The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-31

effective; and, lastly, those great
amendments to the Constitution which
are the embodiments of what was gained
by the war for the emancipation of the
slave, great applause), the declaration
and definition of the rights of citizen
ship, the guarantee of national credit
by organic enactment, and that liberal
basis of suffrage which forbids that it
should stop at any line of color; all
these will be maintained with patriotic
fidelity. prolonged applause.)
From the Academy Of Music Blaine
and General Fremont were driven to
the Grand Opera House, where there
was another great crowd outside and
very large audience inside. Upon
Blaine appearance there was a repeti-
ton on a smaller scale of the scene at
the Academy. Being introduced by the
chairman OF the evening, Blaine de
hvered the following speech: "The Re
publican party had It's origin in COM
bination 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 re-
sisted with a spirit of evil determination
finally eliminated III the election of
Abraham Lincoln. (Cheers.) The
resistance to his constitutional
right to be President ended in
bloody war of four years
duration. A party which began its ex-
istence by resisting slavery, naturally
and inevitably became the protector of
free labor great cheeFing), and, with
the question of slavery definitely ended
by the issue of the civil struggle, the
party became the representative and the
embodiment of that industrial system
which had for its end and its aim the
encouragement of American industry.
Enthusiastic cheering) The step from
relieving the black man from slave
labor was as natural and easy as to re-
ieve the white man from the degrade
ton of that form of labor which reduces
him to the servitude of poverty. Gre
newed cheeEIng.) Standing these many
years as the advocates Of a protective
tariff (cheerS), the results have been
greatly to. the enlargement of our IN
dustrial activity, the vast addition to
our national wealth, the encourage
ment and DEVELOPMENT of American
manufacturers, the elevation and better
payment of every man who earns his
bread by the sweat of his face. (Great
cheering.) Thirty years OF effort,
tWenty-four years OF power have GER
tainly indicated the claims of the Re
publican party to general and to ma
tional confidence, (cheeFs), and the
leading question now to be decided by
the popular vote in all the States Is,
whether that Industrial system and that
financial system which go hand IN
hand, shall be superseded, and whether
the experiment Of free trade with pos
Sible change IN our currency system
shall be resorted to by theyOluntary
consent of the American people.
(''Neveri Neyer!O Certainly There
is no man intelligent enough To
reckon up his weeks wages
on Saturday night who does not know
that the only difference between day s
pay for labor In the United States, and
a days pay for labor in Britain, is that
which IS produced by and results from
/ a protective tariff. Great and pro
] loDged cheering-) So that the American
! labOrer or mechanic who voluntarily
casts his ballot, for the elevation
to power OF a party committed
| to free trade casts his bal
lot for the reduction of his own
wages. enthusiastic cheering.) Trades
unions may protect You from the un-
/ Just eXactiOns OF an employer, but how
/ in an era OF free trade, can 1t protect
( You from the importation of cheap
1 fabrics from the Old World, which
must necessarily reduce your own OF
! probably compel the abandonment OF
/ rival manufactures in the country ?"
From the Grand Opera House Blaine
was taken to his carriage and driven tC
/ Wiliiamsburgh where he addressed AZ
/ OpCn-ajr meeting.