The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-16
BLAINE'S SPEECHES.
Blanc and his Apeodotes.

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manufacturers had given their employees a
holiday, and q number of excursion trains
| from various points had unloaded their thou
| sands into the already oyercrowded streets of
the city. Escorted by q long procession of
uniformed companies, Mr.. Blaine and party
were conveyed in carriage to the hotel, where
they dined.
At 3 O'Clock the doors of Eartman's hall
were thrown open and the crowd poured in in
great flood, which occupied every inch of
space. The larger part of it was made up of
workmen in the factories, who listened to Mr..
Blaine with close attention and frequently
cheered his good points. His topic was protec-
ton and the home market, and he took for his
text passage which he quoted from recent
speech of Postmaster-General Dickens in these
words:
New England selishly hangs on the body polite
absorbing wealth and giving nothing in return and
we buy of New England at extortionate prices kept
up by the tariff. while at the same time sell her
Mr.. Blaine said when he read this speech he
looked up statistics which he gave and which
show that New England annually takes from
the states west and south of her, four hundred
million dollars worth OF food products-coal,
iron, copper, lumber cotton, wool, and manu-
featured goods while the entire value of pro-
ducts that we sent to old England last year, of
all imaginable articles, was 1926, 100000.
[Cheers.
"Now, gentlemen" he said, ''if you want to
know what the value of home market at
your door is, by exchange of industries, see
what 900 600 of people, engaged in the arts
industries of life, can take from you at your
door and among your fellow-citizens as COM
pared with 100000 beyond the seas.
[Cheers Is anything more needed to prove
the wonderful advantage of a home market?
/ 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 for
the section that has been assailed by the post
maSter-general."
Mr. Rloina want IN }o COW tbaf bo bod N
piece of advice to give Mr. Dickinson and he
impaired it in these two anecdolcs There
was once very forward, up-startish member
of General SCOTS staff and he was always
talking in way that mortified his associates
and his chief. The old general ct last out of
all patience, said to him one evening: "My
young friend, you will be greatly improved by
studying the history of your country" Zap
| plause and laughter.l
My friends, you know q man who talks as q
cabinet officer represents the national admin
istration. Once upon time an officer of tho
cabinet was asked question in parliament
| which he could not answer, and Charles James
| Fox, who was of tho opposition, said: "There
| is one fault that can never DO forgiven in o
| cabinet oticer-ignorance." Laughter and
| applause. l commend Mr.. Don M. Dickinson
to the serious and prayerful study of this short
| saying of Charles James Fox. Laughter and
| applause.
Blaine in Goshen.
| GOSHEN, Ind, October 10. Mr.. Blaine ar
! rived here from Michigan early this morning,
| and about As coo citizens OF Indiana met him
| here to participate i'll the republican demon
| stration. 1t was the biggest crowd northern
! Indiana has ever SEEM and it was so unwiedy
| that two speakers stands had to be erected,
and another meeting organized in the opera
| house.
Mr.. Blaine addressed the great gathering as
| follows:
stop theft Stop thief" is cry not entirely
confined to the criminal classes The counterpart of
the trick s known in political circles and is especial
lynoticeabe IN the present course of the democratic
party, respecting trusts. In President Cleyelands
| famous tree trade message of last December he
| warned the country Of the dangers of trusts, and
argued that they were the offspring and result Of
the protective system established by the republican
| party. AT the same time, while assailing in the
wide sweep of his accusation, almost every indus
ularly careful to be silent respecting the enormous
enlncted on on sugar 9at OF
kind last year, over sS8ooo,Ooo e eans
from sugar alone, which is equivalent to more than
dn q hp for the year tSSt
one of the largest trusts ever orgs nfzed In the world
the sugar rust-was in full operation, and that If
was giving it ali the aid both ofoial and personal
In his power. If the words of HIS message are true
| millions upon the pocketsof all consumers of this
country for an an article Of uniueTsal use,
| silence was not the only thing which the sugar
| trust received When the Mills bill was under con
! sdesaton the president of the trust (Mr Have.
| meyer "a well known active democrat of New YorkP.
| appeared before the ways andlmeans committee ana
| obtained according to the statement made in open
| senate, such an arrangement OF the duty was
equivalent to s6000000 in the pockets Of the trust
Ifthen the price Of sugar has been unduy advanced
| to the consumer. the responsible parties,
according tot the presidents doctrine, the presi-
| dent himself, aud the ways and means committee,
who concocted the bill in the interest of that trust
| think, moreover, that wherever you find one of
the necessares of life cornered and controlled by an
association and run Tor the purpose of reaping I'M
| que profit, you Will find supporters Of Mr. Cleye-
land at the head OF the movement Sugar may be-
indeed, accounted luxury, for we can exist with
out it, but salt is one OF the primal necessities
| trust exists in this country. and
| the man who is now at the head of 1t openly and
avowedly conducting its al @ rs is Wellington r.
Burt, the present democratic candidate for COVER
| nor OF Michigan.
| Burt is earnestly advocating the removal of all
the duties for salt. This would seem another form
of contradiction Of the presidents theory that pro.
lection Is the first OF all trusts and 1t likewise
fully justihes the ground taken during this canvass
that trusts exist freely in free trade country
than in protective country; freely In England
than in the United States fortunately able to
give you sufficient information that has O strong
| hold In my hand copy OF the London Times of
| September 9TH from which learn that they are
| forming salt trust" In England The statement
locally Interested is this: 1.-THE efforts to form the
salt trust have succee led beyond the most sangulne
| expectations. All the Cheshire salt works have
| been Professionally acquired by London
| syndicate represented by Messrs. Fowler &
| Co., solicitors, Westminster, and negotiations arc
proceeding faVoraby to purchase all the extensive
| works in Worcestershire and Durham. The capital
required is fixed at three million pounds sterling
| and has been subscribed In advance many tiines
| over In consequence Of the monopoly thus Gre
ated, 1t Is expected that the price of common salt
now sold at shillings pence ton will rise to 10
| shilllngs."
| Let me ask now If any man in Indiana believes
that Blr Wellington H. Bnrts salt trust In the Emitted
Statesand thisgrea suit trust in England are likely
to prove rivals to each other. Well gentlemen these
| are not the only democratic trusts. We have
| spoken Of one necessary luxury, and one abso.
| Lutte necessity, but there's another trust more
| widening with more political Influence than they
| have in both Of them. / refer TO the whisky
trust. " hich has absolutely changed the politics
| and policy Of the democratic party For years
| afler the war closed demand
| OF the democracy especially In the south and
east the repeal of the internal revenue and the
| outrageous tax on whisky and tobacco. They de-
nounced them as war tax, TO which no free people
| should submit in time OF peace. Well, gentlemen.
| the free traders, both north and south, soon
that If the internal revenue system was abolished,
the country would necessarily rely for It's revenue
upon customs, as II had done for moro than gen
| nrat!on preceding the war, and that If that
| the case. it would be difficult, II not
! inn ossible, 10 destroy the doctrine Of
| protection, and 50, under Cleveland, they have
| completely changed their ground, are for keeping
up the internal revenue system and breaking down
! the protection features ofthe tariff The whisky
trust has thus rieen financially aud politically, 10