The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-28

1 10 Tue PARK were OeCuIdkSu. NIX. DialHS 3 speech
was of rather humorous tone and provoked
much laughter.
| The train reached Lockhaven at 3:15 A plat
| form was constructed near the track, and little
time was lost. Mr.. Blaine delivered a ten-min-
ute speech, which was received with hearty
cheers. Mr.. Blaine said
"Ir seems to me to be work of supereroea-
| tion for me to come to Bellefonte to speak in
favor of General Beaver, and it seems to me a
| work OF supererogation for me to come to Penn
| sylvania TO speak in favor of protective tariff
came, at some personal inconvenience, to say
to the Republicans of Pennsylvania that they
| are In different situation from any that they
| have occupied since the protective tariff was
| enacted, IN 1861. For the first time in the his
| tory OF the protective tariff the administration
! OF the national government is hostile to it. For
| the first time in twenty-five years the weight
the influence, the patronage OF the national
tariff, and l came to say to you. fell
| low-Republicans of Pennsylvania, that
as In every crisis of the past, when that question
| was at stake, you bore the heat and burden of
| additional burden an increased responsibility,
| to give such an expression against adverse lnhu
| ences as shall leave no doubt within the United
! States of the immovable character of Pennsyl-
vania on this question. If Pennsylvania falters.
I If she falls back one inch on that question, you
! cannot measure the adverse influence upon other
| States. Do not, therefore. slacken in your eff
! forts. Do not, therefore, / pray you, consider
this an off year. You are to choose twenty eight
| members of the House of Representatives; you
| are to choose Legislature which. in turn
| will choose q United States Senator and
| remember, above all, the high-water mark of
| your popular influence to be registered in the
| vote which you give for your own gallant towns
man and fellow-citizen, General Beaver. ZAP
| plause. The occasion, therefore, is one of no
ordinary signifcation. The duty which is i'm
| posed on you is NO ordinary duty We feel that
| way in Maine and I am commissioned by the
| Republicans of that, my adopted State. to say to
| you as Republicans of this my native State,
| that as you go we will go. The trouble about
| Pennsylvania is that you are too rich If you
had to work harder to live, you would know
what other States Go with rocky soils and harsh
climate. You have, in the fret place,
the best supply of coal; you have the
best supply of iron. You have an
enormous supply Of oil, and again, on top OF all,
| you have an immense supply of natural gas suf
fcient to set the world on fire. With all these
| resources, in addition to the richest of soil and
the most salubrious of climates, you should be
satisfied and happy. 1t is no credit to you that
you have these but it will be a discredit
TO you which you can never wipe out If you give
up these immense advantages This is all came
here TO say. l came here simply to give you that
warning and to ask you as trustees to do your
duty by all the States of the Union. Sustain
your representatives in Congress, and do all you
can to aid the Republican party"
At Lockhaven Mr.. Blaine repeated substan-
TALLY what he said at Bellefonte
At Willamsport, Mr.. Blaine said: "As ap-
preached your town and saw the pine logs and
the booms in the Susquehanna, thought was
back in Maine. felt that, aside from the gen.
eral sympathy the political men of Maine have
for those Of Pennsylvania, felt that there must
be an especial feeling between the people of the
n fhn vail yypffh o
Susquehanna We have our pines and we have
our booms and our logs, and if we had no
reason IN the world other than the thousand and
one reasons which we have for opposing the
Democratic party, we should oppose it for strug-
Cling, in the last session of Congress, and
| struggling hard to let 2 in Canadian lum-
Der free of duty. lApplause.] Gentlemen,
| taking off. all the duty on pine lumber,
taking off the tariff on all forms of lumber tax
ing off every form of duty from every form Of
| product OF material from the Canadian
! provinces, and leaving New England to supply
Canada with all her manufactures, is an indus
trial policy worthy of the Democratic admins
| tration. Sometime since one of the eminent
men in Canada asked me to use what little infiu-
ence possessed in Maine to urge upon our peo-
pie the propriety of reciprocity treaty, which
1t was understood, he said, our minister was ne.
gotiating at the court of ST. James I asked
how 1t would do to make clean thing of it, and
let into the United States everything produced
free or duty, and everything we produced be
let into Canada free of duty; but no,
he said, that would interfere with England
Laughter. l said, If l understand you cor
rectly, the idea, then, is this Canada has no
manufactures and plenty of raw materials, and
England has no raw material and plenty of
manufactures, and the United States proposed to
be kind of obedient pack horse for the convent
ence of both, and that we will let in Canada
lumber, Canada COAL Canada hay, Canada pota-
toes and other products free of duty And I
said, Will you let in our cottons, and our prod
ucts of leather, and our iron, and our steel, and
the thousand and one others of our productionsP
He answered, don't think England would
agree to that Laughter In the reciprocity
treaty with Canada, in 1854, thirty-eight
articles were embraced thirty-four or
thirty-ive of them were imported. and
five, or possibly only FOUR could be
exported to Canada and when they came to form
their tariff these articles placed on the free
list. They were articles which they could not
produce but which they wanted imported so
ais cotton, tobacco, etc. The repeal of the pro-
tective tariff will result to the advantage of the
importers and of the people who have large in
come which they have earned by business in
this country, and desire the privilege of buying
everything they buy in Europe. Take those
two classes and winnow out from it all party in
terests and all party prejudices. and you have
well nigh unanimous opinions in the North in
favor OF protective tariff. There comes in the
precise stumbling block. The difficulty is in
winnowing them out wnnowing out those who
have party interests and party prejudces. The
difficulty has been, if may speak frankly in
having the Democratic party make a fair and
open issue of the case. Nothing in the last
forty years have they been willing to do in this
direction; never in the last forty years has the
Democratic party been willing to assume, in a
popular election, the attitude its representatives
assumed in Congress 1t has always been thus
nothing but insncerity and evasion"
Lewisburg, the home of Mr.. Wolfe, the Prohi-
bition candidate for Governor, was reached at
$40, an hour behind the time of the programme
An audience of about three thousand people was
assembled in Music Hall. The meeting was an
all-afternoon affair, addresses being made by Mr.
Davis, candidate for Acknowledgements, and
others Mr. Blaine said:
"The political contest in Pennsvlvania this
year bears very striking analogy to that which
we closed in Maine in September. We had a
Republican party in the field We had q Demo
cratic party in the field, and we had a third
party in the field, protesting a special devotion
to the doctrine of prohibition. Maine has been
prohibition State for thirty years. and the third
party Prohibitionists in this country seemed to
think they had particular patent right upon
all temperance topics, and they came to
Maine to persuade Us, prohibitory State. that
the Republican party had better be dispossessed
OF power, and the cause of temperance handed
over to the tender mercies and kind care of the
Democratic party. find the same condition of