The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-09
Blaine.

| after l o'clock the rain ceased and the
clubs mustered again and proceeded to
the house of Mr.. Steeze, where Mr..
Blaine had taken lunch, whence they
escorted him again through the main
streets TO the fair grounds, where he was
to speak. The numbers in the streets
seemed to have increased since the
morning demonstration. Blaine was
escorted to the stand in the midst of q
great tent intended to hold over 10000
people. The tent was already PACKED
full, and thousands more Wers gathered
around il outside. When the demon
stration with which Mr.. Blaine was re-
ceived had subsidized, he made the fol-
lowing speech:
Men OF Ohio:-In the procession Of
our political opponents at Youngstown,
recently, there appeared a man and,wo-
man IN rags and apparent wretched
ness, bearing the inscription This is
what protection has done for u.s. (Deri-
sive laughter.) This was intended to be
typical and denounce the results of pro
lection in Ohio. want to present the
other side Of the picture. In Ohio to-
day there are Il, 000 manufacturing es-
adjustments. They cost $500 000, 900,
and they turn out annually products
worth $350,000,0 900. AS a result Of
that investment and that product,
L observe a great many people in Ohio
who are not in rags and notin wretched-
ness. daughter and great cheering.)
Thirty-tive and forty years ago the en-
tire western country was called upon as
an agricultural community to oppose
protective tariff because it unjustly
favored the manufacturers of the east;
since then the manufacturing industries
of the country have travelled westward
until Ohio has become one of the largest
manufacturing States of the Union,
(cheers) and combining within herself
great agricultural interests and great
manufacturing interests. Indiana, II
inois, and Michigan are coming on
rapidly after Ohio; Iowa, Kansas and
Minnesota will come along in due time,
the result being that the protective
policy now upheld by the Republican
party operates thus far to carry manu-.
features into every State and
ultimately into every county in
the United States. It never was
designed that one part of the country
should be permanently agricultural and
another part manufacturing. but it was
designed that agriculture and marufac-
turing should go hand in hand (cheerS),
we have thrift, progress and happiness.
(ReneWed cheering.) If this industrial
system, which combines the highest ele-
ments of human prosperity, by the
unity of the agricultural and manu-
featuring interests, is worth preserving.
you should not forget that our political
opponents have never failed in the last
fifty-one years, ne er since 1888, when
they had power in Congress, either to
repeal protective tariff, if one existed.
or to try to repeal it, or 10 prevent the
enactment of such tariff. In other
words, since 1898, the Democratic party
in Congress has never sustained by its
vote a protective tariff, not once. "a
voice, And itneYor win.") We are met
with the accusation that a protective
tariff Injuries the commerce of the coun-
try. That is more frequently made in the
east than in the west. l answer to it
that since a protective tariff was enacted
in 1851, the exports for the United
States have been vastly greater in
amount and value than all the exports
from the first settlement of an English
cOloniSt On this continent down to the
inauguration of President Lincoln.
(Great cheering) think that is worth
repeating. eyes, yes.'O If you take
every effort that was ever made from
the territory which now constitutes the
United States from the time of the set
tlement of Jamestown and at Plymouth
Rock, in 1907 and 1920, clear. down to
1850, and add them together. they fail
by several thousand million dollars, TO
be as great in amount as our exports
from 1861 to this time (ReneHed cheers
So that the assertionkthat a protective
tariff binders the development Of the
commerce of the country is not only
disproYed by facts, but directly the
contrary is true, for agriculture and
manufactures and commerce go hand
in hand, were designed to go hand in
hand. They are the triple cords which,
bound together, make up strength and
national prosperity. assume, there
fore, that the people of Ohio are inter
ested in maintaining protective tariff,
and if you are it is in your power to do
it, owen do it.. wen do it ~ and
cheering.) Ohio speaks her voice on
Tuesday next; this district viii have an
opportunity to speak her voice, and say
whether one of the most brilliant advO-
Gates of protection that ever served in
Congress shall be returned-(ch for
Mckinley with the opportunity to
vindicate by your votes the splendid
experience which Ohio has had in de-
vefoping her agricultural and manufac-
turing interests together. 1t is for you,
men of Ohio, while the nation looks on,
to record your opinion and judgment.
thank you for your candid reception,
and bid you goodbye - .--