The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-28
BLAINE.
His Address on the Tariff
Question at LeWisburg.
SIBERIAN AT PHILADELPHIA.
Presidential Party In New YOrk-The
Money Order ssrvLce-rhs Emil
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BIaine's Prohibition Farley

WILLIAAsPoRr, Pa, October ~
Blaine was received here by 8 large
crowd. to which be made an address on
the tariff question. The same pro-
sranme was carried out at Lewisburg
( with some remarks on prohibition, as
follows: The political contest in
Pennsylvania this year bears a very
striking analogy to that which we
closed in Maine in September. We had
the Republican party in she field: we
had the Democratic party in the field,
and We had q third party in the field,
protesting special devotion to the
doctrine of prohibition. Maine has
been a prohibition State for thirty
years, and the third party of the Pro-
hibltionists in this country seem to
think they had particular patent
right upon all temperance topics, and
they come to Maine to persuade US OF
the prohibitory State, that the
Republican party had better be
dispossessed of its power and tie
cause Of temperance handed over to the
tender merCies and kind care of the
Democratic party. fnd the same con.
dition of things ia this State, with the
exception that Pennsylvania has never
pronounced in favor of prohibition, but
we find third party organized for this
purpose, and with the declared inten-
ton OF defeating the Republican party
and bringing the Democratic party into
power. Now, whatever you may think.
whatever l may think, whatever any
one else may think, as to the eXpedieucy
or ineXpediency of prohibition, we will
all agree that the one party in the
United States which has never done
anything for the cause of temperance
is the Democratic party. (Applause).
And here In Pennsylvania, and before
IN Maine, the third party organized es
peclally to promote temperance works,
obviously to the end of throwing it all
over into the control of the natural,
inherited and perpetual enemies of tenn
perance. The laboring men of this
State and the northern States are about
entering on another question. They
are entered on a question of great and
magnitude, that is, with the
power Of the national government in
the hands Of the Democratic party,
there is DO possible hope for the rise or
progress of nearly two millions of
colored laborers IN the south. They
give them no vote; they give
them no voice; they keep
LASn living III NUS Oh STARVATION wages,
and they are hurrying them by mil
Ions into competition with northern
men. Now, il the Democratic party
holds the government of this country
and keeps that labor as serVile as it was
when the chains of slavery were fast
ened upon it, its competition with the
white labor of this country will grow
more and more fierce, and more
and more will they have to con-
front this direct and important truth,
that either that great mass of Iaborers
In the south must be raised in the scale
of intelligence and compensation, or
they will pull the northern men to their
level on wages.
Gentlemen, this is no patchwork of
campaign; it is no mere source of pol
itieal necessity it is not the cry OF
party defeated, or a party that expects
to be victorious; it is a solemn, IN.
deniable. industrial fact. Pray reflect
upon it"