The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-12
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WELLsroN, o., Oct. ll.-At 9o'clock
Mr. Elaine left Ironton to go up through
the Hooking Valley. The workmen in
tho rail mills came ont bare
armed and baro-breasted and cheered
as he passed At Oak Hin there was "A
considerable crowd, composed largely
pi working men, beside the
track. They had erected a
platform of pig iron on
which he stood. He began his speoch
by saying: Il stand on the same Plat
form ON which | stood in congress for
twenty years--the platform which ena-
b'es the iron to he made In our own
country instead of England" This was
received with great cheering.
| At Nelsonvile Mr.. Blaine made the
following speech: "If am mt home
anywhere il il I'm the coal region. I
was born and brought up in
the coal region In the valley
Of the Monongahela, and know some
| thing about coal. have been an owner
IF coal lands nearly all my lite,
| and the greater part Of what
| little prorertv | have I'm this world Is In
C II lands, have also been to some OK
! tent engaged in the mining al
coal ann now interested as 2
stakeholder aud n director IN n company
in West Virginia. | have had twenty.
seven years experience in connection
W IN the coal industry and
count 1t part Of remarkable good
| fortune that mother myself or any com
prnY with which have been connectod d
has ever had a strike or quarrel or dis.
pute or trouble of any kind with
any of the men. Further. | have tn say
that during the last eighteen months
! the company that am con
nected with has been able Ia
| pay nm average of about $GC
! per month To every one oi the 9G0 men
| engaged, You see, therefore, that | am
not talking about n sOliect that don't
! understand, hut when | acknowledge
am the owner of coal lands
in Pennsylvania and in West
! Virginia am kindly assured
! ny number of Democrats
IN Ohio that ! own also n large tract OF
coal land In the Hooking valley
Laughter. Now, think when
uted tD HIM which he protests :
hat he docs not own, ard when tho
. her parties insist that he does own II,
IN y ought to he compelled by law
10 make II good to him. They
say that ! am lurge holder
in the Hooking Valley syndicate. / saw
mat don't own n single share, They
say again that / do. Lei
| Them come into court aud
make the ownership good L.
me. If could bring them into court ON
mat issue, aud under the rule suggestpd.
could bankrupt great many Demo.
cratic editors and speakers who insis,
nav own property that | never did
/ | lfrs "a ,A 4 Il.
this region have had some trouble with
the operators and our pplitic,l
opponents say that am one Of the op-
orators, AS said while ago, [ have
mover had any trouble with men ON
! p,nNed in the mines in which
| | am interested and
| never expect To have any, because II |
can't continue the business with
ont difficulties of these kinds, |
snail abandon 1t. | think there
us no disagreement that ever
arises between AN employer and the
men he employs that ought not 10 be
settled by u fair, impartial arbitration.
hnd 1 thluk the mon who ara not vii.
mug 10 submit such matter,
10 arbitration ought 10 explain 10 the
public why he is unwilling to do 50.
But because you are In Temporary
troubles, why should you turn your
backs ON the great protection system
which for twenty years has promoted
aud secured the development
of your trouble in that man
| ner.. Because you cannot have
the high Tide of prosperity all the time,
DO YOU, therefore. say that YOU viii
have the low tide of adversityf
In this world we have Ia
10 take little bit of lean
with the fat. You cannot have stream
flow down its bed without having nm
eddy now aud then. You cannot
have the ilvod-tide OF the
ocean without the corresponding ehb.
These occasional disturbances of Tho
even How of prosperity seem to be inpv.
table. You want to get rid of them, o.
course, hut the parties concerned
should deal with each other M
patient and conciliatory spirit, and IA
your anxiety ~ remedy these preSsing
troubles, YOU should not think oi
tearing away the very foundation
on which the prosperity ri
your State and of the whole countr,
rests. tCheers.) appeal TO YOU 4,
wlrkin, men, ~ miners, becausa. N N,
] prot ctiYe tariff II not pool for The con'