The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-12
tlict in the Hooking valley, Mr.. Blaine made the

tlict in the Hooking valley, Mr.. Blaine made the
following speech:
IF I am at home anywhere it is in coal re
gon. l was born and brought up in coal re-
gioIl, in the valley of the MonOneahela, ana
knew something about coal. have been an
owner of coal lands nearly all my adult life, and
the greater part of what little property have
in this world is in coal lands. | have. also.
been, to some extent engaged IN the mining OF
coal am now interested as stock
holder and a director in a company in West
Virginia. l have had twenty seven years
experience in connection with the coal ludus-
try, and count IL piece of remarkable good
fortune that neither myself nor any company
with which have been connected has ever hac
any kind with any man. Cries, Good, good,
and cheers Further, have to say that during
the last eighteen months the company that am
connected with has been able to pay an average
of about $50 month to every one of the 260
men engaged Cries. Good, good. You see,
therefore, that l am not talking about
subject that / don't understand. But
while l acknowledge that 1 am
an owner of coal lands in Pennsylvania
and in West Virginia am kindly assured by
number of Democrats in Ohio that own also,
a large tract of land in the Hooking valley.
Laughter. Now, think that when man has
property attributed to him which he protests
that he does not own, and when the other parties
insist that he does own it, they ought to be com
pelled by law to make it good to him. Laugh
ter and Cheers. They say that l am large
holder in the Hooking Valley syndicate; / say
that do not own a single share They say,
again, that | do Let them come into
court then, and make the ownership good to me
If you bring them into court on that issue, and
under the rule suggested, you could bankrupt a
great many Democratic editors and speakers
who insist that own property that never did
own Laughter and cheers,
~ understand that the miners in this region
havr hoI 10 ofDrc ayNH
our political opponents say that am one of the
operators. AS l said a while ago. / have never
had any trouble with the men employed in the
mines in which am Interested and | never
expect to have any, because II can
not continue the business without difficulty
of that kind, shall abandon it. Cheers l
think there is no disagreement that ever arises
between an employer and the men that he en-
ploys that ought not to be settled by fair, i'm
partial arbitration, and | think that the man
who is not willing to submit such a matter to
arbitration ought to explain to the public why
he is unwilling to do it. But because you are in
temporary trouble, why should YOU turn your
backs on the great protective system which for
twenty years has promoted and secured the de
velopment of your valleyl Are you going to
remedy your troubles in that wayi Because
YOU cannot have the high tide of pros
perity all the time do you therefore say that
you will have the low tide of adversty} Cries
of That's it. In this world We have to take
little bit of lean with the fat Laughter and
d
its bed without having an eddy now and then;
you cannot have the flood tide of the ocean with
out the corresponding ebb These occasional
disturbances of the even flow of prosperity seem
to be inevitable You want to get rid of them,
of course, but the parties concerned should deal
with each other in patient and conciliatory
spirit, and in your anxiety to remedy these pass
ing troubles you should not think of tearing
awaythe very foundation on which the pros
perity of your State and the whole country
rests. Cheers. / appeal TO you
workingmen, as miners, because, if the protect
i've tariff is not good for the coal and iron in
dustries, it is not good for anything; if it does
not develop these, it does not develop anything;
and if the protective tariff were repealed to-
morrow, these hills would be again wrapt in the
silence and desertlon in which they rested dur
ing the twenty five years that preceded the en-
actment of the protective tariff But, on the
other hand, if the protective tariff is maintained,
l have full faith that your troubles will soon be
adjusted and that a new era of prosperity will
dawn upon you" Renewed cheers,
A miner-"Nay ask, Mr. Blaine, if you are
interested in the Union Furnace"
Mr. Blaine--''No, not to the extent of single
penny. will make it stronger than that L
never owned any interest in any iron furnace
in Ohio or any where else in the civilized world
Cheers. never was engaged in the iron bus
mess at ALL but have been engaged in the
coal business, and a large proportion of the
property own is invested in Goa to-day. | am
interested with you i'll this matter. If the coal
maintained in Pennsylvania or West Virginia
We all stand fall together. When
they were about to sign the Declar-
alton OF Independe nee, some one
said to old DR.. Witherspoon, We'll we must hang
together Yes, said he, if we do not George III
will see that we hang separately. Taught er
and cheers So, my friends engaged in the
coal industry, if we don't stand together, we
shall fail together [Cheers,l l thank you for
the very kind reception you have given me- and
leave you in the hope and the expectation that
we shall soon have better times for the mining
interests throughout the whole United States
Renewed cheering.
At Logan, town also in the mining district
there was very large crowd, who cheered Mr.
Blaines remarks enthusiastically.
In the evening, at Lancaster he was escorted
to the house of his cousin, Judge Philemon b.
Ewing and later, at a meeting held in his honor
he made a speech, devoted largely to reminis
cences of his school-boy days. in Lancaster, but
concluding with appeal to the Republicans of
Ohio to do their duty Tuesday next After
Mr.. Blaine, Hon. A W. Tenney, of New York,
addressed the meeting.