Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-21
TaE COMISG ISSUE.
Blaine Outlines the Coming Policy of the
Republican Party.

by Telegraph
! PITrsBURG, October 2Oth.-Blaine was in
! troduced to crowd of over 10000 persons
here tonight. He said in substance: A
crisis in the tariff system of the United
States is rapidly approaching. For long
series of years-ever since the close of the
war-we have had a vast debt to be paid.
However large the national revenue, its
surplus could always be profitably en-
ployed to the liquidation of our national
obligation. We have decreased that debt
SO rapidly that there remains now but lit
tie more than 500, 10000 of it that can be
paid within this century, and all of that
falls due within four years from this date.
Its maturity, thus rapidly approaching,
may be said to be even now impending, so
that the matter is one that must be taken
into consideration at once, because the re-
naming 100000 900 or $500, 0000 900 go over
to the twentieth century. Under wise
administration of the Federal Government
by the Republican party the credit of the
nation has increased so rapidly that its
bonds, which were at par but seven years
ago, now command nearly $130, and
holders will not relinquish them to
the Treasury at less than that
rate. 1t may therefore be assumed as a
certainty that their payment is postponed
until the next century, and hence they fall
outside of the present power of the Legisla-
ture OF this nation. [Applause.l When,
therefore, you shall have diminished the
total volume of the obligation of the coun-
try to the amount of the $200, 10000 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 yearly
have haQn cd tr anDlIr 70 40
payment of the national debt? The pro-
tectionists answer Let us so reduce our
revenue that, with a wise discrimination,
the American laborer in his daily earnings
may be protected by the national law, and
keep that in view as primal object"
lCheers.l This is the question that impends
for your decision, and after a patient
consideration of the pro able conse-
quences to result from that deei-
sion, | venture the assertion that
there has not been, since the national
election of 1860, a financial crisis so urgent
and pressing as the one which will be upon
the American people within the next two
years. | cannot now go into details on the
tariff, as to the manner in which it should
be regulated, but can say this-that unless
1t is SO adjusted as to continue the doctrine
OF protection, you, gentlemen, will see
belN tlluCo III tuIS COuHl DldlAS dhtll
at length upon the magnitude of the manu-
featuring interests of the country, and in
answer to the attacks made upon his tariff
ideas by the London papers, and compared
the starving laboring people of London to
the prosperous working classes of this coun-
try. He devoted some time to discussion
OF the injury to the general working public
resulting from the extremely low wages
paid the colored laboring men in the South,
and the recent notice taken of the matter
by the General Assembly of the Knights of
Labor.
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 re-
ferred the South to the provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton, which prevents men whose hands had
been made bloody on the field of battle
against Union men, from taking part in
the Government until Congress by two
thirds majority shall release them from
that disability. In that amendment was
provision that if the negro was excluded
from voting he must be excluded from'the
basis of representation. Ten Southern
States scornfully rejected the condition,
Tennessee alone accepting it. Then the ff
tenth amendment was passed, which gave
suffrage to every man in the United States,
who was duly naturalized or born on this
soil. Negro suffrage was now absolutely
destroyed. The South took thirty-five to
thirty eight Representatives into Congress-
and the same number of Presidential Elec-
tors, by fraud and violence and counted
them in the Democratic column. We
ought TO be able to make q solid North as
they have made solid South.