The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-09
Blaine IN MICHIGAN.
He Knocks Out a Democratic
Argument.
RELATIONS OF THE SECTIONS.
He Shows How the East is n Con-
sumer OF the Products of the
wcst-some Telling Points.
Other Campaign Matters.

Blaine was met here to-day by an i'm
mense and enthusiastic crowd. The
larger part of it was made up OF work.
men in the factories, who listened to Mr..
Blaine with close attention and frequent
ly cheered his good points, Mr., Blaine
addressed the meeting as follows:
Mn. CHAIRMAN AND CITIZENS OF MIcHT.
GAN:-I have no doubt you have often
heard that the system OF protection was
devised for the benefit Of New England,
that the west sustains all the burden.
That has been the cry OF the Free
Traders ever since there was West,
yet under it all the West does seem in
this great national progress to keep her
place in the van, and in the point OF
rapidly expanding enterprise and in
point of great acquisition of wealth
keeps ahead OF tho East in the ratio OF
acquisition. | am especially influenced
this afternoon to call your attention 10
the issue involved in that charge by
having read in Detroit paper that the
Hon. Don Dickinson, Postmaster Gen
eral under President Cleveland, has
lately been delivering himself on that
subject, and quote among other things
from what he says the following:
"New England seifishly hangs on the
body polite, absorbing the wealth and
giving nothing in return. We buy OF
New England ut eXtortionate prices kept
up by the tariff while at the same time
we sell her nothing"
Ii Mr.. Dickinson IN these deliverances
speaks the words OF sober truth, it is
A VERY SERIOUS MATTER.
IfNew Engllnd is prospering under
Protective Tariff and is selling largely to
the west every year and Is buying moth
ing from her in present, l say it is a
very serious aspect OF affairs, and there
should be radical change. Evidently it
cannot be permanent condition Of
trade. As soon us read that
statement by Mr.. Dickinson set
myself to work to procure some statistics
and l shall give you the benefit OF them;
and promise ut this point by saying
that every time you hear western man
complaining that the East, and especial.
ly New England-for which shall esae-
cially speak at this time-gets every
thing and gives nothing, sells everything
and buys nothing, you hear the same
man telling you that our great market is
beyond the great market in New Eng
land. Applause.l There is where the
West should look for the sale OF their
products. You can always tell one OF
them by that sign. Laughter and ap-
plause. Well, have been busy for
day or two past, with the aid of my
friend, Governor Alger, in securing
some statistics on the point OF New
England, taking nothing from the West.
IN TIE FIRST PLACE,
l find that she takes between half
million and 100000 tons of grain an.
nually. She raises only four per cent OF
wheat. Her people take her breadstulIs
and, as l said, she takes between 100000
and 100000 tons OF grain from the West.
[Cheers. Next there are annually
raised in this country 800 600 600 pounds
OF wool. We had only 6,000,O0O pounds
Of wool grown annually by the farmers
Of the country when the Free Trade |
tariff was in operation Just before the
war. Under the effect OF the Protective
tariff we have increased the amount OF |
wool grown almost wholly in the West !
to S00,0O0,000 pounds annually, and It
brings vast aggregate OF nearly $780,.
100000. [Cheers.
To the farmers OF tho country Mr..
Cleveland recommends that we shall put
the wool grower ofthe West on the same
plane as the wool grower OF Australia
and Canada. The Republicans say
NO" and New England, OF which Mr.. |
Dickinson speaks SO disrespectfully, |
takes every year half Of that entire wool |
crop, and pays the West $l5000,0OO a
year for it. [CheeIs.l Then OF copper
and lead and salt and hides and lumber,
which are taken from the Western States,
in the aggregate about S50,00O,000 more,
and together with breadstulis and lum.
ber the aggregate amount is well up to
two hundred millions.
We all know that Mr.. Don Dickinson
belongs to an administration that can |
afford to lend bankers $GO,OOO,0 900 a year
OF government money without interest,
so that he probably thinks 100000, 900
is not much OF sum. [Cheers and
laughter1. But those OF us in the East
who pay it, and to those OF you in the
West who receive it, it does, somehow
or other, come very handy in settling
our balances Mt the end Of the year. |
Laughter and applausc.l
VALUE OF HOME MARKET.
This little bit OF a New England OF
which Mr.. Dickinsonspeaks contemptu-
ously as only having 1000, 900 of people;
this little bit of frozen place on the
northeast coast OF the United States
takes S6O,OOO,OOO worth Of cotton from
the Southern States, and she goes down
to Pennsylvaniaand Maryland and West
Virginia, with their coal, iron and
steel, and the products OF coal,
iron and steel and takes S5G, 900, 900 more.
Then she takes as large an amount OF
petroleum, and hemp, and rice and
fruits Of all kinds; and in the grand ag-
gregate that little piece OF country,
scarcely large as the State OF Illinois (six
little States) takes more than Si00, 900, 900
worth OF material from the other States OF
the Union, and in the grand exchange
between east and west makes the trade
profitable to both and then keeps the
money at home instead OF sending it be-
yond the sea. telegraphed last Satur-
day to learn the total value OF products
that we sent to Old England last year OF
all imaginable articles, and l ascertained
twas $327, 100000. [Cheers.l
HIs anything more needed to prove tho
wonderful advantage Oft home market
l am speaking only OF New England.
There is New York and New Jersey, and
that great State OF Pennsylvania, and
the vast east OF which / do not speak,
for am answering only for the section
that has been assailed by the Postmaster
General.
Ihave a piece OF advice to give to Mr..
Dickinson. There was once very for.
ward upstartish member OF General
SCOTS staff, and he was always talking
in way that mortified his associates
and his chief. The old General at last,
out OF all patience, said to him one even
ing: "My Young friend, you would be
greatly improved by studying the his:
tory Of your country" Laughter and