Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-09
Arrives at Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Oct. 5.
Blaine was received by a large and en-
thusiastic crowd of people here this after
noon and a procession OF uniformed clubs es-
corted him and party to their hotel A
number of manufacturers gave their en-
ployoes holiday and helped swell the throng
IN the streets and in Hartman's hall, where
the speaking took place at o'clock. Blaine
paid especial attention TO the statement at
trlbuted to Post Master General Don Nj.
Dickinson that the system of protection was
eSlsed for the benefit of New England
which with the rest of the east get all the adj
vantage of it while the west bears the bur
den. Blaine said he had been gathering
statistics and found that New England takes
between half million and SIX hundred
thousand tons of grain annually. 1t raises
only per cent OF what her people use for
bfeadstutts.
Next" Said Blaine. There are
annually raised in this country, 300, ,000,-
600 pounds of wool. We had only 50,UU0,0 900
pounds of wool grown annually by farmers
of this country when free trade tariff was i'll
operation just before the war. Under the
eject of the protective tariff we have in
creased the amount of wool grown almost
wholly in the west to 800 900 200 pounds
nearly SlO0, ,0O0, 900 Cheers TO the farmers
of this country.
Cleveland recommends that the duty on
that be repealed and that we put the wool
grower of the West on the same plane as the
wool grower of Australia and Canada. The
r, publicans say mo" and New England takes
every year half that entire wool crop and
pays the West S45 200, 900 year for il.
Cheers. Besides, as New England needs
bread for which she pays the West S2O,OOO,-
900 year, she needs also provisions which
includes all forms of meal, and tor that and
poultry in addition imported from the West,
New England pays the farmers of the West
ern States $50 900 a year. Cheers.
The people of the east want some butter
spread on their bread and they can't make
enough at home, laughter and applause
and they paid the West over S3O,000.OOO
for that Then New England needs good
deal of lumber, hardwoo and pine There
are Just three States here from which she
gets it, Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and she takes 81 900 900 worth year of
western lumber, principally from Michigan.
Then of copper and lead, and salt and hides
and timber, which are taken from the Wes-
tern States, in the aggregate OF about $780,
000, 900 more. The aggregate you will OBJ
serve is well up TO 500 O,OOO,OOo. little olt
of New England, of which Dickinson spoke
contemptu ously as only having four millions
of people This little bit of IA frozen place
on the northeast corner of the United States
takes 500, 900 900 worth of cotton from the
southern States, and goes down to Pennsyl-
vania Mary land and w. Virginia, and of
the products of coal, iron and steel takes
S5G, 900, 900 more in the grand aggregate.
That little piece of country takes more than
Si00 900 900 worth of material from other
states of the union, and in the grand ex
change between the East and West, makes
the trade profitable to both and keeps the
money at home instead of sending beyond
the sea-
The total value of the products we sent to
old England last year of all imitable articles,
was 1925 100000. Now, gentlemen, if you
want to know what value to have a market at
your door is by the exchange of industries,
see what four million people engaged in the
arts and industries of life can take from you
at your door, and among your fellow citizens
as compared with forty millions beyond the
seas"
There was procession of four thousand
torches this evening, and three largely at
tended meetings in as many halls. Blaine
reviewed the parade and briefly addressed
one meeting.