
who share with you the privations of early life on the frontier, and
to all my most cordial greeting and most sincere thanks for your
kindly demonstration, I will bid you good-by. [Great cheering.]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.

At Pocatello the President was met by a committee representing the citizens of Ogden, Utah, who took this opportunity to pay their respects, it being impracticable to hold a reception in that city owing to the late hour the train passed. The Ogden committee consisted of Mayor W. H. Turner and wife, Hon. James A. Miner, E. M. Allison and wife, J. R. Elliott, W. N. Shilling and wife, Capt. Ransford Smith, Wm. H. Smith, M. N. Graves and wife, Col. A. C. Howard, Rev. A. J. Bailey, E. M. Correl and wife, Thomas Bell, J. Cortez and wife, W. W. Funge and wife, O. E. Hill and wife, John N. Boyle, Gilbert Belnap and wife, Joseph Belnap, J. S. Painter, Maj. R. H. Whipple, W. R. White, and Prof. T. B. Lewis.

The committee appointed by Governor Thomas to meet and welcome the President at the State line on behalf of the Territory of Utah consisted of Hon. E. P. Ferry, of Park City; H. G. Whitney, O. J. Salisbury, and M. K. Parsons, of Salt Lake; Lieutenant Dunning, of Fort Douglas; and Chief-Justice Zane, Associate Justice Anderson, Hon. C. S. Varian, Colonel Godfrey, John E. Dooly, Heber M. Wells, E. C. Coffin, and Spencer Clawson.

The presidential party arrived at the "City of Zion" at 2:45 A.M. At 8 o'clock they were met by Governor Thomas and Mayor Geo. M. Scott at the head of the following Citizens' Committee of Reception: Secretary Sells, Irving A. Benton, General Kimball, Colonel Nelson, Commissioner Robertson, C. C. Goodwin, Hon. J. T. Caine, R. C. Chambers, Fred Simon, Hoyt Sherman, Ellsworth Daggett, Judge Blackburn, Colonel Lett, James Hansborough, Frank D. Hobbs, Judge Miner, General Connor, Judge Bartch, J. H. Rumel, C. E. Allen, Arthur Pratt, H. G. McMillan, J. P. Bache, Judge Boreman, W. H. H. Spafford, A. J. Pendleton, Fred Heath, W. L. Pickard, H. Pembroke, Daniel Wolstenholm, Councilman Armstrong, W. P. Noble, Louis Cohn, W. P. Lynn, L. C. Karrick, E. R. Clute, J. B. Walden, J. M. Young, Sheriff Burt, Selectmen Howe, Miller, and Cahoon; C. B. Jack, W. H. Bancroft, R. Mackintosh, J. H. Bennett, Robert Harkness, H. W. Lawrence, J. B. Toronto, and Mesdames Zane, Salisbury, Dooly, Blunt, Chambers, Goodwin, James, Anderson, Lawrence, Gaylord, Simon, and Bartch; Miss Robertson, Mrs. I. A. Benton, and Mrs. Hobbs. This committee and a large body of citizens escorted the party to the Walker House, where breakfast was served. The President then headed a procession, composed of U.S. troops, State guards, G. A. R. veterans, pioneers, and many other local organizations, and was escorted to a pavilion in Liberty Park.

Governor Thomas and Mayor Scott delivered welcoming addresses, to which President Harrison responded as follows:

_Fellow-citizens_--The scenes which have been presented to us in
this political and commercial metropolis of the Territory of Utah have
been very full of beauty and full of hope. I have not seen in all this
long journey, accompanied as it has been with every manifestation of
welcome and crowned with flowers, anything that touched my heart more
than that beautiful picture on one of your streets this morning when
the children from the free public schools of Salt Lake City, waving
the one banner that we all love [cheers] and singing an anthem of
praise to that beneficent Providence that led our worthy forefathers
to land and has followed the pathway of this Nation with His
beneficent care until this bright hour, gave us their glad welcome.
[Applause and cheers.]

My service in public life has been such as to call my special
attention to, and to enlist my special interest in, the people of
the Territories. It has been a pleasant duty to welcome the Dakotas,
Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming into the great sisterhood of
the States. I think it has not fallen to any President of the United
States to receive into the Union so large a number of States. The
conditions that surround you in this Territory are of the most hopeful
character. The diversity of your productions, your mines of gold and
silver, iron, lead and coal, placed in such proximity as to make the
work of mining and reduction easy and economical; your well-watered
valley, capable, under the skilful touch of the husbandman, of
transformation from barren wastes into fruitful fields--all these
lying in easy reach and intercommunication, one with the other, must
make the elements of a great commercial and political community. You
do not need to doubt the future. You will step forward confidently and
progressively in the development of your great material wealth.

The great characteristic of our American institutions--the compact
of our Government--is that the will of the majority, expressed by
legal methods at the ballot box, shall be the supreme law of all
our community. To the Territories of the United States a measure of
local government has always been given, but the supervisory control,
the supreme legislative and executive power has been, continuously,
as to the Territories, held and exercised by the general Government
at Washington. The territorial state has always been regarded as a
temporary one. The general Government has always looked forward to a
division of its vast domain--first, the territory northwest of the
Ohio, then the Louisiana purchase, then these accessions upon the
Pacific coast--into suitable sections for the establishment of free
and independent States. This great work of creating States has gone
forward from the Ohio to the Pacific, and now we may journey from
Maine to Puget Sound through established States. [Cheers.]

The purity of the ballot-box, the wise provisions and careful
guardianship that shall always make the expression of the will of the
people fair, pure and true, is the essential thing in American life.
We are a people organized upon principles of liberty, but, my good
countrymen, it is not license. It is liberty within and under the law.
[Great applause.] I have no discord, as a public officer, with men of
any creed or politics if they will obey the law. My oath of office, my
public duty, requires me to be against those who violate the law.

The foundation of American life is the American home. That which
distinguishes us from other nations whose political experience and
history have been full of strife and discord is the American home,
where one wife sits in single uncrowned glory. [Great applause and
cheers.] And now, my countrymen, I beg to assure you that every hope
you have for safe running on these lines of free government, on these
lines of domestic and social order, I have. For every one of you I
have the most cordial greeting. God bless and keep you and guide you
in the paths of social purity, order, and peace, and make you one of
the great communities of the American Union. [Cheers.]

_Chamber of Commerce Speech._

The visitors were then taken to the new Chamber of Commerce, where the business men of the city greeted the Chief Executive. The occasion was also the formal opening of the building for business.

President Harrison made an address. He said:

I am very glad to witness in this magnificent structure which
you are opening to-day for your use an evidence of the commercial
importance of the city. Organizations of this character are very
useful when rightly conducted, very promotive of the business
prosperity of the cities in which they are established, and of the
best interest of their membership. It is quite right that those who
may be engaged in the rivalries of business, pushing their several
lines of trade with the energy and enterprise that characterize our
people, should now and then assemble and lay aside things that are
personal and selfish and consider the things that affect the whole
community. These organizations, as I have known them in other States,
have been the council chamber in which large and liberal things have
been devised for the development of the interests and prosperity of
the community. I do not doubt that you will do so here; that new
enterprise will be welcomed, and that the friendly business hand
will be extended to those who are seeking investments. I wish you
all success in this enterprise, and I hope you may grow until its
membership shall embrace all of your commercial classes, and that
its influence may do for your business here what the water of your
mountain streams has done for the plains--make them grow longer and
more productive, and at the same time expel from them those mean
jealousies which sometimes divide men. [Prolonged Cheers.]

_Address to the School Children._

The party visited the Mormon Tabernacle, which was profusely decorated with bunting and flags. On the side of the Temple in large letters was the motto "Fear God; Honor the President." The entire city was tastefully decorated. The President reviewed the school children, about 2,000 in number. They rendered patriotic songs, and he addressed them in the following happy speech:

_To the School Children_--In all this joyous journey through
this land of flowers and the sunny South I have seen nothing more
beautiful and inspiring than this scene which burst upon us so
unexpectedly. This multitude of children bearing waving banners
makes a scene which can never fade from our memories. Here, in these
children from the free schools established and guarded by your public
authorities, is the hope of Utah and the country. [Cheers.] I give you
my thanks for a demonstration that has cheered my heart. May each of
you enjoy every blessing that a free country and a more beneficent and
kindly Creator can bestow. [Cheers.]

LEHI CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.

The first stop after leaving the capital of Utah was at Lehi City, where a large sugar factory is located. The Committee of Reception consisted of Mayor A. J. Evans, Bishop T. R. Cutler, James Harwood, and C. A. Granger.

The President made a brief address, saying:

_My Friends_--This industry which you have established here is very
interesting to me. I hope it is to open the way to a time when we
shall have a home supply of sugar for every household. [Cheers.]

PROVO CITY, UTAH, MAY 9.

The presidential train arrived at Provo--the Garden City of Utah--at 1:30 P.M. The greeting was a cordial one; about 1,000 school children were present. The Reception Committee was Mayor J. E. Booth, R. H. Dodd, J. R. Bishop, J. B. McCauslin, M. M. Kellogg, W. S. Myton, E. A. Wilson, Wm. H. King, D. D. Houtz, Dr. J. N. Christensen, Dr. H. Simmons, F. F. Reed, G. W. Olger, and W. Burlew.

Mayor Booth introduced the President, who spoke as follows:

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--This is another of those bright
and beautiful pictures that have been spread before our eyes on this
whole journey from Washington. I am glad to stop for a moment in this
enterprising and prosperous city. I am glad to know that you are
adding manufacturing to your agriculture, and that you are weaving
some of the abundance of wool that is furnished by your flocks. It is
the perfection of society, commercially, when you find immediately
at your own doors a market for those things that you have to sell.
You are a long way from the seaboard. The transportation companies,
however fair their rates may be, must levy very heavy tolls upon your
produce for taking it to the Atlantic or to the Pacific. It is then
a pleasing thing when, instead of sending your wool to some distant
city to be woven into cloth, you can do that work yourselves as you
develop, bringing in these manufacturing industries whose employees
consume the products of your farm and in turn give to the farmer that
which he and his children have to wear. You are approaching the most
independent commercial condition. When every farmer is able to sell
from his own wagon everything he produces and is emancipated from
transportation tolls, he is independent and prosperous.

I am glad to see these dear children here coming from the free
schools of your city. The public school is a most wholesome and
hopeful institution. It has an assimilative power possessed by no
other institution in our country. Where the children of rich and poor
mingle together on the play-ground and in the school-room, there is
produced a unity of feeling and a popular love for public institutions
that can be brought about in no other way. [Cheers.] God bless and
promote your public schools until every child in your Territory shall
be gathered into them. [Cheers.]

AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, MAY 9.

Early in the afternoon a brief stop was made at American Fork, where several hundred children were marshalled under Bishop George Halliday (Mormon) and Rev. F. G. Webster. The Reception Committee consisted of Mayor George Cunningham, James Chipman, John J. Cushing, and John F. Pribyl.

The President, addressing the school children, said:

I want to express my interest in these dear children who have
gathered here. It is very pleasant to have at all these little
stations these expressions of your good-will. I rejoice to see the
development which has taken place in these regions since I was here a
few years ago, and I have no doubt that it will go on until all your
valleys are prosperous and full of happy homes. [Cheers.]

SPRINGVILLE, UTAH, MAY 9.

As the presidential train reached Castle Gate, a mining town on the summit of the Wahsatch Mountains, the people turned out _en masse_. A salute was fired with dynamite cartridges. The President briefly thanked the people for their greeting.

At Springville, the last stopping-point in Utah, the committee that welcomed the President consisted of Don C. Johnson, Joseph M. Westwood, H. M. Dougall, R. A. Deal, and Anthony Ethier.

Governor Thomas introduced President Harrison, who said:

_My Friends_--Your towns in Utah are very close together. I scarcely
close an address at one before we are in the corporate limits of
another; but I am glad to receive here this pleasant welcome. The
evidence of kindliness which I read in all your faces is very
reassuring and very comforting. It is delightful, I think, to those
who are charged with public duties to come now and then and look
into the faces of the people who have no other interest than that
the Government shall be well administered. [Cheers.] I cannot hope,
of course, to give a post office to everybody. I have endeavored in
the selection of those who are to administer the functions of public
office for the general Government to secure good men. I have desired
that everywhere they should understand that they were the servants of
the people [applause], that they were to give the best public service
possible, and that they were to treat everybody alike.

It has been very pleasant to-day to ride through this most
extraordinary valley, and to notice how productive your fields are and
how genial and kindly your people are. [Cheers.]

I am to do whatever I can in public office to serve our people.
I am glad to contribute whatever I can as a citizen to the general
prosperity and to the glory and dignity of our country. [Cheers.]

And now one word or two to these few comrades who gather about me.
They are not many, but they are entitled to honor. Those who struggled
in the early years to establish homes in the West, and those who in
the hour of public distress and peril bared their breasts to the
shaft of battle that the Nation might live, are worthy of the highest
regard. [Cheers.] You have entered into the heritage which they
bought and preserved. May you, with as true, loyal hearts as they,
preserve and hand down to your children these institutions. [Cheers.]

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO, MAY 10.

At an early hour Sunday morning, May 10, the presidential party arrived at Glenwood Springs, where they were met by the Governor of Colorado, Hon. J. L. Routt, Chief-Justice J. C. Helm, Hon. N. P. Hill, ex-Senator H. A. W. Tabor, and Congressman Townsend, from Denver. At 8 o'clock the Hon. J. L. Hodges, Mayor of the city, with Judge G. D. Thayer, L. Schwarz, C. W. Darrow, J. H. Fesler, F. Mager, and M. W. Mather, escorted the party to the Hotel Glenwood, where they passed the day. The President and Postmaster-General Wanamaker attended divine services at the Presbyterian Church. The pastor, Rev. W. S. Rudolph, was assisted by Rev. A. E. Armstrong, of Leadville, and Rev. L. N. Haskell, of Denver, Chaplain of the State Senate. The city was filled with thousands of visitors from Aspen and other neighboring mining towns and camps until over 10,000 people were gathered--notwithstanding it was the Sabbath--to greet the Chief Magistrate of the Nation.

When the President returned from witnessing several members of his party enjoy a dip in the mammoth pool he was met by Mayor Hodges at the head of the following Reception Committee of prominent citizens: Joseph Love, A. W. Dennis, Reed Burritt, F. C. Ewing, F. S. Dart, F. C. Sohram, H. C. Eaton, J. R. De Remer, Alex. Anderson, A. W. Dennis, Miles Standish, J. L. Hays, W. H. Hallett, H. R. Kamm, J. T. McLean, W. H. Bradt, J. R. Wallingford, J. G. Pease, Paul Blount, J. H. Campbell, C. B. Ellis, B. T. Napier, Thomas Kendrick, E. T. Wolverton, Fred Korupkat, C. A. Lee, Dr. G. H. Moulton, M. V. B. Blood, James Leach, P. F. Carr, George Edinger, W. H. Spear, Joseph Enzensperger, C. M. Keck, J. W. Beaman, J. M. Stevens, R. O. Hoover, E. Schuster, J. W. Ross, William Chrisman, G. H. Ferris, F. A. Enoch, Frank Lindsley, Frank Kaiser, J. A. I. Claudon, F. A. Barlow, Ed. B. Everett, N. Falk, H. C. Bunte, H. W. Ennen, William Dougan, Dr. L. G. Clark, James Anderson, Chris. Beck, J. S. Swan, H. J. Holmes, James Coughlin, S. H. Wood, John Miller, N. S. Henderson, J. M. Durand, Jr., Matt. Carroll, John Lynch, W. H. Trumbor, S. W. Nott, B. Hopkins, William Houston, C. V. Noble, C. M. Kiggins, Dr. E. A. Bryant, J. N. Bishop, William Denning, A. Miller, J. H. Connor, C. H. Belding, William Dinkle, C. L. Todd, George Yule, C. A. Hahn, H. H. Gates, James Soister, C. C. Hendrie, P. R. Morris, J. L. Noonan, Fred L. Walthers, T. W. Thomas, C. C. Parks, J. T. Shumate, Wm. Gelder, M. J. Bartley, A. E. Bartlett, John McReavy, W. S. Parkinson, Frank Dallis, E. H. Watson, J. H. Bixby, Jake Kline, M. M. Cantrell, J. H. Pierce, C. C. Streeter, E. T. Taylor, John Eitel, P. C. Coryell, Frank Mason, Fred Korn, W. H. Richardson, H. C. Babize, George Bennett, Frank Lyle, J. F. Myser, R. Stees, J. W. Ritter, R. P. Mallaby, W. De Long, L. F. Grace, Ed. Meachem, Andrew Anderson, Joe Keating, W. H. Sikes, W. L. Willoughby, T. R. Williams, J. W. Dollison, Alex. Voorhees, Theo. Rosenberg, H. T. Sale, S. J. De Lan, William Cardnell, G. B. Garrison, R. M. Hedden, P. H. Fitzpatrick, C. W. Durand, Kellie Cookson, Albert Gerstle, F. P. Monroe, William Shaw, C. J. Feist, E. E. Knight, George Phillips, Ed. S. Hughes, D. W. Smart, P. G. Foote, W. T. Beans, C. Poole, J. H. Mager, W. J. Brennan, Murdo McLeod, J. E. Chaney, A. W. Maxfield, William Smith, A. M. Stevenson, C. B. Brown, M. N. Edwards, and Harry Van Sickle.

The Mayor made the welcoming address and presented the President with a solid silver plate, superbly engraved with the coat-of-arms of Colorado.

President Harrison replied:

_Mr. Mayor and Fellow-citizens_--In arranging the programme of this
trip, and desiring to find one day in the seven for rest, we selected
this spot because of its fame throughout the East as one of delightful
location and natural attractions. I am glad this selection was made.
It has given me much pleasure--the beauty of your surroundings
and especially the picturesque attractiveness and magnificence of
the scenery. The city which you are launching forth upon the tide
of usefulness and prosperity will grow in fame. I thank you most
cordially for this souvenir, and I leave with you my most earnest hope
for the prosperity of the city.

Senator Tabor introduced a delegation from Aspen representing 1,000 miners from that famous camp. Col. E. F. Browne then presented a most unique souvenir--a silver card bearing mottoes worked in native wire silver.

In accepting this rare token the President said:

This is one of the most beautiful of all the souvenirs that have
been presented me on this trip. I wish to say to you that I do not
regard your visit as an intrusion. I will not undertake to dilate upon
the fatigue of this trip. I have been leaning over the hind rail of
the train for a long time, and I came to Glenwood Springs tired. I
wish to remain quiet, not from any puritanical notion of the Sabbath,
and I hope none of you will feel that way. It is not because I don't
want to see you. It is the contrary, I assure you, and I regret my
inability to give you all a public reception.

I have for Aspen and her people the kindest wishes. As for the State
of Colorado, it will grow more vigorous and richer in all that makes
an American commonwealth.

In common with Western States, Colorado has had the pick of the
people of the Eastern States. It seems to me as though her citizens
had passed competitive examination for push and enterprise, and only
the worthless were turned back at the ferry. I thank you for your
liberality.

Charles R. Bell, of Aspen, State President Patriotic Order Sons of America, presented the President with an address. In the afternoon President Harrison and Mr. Wanamaker attended union services and children's mass-meeting at Durand's Hall. Rev. H. M. Law presided, but Mayor Hodges introduced the President, who said:

_Mr. Mayor, Fellow-citizens and Children_--Our stop at Glenwood
Springs was, as you all know, intended to be for rest; and yet I
have not felt that I could deny myself to this large body of friends
assembled from the homes of this city, and, perhaps, to an even larger
body of friends who have come from some of the neighboring towns to
pay their respects and testify their good-will. The trip we have
been making has been a prolonged one, and it has been a continued
experience of speech-making and hand-shaking. The physical labor has
been very great, and I think if one had been called upon to do the
same amount of work without the stimulus and inspiration which have
come from the happy faces and kind hearts of the people who have
greeted us, almost any man would have given out. Certainly I would had
I not been borne up and helped by the wonderful kindness of our people.

I have been intensely interested in what I have seen. It has
testified to me of the unity of the people East and West. Out here
you take on some peculiarities as we do in Indiana, but underneath
these peculiarities there is the same true American grit and spirit.
[Applause.] It is not wonderful that this should be so. It is not a
mere likeness between different people, because you are precisely
the same people that I have known in the Central and Eastern States.
Everywhere I have gone I have seen Hoosiers; everywhere Mr. Wanamaker
has gone he has seen Pennsylvanians; everywhere General Rusk has gone
Wisconsin hands have been reached up to him. These new States have
been filled up by the enterprising and pushing young men of the older
States. They have set out to find here greater advantages, more rapid
pathways to wealth and competence. Many of them have found it, many of
them are still perhaps in the hard struggle of life; but to you all,
to every man, whether he is mine-owner or handles the pick, I bring
you my warmest sympathy and my most sincere thanks for your friendly
greeting. [Applause.]

Our Government was instituted by wise men--men of broad views. It
was based upon the idea of the equal rights of men. It absolutely
rejects the idea of class distinction and insists that men should
be judged by their behavior. That is a good rule; those who are
law-abiding and well-disposed, those who pursue their vocations
lawfully and with due respect to the rights of others, are the true
American citizens. I am glad to know that the love of our institutions
is so deeply imbedded in your hearts. It has been a most delightful
and cheering thing to see that the starry banner, the same old flag
that some of you carried amid the smoke of battle, the rattle of
musketry, booming of cannon, and the dying of men, is in the hands of
such children. [Applause.] Some of the prettiest as well as some of
the most hopeful sights we have looked upon have been these companies
of children gathered on the streets or hill-sides waving this banner.

The American institutions deserve our watchful care. All our
communities should be careful in the beginning to establish law and
maintain it. It is very difficult when lawlessness once obtains the
upper hand to put it down. It is very easy to keep it out of any
community if the well-disposed, true-hearted people will sink all
their differences, religious and political, and stand together as
citizens for the good of their municipalities. [Applause.]

I want to thank the children who have gathered for this
Sabbath-day's observance. I have had a life that has been full of
labor. From my early manhood until this hour my time has had many
demands upon it. I have been under the pressure of the practice of
my profession. I have been under the pressure of political campaigns
and of public office, and yet in all these pursuits, and under all
these conditions, I have found, simply as a physical question, without
reference to its religious aspects at all, that I could do more by
working six days than seven.

I think you will all find it so, and that as a civil institution
rest on the Sabbath day is good for man. It is not only good, but it
is the right of the workingman. Men should have one free day in which
to think of their families, of themselves, of things that are not
material, but are spiritual. [Applause.]

I desire to express from a sincere and earnest heart my thanks to
you all for all your kindness, giving you in return simply the pledge
that I will in all things keep in mind what seems to me to be the true
interests of our people. I have no thought of sections, I have no
thought upon any of the great public questions that does not embrace
the rights and interests of all our people and all our States. I
believe we shall find a common interest and safe ground upon all the
great questions, and by moderating our own views and making reasonable
and just concessions we shall find them all settled wisely and in the
true interest of the people. [Applause.]

LEADVILLE, COLORADO, MAY 11.

Leadville, the Cloud City, was reached at 7:30 A.M. Monday. Ten thousand citizens greeted the Chief Magistrate at this greatest of silver camps. The following delegation met the presidential party at Glenwood and escorted them to Leadville: His Honor Mayor John E. Foutz, Hon. H. I. Higgins, W. Arens, John Harvey, A. Sherwin, A. V. Hunter, S. F. Maltby, John Ewing, John Williams, W. F. Patrick, H. C. Burnett, Rev. A. E. Armstrong, Mrs. Foutz, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Morgan H. Williams, and Mrs. E. Forbes. The ladies of this committee presented Mrs. Harrison with numerous beautiful silver souvenirs.