The state journal., 1884-09-06
TALKING TO FARMERS.
MIR. BLAINE ATTENDS A FAIR IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
His Word Picture of Our Agriculture-The
Basis of All Wealth-Tne Republican
Candidate Enthusiastically Received
by Toilers of the eSOiI-Tendered
a Reception in the Evening.

MANCHESTER, N. H., sept. 4.-Ine
fourth day of the New England Fair
| opened with fine weather. Shortly after
II O'Clock a barouche containing Hon.
James G. Blaine, Ex-Governor Smythe,
Hon. George B. Loring and Mayor Port
man was driven upon the grounds and
was followed by other invited guests in
carriages. The arrival was greeted with
cheers. When the party were seated,
the president of the New England Agri.
cultural Society, Hon. George 3. Loring
introduced Mr.. Blaine, who spoke as fol
lows:
Mr.. Blaine's Address.
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is pleasant
to find ourselves in an assemblage where
we all bear name of higher honor than
any partisan designation, an assemblage
in which we meet on the broad plane of
American citizenship and rejoice in the
title as in itself constituting civic dis
tinction of priceless value. The agricul-
turai fair is the farmers parliament. On
this day and on this occasion the most
independent class Of citizens speak to the
world by word and deed for that great
fundamental interest on which the Re
| public rests for its security and prosperity.
1t has become trite saying that agri-
culture is the basis of all wealth, but the
| full measure of the statement may be
| comprehended when we remember that
in this year of grace, 1884, the total value
| of the product from the farm and flock in
| the United States will exceed So, 000
100000, an amount brought forth in
single year, vastly in excess of the ma
tional debt at its highest point. We are
not in the habit of considering New Eng
land as specially distinguished for agri-
culture, and yet the annual product from
her soil is greater in value than all the
| gold taken from the mines Of California
| and Australia in the richest year of their
fabulous yisld.
The farmer is the true and always sue
cessful miner in the extraction OF money
from the earth-a fact most strikingly
shown in the history of California, whose
splendid march to wealth and power only
fairly began when the energies Of her
| people were turned to tie production of
| bread for the world instead of gold. The
| prOdigiOus consumption of 56,000 900
people is brought strikingly before us
when we realize how vast Il proportion OF
| our aggregate product is used at home
and how small n share is sent abroad.
| The hundred and odd millions of New
England farm products do not support
her own people, and they are compelled
| to exchange the fruits of their mechanical
| industry to an enormous SamOuntannually
| for the means of subsistence so lavishly
outpoured from the granaries Of the West;
| and this fact is but one of many which
show the independence Of our people and
the vast extent Of our internal exchanges.
The scene of to-day has an enhanced
| interest when we reflect that throughout
| the gorgeous autumn upon which we have
| Just entered it will be reproduced in count.
| less communities throughout our land.
| From ocean to ocean, from northern lake
| to Southern gulf, the richness of the har
vest, the cOntentment and happiness OF
| the people will be shown on fields as fair
| by displays as brilliant as those which now
delight our eyes and gladden. our hearts.
| Nor will the autumn exhaust the inSpir-
| ing scenes. When the chill OF winter on
the northern border of the Union shall
make the southern sun seem genial and
| welcome our brGthern of the cotton region
will continue the W0ndrOus story.
They invite us to witness in the com
mercial emporium of the South the great
| triumph of Southern agriculture in the
| production of that single plant which has
| revOlutiOniZeQ the manufactures. They
have the finance of the world, which has
enriched the United States beyond the
reach of imagination, and has added in
calculably to the comfort, the health and
| the luxury Ofthe human race Standing
as l do, in fair Of the New England
States, it is an agreeable duty to extend
| congratulations to New England farmers
on the good results Of this years labOrs
and on the general and more important
| fact that at no period in the history of
| New England husbandry has intelligent
! labor been blessed with more profitable
results than during the present generation.
| If there he any one that doubts this wish
he was here to day and could hear what /
| have heard and see what l have seen.
| (Applause.)
heartily congratulate the New Eng
| land society on the brilliant success of
this exhibition, and | beg to return my
sincere thanks to all for the personal
kindness and dcordiality with which have
| been honored.
At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine's re-
marks he was rendered three cheers by
the crowd, TO which he bowed his &C
acknowledgements.
After the conclusion Of his address
Mr. Blaine was escorted to his carriage,
and driven quickly to the residence of
| eX- Governor Smythe, where he was ten
| =, ,Ic