The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Nevada HOrsethieYes Captured
in Utah.
RrkTEE STILL WORKING HARD.
,y,s ideas On ProtectIon-Railro
Racket-News Noies From
the Capital.
Blaine.


wKrLg7oN, Ohio, October 11.-At 9
o'clock Mr.. Blaine left IrontOn to go up
through Hooking Valley. The work
no, in the nail mills checred as he
ronsed. at Oak Hill there was u con-
fs;deTable crowd, composed largely OF
1-orkiugmen. Beside the track they
Nd erected a platform of pig iron, on
which Mr.. Blaine stood. lie began his
%rief sneech BY saying: 81 stand on the
sa+0a pIatform on which I stood in
Con0ress for twenty years, platform
o,bicb enables iron to be made in our
oTyn county instead of England" The
remainder of his speech was devoted to
the bearing Of the tariff on the iron
LTHEHs, Ohio, 11.-At Jackson there
WAS very large gathering of similar
composition to that at Oak Hill. Mr..
Blaine spoke few words about his in
kerest in coal land and the bearing OF
The tariff upon the iron and coal trade:
His remarks were favUrably received
and as the train moved Off the people
cheered him repeatedly.
LANCASTER. Ohio, October 1.-At
Nelsonyille, the centre OF the mining
district in Checking Valley, Blaine
made The following speech: If am at
h0rne anywhere it IS in coal region. l
vas born and brought up IN coal re-
ZION. in the valley OF MOnOnSahela, and
7 know something about coal. have
been the owner OF coal lands nearly
eW my adult life and the greater
mart of what little property
thave in this world is In coal lands. /
also have been to some extent engaged
81 Il To-
. eg4ad IS Z stakeholder and director of
company in West Virginia. have had
- wars. experience in connection with
the coal industry, and 1 count it piece
OF remarkable good fortune thatneitheT
myself nor any of the companies which
| have been connected has ever had a
strike. CT dispute, or . quarrel Of any
kind With any man. Good, good, and
cheers.) Further, L have TO
say that during the last eight
cen months the company l am
connected with has been able to pay an
average Of about $50 a month to every
one OF the 200 men engaged. Good,
goOd.) You see therefore that am not
talking about 4 subject that /
DO not understand, but while l
acknowledge am an owner
Of coal land in Pennsylvania
and in West Virginia, I am kindly as
6Ured By q number Of Democrats IN
Ohio, thar 1 own also q large tract OF
coal landsin Hooking Valley (Laughter)
Now. | think when L man has property
attributed to him which he pro-
tests he does not own, and when
the.Cther parties insist that he does own
it, theF-Ought TO be compelled by law TO
make 1t good to him. daughter and
cheers.) They say that l am large
holder in tbs Hooking Valley syndicate.
l say that l do not own a single
share. They say again that 1 do. Let
them come into court and make
the ownership good to me. Good. J If [
could bring them into court on that
Issue ana under the rule suggested, |
could bankrupt & great many Demo /
cratic editors and speakers who insist /
that own property that l never did /
own. daughter and cheerS.) [ under /
stand That the miners in this region /
have had some trouble with the opera |
tors, and our political opponents say l /
snl one Of the owners. As l said while /
ago, / have never had any trouble with /
the men employed in the mines with !
which I am interested and never expect |
20 have any, because If I cannot con- 1
tnue the business without difficulties of |
that kind I shall abandon it. +
tCheers.) think there is no dis
agreement that arises between an
employer and the men he employs
mat ought not TO be settled by q fair,
impartial arbitration, and ] think the
man who is not willing to submit such
matter 70 arbitration ought 10 explain
TO the public Why he is unwilling to do
So but because you are in temporary
trouble why should you turn your
backs upon the great protective system
winch has for twenty years improved
ana secured the development of your
EeIey? Because you can't have the
alSn tide Of prosperity all the time, do
you therefore say that you viii have
1ue low toe Of adversely? In this world
Ne have to take a little bit of lean
VITA the TAT. daughter and cheers
{O4 cannot have a stream flow down its
peu without having an eddy now and
men. You cannot have the f0od-tide
u tne ocean without the corresponding
20. These occasional disturbances Of
re even low OF prosperity seem to
be inevitable. You want to get rid of
mem, could, but the parties concerned
should deal with each other in a patient
alu conclllatory spirit, and in
your anxiety to remedy these
passing troubles YOU should
9 9Ct. think OF tearing away the very foun-
SSa y. on which the prosperity of your
Pa 3SSI3'e and OF your country rests.
loAeeTs). 1 appeal to you as working
men; as miners, because,.if a protective
arm! arm IS not good for the coal and iron
Industries, 1t is not good for anything:
4 \. IL does not develop this IL does not
t3eE.esI.op anything, andif the protective
SIN SIN were repealed tomorrow. these
i Ll-ls would be again wrapped in the 81
,5Ilce and deserdOn in which they rested
N-IIlilg the twenty-five years that pre-
ftSIeQ the enactment of the protective
LII LII But If, on the other hand, the
R1Qg5ectlVe tariff is maintained, 1 have /
i i1l't. mat your troubles viii soon be adj
,o "A miner-''Afay I ask, Ny. Blaine, ii
5 5oa are interested in the Union fur
M, Mr.. Blaine No; not to the /
man nnsgat Of single penny. / viii |
60 60 IL stronger than that. I never
IN az 0g!- an interest in any iron furnace
Be- 9-l-o' or anywhere else in the civil I
es oS world. (Cheers). 1 never was en-
9'e u the iron business at all, but I |