Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-28
Blaine Speaks on the Great Topics of the
Day.

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WILLIAMsPoRT tPa.), October 27th.-
Blaine was received here by large crowd
to which he made an address on the tariff
question. The same programme was car
ried out at Lewisburg, with some remarks
ON prohibition, as follows; The political
contest in Pennsylvania this year bears 8
very striking analogy to that which closed
in Maine in September. We had Repub-
ican party in the field, we had a Demo.
cratic party in the field, and we had third
party in the field protesting special devo-
lion to the doctrine of prohibition. Maine
mas been a prohibition State for thirty
years, and the third party (of Prohibition.
ists) in this country seemed to think they
had particular patent right upon all tenn.
perance topics, and they come to Maine tc
persuade us, a prohibitory State, that the
Republican party had better be dispossessed
of power, and the cause of temperance
handed over to the tender mercies and
kind care of the Democratic party. | find
the same condition of things in 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 intention ol
defeating the Republican party and Of
bringing the Democratic party into power
Now, whatever you may think. whatever
may think, or whatever anyone else may
think as to the expediency 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 tenn
perance is the Democratic party. Applause
And here in Pennsylvania, as before in
Maine, the ethird party organized especially
oh, u1x
to the end of throwing it all over to the
control of the natural, inherited and per
petual enemies of temperance. The labor
ing men of this State and of the Northern
States are about entering on another ques.
ton. They are about entering on a ques-
ton of great and imperious magnitude
That is, with the power of the National
Government in the hands of the Demo
cratic party, there is no possible hope fol
the rise or progress of nearly two millions
of colored laborers in the South. They
give them no vote, they give them nc
voice, they give them no influence
They keep them living in huts, on
starvation wages, and they are hur-
rying them by millions into competition
with Northern men. Now, if the Demo
cratic party holds the Government OF
this country and keeps that labor as servile
as it was when the chains of slavery were
fastened upon it, its competition with the
white labor of the country will grow more
and more fierce, and more and more will
they have to confront this direct and im-
portant truth-that either that great mass
of laborers in the South must be raised in
the sale of intelligence and compensation,
or they will pull Northern men to their
level of wages. Gentlemen, this is nc
catch word of the campaign. 1t is nc
mere resource of political necessity. 1t is
not the cry Of party defeated nor of q
party that expects to be victorious. 1t is a
solemn, undeniable, industrial fact. Pray
reflect upon it.
They are Both "Men of New Ideas.''
New YORK, October 27th.-Robert G. In
gersoll wrote the following letter to Henly
Georges managers yesterday, and it was
read at mass meeting later on, PRODUCING
wild enthusiasm take this opportunity
to state few of my reasons for being or
Georges side in the present contest While
l may not entirely agree with many of his
theories, still | am satisfied that all human
beings are entitled to the essentials of life
That is to say, water, air and land. / am
satisfied that the time will come when nc
man will be allowed to own land which he
does not use. We do not want nation o
tenants that is, a nation of seIfS. People
who labor are people who think; those
who suffer and those who sympathizt
should vote together. Whenever a new ides
is advanced, people who do not under
stand the old ones will begin to talk of rev
olution and the horrors of 1889. You can
not prevent revolution by attacking rev
ideas as though they were wild beasts
Such course produces revolutions. Wher
the people speak and the rich refuse tc
hear when facts are denounced and preiu
dices are sainted, revolution is at hand. L
the workingmen of New York fail tc
unite, il they fail to be true to themselves
they will simply earn the contempt of theil
fellowmen. If they stand together, if they
vote as they feel, if they are true to them
selves, they will win the respect of theil
enemies, the love and gratitude of theil
friends, and the next Mayor of New York
will be Henry George"