Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-24
THE POLITICAL ARENA.
Blaine Blows His Bugle at
Rochester.
HIS COMPLIMENTS TO BAYARD.
Governor Hill ProvOkes an Explana-
tion as to Those Thirty
Three Trunks.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Three Trunks.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, October 23.-The
city was crowded to-day with Republi
cans from all over the country. Senatoi
Hiscock and c. NJ. Depew arrived early
this morning, and James 6. Blaine al
1880. The party was received at the
Central depot by committee. Five
hundred people assembled at the depot.
Blaine spoke at 8 O'Clock at Franklin
Square. 1t was raining Slightly, so the
crowd is not very large.
Blaine spoke again at night. He said
in part:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-I beg to bring to
your attention and to the notice of the
audience a statement made by Mr..
Bayard in a speech two weeks ago.
quote his exact words. He said: 81
want you to think of the progress of the
United States since these tariff laws were
made and what the consequences are.
Various inventions have come into play
since that tariff reached its present
proportions. Here are some figures l
believe to be readable. They come from
high authority, Mr.. Edward Atkinson,
OF Massachusetts,, who is our leading
statistican and an honorable man. From
1870 to 1887 the population OF the United
States increased 55 per cent. But in the
same time the dairy products of the
United States, cheese, butter and milk
and all that is created by the
dairy increased rs per cent. In
these seventeen years the products
OF cotton increased liz per cent. The
consumption of wool increased 100 per
cent. The production of pig-iron in
creased 2S5 per cent. The construction
of railways increased 523 per cent. What
has been the result of the population in
creasing in so small proportion to all these
vast forces which are needful to mems
use. 1t proves to you that the country is
making more than the people of the
country need or can consume"
lu reply to Mr.. Bayard, my first re-
mark is that it is great deal better for
people to have more than they can
consume than to have less than they can
consume. Mr.. Bayard seems to think it
is an evil omen if the wealth of the
country increases more rapidly than it's
population. I do not, confess, quite
comprehend Mr.. Bayard's drift, for
my own understanding has been
according to the simple rules OF
political economy, where naticn is in
ereasing in population moro rapidly than
its property, there must soon be suffer-
ing; but where the acquisition of prop.
erty outruns the ratio of increase in
population, it means that the nation is
growing powerful, wealthy and great.
AS Mr.. Bayard has endorsed Mr.. Atkin.
son as statistician and an economist,
will use Mr.. Atkinson's figures, and tell
Mr.. Bayard where large proportion of
the increase of tie wealth in the United
States has gone under the protective
tariff.
MIR. Atkinson stated in July las that
since 1866 the wages of foremen, over
seers and other specially skilled work
men have advanced 186 per cent; that
the wages oE the average mechanics,
carpenters, n2achinists, and the like,
have had an advance of 80 per cent
that factory operatives and others of like
grades of ekill in the mechanical arts
have advanced Is per cent, and the wages
OF the comman laborer &C per cent. You
will please observe that these are not ad-
vances over the wage rates of some for
eign country, but over the wages paid in
our own country q quarter of a century
ago, and that these advances flow directly
from the protective tariff. Mr.. Bayard
will see then from the authority
he endorses, that this large increase
of wealth has not gone merely
gone in larger degree than was ever
H. ,fofo l. in ho Of y, 70
or Of any ether country into the pockets
Of the workingmen. If / had been
searching for witness by whom the
value of the tariff to the workingmen OF
the country could be established beyond
a doubt, could not have summoned q
better one than Mr.. Bayard and Mr.. M
kinson to the stand.
Mr.. Bayard further gives public warn
ing that If we do not take care we will
produce in this country as much in
seven months as we shall need in twelve
months. Well, that is the last thing
that should alarm the American people.
That facts shows above all things our
power to shorten the hours of labor.
And How let,me turn to another topic.
While i was in Indiana l had the
honor of frequent notices on the stump
from Eis Excellency, David B. Hill. The
principal subject he appeared to have
come west to ley before the people of
Indiana was that had driven on Carne-
gie's coach when in Scotland; that I had
returned home, on an English steamers
and had imported thirty-three trunks, all
full of clething,s' as His Excellency
averred. ii he had taken pains to in
quire of Mr. Carnegie, he might have
learned the cost of his coach and the
color of his Aorses, and been thus better
prepared for his Indiana campaign. If
he had asked me about the trunks, i
would freely have. given him list of all
the pocket handkerchiefs, stockings and
.cravats l had imported, and would gladly
have informed His ,Excellency, by way
of giving hina lesson On the subject Of
the tariff, that articles ST that kind are
about the same price in London as in
New York.
As I have no doubt he desires to do
noe exact Justice, / would have further
informed His ENeellency that he mis-
took the character of the steamer l re-
urned in, inasnueh as she belongs to q
company of American stockholders; and
would have further informed him that
he oyer-stated the number. o. trunks,
which was in all two instead ef thirty
three; that the trunks belonged
to six persons, instead .et all
belonging to me, and that the
other packages were made 'vp OF