Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-10-09
The Issue of the Campaign.

Mr. Blame arrived in Beilaire. Ohio
last Saturday and there as everywhere was
greeted BY an immense crowd. In re-
spouse to repeated calls for a speech Mr.
Blaine said
The question Of tariff for protection Is
primarily Of interest 10 the lsboring man
The original material that enters into any
fabric constitutes only very small element
in the cost Of tina, fabric If YOU take a
steamship that cost SJ00.OOo when she i
launched the material in her cost 5000.
the labor 1895 900 II YOU take ton Of
pig iron that sells in your market 10 day for
so. the material that goes into il does not
cost originally 90 cents. the labor cost sl9 10
| mention these facts. which might be varied
indefinitely for illustration IN many de-
partment-. 10 show ,ha, if tariff for pro
lection is primarily or specially Of Interes,
10 any one. j, is 10 the .aboring man. and X
the laboring man will not protect himself
with his vote. how can he ask others 70 do
il? The effec, Of tariff for protection is
no. question Of speculation ii is question
Of fact question IN which YOU can appeal
To figures. You are citizens of the State OF
Ohio You have a new city which has
grown UP here within the last fifteen wears
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, aud
| have had occasion 10 say al other meetings
TO-DAY what | now say 10 YOU and ~ha,
| beg TO impress on YOUR minds. ! want
YOU 10 take two epochs IN the history q
Ohio.
Take first the wear 1860. Your State
was then about 60 wears old. 1t was 73
wears then from the time Ohio was organiL-
ed as part OF the Northwest Territory.
In those IS years Of territorial and State
existence the citizens Of Ohio had accumu-
lated wealth TO the amount Of eleven hun
dred millions of dollars. The United States
census Of 1860 shows that the total wealth
Of Ohio was then a little over eleven hun
bred millions. a very large sum Of money.
In 1861 the industrial and financial policy of
the l nited States was changed by the IN
coming Of the Republican party, and in con
sequence Of that change protective tsrlf
was enacted which has been ever since in
force.
In 1850. twenty wears after, another cen
sus was taken, and il was found that the ag
gregate wealth of the State Of Ohio had in
creased from eleven hundred millions TO
three thousand two hundred millions. You
had added TO your wealth in those 20 years
double as much as had been created in the
- years preceding. You had added upon
an average one hundred million dollars per
year 10 the permanent capitalized wealth Of
YOUR State and that was done largely BY
virtue Of and in pursuance of the effect OF
the protective tariff upon the labor and the
industries of your State. DO YOU want that
TO continue? Yes, yes. DO you want to
have any experiments tried upon it? No.
mol DO you want Congress to be convuls
ed with the question so TO unsettle values
and check enterprise and Brighten capital
and generally TO produce a condition Of I'M
certainty throughout all the financial and
business interests of the United States !?
No, no.
why. look at what has been the effect
simply Of the Morrison tariff bill. They
did not get it through the House of Repre-
sentatives even. but they kept the country
in turmoil and agitation and thus affected
injuriously the interests of every lsboring
man and every capitalist in the United States.
Do you want TO organize, not merely a
change in the tariff. for that might be de-
fested. but do you want to organize per-
petual Congressional agitation Of that ques-
ton? (No, no. If you do not, the mat
ter is in your own hands. Ohio has the
power to command that ii shall not be you
have the power to join in that command,
and the opportunity will be given you on the
l4th day of October through your individu-
al ballots" (Cheers.)