The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-15
Blaine at His Old Tricks.

JAMES g. BLAINE has returned from
Europe the same shameless demagogus
that he was when he left this country.
His speech at Madison Square Friday
night was brazen appeal TO ignorance
and prejudice, and nothing else, as
Mr.. BLAINE's public speeches always
have been. He rehearsed the old story
of the 'ill-paid labor of Great Britain"
and told his hearers that any reduc-
ton OF the oppressive taxes now levied
IN the name of protection would make the
laboring people ''as poor upon this side of
the water rs they are upon the other"
He deliberately made the statement that
the savings of the wage workers OF En-
gland, Scotland and Ireland are not near
as great as lie tonight in the savings
banks of Massachusetts to the credit of the
wage workers OF that small state"-a bold,
barefaced, unblushing falsehood. Hecon-
cluded his speech with this outburst of
fiapdoodle:
| have seen the other side, and have de-
voted many OF the last fourteen months TO see
ing the condition of labor and of the laboring
men IN the other hemisphere, and l say with
out fear OF contradiction that in no country of
Europe, IN no part OF any country, Is the con-
ditlon OF labor comparable 10 that which it
holds IN the United States. Are you willing to
give up that position, or are you willing to
maintain it? You can maintain it by strong
pull, alongpull and pull altogether for HAIR
RIsoN and MORTON.
No honest man of Mr.. BLAINE's intelli-
gence would be capable OF making such
speech as this. No honest man, fresh
from countries where labor is starving and
despairing under precisely the same sort
OF protection" { p that it receives in this
country, would tell American working
men that such protection" was
necessary to their well-being No hon
est man would invent lies about the
savings OF the working people Of
Great Britain and Massachusetts,, and
palm them off on those who, for the most
part, do not have access to original sources
OF information upon the subject. The Sc
lection OF Massachusetts,, a small, long
settled, wealthy and specially favored por-
ton OF this country. for comparison with
the entire United Kingdom was, to begin
with, trick to which nobody but politi-
cal charlatan would resort But not con-
tent with this, Mr.. BLAINE stopped to an
open lie. The facts are that the savings
deposits in the United Kingdom in
1886 were S4S6,OOO,0OO. In Massa-
chusetts they were S27500O,000. In the
entire United States the savings deposits
in 1886 were Sl,14l, 100000, not much
more than double the savings deposits in
the United Kingdom, while the populs-
ton was almost double.
Mr.. BLAINE first lied about the differ
ence in the savings OF Massachusetts, and
Great Britain. and then tried to make it
appear that the imaginary difference was
due to the difference in tariffs. Now the
fact is, as Mr. BLAINE of course knows,
that the deposits in savings banks in
Great Britain are, and have been
for several years past, increasing
more rapidly than in this country. From
1851 to 1882 the amount of deposits in the
savings banks OF the United Kingdom in
creased from al $4,000 to eSS, 65l, 900, or
lO1 per cent, while the population only
increased % per cent.
1t is upon shameless fabrications, such
as are herein exposed, that BLAINE
and other defenders Of monopoly taxation
build up their so-called arguments in its
favor. Their premises are as false as their
conclusions. They dare not state the
facts; they dare not give the true figures.
Their only resources are invention and
sophistry.
Down with monopoly taxes