The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-28
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HON. SAMUEL S. cox,
IN REPLY TO BLAINE's REMARKS
ON THE TARIFF QUESTION,


Delivered Of zanesVllle, Ohio, Oct. 9th, $780,
Finding themselves behind the age
and beloV the plane Of elevated policy
in the hateful relations they sustain to
the Southern states, the Republican lea.
ders have raised the old clamor about
the tariff. They have reached the dregs'
British gold and low wages figure in their
cry. They have made tn cry too noisy.
A bad man once in his agony prayed
loudly to Jupiter Don't pray 30 loud,
he may hear you" said friend. To the
leaders of protection would say: mot
so loud. the farmers may hear you" SEN
ator Blaine spoke here on September
3O.h, / wish he had not ventilated his
crudities in my native town and on nay
birthday. l should have devoted time
to some ncber purpose than to ventilAte
his illiberalities on such day and such
a theme. have only one thing in com.
mon with the Maine Senator besides his
good nature: we were born West; the
only Federal representatives at the East
wAo have that distinction.
L sHIP BUILDING RUINED.
He represents as 1 do-what was once
in Democratic days-great shipping and
ship.building communities. Now, the
arr of ship building, along with the bust
ness, has almost died out. The models
which were wont to make the world
jealous are no more. Scarcely ship of
our build, either iron or wood, crosses
the sea, Our fig is shrouded. 1t tops
no mast, except when under enforced
conditions, it is seen along the coast.
The hundred millions of freightage, and
the fifty millions of fares 60 to the Eng
lish, German and French. No Alabam-
as are responsible for this loss; for the
comparatively few ships the rebels de.
stroyed would have created vacuum
and gwen more employment to Maine
and New York. Our navigation laws
forbid us to buy any vessel made abroad.
Then why do we not build them at
homer Why has not the Senator, with
his confessed activity and ability, reviv.
ed his home interestsP He would not
repeal the navigation laws so as to allow
foreign ships to be bought and brought
under our fag even if they had to pay
a duty of 500 per cent on the ton. No,
sir, the ruin of Names ship building is
owing to the high protective tariff, tax
ing every component part of a ship, from
the salt between the timbers to the cop
per sheating and timber, prevents Maine
from making ships. Nova Scotia builds
them 93 per cent cheaper across the Dor.
der. Let Blaine of Maine 60 home and
help Gen. Paisted to civilize his people,
and the old genius of American inven-
tion may soon eclipse the Clyde in its
splendid Maine structures. Talk about
British goldl The policy of Blaine fur
nishes gold by the millions to aggrand.
ize British capital at the expense of our
farms, which are interested in the trans
portation of their products to the mar
kets of Europe.
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY AND FIsH.
Maine has been too selfish to be mu
tual, and her lack Of mutuality has de-
gNoyed her employments. She deman-
IN the repeal Of the Canadian ReCiproc-
ity, and Canada, with great worry and
cost, retaliates. The result is a howl in
New England against the loss of her
trade, and the growth of the Dominion
manufactures, In this senseless isola-
tion both parties across the line suffer
Republican policy settled the Alabama
claims at Geneva, hallelujahs went up
about the glory Of arbitration instead Of
war. But it is forgotten that we paid,
improvidently, So 100000 to increase
the sum of British gold, and got in re-
turn fishing privileges by treaty, already
denied our fishermen with violence and
lossl By the same treaty Dominion fish
was allowed to come to us free, 30 that
mackerel, cod, &c., should be cheap to
the people. When the $5,500,000 were
paid, and our fishermen prohibited to
fish in Dominion waters, another howl
was raised for the reimposition of the
duty on fish given away by the treaty.
The fishermen came to my Committee
on Foreign Affairs, and plead to BIZ saved
from Radical free trade and Canadian
violencel l drew the report, based on
the failure to allow us to fish, for the
benefit of Maine and Massachusetts. So
that when Senator Blaine comes to Ohio
about these issues on trade, had he not
better call less loudlyP The fisherman
on his coast, and tue manufacturers OF
New England may hear, and thunder
back to the very waves of their rocky
surf, a moral about beams and notes
none too familiar to human experience.
HARD TIMES IN MAINE.
When Maine gave Republicans their
quietus the other day, it was said, and
truly, it was because Of hard times there
1t was not the blessed condition of the
party, 30 much as the cursed depression
OF commerce and industry. Who was
responsible for that condition. 1t is
true that Maine has fallen from her high
estate. She once led in ship building
Last year sbe only built one-ffth the to.
tai tonnage of the United States, and but
twelve out of the 1886 steam vessels. Out
of the 2445 American fishing boats
Maine dropped last year to $3.50, not 329
Salt is test,
PIG AND COD.
The Yankee folks get their salt fol
fish curing free. 1t is free trade in sail
for New England. It is over 100 pei