Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-22

him! He is caricatured and lampooned Week
after week by that Harper's Weekly which
caricatured Abraham Lincoln as drunkard.
Even the regulations Of his wife and children
have been attacked. All other reforms should
walt u %n there has been reform in our sys
people shall vindicate men Of honor thus shame
fully attacked every man in public life will flee
from positions Of trust as from the pestilence
which walketh at MONDAY.
A TARIFF FOR PROTECTION.
Remarks of Hon. James @. Blaine
at BeIIaire, Ohio.
The question Of tariff for protection is pri-
marily Of interest to the laboring man. The
original material that enters into any fabric
constitutes very small element in the cost of
that fabric. II you take steamship that costs
a Co., when an she T. aunehed the material in
ton OF pig iron that sells in your market to-
day for $40 the material that goes into it does
not cost originally over 80 cents; $40 is labor.
definitely, for Illustration In many departments;
to show that If a tariff for protection is
sSa Of interest to
and If the laboring man will not protect himself
T Tiaa his vote how can he ask others to do it.
ees Of Of ssr for fna Cheers T no
question of speculation. It is ques-
ton Of fact. question on which yon can
Of 70 You are citizens tie Of the
grown up here within the last fifteen years. You
are one OF the evidences Of the great growth Of
in population and in wealth, and have had oc-
casion to say at other meetings to-day what
now say to you and what 1 beg to impress upon
IN the history Of Ohio. Take first the year isso
Your State was then about sixty years old. It
was seventy-three years then from the time
Territory In those seventy three years of Terri
torfal and State existence the citizens OF Ohio
have accumulated wealth to the amount OF ST.
shows that the total wealth Of Ohio was then a
little over eleven hundred millions. very large
sum OF money: In 1861 the industrial and tinan-
the incoming Of the Republican party, and in
consequence of that change protective tariff
was enacted, which has been ever since in force.
In 1880, twenty years after the census of which
I have just spoken, another census was taken,
and it was found that in those twenty years the
aggregate wealth Of the State of Ohio had ncreas-
added to your wealth in those twenty years
double as much as had been created in the sew
enty-three preceding You had added upon an
average OF 500 900 per year to the permanent
capitalized wealth OF your State [applause],
and that was done largely by virtue of and in
pursuance Of the effect of the protective tariff
tinue? [Cries Of Yes yes:"] Do you want to
have any experiments tried upon it? rho, no. ~
Do you want Congress to be convulsed with the
question SO as to unsettle values and check en-
terpr1se and frighten capital, and generally, to
produce condition of uncertainty throughout
all the financial and business interests OF the
United States? rho, no, no. Why? Look at
what has been the effect simply of the Morrison
tariff bill: They did not get it through the
House OF Representatives even, but they kept
the country in turmoil and agitation, and thus
effected injuries to the interests of every labor1
Rg man end teye cagtas in the United
want to organize. not merely a change in the
tariff, for that might be done, but do you want
e S da ao
the matter is in your own hands. [Great cheer3
i9g;J Ohio has the power to command that II
command, and the opportunity will be given
vidual ballots Prolonged cheeringl
Mr.. Blaine's Speech at Grafton, w. Va.
AS your distinguished Chairman has intimate.
ed, am not a stranger to your State. I havet
known it personally for more than forty years.
and have known this section of it we'll was
born on the banks of Wonder river. few miles
below the point where it enters Pennsylvania,
and you do not need to be told by me that there
itants Of the Monongahela Valley But do not
see before me the West Virginia which knew
in my boyhood. The West Virginia of forty
ye as go was e tho
trial center in the Tnited states west Virginia,
existence during the civil war, and at that day
the most liberal estimate OF total property ac-
cording to the United States census. did not
an aggregate of $190,O0OO 900. and in 1880 it
showed that You possessed capitalized wealth
to the amount Of sa0o,ooo, coo; From the close
had, therefore, gained in wealth the enor.
NOUS sum OF $25o,ooo,ooo. You have Jared
pretty well, therefore. under Republican ad"
nent does me the honor to listen to me,
and l would ask him, as a candid
man. what agency was it that nerved the
create this wealth in Virginia? 1t was the pro-
tective tariff and financial system that gave YOU
good money: Before the war yo@ ~, n never had
pass current 800 miles from home; you do not
to-day have single piece of paper money cir
culating in West Virginia that is not good all
as certainly in the money markets of Europe az
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.
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 wanL
this to continue or whether you want to try free
trade. make bold to say, with all respect, that
there is not Democratic statesman on the
stump In West Virginia conspicuous enough to
be known to the nation Il speak only OF those
know who advocates protective tariff; not
one. go further | do not know. Demo-
cratic statesman who will not acknowledge
that tariff for protection is constitutional,
and, therefore as honest men, they are bound
to approve it. The Morrison tariff bill would
have struck at the interests OF West Firgini.
in MANY vital respects and it is 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, that
God helps those who help themselves, and If
West Virginia is not willing to sustain pro-
tective tariff by her vote and her influence she
must not expect it to be sustained for her by
others. 1t she wants the benefit OF protective
tariff she must give to protective tariff the
benefit OF her support am GLAD that am
that were slave holders, c immunity made up
Of those who were masters and those who were
Ion er. am appealing to the new South, and
am appealing to West Virginia not to vote upon
a tradition or prejudice, not to keep her eyes
to the rear, but to look to the front and to the
future. And if could be heard I would make
! the same appeal to other Southern States to
old Virginia, to North Carolina, to Georgia, to
are ali interested in protective tariff, and me
! question is, which do they prefer, to crafty a
prejudice or to promote general prosperity? West
seeminey impregnabie barrier OF Of the soid
South Solid on what? Solid on prejudice;
! solid on tradition solid upon doctrines that
Whereas invite You to JOIN in union not
merely in form, but a union in fact, and take
your part in the solution of the industrial and
financial problems of the time. If West Viz"
ginia takes that course Oct II she will do
much to settle the controversies that now agi-
tate us. The repeal of the protective tariff, ac-
cording to the terms Of the Morrison bill, woulA
cost West Virginia q vast sum Of money. Be-
| tween 1870 and 1880 you gained in this State
$3.50 O0O, 600; between 1880 and 1880 you will gain
| much more with tariff Tor protection; but I
ask any business man if he believes you can do
it with free trade Here I close my words Of
counsel, leaving the action to you I leave you,
! not as a community influenced by sectional
feeling, but as a community broadly national.
I leave you as State allied on the one side to
Pennsylvania, and on the other to Ohio, as much
as you are to Virginia and Kentucky. leave
you State that stands in the van OF the new
South, inviting the whole South to join in 9
great national movement which shall! in fact
and in feeling, as well rs in form, make us
people with one Union, one Constitution. and one
destiny.
Democratic Lies Nailed.
Mr. Blaine has written the following letter to
the Hon. Wm Mckinley, Of Ohio:
The Hon. William Mckinley, NJ. c.. Canton.
Ohio: +
MY DEAR SIR: Ihave your favor, stating Ger.
tain charges against me which you wish to be
able tc contradict authoritatively. answer
YOU promptly and decisively. l. 1t is utterly
| untrue that ever advocated q residence Of