The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30
BladnO's Tour.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Oct 19.-The following
| Is Mi. Blaine's speech at South Bend: :.
Men Men Of Indiana: Tho struggle Il, 81 hum.,
Propounding fine theories to q tnan who i
hungry. There is no use in commencing 20
Mtical principle to one who is in need Of shelter
Is naked. Food and clothing are tho prtmar!
requirements Of human society, tho primar!
elements OF human progress, and to secur
this you must put the people in the wa!
right" and cheers.] .Inever saw any man movet
to enthusiasm by silently contemplating tn
prosperity OF another (laughter] while he him
make him feel his own prosperity. [Cheers
the beginning, therefore, and the end Of WIS.,
legislation is to give every man fair and equa
chance, and to leave the race of life open anC
free for all. tCheering.] What agency will best
accomplish that? What legislation will most
tend to that end? Certainly it will not tend tc
that end to throw open our ports and say. 'SenC
and most addressed labor Of Europe, to compete
seps b2Ppssp snG ThS s aSas fol
you do that you cannot spin wheel or turn
lathe in these factories at home, unless You car
get your labor at the European prices "T'That's
So ! We begin right there. From these consid.
crations we deduce the conclusion that the pro.
tect1ve tafif Is primarily for the benefit Of the
laboring man. because II you take in your hand
any manufactured article, or cast your eye upon
anything which cannot be taken in the hand,
you find that the chief constituent element in
Its cost Is labor. In many cases the material is
but per cent and the labor is 80 per cent
In the cost~of the article. Therefore all leg
islatton Of protective character Is and must be
mainly =
FOR THE BENEFIT OF LABOR.
because labor is the principal element In tho
cost Of the fabric; hence, II there be any man
who Is pre-eminently and above all others IN
terested in the tariff 1t is the laboring man.
lCheers.] II you compare the two great politi-
cal parties In relation to this question, you will
find that the Republican party lives, moves,
breathes and has its being in protection: lGreat
cheerinR.] protective tariff was one of the
first fruits of the election Of MI. Lincoln. We
have had it for twenty years on the statute
books with various amendments which have
been added from time to time to make 1t more
protective, and the result is that all history,
ancient. modern and medieval, may be
snta Sat f1f bc5 1aoP Sava like
1861. [Renewed cheers.] 1 am merely reciting
the facts and figures Of your assessors books
ana Of the Qn1ted a. states tensus tables. when
history Of this country we have added more
wealth, double over, than We had acquired from
the discovery Of tho continent by Columbus
down to the election of Abraham Lincoln PRO
longed cheering.] There must have been some
peculiar and potent agent at work to produce
this great result. That agent was the protective
and reward it fairly and literally. lchecrs.1
Whether that policy shall be continued
or whether hete,, It, , shall be abandoned is
All other questions are laid aside for the time.
There are many which are worthy Of considers
ton, but TWO weeks from Tuesday next we shall
determine with reference to this question, the
character OF the next congress and the future
policy OF the government. You have before you
the Republican party
PLEDGED TO SUSTAIN THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
and illustrating that pledge by specific and
consistent example extending through the
hand, the Democratic party, which in fifty one
years, since 1858; has never i'll a single instance
voted for protection. and never controlled con-
gress that it a;' not oppose protection. That's
SOL l say therefore to the laboring men and tho
mechanics who may do me the honor to listen,
your unions, your leagues, all those associations
which you have formed for your own advantage
and your own Advancement are we'll and proper
in their way. 1t is your right to have them, and
to administer them rs you choose, but they are
not ~ strong as rope OF sand against the ILL
tective tariff. which Is now your background and
support. [Clleers.] So do not be deuded by
the idea that yon. can dispense with
it your labor unions. Renewed cheering] do
not distract your attention with any other
question. I do not stop to dwell upon, the great
issues that have been made and settled by tho
Republicans within the last,twenty- three years
That party has made deeper and more glorious
imprint in history than any other political Or
ganization that ever was charged with great
responsibility, and it is the patriotic pride Of
every man who has belonged to it that no has
belonged to it and has shared in its labors, its
responsibilities, its trfumphs and its honors.
(Great cheers.]
Address by the National Committee.
The Republican national committee halls in
the glorious victories already Won a sure omen
OF the greater victory that is close at hand YER
mont Is still the star that never SETS Mali
captured in 1880, rebukes SANDER by plurality
OF 10000, gain OF 13 per cent Of its entire VOTE
West Virginia. in place Of 1000 plurality for
Hancock, now falls below 3,OOO-a Republican
gain of z per cent, which kindles hope that the
1873 votes of solid South may be broken in
November. But the result in Ohio is a
revolution and prophecy. Only year
ago Democratic by 1900, and two years
ago by $4,000 plurality, Ohio now gives 1900
plurality for the lowest Republican state candi-
date, and on national issues $4,000 for the Re-
publican congressman. Holding the state and
local offices and the whole machinery of cleo
tions, the Democrats scattered corruption
money with lavish hand, colonized voters, i'm
ported professional repeaters. and in spite Of the
most strenuous efforts to enforce the law against
them, cast many thousands of fraudulent votes.
because of this power they had chosen to stake
all upon that state, declared that it would FORE
shadow the result in November, and were
strongly certain of success. They filed
the air with Islander. Local issues led
many voters to disregard national ques-
lions. Against such odds the magnificent
victory is a prophecy of 10000 plurality for
Blaine and Logan in November. With the ratio
OF gain In other states, it foreshadows an in
crease of 100000 In the Republican national
vote and the largest popular majority ever given
to any candidate. These victories show the de-
termination of the people that as Lincoln, Grant
and Garfield we're slandcred in vain so the FORE
most statesman Of to-day shall not be driven
from the peoples work by the tongue Of
malice. They show that the Republican party,
which was the fist to resist and uproot the
dogma of perpetual allegiance" to a
foreign power, is chosen by the nation to defend
all rights of American citizens abroad. They
show that 50 long as the. Democratic party rests
ill hope of success upon a denial Of free SUI
frage in the Southern states it will ask in vain
the confidence Of any state where free vote is
recorded by honest count.
BENEFITS OF PROTECTION
They show that the people will not abandon
the projection Of American industry, under
which the country has gained twice as much in
twenty years as it gained in all its previous his
tory; the protection of American labor, which
has lifted wages 62 per cent higher here than in
England. The people see what stagnation DEM
ocratic first firm step toward free trade" has
caused within the past year. Nine months ago,
flushed with victory and boasting Of certain sue
cesses, the Democratic party made secret of its
blind adherence to British theories Of free trade.
Now neither q deceitful platform nor dumb
candidate avails to check the stampede from the
party. For it's voters knew that protection has
made the rewards Of labor greater hero than In
any other country earth.
The national committee: appeals to the people
to make the victory decisive. It Isl no time for
overconfidence. or for neglect Of any proper
effort. Bare success is not enough. It is time
to put an end to the agitation by
which the Democratic rarity prostrates business
every four years; put an end to the hope that
the nation can be ruled by shotguns in sixteen
states and frauds In two; put an end to the vii
LITIGATION Of the two foremost champions Of
American ideas by men who do not dare to meet
vital issues of national policy. Make the prin-
ciples proclaimed by our matchless leader
Peace with the world; commercialexpansio in
every practicable direction: encouragement Of
every form of American industry; protection Of
every citizen, native or naturalized, Al home
or abroad"-not only triumphant, that the
splendid prosperity which they promote shall
not again be int Interrupted by the struggle Of OBJ
solete theories and foreign interests for the
mastery of this continent. The grandest part
Of the grandest history ever made by any ma
ton is the work Of the Republican; party. It
rests with you, Republicans of the nation, to
carry forward the work which you and your
fathers have begun and to which so many brave
and faithful men have given precious lives, that
government Of the people, by, the people and for
the people shall be maintained in the land
(Signedl B. F. JONES, Chairman
SAMUEL FESsENDEN, Secretary
M. Blaine's Speech at Terre Hauts, Ind.
The Southern question, as for years it has
been popularity termed, is precipitated into the
canyass hv the Sonth ifaelf.a and To-. neglect tn