The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-10-15

Mr.. Bsaine's Journey From Wheeling
to Grafton-Wbat TIE Tariff Has
Done for West Virginia.

was quite q cemonstrallHe croHus
and as the train moved slowly out
of the city workmen came out OF
their shops and the people out Of
houses and cheered. The first stop
was made at Moundsville. The
Chairman of the Republican State
Committee introduced Mr.. Blaine,
who was warmly received lie
said
81 am glad to meet the citizens OF
Marshall county. am glad to be
in West Virginia. | consider it one
of the encouraging signs of the time
that an earnest contest is going on
in what was once slave State for
the ascendency of Republican prin-
ciples, and Republican principles
this year mean tariff for the pro-
lection of American labor. lCheers.l
IfWest Virginia is in favor Of that
she is Republican. If she is oppos-
ed to it, she is not Republican. The
decision rests with her citizens. i
know of no state in the Union more
directly interested in the promotion
of manufactures than your State.
Your rich beds Of coal and iron,yeur
vast forests, all your natural resour-
ces favor the development of great
manufacturing industries. They can
be developed under a protective tar
if: they cannot be without II.
on THE WAY TO FAIRNoNT:
At Cameron, Litileion, Manning
ton acd Pennington there were bret
stops. and at each point Mr.. Blaine
spoke briefly OF the importance to
West Virginia Of o protective isrih.
At Fairmont there was quite a
large meeting. and Mr. Blame len
the train and addressed the people
from a stand. Here, a. al ali pre-
oediag points the people were very
enthusiastic.
An ESrnCsIAsIic Crowd.
Al Grafton there was a very large
and remarkably enthusiastic meet
log. The little monntain town was
packed full Of people from the sur
rounding country. Mr.. Blaine was
escorted 10 a stand, where Hon. John
A. Mason introduced him 70 the
people. When the demonstration
with which be was received had
subsidcd he said;
Citizens Of West Nirginia-As
vour distinguished chairman has
intimated, | am not stranger to
your State. ! have known it per
sonallv for more than forty years,
and | have known this section OF 1t
well. | was born on the banks of
wonder river, few miles below
The point where it enters Pennsyl-
vania, and you do not need to be
told bv me that there was always a
unity of feeling among the inhabi-
tants Of the Monongahela Valley.
TCheers.l But / do not see before
me the Vest Virginia which | knew
in nv boyhood. The West Virginia
of forty years ago was comparatively
a wilderness. The West Virginia of
to-day is a prosperous industrial
centre in the United States. Zap
plause.l West Virginia as an inde
pendent Commonwealth began her
existence during the civil war, and
at that day the most liberal estimate
of her total property according to
the enumeration of the United
States census did not exceed $780,
100000. In 1870 the census gave
YOU an aggregate of S100,000,0O0,
and In 1880 it showed that you pos
sessed a capitalized wealth to the
amount of s350,00O,000. From the
close of the war to the year 1880
West Virginia has therefore gained
in wealth the enormous sum Of
s25O,O00,0o0. You have Jared pref
ty well, therefore under Republican
administration. Laughter and
cheers Probably some political
opponent does me the honor to lis
ten to me, and would ask him as
a candid man what agency was it
that nerved the arm of industry to
smite the mountains and create this
wealth in West Virginia +? 1t was the
protective tariff Great cheering] and
o financial system that gave you
good money. Renewed cheering J
Before the war you never had cir
culating medium in your midst, a
bank bill that as current hun
dred miles from home. ["That's so"
and cheers You do not to-day
have single piece of paper money
circulated in West Virginia that Is
not good all around the globe.
lGreat cheering Not bill that will
not pass as currently in the money
markets of Europe as in New York
or Baltimore, so that the man who
works for days wages knows when
Saturday night comes that he is to
be paid in good money. Renewed
cheering.l Under the protective
tariff your coal industries and your
iron industries and the wealth of
your forests have been brought out,
and it is for you, voters of West
Virginia. TO say whether you want
this to continue or whether you
want free trade. ''No, we dont."l
Il make bold to say, with all re-
spect, that there is not a Democratic
statesman on the stump in West
Virginia, conspicuous enough to be
known to the Nation, u speak only
OF those | know who advocates a
protective tariff; not one. ''Not
one, not one."l | 60 further. / do
no; know Democratic statesman
who viii acknowledge that tariff
for protection is constitutional, and
therefore, as honest men they are
bound to oppose it. The Morrison
tariff bill-C"We won't have it" 1.-the
Morrison tariff bill would have
struck at the interests of West Nir-
ginia in many vital points. and it is
an amazing fact that the Represen-
tatives in Congress from West Viz
ginia voted for that bill.
There is a good old adage, which
/ beg to recall 20 your minds, that
God helps those who help them
selves and if West Virginia is not
willing to sustain a protective tariff
by her vote and her influence, she
must not expect it to be sustained
Ser her by others. If she wants the
benefit Of protective tariff she