The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-06
MIR. RLAINE,s TOUR.
Another Tariff Speech at Bellaire-Future
Movements of the Party.


Movements of the Party.
WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. 5-At Bellaire, late
Saturday night, after the procession, and after
others had spoken, Mr.. Blaine made the follow
ing speech;
'The question of tariff for protection is pri-
marily of interest to laborers The original
material that enters into any fabric constitutes
a small element in the cost of that fabric.
If you take steamship that cost $780,
600 when she is launched, the ma
terial in her costs $1,000 the labor
$495, 900. you take ton of pig-iron that sells
in your market to-day for $40, the material that
goes into it does not cost originally ninety cents;
$40 10 are labor. If tariff for protection is
primarily or especially of interest to any one, it
is to the laboring man. and if the laboring man
will not protect himself with his vote, how
he ask others to do itl Cries, That's it, and
cheers The effect of tariff for protection is
not question of speculation; it is a ques
tion of fact. question on which
you can appeal to figures. You are citizens of
the State of Ohio. You have now 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 in wealth, and 1 have
had occasion to say at other meetings to-day
what now say to you, and which L beg to i'm
press upon your minds. want you to take two
epochs in the history of Ohio. Take first the
year 1860. Your State was then about sixty
years old, and it had been seventy-three years
since Ohio was organized as part
of the Northwest Territory. In those seventy
three years of Territorial and State existence
the citizens of Ohio had accumulated wealth to
the amount of 81, 100, 900, 900. The United Statee
census of 1860 shows that the total wealth of
Ohio was alttle over 81, 100 600 000-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, a protective
tariff was enacted, which has been ever since
in force. A voice, Thank GodP Laughter
and cheers. In 1880, twenty years after
the census OF which have first 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, 900, 900 to
So 200 000 900. You had added to your wealth
in those twenty years double as much as had
been created In the seventy three years
preceding You had added, upon an
average $100 900 per year to the
permanent capitalized wealth of your State,
and that was done largely by
virtue and in pursuance of the effect of protect
i've tariff upon the labor and industries of your
State Do you want that to continued Do you
want to have any experiments tried upon it!
LCries of No. Do you want Congress to be
convulsed with the question, so to unsettle
values and check enterprise and frighten capital
and generally to produce a condition of uncer-
tainty throughout all the financial and
business interests of the United Statesl
Why, look at what has been the
effect simply of the Morrison tariff bill. They
did not get it through the House OF Representa-
tives, but they kept the country in turmoil of
agita lion and thus affected injuriousy the inter
ests of every laboring man and every capitalist
in the United States. [Cries, That's true
that's it. Do you want to organize not merely
a change in the tarif-for that might
be done-but do you want to organize
perpetual congressional agitation of that ques-
tionl If you do not, the matter is in your own
hands fGreat cheering. Ohio has the power
to mmand that it shall not be. You have the
power to join in that command, and the oppor-
tunity will be given you on the l4th day of Ooto-
ber through your individual ballots" Pro
longed cheering
Mr.. Blaine remained at Beaire till this af-
ternoon and then, with his son and members
of the local committee, drove by cir
euitous road through a region long familiar
to him, to Wheeling. 1t was after dark when
he reached the hotel here. During his stay the
senior class of Washington and Jefferson College
came by special train from Washington,
Penn, to call on him. Mr. Blaine
received them in his parlor, and the meetin 9
was very pleasant one Each member of the
GLASS was personally introduced and, as most of
them were natives of western Pennsylvania, Mr..
Blaine, in many instances, knew their families.
Several of them were sons of his old college
mates. Although the usual differences in poll
tics exist in the class, all the members seemed to
be strong Blaine men. Mr.. Blaine and his
uncle, Hon. John o. Ewing, of Washington, Pa,
also met. Mr.. Ewing is venerable
and el-preserved old gentleman of eighty
eight He formerly represented his district in
tho Pennsylvania Legislature and in Congress,
and is said to be the oldest living graduate of
Washington and jefferson College.
On Monday Mr.. Blaine will go to Grafton, w
Va, from whence he will return to Wheeling