The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-17
What the Republican Policy Has Done for
the West.

The following speech by James g. Blaine at
Massilon, Ohio, on the Sth inst:
Men of 0hio-In a procession Of our political
opponents at Youngstown, recently, there ap-
peared a man and woman in rags and apparent
wretchedness bearing the inscription: This
is what protection has done for u.s. [Derislve
laugh This was intended to typify and de-
nounce the results Of protection in OHIO /
want to present the other side of the
picture. In Ohio to-day there are
n 900 manufacturing establishments; they cost
500, cocoon and they turn out annually a pro-
duct worth three hundred and fifty millions of
dollars. Out of the results of that investment
and that product, / observe a great many
p5ople in Ohio who are not in rags an not in
wretchedness. Laughter and great cheering. ]
Thirty five or forty years ago the entire west
ern country was called upon as an agricultural
community to oppose the protective tariff, be-
cause 1t unjustly favored the manufacturer of
the east. Since than the manufacturing in
dustrfes of the country have travelled westward
until Ohio has become one Of the largest man
ufacturing states in the Union, and combining
within herself q great agricultural interest and
great manufacturing interest, she presents all
the elements of comfort and material progress.
Steadily, as the agricultural states become set
tied, manufacturers follow. Indiana and Illinois
and Michigan are coming on rapidly after Ohio.
Iowa, Kansas aid
MINNESOTA Will CONE ALONG
in. due time, the result being thatthe protective
policy now upheld by the Republican party
operates so as to carry manufacturing into
every state, and ultimately into every county
in the Union. 1t never was designed that one
part OF the country should be permanently
agricultural and others manufacturing, but IL
was designed that agricultural and manufact-
uring interests should go hand in hand lcheersL
and wherever they do go hand in hand you
have thrift, progress and happiness. lke-
which combines the higest elements Of human
prosperity by uniting the agricultural and
the manufacturing interests, Is worth preserv-
ing, you should not forget that our political
opponents have never taken action in the last
ftty-one -years-never since 1888, when they
had the power-in congress, either to repeal
the protective tariff if one existed, or to try to
repeal il, or to prevent the enactment of such,
80 that the assertion that the protective
tariff hinders the development of the
of the country is not only disproyed by the
facts, but directly the contrary is true; for ag-
riculture and manufactures and 90
hand in hand, and were designed to 90 hand IN
hand. They are the triple cords which bound
together make up the strength Of national pros
perity. / assume, therefore that the people of
Ohio are interested in maintaining the pTotec-
tive tariff, and If you are, tits in your power to do
It IGreat cheering Ohio speaks her voice on
Tuesday next This district will have the OPP
portunity to speak her voice and say whether
one Of the most brilliant advocates of protection
that eyer served in congress shall be returned
Icheers for Mckinley, with the opportunity to
vindlcato by your votes the splendid experience
which Ohio had in developing her agricultural
and manufacturing interests together. It 10
for you, the men of Ohio, while the nation look,
TO record your opinion and your Judgment /
thank you for your cordial reception, and bid
you good bye