Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-01
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. MR. BLAINE IN NEW YORK E! Makes A Big Score For
 Protection. sar CONGRESS BREAKS THE RECORD. The Longest Session In
 American History. LONDON POLICE 0UTWITTED. Two More Whitechapel
 Murders.
LONDON POLICE OUTWITTED.
MIR. BLAINE IN NEW YORK.

' Ra The Grand Demonstration at the Polo Grounds Saturday yNlEhf-Throngs O1 ! Republicans Listen 10 One of MT.
 Blains's GreateSt EHOrts-HtstOry o1 | the Taria-ConcIus1ons Plainly Fut.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-Of all the memor.
 able Republican demonstrations held in New
 Ysrk city the great outburst of enthusiasm
 last night at the Polo grounds must go on
 record as the grandest. No element was lacking to make the occasion success. The ! weather was perfect and the mass of human ity that stood within the grounds was ac-
 knowledged to be the largest that ever gath-
 cred there. The grounds were brilliantly lighted with electricity and the decorations
 were on 8 scale of great profusion. The
 splendor and success of the occasion stands out sharply against the recent Democratic eff fort, which ended in big fzzle.
 Before the speaking commenced Professor
 Adams started the song ''Grover's Farewell, /" ! the immense throng joining in the chorus, \ Down in the cornfed
 Hear that mourning sound;
 \ All the Democrats are weeping,
 Growers in the cold cold ground.
 A. P. Humphrey, president of the Harlem | Republican club, presided at the meeting
 and introduced Governor Foraker as the first 1 speaker. He was greeted with much enthu- ! siasm. but spoke for few moments only, as | the crowd was impatient to hear Nr. Blaine, \ who was then introduced. The mention of \ MT. Blaine's name brought out again the greatest enthusiasm He stood for fully five minutes uncovered before the great crowd of \ cheering men. Then he said:
 TRIBUTE TO GENERAL HARRISON.
 Mir. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: Gene \ ra1 uar.;so, hoe sbour ,,oorla hla ahilitv in | copdensing @ whole argument within the di- mensions of proverb. This is great and rare talent It was the striking feature in ' Franklin's mode of reasoning and was prac- \ tised by Lincoln with irresistible effect. When General Harrison in his letter of ac- \ oeptance described the dogmatie free traders as tsstudents of maxins and not of markets" !" | he exposed in one brief sentence the fallacy \ and the weakness of their economic creed. | They are in truth simply theorists perpetu- | ally arguing from arbitrary premises to an | ideal conclusion and blindly rejecting the \ teachings of century's experience, 8 century \ during which protective revenue tariffs have \ had an equal chance to exhibit the results of \ their operations and of their relative effect | upon all the material interests of the country. ! Whoever deceives himself as to the facts of \ the history of this long period does 50 will ' fully or ignorantly.
 TARIFF LEGISLATION.
 Mir. Blaine then began the history of our | tariff legislation. From the foundation of | the government to the war of 1S12 there was ! no embittered controversy on the tariff ques- | tien. The first act passed for levying duties | on "foreign goods, wares and merchandise" was reported by MT. Madison and wes declar \ ed to be for the encouragement and protec- K tion of manufactures" It was the second en- \ actment placed on the statute book of the U. | S., and since that time all arguments against II oI Irir kSNfk 1oV1kk | levy protective duties have been entirely flu \ tile. Washington in his message to Con- \ grses in 1796 urged the necessity of a protec \ tive system. Jefferson struck the keynote of protection when he too urged Congress that \ the surplus revenue be Appropriated to the \ improvement of roads, canals, rivers. educa- | ton and other great foundations of prosper \ ity and union." On the return of peace the war tariff, 30 called, expired by it's own Him. itation and in its stead followed the famous tariff of 1916. It yves not, however, passed without discussion and resistance. It's ad- vocates as near Rs an analogy might be found in eras so remote and situations so different made the same hec He's and unreau soninR blunder that the free trade Democrats and the supports of the Mills bil! are msk- ing to-day. Its opponents foretold the disas- ter that would follow it's enactment. These disasters all may be read in the history of the time.
 BELIEF CAME THROUGH THE TARIFF. "Relief" came, and it was drought the pro- tec.ive tariff of 1924. The relief was pro- found and general, reaching all classes, the farmer, the manufacturer, the ship owner, the mechanic and the day laborer. After four years of prosperity under the tariff of 1894, and when the public men had gained courage in the cause Of protection, & meas ure still more effective and imposing still higher duties was passed in 1928. DISASTER FOLLOWS LOW TARIFF. In the spring of 1857 Congress passed a brief tariff act lowering the duties still fur ther, and the United States set forth to de- pend upon its own energies, with a tariff | that brought it directly in competition with ! the low priced labor of Europe. We were no longer sustained by some extraordinary accident like war, or famine, or revolution abroad, or the discovery of vast deposits of
 the precious metals at home. The panic of 1857 came upon the country with crushing and disastrous effect. Every interest was prosirated and Democratic President, MT. Buchanan, in his message to Congress was obliged to partray this state of affairs: With unsurpassed plenty in all the clements of cd. our public works retarded, private en- \ terprises of different kinds are abandoned: and
 thousands of useful laborers are thrown out of em | pigment and reduced to want.
 SOUTHERN HosTILITY.
 | Following the tariff of 1898 a southern hos | tility began to develop, confined mainly,
 though not with precision, to the States that | after ward rebelled against the national gov | ernment. MT. Calhoun originally favored protection, but he had come to the conclusion | that manufactures could not be established \ in the planting States of the South. Attempt | ed notification followed, and after a hot | contention acompromise tariff bill was agreed upon, with sliding scale downward for ter | years with the certainty, ,as the protectionists believed that it would end in commercial and 1 financial disaster. The disaster came sooner | than was expected and in 1887, the year after | the election of MT. Van Buren, panic came ! upon thscountry that beggars description | for its severity and distress
 The fruit of the Whig triumph was the protective tariff of 1S42, which held the ! same relation to the compromise tariff of held to the tariff of 1916. And
 again was the policy of protection most sig nally vindicated. The years following the enactment of the tariff of 1642 witnessed an almost phenomenal revival of all industrial pursuits in the country.
 Under the whip and spur of Southern domination, and without even an apology ior the perfidy involved, the protective tariff of 1S42 was broken down and the free trade tariff of 1646 was placed upon the statute
 book. But almost immediately after this special causes postponed the evil day. The
 
 discovery in 1S4o, the European revolutions and other causes stimulated national pros- perity.
 | PROTECTION AGAIN.
 Following the panic of 1857 there were
 four years of 'shard times" The country
 did not revive until after the election of
 Abraham Lincoln and the Morrill, tariff bill which was the foundation and beginning of
 the present tariff system of the country, was
 enacted. Under the influence of the new
 protective system the country was enabled to ,, which for nearly the twenty-eight years , which closes the century of our tariff experi
 ence has given to the United States pros
 perity beyond that enjoyed by any country. 1. ancient or modern, in this hemisphere or the . other, upon any continent or upon the islei
 of the sea. 8S
 SUMMARY OF THE SPEECH. } l Mr. Blaine closed as follows In this brfe historical view of our country's experience I xvikh he &o~if ff khoeo faokx ara think ineon