Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-10-21
RLAINE AZ RITTssURG.
He Displays True AnaericaR slniaaman-
ship h tAs Dlneasalon of tAe Quss-
sleu Il TariE. Treasury sur
pins ana Iabar

Pursnuna. Oct. - blaine was n
nizhL He sid IL Substances:
AcAm
IL the taria sysfsa of the Uniisd Sfsfus
ls rapidly aprroachinQ. For q ionQ
series of years. ever sinoa tie cloeo az
the var, Wa have had = vast debl % -
paid. However large the national eeso.
nne, is sarpiaa eould always Be proill-
ably applied % the liquidation a. eur
national obligation. We have denRnanad
shat debt so rapidly that thero remains
now hnf little more than R2Q0 0a0. 600
that can BE- paad within Ahia unnaury,
and al that falls due within tour wears
frnm tAl3 d4fe. Ia maturity. thmR ram
idly appxoaching. may ho said % b.
even ucW impeaaiun, % that lha nahtnr
ID one thai must Be taken into oonsie-
eraticn at onea. haesusa TIE ronaininn
e100. 0.0oo 0o0 O. $50 0oo. 900 9ool ever ~
TIE twentieth ceniuFy.
unEa 4 uzsR ApaEnlzsInaIloH
OF the Federal GoveEnmani b. the Re-
peblioan Party iAe crodii of the Nafion
1as increased 80 rapidly thai unitod
states bonds, which we're % par bu1
seven yeaEs $50, new command nearly
lS0 and hnldefs viii not Felinqaish then
% She Treasury a isas than thai rata.
Il may. thegefefe, be assumed a. q oar-
taint8 that their payment Is postponed
until The next century and ehai 1hey
tall outside Of she preaent power 81 tha
Legislature Qf this Nation. Therefore
When yea shall have diminisAad tha
toial volnme of obligation cg the ooMn-
try b he amoant of tho $500 ZOO. .0o0
rev almasf ue. What are you going %
do with the auEPlna which houa anna-
ally into year Treasury What aispo-
allion ere yea going % make o. tho
large amount which each year has been
aconstomed % aRply 70 ths pagmenl e
the national debl
rEE PnoxzcEEoNE1r kEswnBs
Lea IS 60 reduce our reVsnuo thfl
With q wise discrimination 10 fagnr ~
tho Ameriean laboreE, bic daily earnings
may be protested b. national Law and
keep that II view as Q primal obiooln
This is q queslion thai depends upun
you fer oeeisinns and altar q pnaiana
consideration q the probable onnnn-
uueneas 20 result from that dociai0n. II
venture the assertion that there hns nas
been since the national election of 1850
q financial crisis % urgena and pressing
as the one which will be upon the Amar-
loan people within the next two yanrn
] cannot nov 20 into details on the TAR
"a as - the manner By which q should
be regulated, bat I can say thig. that
anless it e % adjusted as % oonlinuo
the doctrine Of protection, you. gentle
men, viii see hard times In this county.
Blaine dVelt a. length on the magni-
iade % the
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS
Of the country. and in an
lwer 70 the attacks npen bio taria
Ideas By Lsonden papers. compared tho
starving lahoFina people az London 20
he prosperous working CLASSES of thin
s01ntry. He aeFu1ed some time 90 tha
discussion og tie iniary 70 Che Qoaernl
working public resulting from Che ex-
Irsmeiy low wages paid 40 tho oolornd
IaboKing men Ia tho south, and thn 10.
sant NOTICE taken Of the matter BY the
general assembly of tha knights Of
Labor.
Blaine denied that She Republican
Party. IN its system of reoonsiruciion,
started oat with TIE idea Of foraino She
south 20 take negro Suffrage. The Ro-
publican party referred the South %
he provisions Of the foartoenth amend.
nenl 70 the Constitution, which pre-
rants men whose hands have been mads
bloody Oh the hald Of battle aRalna the
Union men. from taking part IN che
government until Congress By q tuo
birds majority shall release them
from that disability. In ihal amend
ment there vas q provision THAI, II
he negro vas excluded from voting. be-
must Be excluded from the basis of rep
Ten nuuthorn States noorn.
fully rejected the condition, Tennessee
alone accepting a. Then the nftaonth
amendment vas passed whioh navo ne
suffrage 70 every man In the United
States who vas duly uafuralizod o. born
1n this soil Negro Suffrage vas not
sbe0luteiy destroyed. The beuth took
IhlFty-dVe % thiFty-oigbt fopEogsnia-
lives II Congress and tie namo numb1r
of presidential electors b. fraud and
and oounsed them 10 the
Democratic column. We ought % Be
ablo b make as solid q North aa thog
have made g slid South.