Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-31
ANOTHER SPEECH.

From the Academy oS Music blaine and Cen
eral Fremont were driven to the Grand Opera
House, where there was another great crowd
outside and Il very large audience inside. Upon
BaincS appearance there was repetition on q
smaller scale. cf thc scene at the Academy.
Being introduced 10y the Chairman Of the even
ing, Blaine delivered the following speech:
The Republican party had its origin in Il
combination of patriotic mcn thirty wears age.
IN prevent the Introduction oi slavery into the
Territories OF the United States. That battle,
waged with persistence ami courage, and re-
sisted with spirit of evil determination, finally
eliminated in the election of Abraham Lincoln
IcheerS and the resistance 10 his constitutional
right to be President ended in bloody war of
four years duration. a party which be
gan its existence by resisting slavery,
naturally and inevitably became the pro
tector of free labor great chceringj.
and, with the question of slavery definitely
ended by the issue of the civil struggle, the
party became the representative. the emb9di-
meut, OF that industrial system which had for
its end and its aim the encouragement OF Amer
lean industry. Enthusiastic cheering. The
step from relieving the black man froa slave
labor was natural and easy TO relieving the
white man from the degradation Of that form of
labor which reduces him to the servitIdc OF
poverty. Renewed cheering. Standing these
many years rs The advocate OF Il protective
tariff (cheerSl. the results have been great en-
largemeIlt Of our industrial activity, vast al
dition to our national wealth, the encourage
mcut and development OF American manu-
facIures the elevation and better payment OF
his face. Ltrcat cheering. Thirty years of ef-
fort twepty-four years of power. have certainly
vindicated the CLAIMS of the Republican party
to general and to national confidence. iCheerS.J
And the leading question now TO lie decided
By the popular vote OF all the States,
is whether that industrial system, and
that financial system, which goes hand il hand,
shall be superseded. and whether The expert
ment Of free trade, with - possible change
in our currency system, she'll Ire resoTtcd to by
the voluntary consent OF the American people.
[''Never.' never Certainly there Is no man
intelligent enough TO reckon up his weeks
wages on Saturday night who does not know
that the only difference between days pay for
labor in the United States and days pay for
labor in Great Britain is produced by and results
from protective tariff. lGreat and prolonged
cheering So that an American laborer who
voluntarily casts his ballot for the elevation to
power of party committed to free trade, casts
his ballot for reduction of his own wages.
Enthusiastic cheeringl The Trades Unions
may protect you from the unjust exactions o. an
employer but how, in an era of free trade can
they protect you from the importation of cheap
fabrics from the old world, which must neccs-
sarily reduce your own wages. or probably COM
mel The abandonment of rival manufactures
in this country Cheers.
From the Grand Opera House Blaine was
taken to Il carriage and driven to Williamsburg
whore ht addressed an Open-air meeting.