The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-09-12
SENATOR BLAINE.
Conclusion or HIS speech at the Min
HesOEa State Fair, Sept. 3.

| am addressing an agricultural
. community. During all the Gepres-
sion Of trade 2nd commerce and man
ufactures prevailing for these past
I five years, yOI nave steadily pro-
/ g5e=ssd IN comfort, Independence and
/ wealth. While thousands elsewhere
| have Lacked employment, and many
I l fear have lacked bread, 10 able
bodied man in MinuesDts has been
/ without remuneTativs labor, and no
one has gone TO bed hungry. Your
pursuits and their results form the
basis Of the ideal epubIic-hsppiIy
/ indeed TealiZ II within your own
border. Tue tendency of all your in
| dustry is toward tue accumulation Of
Independent Competency, and does
not iavor the upbuilding Of colossal
fortunes. You are dealing daily with
the essential things OF life, and are
not warped ia your judgment nor de-
fiected from your course by specu-
lative and iliusory schemes Of ad-
vancement and gain. You are land
| owners, free holders, a proud title
that comes to US with centuries Of
civilization and strength-a title that
every man in this country should
make it his object to acquire and to
honor. Sslf-gOvernmenJ among the
OwneTs OF tue soil IN America is an
instinct, and where that ownership is
widely distributed, good government
Is the rule. Whatever disturbances,
therefore, may threaten the peace
and order OF society, whatever wild
theories, traBsplanted from other
climes, may seek fOOthOld here, the
Republic Of the United States rests Sc
cureIy on that basis OF agriculture
where the farmers of the Revolution
aud the farmers of the Constitution
placed it. The man who possesses
broad acres which he has earned by
the sweat OF his own brow is not apt
to fall in with the doctrine of the
Communist, that no one has q right
to ownership in the soil {; the man
who has toe product of his labor in
wheat and in corn, in pOrK and in
beef, in hides and in wOol-com-
manding gold and silver as they al
ways have and always will in the
markets of the worlds not to be led
astray with theories of nat paper aud
absolute money, but instinctiVely
cOnsigns such wild vagaries to the ap-
pIOpriate domain of fiat folly and alb
sOlute nonsense.
The farmers of the Republic will
control its destiny. Agriculture, COM
merce, and manufactures are the
three pursuits that enrich g nation
out the greatest of these is agri-
culture for without its products the
spindle cannot turn and the ship will
not sail. Agriculture furnishes the
conservative element in society, and
in the end is the guiding, restraining,
controlling force in government.
Against storms of popular fury
against frenzied madness that seeks
collision with the established order
against theories OF administration
that have Grenched other lands in
blood against the spirit of anarchy
that would sweep away tue land
marks and safeguards OF Christian
society and republican government,
the farmers of the United States will
stand as the shield and the bulwark-
themselves the willing subjects of
law, and therefore its safest and
strongest administrators.
Gradually the Government OF the
Republic is passing under the control
OF the farmers OF the Mississippi val
ley. Indeed it is practically there to-
day. The swelling aud OI-rushing
tide Of population Is towards the
broad plains and the Tich acres that
lie between the two mountain ranges
of the continent. The JII Is fertile,
the land so inviting, the area is so
broad, that no man may dare calcu-
late the possibilities of this great
region, either as respects production
or population. Your own State, peO-
pleG no more deDsely than New York,
would have "a population Of 5000, 600 (; |
peOpied as densely as Massachusetts,
you would have n population OF l6,-
600 600. With the transfer of pOliti-
cal control from the old States to the
new, there is also transferred a vast
weight Of possibility. It is yours
to-day it will be yours still more to-
morrow. Take it use it wisely and
well for the advancement of the
whOle-fOr the honor of all. The
patriotic traditions of the "Old thir-
teen" that fought the battles of the
Revolution, formed the Union of the
States, and planted liberty in the or
SanlC iaNt " ti' OO yNui SAlCSI GuiNS
your highest Inspiration. Many OF
you to-day mingle with your love for
Minnesota, your earlier affection for
the old home and the old State far to
the east, where an hOnOred ancestry
lie buried, and where the tenderest
memories cluster around the familiar
scenes of days long past. 1t is this
kinship of blood, these ties of relation
ship, that make us indeed one people
uniting the East and the West, the
North and the South, in the indis-
soluble bonds OF common, aud /
trust always beDeflcent, Government.