The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-23

The Republican Leader on the
Great Issue Of the Cam
paign-


Men OF Ohio: In procession OF our political
opponen at Youngstown recently there APP
peared man and woman In rags and apparent
wretchedness bearing the inscription This ia
what protection has done for us" [Derisive
laughter.J This was In ended TO typify ana de-
nounce the results OF pr lection In Ohio. want
to present the other side OF the picture. In Ohio
to-day there are $1,000 manufacturing estab-
lishments. They cost S2oO,OOO.OvO, aud they
turn out annually product worth o.ooo, 900.
Out of the results OF that investment and that
product observe great many people in Ohio
who are not in and not in Indebtedness.
Laughter aud great cheeringJ Thirty-fiye and
called upon agricultural community to
oppose the protective ariff because IL unjustly
favored the manufacturer Of the East Since
then the manufacturing industries of the coun-
try have travelled westward until Ohio has be-
come one OF the largest ma 'ufacturing States In
s sef areat aSricnltarai and great man
ufacturing interest. She presents all the
elements Of comfort and material progress
Steadily the agricultural States become
settled. manufactures follow. Indiana and Illi-
nois and Michigan are coming on rapidly after
Ohio Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota will come
along In due time, the result being that the pro-
tective policy now upheld by the Republican
party operates to carry the manufacturer
into every State, and ultimately into every
county In the Union. 1t never was designed
that one part of the country should be per
manently agricultural and the other part manu-
featuring, but IL was designed that agriculture
and manufactures should go hand In hand
Icheers, and VIII srever they go hand in hand
you have thrift, progress, and happiness. IRE
newed cheering
highest elements OF human prosperity by unit
ing the agricultural and the manufacturing in
terests Is worth preserving, you should not for
get that our political opponents have never
failed in the last fifty years-never since
since 1885, when they had the power In Con-
gress-either to repeal the protective tariff. II
the enactment of such a tariff In other words,
since 1888 the Democratic party In Congress
has never sustained by its vote protective
tariff, not one. IA voice-"And 1t never will. J
We are met with the accusation that pro-
tective tariff Injuries the commerce OF the coun-
try. That is more frequently made In the East
since the protective tariff 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 coonist on this continent down to the
Inauguration OF President Lincoln. GGreat
cheering l think that is worth repeating:
tCries OF Yes! yesl"l III you take every export
that was made from the territory which
now constitutes the United States from the
time of settlement at jamestown and at Plym-
outh in 1907 and 1920 clear down to 1860, and
then add them together, they fail by several
Thousand million dollars to be as great in
amount as our exports from 1861 to this time.
tRenewed cheeringl So that the ass rtion that
the protective tariff hinders the development of
the commerce OF the country Is not only dis
proved by the facts, but directly the contrary is
true, for agriculture and manufactures and COM
mercc 60 hand in hand, and were designed to go
hand in hand. They are triple Cords which,
bound together, make up the strength of ma
ton prosperity. i assume. therefore, that the
people of Ohio are interested in maintaining the
protective tariff, and il you are it is in your
power to do 1t. [Cries of Well do it; well do 1t"
and great cheering
Ohio speaks her voice on Tuesday next. This
district will have the opportunity to speak her
voice and say whether one of the most brilliant
advocates of protection that ever served in Con-
gress shall be returned lCheers for Mckinley,
with the opportunity TO vindicate by your votes
the splendid experience which Ohio has had in
developing her agricultural and manufacturing
interests together. 1t is for you, the men of
your cordial reception and bid you good-by.