Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-17
What the Republican Policy Has Done for
the West.

+ The following speech by James q. Blaine at
Massilon, Ohio, on the Sth inst:
Men of Ohio---In a procession of cur political
opponents at Youngstown, recently, there ap-
peared nan and woman in rags and apparent
wretchedness bearing the inscription: ''This
is what protection has done for us. EDerislve
laugh This was intended to typify and de-
pounce the results of protection in Ohio I
want to present the other side Of the
picture In Ohio to-day there are
81, OCO manufacturing establishments; they cost
500, o0O, 900 and they turn out annually q pro
duct worth three hundred and fifty millions of
dollars. Out Of the results OF that investments
and that product, observe great many
people in Ohio who are not IN rags an not in
wretehedness. daughter and great cheering; !
Thirty-fiye or forty years ago the entire west
ern country was called upon ns an agricultural
community to oppose the protective tariff, be-
cause 1t uniustlys favored the manufacturer of
the east Since than the manufacturing in
dustries Of the country have travelled westward
until OHIO has become one Of the largest man
ufacturing states in the Union and combining
within herself a great agricultural interest and
great manufacturing interest, she presents all
the elements of comfort and material progress.
Steadily as the agricultural states become SET
tied, manufacturers follow. Indiana and Illinois
and Michigan are coming on rapidly after Ohio.
Iowa, Kansas and
~ Al. MINNESOTA WILL COME ALONG
in due time, the result being that the protective
policy now upheld by the Republican party
operates go as to carry manufacturing into
every state, and ultimately into every county
in the Union. It never was designed thaG one
part OF the country should be permanently
agricultural and others manufacturing, but 1T
was designed that agricultural and Inanufact-
uring interests should 60 hand i'll hand [checrs],
and wherever they do 50 hand in hand you
have thrift progress and happiness. Re-
newed cheering.] If this industrial system.
which combines the higest clements Of human
pros perity by uniting the agricultural and
the manufacturing interests, is worth preserv-
ing, you should not forget that our political
opponents have never taken action in the last
! fity-one years-never since 1893, when they
had the power--in congress, either to repeal
the protective tariff if one existed or to try to
repeal it, or to prevent the enactment Of such,
go that the assertion that the protective
tariff binders the development Of the commerce
,, Of the country is not only disproved by the
facts, but directly the contrary is true; for ag-
riculture and manufactures and commerce so
hand in hand, and we're designed to so land In
hand. They are the triple cords which bound
together make up the strength of national pros
perity. I assume, therefore that the people of
! Ohio are interested in maintaining the protec-
tive tariff and if you is in your power to do
it, [Great cheerlng1 Ohio speaks her voice on
Tuesday next This district will have the op-
portlrity to speak her voice and say whether
one of the most brilliant advocates of protection
| that ever served in congress, shall be returned
[cheers for Mckinley, with the opportunity to
vindlcate by your votes the splendid experience
which Ohio had in developing her agricultural
and manufacturing interests together. 1t is
for you. the men Of Ohio, while the nation look,
to record your opinion and your Judgment. l
thank you for your cordial reception, and bid
you good bye. ~