Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-10
BLAINE'S TOUR.

! MAssILLoS, Ohio, Oct. s.-Shortly after
( one o'clock the rain ceased and the numbers
in the streets seemed to have increased since
morning, and the demonstrations of the peo-
pie to be even greater than in the morning.
| Upon his arrival at the fair grounds Mr..
| Blaine was escorted to the stand in the midst
of a great tent constructed to hold over TO-
900 people. The tent was already packed
full, thousands more were gathered around
outside When the demonstrations with
which Blaine was received had subsidized he
made the following speech:
! Men of Ohio: In procession of
our political opponent at Youngstown,
recently there appeared man and woman
in rags and apparent wretchedness bearing
| the inscription, ''This is what protection has
done for US This was intended to typify
and denounce the results of protection. In
Ohio want to present the other side of the
picture In Ohio to-day there are p 900
manufacturing establishments. They cost
500, 900, 900, and they turn out annually
| products worth 100000 out of that
Investment and that product. | OBJ
serve great many people in Ohio who are
not in rags and not in wretchedness.
Thirty-five and forty years ago the
entire western country was called
upon as agricultural country to
oppose the protective tariff because it I'M
Justly favored the manufacturer of the east.
Since then the mandatory industries of
the country have travelled westward until
Ohio has become one of the largest manu-
featuring states in the union and combining
within herself great agricultural interest
and great manufacturing interest, she pre-
sents all the elements of comfort and nation
al progress. Steadily rs the agricultural
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Indiana and Illinois and Michigan are COM
ing 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 Republicans
party operates so as to carry manufactures
into every state and ultimately into every
county in the Union. 1t never was designed
that one part of country should be per-
manently agricultural and the other part
manufacturing. But is was designed that
agricultural and manufacturing should 20
hand in hand, and wherever they do go
hand in hand you have thrift, progress and
happiness. II this industrial system which
combines the highest elements of human
prosperity by uniting the agricultural and
manufacturing Interests is worth preserving,
You should not forget that since 1888 the
Democratic party in congress has never sus-
tanned by its vote a protective tariff-not
once. We arc met with the accusation that
q protective tariff Injuries the commerce of
the country. The answer to it is that 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 colonist on this continent down to the
Inauguration of President Lincoln. | think
that is worth repeating. If you take every
export that was ever made from. the service
which now constitutes the United States
from the time of settlement at jamestown and
Plymouth Rock in 1907 to 1920, clear down to
1860, 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. So that the assertion that the
productive tariff hinders the development
of the commerce is not only disproved by
the facts but directly the contrary is true Ohio
speaks her voice on Tuesday next, this dis
trict will have the opportunity to speak her
voice and say whether one Of the most bril-
liant advocates of protection that ever serv-
ed in congress shall be returned with the OPP
portunity to vindicate by your votes the
splendid experience which Ohio has had in
developing her agricultural and manufactur-
ing interests together. II is for you, the men
of Ohio, while the nation looks on, to record
your opinion and your judgment. / thank
you for your cordial reception and bid you
good bye.
When Blaine ceased speaking the great
audience burst into "A storm of cheering and
shouting which lasted several minutes. Gen
eral Hawley, cx-Secretary Window and
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, all made
speeches. The people called repeatedly for
Mr.. Mckinley, and when he appeared the
cheering was second only to that which had
welcomed Mr.. Blaine. In the evening
Blaine drove back with Mr.. Mckinley to
Canton.