St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-12
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BIaine,s MOUenients.
WooLEsToN, o., Oct. 11.-At o'clock Mr..
Blaine left lronton to go up through the Hook
ing valley. The workmeu in the nail mills came
out bare armed and bare breasted, and cheered
as he passed. At Oakhin there was consider
able crowd, composed largely of worlSingmen.
Beside the track they had erected q platform,
composed of pig iron, on which Mr. Blaine
stood. He began his brief speech, saying:
stand on the same platform ON which stood in
congress for twenty years. The platform which
enables the iron TO be made in our own country
instead of in England. This was received with
great cheering. The remainder of the
special was devoted to the bearing of the tariff
on the iron Industry.
ATHENS, Ohio. Oct. 10.--At jackson there was
a very large gathering of a similar character to
that at Oak Hill. Blaine spoke a few words
about his interest in the coal lands, and the
bearing of the tariff upon the iron and coal trade.
His remarks were very favorably received, and as
the train moved off the people cheered him re-
peatedly. An interesting incident of the stop at
jackson was the presence of Samuel Baker,
veteran, nearly 100 years old, who, if he lives
until election day, will cast his seventeenth vote
for president Of the United States.
AT JACKSONVILLE.
LANCASTER, o, Oct. 1l.-At Nelsonville, the
ley, Mr.. Blaine made the following speech:
''If 1 at home anywhere it is in coal
region. 1 was born and brought up in coal re-
gion. in the valley of the BIonongahela, and
know something about coal. / have been an
owner OF coal lands nearly all my adult life, and
the greater part Of what little property have
in this world is in coal lands. / have been to
some extent engaged in the mining of coal.
now interested as q stakeholder and director
in a company in West Virginia. Ihaye had twenty
seven years experience in connection with the
coal industry, and L count it piece of remarka-
bic good fortune that neither myself or any COM
pany with which have been connected has ever
had strike, quarrel, or dispute, or trouble
of any kind with any man. Further, I have to
say that during the last eighteen months the
company that 1 am. connected with has been
able TO pay on an average of about $50 month
to every one of the 26O men engaged. You see,
therefore, that am not talking about subject
that do not understand. But while acknowl-
edge that am owner of coal lands in Pennsyl-
vania and in West Virginia, am kindly assured
by number of Democrats in Ohio that / own
also a large tract of coal land in the Kentucky
Valley. Now 1 think that when a man
has property attributed to him which he pro-
tests that he does not own, and when the other
parties insist that he does own il they ought to
be compelled by law to make it good TO him.
They say that am large holder in the Hooking
valley syndicate. i say that do not own sin
gle share. They say again that do. Let them
come into court then and make the ownership
good to me. If could bring them into court on
that issue and under the rule suggested could
bankrupt a great many Democratic editors and
speakers who insist that own property that /
never did own. i understand that
the miners in this region have
had some trouble with the operators and our
political opponents say that l am one OF the ope-
rators. As L said while ago, l have never had
any trouble with the mon employed in the mines
in which l am interested. and i never expect to
have any, because il Dcannot continue the bust
ness without difficulties Of that kind / shall
abandon it. / think there is no disagreement
that ever arises between an employer and the
men he employs that ought not 10 be settled by
a fair. impartial arbitration, and / think the man
who is not willing to submit such matter to ar
bitration ought to explain the public why he
is unwilling to do it. But because you are in
temporary trouble why should you turn YOUR
backs on the great protective system which for
twenty years has promoted and secured the de-
yelopment of your valleyg Are you going to
remedy your troubles in that wayg Because you
cannot have the high tide of prosperity all the
time, do you, therefore. say that You will have
the low tide Of adversely? In this world we have
to take a little bit Of lean with the fat You
cannot have stream flow down its bed without
having eddy and then. You cannot have
the flood tide OF the ocean without the
CORES spending ebb. These occasional disturbances
of the even flow of prosperity seem to be newt
able. You want 20 get rid of them of course.
but the parties concerned should deal with each
other in patient and conciliatory spirit and In
your anxiety TO remedy these passing troubles
yon should not think OF tearing away the very
foundation on which the prosperity of your state
and Of the whole country rests. appeal to you
as workingmen, as miners, because il the pro-
tective tariff is not good for the coal and iron
interests, ii is not good for anything II it does
not develope these it does not develope any
thing. And If the protective tariff were repealed
tomorrow these hills would be again
wrapt In the silence and desertIon in
which they rested during the twenty-five years
preceding the enactment of the protective tariff.
But the other hand, il the protective tariff is
maintained have full faith that your troubles
will soon be adjusted, and that new era of pros
perity will dawn upon you.''
a miner-"May 1 ask, Mr.. Blaine, II you are
interested in the union furnacey'
Mr.. Blaine-"No not to the extent of single
penny. will make it stronger than that
never owned any interest in any iron furnace in
Ohio or any where else in the civilized world. /
never was engaged in the iron business al ALL
but have been engaged in the coal business,
and large portion Of the property own is in
vested in coal to-day. am interested with YOU
in this matter. If the coal business breaks
down in Ohio it cannot be maintained in Penn
sylvania or West Virginia We all stand or fall
together When they were about to sign the
declaration OF Independence some one said
to old DR.. Witherspoon: '.Well, we must hang
together Yes said ne, 'If we do not
George III will see TO it that we hang sepa-
rateiy." So, my friends engaged in the coal in
dustry. II we do not staud together we shall fall
together l thank you for the very kind recep-
ton YOU have given me. and leave you in the
hope and expectation that we shall soon have
better times for the mining interes. throughout
the whole United States.
At Logan, town also in the mining district,
there was very large crowd, who cheered Mr.
Blaine's remarks enthusiastically.
in the evening az Lancaster he was escorted 10
the house OF his cousin, Judge PhIlomon B.
Ewing. ana later ct meeting held in his honor
he made speech devoted largely to the remem-
bTances OF his schoolboy days, concluding with
an appeal TO the Republicans of Ohio to do their
duty on next Tuesday. After Mr.. Blaine Hon.
A ". Tenny, OK New York, addressed the
meeting.
LoGnn af Cincinnati.
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