Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-10-31
Blaine's Tour.
HIS SPEECH AT SOUTH BEND.

HIS SPEECH AT SOUTH BEND.
SouTE BEND, Ind. OcE 19.-The following
ts Mr.. Blaine's speech at South Bend:
Men Of Indiana: The struggle in all human
propounding fine theories to man who is
aungry. There is no use in commencing pc
!itcal principle to one who is in need OF shelter
There is use IN talking philosophy TO one who
is naked. Food and clothing the primary
requirements OF human society, the primary
pigments Of human IAN, p5ogress, ana TO secure
Of earning good wages. 3. [Shonts Of That's
! right" and cheers.] never saw any man moved
to enthusiasm by silently contemplating the
prosperity OF another Llaughterl while he him
self was In need. 10 move him you want TO
make him feel his own prosperity. [Cheers.1
The beginning, therefore. and the end OF WISE
legislation is to give every man fair and equal
chance. and to leave the race of life open and
free for ALL ICheering.] What agency will best
accomplish that? What legislation will most
tend to that end? Certainly it will not tend to
hat end to throw open our ports and say, Send
ye all here your fabrics, made by the cheapest
and most distressed labor Of Europe, to compete
shops, buildings and their factories, FOR If
you do that you cannot spin wheel OF turn
lathe in these factories at home, unless YOU can
get your labor at the European prices. L"That's
sol We begin right there. From these consid-
crations we deduce the conclusion that the pro
tective tariff is primarily for the benefit Of the
laboring man, because if 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
it's cost is labor. In many cases the material is
but per cent and the labor is 90 per cent
in the cost of the article. Therefore all leg
slatiou of protective character Is and must be
mainly
FOR THE BENEFIT OF LABOR
because labor is the principal element in the
cost of the fabric; hence, il there be any man
who is pre-eminently and above all others ILL
terasted in the tariff it is the laboring man.
lCheers.l If you compare the two great polti
cal parties in relation to this question, you Will
find that the Republican party lives, moves,
brea thes and has its being in protection. lGreat
cheering.l protective tariff one of the
! first fruits Of the election OF Mr.. Lincoln. We
have had it for twenty years on the statute
| been added from time to time to make it more
protective, and the result is that all history,
! ancient. modern and medieval, may De
fSa o5 NATIONAL hve %aSa SINCE
1861. [Renewed cheers Lam merely reciting
the facts and figures Of your assessors books
say that in the last twenty-threa years of the
history OF this country we have added more
wealth, double over, than we had acquired from
! the discovery Of the continent by Columbus
down to the election Of Abraham Lincoln. PRO
longed c1eering.] There must have been some
peculiar and potent agent at work to produce
this great result. That agent YVES the protective
and reward 1t fairly and literally. [Cheersl
Whether that policy shall be continued
whether 1t shall be NIB abandoned is
All other questions are laid aside for the time
There arc MANY which are worthy Of considera-
| tion, but TWO weeks from Tuesday next we shall
| have an election in every state i'll the Union TO
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 10 SUSTAIN THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
and illustrating Shat pledge by specific and
consistent eSI:cplc extending through the
| asst twenty three years. You have, on the other
han no I),,,nNcrlEic 1,afty. which fftV-Una