The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-10-16
What the Republican Policy has Done for
E5 the West. se; KY y " 50! -.

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tt the West. 81, q. n II.
The following speech BY James q. Blaine at
5Masailon, Ohio, on the sth inst: Ssss;s
Men Of Ohio In Q procession of our political
opponents at youngstown, recently, there ap-
peared man and, woman in rags and apparent
wretchedness bearing the inscription This
Is what protection has done for US. Derisive
laugh This wns intended to typify and de-
nounce the resultsso ct protection .in Ohio. 1T
picture. In ~ Ohio to-day there are
81 600 manufacturing establishing nts; they cost
2300 900, 600 and they turn out annually o pro.
duct worth three hundred and fifty millions of
dollars Out Of the results of that Investment
and that product observe a great many
people in Ohio who are not in rags an not in
Indebtedness. Laughter and great cheering
Thirty five or forty years ago the entire west
ern country was called upon as an agricultural
community to oppose the protective tariff, be-
the east Since than the manufaeturing in
dustries of the country have Travelled westward
until Ohio has bacome one Of the largest man.
ufacturing states In the Union, and combining
great uItuiaI interest and
great manufacturing interest, abe presents ali
the elements Of comfort and material progress.
Steadily, as the agricultural STATES become set
tied, manufa cturers follow. Indiana and Illinois
and Michigan are coming on rapidly after. Ohio
Iowa, Kansas and 81 - ~ "
2ss45 MINNESOTA WILL COME ALONG AS sAt
in due fine the result being that the protective
policy now upheld by the SRepublican party;
operates SO as to carry manufacturing into
every state and Intimately into every county
in the Union. IT never was deai gned that one
part Of the country should be- perma nently
was designed that agricultural and manufact-
uring interests should 60 hand in hand Ichecrsl
and wherever they do Sgo band IN hand You
have thrift, progress and happiness IRE
newed cheering.l If this dustrial system,
which combines the INCEST elements Of human.
prosperity by uniting the agricultural and
the manufacturing interests, is worth presery-
ing, you should not forget that our political
opponents have never taken action in the last
fifty Lone earsTneyer since 1889, when, they
had the power-in congress, either to repeal
repeal it, or to prevent the enactment Of such,
80 that the assertion that the protective
tariff hinders the Develop Of the commerce
of the country is not only diBproved by the;
facts, but directly the contrary is true; for ag-
riculture and manufactures and commerce go
hand in hand, and were designed to go hand in
hand They are the triple cords which bound
together make up the strength Of national pros
tperity. II assume, therefore that tile people of
Ohio are interested in maintaining the protec-
tive tariff, and if You are.itis inyour do
Il LG5eat cheering %e 9hio speaks her voice on
portunity to speak her voice and say whether
one of tho most brilliant coates Of protection
that ever served in congress shall be returned
lcheers for Mckinley, with the opportunity to
yindlcate by your votes the splendid experience
which Ohio had in developing her agricultural
for You, the memo Ohio, while the nation look,
to record your opinion and your Judgment j
thank You for your cordial ecepdon, and bid
you good bye :s ~ a III VI