St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-09
PITY HIS IGNORANCE.
The Plumed Knights Caustic
Comment on Postmaster
General Dickinson.
Blaine Tackles the Wolverine
Boss on His Native
Heath.
DON MS Statements Deroga-
tory to New England Crit
icised at Length.
Grand Rapids Brilliantly 1llu-
minated in Honor Of the
Magnetic Man.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct. s.-Mr.
Blaine spoke for twenty minutes this
afternoon to 5000 workingmen in Hart
man hall, and was much applauded.
He said:
Fellow Citizens of Michigan; have
no doubt you have often heard that the
system of a protective tariff was de-
vised for the benefit of New England;
that the East gets all the advantage,
and the West sustains all the burden OF
it. 1t has been the cry of the revenue
reformers ever since the beginning of
the government-ever since there was
an East and West-and yet, under that
system the West does some how
keep her place in the great
van of progress, and in point of rapidly
expanding enterprise and of constant
acquisition of wealth does in the aggre-
gate keep ahead of the East. l am
especially moved this afternoon to call
your attention to the issue involved III
that charge, after reading in Detroit
newspaper of the manner in which Hon.
Don NJ. Dickinson. postmaster general
under President Cleveland, has lately
been delivering himself on that subject.
| quote, from among other things he has
said, the following:
New England selfishly hangs on the body
polite, absorbing its wealth ana giving
nothing in return. We buy of New England
at extortIonate prices kept up by the tarlH,
while at the same time we sell her nothing.
If Mr.. Dickinson speaks the words OF
sober truth this is very serious condl-
= NaUy EnnlanH nndnr
the endowment of a protective tariff, is
selling largely to the West every year
and buying nothing from the West, it
is. say, very serious condition of af-
fairs. and one that ought to be mended.
But after having read that assertion L
set myself to work to secure some sta
tistics to disprove it, and l shall give
YOU the benefit of them. l premise at
this point by stating that every time
YOU hear a Western man complaining
that the East, especially New England,
of which l shall speak of at this time,
gets everything and gives nothing, sells
everything and buys nothing, you hear
the same man telling you that our great
market is
BEYOND THE OCEAN,
in Old England, and that there is where
the West ought to look for an exchange
of her products. You can always tell
one of them by that cry. have been
busy for day or two past, with the aid
of my friend Gov. Alger. in securing
some statistics which refute the asSump-
ton that New England takes nothing
from the West. In the first place l
have found she raises only per cent OF
what her people need for breadstutfs,
and that she takes between 100000 and
COO oon toms Of orrair1 from tho Wpct an
nuallv. When Abraham Lincoln was
inaugurated and free trade tariff was
in operation we had only 60,0O0.O00
pounds of wool grown by the farmers of
the country. Under the effect of pro-
tective tariff we have increased
the amount of wool, grown
almost wholly in the West, to
800, ,OOO 600 pounds annually; and it
brings a vast aggregate of wealth
amounting to nearly s100,000,000 annu-
ally. Mr.. Cleveland recommends that
the duty on that wool be repealed, and
that we shall put the wOOl-grower of
the West on the same plane as the wool
grower of Australia. but the Republi-
cans say, "No." This desplsed New
England, of which Mr.. Dickinson speaks
so disrespectfully, takes every year an
entire half of that product and pays
the West S45, 100000 a year for it. AS
thev need bread for which they pay the
West So, 100000 year,. they need also
provisions. and for these. together with
all forms of meat, poultry. etc, pro-
duced in the West, New England pays
the farmers of these Western states
S56, 100000 year.
SHE WANTS BUTTER
with which to spread her bread, of
which she does not raise enough at
home, and she pays the West over
SS.OOO,OO0 a year for that. Then she
needs good deal of lumber. and there
are Just three states here from which
she gets it, namely, from Michigan,
from Wisconsin and Minnesota, and she
takes $4,000, 600 in value of that each
wear. Then of copper, lead and salt,
hides and leather, which are taken from
these Western states, we have the ag-
gregate annually of about $4,000, 600
more. There we have total of well
up to 5000, 100000. l do not know, but
it may be, that as Mr.. Don Dickinson
belongs to an administration that can
afford to loan the bankers S60,000,OOO a
year without interest, he probably
thinks that 5000, 100000 is not very
much of sum. But to those
of us in the East who must pay it and
to those of you in the West who receive
it, it does. somehow or other, come very
year. This little New England, of which
he speaks contemptuously as having
only 100000 of peOple-thiS little bit
of a frOzen-up place in the northeast
coast of the United States-takes S6O,-
100000 of cotton from the Southern
states. She goes down into Pennsylva-
MIA, and of coal, iron and steel, and the
products of coal, iron and steel, she
takes $50. 200, 900 more. Then she takes
large quantities of petroleum, hemp.
rice and fruits of all kinds. In the
grand aggregate, that little bit of coun-
try. territorially not as large as the state
of Illinois
THOSE SIX LITTLE STATES
takes of the raw material of the United
States and manufacture into various
articles for the wants of humankind a
quantity equivalent in value to more
than S400, 600, 900. Last year the total of
the products sent from this country to
old England, inclusive of all imagina-
BILE articles that we transport, was s327,-
100000. l telegraphed Saturday from
Detroit to Washington to ascertain the
amount. If you want to know the value
to YOU of a home market at your door
for an exchange of your commodities;
if you want to see what 1900, 900 people
engaged in the arts and industries of
life, people who are your fellow citi-
zens, can take from you at your
door, as compared with all that
you send to 100000 people be-
yond the seas, the figures | have
cited give you the information. Is any,
thing more needed to prove the value to
you of the home market? l am speak
inn nnlu of New ENGLAND. I do not