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are glad that God has spared us to see the magnificent development and increase in strength and honor which has come to us as a nation, and in the glory that has been woven into the flag we love. We are glad that with most of us thje struggle in life has not left us defeated, if it has not crowned us with the highest success. We, as veterans and yet citizens, pledged, each according to his own conscience and thought, to do that which would best promote the glory of the country, and best conserve and set in our public measure those patriotic thoughts and purposes that took us into war." In an address on Abraham Lincoln, de livered after Mr. Harrison's retirement from office, he said: "It does not seem to be God's way to give men preparation and fit ness, and to reveal them, until the hour strikes. Men must rise to the situation. The storage batteries that are to furnish the energy for these great occasions God does not connect until the occasion comes." In his last public speech : " Royal prerogatives are plants that require a walled garden, and to be defended from the wild, free growths that crowd and climb upon them." On Equality of Taxation : " Equality is the golden thread that runs all through the fabric of our civil institutions. The domi nating note is the swelling symphony of liberty. The favoritisms and class distinc tions which characterized the governments and administrations of Europe were des troyed with the establishment of government under the American constitution. At the polls, before the courts, in' all asemblies, in all legislation, there was to be, not a class peerage, but a universal peerage. And as a corollary, necessary and imperative, to this doctrine of an equality of rights, is the doctrine of a proportionate and ratable con tribution to the costs of administering the government. Indeed, this principle of a pro portionate burden might be more properly called an inherent part of the doctrine of equal rights. For one whose right to acquire

and accumulate is disproportionately bur dened, is denied equal rights. If a favored class may not be created, neither may any class be discriminated against. . . . Im position and grace, in a free republican state, must be without discrimination." In April, 1891, Mr. Harrison began his memorable journey to Texas and the Pacific Coast. In thirty days he traveled ten thou sand miles, and delivered one hundred and forty speeches, many of them models of their kind, and many of them containing beautiful sentences. The striking thing about these speeches, and this is much more so of his ninety-four campaign speeches, is the lack of repetition. General Harrison seldom re peated: he had the ability to avoid it. Speeches delivered at the tail-end of a rail road train are apt to contain many repeti tions, in fact, often are mere repetitions; but the speeches delivered by General Harrison on such occasions are singularly free from this vice. The writer recalls two days he spent in his company on a railroad train drawn through Indiana to enable Mr. Har rison to deliver political campaign speeches; and during that time there were no marked repetitions in the many speeches he made. After his retirement from office, Mr. Har rison, unlike former ex-Presidents, took an active part in political campaigns. That was especially true of 1894, 1896, and 1898. He also delivered a course of six lectures in 1894 at Stanford University, on the "National Constitution," that are models of their kind. These lectures are not of a technical charac ter: they were delivered to students not en gaged in a professional study of law. "My aim," said he. in his opening lecture, "is not so much to make lawyers as to promote a broad and intelligent American citizenship. Our civil institutions are safe only while in the keeping of a generation that loves them; and the love of institutions, however it may be with another sort—must be educated. We guard and keep our treasures—that which is not valued we suffer others to take