St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14
MIR. Blaine Attributes the
Country's Prosperity to
the Tariff.
He DenouneeS President
Cleveland and Everything
Democratic.
Hoosiers Who Bet on Hovey
Applauded the Plumed
Knight.
Special to the Globe.

CptCldl W Jut
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. Is. = Mr..
Blaine spoke this afternoon at Garvin
Grover for twenty-five minutes to
about 1000 people. The air was rather
chilly and the Plumed Knight wore a
heavy overcOat and gloves. 1t was 3
O'Clock when ne made his appearance,
and in response to the greeting
he said: II have carefully read
the speech delivered in this
city last evening by Hon. Roger O..
Mills, chairman of the committee on
ways and means, to whom the author
ship of the Mills bill is popularity i'm
puted. 1t is altogether very singular
speech. 1t assails very bitterly the
doctrine of protection, ridicules it, de-
nounces it, and then in varied form of
argument tries to persuade his hearers
that the Mills bill has not really
changed the protective features of
the tariff. 1t has, he says. simply
reduced the average of duties from AZ
per cent to 4215 per cent, and he argues
earnestly that this per cent reduction
will not disturb the harmony or eff
cheney of the protective system. In
congress and on the stump, for years
past, Mr.. Mills has devoted his ener-
gies and his elOquence to proving the
free trade dogma that protection is
robbery. If he was speaking the
truth in those days, he must now ac-
knowledge that the Democrats are
willing to rob to the extent of 4213 per
cent, while the wicked Republicans are
robbing to the extent of Az per cent.
But the truth is, Mr.. Mills does not
state the figures correctly. On the con-
trary
HE STATES THEM INCORRECTLY.
do not say he does this with the in
tentiOn to miSrepreSent, bat like all
other free traders, Mr.. Mills is in such
a muddle OH the whole subject that he
forgetS the primary rules of arithmetic
in studying the actual facts and figures
of the case. Fortunately in a matter
so plain as this is to the
common understanding of men.
we need not be imposed upon
by any of the heresies or blunderS OF
free trade speakers. We simply appeal
to the record. What does Mr.. Mills
erage reduction of per cent? Will he
whom he strips every. particle
of protection, and tell them that
he he has only reduced them 5
per cent? Will he tell the lumber manu-
facturers in the largest hardwood
market in the world, in this very county,
when he put their product on the free
list? Will he say the same thing to the
salt producers of Michigan, and so on
to the numberlesS pursuits which he
has thrust down from fair protection
to the free list? Will he tell
them all to submit because of the wide
spread fallacy that the average reduc-
ton of the whole is only five per cent?
What is it to those industries that are
stripped naked whether the average is
five per cent. or five hundred per cent?
In either or any event they are
THRUST OUT INTO THE COLD.
Gentlemen, there is one great differ
ence between the Republican and the
Democratic parties. Whatever the Re
publican party proposes in congress it
frankly defends before the people. But
the Democratic party, from President
Cleveland down through all the
official grades, have for eight
months waged bitter war
fare on the protective system, denounc-
ing it as plumber and organized robbery,
and are now sending out speakers
known, in fact. to be the most rancOrous
free traders, with MIR. Mills at their
head, to so qualify and explain away
and tumble and reverse and turn and
trim the figures that they hope to de-
ceive the people as to the true in
tent of the assault made upon the pro-
tective system. Mr.. Mills does me the
honor in his speech to quote what said
upon reaching home after a years alb
sence in Europe, to the effect that a
tariff was primarily for the protection
of American labor. l think any man is
blind who does not see, and is prac-
tically dumb who does not say the
same thing. Let me illustrate. Mr..
Mills proposes to take the tariff
from wool and give to our manufact-
urers wool from Australia as cheap az
they get it in England. l will take that
as test case, for wool is made a test
case in the Mills bill. The wool being
the same, and the air, the light and the
warer being the same, and the neces-
sity for human labor being the same,
how shall we make wooden goods here
to compete with the cheap wooden goods
of England unless
WE REDUCE THE WAGES
of the wOrkingmen far below that now
paidP A man might as well dispute an
axiom in geOmetery as to dispute that
fact; and the inevitable result must be
one of two things-that we shall lose
the market for woods in this coun-
try, or must reduce the wages
of the laboring man from 80
to As per cent. The Democrats address
you as though you were all farmers and
were fearfully imposed upon by
hostile class of manufacturers living in
distant states. That is great mistake.
Indiana is herself great manufacture
ing state, and has within her own terri
tory all the elements needed for manu-
featuring on the largest scale. Great as
are the products of her fields, the
products of her shops, with the
multiplied power of steam and ma
chinery, are equally great. You have
therefore on your own soil the perfect
results of protection in bringing the
consumer and the producer together.
The farmer needs the home market.
which the manufacturing towns afford.
and the manufacturing towns must
have the supplies furnished from the
farms. Each is required by the other.
and, both working together, make a
prosperous community of people, One
without the other will never grow rich
and powerful.
THE OTHER
speakers were j. M. Butler, of Indian
apolis; Col. A. Louden Snowden. of
Philadelphia; A. P. Hovey, candidate
for governor, and Gen. A. E. King, of
Baltimore. Mr.. Blaine reviewed the
procession this evening and left for
New Albany at IL o'clock.
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