, 1888-10-31
BLAINE AT ALBANY.
A Large Crowd Greets the
TattoOed Man.
He Cracks a Few Protection
ChestnutS
And Eulogizes the Grandson
Candidate.
Blaine at Albany.

-ALDANl ObI. W. SlICC lllt llppC-
canoe and Tyler, too, campaign neither
this old knickerbocker town nor the sur
rounding countryside has known such a
demonstration as that to-day furnished
by the Republicans of Albany and Troy.
Great enthusiasm greeted Mr.. Blaine and
his party as they drove upon the fair
grounds, where it is estimated 10000
persons were gathered, Blaine, though
he said he was not at his best physically,
spoke clearly and strong, and that he was
heard was evidenced by the frequent
demonstrations of enthusiasm. He said
in part: 1t is almost too late for argu-
ment, but | wish to give you one, and to
give it in a. very suggestive mode, not
from myself but from another; not from
al American, but from an Englishman.
| hold in my hand a clipping from a
recent issue of the London Morning Post,
a well known and prominent organ in
England, the organ of the late Lord
Palmerston. A paper advocating hither-
to, as all English papers do, the doctrine
of free trade. The Post is being a little
fatigued with certain arguments of the
free traders. 1t does not believe in all
that is said against the doctrine of pro-
lection, and | am sure | can instruct no
more pleasantly than to ask my friend
from Brooklyn. Mr.. Tenny, to read from
an editorial which | shall hand to him
from the Morning Post.
But for the serious consequence en-
tailed upon our working classes, who feel
every day more and more the pinch of
foreign competition, it would be decidedly
amusing to note how completely every
one of the principles assumed by the one
sided free trade school of this country is
negatlved by the facts and falsitied by the
experience of commonplace business men.
We are constantly told that protection
raises the prices of commodities, that the
hostile tariff, as John Bright said but a
few days back in a published letter to one
of his correspondents, is only a tax which
the community pays to support a particu-
lar industry benefited by it. As a matter
of fact what do we find in America?
Why, their manufacturers can actually
beat us out of the field on the score of
mere cheapness only. So far from pro-
lection enhancing the cost OF their goods
they can turn them out at rates with
which we with all our free trade cannot
manage to compete. The Yale lock max
ers can afford to pay the carriage of their |
goods to England and yet undersell VOL.
northampton masters in the very heart Of
the lock trade, just as Belgians can quote
lower rates for angle iron deld in Derby |
han the local iron masters of the mid
lands. Philadelphia engine makers can
turn out as serviceable a locomotive as
any English firm and ship all the way to
New Zealand for 5000 ($3, 000) less than
English traders. In South Russia the
agricultural trade is said to be passing
entirely into the hands of American ex-
porters in spite of English and German
competition, though the latter are nearer
by 5000 miles to the local market. With
the exception of made up clothing, which
is dear because the labor is highly paid
and not because the duty on stuffs is so
heavy, there is not a single manufactured
article produced in the United States,
from carpets to cotton, from locomotive
engines to steel axes, from agricultural
implements to cutlery and Yankee no
tions," as many little domestic appliances
are called, which is not as cheap or even
cheaper there than in this country"
Mr.. Jenny having finished reading,
MIR. Blaine resumed:
That is the most effectual contradiction
to the story which free trade orators have
been telling us during the whole cam
paign-that the people of the United
States are ground down by high prices.
1t is not so, and at last we get an English
witness to admit it, and l say here, that
there is not one article in the United
States to. day that is not far cheaper than
it was when protection was applied to it.
The argument that is now closing between
protection and free trade is the argument
which took pleasure in saying 10 the first
speech | made in the campaign-it is not
for capital, it is for labor; it is not one for
the rich man, it is one for the wage earn.
ers, aud if it is lost, it is lost to the hurt
of every man in the United States who
earns mis- bread in the sweat of his face.
Applause.
Referring to the Democratic attempt
to sneer at Gen. Hlrrison, Mr.. Blaine
said: Gen. Harrison stands, as much as
any man in this world ever stood. on his
own merits and he has a lineage Of which
any great noble house III England might
be proud. 1t is a lineage not of nobility
but of ancestors that on all fields Of pa
triotic effort have been distinguished by
being at the 'front.' Gentlemen, | hurl
back the sneer Of the Democrats. hurl
it in their teeth. and there is not one
among them that would not give his eye
lids to have the Lineage Gen. Harrison
has. We run Benjamin Harrison
on his own merits As a man, as a sol
der. as a senator. as a statesman, as a
Republican, rs q protectionist he fills
every requirement. He is the very EN-
bodiment OF every Issue that is to day
before the people, on which the Rcpubli |