Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-24

tariff enacted by . Republican Congress ant
made more effective from year to year as In
/ dustrial experience enabled to Congress from
| time to time to correct and adjust its works
| ings. How then stands the matter? At the
end of twenty eight years of protection The
| wage workers of New York and New Eng.
land have $715, 600, 600 to their credit o.
nearly eight times the amount gained under
twenty-eiRht years of free trade in the same
States. In other words the aver
age wage worker under protective tariff In
the United States has been enabled to save
five times as much as the average wage
workers under more revenue tariff.
But the Democratic advocate of free trade
thinks that he can escape from the crushing
force of these figures by his cry that these
earnings ofthe laboring man in New York
and New England have been made at the ex-
pense of the agricultural States in the West.
I first answer that the manufactures are so
rapidly spreading that there are no longer
agricultural States In the sense in which
that term was used generation ago. Under
protective tariff manufactures are springing
up everywhere, and already some States in
the West, notably Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
have an annual product from manufactures
amounting high up into the millions; but
secondly, answer that I have no need to in
terpose the manufacturing interest in stating
the progress and development of the West
for twenty eight years of protective tariff
wealth has increased in far greater ratio in
the agricultural States of the West than in
seven manufacturing States which have ad-
dueed in the East.
SOUTH AND NORTH.
Lastly the objection to the conclusion I
present comes from the southern Democrat
who, forgetting the interests of his section,
is urging the revival of free trade. He con-
siders that the South has been robbed for the
benefit of the North and hugging this mon
strous delusion he strives to place the Union
back under the old free trade systems of the
ante~bellum period. Yet the benifcient eff
feet of protective tariff can be even better
illustrated by the recent history.
Mr.. Blaine then showed by statistics the
progress made by the South since the war
and drew the conclusion that if financial and
industrial condition of the South could be as
certained to-day they would be found to have
two and one-have to three times as much
property as they had on that direful day
when they rasuly fred on Sumter.
Nor must I omit in this hasty review of
the condition of our community under a
protective system to call your attention to
our splendid States on the shores of the Pa
cifc. In 1860 the mines of California had
greatly diminished in value immigration
fallen off agriculture had not been largely de-
veloped, manufacturers were not fairly started
Mr.. Blaine then quoted statistics to show
the advancement on the pacific slope and
particularly in California, whore the wool
growing and fruit raising industrirs had enor-
mously enhanced the wealth of that country.
Then referring to his own state Mr.. Blaine
said:' Fellow citizens of Maine have said
nothing as yet specially concerning our own
state. By the protective system Maine has
increased her wealth more than three fold
and is daily progressing in an even more rap
id ratio. But our progress is
now to be arrested, our prosperity threatened
by the recommendation of the president of
the United States and the action of the DEM
ocratic party in Congress. The tariff bill
which the Democratic House has sent to Re-
publican Senate impairs every industrial In
terest in Maine and even threatens the de-
struction of some from the granite quarries
on our coast to the lumber camps in our for
ests. From the cotton factories of York and
Androscoggia to the starch factory of Aroos-
took, from the wool growers of the hill
country to the lime burners of the Penobscot
bay, every pursuit of our people viii be in
juriously affected by what seems to be almost
the malignity of the proposed legislation.
What has Maine done that the Democratic
party should be allowed to cripple and to de-
stroy her great industrial interests!
THE SURPLUS.
Far all the radical changes in our COM
plete and industrial system which Presi-
dent Cleveland recommends and which the
cuse iterated and reiterated is that the tar
if system had produced a large surplus
The simple truth is that the surplus was
allowed to accumulate by the mal-adminis-
tration of the treasury department, a sur
plus which it was both the right ana the
duty of the secretary under the law to ap-
ply to the reduction of the public debt
We are not allowed to ascribe motives for
public action, but cannot refrain from
saying that under any Republican SECRETARY
that has ever had charge of the treasury
the surplus would have been steadily en-
ployed in payment of the debt, and
would not have been allowed
of the business of the country and to the
loss of millions of the peoples money. If
Secretary Fairchild had followed the line of
the law, President Cleveland would never
have found the condition upon which his
message of last December was passed. New
er IN the history of the world has there been
such progress in the development of agricul-
ture, such vast accumulation of material
wealth as has been realized in the United
States since the policy of protection was
adopted in 1861. The benefits have reached
every section, every State, every class of
workers. Our national advancement has
been the cause of graduation, of gratitude at
home, of amazement and admiration
abroad. President Cleveland now pro-
poses to interfere with the system of
protection, which has wrought these great
results. He proposes to institute dangerous
experiments where we enjoy the full record
of fortunate experience, to give us change
where we now have stability, to commit us
to doubt where we now have certainty, nay,
to give us q system that has brough unprece-
dented prosperity and return to system
which in our past history has three times
ended in a bankrupt treasury and created
wide distress both among the wage-workers
and the capitalists of the country. do not
believe the people of the United States will
approve the Presidents policy. I SIN sure the
people of Maine will disapprove it with en-
phatic voice.
And finally, remember that. the vote of
Maine in September will be an index of how
strongly the popular strength is consolidst-
ing in support of our splendid national
ticket of Harrison. and Morton, two csndi-
dates who represent every page of their polit-
ical record and every purpose that inspires
them, the great principles and patriotic pur-
poses of the Republican party.
Mr.. Boutelle made an address, and while
be was Jet speaking visiting companies ar
rived and marched with bands by the speak
ers' stand to the hall, and at 6 o'clock the
meeting closed with cheers for Harrison and
Morton.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS-.