The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-29
mR. BLAINE IN Pennsylvania.
He Continues His Speechmaking
Tour in the State.

HAzELToN, Pa, Oct. 2S.-The Blaine
party was sent off from Pottsville this morn
ing in the rain. Mr.. Blaine. after his 300
miles and eight speeches of yesterday, said
he ielt first rate, and he looked we'll Arriv-
ing at Tamaqua at 8.45 O'Clock he was intro
duced to crowd of several hundred and
made short speech. The party was well
coined to Mauch Chunk at $50 o'clock, and
the meeting lasted an hour, while the special
train was transferred to the Lehigh Valley
Railroad. About 1000 people were congre-
gated in Concert Hail. Mr.. Blaine spoke
about ten minutes Among other things he
said: The free trade policy in the United
States is represented entirely by and is in
disputably welded to the Democratic party.
Were it not for the Southern States there
would be no Democratic party. Were it not
for these States the Democratic party would
cease to exist These States would today be
among civilized people, | do not refer to
pagan countries, of course, but among the
civilized and Christian countries of the
world there does not exist so large a mass of
efficient aborers working at such low rate of
compensation as in the Southern States of
this nation. These States since the shock of
war is over have sent into the markets of the
world, not counting what has been used for
nome consumption, more than 81, 100000, 600
worth OF cotton in excess of all they ever
sent prior to the war. Let me repeat that
the value of cotton exported from the South
ern States since the close of the war exceeds
the value of all that was ever exported from
the time cotton was first planted in the
South up to the time of the Inauguration of
PRESIDENT incoln by about 81, 600, 900, 600 re-
Ter to this to show how industrious the free
negro is for all cotton raised by negro labor,
by classes which cannot cast single effect
i've vote in that whole region. 1t is all
wrought by class that does not enjoy any
representation, that gets no hearing. 1t
even does not stop there for the represent
auves assigned them on their numbers are
stolen from them, and in consequence
they are in the power of the white men of
that region, who by this means have politi-
cal power individually just double that of
the men who for four years served in the
+ Union army. (Applause) With this cheap
labor in the South they are inevitably free
trade people. 1t is impossible i'll that labor
becomes skilled, (and it has rapidly become
skilled In great many of the minor trades),
that 1t must result greatly to the disadvan-
tage OF the laboring classes in the North. /
90 not use language severely, | think, when
L say that the time is at hand to fight this
gigantic conspiracy against the laborers in
this country, conspiracy which. il not
arrested, il not destroyed win work most
serious injury to every white laborer i'm the
United States. The National and State adj
ministration of the Democratic party do not
put forth one solitary effort to relieve the
condition al the Southern laborer. | should
not feel sanguine OF relief coming even now
except that it strikes at the white men of
the North.
The train stopped two minutes at Weth-
erly, where Mr.. Blaine appeared on the plat
form and received cheers and acknowledged
compliments.