The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-19
BLAINE IN NEW YORK.
NE ADDRESSES AN AUDIENCE OF
100000 PEOPLE.


NE ADDRESSES AN AUDIENCE OF
10000 PEOPLE.
The Maine ststesmaa's Trenchant His
torlcal Comparisons-An Eloquent P1oa
for the l,rexervatioa Of tho American
System Of Protection.
New York special1
In the northern part Of this city, seven miles
s q sss ss' nps SsiSssss ; { sSssSf ss & R : n issaa ssss.
cred in and about the Polo Grounds, whore tho
GIANTS play bali. to hear Republican speeches
B. kim, Of Maryland A. L. Morrison, Of Ari-
xons and john i. Fineriy. Of lllinois. 1t was
the larsest and most enthusiastic political meet
moettng commenced, Prof. Adams. after DIS
trtbuting n pamphlet entitled The Republican
GGsm N s s,g started the song, .arcyes's
chorus, that. swelled like the roar OF a storm
blast, the brass bands leading the air. Mr..
Bl ME' c sRSks as 50l aS,,s;., H.rr;,o, ,.. III, "a.
markabls faculty Of condensing a whole argu.
ment within the Dimensions Of . proverb. It
s ssa uns ls SasSh Mnie anS va Hb e sSssani1 fin ssa1n aso IN
seased 1t In 4 remarkable degree. Never was q
happier argument more felicitously stated than
wero studying maxims instead Of markets. In
. single phrase he exhibited tho weakness Of the
whole argument. They speak Of theories and
speak .t to.nishe t. Of the tariff an Int In This country Sasn -
from the inception Of the Government to this
hour, one great. Lesson has been taught. 1t
tariff, which was increased by twelve separate
enactinentn until up to the war Of 1s1! II was
doubled. Up to TINT time there was not any
ocrats and Republicans, who were all in favor
1916. alter the war Of lsla. Then There haupen-
ed exactly what Mr.. Cleveland threatens this
country with..the lowering of the tariff and a
disaster to tho country. That lowering Of the
tariH came and disaster followed, and from that
tiMe till 1874 was the wor { period that this
country o.y has , eyer seen. In 1924 the first pro.
beg them to listen while / state who Voted for
that bill. In the first place a senator from Ten
nessee named Andrew jackson. In the next
Buren. Next q Representative from Pennsyi-
vaiita named James buchanan. Three mon,
aitorward Democratic Presidents of tho United
Senator from kentucky, A. NJ. johnson, aftor-
ward Vice President.
Besides. there was a great host OF the Demo-
the tariff still higher, those men were still in tho
S!enat? and House, ind repeated that vo o, and
IN addition to those I have named was silas
9b.est man tho Democrats ever sent to the
National Council. That tariff brought unlimit-
e en i nrSsP soaS,o TO 5 sas eo snd 1rom That bs,ts was = going ;,dss
whtn just MT that time there came athwart tho
national sky un influence for OWL. John q, Cal.
forced his lis way '. to the Presidency re- ncy.e' But. ,io nsS
master of the Democratic party in tho South,
his mastery, broke that party. He founl they
slayc labor, and tLoy did not have free nianu-
features. md therefore he was not Interested in
the iaria. And therefore, up to ISIS, tho Demo.
cratic party was deceived, and had established
tho advocacy OF III, extension Of slavery and
free trade.
Those We're the two great leading inspirations
fNQt 0nNiAa6 Tim paRfVy In 1NNn~Ifs.xs <In-,,, AI-
tariff 81 1921 and lis aud establishing the ,asiii
Of 1883. Then, again, just as under tie low tnriif
OF 1916, carlc a financial crisis, so that of 1887,
and tho country was again Frustrated. How was
It relieved? BY the protective tariff OF 1872. It
had been thrown into such a desperate dogree Of
oh ,vba might ~ almost limos s. aya,dsprscistien hat every.
!ration Of Martin Van Buren,, tile Democrat
the election of William Henry Harriso ., and his
election gavo Ms the tariff of 1879.
Well, that lifted the country as II by magic,
and WHOM tho Democrats nominated Polk
against Henry Clay he was compelled 10 write
IN bad faith. and with no int .ntion of keeping it.
that he was IN favor OF a certain degree of pro.
was known as the Kane letter. He was de-
feated, and Polk was installed, and t en-, despite
the pledges of the Democrntic party, they broke
down the protective tariff of lsla. They broke it
down by tho casting vote of George NJ. Dallas,
who was elected Vice President rs a personal
Follower ofPoik: They broke it down without
as much as one Democratic blush, nnu then fol-
lowed much tho same ~thing-therc was disaster
all through this country.
tariff nSa OF S is.s ne ss the iaa1 pr ses t Re%o o IaW.r sss the
tariff answers tho interests of tho country bet
ter than protection. Well. now, at that time the
90: the Irish famine occurred and called for the
OF enormous loads of hreadstuffs:
there was a revolution in Europe and great dis
London to st. Petersburg, and by reflex action
there was prosperity in the United States. We
made the discovery of gold in California, ana
country, and by the time they decrces d En-
gland, Franco, md Italy foil into the Crimean
war, which Taste I until 1855.
From TINT on for ton years the tariff advocates
had u series Of happy accidents. The country
fell into o panic In less than a year-in 1857.
that Frustrated all the great industries Of the
country-nll our industries. Laboring mon were
without work and In great distress, and this
state of things never was cured till the protect
Nv, nsli term a.s ssn'e , sn@ the 9Se country t;,as e, spr ,,1is nto pros,
had q protective tariff. In 1861 this country lHa
the blessings of q protective tariff, AMI th TO
this hemisphere or In the o.hor, in any conti-
nent or in any isle Of the seas, a country thnt
for twenty-eight years has been as prosperous as
the Unit ID States Of America is now.
And now. Mr.. President. following tho prece.
dent OF tho Democratic President-tho man
whom t o voters of the United States made the
Chief Magistrate of the Nation-I appeal to YOU,
the voters OF the United States to you, tho vo-
tiers of the State of New York and to yon, the
men OF the great city OF New York, IN mn especial
degree to say to Mr.. Cleveland that, with all his
administration he has not the power to destroy
the protective tariff.
Now, my friends, / am running hastily over a
century Of tho history Of the tariff, and / saw,
without fear of contradiction rom any well-in.
formed aud honest Democrat, that these thrce
things are true:
I. That there has never been a pro: ectivo
tariff in this country that did not bring pros
perity.
.. That u protective tariff in this country has
never been broken down without bringing adver-
sity.
.. That there has not been since the time of
been u Democratic administration in power that
did not try to break down the tariff.
Mfr r1aya1onI 1opiod xr1,op In ~, ;, 1901