Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-06
BLAINE'S TARIFF SHIELD.
HE AGAIN HIDES BEHIND 1T AT
BELLAIRE, OHIO.

The States Prosperity During the Past
Twenty Years Attributed Solely to the
Protective Policy of the Republicans
Terrible Picture Drawn of What
Would Result from a Revision of the
Duties.
WHEELING, W. Va, Oct. Sat Bel
laire, Ohio, last Saturday night after the
procession and after others had spoken,
Mr.. Blaine made the following speech:
''The question Of tariff for protection is
primarily OF interest to the laboring man.
The original material that enters into any
iaDric constitutes very small element
In the cost of that fabric. If you take
steamship that costs $5OO,OOO when she
is launched, the material in her costs
$1,000, and the labor $495,0O0. IfyOu take
a ton of pig iron that sells in your market
to-day for $50 the material that goes into
1t does not cost originally over 80 cents.
The labor costs $40 10. l mention these
facts which might be varied indefinitely
for Illustration in many departments,
10 show that if tariff for
protection is primarily or specially
OF interest to any one, it is to the laboring
man, and If the labOring man will not
protect himself with his vote how can he
eoh OtASAo W uO ltE 1uG GuECb Vi a ldTlu
for protection is not question of specu-
lation, it is question Of fact, question
in which you can appeal TO figures. You
are citizens of the State of Ohio. You
nave new city, which has grown up
here within the last fifteen years. You are
one of the evidences of the great growth
OF the State. Ohio is the third State in
the Union in population and wealth, and
L have had occasion to say at other
hot 4 Il
beg to impress upon your minds.
TWO EPOCHs COMPARED.
l want you to take two epochs in the
history of Ohio. Take first the
year 1860. Your State was then about go
years old. 1t was 70 years then from the
time Ohio was organized as part of the
Northwest territory. In these 70 years of
Territorial and State existence the citi-
Zens of Ohio had accumulated wealth to
the amount of 81, 100, 100000. The United
States census of 1860 shows that the total
wealth of Ohio was then a little over
81, 100, ,000, ,000-a very large sum of money.
In 1861 the Industrial and financial policy
of the United States was changed by the
incoming of the Republican party,
and in consequence of that
change protective tariff was
enacted, which has been ever since in
force. lCheers. In 1880, twenty years
clAbGA tic CGnSu5 VI WHICH, L have JuSb
spoken, another census was taken, and it
was found that in those twenty years the
aggregate wealth of the State of Ohio had
increased from 81, ,100, ,000, 900 to So 200, ,000,-
600. You had added to your wealth in
these twenty years double as much as
had been created in the seventy-three
years preceding. You had added upon an
average of $1O0,OOO,OOO per year to the
amount of the capitalized wealth of your
State, and that was done largely by Vir-
tue of and in pursuance of the effect of a
protective taritfupOn the labor and indus
tries of your State. Do you want that to
continue? [Cries of ''yes, yes."l
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
Do you want to have any experiments
tried upon it? Cries of ''nO, nO."l Do you
want Congress to be convulsed with the
question so as to unsettle values, and
check enterprises, and frighten capital, and
generally to produce a condition of un-
certainty throughout all the financial and
business interests of the United States
Cries of mo, no.'l Why, look at what
has been the effect simply of the intro
ductIOn of the Morrison tariff bill. They
did not get it through the House of Rep
resentatiyes even, but they kept the
country in turmoil and agitation, and
thus affected injuriOusly the interests of
every labOring man and every
capitalist in the United States.
Do you want TO organize
not merely change in the tariff, for that
might be defeated, but do you want to
organize perpetual Congressional agita-
ton of that question? lCries of "no, no."l
Ii you do not, the matter is in your own
hands. Ohio has the power to command
that it shall be. You have the power to
join IN that command, and opportunity
Will he given you on Oct. IA through your
individual ballots" Cheers.
BLAINE ON SOME OF HIS PAST ACTS.
WHEELING, w. VA, Oct. 5.-Mr. Blaine
has written the following letter to Hon.
William Mckinley, of Ohio:
BELLAIRE, o.. Oct. 4, 1894.
To Hon. William NcHiRLey, II. O., Canton o.:
My DEAR SIR:-I have your favor stating
certain charges against me, which YOU wish
TO be able to contradict authoritatively. l
answer you promptly and decisively. 1t is
utterly untrue that / ever advocated resi-
dence of twenty-One years as a requirement
of naturalization. On the contrary, always
opposed the party that suggested it. | think
that the only change in the naturali-
zatiOn laws for which l ever voted in
Congress was to admit those foreigners
who had hOnOrably served in the
Union army to citizenship without the
delay required OF others. Second, L never
voted to impose tax of $40 per annum on
miners. By the internal revenue laws framed
to raise money for the expenses of thewar. the
pruprietors of mines were taxed $40 per an
mum, just as lawyers, physicians builders and
other callings were, but the individual miner.
a man who actually worked in mine, was
not the least affected by the tax. | voted for
the tax on the propretOrS of mines as / did
for every other tax needed for the support of
the Union armies. The tax was repealed fif-
teen years ago. Third, | do not own. and
never did own. an acre of coal lands, or any
other kind Of land in the Hooking valley or in
any part of Ohio. My letter to Hon. Heze-
kiah Bundy, in July last, on he same subject,
was actually true. Very truly yours,