Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-09
BLAINE ON A JADED NAG.
THE TARIFF HOBBY'S BACK
BADLY BROKEN IN OHIO.

Rags Made Symbolic of the Effects of
Protection at youngstown The
Plumed Knight Invades MassilIon and
Prates of the Virtues of High Tariff
Other Pointers in Politics.
MAssILLON, o., Oct. S.-Mr. Blaine, ac-
cOmpanied by Hon. William II. Mckinley
and long line OF private carriages, drove
over this morning from Canton to this
city, distance of miles. Nearly all the
houses and stores along the main street
by which the city was entered were deco
rated with Blaine and Logan flags and
other Republican embIems. Between II
and II O'Clock Mr.. Blaine reviewed a long
procession of Republican campaign clubs
and labor organizations which paraded in
front cf a stand where he, with other dis
tinguished gentlemen, were stationed. In
the afternoon he addressed an audience of
10000 people in a tent erected on the fair
grounds.
BLAINE'S SPEECH.
His speech was as follows:
MEN OF OHIO: In a procession of our pOliti-
cal opponents at Youngstown recently there
appeared a man and woman in rags and ap-
parent Wretchedness, bearing the inscription:
''Ihis is what protection has doEe for u.s."
This was intended to typify and denounce the
results of protection in Ohio. ! want to pre-
sen. the other side of the picture. In Ohio to
day there are q 900 manufacturing establish
ments. They cost 00,000,009 and they turn
out annually product worth $3.50 0000, coo out
OF the results of that investment, and l
observe a great many people in Ohio
who are not in rags and not in
wretchedness. lCheers. Forty wears ago
the entire Western country was called upon
as an agricultural cOmmI nifty to oppose a
protective tariff because 1t unjustly favored
the manufacturers of the East. Since then
the manufacturing Industries have travelled
West, till Ohio has become one of the largest
manufacturing States In the Union Icheersl,
and combining within herself a great agricul-
tUfal interest and great manufacturing in
terest. She presents all the elements of COM
fort and material progress. Steadily as
agricultural states become settled manufac-
lures follow. Indiana and Illinois and
Michigan are coming rapidly after
OHIO. Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota
viii come along in due time, the result being
Republican party operates 50 as to carry the
manufacturers into every county In the
Union.
NO SECTIONALISM DESIGNED.
1t never was designed that one part of the
country should be permanently agricultural
and the other manufacturing; but 1t was de-
signed that agriculture and manufacturing
should go hand in hand, and wheeever they
do go hand in hand you have thrift progress
and happiness. If this industrial system,
which combines the highest elements OF
human prosperity, by uniting the agricul-
| tural and manufacturing interests,
| forget that our political opponents have
never failed in the last 81 years-never since
1888, when they had power in Congress
either to repeal the protective tariff, If one
existed. or try to repeal il, or to prevent the
enactment Of such a tariff. In other words,
since 1873 the Democratic party in Congress
has never sustained a protective tariff-nOt
once. We are met with the accusation that
a protective tariff Injuries the commerce of
the United States. That is more frequently
made East than West. The answer to
was enacted in 1861 the exports from the
United states have been vastly greater in
amount and value than all the exports from
| the first settlement Of an English colOnlst on
| this continent down to the Inauguration OF
| President Lincoln. | think that is worth re-
| Deating. LCheers.
INCREASED EXPORTS.
| If you take every export that was ever
made from the territory which constitutes the
United states from the time of the settlement
at jamestown and at Plymouth in 1897 and
1920, clear down to 1860. and add them,
| they fail by several thousand million dollars
| to be as great as our exports from 1861
| to this time. So that the assertion that a pro-
| tective tariff hlnders the development of COM
merce is not only disproyed by facts, but the
| directly contrary is true, for agriculture and
/ manufactures and commerce go hand in hand
and were designed to go hand in hand. They
| are the triple cords which. bound together,
make up the strength OF national prosperity.
| Ohio speaks her voice on Tuesday next. This
district viii then have, an opportunity to
| speak her voice and say whether one
| Of the most brilliant advocates of
| protection that ever served in
| Congress shall be returned. ICheers for Mr..
Mckinley with this opportunity to vlndl-
/ cate by your votes the splendid experience
/ which Ohio has had in developing her agri-
| cultural and manufacturing interests to-
gcthcr, il is for you men of Ohio, while the
| nation looks on, to record your opinion and
| your judgment. l thank you for your cordial
reception, and bid you goodbye.
| Gen. Hawley, ex-Secretary Window
and Senator CullOm, of Illinois, also made
| speeches.