Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-28
POLITICAL.
Blaine in a Prohibition
Effort.
SHERMAN AT PHILADELPHIA,
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Special to the Herald bp the Associated Fress;
PrrrsBURG, October 27.-Blaine left her .
this morning for his trip through the an
thracite regions of Pennsylvania. The tour
will take up two days and Blaine will make
sixteen speeches.
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, october 27.--Blaine
was received here by a large crowd. to
which he made an address on the tarfR
question. The same programme was car
ried out at Lewisburg, with some remark !
on Prohibition, as follows: The political
contest in Pennsylvania this year bears
very striking analogy to that which We
closed in Maine in September. We had 4
Republican party in the field, we had
Democratic party In the field, and we had Z
third party in the field protesting special
devotion to the doctrines of prohibition
Maine has been a prohibition State for
thirty years, and the third party OF prOhibi-
tSsn onlI,s IN is county seemsa 70 ni1
temperance topics, and they came to Maine
to persuade us of that prohibition State that
the Republican party had better be deprived
OF power ind the cause of temperanoo
handed over to the tender mercies ana
kind care of the Democratic party. Ind
the same condition of things in this State
with the exception that Pennsylvania has
never pronounced in favor of prohibition.
But we find the third party organized for
this purpose and with the declared inten-
tion of defeating the Republican party aud
of bringing the Democratic party into
power Now, whatever you may think, or
whatever any one else may think as to the
expediency or inexpediency OF prohibition,
we will agree that the one party in the
United States which has never done any
thing for the cause of temperance is the
Democratic party, (spplause) and here ia
Pennsylvania as before in Maine, the third
party is organized especially topromotetem-
perance works obviously to the end OF throw
ing IL all over to the control OF the nature1,
inherited and perpetual enemies OF temper
ance. The laboring men of this State and Of.
the nOrthera States are about entering on
another question. They are about entering
on question Of great and imperlous mag
nitude. That is, with the power OF TIE
national government in the hands OF the
Democratic party there Is no possible
hope for the progress OF nearly two
millions of colored laborers in the South
They give them no vote; they give them no
influence. They keep them living In huts
on starvation wages, and they are hurryinx
them by the millions into competition win
Northern men. Now If the Democratio
party holds the government OF this country
and keeps that labor as servile as 1t was
when the chains OF slavery were fasteneo
upon it, its competition with the white IL
Dor OF this country will! grow more ana
more fierce.
The have to confront this direct and ira-
portant truth: that either the great mass Of
laborers in the South must be raised In the
scale OF intelligence and compensation, Of
they will pull the Northern men to their
| level on wages. Gentlemen, this Is no
catchword of the campaign; it Is no mere
resource of political necessity; 1t is not the
| cry of q party defeated or OF aparty thst
expects to be victorious. 1t Is q solemn, ,un-
deniable, industrial fact. Pray rcilecsuP0n
| it.
At Shamokin larger crowd than at most
| of the former stopping places welcomed
Mr.. Blaine. He spoke from the balcony OF
| the hotel to over five Thousand people.