Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-10-22
A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
The Republican Leader on the
Great Issue Of the Cam
paign.
MIR. Blaine's Speech at Nlassil.
Ion, Ohio.

Men OF Ohio: In procession Of our political
opponents at Youngstown recently there ap-
peared man and woman In rags and apparent
what protection has done for us" IDcrisivc
laughter.l This was intended to typify and de-
nounce the results of protection in Ohio. fwant
to-day there % are 81, 600 msnufacturins % @ estab. %
ltshments They cost $2Oo, ,DO0,0UO And they
turn out annually product worth $3.50, 600, 600
Out OF the results Of that investment and that
who are not in rags and not I'M wretchedness
Laughter and great cheerfngl Thirty and
forsy years ago the entire Western country was
called upon - an agricultural community to
oppose the protective tariff, because it unjustly
favored the manufacturer OF the East. Since
nsl sas %snussSturins industries of the coqn
come one OF the largest manufacturing States In
the Union lcheersl, and combining within her
sell great agricultural interest and grea. man
elements OF comfort and material progress.
steadily as the agricultural States become
settled, manufactures follow. Indiana and ILL
nols anu Michigan are coming OIL rapidly after
Onlo Iowa. Kansas, and Minnesota will come
along IN due time, the result being that the pro-
tective policy now upheld by the Republican
party operates SO as to carry the manufacturer
INTO every State and ultimately into every
county in the Union. 1t never was designed
that one part Of the country should be per
featuring, but IL was designed that agriculture
and manufactures should 20 hand in hand
icheersJ, and wherever they go hand in hand
; you nave We thrift, progress, and happiness. IRE
II this industrial system which combines the
highest elements OF human prosperity by unit
ing the agricultural and the manufacturing in
terests is worth lreserving, you should not for
eet that our political opponents have never
failed IN the last fifty-one years-nevcr since
since 1883, when they had the power in Con.
Hress-either to repeal the protective tariff. il
one existed. or to try to repeal 1t, to prevent
the enactment Of such tariff. In other words,
since 1888 the Democratic party In Congress
mas never sustained by it's vote protective
tariff. not one. IA voice-"And it never will
We are met with the accusation that . pro-
tecuve tariff injuries the commerce OF the coun-
than in the West. The answer TO it is. that
since the protective tariff was enacted in 1861
the exports from the United States have been
exports from the first settlement OF an
English colonist on this continent down to the
Inauguration Of President Lincoln. [dreat
tCries of Yes! yes!"l If you take every export
that was ever made from the territory which
now constitutes the United States from the
time of settlement at jamestown and at Plym-
outh In 1907 and 1920 clear down to 1860 and
then add them together, they fail by several
thousand million dollars to be A. great in
lRenewed cheerina.l So that the ass rtion that
the protective tariff hinders the development Of
the commerce of the country is not only dis
proved by the facts. but directly the contrary is
mercc go hand in hand, and were designed to go
hand In hand. They are triple cords, which.
bound together, make up the strength Of ma
ton prosperity i assume, therefore, that the
people Of Ohio are Interested in maintaining the
protective tariff, and II you are 1t is in your
power to do it. tCries of Wen do it, we'll do il.
Ohio speaks her voice on Tuesday next. This
district will have the opportunity to speak her
voice and say whether one Of the most brilliant
advocates Of protection that ever served in Con-
gress shall be returned lCheers for Mckfnleyl.