Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-08

The people Of the great west recog
nize and value the great contribution
which those commonwealths about
Plymouth Rock have made to the
civilization, material growth and
manhood of our western states,
[Cheers.l We are not envious OF
, prosperity. We believe that the
protective policy developed her
great manufacturing institutions,
and made her rich, and we do not
doubt that a continuance of that
policy will produce the same results
i'm Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
[Cheers. We are not content to
remain wholly agricultural states in
relation to either New England or
Old England. [Applause.l We be-
lieve that in all these great western
states there are minerals in the soil
and energy and skill in the brains
and arms Of our people that will yet
so multiply and develop our manu-
featuring industries as to give us a
nearer home market for much Of the
products of our soil [cheersl and for
that great surplus that now and
always, perhaps, we shall not con-
sumo at home. We think the New
England market better than a
foreign market. Enthusiastic, pro-
longed cheering.
The issue upon this great indus
trial question is drawn as sharply as
lines ever were drawn between con-
tending armies. Men are re-adjust-
ing their party relations upon this
great question. The appeal that is
now made for defense of cur Ameri-
can system is finding its response,
and many Of those who are opposed
to us on other questions are commit
ing such questions to the future for
settlement, while they help us to
settle now and for an indefinite
future the great question of preser-
vation of our commercial independ-
ence. The democratic party has
challenged our protected industries
to a fight of determination. The
wage-earners of our country have
accepted the challenge. The issue
of this contest will settle for many
years our tariff policy.
The eloquent description to which
we have listened of the material
wealth of the great state OF Michigan,
has been full of interest to us citi-
zens of Indiana. We cannot doubt
that the people of state having
such generous invitations to develop
ment Of its great home wealth in
manufacturing and mining pursuits
will understand the issue that Is
presented, and will cast their in
tluence i'm favor of that policy which
will make that development rapid
and sure, and more than all, and
better than all, will maintain in her
communities Il weil-paid class of
wage-earners. LCheers.l ] The wage
workers vote; they are American
citizens and it is essential that they
be kept free from the slavery of want
and the discomfort bred of injustice.
t [Applause,l
l thank my Michigan friends for
these handsome specimens of the
products of their mines or their mills.
| shall cherish them with my CRATE
ful recollection of this pleasant visit.
[ [Applause.l
To my Indiana friends, always
generous, | return my thanks for
this new evidence of their esteem.
[Cheers.l
To my Ohio friends, who so often
before have visited me with kind
expressions Of regard, | return the
thanks of native born Ohioan.
[ Prolonged cheers from the Ohio
delegation Three great states are
grouped here to-day.
remember that ut Resaca, when
the field and staff Of the regiments
that Were making the assault were
ordered TO dismount, there was a
Michigan officer too sick to go ON
foot and too proud to subject himself
to the inputation Of cowardice by
staying behind, He rode along, |
the one horseman i'm that desperate |
charge, and died ON that bloody hill |
side rather than subject his state to /
the inputPtiou that one of her sons /
had fingered, lie was n noble type |
OF the brave men these great states
gave 10 the community. ICheers. |
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