St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-31

which more enlarged ex-
perience and further trial shall
demonstrate to be wise, patriotic and effective
And lastly, those great amendments to the
con Institution, which are the embodiments OF z
what was gained by the war, the emancipa-
| ton of the slaves, the declaration and detin-
ition of the right of citizenship, the guaranty
Of the national credit by organic enactments
and that liberal basis of suffrage which for
bids that it should stop at
any line of color. All these
Will be maintained with patriotic fidelity. In
other words, that great series of measures
ana OF laws which were the outgrowth Of the
civil struggle, and which are embodied and
preserved its best results are safe in the
hands OF the Republican party.
10 place these laws under the
the domin alton OF another party. If it did
not destroy, it would certainly, in the opin-
ion of the most prudent, seriously imperil
their usefulness, and perhaps their existence.
These briefly are the attainments not merely
promised but guaranteed by Republican sue
cess, success that will embody as over all.
and under all, and before ali other issues
fidelity to the union of the states and LOYALTY
to the constitution of the government.
From the Academy of Music Mr. Blaine
and Gen. Fremont were driven to the Grand
Opera house, where there was another great
crowd outside, and very large audience in
side. Upon Mr.. Blaine's appearance there
was a repetition on a smaller scale Of the
scenes at the Academy. Being introduced
by the chairman of the evening, Mr.. Blaine
delivered the following speech:
The Republican party had its origin in
combination of patriotic men, thirty years
ago, to prevent the introduction of slavery
into the territories of the United States. That
battle waged with persistence and courage,
and resisted with spirit of evil determine
ton, finally eliminated in the election of
Abraham Lincoln. And the resistance to
his constitutional right to be president ended
in bloody war of four years duration. A
party which begun its existence by resisting
slavery naturally and inevitably be-
came the protector of free labor.
And with the question of slavery definitely
ended: the party became the representative
OF the embodiment of that industrial system
which has had for its end and its aim the en-
couragement of American industry. The
step from relieving the black man from slave
labor was as natural and easy as relieving
the white man from the degradation of that
form of labor which reduces him to the ser
vitude of poverty. Standing these many
years as the advocate of the protective tariff.
the results have beer great enlargement of
our industrial activity, vast addition to our
velopment of American manufactures the
elevation and better payment of every man
who earns his bread by the sweat of his face,
thirty years of effort, twenty four years Of
power have certainly vindicated the claiml
OF the Republican party to the general and
to the national confidence. And the leading
question now to be decided by the popular
vote in all the states is, whether that indus
trial system and that financial system which
go hand in hand shall be separated and
whether the experiment of free trade with a
possible change in our currency system shall
be resorted to by the voluntary consent of
the American people. Certainly there
is no man intelligent enough to
reckon his weeks wages on Saturday
night who does not know that the only differ
ence between days pay for labor in the
United States and days pay for labor in
the British isles is that which is produced by
and results from the protective tariff. So
that the American laborer or mechanic who
voluntarily casts his ballot for the elevation
to power of party committed to free trade
casts his ballot for reduction of his own wages.
l desire to repeat here what have said more
than once elsewhere, that all the voluntary
associations to which the aboring men and
mechanics resort in their trades unions and
like cooperative efforts are well enough and
desirable in many respects as they are, meet
ing certainly with no word of criticism from
me, are yet entirely Intellectual as means Of
unfolding the scale of American wages,
unless back of them there be that protection
and support which come from the levying of
duties on the scale embodied in the protec-
tive tariff Here at home the trades unions
may protect you from the unjust eXactions
of an employer, but how, in an era of free
trade, can it protect you from the importa-
ton of cheap fabrics from the old
world, which must necessarily reduce
your own or probably compel
the abandonment of the rival
manufacture in this country, so that what
| desire to enforce and impress upon men
Of enterprise and men of prudence, is that
their only safeguard is in upholding that in
dustrial system which prevents ruinous COM
petition in the fabrics they are making, and
that financial system, which, when dollar
is earned, enables it to be be paid with one
hundred cents. And it is the peculiar merit
of the Republican party that
while from its hostility to slave
labor, with its natural consequence
of protection to free labor, it has earned the
right to the suffrage and support of the s<sat
industrial class, 1t has never done it in that
demagogic spirit which seeks to arouse the
prejudice of labor against the rights of capt.
Ldl- IL HaS continually taught the wise doc
trine that labor and capital were friends, not
enemies. That in cooperation they can pro-
duce prosperity, but that in hostility they
produce only adversely. The Republican
party has taken care that capital
shall not encroach upon labor, and that labor
shall be so protected that it shall have no
cause of enmity to capital. Other issues,
gentlemen, are involved in the great ma
tional contest of 1884; but here and now I
dwell only upon this one, for of all issues
that must be held to be first, is the one
which insures bread to the hungry and cloth
ing to the naked. That issue must be held
TO be first which ensures to
the industrious man home comforts for his
wife and his children, and which gives to a
population devoted TO industry, all the pro-
lection that can be offered or guaranteed by
human law.
Logan at Bellevi1ie, Ill.
BELLEvILLE, ILL.,, Oct. 3O.-Gen Logan
spent most of the day at the residence Of
John T. Thomas, where he received large
number of callers. In the afternoon he