Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-23
ALL AROUND The WORLD.
Blaine's Speech-Ta Ia GerOnimO-The
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Picking News, Etc.
BLAINE AT PIrTSBURG.
He Steps off His High Protection Hol
on the Democratic Tariff Plank.

He Steps off His High Protection Horse
on the Democratic Tariff Plank.
prrrsBURG, Oct. 2O.-Blaine was intro.
duced to a crowd of over 10000 tonight.
He said in substance: A crisis in the tariff
svste,n of the United States is rapidly ap.
nroaching. For a long series OF years, ever
since the close OF the war, we have had q
vast debt to be paid. However large the
national revenue, it's surplus could always
he proftably applied to the liquidation OF
our national obligation. We have de.
creased that debt SO rapidly that there re
mains now but little more than 5000.
900 600 of it than can be paid within this
century: all of that falls due in 4 wears
from now. It's maturity thus rapidly an.
nroachiuc may be said to be even now i'm.
Vending, go that the matter is one that
INST be taken into consideration at once.
because the remaining $500, 600, 900 or
$500, 900, 900 goes over to the goth cen.
fury. Under a wise administration
nj the Federal Government bv the
Republican party, the credit OF the
nation has increased so rapidly that
United States bonds, which were at a
but seven years ago, now command nearly
$50. Holders will not relinquish to the
Treasury at less than that rate. 1t NAV
therefore be assumed as a certainty that
Their payment is postponed until the next
century, and they fall outside of the pres.
ent power OF the Legislature of this ma ton.
Applause. When, therefore, you shall
have diminished the total volume of the
obligation OF the country to the amount
of the $500. 900 900 now almost due what
are you going to do with the surplus which
flows annually into your treasury? What
disposition are you going to make of the
large amount which each year you have
been accustomed to apply to the payment
Let us SO reduce our revenue that
with a wise discrimination in favor of the
American laborer that his daily earnings
may be protected by national law and
keep that in view az @ primal object.
[Chcsrs.] This is the question that
depends for your decision, and after a
patient consideration of the probable con-
sequences to result from hat decision. I
venture the assertion hat there has not |
been, since the national election Of 1886, a |
financial crisis SO urgent and pressing as |
the one which will be upon the American
neople within the next two wears.
Blaine denied that the Republican party |
in its system OF reconstruction started out |
with the idea OF forcing the South to take
negro suffrage. The Republican party
referred the South to the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
which prevents men whose hands have been |
made bloody on the battlefield against the
Union from taking part in the Government
until Congress by a two-thirds majority
shall release them from that disability. |
In that amendment there wat q provision
that if the negro was excluded from voting
he must be excluded from the basis of rep
The Southern States scorn-
fully rejected the condition, Tennessee
accepting it. Then the fifteenth
was passed which gives sui
to every man in the United States who
was duly naturalized or born on this soil.
Negro Suffrage was now absolutely de-
The South took t~hirty-fve to
Representatives in Congress
and the same number of Presidential cleo
by fraud and violence and counted
hem in the Democratic column. We ought
20 be able to make a solid North as they
lave q solid South.