Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-03
4 Rebuttal Of Mr.. Dickins0n's False
hoods Concerning Results OF
Protection in New England.
How the Senate Has Been the Safeguard
of the Interests of the Ameri-
can People.
The Murchison- West Correspondence Ex-
plained-The Los Angeles Times"
Shows How it was Conducted
in Good Faith and not asa
Political Trick.

New HAVEN, Conn, Nov. AT Derby
Mr.. Blaine and party were escorted to the
residence of Thomas Walker, where lunch
was served. The party was then driven to
the trotting park where 10000 people gath
cred and gave Mr.. Blaine Almost enthusi-
astic reception. Mr.. Blaine was introduced
and spoke substantially as follows:
Fellow citizens-If you allow the protec-
tive tariff to be broken down and de
stroyed, when do you think it will be put
back again? Do you think you can vote
for free trade party for fun and have
some one else maintain the protective
principle for you? If you will put General
Harrison in the presidential chair Will
guarantee that the protective tariff will not
be disturbed. They are opposing us in every
way and manner, fair and unfair. While
| was in the west | read an interview with
Postmaster General Dickinson in which he
described New England as selfishly hang
ing on to the body polite, absorbing its
wealth and giving back nothing. He de,
scrlbed us as unpatriotic people who had
not done as much to suppress the rebellion
as Missouri and Kentucky. Laughter.
l had to say something about him and he
replied describing the laborlng men of
New England as in the last stages Of starvaS
tion He said that in Fall River there was
a thousand men with families who could
not earn more than 30 cents day for
whole family IA voice. He is ID
liar."l; that occasionally the family had
little pork to eat: that they did not have
five pounds of beef year; that they lived
mostly on bread and sometimes were
obliged to go to bed without anything to
eat Gentlemen, | do not mean this to
ridicule Mr. Dickingon, but it is that stuff
and stuff like it that is used all through
the west and southwest. The arguments
against the tariff are malicious. They rep
resent New England as having two classes;
one class rolling in wealth and around
them class bordering on starvation.
This mode of speaking of the result OF
protection and describing New England is
a libel on one of the most industrious and
one of the most deserving sections Of the
union.
The question pressed upon you today is.
are you willing to trust the president OF
the United States who sent the free trade
message to congress; are you willing to
trust him with the tariff, The whole
question, my friends, is a question of
wages, and being question of wages, the
votes of the men who earn wages can de-
eide this election. The western Democrats
say that New England has palaces on every
hill top. Why, have lived in New En-
gland many years and never saw but few
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comfortably well off. 1t is in their hands
and always has been in their hands to
make and unmake the laws of the cOun
try, and all of the millionaires from the
Atlantic to the Pacific can't offset the
votes of the working men of this valley.
TApplause.l You can outvote them all as
often as you like. You have it in your
power to hold public opinion stronger than
they can; you can argue the matter for
yourselves and if the Republican party
shall lose the support of the men
who are comfortably well off or the
farmers and workmen in factories the
Republican party ceases to exist. 1t
was made of such men. Cleveland did not
have the senate in his hands and has not
been able to stir one hair of the protec-
tive tariff The Democrats say, Did not
the Republicans predict all sorts of disas-
ter if the Democrats got in, and don't you
see that we have as good times as befOre?'
AS If Cleveland had anything to do with
that Why, we are having good times be
cause the Democrats have been guarded
by the Republican senate. lCheers The
president and the members OF the house
from the south have stood for free trade,
and the struggle is now whether to rein
force the senate with Republican presi-
dent or give way and LET the Democrats
have full swing. VIII you reinforce
the senate tor protection or the house for
free trade? Ii Connecticut shall give her
electoral vote for Harrison and Morton,
you may rest secure in the belief that the
business of the country will go on as it has
for a quarter of century, in peace and
prosperity; but if Connecticut allows her
vote to favor free trade, then you will have
abundant leisure in your competition with
the i'll paid labor of Europe to calculate
just how much you've made out of it. The
lime for argument is late. There are few
men in the United States who will be con-
verified between this and Tuesday, but if
can reach one man by my
voice and make him feel that
he has power TO protect his own interests
then I shall feel that have not worked in
vain Tremendous applausel.
Mr. Blaine was then escorted to the
depot and the special train hurried to
New Haven, where he at once took train
for New York.