Gen. Harrison On The Tenant System

Ia one of his speeches, Ger. Harrison said: " The poliey of the subdivisión of the soit is one that tends to strengthen our national life. God grant that it may be long before we have in this country a tenantry that is hopelessly guch frora one generation to acother - that condition of things which makes Ireland a land of tenants. The system of vast estates ia land which exista in England must never find footing here. Small farms invite the church and schoolhouse into the neighborhood. Therefore it was in the beginning the Republican party declared for free homes of a quarter section eacb. That poliey should be perpetuated as long as our publiu domain lasta, and our legislation should tend in the direction which I have indica ted."