The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-08-16

change in the Industrial system which
had produced that prosperity, and since
that day there has been reversal and
confusion in the commerce and man
ufactories of the United States. The
question before the American people is
whether he and his administration shall
be sustained in that movement. Voices
no. mol Against him the Republican
party has nominated the best of tickets.
1t has given you for president man of
experience, of heroic war record, of great
purity of character, a man of great firm
ness, who can give this country an ad-
ministration worthy of it's best days
Icheers], and you have associated with
him man whom I need not further de-
scribe to citizens Of New York than to
say his name is Levi P. Morton [cheers]
"a man of most generous character, of
the widest and most statesmanlike views
on the great question. OF tue gentlemen
against them would say nothing, but
of the candidate for vice president l
would say that in him I have friend of
many years standing, and l am personal
admirer of Judge Thurman. But beg
you to observe that in critical period of
this country George NJ. Dallas destroyed
the protective tariff of 1842. When the
senate convenes on the 4th of March next
it will have thirty-two senators frcm the
solid South, and, unless you make q
change, six Democratic senators from the
North, and Mr.. Thurman will be in po-
sition to re-enact the role of George M.
Dallas forty-two years ago. The more
able and amiable the man is the worse
will be his influence before the American
people. I have been in England several
months, and have discovered great di-
versity Of opinion upon almost every sub
ject, but from one end of the kingdom
to the other there is one unanimous con-
cord of opinion, be they Tories, Wings,
Liberals, Conservatives or Radicals, and
that is that the Hon. Grover Cleveland
embodies in his person the free trade for
thirty-eight United States which they
like. Now, have no objection to their
right of opinion, and if 1 had it would
amount to nothing Nor do I intend to
speak with disrespect of the English, for
have received at their hands courtesies
which would be but surly not to &C
knowledge before an American audi
ence. But there is here question
of policy which is the prime one.
1 am glad this meeting is called in the
name Of the laboring people, because this
question is from beginning to end ques-
ton of labor. If you will agree to live in
poor house and eat poor food and re-
ceive as your wages as little as the oper-
atives in England receive, we can pro-
duce as cheap goods as a Democratic adj
ministration wants to see. The savings
of the wageworkers of England, Scot
land and Ireland, as said to-day to a
Massachusetts gentleman, are not near
as great as lie tonight in the savings
banks of Massachusetts, to the credit of
the wageworkers of that small state. If
you turn the administration of this re-
public into free trade channel you may
not expect those great savings, for you
will put our laboring men throughout
the country into competition with the
laboring men of Great Britain, and in the
course Of five or ten years you will make
then.as poor upon this side of the water
as they are upon the other. | will not
stop to argue the question upon any other
basis. have no personality to indulge
in; l have no sores to heal. 1 would
rather have your cordial and heartfelt
and sympathetic welcome than any office
you care to bestow upon me, but In this
in which shall take greater or
less part, shall hold this question from
the beginning to the end as a question
that interests every man, woman and
child in this country that depends upon
daily labor for daily bread. [Applause.]
There Is no need to make any laws to
protect capital. Capital always takes
care of itself and gets full share, but
there are laws that can elevate the con-
dition of the laboring man and there are
laws that can degrade them, and the Re-
publican party has stood for twenty-five
years, and it will stand, / believe, with
The blessing of God and the will of the
American people, twenty-five years more,
UNFOLDING and maintaining the laboring
man. Now, gentlemen, you represent a
critical state. You represent the state
Of New York. Your votes are to tell in
that one issue. Do not be diverted from
that one question to side issues. Don't
be misled by petty squabbles upon this or
that small issue, or upon personal ques-
lions of abuse on the one hand or the
other, but give your votes as Independent
aboring men, and give them for the in
serests of your own homes, of your own
iresides, and thereby for the interests of
his great republic. Immense cheering.l
After the speech Mr.. Blaine returned
70 the hotel, where an informal reception
vas held in his apartments