The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-29
BLAINE.
He Addresses a Crowd at Port
JerVis.
And Talks About What He Knows
COnsiderable-RaiIr

CHICAGO, October 2S.-At Port Jervis
Blaine addressed a crowd as follows:
"This town is a centre of the railroad
industry, and I want to call the atten-
ton of the railway men who do ME the
honor to listen to me to the fact that
when the Republican party came into
power In the nation, there were not
80 900 miles of railway in the country.
That was twenty-three years ago. There
are now nearly 10000 miles, and the
railway industry, not merely the capital
employed in running trains. but
the general employment of men,
has increased in even larger
proportion than the fOur-fold ratio OF
the mileage of the roads. Is there any
man here who doubts that that out
growth of the railway system of the
country is simply an accurate measure
of the growth of the industries OF the
country; industries, whose growth was
stimulated by protective tariff
l see before me men engaged
In various occupations; some OF
you in the railway business, some OF
you in manufactures and some OF you
in farming; but there Is not one OF you
whose prosperity is not affected. not one
whose fTeslde is not reached by the IN
fuence OF the protective tariff. Men
speak OF the city of New York as inter
eSted in free trade, because it is a great
commercial metropolis. Why, there are
five men, do not know but l might
safely say that there are ten men IN the
city of New York, whose bread depends
ultimately upon protective tariff,
to every one who depends upon Iree
trade. We are in the habit OF speaking
of commercial cities as though they
had interests antagOnistic to the pro
tective system, but New York never had
so vast a commerce as she has had since
the protective tariff has been in full
operation, and since Lincoln was in
augurated. The exports from New
York have more than doubled all that
she had exported from the time
when the first Dutchman set foot
on Manhattan Island down to
1861. prolonged cheering.) l GER
tainly would not advocate a pro-
tective system, if it injured any OF the
great interests of the country, but the
fact is, that there never was time
when agriculture, manufactures and
commerce went forward so rapidly, or
with so great results, in any nation, as
in the United States during the last
twenty-three years under the operation
of the protective tariff. (Cheers.)
At Middletown, Blaine, in the course
of his remarks, said: II have just re-
turned from a long tour through the
great, prosperous States of the west, OF
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin, and everywhere l found
the Republican party united, strong
and confident. | hope that that is its
condition in New York. If you have
had any differences in your own ranks;
if there have been any little dissensiOn,
l trust you will forget them, and that
there will be but one Republican party
in the State of New York"
1t is six weeks since Blaine left
Augusta. In that time he has travelled
by rail more than 5000 miles, and made
from ten to twenty-nine speeches per
day. He is in excellent health and
spirits, even better than when he
started. The run from Elmira to-day,
272 miles, was one of the longest made
in any day.
At Paterson there was an immense
multitude awaiting the arrival of the
train, certainly not less than 10000 per-
sons. Blaine spoke briefly.
a short stop was made at Rutherford
Park and then, at about O'Clock, the
train ran into the depot at Jersey city.
The ferry company had provided spe-
cial boat which carried the party to the
foot of Twenty-third street, whence they
were driven to the Fifth Avenue hotel,
where Elkins, Senator Hale and Mr..
Blaine's wife and daughter were await
ing him.
New YORK, October 2S.-At 10 o'clock
tomorrow Blaine will receive a delega-
ton of ministers at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel; he will witness the parade in
the afternoon and attend Delmonico
dinner in the evening.