Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-21
The Tariff and the Color Question.

1nc 18rlH anu the OOIOf question.
POINTS FROM MR.. BLAINE's PITrsBURG SPEECH.
The tariff demonstration in Pittsburg yester-
day was not as large as it was expected to be.
Only about three thousand people participated
in the parade. The manufacturers said they
did not have time to prepare for it. Mr.. Blaine
and General Beaver spoke at an open air meet
ing in the afternoon. A crowd Of about ten
thousand people were assembled.
FREE TRADE OR PROTECTION.
Mr.. Blaine devoted his attention to the tariff,
and said that when the public debt was re-
duced 5000, OOO, OOO as it must soon be, the
question would arise What should be done with
the surplus? The free-traders said reduce it by
cutting off customs duties; the protectionists
said reduce internal revenue and protect Amer
lean industry: He said that the London
Times notified him that America had advanced
beyond his theory of protection towards the
enlightened free-trade policy of England. The
same paper has In Its columns a statement
that the poor people of London threatened
to raise in riot against the lord mayors cele-
bration. 1 give you, he said, those two tele-
grams together as forming better argument
Than any could make on the question, and I
send back greeting To the London Times that
stand, this moment, before countless thous-
ands of free American workmen who have
good wages and happy homes. with prosper,tv
behind them and before them. He said there
was great deal of delusiOn about our foreign
Cape Horn to Washington Territory, is 600
miles, was engaged In domestic trade. One
going five miles TO New brunswick was in
country last year, coming in and going out,
amounted to only about $4,000, 900 tons OF
merchandise. During the same period d.
500, 600 tons were handled within the boun-
DIARIES OF the state of Pennsylvania alone.
With relation to
THE SOUTHERN LABOR QUESTION
Mr.. Blaine said: ColOred men are now, and
have been for ten years, entering into many OF
the mechanical industries. In Birmingham,
Ala; in Chattanooga, Tenn, and In various
parts of Virginia, they are making pig iron, and
cents per day. The product Of their labor has
thus far been so small that the important fact
lively no attention. But ii the quantity which
they manufacture attains large proportions, it
will necessarily compete in the markets of this
country with the pig iron made In Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio. and they themselves will COIN
pete with men here who are paid 81, so per day
What response vh Is 70 r ne MADE TO that by our
The answer will be just this, that either the
great body of workmen in the south must have
for what they earn In the sweat of their
faces, or else the wages Of every northern
laboring man must be injurtously af-
by me, was met with ridicule and de-
rision. but when that great organization of
Knights of Labor met In national convention
Chief Mr.. Powderly--whom take to be man
Of extraordinary ability and perception-ipro-
lOugeQ C0eefSI-tuc l01uS t0ey ran against
was the absolute unwilling ness on the part of
the dominant white race OF the south to allow
the colored laborers OF that region TO have any
benefit from the Knights Of Labor organixs-
tions or any other organizations, that could pro-
tect them IN their rght to be paid the wages
which they earned. By q strange coincidence
received this very morning \ letter nom the
south on that subject. Ny Correspondent gives
me an appalling picture Of the south, and In
one portion ofhis letter says "But after ell, we
are ahead OF you IN the north In respect 10
labor. for In q great many parts OF the south we
have established the eight hour law for the col
Ored man-eight hours ia the forenoon and
eight hours In the afternoon"
SOLID NORTH AGAINST SOLID SOUTH.
He denied that the republicans forced negro
suffrage upon the south. and asserts that Il was
the choice Of the southern people, rather than
TO lose the representation based upon the COL
ored people. He spoke strongly against cleo
ton methods In the south, and advised solid
north against the solid south. At the conciu-
sion or lis address Mr.. Blaine Wa driven 20 the
Mononxahela house, where :ae was Joined hy
his son, James q. Blaine, IT., and wife. The
evening ives devoted 70 an Informal reception.