The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-10-18

AOSOAo dktslA 70 ONCI4ONluKs
AS early as six O'Clock great crowds
began to assemble around TomlinSon
hall, and when half hour later the
doors were thrown open the great
auditorium was filed with rush and
every inch of available space was occu-
pied until about six thousand
people were crowded within
the walls, while equally as
many outside were unable TO reach the
stairWays. As MIR. Blaine was not ex-
pected until o'clock the crowd called
for speech, and General Hastings, of
Pennsylvania, entertained them, fol-
lowed by NJ. j. Murray, of Boston.
When Mr.. Blaine appeared the audi
ence greeted him with prolonged cheers
and waving of flags. Ex-Secretary
Thompson presided and introduced
Mr.. Blaine, who spoke as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS OF INDIANA-It
is the studied and persistent effort of
the democratic party in this presi-
Dental campaign to prejudice the west
against the east on the subject of the
tariff, maintaining that the eastern
states get the benefit of protection and
the western states get its burden.
Now if the tariff for protection so
operates that one section gets the gain
and the other gets the loss then the
whole system of protection ought to be
abolished and if the advocate of pro-
tective tariff cannot prove that it is of
as great advantage to the west as
1t is to the east, as great an
advantage to the south as it is to the
north. and that it is a national and not
a sectional policy, if, l say. they cannot
establish these points, then the policy
ought to be abandoned. But L main
tain and in the few minutes l shall oc-
cupY your attention shall endeaYOr to
prove by figures and by facts that the
west, the great growing teemlng, pros
porous west, has gained more out of the
protective tariff than any section OF
the whole union. [Applause.l Gen
tlemen l know that involves questions
of fact and not questions of fancy, and
call your attention to the census of
1860 and if there be any democrats
present, they will not wish to dispute
the correctness of that census for 1t
| was taken under the administration OF
Mr.. Buchanan and quote the figures
of that census as to the wealth Of
eleven western states, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Col
orado; the last two were territories
when Mr.. Lincoln came into power,
| but were long since made states. Ac-
cording to the census of 1850 the aggre-
gate wealth of these eleven western
| states was something under four thou
sand million of dollars and in 1880,
twenty years afterwards, by the ma
tional census, the wealth of
these states was SIG. 5OO,OOO, 600.
| (Applause.l 1t had increased and
| grown four fold in twenty years and in
the last eight years enough has been
added to carry up the wealth of these
eleven states far beyond twenty thou
sand millions of dollars, or vast deal
larger sum than the whole wealth of
the United States the day Lincoln was
inaugurated. (Applause.) You can
test this question in another way; in
1860 these eleven states had
road or scarcely that and to-day
twenty-eight years afterwards they
have nearly eighty thousand miles OF
railroad. Mind you these eleven west
eFn states have almost three times az
much railway within their borders as
the whole union had before the civi
war. Something or other has enabled
you western people to get along pref
W rapidly for these states have pros
of the old eastern states in a ratio
far greater than the eastern states
have maintained. AS another proof o.
that progress, l have here a singular
table from the official census of 1860
l think you will agree with me that il
is very suggestive table there dis
turbance caused by the crowded condI
tion of the hall interrupted the speaker
for moment). l was calling the atten
ton of the audience to a table
in the census of 1860 il
which the principal town ant
cities in the United States are given
will quote those of the eleven western
states and give you their population al
that time. Cleveland was $4,000, To
ledO was not large enough to be inciud
ed in the statement at all, Detroit wa!
As 600, Grand Rapids that now has so,
600 was not mentioned, Chicago what
do you say the population of Chicago
was in 1S50?-lO9 900. Its growth doe:
not seem to have been muci
impeded by the protective tariff, for il
is now three quarters of million al
least, tapplause) }, Milwaukee was 40 600
st Paul and Minneapolis had not
grown to enough consequence in 1851
to be mentioned in the table at all. To
gether they now contain nearly 400, OO(
people. Columbus, Ohio, had $4,000
now some 80 900, Cincinnati had $780,
600. Louisville 6S, GOO, st. Louis $50, 900
Kansas City, the census did not
know there was such a place.
Denver it had never been heard of in
the census. Indianapolis how much
do you suppose it was in 1860? under
16 900, Des MoineS something over 81
600. Omaha, well Omaha had no men,
ton at all. The aggregate of these
cities was $4,000 in 1860, and to-day
three and half millions. This is the
way, Mr.. Chairman, the protective tar
| iff has been retarding the growth
| and DEVELOPMENT of the west. ZAP
| plause),0 This is great hardship
| that the west has suffered by reason of
| protective tariff. When you drive the
| fro OfI
they tell you that the protective tariff
has stifled the export trade of the
United States, that it has built up a
lot of factories and railways but that
| the foreign commerce of the country
h as all gone TO pieces.
again quote from the
census and show you that
from the time the declaration of
| independence was made down to the
time that Lincoln was elected presi-
dent, 1 will go further back, from the
umbus down to the election of Abra-
ham Lincoln the aggregate shipment
of all those years and all those centur-
les from the United States amounted
to nine thousand millions of dollars in
value. Now mark you that COW
cred the entire history of
the government down to 1880. and
has been seventeen thousand, five hun
dred millions, almost double as much
in the tWenty-eight years in the pres
ent protective tariff as it was during
the whole previous history of the Amer
lean continent. (Applause.) That is
the way, gentlemen, in which protec-
ton has operated. had occasion in
speaking on this same subject in the east
when / contrasting what protection had
done for the laboring man of America
as compared with the laborine men of
Europe, showed what the laboring
men of New England had in savings
banks as compared with those of all
England, and saw in more than one
western democratic paper the remark,
''Oh yes, you have got all the money
IN the east, it is well enough
for you to uphold protection"
But gentlemen, you must
remember the different conditions: the