The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-03
Blaine in Connecticut

| NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, November g.
Blaine arrived this afternoon and spoke
briefly to an audience of $500. He re-
ferred to protection by reminding the
Republicans of Connecticut if they did
not protect themselves they must not
expect other portions of the country to
do it for them. He also referred to the
deposit of money in the national banks
by Secretary Fairchild, and touched
slightly upon the Saokville incident.
After his speech he left for Derby. At
Derby Mr.. Blaine and party were es-
corted to the residence of Thomas Wal.
lace, where lunch was served. The
party was then driven to the trotting
park, where 10000 persons gathered
and gave Blaine an enthusiastic recep
ton. Blaine spoke substantially as
follows: "Fellow citizens, if you
allow the
PROTECTIVE LAW TO BE BROKEN DOWN
and destroyed, when do you think it
will be put on again? Do you think
you can vote for free trade party for
1uu duu uhto ClSO
the protective principle for you? If
you will put General Harrison in the
Presidential chair will guarantee that
the protective tariff will not be dis
turbed. They are opposing US in every
way and manner, fair and unfair.
While in the west, read an interview
with Postmaster General Dickinson,
inwhich he described New England as
selhshly hanging On to the body
polite, absorbing its wealth and giving
back nothing. He described US as an
unpatriotlc people who had not done
as much
TO SUPPRESS THE REBELLION
as Missouri and Kentucky. l had to
say something about him, but he re-
piled describing the laboring man of
New England as in the last stages of
S starvation. He said that in Fall River
there were a thousand men with
families, and they could not earn more
than 40 cents or so cents day for the
whole family. That occasionally the
family had little pork to eat; that
they did not have five pounds OF beef
year; that they lived mostly on bread,
and sometimes we're obliged to go
TO BED WITHOUT ANYTHING TO EAT.
Gentlemen, 1 did not mean this to
ridicule Mr.. Dickinson, and of stuff
like it. but it is all through the west
and the southwest that arguments
against the tariff are malicious. They
represent New England as having two
classes, one class rolling in wealth and
around them class bordering on
starvation. This mode of speaking of
the results of protection and describing
New England is a libel on the most in
dustrious and one of the most deserv-
ing sections of the Union. The Ques-
ton pressed upon you to-day is, sre
you willing to trust President of the
United States who sent free trade
message to Congress, are you willing
to trust him with the tariff? The
whole question, my friends,
IS QUESTION OF WAGES.
And being a question OF wages, the
votes of men who earn wages can de-
eide this question. Will you reinforce
the Senate for protection or the House
for free trade. If Connecticut shall
give her electoral vote to Harrison and
Morton, you may rest secure in the be-
lief that the business of the country will
go on as it has for a quarter of CEN
tury-in peace and prosperity; but if
Connecticut allows her vote to favor
free trade, then you will have abundant
leisure in your competition with the ILL
paid labor of Europe to calculate just
how much you have made out of it. At
the conclusion of his speech, Mr.. Blaine
left for New York.