St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07

each point Blaine spoke briefly of the import
ance to West Virginia of a protective tariff.
At Fairmont there was quite large meeting
and Mr.. Blaine left the train and addressed
the meeting from a stand. Here, Us at ali
the preceding points, the people were very
enthusiastic.
AT GRAFTON.
PARKERsBURo, WA, Oct. 6.-At Grafton
there was large and remarkably enthusi
astic meeting. The little mountain town
was packed full of people from the surround
ing country. Mr.. Blaine was escorted to a
stand where Hon. John W. Mason intro
duced him to the people. When the demon
strations with which he was received had
subsided, he said:
''Citizens of West Virginia, as your dis
| tinguished chairman has remarked, I am
not stranger to your state. l have known
it personally for more than forty years, and
l have known this section of it well.
was bora on the banks of
| yonder river a few miles below the point
where it enters Pennsylvania, and you do
not need to be told by me that there was
always unity of feeling among the inhabi
tants Of the Monongahela valley. The West
/ Virginia of forty years ago was compara-
lively wilderness. The West Virginia of
to-day is prosperous, industrial centre in
the United States. West Virginia, as an
Independent commonwealth, began her ex-
istence during the civil war, and at that
day, the most liberal estimate of
total property according to the
enumeration of the United States
census, did not exceed one hundred millions
os dollars. In 1870 the census gave you an
aggregate Of one hun dred and ninety mil
lions and in 1880 it showed that you pos
| sessed capitalized wealth to the amount of
three hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
From the close of the war to the year 1850,
West Virginia had, therefore, gained in
wealth the enormous sum of two hundred
and fifty millions. You have Jared pretty
well, therefore, under Republican admins
tration. Probably some political opponent
does me the honor to listen to me, and
would ask him as candid ma n
what agency was 1t that neryed
the arm of industry TO smite
the mountains and create This wealth in
West Virginia! 1t was the protective tariff,
and financial system that gave you good
money. Before the war you never had cir
culating in your midst bank bill that would
pass current five hundred miles from home.
You do not to-day have a single piece of pa
per money circulating in West Virginia that
is not good all around the globe; not bill
that will not pass certainly in the money
markets of Europe as in New York or Balti-
more. So that the man who works for
days wages knows when Saturday night
comes that he is to be paid in good money.
Under the protective tariff your coal indus
tries and your iron industries and the wealth
of your forests have been brought out, and
1t is for you voters of West Virginia to say
whether you want this to continue or whether
you want to try free trade. l make bold to
say with all respect that there is not Demo
cratic statesman on the stump in West Vir-
ginia conspicuous enough to be known to
the nation Il speak only of those
, know who advocates a protective tariff
/ go further. l do not know a Democratic
statesman who will acknowledge that tariff
for protection is constitutional, and there
fore, as honest men, they are bound to
oppose it. The Morrison tariff bill would
have struck at the interest of West Virgins
in many vital points, and its an amazing
} fact that representatives in congress from
West Virginia voted for that
bill. There is good old adage
which beg to recall to your minds, thai
''God helps those who help themselves, and
if West Virginia Is not willing to sustain
protective tariff by her vote and her influences
she must not expect it to be sustained fol
her by others. If she wants the benefit of g
protective tariff she must give to protective
tariff the benefit of her support. lam GLAD
, that am addressing q southern people,
community who were slave holders,
community made up of those who wer'
{ slaves, but am addressing slave state NJ
longer. / am appealing to the new south
/ and am appealing to West Virginia no
e to vote upon tradition or
r prejudice. Not TO keep her eyes to the rea
I but to look to the front and to the future, anC
=, if / could be heard / would make the sam
appeal to other southern states, to Old Vir
ginia, to North Carolina, 10 Georgia, to Ten
: nessee and TO Louisiana. They are all in
y terestedin protective tariff, and the ques
e ton is do they prefer to crafty prejudic
o or to promote general prosperity! Wes
Y Virginia can lead the way. She can brea
q this seemingly impregnable barrier Of tn
: solid south. Solid on whatl Solid on
= prejudice, solid on tradition, soil
upon doctrines that separate the differen
portions Of the Union. Whereas | inyit
you to join in q union, not merely reform
II bat union in fact, and take your part 4
l. the solution of the industrial and fnancis
problems of the time. II West Virgini
takes that course on the 18th Of October sh
will do much to settle the controversies thi
now agitate US. The report of the protectlv
a tariff, according to the terms Of the Morriso
il bill, would cost West Virginia vast sum
money. Between 1870 and 1880 you game
this state $3.50, 600. Between 1880 an
1890 you viii gain much more wit
n tariff for protection. But / as
ct any business man if he believe
e. YOU can do it with free trade. Here l clos
s. my words OF counsel, leaving the action |
d you. l leave you as community influence
40 by sectional feeling, but as a communii
!, broadly national. l leave you rs a sta
"a allied on the one side to Pennsylvania an
on the other to Ohio, as much as you are
oil Virginia and Kentucky. leave you as
state that stands in the van Of the new sout
l in nviting the whole south to join in gre
national movement which shall in fact an
1 In feeling, as well as in form, make US
people with one union and one constitution
After Mr.. Blaine, Hon. A. ". Tenney,
IN Brooklyn, made q speech. From Cratic
+ the special train turned again toward Il
OF Ohio river. At Clarksburg there was We
- enthusiastic gathering. Here and at sever
l other points on the route to Parkersburg NJ
liz Blaine spoke briefly Of protection to Amer
h. can industries as the chief issue Of the car
paign. Bishop Walden, of the NJ. E. chure
- who lives in Cincinnati, and several mini
II. ters of that church who had been a;tendiI
l a conference at Buchanan, got upon 4
be train at Clarksburg They were presented
ell Mr. Blaine and conyersed with him freely
in the way TO Parkersburg.
Biaine'S Itrofacedness